Carl: 2594 books
Be Your Own House Contractor
Save 25% without Lifting a Hammer
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
You don’t need to depend on (or pay) a general contractor to manage your construction project. Whether you’re building a new home or renovating an existing one, you can manage the job yourself. Carl Heldmann outlines how to purchase your own land, set a reasonable budget and schedule, describe...
The Art of Social Enterprise
Business as if People Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The current business-for-profit model rewards short-term thinking, narrow self-interest, and a social-and-environmental-costs-be-damned attitude. Nonprofits, while more focused on the greater good, tend to be inherently resource-challenged and rely on increasingly scarce grants and donations to sustain...
by Matthew Mr. Saal, Carl-Johan Mr. Lindgren, G. Ms. Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1996
Banking sector problems have plagued over 130 of the IMF's member countries since 1980. Developing and industrial market economies alike have been affected, as have all the economies in transition. This volume, by Carl-Johan Lindgren, Gillian Garcia, and Matthew I. Saal, discusses the linkages between...
Winning The Game Scientists Play
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
In this inspiring book of personal insight and sound advice, veteran scientist Carl J. Sindermann gives an insider's look at the competitive world of science and reveals the best strategies for attaining prominence and success. Taking apart the many different roles scientists must play during their...
US Health Policy and Health Care Delivery
Doctors, Reformers, and Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
The unique composition and configuration of doctors and hospitals in the US is leading to a crisis in primary care provision. There are significantly more specialists than generalists, and many community hospitals and outpatient facilities are concentrated in affluent areas with high rates of comprehensive...
by Carl DiSalvo
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products.
In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms...
by Carl E. Cordy
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
A Nuts and Bolts guide to Six Sigma written for one of the most important and least mentioned persons in Six Sigma, the Champion. Carl Cordy and LeRoy Coryea guide the manager through a Practical Summary of this Continuous Improvement technique. As Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma is part of a firms...
Ethics and Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend...
International Marketing
Strategy development and implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Expanding an organisation internationally presents both opportunities and challenges as marketing departments seek to understand different buying behaviours, power relations, preferences, loyalties and norms. International Marketing offers a uniquely adaptable strategy framework for firms of all sizes...
by Ana Iorga, Ming Hsu, Irit Shapira-Lichter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
A comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions about purchasing goods and services.
Contrary to the assumptions of economists, consumers are not always rational actors who make decisions in their own best interests....
by Carl Cordy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Besides providing a technical overview of design for Six Sigma, this is a text that goes the extra step beyond in presenting real-life examples of structured tool use to satisfy the needs of the customer. The discussion covers the background behind the tools used and real-life examples of their use....
Outside-in Software Development
A Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-based Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2007
"Outside-in thinking complements any approach your teams may be taking to the actual implementation of software, but it changes how you measure success. A successful outside-in team does a lot of learning and not much speculation."
—Tom Poppendieck
Build Software That Delivers...
Governing Sustainable Development
Partnerships, Protests and Power at the World Summit
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Multilateral UN summits from Stockholm to Copenhagen have set the pace and direction for the global governance of sustainable development. The 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was a key moment in the evolution of sustainable development as a discourse and summitry as...
Siren Song
Chilean Water Law As a Model for International Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Increasing scarcity, conflict, and environmental damage are critical features of the global water crisis. As governments, international organizations, NGOs, and corporations have tried to respond, Chilean water law has seemed an attractive alternative to older legislative and regulatory approaches....