D Christopher: 298 books
by Christopher D.B. Burt
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Globally there is growing concern over charities abilities to raise funds. This is of concern to both charity organizations and policy makers. One of the key factors that determine the public’s willingness to provide funds (to donate) is trust in both specific charity organizations and the sector...
Presidential Transitions
It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than...
Search Committees
A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Faculty, Staff, and Administrative Searches
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Faculty, Staff, and Administrative SearchesFinding the right candidate for administrative, professional and faculty positions is one of the most important tasks that any institution or enterprise undertakes. However, few higher education professionals receive training...
Wealth Shift
Profit Strategies for Investors as the Baby Boomers Approach Retirement
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Wealth Shift describes the enormous financial impact on all investors as they approach retirement, and their accumulated investments "shift" from wealth accumulation to wealth preservation.
No matter what a person's age or current financial profile, they need to know what to do about: preserving...
by W Lance Bennett, Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grass roots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
Assessing Organization Agility
Creating Diagnostic Profiles to Guide Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
In-depth agility evaluation for a more efficient response to change
Assessing Organization Agility provides a clear, concise roadmap to improved implementation of change. Written by two organizational researchers at USC's Center for Effective Organizations and a management consultant with Strategy&...
by Christopher D. Benson, Charles F. Whitaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
What does it take to launch a career writing for magazines?
In this comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to magazine writing, students will learn everything from the initial story pitch all the way through to the final production, taking with them the essential tools and skills they will...
C++ Cookbook
Solutions and Examples for C++ Programmers
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Despite its highly adaptable and flexible nature, C++ is also one of the more complex programming languages to learn. Once mastered, however, it can help you organize and process information with amazing efficiency and quickness.
The C++ Cookbook will make your path to mastery much shorter....
by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering,...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Japan's International Relations
Politics, Economics and Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The latest edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations. It offers a clear and concise introduction to the most important aspects of Japan's role in the globalized economy of the twenty-first century....
A Journey of Words
35 Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
From Scout Media comes A Journey of Words—the second volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world.
In this installation, the authors will lead the reader to destinations unknown; from the heartbreak of driving to visit a loved one for the last...
by Christopher D. Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
It can be said that the words ôheavenö and ôhellö are thrown around flippantly these days. It seems they have become part of our vernacular without much thought or concern about what they really mean.
The reality of heaven and hell is a hotly-debated topic spurring countless conversations,...