Harold: 1768 books
by Scott Warren Harold, Martin C. Libicki, Astrid Stuth Cevallos
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This study explores U.S. policy options for managing cyberspace relations with China via agreements and norms of behavior. It considers two questions: Can negotiations lead to meaningful agreement on norms? If so, what does each side need to be prepared to exchange in order to achieve an acceptable...
by Charles Wolf, Jr., Brian G. Chow
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The authors evaluate the risks and benefits of increased Chinese foreign investment, aiming to improve understanding of its investment patterns and strategy. They consider how U.S. national security might be compromised as well as how the United States and China can benefit from such investment, providing...
Aspirational Power
Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Brazil’s soft power path to major power status.
The largest country in South America by land mass and population, Brazil has been marked since its independence by a belief that it has the potential to play a major role on the global stage. Set apart from the rest of the hemisphere by culture,...
Advanced Capital Budgeting
Refinements in the Economic Analysis of Investment Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Written by authors of established texts in this area, this book is a companion volume to the classic The Capital Budgeting Decision. Exploring this key topic in corporate finance the authors examine the complexities of capital budgeting as well as the opportunities to improve the decision process...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books, 3rd Edition
The Inside Story on Publishing Kids’ Books—from Beginning to End!
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
'Honest and precise, everything about writing for children there is to know.'
Jane Yolen, author
Here is the comprehensive guide to writing, publishing, and selling for an ever-expanding and always exciting children's market, now in a new and updated third edition.
- Includes new chapters...
by Harold Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Guide Your Reputation!
Do you have a reputation?
Okay, so that was a "trick" question. The answer is yes, you do.
We all do. Every single one of us breathing on planet earth has one. . .a reputation, that is.
And, it's kind of black and white. It is either a good...
Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes, Second Edition
Features, Causes, and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and depart from historically established asset valuation multiples and relationships. Financial economists have for decades attempted to study and interpret bubbles through the prisms of...
The Ophthalmic Assistant E-Book
A Text for Allied and Associated Ophthalmic Personnel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Excel in your clinical responsibilities with The Ophthalmic Assistant. Whether you work in an ophthalmology, optometry, or opticianry setting, this best-selling reference delivers expert practical, up-to-date guidance on ocular diseases, surgical procedures, medications, and equipment as well as paramedical...
What Works in Distance Learning
Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
This book documents progress to date in what works in distance learning (DL). An overriding goal of this effort was to create a robust and clear set of design guidelines to support the next generation of DL training. The book is targeted mainly toward the research and program management communities....
Project Management
A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
The landmark project management reference, now in a new edition
Now in a Tenth Edition, this industry-leading project management "bible" aligns its streamlined approach to the latest release of the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI®'s PMBOK®...
Intellectual Base of Social Work Practice
Tools for Thought in a Helping Profession
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
This much-needed exploration of the cognitive side of social work practice provides a framework for improving social work practice and education.
The Motherhood Business
Consumption, Communication, and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers how different forms of privilege (class, race,...
The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth
The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as a planetary process. Combining geology, geochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, evolution and statistical physics to create an inclusive picture of the...
Extrusion
The Definitive Processing Guide and Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The second edition of Extrusion is designed to aid operators, engineers, and managers in extrusion processing in quickly answering practical day-to-day questions. The first part of the book provides the fundamental principles, for operators and engineers, of polymeric materials extrusion processing...