John S : 848 books
The Dream Weavers
Strategy Focused Leadership in Technology Driven Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The main question that guided the thinking behind this book can be stated as follows: "What kind of leadership behavior must executives of technologydriven organizations display to spur performance excellence?" To address this question the authors conducted videotaped interviews of executives...
Regional Dynamics
Studies in Adjustment Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Originally published in 1986. This book is concerned with how regional economies adapt and respond to changing circumstances, and especially with the spatial system and processes of restructuring. Throughout the book there is a methodological commitment to adjustment theory - a unique analytical framework...
Institutions and Collective Choice in Developing Countries
Applications of the Theory of Public Choice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
First published in 1999, this volume is written by seasoned public choice scholars and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on peaceful coexistence and sustainable development in developing countries. The book contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on collective...
by Gregory S. Rohrer, John Humphreys, Anthony Rollett
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Recrystallization and Related Annealing Phenomena, Third Edition, fulfills the information needs of materials scientists in both industry and academia. The subjects treated in the book are all active research areas, forming a major part of at least four regular international conference series. This...
Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set)
From the Global to the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent states'...
by Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Brendan Keogh, Jonathan Rey Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to the attention paid byliterary theorists, digital humanists, rhetoricians, philosophers, and designers...
Computational Electromagnetics and Model-Based Inversion
A Modern Paradigm for Eddy-Current Nondestructive Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
This volume will define the direction of eddy-current technology in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) in the twenty-first century. It describes the natural marriage of the computer to eddy-current NDE, and its publication was encouraged by favorable responses from workers in the nuclear-power and aerospace...
by Dr O. Huguenin-Elie, Dr L. Delaby, Dr K. Klumpp
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Assesses latest research on how grasslands function
Surveys best practice in sustainable grassland management
Considers wider aspects of sustainability such as ecosystem services and biodiversity
by Rong Kun Jason Tan, John A. Leong, Amandeep S. Sidhu
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
This book presents an improved design for service provisioning and allocation models that are validated through running genome sequence assembly tasks in a hybrid cloud environment. It proposes approaches for addressing scheduling and performance issues in big data analytics and showcases new algorithms...
The Rabbit Hole
Weird Stories, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs...
by John Calvin Metcalf, Sarah Withers, Hetty S. Browne
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
by Maud N Vissers, John JP Kastelein, Erik S Stroes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Practising evidence-based medicine necessarily depends on the clinician having access to the best evidence available, but in a fast-moving field, keeping up to date with the latest developments is a challenging prospect. In this new volume, leading experts focus on the most important clinical issues...
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map...