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From Individualism to the Individual
Ideology and Inquiry in Financial Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This title was first published in 2002: From Individualism to the Individual treats finance as a social and cultural process, exploring the unseen side of academic discourse and the many obstacles the deeply entrenched elite puts in the way of alternative thinking. Opening with a detailed discussion...
College Student Retention
Formula for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.
In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue...
Chemometrics: A Textbook
A Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1988
Most chemists, whether they are biochemists, organic, analytical, pharmaceutical or clinical chemists and many pharmacists and biologists need to perform chemical analysis. Consequently, they are not only confronted with carrying out the actual analysis, but also with problems such as method selection,...
by David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson, David Closs
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing city
When car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person—the city’s newly elected mayor—stood up and said “no.” Initially, it was the cry of a man in the...
by Jonathan Unger, Unn Målfrid H. Rolandsen, Christian Göbel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signalled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization,...
Project-Management in Practice
A Guideline and Toolbox for Successful Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This practice-oriented book explores a variety of cross-project topics and specific aspects of different project phases. It also offers tips, examples, templates and checklists, and discusses concrete problems and solutions from project practice in IT and the automotive industry.
The authors...
by G. M. Berrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Fluttershy is shocked to discover that her pet bunny, Angel, wants to enter the annual Fine Furry Friends Fair herding contest! Who's ever heard of a bunny herding cows and sheep? Fluttershy agrees to train him, but their first practice is a disaster. Fluttershy is too afraid of failure to continue,...
Relic
How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the deficit to climate change, our political institutions have long shown that they are incapable of meeting the challenges of modern society. Why the dysfunction?
In Relic, William Howell and Terry Moe point to the Constitution...
by M. Luz Gámiz, K. B. Kulasekera, Nikolaos Limnios
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Nonparametric statistics has probably become the leading methodology for researchers performing data analysis. It is nevertheless true that, whereas these methods have already proved highly effective in other applied areas of knowledge such as biostatistics or social sciences, nonparametric analyses...
by Professor Jan A G M van Dijk
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
The Network Society is now more than ever the essential guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication.
Fully revised, this Third Edition covers crucial new issues and updates, including:
• the long history of social media and Web 2.0: why it's not as new as we...
The Deepening Divide
Inequality in the Information Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and, in advanced high-tech societies, deepening. Taken from an international perspective, the book offers full coverage of the literature and research and a theoretical framework from which...
by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Jack A. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...
by M. Harris, G. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
This new edition of Medical Statistics Made Easy 2nd edition enables readers to understand the key statistical techniques used throughout the medical literature.
Featuring a comprehensive updating of the 'Statistics at work' section, this new edition retains a consistent, concise, and user-friendly...
Ideas Are Free
How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
A worker in one of Europe's largest wireless communication companies stumbled across an error in his company's billing software, fixed it, and saved the company some $26 million per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to the company's website that brought the site...