M Peter: 582 books
Doing Survey Research
A Guide to Quantitative Methods
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Each day we are faced with continuing claims made by media pundits, politicians, teachers, and friends, often quoting research. Consider also the numerous comments and posts on Internet blogs, Twitter, and Facebook that illustrate the confusion between opinion and factual data. How do we learn to...
Strategic Management
The Challenge of Creating Value
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Strategy is often the capstone class in a business education - dealing with the big questions of what companies decide to do - innovate, diversify, acquire or even to employ a range of these strategies.
Benefitting from an international author team, the latest edition of this textbook stands...
by Vito Mr. Tanzi, M. Yücelik, Peter Mr. Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1981
This study indentifies some of the taxation problems most frequently encountered by Fund member countries in sub-Saharan Africa and seeks solutions that may be useful to either the region as a whole or to groups of countries in the region.
The Undergraduate Experience
Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
A clear, practical framework for getting higher education back on track
The Undergraduate Experience is a guide for significantly improving student learning and institutional performance in the rapidly changing world of higher education. Written by recognized experts in undergraduate education,...
The Case for the Chief Data Officer
Recasting the C-Suite to Leverage Your Most Valuable Asset
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Data are an organization's sole, non-depletable, non-degrading, durable asset. Engineered right, data's value increases over time because the added dimensions of time, geography, and precision. To achieve data's full organizational value, there must be dedicated individual to leverage data as assets...
Investor Engagement
Investors and Management Practice under Shareholder Value
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
The growth of shareholder value has been a major change in Western economies since the 1980s. This growth has reignited debates concerning relations between investors and managers. This book argues that investors are more than passive providers of finance, on whose behalf managers seek to maximize...
by Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
You want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them-in a set of HBR’s 10 Must Reads, available as a 7-volume paperback boxed set or as an ebook set. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on change, leadership, strategy, managing people,...
by Peter M. Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Optimal and Adaptive Signal Processing covers the theory of optimal and adaptive signal processing using examples and computer simulations drawn from a wide range of applications, including speech and audio, communications, reflection seismology and sonar systems. The material is presented without...
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
by James V. Hoffman, Peter Afflerbach, Ann M. Duffy-Hester
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading aspires to help set the agenda for improving...
The Book of PF, 3rd Edition
A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
OpenBSD’s stateful packet filter, PF, is the heart of the OpenBSD firewall. With more and more services placing high demands on bandwidth and an increasingly hostile Internet environment, no sysadmin can afford to be without PF expertise.
The third edition of The Book of PF covers the most...
Deception In The Marketplace
The Psychology of Deceptive Persuasion and Consumer Self-Protection
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This is the first scholarly book to fully address the topics of the psychology of deceptive persuasion in the marketplace and consumer self-protection. Deception permeates the American marketplace. Deceptive marketing harms consumers’ health, welfare and financial resources, reduces people’s privacy...
ResiliCities
Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The authors of this spirited book don't believe that oblivion is necessarily the destiny of urban areas. Instead, they believe that intelligplanning and visionary leadership can help cities meet the impending crises, and look to existing initiatives in cities around the world. Rather than responding...
Program Evaluation for Social Workers
Foundations of Evidence-Based Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Now in its seventh edition, this comprehensive text once again provides beginning social work students and practitioners with a proven, time-tested approach to help them understand and appreciate how to use basic evaluation techniques within their individual cases (case-level) and the programs where...