Peters: 1371 books

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront...

A study of the United States and its political culture. The author contends that democracy exists at the level of political institutions and processes in the US as well as in its private sector.

Companies today are under growing pressure to improve their business processes and become "lean". One of the most beneficial tools is software, particularly systems that tie everything together. These kinds of systems are called Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP software. However, selection...

From a $250,000 fête for a seven-year-old Florida girl, complete with helicopter rides, to $100,000 first birthday parties as reported in the New York Times, this is rapidly becoming the gilded age of children's birthday parties. The cost of these events now averages between $200 and $400, fueled...

Management education growth and the rise in accompanying business schools over the last few decades are fuelled by global economic development, coupled with the promise of success in business careers. Recently, questions have been raised about the value and relevance of a traditional business school...

Relief is just an arm’s reach away.   Health ailments and injuries are bound to interrupt your day-to-day life when you least expect it. Home Remedies Rx offers safe and effective treatments when you them most.   Whether you are battling insomnia, a headache,...

A cutting-edge guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to heavy tailed risk modeling Focusing on the quantitative aspects of heavy tailed loss processes in operational risk and relevant insurance analytics, Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook...

A step-by-step guide to transforming student learning with value-added analysis Value-added analysis is the most robust, statistically significant method available for helping educators quantify student progress over time. This bookprovides a field-tested continuous improvement model for using...

Steward leadership is a form of leadership that focuses on others, the community, and society at large rather than the self, and this book creates a framework for stewardship and the requisite behavior to develop steward leaders at a younger age. Many senior leaders and executives across the globe...

How to Fall Asleep In Less Than 5 Minutes is a guide to falling asleep fast. It identifies the most common reasons for sleeplessness, teaches you what foods promote sleep, and reveals several unique sleep hacks to help you fall asleep instantly. The guide also reveals: • The most commons...

The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing...

Every day hundreds, possibly thousands of sales are lost because they were not closed properly. Customers left the store or the website only to go somewhere else to buy the same products. But that does not have to happen to your business. “How to Close a Sale” teaches you how to close sales...

A must-have book for thirty years, and now in its sixth edition, Cookery for the Hospitality Industry remains Australia's most trusted and reliable reference for commercial cookery students, apprentice chefs and those studying vocational courses in schools. It covers the essential skills, methods...

Das Internet als Eckpfeiler der modernen Informationsgesellschaft hat sowohl neue, digitale Märkte geschaffen als auch bestehende Märkte grundlegend verändert. Der Autor stellt die besonderen Merkmale der Internet-Ökonomie systematisch dar. Dazu wendet er klassische ökonomische Modelle auf das...