Randall: 1157 books
by Dr Randall J Dyck
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
This book gives technical people an idea of how to design functional financial systems within computer database systems. The material is based on the author's 20 years of applying it in industry, on his doctoral studies of computer science, and on his lecture notes for business and computer courses...
Reforming U.S. Financial Markets
Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Two top economists outline distinctive approaches to post-crisis financial reform.
Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence...
Don't Burp in the Boardroom
Your Guide to Handling Uncommonly Common Workplace Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Sassy, funny, blunt, and definitely not sugar coated, Don’t Burp in the Boardroom examines etiquette in the workplace, from the warehouse to the top floor. While the outerwear may be different, the dilemmas from cubicle to corner office are the same. Rosalinda Randall delves into common predicaments...
Political Capitalism
How Political Influence Is Made and Maintained
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of political...
Night Work
The Sawchuk Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
A hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies. "Denied the leap and dash up the ice,what goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monkand cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes are elsewhereas...
by R. Randall Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Use this book as a guide to finding your way through the maze of the world of music licensing. We’ll detail how we got into this business and how to think about your music career, and give you practical tips on finding success. Each section is arranged to build your knowledge base as you move though...
Conflict Sociology
A Sociological Classic Updated
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This new edition is a substantial abridgment and update of Randall Collins's 1975 classic, Conflict Sociology. The first edition represented the most powerful and comprehensive statement of conflict theory in its time. Here, Sanderson has retained the core chapters and added discussions on Collins's...
Project Sponsorship
Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The second edition of Project Sponsorship—which includes an Appendix with new case studies, expanded assessment tools, and templates—shows how project sponsors and project managers can develop the skills they need to manage successful projects. Randall L. Englund and Alfonso Bucero—experts in...
A History of Global Health
Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions of people in low-income countries continue to live without access to basic health...
by Randall Holcombe
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy. This new book from Randall Holcombe begins by identifying areas in which evolutionary and Austrian approaches differ from the academic...
The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency.
Renowned for his cool reason vis-à-vis the pitfalls and clichés of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy—Harvard...
by Randall Allen Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Young Sybil Strang is ready to close up Quick’s Convenience Store when a man with a scraggly beard enters and begins wandering the aisles. A man who might be hiding a gun.
But with the deputy just five minutes away and a phone in the back room, there’s no reason to panic. As long as Sybil was right about what she saw …
by Randall Allen Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Seven-year old Henry Burrows is anxious to know whether Santa Claus is real. In the face of his father’s lay-off and his mother’s fears that Christmas might not come this year, it grows harder to believe. It would take a miracle for his family to celebrate Christmas now. The kind of miracle that...
Producing Prosperity
An Inquiry into the Operation of the Market Process
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The substantial prosperity that characterizes market economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century is relatively recent in human history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, economic progress was so slow that people would not have been able to recognize it in their lifetimes, whereas today,...