A Michael: 1281 books
by Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Peter F. Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Becoming a manager for the first time means mastering a new set of business and personal skills. HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers Collection offers the ideas and strategies to help get you there. Included in this set are HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People,...
Dismantling Solidarity
Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political...
The Federal Appointments Process
A Constitutional and Historical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
Although the federal appointment of U.S. judges and executive branch officers has consistently engendered controversy, previous studies of the process have been limited to particular dramatic conflicts and have tended to view appointments in a vacuum without regard to other incidents in the process,...
Competing On Internet Time
Lessons From Netscape and Its Battle With Microsoft
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1998
Competing on Internet time means competitive advantage can be won and lost overnight. In this penetrating analysis of strategy-making and product innovation in the dynamic markets of commercial cyberspace, bestselling Microsoft Secrets co-author Michael Cusumano and top competitive strategy expert...
by Jeremy Cioara, Michael J. Cavanaugh, Kris A. Krake
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Master IIUC 640-460 exam topics with the official study guide Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes Review key concepts with Exam Preparation Tasks CCNA Voice Official Exam Certification Guide is a best of breed Cisco exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for...
The Dynamics of Indecision
A Failure of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus (9780131454392) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. Why so many organizations fall into the trap of “endless...
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
by Douglas R. Bohi, Michael A. Toman
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Originally published in 1984, Douglas A. Bohi and Michael A. Toman have produced a convenient reference source about disparate elements in the theory of nonrenewable resource supply and about general issues that arise when applying dynamic economic analysis. The authors emphasise the inherently dynamic...
by Michael A Turner
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
Michael Turner argues that the root causes of failures in American intelligence can be found in the way it is organized and in the intelligence process itself. Intelligence that has gone awry affects national decision making and, ultimately, American national security. Intelligence officials are reluctant...
Stock Cycles
Why Stocks Won't Beat Money Markets over the Next Twenty Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
"Important reading for serious investors."-InvestorsInsight.com
For most Americans, a 401k plan is their first exposure to investing. Many of us are relying on the stock market to provide for us in our retirement yet at the same time, most of us are afraid of the stock market. It's...
Keeping Conflict Constructive
And Unleashing the Power of Divergent Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus (ISBN: 9780137000630) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. Promoting constructive dialogue--and keeping it from...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
by Keri J. Sansevere, Michael J. Gall, Ross Thomas Rava
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic.
This groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the...
Uncanny Magazine Issue 21
March/April 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The March/April 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, A.T. Greenblatt, Emma Törzs, Sarah Monette, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Brandon O'Brien, reprinted fiction by Nalo Hopkinson, essays by R.F. Kuang, Neile Graham, Marissa Lingen, and Karlyn...