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Lost Treasures of Arkansas's Waterways
Hidden Mines, Buried Fortunes, and Civil War Artifacts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
From the earliest native inhabitants to Spanish explorers to early settlers, travelers have always followed the paths of Arkansas’s waterways. This collection includes 16 legends about Civil War artifacts, silver bullets, sealed caves, and collapsed mines—all set along the rivers and streams of Arkansas....
by Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...
The Options Edge
An Intuitive Approach to Generating Consistent Profits for the Novice to the Experienced Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Capture the fortune you're losing with every trade by learning to exploit options
The Options Edge + Free Trialshows you how to capture the fortune you lose out on every day. Buying and selling traditional investments often entails instruments with optionality. Sometimes this optionality is...
Managing Research, Development and Innovation
Managing the Unmanageable
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Now fully revised and updated— the classic book on effective R&D management
"This thoughtful and detailed work outlines what is required in order to achieve the desired end results in a networked world where teamwork and collaboration are increasingly important to globally dispersed workforces."
—JOHN...
Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment
Implementing a Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership...
The Squam Lake Report
Fixing the Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.
The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights...
by Larry S. Miller, Harry W. More, Michael C. Braswell
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Outstanding first-line supervisors are essential to the success of any law enforcement agency, yet many officers lack the supervision training necessary to excel. E**ffective Police Supervision immerses readers in the group behaviors and organizational dynamics supervisors must master in order to...
by Linda McHenry, W.C. Benton
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
A Comprehensive Guide to Construction Supply Chain Management
Develop a highly efficient construction supply chain management (CSCM) solution that decreases risk and increases profitability. This authoritative volume provides proven strategies for the lean construction approach, including just-in-time...
by John C. Graser, Daniel Blum, Kevin Brancato
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
The Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) currently runs three in-theater hospitals for severely injured or wounded personnel. Part of the practioners' preparation was treating DoD beneficiaries for a broad range of injuries and illnesses. Opportunities for this preparation are not as numerous "in house"...
Reinventing Public Education
How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose...
by Preston C. Russett, James W. Chesebro, David T. McMahan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This textbook examines the Internet as a communication system – the single most pervasive, involving, and global communication system ever created by human beings, with a host of political, economic, cognitive, and sociocultural implications. The Internet crosses all cultural boundaries and is the...
Becoming an Engaged Campus
A Practical Guide for Institutionalizing Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Becoming an Engaged Campus offers campus leaders a systematic and detailed approach to creating an environment where public engagement can grow and flourish. The book explains not only what to do to expand community engagement and how to do it, but it also explores how to document, evaluate, and communicate...
by Ralph C.G. Haas, Waheed Uddin, W. Ronald Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The Latest Tools and Techniques for Managing Infrastructure Assets
Fully updated throughout, this practical resource provides a proven, cost-effective infrastructure asset management framework that integrates planning, design, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, and renovation. Public Infrastructure...
Moral Soundings
Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2004
Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent...