David S : 885 books
by David S. Potter
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion—Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history...
Advancing Health Literacy
A Framework for Understanding and Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Advancing Health Literacy addresses the crisis in health literacy in the United States and around the world. This book thoroughly examines the critical role of literacy in public health and outlines a practical, effective model that bridges the gap between health education, health promotion, and health...
Saving the Family Cottage
A Guide to Succession Planning for Your Cottage, Cabin, Camp or Vacation Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
AUDIENCE FOR BOOK: People who have a beloved family cottage or vacation home that they want to keep in the family—or have inherited one that they’re not sure what to do with. REASONS TO BUY THIS NEW EDITION: • Saving the Family Cottage provides a clear, friendly explanation of the problems that...
by David S. Seal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
This book is different from most books about job interviewing. Get The Job! Focuses almost entirely on the questions most commonly asked during an interview, and provides suggested answers or an approach, for answering the questions if there is no one right answer. Additionally, Get The Job! Will...
Nonelliptic Partial Differential Equations
Analytic Hypoellipticity and the Courage to Localize High Powers of T
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This book provides a very readable description of a technique, developed by the author years ago but as current as ever, for proving that solutions to certain (non-elliptic) partial differential equations only have real analytic solutions when the data are real analytic (locally). The technique is...
by David S. Loughran
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Between 2000 and 2011, younger veterans were more likely to be unemployed than younger non-veterans. This difference falls rapidly with age and time. The evidence supports the hypothesis that veteran unemployment reflects engagement in job search. There is little evidence that veterans are disadvantaged...
Transform or Die
Company Imperatives for Success in the New Era of Interconnectivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Transform or Die: Company Imperatives for Success in a Global Information Economy, is a book that addresses the essentials of a changing Flat world. Transform or Die provides methods, rationales and instructions for how to develop and implement cross-cultural communication business strategies that...
The Leadership Gap
Building Leadership Capacity for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Studies consistently show that quality leadership development programs pay off for companies -- in the form of shareholder returns, market share growth, and sales. However, many companies have inadequate leadership development programs. This book challenges traditional views of leadership development...
The iPhone App Design Manual
Create Perfect Designs for Effortless Coding and App Store Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
App creation is now a huge, global business, with hundreds of thousands of developers, entrepreneurs, and companies attracted by the potential rewards. But games, functional apps, and promotional apps alike depend on attractive, intuitive design for their appeal, and most fail to find a significant...
Invisible Engines
How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Harnessing the power of software platforms: what executives and entrepreneurs must know about how to use this technology to transform industries and how to develop the strategies that will create value and drive profits.
Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched,...
Compensating Wounded Warriors
An Analysis of Injury, Labor Market Earnings, and Disability Compensation Among Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This comprehensive, quantitative assessment of how injury sustained by service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan affects their subsequent labor market earnings also explores the extent to which retirement and disability payments compensate for any resulting earnings losses. The analysis controls...
by David S.G. Carter, Thomas E. Glass, Shirley M. Hord
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Growing discontent with the performance of educational institutions is common in the USA today and little is being done to address the real problem - that of the need to reform and restructure the entire educational system. A key issue in this reform is the training and development of leaders in educational...
Public Official Associations and State and Local Government
A Bridge Across One Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1994
This volume is an authoritative description of a little-recognized element of modern governance: associations of public officials in state and local government. These associations, whose membership consists of elected and appointed officials such as mayors, legislators, council members, city and county...
The Industrial Base for Carbon Dioxide Storage
Status and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
If policies aimed at large reductions of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are enacted, more carbon capture and storage will be needed. RAND researchers explored the ability of the industrial base supporting the transportation and sequestration of CO2 to expand, assessing the industrial base for transportation and injection of CO2 for both geologic storage and enhanced oil recovery.