Gideon: 219 books

Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown...

This volume presents controlling tools for management in order to be in a position to communicate with control engineers concerning technological decisions. The main objective of manufacturing management is to make profit. However, in traditional manufacturing systems none of the separate stages...

This first field guide to aloes of southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the aloes of the region. Full-colour photographs, distribution maps and easy-to-read text will help the budding naturalist to identify the more common aloes found in southern African gardens and landscapes, discover where they occur, and learn about their unique features.

All-embracing manufacturing is a system that aims to dissolve the complexity of the manufacturing process and restore the inherent simplicity. It claims that production is very simple and flexible by nature. However, the complexity is a result of the production system approach which makes it rigid...

The Integrated Manufacturing System (IMS), Group Technology, Numerical Control, and Computer Aided Design (CAD) were four outstanding innovations that were one-time milestones of scientific industrial management. This book describes the expectations and disappointments of the common pitfalls of these...

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Victoria Parker had everything going for her. Well, almost everything. She is an executive at a London firm that's one of the most profitable in the world. She has a killer body, a killer wardrobe and some of the sexiest lingerie in the world—not that any man sees it. Her professional success is...

If you know basic high-school math, you can quickly learn and apply the core concepts of computer science with this concise, hands-on book. Led by a team of experts, you’ll quickly understand the difference between computer science and computer programming, and you’ll learn how algorithms help...

This is the story of a family and how they survived lifes perils. Chiwinke, the protagonist and the first son of Chimebele, was determined to succeed in life by bringing all his brothers to study and succeed in America in order to get his parents permanently out of poverty. Despite all the obstacles,...

When cattleman Riley Raymond realises his cattle are being rustled, he needs the best tracker available. He never thought the best tracker would be a stunning Cheyenne maiden. When Dakota cattleman Riley Raymond realises his cattle are being rustled, he’s not going to settle for anything...

The Wild West is a hard and dangerous place—Amanda never dreamed she’d find such wanton temptation in the arms of an Indian warrior. Amanda Wright has everything going for her. As one of the acclaimed beauties of the territory, and heiress to one of the largest horse ranches in the country,...

Can a young widow, long without the pleasures of a man, find true love…with two men? Though still only twenty-one, Olympia Whyte has been a widow for nearly two years. Just now returning to her social activities among London's haut monde, Olympia has an unplanned sexual encounter...

[Menage and More: Erotic Western Menage a Trois Romance M/F/M mention of heroine's past involvement in F/F activities] Elysia is a young woman trapped in servitude to a man she loathes because of her fathers debts. Desperate for freedom when she meets Sean and Jake two of the Old Wests most dashing...

[Menage Amour: Erotic Contemporary Menage a Trois Romance M/F/M bondage public exhibition] Candice has plans for her future. She is going to become a nurse eventually find herself a nice man to marry and lead a quiet middle-class existence utterly devoid of emotional super highs and super lows. All of...