Hansen: 1286 books
Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies
Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy, edited by Thomas Maty-k, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne, discusses critical issues in the emerging field of Peace and Conflict Studies, and suggests a framework for the future development of the field and the education...
Nothing to Complain About
My 125-Day Journey to Become Complaint Free
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
How long do you think you could go without complaining? Nothing, not even a whisper of a criticism about your best friend’s hideous shoes or gossip about the new neighbor’s noisy teenagers? A day? An hour? How about 21 consecutive days? I didn’t know what was in store the day I pulled an audio...
Procurement at a Crossroads
Career-Impacting Insights into a Rapidly Changing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
The procurement profession is at a major crossroads. Practitioners are responding to pressure from executive leadership to become more strategic, in some cases eliminating tactical work through outsourcing or automation. At the same time, performance metrics emphasize the need to continue negotiating...
by Robert Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2001
Written primarily for those responsible for the reliability of equipment and the production operation, this innovative book centers on developing and measuring true Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). The author demonstrates that true OEE correlates with factory output, provides a methodology to...
Adoption of Environmental Innovations
The Dynamics of Innovation as Interplay between Business Competence, Environmental Orientation and Network Involvement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
How do small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt environmental innovations? Do they have the necessary internal competence? Is any support offered by external parties (i.e. network involvement)? What are the policy implications? This book is based on extensive fieldwork, conducted in four traditional...
Hazardous to Our Health?
FDA Regulation of Health Care Products
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Some have described the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a scientific bureaucracy with police powers. Does a “cult of infallibility” exist within the FDA, leading to decisions that are contrary to the best interests of patients and their physicians?The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is...
by Julie M. Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Are your sales presentations stuck in the 20th century?
Sales Presentations For Dummies rises to the challenge of guiding you through the process of engaging and persuading busy buyers in a world that's constantly bombarding them with sales pitches. Motivating today's buyers to pull the trigger...
Food Economics
Industry and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Food and food markets still enjoy a pivotal role in the world economy and the international food industry is moving towards greater consolidation and globalization, with increased vertical integration and changes to market structure. Companies grow bigger in order to obtain economies of scale and...
Lessons in Being Chinese
Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Two very different ethnic minority communities�the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai) of Sipsong Panna (Xishuangbanna), along Yunnan�s border with Burma and Laos�are featured in this comparative study of the implementation and reception of state minority education...
by Jonathan Unger, Unn Målfrid H. Rolandsen, Christian Göbel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signalled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization,...
Surviving the Writing Life
How to Write for Money without Going Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Like real life, the writing life is filled with contradictions and perplexities. The world of commercial publishing is counter-intuitive and writers dive in weighed down with misconceptions, delusions, and unrealistic expectations.
Perhaps because most of us write in some form every day we...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Choosing a College Major
Future-Focused Strategies for Finding a Field Where You’ll Excel
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
How to figure out what you want out of college - and life.
Choosing a college major is the biggest decision of one's college experience, and there are many factors to consider. Here, you will discover which majors will give the best chances of finding employment, which majors are most likely...
by Ms Claire Mooney, Alice Hansen, Mr Reg Wrathmell
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
The essential subject knowledge text for primary mathematics. Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. The 5th edition of this popular text has a number of new features including a new self assessment section and M level extension boxes...