J David: 1790 books
by J.David Singer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is one those rare prefaces in which the author need not attempt to justify, or apologize for, the addition of another book to an already over burdened field. There is certainly no plethora of serious studies on inter national organization in general, and almost none dealing with the administrative...
Elder Care Catastrophe
Rituals of Abuse in Nursing Homes and What You Can Do About it
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Portraying people who have lived and worked in long-term nursing home facilities, Elder Care Catastrophe reveals how organizational dynamics and everyday rituals have unintentionally led to resident neglect and abuse. Backed up by research and grounded in sociological theory, this book offers alternative...
by J. David Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The information context of the modern organization is rapidly evolving in the face of intense global competition. Information technologies, including databases, new telecommunications systems, and software for synthesizing information, make a vast array of information available to an ever expanding...
Teams and Their Leaders
A Communication Network Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book provides the first truly comprehensive treatment of three topics that have traditionally been treated separately: teamwork, leadership, and communication. Teamwork has become central to the operation of the modern organization. People from diverse backgrounds culturally, professionally,...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
by J. David Markham
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Explains his influence on the military, law, politics, and religion
Get the real story of Napoleon Bonaparte
Not sure what's true about Napoleon? This easy-to-follow guide gets past the stereotypes and introduces you to this extraordinary man's beginnings, accomplishments, and famous...
by J David Simons
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
'A genuine tour-de-force' --Lesley McDowell on 'An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful'. Palestine, 1920s. Working as an agent for one of the richest men in the world, Polish-Jewish immigrant Lev Sela finds himself swept into a relationship with Celia Kahn, a mesmerising Scottish pioneer, after stumbling...
by J. David Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
The most brilliant man in all of Oz is the Scarecrow, who can explicate, cogitate, ruminate, and pontificate with one hand tied behind his stuffed back. But, when a young girl with silver shoes arrives in his backyard, Scarecrow realizes that when it comes to love, he's only half a man. Scarecrow's got brains to burn, but can a man of straw ever really know what love feels like?
SVG Essentials
Producing Scalable Vector Graphics with XML
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Learn the essentials of Scalable Vector Graphics, the mark-up language used by most vector drawing programs and interactive web graphics tools. SVG Essentials takes you through SVG’s capabilities, beginning with simple line drawings and moving through complicated features such as filters, transformations,...
The Philosophical Quest
Of Philosophy, Ethics, Law and Halakhah
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This volume includes discussions of the axiological principles of faith that define the essence of Judaism, analyses of particular principles such as the nature of the Deity, providence, prophecy and revelation. Other topics addressed are tikkun olam and Jewish responsibilities in a non-Jewish society and obligations derived from natural law or a moral conscience.
Places of Last Resort
The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c. 1910-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Northerly locations were desperately sought out after more accessible land further south was taken up. Wood identifies the demographic characteristics of the surging population of land-seekers, showing how some aspects echoed those of earlier settlers. The northern settlers of the interwar years grappled...
The Evolutionists
American Thinkers Confront Charles Darwin, 1860–1920
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Charles Darwin published his monumental treatise The Origin of Species in 1859. It has proved to be a major contribution to scientific theory but highly contentious as well. In the United States, more than in any other country, Darwin's theory of evolution became, and remains, a matter of "political"...
Comparative Union Democracy
Organization and Opposition in British and American Unions
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
A major empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions, this volume provides the background to a new, organizationally oriented theory of union democracy. Supported by in-depth studies of the political process in the British Mineworkers' Union and the Engineers'...
by G. J. David Jr.; T. R. McKeldin III
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2009
The United States has struggled to define its approach to what has been called the information battlefield since the information era began. Yet with the outbreak of the war on terror, the United States has been violently challenged to take a position and react to the militants use of emerging information...