John H: 963 books
Social Networking and Impression Management
Self-Presentation in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, provides original research on key issues in the field of identity management and social networking sites. The contributors to this volume draw on current research in the field and offer...
Applied Choice Analysis
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2005
Almost without exception, everything human beings undertake involves a choice. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the development and application of quantitative statistical methods to study choices made by individuals with the purpose of gaining a better understanding both of how...
Kentucky Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky’s role in political...
The Handbook of Financing Growth
Strategies, Capital Structure, and M&A Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
The Second Edition of The Handbook of Financing Growth has been designed to help leaders and advisors gain a solid understanding of the financing strategies, sources, and transactions that will allow them to excel in such an unpredictable environment.
Written by an experienced group of practitioners...
Chance and Intent
Managing the Risks of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
A compact and readable book will help executives, entrepreneurs, and venture investors learn to search out and plan for those enterprise hazards that reside outside the bell curve, the conventional domain of risk:
Uncertainty, where outcomes can be characterized in advance, reliable estimates...
Socially Responsible Finance and Investing
Financial Institutions, Corporations, Investors, and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
A detailed look at the role of social responsibility in finance and investing
The concept of socially responsible finance and investing continues to grow, especially in the wake of one of the most devastating financial crises in history. This includes responsibility from the corporate side...
Writing and Personality
Finding Your Voice, Your Style, Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
'We cannot separate the writer from the writing. Nor should we try. Both our writing process and our writing products need to carry our unique signature, a bit of our personality.' - From Writing and Personality How you write - what works for you and what makes sense to you - depends on who you are,...
The Path of Labor
Theme: Christianity and The World’s Workers
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Those who labored with such desire and earnestness for the selection of a theme for the textbooks for 1918–1919, that should present not only a vital but a paramount issue to the church at this time when only great realities and issues claim serious thought, chose better than they knew when they...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...
by David A. Hensher, John M. Rose, William H. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
The second edition of this popular book brings students fully up to date with the latest methods and techniques in choice analysis. Comprehensive yet accessible, it offers a unique introduction to anyone interested in understanding how to model and forecast the range of choices made by individuals...
by Terry L. Anderson, Ann M. Carlos, Christian Dippel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...