Michael Webber: 8 books
The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China
Management Change, Enterprise Performance and Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government’s administration of enterprises with increasing levels of market-oriented enterprise autonomy. At the heart of the reform are changes in the employment relationship, where state control has been superceded...
Thirst for Power
Energy, Water, and Human Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world’s two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted book offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy and water—a big picture approach that reveals the...
Class and Power in the New Deal
Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates,...
by Larry Webber, Michael Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
So you’ve been asked to lead a quality control initiative? Or maybe you’ve been assigned to a quality team. Perhaps you’re a CEO whose main concern is to make your company faster, more efficient, and less expensive. Whatever your role is, quality control is a critical concept in every industry...
The Disaster Recovery Handbook
A Step-by-Step Plan to Ensure Business Continuity and Protect Vital Operations, Facilities, and Assets
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Terrorist attacks. Data assaults. Natural catastrophes. Disease outbreaks. Recent years have taught us that not only was 9/11 not just a single, horrible occurrence, but that events of many types can-and statistically will-hit organizations of every size, threatening to disrupt and potentially even...
Writings to Stem Your Existential Dread
Scribes Divided Anthology, Vol. 1: Flash Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction stories. Ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real, these ultra-short tales will stop you in your tracks. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.
by Mark Webber, Michael Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
For 2nd and 3rd year courses in international politics and foreign policy. This text examines foreign policy in relation to 'change and transformation.' It discusses traditional assumptions about foreign policy and foreign policy making, and develops a framework to facilitate analysis of the challenges...
The Disaster Recovery Handbook
A Step-by-Step Plan to Ensure Business Continuity and Protect Vital Operations, Facilities, and Assets
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
A quick survey of the headlines for any given day in the twenty-first century will highlight global market-affecting disasters such as superstorms, data breaches, pandemics, system failures, and strikes. You cannot predict them, nor can you prevent many of them. But you can prepare for them.With the...