Nan: 303 books
Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government
A Balanced Scorecard Approach Towards Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, makes a conceptual...
You've Got To Be Kidding!
How to Keep Your Job Without Losing Your Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
What to do when you're caught in the middle of an ethical dilemma at work
In today's super-stressed workplace, an ethical dilemma can come at you when you least expect it. Here's how to do the right thing without losing your integrity?or your job. You've GOT To Be Kidding will help you create...
Trust, Inc.
How to Create a Business Culture That Will Ignite Passion, Engagement, and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This is a difficult time to be a leader. The majority of employees are disengaged, their discretionary efforts tamed, passions for work fleeting, and ideas tethered.
None of this needs to stop you. You can create a workplace where engagement, passion, and great work thrives.
If you’re...
Rough Diamonds
The Four Traits of Successful Breakout Firms in BRIC Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Discover the four traits of the best performing, but least known, breakout firms in BRIC countries
"Rough diamonds" are the best performing firms in the BRIC (Brazil-Russia-India-China) countries. These firms compare favorably with the top 500 firms and the top 25 manufacturing firms...
by Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, Nan M. Laird, James H. Ware
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Praise for the First Edition
". . . [this book] should be on the shelf of everyone interested in . . . longitudinal data analysis."
—Journal of the American Statistical Association
Features newly developed topics and applications of the analysis of longitudinal data
Applied...
by Nan Cao, Weiwei Cui
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This book provides a systematic review of many advanced techniques to support the analysis of large collections of documents, ranging from the elementary to the profound, covering all the aspects of the visualization of text documents. Particularly, we start by introducing the fundamental concept...
by Abdul Kasim, Prasanna Adhikari, Nan Chen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Understand and evaluate the delivery of Carrier Ethernet using different technologies
Carrier Ethernet is rapidly becoming the de facto platform for offering the next generation of high-bandwidth multimedia applications. Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN provides,...
by Sajal K Das, Krishna Kant, Nan Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The worldwide reach of the Internet allows malicious cyber criminals to coordinate and launch attacks on both cyber and cyber-physical infrastructure from anywhere in the world. This purpose of this handbook is to introduce the theoretical foundations and practical solution techniques for securing...
by Ya'nan Wang, Puning Hao, Ting Liu
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Gathering contributions by leading social development scholars, this report offers a comprehensive description of the national development of cultural consumption in China. By comparing the annual growth of cultural consumption, GDP growth, per-capita income growth and savings growth, the authors...
¿Qué hace que el amor perdure?
Cómo crear confianza y evitar la traición en la pareja
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 26, 2013
El célebre psicólogo, investigador y terapeuta familiar John Gottman desvela los misterios del amor: ¿Cómo surge? ¿Por qué algunos amores se acaban y otros perduran? Durante décadas, el autor ha observado los patrones de conversación y biorritmos de cientos de parejas en su famoso “Love...
It Never Ends
Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
It Never Ends: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters explores the complex challenges and unexpected rewards of aging mothers in their relationships with their midlife daughters. Based on interviews with women between 65 and 85, it illuminates issues of closeness, distance, longing, and need that arise....
The Incident of the Farmer's Field
Coffee & Crime Mystery, #3.5
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
When Charlie McCallum and Ellie's dog Erik the Red take a chilly, late night stroll, and see a bright light in the sky, trouble is bound to follow. After all, in the town of Horizon, Wisconsin, you can't take anything at face value. Not even a crotchety old farmer and his dilapidated barn...
Monsters
A Halloween Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
They were going to be monsters, for the church; Creatures from the Black Lagoon. Mark and his best friend Derek would each get to wear a suit with a zipper up the back and a head that fit like a diving helmet. They could scare the little kids and gross out the girls. No one would know who they were....
The Serpent and the Sorceress
Book 2, Earth to Irth Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
In this intense sequel to The Weasel and the Wizard, Krystin and David, now five years older, again tangle with magical, mysterious off-worlders from Irth. The apprentice of the evil wizard, Zarcon, learns of his death, swearing revenge on those involved in his demise. A member of the royal house...