Robert D : 904 books
by Robert D. Sheeler, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice features expert clinical reviews on Cardiovascular Disease which includes current information on topics such as coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation and flutter, venous thromboembolic diseases, valvular heart...
Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and The Constitution
(Cato Public Policy Research Monograph No. 1)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1980
In this monograph, Professors Wagner and Tollison examine the important question of whether the United States should adopt a constitutional amendment requiring the government to balance its budget. Arguing that the government should be explicit and responsible about how much it spends and how it...
Contracts for Engineers
Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Engineers encounter different types of contracts at nearly every turn in their careers. Contracts for Engineers: Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics is a tool to enhance their ability to communicate contractual issues to lawyers—and then better understand the legal advice they receive.
Building...
Evidence-Based Productivity Improvement
A Practical Guide to the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System (ProMES)
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This new book explains the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement system (ProMES) and how it meets the criteria for an optimal measurement and feedback system. It summarizes all the research that has been done on productivity, mentioning other measurement systems, and gives detailed information...
Effective Entrepreneurial Management
Strategy, Planning, Risk Management, and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the essential issues in effective entrepreneurial management. It first introduces readers to the fundamentals of entrepreneurial management, the nature of entrepreneurial managers and business planning, before exploring the specific topics of creativity...
by Todd L. VanPool, Robert D. Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology introduces the application of quantitative methods in archaeology. It outlines conceptual and statistical principles, illustrates their application, and provides problem sets for practice.
Discusses both methodological frameworks and quantitative methods of...
Changing Security Policies in Postwar Japan
The Political Biography of Japanese Defense Minister Sakata Michita
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book is the English translation of a recent biography of Sakata Michita, one of Japan’s leading, yet unassuming, politicians in the postwar era, who was even considered a serious contender for the premiership. While he did not become prime minister himself, he did serve as Justice Minister,...
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina
Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are...
Kids Left Behind, The
Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Examine critical studies on high-performing, high-poverty schools to identify how schools can fulfill the mission of educating all students to proficiency, especially students at risk. The authors compiled the most important research on how low-performing, high-poverty schools achieved radical improvements...
Adolescents In The Internet Age, 2nd Edition
Teaching And Learning From Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Teaching adolescents and learning from them is the paradigm elaborated throughout this second edition of Adolescents in the Internet Age. The premise is based upon four assumptions: (1) Adolescents have unique experiences that qualify them as the most credible source on what growing up is like in the...
by Robert D. Grace
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Blowout and Well Control Handbook, Second Edition, brings the engineer and rig personnel up to date on all the useful methods, equipment, and project details needed to solve daily well control challenges. Blowouts are the most expensive and one of the most preventable accidents in the oil and gas...
Harder Than I Thought
Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Meet Jim Barton, new CEO of Santa Monica Aerospace. Jim's job won't be easy: the company's hemorrhaging cash, struggling to regain investors' trust after an accounting scandal, and striving to transform its military and manufacturing culture to become a global aerospace integrator.
Jim isn't...
by Robert D. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 1996).
Based on an award-winning doctoral thesis at Carnegie Mellon University, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations presents a captivating analysis of the perils of performance measurement systems. In the...
by Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Robert D. Tennyson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Companies and organizations are increasingly more aware of the importance of people and their knowledge for dealing with economic scenarios as well as their relationships developed both inside and outside of the company. Strategic Approaches for Human Capital Management and Development in a Turbulent...