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Organizational Innovation by Integrating Simplification
Learning from Buurtzorg Nederland
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book presents the theory of integrating implification and it provides a profound evidence based study of Buurtzorg Nederland. The case itself, forming the building block of the theory, has received tremendous interest in the Netherlands and abroad. This is the first international book on Buurtzorg...
Easy Chinese Recipes
Family Style Chinese Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
How to Easy Cook Chinese Recipes.
Cook all your favorite Chinese dishes at home.
by Diane S. Menendez, Patrick Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Personal and professional coaching, which has emerged as a powerful career in the last several years, has shifted the paradigm of how people who seek help with life transitions find a "helper" to partner with them in designing their desired future.
No matter what kind of sub-specialty...
by Stanley S. Gryskiewicz, David A. Hills
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
Each year from 1978 through 1987 the Center for Creative Leadership hosted an event called Creativity Week, during which a select group of researchers and practitioners would get together for a high-energy exchange of ideas on organizational creativity. Discussions explored such themes as individual...
A Liberal World Order in Crisis
Choosing between Imposition and Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twentieth century changed political liberalism from a regional system with aspirations of universality to global ideological dominance as the basic vision of how international life should be organized. Yet in the last two decades...
Reckoning with Markets
The Role of Moral Reflection in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Undergraduate economics students begin and end their study of economics with the simple claim that economics is value free. Only in a policy role will values and beliefs enter into economic work; there can be little meaningful dialogue by economists about such personal views and opinions. This view,...
by S. Deviant
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
"The Simplest way to ace Statistics." Are you taking a statistics class right now or very soon?
I wrote the Practically Cheating Statistics Handbook so you don't have to struggle anymore. I've been giving my own students this material since I started teaching, and the students who...
The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower
Campus Crime as a Social Problem
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
A cursory reading of the history of US colleges and universities reveals that campus crime has been part of collegiate life since the Colonial Era, yet it was not until the late 1980s that it suddenly became an issue on the public stage. Drawing from numerous mass media and scholarly sources and using...
Our Schools Suck
Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures like Bill Cosby have...
Gaining Access
A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Gaining access is a critical part of doing research, not only because one must 'get in' in order to gain information, but also because the quality of access affects what information is available to the researcher. Despite its importance, the literature on qualitative methods has not yet provided an...
Five Steps to Strengthen Ethics in Organizations and Individuals
Effective Strategies Informed by Research and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Five Steps to Strengthen Ethics in Organizations and Individuals draws on research and history to present effective tools to strengthen organizational ethics. Focusing on key topics such as the planning fallacy, moral disengagement, moral courage, the illusion of ethical superiority, confirmation...
Freedom and Growth
The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300-1750
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2000
In discussions on European pre-modern economic growth, the role of individual freedom and of the state has loomed large. This book examines whether different kinds of 'freedoms' (absolutist, parliamentary and republican) caused different economic outcomes, and shows the effect of different political regimes on long term development. It thus offers
by Samprit Chatterjee, Ali S. Hadi
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Praise for the Fourth Edition:
"This book is . . . an excellent source of examples for regression analysis. It has been and still is readily readable and understandable."
—Journal of the American Statistical Association Regression analysis is a conceptually simple method...
by G. S. Maddala
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 1986
This book presents the econometric analysis of single-equation and simultaneous-equation models in which the jointly dependent variables can be continuous, categorical, or truncated. Despite the traditional emphasis on continuous variables in econometrics, many of the economic variables encountered...