Stephen J : 747 books
The Innovator’s Imperative
Rapid Technology Adoption for Digital Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The pace of technological change is accelerating, hyper competition is growing, opportunities for business model disruption are exploding, and comprehensive cloud delivery is readily available. These factors challenge every aspect of business technology strategy. The Innovator’s Imperative: Rapid...
by Stephen J. McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy—that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. The book examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of nonmerit factors such as...
Land Use Problems and Conflicts
Causes, Consequences and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. Not only is urban land use and sprawl a hot-button issue, but issues of rural land use have also been in the headlines. Policy makers and citizens are starting to realize that...
Decades of Chaos and Revolution
Showdowns for College Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Decades of Chaos and Revolution: Showdowns for College Presidents is the story and comparison of two eras in the history of higher education. The first era covers the period of the 1960s through the mid-1970s, and the second is the first decade of the twenty-first century. Both decades were marked...
Feedback Control
Linear, Nonlinear and Robust Techniques and Design with Industrial Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
This book develops the understanding and skills needed to be able to tackle original control problems. The general approach to a given control problem is to try the simplest tentative solution first and, when this is insufficient, to explain why and use a more sophisticated alternative to remedy the...
Innovating in a Service-Driven Economy
Insights, Application, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The global digital revolution has changed consumer society, service expectations, and funding models forever. Value Driven Service Innovation explores these changes from the perspectives of leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of innovation today.
Going Driftless
Life Lessons from the Heartland for Unraveling Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Going Driftless is a book that explores a whole world within a world in the upper Midwest and looks at the nostalgia of small towns and local living (eating, shopping, etc.)—and asks how does it work what lessons can we learn from it.
The Nightly News Nightmare
Media Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The Nightly News Nightmare, Third Edition, examines news coverage of presidential nomination and election campaigns from 1988 to 2008. The book focuses on changes in the amount, tone, and focus of news coverage in these different electoral contexts. In addition to network news, the authors examine...
by Stephen J. Faessel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2006
As one of the largest cities in one of the nation�s most populous counties, Anaheim anchors a host of Orange County attractions, not the least of which are Disneyland, the 2002 World Champion Anaheim Angels, and the Anaheim Convention Center. But Anaheim�s early history followed the hardscrabble...
Fuel Cells in the Waste-to-Energy Chain
Distributed Generation Through Non-Conventional Fuels and Fuel Cells
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
As the availability of fossils fuels becomes more limited, the negative impact of their consumption becomes an increasingly relevant factor in our choices with regards to primary energy sources. The exponentially increasing demand for energy is reflected in the mass generation of by-products and waste...
Nuclear Weapons and Strategy
US Nuclear Policy for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
Nuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of deterrence.
This is a major analysis of these new strategic realities. The George W. Bush...
The New Nuclear Disorder
Challenges to Deterrence and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In the twenty-first century, the United States confronts an international system of great complexity and shifting security challenges. Among these challenges are those posed by nuclear weapons. Instead of becoming obsolete or being marginalized by the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet...
Arms for Uncertainty
Nuclear Weapons in US and Russian Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Nuclear weapons are here to stay. They have survived into the twenty-first century as instruments of influence for the US, Russia, and other major military powers. But, unlike the Cold War era, future nuclear forces will be developed and deployed within a digital-driven world of enhanced conventional...
by John Swarbrooke, Stephen J. Page
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Now in its second edition, the successful 'Development and Management of Visitor Attractions' has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest issues in this ever-changing area of tourism.
New features/topics include:
* The Millennium Dome
* National Lottery funded projects
* International...