Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships

Oxford University Press, 2008

Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has focused on what friendship means to men. Drawing on in-depth interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher Geoffrey L. Greif takes readers on a guided tour of male friendships, explaining what makes them...

Health Care Reform Simplified: Guide Your Family and Your Business through Health Care Reform

Apress, 2011

Health Care Reform Simplified describes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. It translates the law’s complex language into terms that are easy to understand, explaining what the new law does, when its provisions take effect, and how to plan for individual, family, and business health coverage. This...

Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations: Theory, Algorithms, and Their Applications: In Honor of Professor Raytcho Lazarov's 40 Years of ... Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics)

Springer, 2013

One of the current main challenges in the area of scientific computing? is the design and implementation of accurate numerical models for complex physical systems which are described by time dependent coupled systems of nonlinear PDEs. This volume integrates the works of experts in computational...

E-Human Resources Management: Managing Knowledge People

Idea Group Publishing, 2004

This book provides a deep discussion about e-HRM issues so the reader can have a thoughtful background about the key role played by those who participate in e-HRM activities. A variety of experiences are provided to involve the reader in real problems an

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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

Harvard Business School, 2005

Written by the business world's new gurus, Blue Ocean Strategy continues to challenge everything you thought you knew about competing in today's crowded market place. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, authors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne argue that lasting...

Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows PowerShell 2.0

Sybex, 2011

PowerShell is a scripting language built into Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. PowerShell is designed to help you perform routine and repetitive tasks in a scriptable fashion. PowerShell helps alleviate many of the time-consuming and tedious tasks administrators have had to do in the past. You may have used various scripting technologies over...