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Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

Crown, 2000

Every few years a book changes the way people think about a field. In psychology there is Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence. In science, James Gleick's Chaos. In economics and finance, Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street. And in business there is now Surfing the Edge of Chaos by Richard...

The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership

Kaplan Business, 2004

The business world is ready for an entirely new approach to leadership, and Steve Farber has written the perfect book to energize business leaders and help them make the leap into extreme leadership. In fact, taking a giant "L.E.A.P" forward is exactly what Farber prescribes. What exactly is an extreme leader? One who cultivates love,...

Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design

McGraw-Hill, 2003

The global scale and impact of urban settlements and cities will determine the course of the emergent 21st century. Cities are no longer isolated and responding only to local and regional influences. Very large cities—megacities—are exploding in size and growth, for the most part in newly developing regions of the globe. The impact of...

Mind Games: The Aging Brain and How to Keep it Healthy

Delmar Cengage Learning, 1999

The brain, just like any other muscle, is strengthened through use. Mind Games teaches you the latest concepts on the workings of memory and how to apply them to "train your brain." Whether you are looking to sharpen your own memory, or the memory of a loved one, this book will provide the strategies and techniques needed. From mental...

Autonomic Communication

Springer, 2009

New paradigms for communication/networking systems are needed in order to tackle such emerging issues as heterogeneity, complexity and management of evolvable infrastructures, thus requiring approaches that are both task- and knowledge-driven. The networking and seamless integration of concepts, technologies and devices in a dynamically changing...

Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition)

Prentice Hall, 2006

The habits and attitudes associated with critical thinking are transferable to consumer, medical, legal, and general ethical choices. When our surgeon says surgery is needed, it can be life sustaining to seek answers to the critical questions encouraged in Asking the Right Questions This popular book helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing...

New Directions in Project Management (Best Practices)

Auerbach Publications, 2001

Organizations that rely on computing technology for survival understand the critical importance of managing projects that meet strategic goals and objectives. The diversity of business globalization and electronic commerce combined with the unceasing pace of technical change continues to challenge efforts for more proficient project management...

Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children (Perspectives on Deafness)

Oxford University Press, 2005

A colleague of ours once remarked (paraphrasing to protect the innocent): ‘‘Isn’t it amazing how we can all know so much about this and still know so little?’’ Even if the comment was not quite as profound as it might appear, in this context, it is dead on. This volume came about because we felt that this is one of the...

Venture Capital Funding: A Practical Guide to Raising Finance

Kogan Page, 2005

After the problems caused by the dot com boom, there is now renewed interest in venture capital: private equity funds are reporting significantly increased levels of activity both in the UK and worldwide. The Bank of England regards assisting firms to become "investment ready" as the single most important task facing financial...

Business Process Mapping: Improving Customer Satisfaction

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

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Killing in War (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)

Oxford University Press, 2009

Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and that the justifications for...

An Introduction to Catholicism (Introduction to Religion)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news. But what do its one billion adherents really believe, and how do they put their beliefs into practice in worship, the family, and society? This down-to-earth account goes back to the early...

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