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Security Manager's Guide to Disasters: Managing Through Emergencies, Violence, and Other Workplace Threats

CRC Press, 2009

Terrorist or criminal attack, fire emergency, civil or geographic disruption, or major electrical failure—recent years have witnessed an increase in the number of natural disasters and man-made events that have threatened the livelihoods of businesses and organizations worldwide. Security Manager’s Guide to Disasters:...

The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism

Duke University Press, 2019

In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and exploitation of mineral resources, labor, data, and cultures. They show how capital—which they theorize as a direct political actor—operates...

Social Media and Integrated Marketing Communication: A Rhetorical Approach

Lexington Books, 2013

Social Media and Integrated Marketing Communication: A Rhetorical Approach explores social media in the areas of corporate identity, brand narratives, and crisis response from a rhetorical perspective. Key ideas in this text are social media as epideictic rhetoric—the rhetorical...

God, Do You Really Care?: Finding Strength When He Seems Distant

Multnomah, 2006

When the Hits Just Keep On Comin' There are small hits: The car won't start. You lose something valuable. It's raining on your five-hundred-person outdoor event. And there are big hits: She's diagnosed with cancer. You're being laid off. They're getting divorced. Regardless of magnitude, each trial causes us to...

Design Pattern Formalization Techniques

IGI Global, 2007

Software design is a fledgling discipline. When the “software crisis” came to be acknowledged during the late 1960s, software development projects have been marred by budget overflows and catastrophic failures. This situation has largely remained unchanged. Programmers still create poorly-understood systems of monstrous complexity which...

Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture

New Society Publishers, 2006

The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the United States show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot...

Adventures in Criminology

Routledge, 1999

[The book] is one of great distinction, scholarship and wit. ...a pleasure to read and which, itself, is a primary source of evidence from which much can be learnt.
–Punishment and Society

Sir Leon Radzinowicz is one of the key figures in the development of criminology in the twentieth century....

Integration-Ready Architecture and Design: Software Engineering with XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Knowledge Technologies

Cambridge University Press, 2004

One might think that the software industry is performing very well because it is armed with object-oriented approaches, Web services, Java and .NET technologies, and so forth. Unfortunately, this is not true.

There may be something wrong with the way we write programs. The process has not changed much during the past twenty years, except...

How Financial Slack Affects Corporate Performance: An Examination in an Uncertain and Resource Scarce Environment (BestMasters)

Springer, 2013

Bernadette Gral examines the relationship between financial slack and corporate performance in the European pharmaceutical industry during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2010. Her investigation includes correlational and regression analyses as well as the qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles. The results show that financial...

Reducing Risk with Software Process Improvement

Auerbach Publications, 2005

This book describes observations made over a period of ten years in
projects and organizations involved in the field of Information Technology
(IT), focusing on the areas of software development and maintenance. It
highlights the most frequently encountered problems because of poor
processes, the term process being defined as...

The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

In the late 1990s the American corporation forged ahead in gains in efficiency and earnings performance with strong reflections in stock price appreciation.However, the events of Enron and the bursting of the bubble of unlimited increases in the price of Internet, telecom and energy company shares have caused the authors of this book to take...

Liberal Democracy in Crisis: Rethinking Resistance under Neoliberal Governmentality (The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book rethinks resistance against neoliberalism in the context of the crisis of Western liberal democracy and the rise of new radical left parties in Europe. Drawing upon a wide range of methodological approaches in contemporary political and social theory, it explores how the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis represents the...

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