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Designing and Conducting Business Surveys (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Designing and Conducting Business Surveys provides a coherent overview of the business survey process, from start to finish. It uniquely integrates an understanding of how businesses operate, a total survey error approach to data quality that focuses specifically on business surveys, and sound project management principles. The book...

The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future

Oxford University Press, 2008

The MBA is probably the hottest ticket among the current university graduate degree offerings--every year, more than 120,000 students enroll in MBA programs in the United States, and the estimates in Europe do not lag far behind. In addition, job prospects have never looked better for business school graduates; corporations are hiring more...

Methods of Demographic Analysis

Springer, 2013

This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis and methods, including recent developments in demography. Concepts and methods, from the nature of demographic information through data collection and the basics of statistical measures and on to demographic analysis itself are succinctly explained. Measures and analyses of...

Drug Use and Abuse: A Comprehensive Introduction

Cengage Learning, 2013

Packed with the latest data and research, the powerful new DRUG USE AND ABUSE: A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION, 8e delivers a thorough, interdisciplinary survey of all aspects of drug and alcohol abuse. The text draws from the many disciplines of history, law, pharmacology, political science, social work, counseling, psychology, sociology, and...

Misunderstanding the Internet (Communication and Society)

Routledge, 2012

The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more 1.5 billion internet users across the globe, about one quarter of the world’s population. This is certainly a new phenomenon that is of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies.

However, much popular and...

Family Business Models: Practical Solutions for the Family Business

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

In the early 20th century, American sociologist W. I. Thomas won fame with the statement: ‘If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.’ This fundamental observation on human behavior, now known as the Thomas theorem, became a cornerstone of contemporary sociology. The idea that our...

Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

Routledge, 2013

Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing.

This new edition is updated...

When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

Springer, 2008

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological.

Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring testimony by expert witnesses on recent...

Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods

FT Press, 2007

“I believe that this book will fill a great need for both full-time competitive intelligence practitioners, and those looking to add analytical skills to their managerial tool kit.”
--Bill Fiora, Partner and Founder, Outward Insights

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You and Your Money: A No-Stress Guide to Becoming Financially Fit

FT Press, 2007

“With over 70% of American workers living paycheck to paycheck, basic money management skills are needed desperately. This is a masterful work that guides us to discover our own money dysfunctions and takes us on a journey to healthy financial behaviors.”

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From Popular Culture to Everyday Life

Routledge, 2014

From Popular Culture to Everyday Life presents a critical exploration of the development of everyday life as an object of study in cultural analysis, wherein John Storey addresses the way in which everyday life is beginning to replace popular culture as a primary concept in cultural studies.

Storey presents a range of...

Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy integrates the studies of three 'inner circle' members of the Bloomsbury group and three 'satellite' figures into a rich narrative of early twentieth-century culture. Wolfe shows how numerous modernist writers felt torn. On the one hand, they doubted the...

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