艾美琦Amy: 4691 books
by Brandon Follett, Amy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Brandon and Amy travel Southeast Asia with the idea that this beautiful region of the world with its unique geography and culture will not be experienced with a cocktail in hand, felt through a Thai massage parlor, or watched from a pool side. Tasted by way of S. E. Asia omelets and interpreted...
by Amy J. L. Baker, Benjamin Charvat
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Social service agencies are facing the same expectations in quality management and outcomes as private companies, compelling staff members and researchers to provide and interpret valid and useful research to stakeholders at all levels in the field. Child welfare agencies are particularly scrutinized....
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide
Business Thinking and Strategies Behind Successful Web 2.0 Implementations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve your company's bottom line. Whether you're an executive plotting the next move, a small business owner looking to expand, or an entrepreneur planning...
Lynched
The Victims of Southern Mob Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely...
Finding Higher Ground
Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, the reality is that even if we were to immediately cease emissions, we would still face climate change into the next millennium. In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl takes the uniquely positive—yet realistic—position...
Pathways to Polling
Crisis, Cooperation and the Making of Public Opinion Professions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In midcentury America, the public opinion polling enterprise faced a crisis of legitimacy. Every major polling firm predicted a win for Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election—and of course they all got it wrong. This failure generated considerable criticisms of polling...
Political Risk
How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it.
The world is changing fast. Political risk-the probability...
Race, Wrongs, and Remedies
Group Justice in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law...
Global Rivalries
Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
As the economies of China, India, and other Asian nations continue to grow, these countries are seeking greater control over the rules that govern international trade. Setting the rules carries with it the power to establish advantage, so it’s no surprise that everyone wants a seat at the table—or...
by Amy Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Moral hazard—the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others—is a particularly tricky question when considering health care. Kenneth J. Arrow's seminal 1963 paper on this topic (included in this volume) was one of the first to explore the implication of moral...
Push Back
Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A Harvard-trained obstetrician-gynecologist, prominent blogger, and author of the classic How Your Baby Is Born delivers a timely, important, and sure to be headline-making expose that shines a light on the natural parenting movement and the multimillion-dollar industry behind it.
The natural...
Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves
Ditch Your Inner Critic and Wake Up Your Inner Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Most women have a nonstop chorus of criticism in their heads — voices not unlike those of the mean girls lurking in the hallways and locker rooms of junior high schools everywhere. The grown-up versions of those teenage taunts — such as “But taking care of myself is sel?sh” and “The world...
If I Have to Tell You One More Time...
The Revolutionary Program That Gets Your Kids To Listen Without Nagging, Remindi ng, or Yelling
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The Revolutionary Program That Gets Your Kids To Listen Without Nagging, Reminding, or Yelling
Why does it feel sometimes as if our children have special powers that enable them to tune us out completely? You ask your child to do her homework, get ready for school or bedtime. You think she...
The Ninth Wife
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“I love this book’s deft, fresh take on male-female relationships.”
—Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me
“A vibrant, nuanced novel about marriage, identity, and the moment when we realize that the shimmer of fantasy pales next to the tumultuous...