A Richard: 899 books
The Differentiated Workforce
Translating Talent into Strategic Impact
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker, Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution.
Many companies fall into the trap of spending too much time and money on low performers, while high...
by Richard A. DeFusco, Dennis W. McLeavey, David E. Runkle
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Your complete guide to quantitative analysis in the investment industry
Quantitative Investment Analysis, Third Edition is a newly revised and updated text that presents you with a blend of theory and practice materials to guide you through the use of statistics within the context of finance...
System Safety for the 21st Century
The Updated and Revised Edition of System Safety 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Summarizes the current state of "front-end" risk-control techniques
Many approaches to risk control are possible. However, only through careful reading, evaluation, and study can one make the best choice of a practical philosophy for a system safety program. The goal is to apply the best...
Measures of Success
Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and DevelopmProjects
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Measures of Success is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, managing, and measuring the impacts of community-oriented conservation and developmprojects. It presents a simple, clear, logical, and yet comprehensive approach to developing and implementing effective programs, and can help conservation...
The Evolving Universe
The Evolving Universe, Relativity, Redshift and Life from Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
This revolutionary book proposes that the universe did not begin with a Big Bang and that it is slowly converging to an equilibrium state. Key features of the book include: ? The modern model of the atom. ? How the Earth and Solar System formed. ? Evolution of life on Earth. ? Nucleosynthesis in stars....
by Richard A. Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Air Force Combat Controller Dallas O'Halloran has a reputation as a hell-raising ladykiller. But he's also fiercely loyal. So when he's recruited by a new combat unit, Dallas is none too pleased to find himself teamed up with the icy blond JAG officer who nearly court-martialed his friends.
Academy...
by Richard A. Knaak
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the best-selling author of the Dragonrealm comes the shadowy fantasy of Grigori Nicolau, a wizard whose dreams have been haunted for centuries by the malevolent gargoyle he calls Frostwing.
From Publishers Weekly:
Elements of gothic romance, epic fantasy and horror story...
by Richard A. Knaak
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
A historical urban fantasy set in Prohibition-era Chicago, which combines action, mystery, and romance against a backdrop of gangland wars and the threat of supernatural horror. For sixteen hundred years, Nick Medea has guarded the gate between our world and Feirie, preventing the Wyld--the darkest...
by Richard A. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Founded in 1907 amidst protests and a burgeoning suffrage movement, Essex Mountain Sanatorium was the result of two Montclair, New Jersey, women who successfully lobbied local government to establish a tuberculosis sanatorium in a then vacant cottage for wayward girls. From these humble beginnings, the...
by Osamu A. Wakita, Richard M. Linde, Nagy R. Bakhoum
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The detailed, highly illustrated, comprehensive guide to architectural working drawings
The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings is a complete guide to the skills you need to create a set of drawings that clearly and effectively communicate your design. Covering everything...
by David Lane, Stefan Schmalz, Richard T. Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Since the end of the World War II, nation states have formed regions to give them some protection from the processes of globalization and internationalization. Against this background, the contributors consider the position of China in the processes of regional competitive interdependency. This book...
MMOs from the Outside In
The Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games of Psychology, Law, Government, and Real Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This follow-up volume to MMOs from the Inside Out is a further collection of bold ideas, information, and instruction from one of the true pioneers of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. Whereas its predecessor looked at how MMOs can change the world, MMOs from the Outside In: How Psychology,...
Play Therapy in Action
A Casebook for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1994
This book brings together in a single volume concrete applications of play therapy by seasoned clinicians from various theoretical perspectives. The goal is to reflect the broad spectrum of approaches that now exist in the field. The major psychopathologies in children present the therapist with different...
Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities
Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities delves into the unique experiences of individuals in BDSM communities. While misunderstandings surrounding these communities prevail, BDSM sexuality cuts across race, gender, nationality, and sexual orientation. BDSM describes forms...