Alexander: 7118 books
The Peasant in Postsocialist China
History, Politics, and Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as China becomes an economic superpower, the issue continues to loom large. Can the peasantry be integrated into a new Chinese capitalism, or will...
by Craig Alexander Orr, MBA, MSc
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
The idea for this book arose from a desire to clear away the mystique of cash management, make you aware of it’s importance, especially as we live through a Global Credit Crunch, and provide you with the tools to better manage cash in your business.
Cash is the lifeblood of any business and...
by Craig Alexander Orr, MBA, MSc
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
This workshop will energise and encourage you to start to thinking about the future of your business rather than just living in the present, and the workshop will help your senior managers to get an overview of how the business works and agree the business survival strategy.
Remember the key...
AARP The Secret of Shelter Island
Money and What Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance.
In The Secret of Shelter Island, nationally renowned financial analyst and bestselling author Alexander Green explores the complicated relationship we all have with money and reveals the road map to a rich...
Breaking Failure
How to Break the Cycle of Business Failure and Underperformance Using Root Cause, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, and an Early Warning System
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
TIME-PROVEN TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING RISK AND IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN MISSION-CRITICAL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
Proven in high-stakes, high-risk environments–from defense to healthcare
For business functions ranging from marketing to HR, R&D to M&A
Indispensable for all executives, entrepreneurs,...
Survival Migration
Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats...
by Chandra Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
By delivering a one-two punch, Relationship Therapy On Demand wakes you up – you learn how to take care of yourself and stay open to love. The seven chapters cover the basics: Meeting and Courting, The Relationship, To Leave or To Stay, Breaking Up, Starting Over and Creating a Real Relationship—with...
by Dr. Sonja Hollins-Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Create a 21st-century professional development program!
Can online learning deliver high-caliber professional development (PD) with lower costs? This timely book shows you how, and the answer lies in combining well-designed online instruction with the energy of peer-to-peer collaboration. Sonja...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
The Darkening Web
The War for Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
“A prescient and important book. . . . Fascinating.”—The New York Review of Books
No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place...
by Alexander Luke
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Starting your own business can be a rewarding but challenging experience. Approximately 50% of businesses fail within the first five years. Luke Alexander has run multiple businesses for over ten years and now he wants to help you do the same.
Luke now shows you How to Start a Social Media...
Protocol
How Control Exists after Decentralization
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
How Control Exists after Decentralization
Is the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom,...
Museums in Motion
An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Here is a complete introduction to the history of museums, types of museums, and the key roles that museums play in the twenty-first century.
Following an introductory chapter looking at what a museum is today, Part I looks at the history and types of museums:
art and design museums
natural...
Organizations and the Bioeconomy
The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The advancement of the life sciences and the technosciences has enhanced the longevity of citizens in the Western world, and half of the generation born in the first decade of the new millennium is now expected to live to the age of one hundred years. In a society with such longevity and affluence,...