Christopher Murphy: 15 books
Competitive Intelligence
Gathering, Analysing and Putting it to Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Every business manager needs intelligence to find suppliers, mobilize capital, win customers and fend off rivals. Obtaining this is often an unplanned, instinctive process. The manager who has a conscious, systematic approach to acquiring intelligence will be better placed to recognize and seize opportunities...
by Christopher Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Located just north of Boston, Nashua, New Hampshire, is known as a quiet cityuntil a series of violent murders makes front page news just before Memorial Day weekend. The brutal killings leave citizens terrified, and the NH State Police respond by bringing in an experienced investigator.
Detective...
Shadows of Forever
The Annals of Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Nick D'Arcy is missing, and at any cost, psychiatrist Emma Caldwell--his lover--must find him. Struggling to cope with specters of vampires, unfinished business from past lives, and encounters with strange immortal beings known as the Waking Ones, Emma is determined to follow every clue. The trail...
At the Helm: Volume 4: A Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology
At The Helm, #4
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined.
Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this fourth collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at...
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association...
Teamwork Is an Individual Skill
Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
Knowing how to work effectively in and through groups may be the single most important skill anyone can develop in today's collaborative, team-based workplace. Unfortunately, all of the resources available on teamwork put the emphasis on group process and ignore the role of-and benefits to-the individual....
Heroines of Comic Books and Literature
Portrayals in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships...
The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
War and Border Crossings
Ethics When Cultures Clash
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
War and Border Crossings brings together renowned scholars to address some of the most pressing problems in public policy, international affairs, and the intercultural issues of our day. Contributors from widely varying disciplines discuss cross-cultural ethical issues and international topics ranging...
by John Warsinske, Christopher Hoover, Ben Malisow
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
The only official, comprehensive reference guide to the CISSP
All new for 2019 and beyond, this is the authoritative common body of knowledge (CBK) from (ISC)2 for information security professionals charged with designing, engineering, implementing, and managing the overall information security...
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 1
Introduction, breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....
College Student Alcohol Abuse
A Guide to Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Essential evidence-based strategies for the prevention and reduction of alcohol abuse among college students
With contributions from notable substance abuse researchers, this practical guide presents clear strategies for prevention of and interventions for alcohol abuse in the college-age population.
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