Duncan: 1764 books
Brilliant Meetings
What to know, say and do to have fewer, better meetings
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Many of us feel that we spend too much time in unproductive meetings when we could be getting on with some ‘real’ work. Well, meetings are real work and effective meetings are the springboard for great results. Brilliant Meetings gives you the tips, tools and techniques to transform all your meetings...
by Noelle Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Quicklets: Learn More. Read Less.Andrew Ross Sorkin is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author. He has been a regular contributor to The New York Times since he was a student at Cornell University. He is also a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box, a business news program and founder...
by Joseph Jupille, Walter Mattli, Duncan Snidal
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Why do institutions emerge, operate, evolve and persist? Institutional Choice and Global Commerce elaborates a theory of boundedly rational institutional choice that explains when states USE available institutions, SELECT among alternative forums, CHANGE existing rules, or CREATE new arrangements...
The Burning Question
We can't burn half the world's oil, coal and gas. So how do we quit?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Take one complex scientific discipline. Add the future of energy, economics, and geopolitics. Season with human nature . . .
The Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating...
Unholy Trinity
Labor, Capital and Land in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Many of the central results of Classical and Marxian political economy are examples of the self-organization of the capitalist economy as a complex, adaptive system far from equilibrium.An Unholy Trinity explores the relations between contemporary complex systems theory and classical political economy, and applies the methods it develops to the pro
Risky Curves
On the Empirical Failure of Expected Utility
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
For several decades, the orthodox economics approach to understanding choice under risk has been to assume that each individual person maximizes some sort of personal utility function defined over purchasing power. This new volume contests that even the best wisdom from the orthodox theory has not...
Energy Law and the Sustainable Company
Innovation and corporate social responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
What kind of decision-making should multinationals engage in to create a sustainable company? There is substantial debate over why CEOs, senior management and Boards of Directors make the wrong decisions by not asking the right questions, with the result that not only is the company itself damaged,...
by Duncan Connors
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
A History of Money looks at how money as we know it developed through time. Starting with the barter system, the basic function of exchanging goods evolved into a monetary system based on coins made up of precious metals and, from the 1500s onwards, financial systems were established through which...
Games and Decisions
Introduction and Critical Survey
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
"The best book available for non-mathematicians." — Contemporary Psychology.This book represents the earliest clear, detailed, precise exposition of the central ideas and results of game theory and related decision-making models — unencumbered by technical mathematical details. It offers a comprehensive,...
by Duncan Weir
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
The past 25 years have brought advancements in the technological sphere that have rocked the world – yet few innovations have transformed the lives of home based entrepreneurs and creators greater than the 3D Printer. This book aims to make that journey easier with down to Earth language, pictures,...
by Duncan Cartlidge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The third edition of the Quantity Surveyor’s Pocket Book has been updated in line with NRM1, NRM2 and NRM3, and remains a must-have guide for students and qualified practitioners. Its focused coverage of the data, techniques and skills essential to the quantity surveying role makes it an invaluable...
Sustainable Renovation
Strategies for Commercial Building Systems and Envelope
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
The complete resource on performing sustainable renovations for both Historic and modern existing buildings
This forward-looking and insightful guide explores how the sustainable renovation of existing buildings presents great opportunities for initiating extensive changes in the performance...
Double Your Business
How to break through the barriers to higher growth, turnover and profit
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Learn how to pinpoint exactly what is holding your business back so you can double your turnover and profit within 2 years or less.
This book enables small business owners to release rapid, dynamic growth. Including action plans which help you to overcome the barriers that may be...
by Duncan Brown, Nick Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Influencer Marketing is the most important new approach to marketing in a decade for those professionals at the leading edge of purchasing decision making. It shows that key decision makers in all major markets operate within communities of influencers- because major decisions are too complex and...