Esther: 1033 books

Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. It's possible to see the results of great management, but it's not easy to see how managers achieve those results. Great management happens in one-on-one meetings and with other managers---all in private. It's hard to learn management by example when...

As an alternative to traditional client-server systems, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems provide major advantages in terms of scalability, autonomy and dynamic behavior of peers, and decentralization of control. Thus, they are well suited for large-scale data sharing in distributed environments. Most of...

Through ethnographical cases, this book examines the ways in which social groups position themselves between cultures, states, moralities, and local/state authorities, creating opportunities for agency. Alternative spaces designate in-between spaces rather than oppositional structures and are both inside and outside their constituent elements.

This series of essays outlines a number of case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and provides first hand accounts of the experiences that planners, architects and politicians have had in reshaping cities. These insights provide a pragmatic assessment of the challenges and constraints...

This book is intended for use both in the industry and the academia. It introduces the physical, chemical and the mechanical properties as well as the characterization of bamboo. Novel industrial applications in structural, non-structural, reinforcement, afforestation, land reclamation, environmental...

This book is based on the empirical work of a large-scale project to investigate the possible impacts of diversified forms of parental involvement on children and school by first exploring through a series of ethnographic case studies how principals, teachers and parents perceive and act on parental...

**Forty evidenced-based strategies for integrating literacy instruction into the content areas  ** Providing unique content on assessment, differentiated instruction, technology, and reflective practice, Developing Content Area Literacy, Second Edition is designed to help busy middle school...

This book presents the concept of functionally graded materials as well as their use and different fabrication processes. The authors describe the use of additive manufacturing technology for the production of very complex parts directly from the three dimension computer aided design of the part by...

This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hiệp along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country’s shift towards market socialism. The author explores how...

The study of online gaming is changing. It is no longer enough to analyse one type of online community in order to understand the plethora of players who take part in online worlds and the behaviours they exhibit. MacCallum-Stewart studies the different ways in which online games create social environments...

Despite the gains of the women’s movement, women are still judged by what they look like--and men, by what they do. Fat--A Fate Worse Than Death? offers hardy resistance to the narrow, random, and irrational appearance standards set for American women through an approach that is personal, eclectic,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Wirtschaft und Industrie, Note: 2,7, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit liegt auf den Auswirkungen von Corporate Social Responsibility auf die Umwelt, so dass innerbetriebliche und strategische Aspekt...

Birth Tourism in US The life of a pregnant lady is not easy. From the initial days of nausea and inability to keep anything down in the digestive system to the gradual aversion to the foods you once loved, bloating, and back aches – pregnant women see it all. And that’s just a part of the...

La mayor enfermedad hoy en da no es la lepra, ni la tuberculosis, sino mas bien, el sentirse no querido, no cuidado y abandonado por todos. El mayor mal es la falta de amor y caridad, .. Teresa de Calcuta. La depresin afecta las actividades diarias de quien la padezca, pues esta enfermedad se distingue...