John W : 1005 books
by John W. Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Female Voices from the Bible contains poems of rhyme and free verse about various women who proved themselves of courage and action to accomplish an act that others could not. In this volume, we see pictures of daring, faithful, prayerful women leading the way, often when a man would not. In...
How the World Began
Sermons on the Creation Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The question of where we come from and where we are going is one of the elementary challenges of life. Perhaps it is THE question of life. Only when we get an answer to it do we learn who we are. With these striking words, Prof Helmut Thielicke begins this book about the most fundamental of all questions;...
by Peter J. Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro,...
Mipham's Beacon of Certainty
Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
For centuries, Dzogchen - a special meditative practice to achieve spontaneous enlightenment - has been misinterpreted by both critics and malinformed meditators as being purely mystical and anti-rational. In the grand spirit of Buddhist debate, 19th century Buddhist philosopher Mipham wrote Beacon...
Beyond HR
The New Science of Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases, companies must recognize that decisions about talent and its organization can have a significant strategic impact.
Beyond HR shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions,...
Transformative HR
How Great Companies Use Evidence-Based Change for Sustainable Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Proven HR strategies that can have a real impact on organizational success
This book demonstrates how some of the world's most admired and prominent organizations are redefining HR leadership by using evidence-based change to inform human capital decisions that optimize efficiency, effectiveness...
by John W. Kensinger
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The volume starts with the trends in bank deposits (and hence available financial resources) in the region around North Dakota's Bakken Formation oil reserves. Then comes a contribution analyzing how various regulatory uncertainties are undermining real estate investment. We have a study of corporate...
by Captain John W Dickie
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Ship management has constantly had to evolve to take into account the advancements in technology as well as the demands of the shipping industry. Having internet access and email on board ship has meant that the ship manager has to possess certain sets of skills to function effectively in the post,...
The World Mining Industry
Investment Strategy and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Originally published in 1987. A powerful combination of the authors’ research and practical experience underpin this book’s treatment of management and financial strategy in the world mining industry. In contrast with highly theoretical economic treatises on the extractive industries, this account...
Whose Man in Havana?
Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan, including covert monitoring of Soviet military operations in...
Quality: a Total Management Concept
A Philosophical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2005
This book delineates a management style which is bottom-up rather than top-down, that is, it is employee-centered and allows employees to influence management decisions. Shrouded in the mist the reader will recognize both old established and newly innovative management styles and embedded in these...
Race and Retail
Consumption across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found...
Essential Partial Differential Equations
Analytical and Computational Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This volume provides an introduction to the analytical and numerical aspects of partial differential equations (PDEs). It unifies an analytical and computational approach for these; the qualitative behaviour of solutions being established using classical concepts: maximum principles and energy methods....
by John W. Casperson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
One of the greatest individuals of the twentieth century was the founding father of India, Mohandas K. Gandhi. His vision, determination, and courage of heart, mind, and soul, were the rocks on which the modern country of India was founded. Though he never held political office, his moral authority...