Michael Abrams: 12 books
Bringing Value to Healthcare
Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The healthcare sector is on the cusp of sweeping disruption. The hallmarks of the old system—pricing that’s disconnected from outcomes and incentives for treating sickness rather than maintaining health—are no longer sustainable. And yet, after decades of financial success, it’s difficult...
Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers
Wingsuits and the Pioneers Who Flew in Them, Fell in Them, and Perfected Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Wright Brothers were wimps.
Or so you might think after reading this account of their unsung but even more daring rivals—the men and women who strapped wings to their backs and took to the sky. If only for a few seconds.
People have been dying to fly, quite literally, since the...
The Art of City Sketching
A Field Manual
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual guides you through the laborious and sometimes complex process of sketching what you see in the built environment so that you can learn to draw what you imagine. Illustrated with hundreds of drawings by students and professionals of cityscapes around Europe...
by Mary Scannell, Michael Abrams, Mike Mulvihill
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Get remote team members to interact as if they’re in the same room!
Whether you’re videoconferencing with team members across the world or e-mailing a colleague sitting ten feet away, the truth is evident: technology has permanently altered the way we communicate. The virtual workplace...
Mission Critical
Unlocking the Value of Veterans in the Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The Center for Talent Innovation's new study, Mission Critical: Unlocking the Value of Veterans in the Workforce, reveals how companies can ensure their veteran talent thrives in the corporate world. Veterans represent a highly desirable talent pool when they transition to civilian careers. They retain...
Healthcare at a Turning Point
A Roadmap for Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
If the furious debate around the state of healthcare in the US has led to any consensus, it’s that the system should be delivering better quality for less cost than it does. The truth is that our healthcare system is a sprawling mix of competing interests in which those of the patient are valued...
Social Identifications
A Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations and Group Processes
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
The authors of Social Identifications set out to make accessible to students of social psychology the social identity approach developed by Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and their colleagues in Bristol during the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams give a comprehensive and readable account...
Just Sex
Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
Armed with three decades of feminism, men and women are coming to college with different ideas and expectations about sexual freedom and violence than did their parents. Since the early 1980's, a student movement has emerged from the belief that sexual violence is neither inherent nor inevitable....
The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices
CLAL's Guide to Everyday & Holiday Rituals & Blessings
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Discover how to make virtually any moment in your day a significant part of a meaningful Jewish life.
As we have discovered, and as our sages have long known, there is no experience in the life of a Jew that cannot be marked in Jewish ways…. The book you hold in your hands is the result of...
Managing Educational Technology
School Partnerships and Technology Integration
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Managing Educational Technology examines the ways in which stakeholders from businesses, K-12 schools, and universities can influence the quality and success of technology integration in primary and secondary classrooms.
Inspired by their experiences in the field as educators, education...
Business Networking for Veterans
A Guidebook for a Successful Military Transition into the Civilian Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Your military skills and experience will be invaluable to you in civilian life. But your successful transition won't just happen. You need a network of people who can help you decide where you want to go[md]and then help you get there.
Don’t know how to build that network? No problem: Business...
by Alan Dean FOSTER, Michael ARNDT, J.J. ABRAMS
Language: French
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: April 21, 2016
La novélisation officielle de l'épisode VII, Le Réveil de la force. L'adaptation jeunes adultes de l'événement cinématographique le plus retentissant de 2015-2016 !
Luke Skywalker a disparu. En son absence, le sinistre PREMIER ORDRE est né des cendres de l'Empire et cherche à éliminer le...