Peter John: 364 books
Discontinuous Innovation
Learning to Manage the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This book is based on the findings, issues and questions related to an ongoing decade-old research project named the Innovation Lab (www.innovation-lab.org). The research project focuses on discontinuous innovation in more than thirteen countries, most of which are European, and provides useful insights...
by Peter M. Knopf, John L. Teall
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Risk Neutral Pricing and Financial Mathematics: A Primer provides a foundation to financial mathematics for those whose undergraduate quantitative preparation does not extend beyond calculus, statistics, and linear math. It covers a broad range of foundation topics related to financial modeling, including...
Transport Projects, Programmes and Policies
Evaluation Needs and Capabilities
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This title was first published in 2003. The European Union is constantly struggling to find effective ways to plan major transport infrastructure developments at a European level. This is a critical factor in the emerging debates surrounding the absorption of the accession states into the EU, but...
by Kimberly Williams, John M. Facciola, Peter McCann
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book explores the transformational impact of new technological developments on legal practice. More specifically, it addresses knowledge management, communication, and e-discovery related technologies, and helps readers develop the project management and data analysis skills needed to effectively...
by John Hilsdon, Peter Hartley, Christine Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
This book shows how Learning Development enhances the student experience and promotes active engagement. Written by staff from the UK's largest collaborative Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), the book includes important insights for everyone interested in supporting student retention, progression and success.
The Allocation of Health Care Resources
An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very different kinds. Health care can extend the lives of children and of older people. It can make it...
Beyond the Resume
A Comprehensive Guide to Making the Right Impression Through E-Mail, Cover Letters, Resumes, and Pre-Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2006
Using the right phrases at the right moment can make all the difference! It can generate real interest in you, provoke more questions, and show an interviewer that you are the right person for the job. The same applies to written communications such as letters or emails and to voice mail messages....
Atmospheric Science
An Introductory Survey
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2006
Atmospheric Science, Second Edition, is the long-awaited update of the classic atmospheric science text, which helped define the field nearly 30 years ago and has served as the cornerstone for most university curricula. Now students and professionals alike can use this updated classic to understand...
by Eric Farmer, John van Rooij, Johan Riemersma
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Advances in simulation technology have enabled an interesting amount of training and instruction to be conducted on training simulators instead of on real systems. However, experiences with the procurement and use of training simulators has not always been as successful, often owing to a lack of knowledge...
Fuzzy Social Choice Models
Explaining the Government Formation Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set...
Energetic Food Webs
An analysis of real and model ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This novel book bridges the gap between the energetic and species approaches to studying food webs, addressing many important topics in ecology. Species, matter, and energy are common features of all ecological systems. Through the lens of complex adaptive systems thinking, the authors explore how...
by H. Jane Brockmann, John C. Mitani, Leigh W. Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This is a special 50th year anniversary volume of Advances in the Study of Behavior with contributions from past and present editors and authors of the serial. Initiated 50 years ago, Advances in the Study of Behavior strives to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal...
by John Kuffel, Peter Kuffel
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2000
Power transfer for large systems depends on high system voltages. The basics of high voltage laboratory techniques and phenomena, together with the principles governing the design of high voltage insulation, are covered in this book for students, utility engineers, designers and operators of high...
Northern Archaeological Textiles
NESAT VII: Textile Symposium in Edinburgh, 5th-7th May 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden...