Walter: 4352 books
Delivering Customer Value through Procurement and Strategic Sourcing
A Professional Guide to Creating A Sustainable Supply Network
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This is the complete executive's guide to driving sustainable competitive advantage and mitigating risk in today's complex supply networks. Two of the field's leading consultants show senior managers how to apply advanced strategic sourcing to significantly improve your supply chain's efficiency, effectiveness,...
by Walter Parks
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
The Bible tells us that God created us in the Garden of Eden. Scientific evidence points to us evolving from lower animals. Eden Evolution analyzes the dichotomies between the two and suggests how both can be correct.
Lords of Strategy
The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy.
Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering...
Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice
Concise Professional Advice
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Starting your own architecture or engineering firm may seem a bit daunting. In Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice, author Walter J. Smith presents a handbook to help you navigate that process in order to be successful in the long term.
Based on information gleaned from...
by Ingo Walter (ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact reaches deep into the broader economy with important and multifaceted...
Murder Culture and Injustice
Four Sensational Cases in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Walter Hixson's pithy narrative account of four sensational murder cases---the Lizzie Borden, Lindbergh baby, Sam Sheppard, and O.J. Simpson trials---offers interesting observations into the greater cultural and political forces that shaped their verdicts. His step-by-step analysis of the details...
How to Retire Rich in a Totally Changed World
Why You're Not in Kansas Anymore
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Whether you are thirty years from retirement or it’s just around the corner, here is the only book you’ll need about how to get it together and plan a safe, secure, and prosperous retirement. Money magazine senior editor Walter Updegrave has crafted a practical, resourceful guide, showing readers...
Race & Economics
How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. He debunks many common labor market myths...
by John F. Padgett, Walter W. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically...
Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism
Controversial Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter Williams offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics. Although many of these essays focus on the growth of government and our loss...
by Peter Fritz Walter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
‘Leadership and Career in the 21st Century’ presents a novel approach to understanding and training leadership for top and middle management audiences. This guide is more than a book on teaching leadership to professional audiences in that it addresses the lay reader and shows how to raise leadership...
An Other Kingdom
Departing the Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.
We...
China Uncensored
A Survival Guide for your first year in China
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Looking for something more than the 9-5 grind from Monday to Friday? Or are you realizing life should be a little more exhilarating than the break room gossip.
China Uncensored pulls no punches; telling readers everything from choosing schools, dating, lifestyles and travel while you try and...
by Walter J. Oleszek, Mark J. Oleszek, Elizabeth E. Rybicki
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process examines the entire arc of the legislative process—from a bill’s introduction, to its signature into law, to congressional review of the law’s administrative implementation—and the many procedural pitfalls that exist along the way. Author Walter...