Free Press: 1051 books
by Max Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
This bookis an introduction to Max Weber’s ambitious comparative study of the sociological and institutional foundations of the modern economic and social order.
In this work originally published in German in 1920, Weber discusses the analytical methods of sociology and, at the same time,...
by James E. Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
After the 1911 fall of the Manchus came the most hideous breakdown in Chinese history. Sheridan, a Northwestern University scholar, concentrates on the Kuomintang movement of Chiang Kai-shek, insisting that we judge a political force by whether it solves the problems posed to it, not, as Chiang's...
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position...
Profit Beyond Measure
Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Waste has plagued almost every industrial-age firm for the past century. In this powerfully argued alternative to conventional cost management thinking, experts H. Thomas Johnson and Anders Bröms assert that any company can avoid the waste that is generated through excessive operating costs in the...
Profiting from Innovation
The Report of the Three-Year Study from the National Academy of Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
American industry is renowned for its scientific and technical breakthroughs -- and equally famous for its visible failures in commercializing its own technology. Drawing on many examples of successful innovation management, an elite panel of the nation's most accomplished technical managers demonstrates...
The Purchasing Machine
How the Top Ten Companies Use Best Practices to Manage Their Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2001
Every day companies leave billions of dollars in invisible, unrealized savings on the table because of poor supply chain management practices. Now supply management experts Dave Nelson, Patricia E. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner show not only how leading companies recoup these savings through their mastery...
Networth
Successful Investing in the Companies* That Will Prevail through Internet Booms and Busts *(They're not always the ones you expect)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
For the millions who are looking for buying opportunities in the lucrative Internet market but are worried about the risks -- or wonder if the best times have now passed them by -- NetWorth provides indispensable advice supported by the world's most trusted business publication, The Wall Street Journal.
There's...
Inside the Apple
A Streetwise History of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively and comprehensive, Inside the Apple brings to life New York's...
Primer on Decision Making
How Decisions Happen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1994
Building on lecture notes from his acclaimed course at Stanford University, James March provides a brilliant introduction to decision making, a central human activity fundamental to individual, group, organizational, and societal life. March draws on research from all the disciplines of social and...
by Francis Fukuyama
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists...
by J. Thomas Wren
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This book serves as a guided introduction to the richly diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world. Each of the selections, introduced by the editor, presents enlightening thoughts on a different aspect of leadership. Writings by Plato, Aristotle, Lao-tzu and others...
by Carlton E. Munson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1979
A comprehensive view of historical and current approaches to social work supervision, which includes one of the most extensive bibliographies ever compiled on the subject.
In this overview of historical and current approaches to social work supervision, topics range from the first documented...
by George A. Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In today's complex business world, strategic planning is indispensable to achieving superior management. George A. Steiner's classic work, known as the bible of business planning, provides practical advice for organizing the planning system, acquiring and using information, and translating strategic...
by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
According to leading education analyst Chester Finn, a paradox lies at the heart of our educational trouble. While Americans commonly acknowledge that public schools in general are a disaster, polls consistently show that most parents, teachers, and administrators think their local schools and their...