At: 168 books
Supplier Relationship Management
How to Maximize Vendor Value and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
There’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%. Supplier...
Wittgenstein at the Movies
Cinematic Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on...
by Poetry at the Pub Newcastle
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
Collection of poetry from members and guests of Newcastle Poetry at the Pub.
The Devil at Genesee Junction
The Murders of Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formicola, 6/66
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Today you’d call Ballantyne suburban, but back then, at the start of the summer of 1966, it was country — just a cluster of houses, some of them shacks, on or near Ballantyne Road, in the Town of Chili, NY. And while June 25 started like any other day it would end in a nightmare. In The Devil...
Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City
Stories of Dispossession and Defiance from New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In cities across the nation, communities of color find themselves resisting state disinvestment and the politics of dispossession. Students at the Center—a writing initiative based in several New Orleans high schools—takes on this struggle through a close examination of race and schools....
by State University of New York at Cobleskill Alumni Association
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
As an alternative to high school for young men interested in agriculture, the State Agricultural and Technology College at Cobleskill opened the doors of its only building to a class of 10 in 1916. It was an experiment at the time, although now it would be part of New York's BOCES (Board of Cooperative...
by Franciscan Brothers at Brother James Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Helping orphaned and disadvantaged boys get a chance at a better life was the mission of Brother James, founder of the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross, a German Catholic Order that sent Brothers to the United States in 1924. To that end, St. James Trade School was established in Springfield, Illinois,...
by Henry Chappell, Author of The Callings and At Home on the Range with a Texas Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Bobwhites in the Texas panhandle, prairie grouse in the Flint Hills of Kansas, Gambel's quail in New Mexico's arroyos, blue quail on the staked plains, and doves and Mearn's quail in Arizona. In these lyrical essays, Henry Chappell examines the bonds that exist between hunter, hunting dog, land, and...
by Nathan J. Gomes, Atílio Gameiro, Paulo P. Monteiro
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Taking a coherent and logical approach, this book describes the potential use of co-ordinated multipoint systems supported by radio over fiber. It covers an impressive breadth of topics, ranging from components, subsystem and system architecture, to network management and business perspectives. The...
Life Lessons
Writings from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the Florida State University
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
One of Tallahassee's richest cultural entities, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FSU, has collected here an anthology of mostly true and some fictional stories and poems, all rich, warm and seasoned.
You get tales: bird dogs sprayed yellow and sulfurous; a white girl walking dusty red...
In Marx's Shadow
Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking...
The Antipodean Philosopher
Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions...
Movies in the Age of Obama
The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot
Texas Backwoods Battler
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Generations of fighting Harris blood exploded through Roy Harriss veins that August night in 1958 as he stood in the boxing ring in Los Angeles. He was facing the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Floyd Patterson, who, at the time, had earned that crown at an earlier age than any other...