P Meyer: 18 books
Commitment in the Workplace
Theory, Research, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1997
What is a committed employee? Are such employees better or worse off than uncommitted employees? What are the organizational advantages and disadvantages of having a committed workforce?
This book overviews academic and popular perspectives on commitment in employees. It examines the multiple...
Surgery of Anorectal Diseases
With Pre- and Postoperative Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Understanding of the pathology and causation of anorectal diseases is constantly increasing. This has led to changes in how treatment is cho sen. There is almost no anorectal condition for which some new thera peutic approach has not been recently tried, and several of these do not involve surgery...
Evaluating Scholarship and Research Impact
History, Practices, and Policy Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Faculty members, scholars, and researchers often ask where they should publish their work; which outlets are most suitable to showcase their research? Which journals should they publish in to ensure their work is read and cited? How can the impact of their scholarly output be maximized?
The...
by Alvin P. Lehnerd, Marc H. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Most companies know that long-term success does not hinge on any single product but on a continuous stream of value-rich products that target growth markets. Yet many firms inexplicably develop one product at a time, and by doing so fail to embrace commonality, compatibility, standardization, or modularization...
Beyond 1776
Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework. The foundation of the United States was deeply enmeshed with shifting alliances and multiple actors, with politics saturated by imaginative literature, and with ostensible bilateral negotiations that...
by Taylor Robert P.; Govindarajalu Chandrasekar; Levin Jeremy ; Meyer Anke S.; Ward William A.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
While energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing and transitional economies impede developing and financing energy efficiency retrofits. This book analyzes these difficulties, suggests a 3-part model for projectizing...
Coastal Erosion
Response and Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
The coastal zone is subject to strong pressures from a large number of users. Populations are migrating to it in large numbers. Industry wants to exploit it for its space, water and manpower. Aggregate miners want to exploit mineral resources and health centers are multiplying. It is a favorite area...
Reading the Signs
Using Case Studies to Discuss Student Life Issues at Catholic Colleges and Universities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The purpose of this book is to provide student affairs professionals who work at Catholic colleges and universities a tool for reflection and dialogue on difficult issues they face in their campuses. It is intended to be used in staff development sessions, in training sessions with student leaders and...
by Fundación Heberto Castillo Martínez AC, Óscar González, Enrique González Pedrero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2007
El lector encontrará aquí, reunidos y expuestos los textos de las presentaciones y de las ponencias con las que un reconocido grupo de participantes debatió con vivacidad y agudeza para dar continuidad a los esfuerzos independentistas, igualitarios, liberadores y justicieros a los que Heberto Castillo dedicó su pensamiento y la acción de toda su vida.
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Cultural Mobility
A Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Adventures in Shondaland
Identity Politics and the Power of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work...
Energy Policies in the European Union
Germany’s Ecological Tax Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Global warming is a serious threat to the stability of world climate and to economic prosperity in some regions. The book offers a theoretical analysis which focuses on double dividend issues. Moreover, the ecological tax reform in Germany and the options of modern energy policy are described and...
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