Victims of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 suffered horrifying effects, including bleeding from the ears and nose, and they usually died. It killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages did in a century. In the United States, where there weren't enough coffins to house the increasing numbers of bodies, nearly seven times ...
Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, by Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart and Wright is specifically written to provide a complete introduction to human resource management. While it doesn't cover the depths of human resource management theory, the book is rich with examples and engages students through application. Fundamentals differs from the ...
Today, a manager cannot be effective without negotiation skills. This guide offers a practical psychological exploration of the major concepts and theories of bargaining and negotiation and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution. Relevant to a wide range of managers - not only those involved in human resource or ...
Historian John M. Barry dramatically reconstructs a key chapter in American history as he recalls the devastating 1927 flood that caused widespread destruction in Louisiana and Mississippi and throughout the region. In April of that year, after weeks of rain, the Mississippi River overflowed its banks. Over a million people were affected as homes ...
As competitors strive to win the war for talent, effective human resource management is necessary to gain true competitive advantage in the marketplace. Three challenges companies face are sustainability, technology, and globalization. "Human Resource Management, 6th Edition" brings these challenges to life by highlighting real-world examples ...
This is a short derivative from the main "Negotiation" text. It explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution. In this revision, the organization more closely follows both "Negotiation" and "Negotiation: Readings, Cases, and ...
Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge is a faith-based companion to the best-selling leadership book of all time The Leadership Challenge. Grounded in Jim and Barry's time-tested research, Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge describes their Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, ...
At the peak of his career, Speaker of the House Jim Wright exercised more power than any other member of Congress in this century. Then, he became the first Speaker of the House to be forced from office. Here, Barry traces the polit ical and legal maneuvering, the deals, personal grudges, and professional "favors" through which our public policy ...
One of the nation's leading surgeons tells the compelling story of his headline-making experiments--scientific breakthroughs that may revolutionize the treatment of cancer. Haunted by the question "Can the body rid itself of cancer?" Dr. Rosenberg seized upon immunotherapy as the most promising path toward curing the disease and has since achieved ...
Whether readers are old hands at pirating or hopeless landlubbers, the PirateGuys will have them pirate-savvy in no time with surefire pirate pickup linesand help determining a pirate moniker.
Since the publication of the second edition of Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine in 1989 the techniques of modern molecular, cellular, and structural biology have provided new data that have transformed scientific thinking about topics within free radical research. New reactive species, such as peroxynitrite, have been discovered to have a ...
"Fundamentals of Human Resource Management", by Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart and Wright is specifically written to provide a brief introduction to human resource management. While it doesn't cover the depths of human resource management theory, the book is rich with examples and engages students through application. This first edition takes on a ...
The story of the new scientific breakthroughs that have revolutionized the treatment of cancer and other terminal illnesses. The author is a world authority on cancer and its treatment. His quest for a cure began in 1968 when a patient of his with inoperable cancer recovered spontaneously. Had the man's immune system somehow killed the tumour? And ...
Bioremediation, or enhanced microbiological treatment, of environments contaminated with a variety of organic and inorganic compounds is one of the most effective innovative technologies to come around this century! Practical Environmental Bioremediation: The Field Guide presents updated material, case histories and many instructive illustrations ...
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest about the use of 'antioxidant' nutritional supplements. Do they really defend the body against diseases? Should we all be taking vitamin E, vitamin C, or more of certain polyunsaturated fats? Written by two leading experts in the field of free radicals in biology and medicine, this book ...
"Lessons Out of School" is an autobiographical memoir by the legendary creator of CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release, and the founder of the Florida-based Upledger Institute. Over the course of Dr. Upledger's eventful professional life, he has broken fresh ground in the field of somatics and bodywork, with thousands of people today ...
Provides a clear picture of the ongoing technical development occurring inside Sun Microsystems. Some articles contain the last word on key technology; some discuss controversial new ideas or products and more.
"Human Resource Management: Gaining A Competitive Advantage" by Noe/Hollenbeck/Gerhart/Wright is back with a new and improved 4th edition. In this new economy, effective human resource management is all the more necessary to gain true competitive advantage in the marketplace, as competitors strive to win the war for talent. Four challenges ...
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in
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Roger Fisher (Read by), William Ury, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
