The best-selling textbook in purchasing and supply management through several editions, this book presents a practical framework for students to apply how firms actually manage the enterprise-wide functions of purchasing and supply in today's business environment. This edition represents a complete and thorough revision of the book, now explaining ...
This great resource presents dentistry and dental practice against the ever-changing backdrop of economic, technological, and demographic trends, as well as the distribution of the oral diseases that dental professionals treat and prevent. The text is logically divided into five parts. "Dentistry and the Community" deals with the development of ...
Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, "the finest critic of his generation" (Lucie Brock-Broido) Stephen Burt's "Close Calls with Nonsense "provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wright, and other contemporary poets whose complexities make them challenging, original, and, ...
Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart Introduction by Larry Gelbart "This brazenly retro Broadway musical, inspired by Plautus, is as timeless as comedy itself." -Vincent Canby, The New York Times "The most urbane and literate musical comedy text ever conceived." -John Simon, New York magazine
"To read Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden is to read the best-equipped of American critics of poetry of the past century on the best-equipped of its Anglo-American poets, and we rush to read, perhaps, less out of an academic interest in fair judgment than out of a spectator's love of virtuosity in flight." From Adam Gopnik's forewordRandall Jarrell ...
There are many books on leadership, but few that focus specifically on the role of nonprofit executives. Author Burt Nanus and colleague Stephen M. Dobbs have written this comprehensive book on nonprofit leadership. The authors show how leaders build successful nonprofit organizations by developing key relationships to improve their performance ...
Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms. This new idea of adolescence became the ...
Poet-critic Stephen Burt writes about Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)--life and, primarily, work--in an attempt to place him in a higher niche in the pantheon of American poets. RANDALL JARRELL AND HIS AGE won the 2002 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for literary criticism.
The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt "Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again, Though it was all they had taught you." -- from " Like a Wreck" Consult any childhood development guide and you' ll find the term " parallel play" when children under two are placed together, they' ll play ...
In this debut volume, Stephen Burt, in poetic actions that range with unusual ease from prose to sonnets and free verse, explores the sensation of selfhood as it presents itself, in all its fractured parts, for re-formation. His speaker moves from the longing to 'be someone else' -- to rid himself of every version of his own shadow -- through a ...
A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S" words that ...
inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance ...
Helen Vendler may be America's most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure in the academy while also teaching a much larger public how to read and enjoy poems and poetry through her many articles for the "New Yorker", the "New York Times Book Review", the "New Republic", and ...
Providing a background introduction to expert systems, this text takes a forward looking approach to applying expert systems in the electrical power industry. No previous knowledge of expert systems is assumed, but an understanding of electrical transmission and distribution systems is desirable. The book is aimed at engineering and management ...
Helen Vendler may be America's most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure in the academy while also teaching a much larger public how to read and enjoy poems and poetry through her many articles for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and the New ...
This is a compilation of writing from the first nine years of Fence magazine that presents a stunningly eclectic compendium of poetry, short fiction, criticism, and creative nonfiction.
This text brings together the various facets of the "nitrate issue" at a research level which should be of interest and use to a wide range of scientists working in this general area. It examines the processes of nitrate cycling in particular environments, devoting two chapters to soils, though only one deals with agricultural soils. A central ...
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