Photographs and text document working children especially in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Mexico. Includes a chapter on Iqbal Masih, the child labor activist from Pakistan.
Using actual case studies from a variety of leading companies, Rewarding Teams provides a blueprint for building team reward programs that spur development and success. The book focuses on the three most important types of team-based rewards programs - recognition plans, project team incentives, and group incentives - offering readers detailed ...
An account of how a home-grown technology made one Georgia town the carpet capital of America. It details the revolutionary changes that transformed the industry and the region and summarizes the development of the U.S. carpet industry from the early 19th century to the 1930s.
This book synthesizes a diverse literature on scale in ecology. David L. Peterson and V. Thomas Parker gather contributions from scholars and resource managers representing a wide range of disciplines, including soil science, plant ecology, animal ecology, and aquatic ecology. They assist ecologists in developing new strategies for more accurate ...
In spite of treaties and international conventions addressing the economic exploitation of children, the control of child labour remains elusive. It is estimated that over 320 million children are working worldwide, most in hazardous conditions. These heart-wrenching portraits are a call to action for all of us to be aware of this complex and ...
This volume contains John Calvin's commentary on chapters 11-21 of the Gospel of John and the First Epistle of John. Calvin, theologian par excellence of the Reformation, laid the foundation for all later Proestent exegesis of the Bible. Marked by an honest, careful handling of the text, Calvin's expositions of Scripture remain as "modern" as ever ...
This volume contains commentary on the Gospel of John chapters 1-10. These classic commentaries by Calvin laid the basis for later scholarly exegesis of the Bible. The commentary is verse-by-verse, with anywhere from a paragraph to a whole page of commentary per verse. This is a completely new translation into modern English of Calvin's ...
From a foundry in which the very fires of hell seem to blast to an air-conditioned computer control room in which the workers appear casual and comfortable, David Parker's lens captures what Peter Rachleff calls 'a performance, a ritual, an exercise centuries old' -- men and women at work on factory floors. These photos, taken in 20 plants in all ...
This book brings together two of the 'hottest issues' in current management thinking: the impact of privatization on the performance and behaviour of the companies involved, and the increasingly important role of purchasing and supplier relationships. The notion that efficiency is improved with privatization is critically examined, as is the idea ...
El cosmos maya, una habil combinacion de arqueologia, antropologia, astronomia y vivido testimonio personal, cuenta una constelacion de historias, hechos reales y mitologias, y recrea el misterioso poder de una de las civilizaciones mas sabias que haya poblado la Tierra. Los autores recrean la rica historia del mito original del pueblo maya desde ...
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