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Author Edward Byrne , Charles Clarke
Ed Byrne is an Academic Neurologist who has worked in Australia and the UK. His research contributions are in the fields of mitochondrial disease and neuromuscular disorders. He was Professor of Neurology and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, and then had a numb....
Release Date 2020/01 -
Author Richard Millington
Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee. Over the past 16 years, Richard has helped to develop over 270+ successful communities, including those for Apple, Facebook, Google, The World Bank, SAP, Oracle, Amazon, Autodesk, Lego, The United Nations, Novartis, and many more.Richard is the author o....
Release Date 2021/05 -
The New Power University: The social purpose of higher education in the 21st century
Author Jonathan Grant
In a changing world, what is the social purpose of higher education?Combining a critique of contemporary universities, a manifesto for the future and a provocation to stimulate change, The New Power University examines how higher education can flourish in the 21st century. Using the framing of ‘new ....
Release Date 2021/04 -
Author Louise Burnham
Louise Burnham currently works as an early years and primary teacher. She also led teaching assistant training and worked on childcare and teaching courses at a London FE college for a number of years as a tutor and assessor. Louise has written many books for early years and teaching assistant quali....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Author Henry Mintzberg , Bruce Ahlstrand , Joseph Lampel
Henry Mintzberg is perhaps the world's premier management thinker a Carlsberg-style endorsement of the author from Tom Peters, management guruHenry Mintzberg is one of today’s best-known and most controversial management thinkers. Currently Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill Univers....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, 7th Edition
Author Frank Barnas
Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, 7th Edition is the leading book covering all aspects of writing and reporting the news. It identifies the key concepts and terms readers need to know in the news gathering and dissemination process, and provides pra....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Professions and Professional Service Firms
Author Daniel Muzio , Mike Saks
Professions are increasingly linked with enterprise at a number of interrelated levels. By considering the relationship of professions to the enterprise contexts in which they work, this book reveals the dilemmas posed to professional groups, and the opportunities ....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News
Author Greg Dobbs
Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News teaches students how to write with the conversational simplicity required for radio and TV. This text draws on the Emmy Award-winning author's decades of professional experience in broadcast journalism. In addition t....
Release Date 2015/10 -
The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat
Author Robert Najarian
The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat is your guide to the principles and techniques of theatrical violence, combining detailed discussions of the mechanics of stage fighting with the nuances of acting decisions to make fighting styles reflect character and story. Expert....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Trust and Western-Russian Business Relationships
Author Angela Ayios
Ayios looks at the Western experience of doing business in Russia, and how trust between business partners from East and West is created or destroyed within the business relationship. This book provides the reader with an in-depth look at the key factors that lead ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Tristan Ahumada
The ultimate guide to real estate prospecting for both rookies and veterans In Real Estate Prospecting: Create a Million-Dollar Life Through Relationships, Online Leads, Technology, and Social Media, founder, consultant, and real estate team leader Tristan Ahumada delivers a comprehensive discussion....
Release Date 2023/04 -
Author Cyndi Suarez , Nonprofit Quarterly
Learn to create a nonprofit organization and society in which Black people can thriveIn Building A Pro-Black World: A Guide To Creating True Equity in The Workplace and In Life, a team of dedicated nonprofit leaders delivers a timely roadmap to building pro-Black nonprofit organizations. Refreshingl....
Release Date 2023/07 -
Author Louis Hyman
Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to mi....
Release Date 2011/01 -
Author Torsten Persson , Timothy Besley
"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Louise Marie Roth
Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory prac....
Release Date 2011/06 -
Author Gabriel Rossman
Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the relationships be....
Release Date 2012/07 -
Author John O. McGinnis
Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the a....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Author Keith T. Poole , Howard Rosenthal , Nolan McCarty
How governmental failure led to the 2008 financial crisis—and what needs to be done to avoid another similar event Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"—policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilt....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Author Martin Ruhs
Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant wor....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power
Author Xuetong Yan , Daniel A. Bell , Edmund Ryden , Sun Zhe
The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influenti....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies , Th
The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of ....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Herbert Gintis
Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human beha....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Philip K. Potter , Matthew A. Baum
Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others? What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war? War and Democratic Constraint shows that the....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Author Bryan Caplan
Why we need to stop wasting public funds on educationDespite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but t....
Release Date 2018/01 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy
Author Dennis William Hauck
More than magic...Where else can one combine chemistry and philosophy to turn base metal into gold while discovering a magical elixir to prolong life? Here's a simple and straightforward guide to alchemy that explains its basic principles. Written by one of the world's ....
Release Date 2008/04 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits
Author Deborah S. Romaine , Rita Berkowitz
You're no idiot, of course. You know life is a journey and that physical birth and death are it spoints of transition. Many people, across cultures and faiths, believe the spirit lives on and have experienced contact with the spirits of loved ones who have passed to the ....
Release Date 2002/09 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Mortgage Broker
Author Marian Edelman Borden , Daniel S. Kahn
Break into the brokerage business.Here is a step-by-step handbook to joining this elite group. Written by an accomplished mortgage broker with more than 15 years in the business and 2,000 deals to his credit, this book covers everything from whether or not real est....
Release Date 2006/06 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Real Estate Investing Basics
Author George G. Sheldon , David J. Decker
What, where, and how to buy!The Complete Idiot's Guide to Real Estate Investing Basics presents the practical advice and knowledge readers need to get started in the residential real estate market. Based on the knowledge of an established expert, this guide teache....
Release Date 2006/06 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Real Estate Agent, 2nd Edition
Author Marilyn Sullivan
The incredible growth of the real estate market over the past few years has more and more people looking to change jobs and get in on the action. Fully revised and updated (and written by a highly regarded real estate broker, author, and lawyer), this book covers e....
Release Date 2006/12