The author brings experience from teaching college level and corporate training courses for institutions and businesses around the world. He has also done intensive research on international project management and the specific needs of the market. The book is being written to present international p[...]

Coercion is one of the most fascinating and controversial subjects in psychiatry. It is a highly sensitive, and hotly debated topic in which clinical practice, ethics, the law and public policy converge. This book considers coercion within the healing and ethical framework of therapeutic relationshi[...]

Iintroductory treatment emphasizes graph imbedding but also covers connections between topological graph theory and other areas of mathematics. Authors explore the role of voltage graphs in the derivation of genus formulas, explain the Ringel-Youngs theorem, and examine the genus of a group, includi[...]

This book explains what made Alexander "Great" according to the people and expectations of his time and place.[...]

This work compiles psychologists' best attempts to answer important questions about intuitive judgment.[...]

This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people.The Seventh Ed[...]

The author suggests that successful corporate strategies depend upon the marshalling of a firm's "invisible assets" - resources such as technical know-how, the visibility of a brand name, or knowledge of a customer base - as well as its tangible assets, such as people, goods and money. He emphasizes[...]

Visual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks. Visual Ecology provides the first up-to-date synthesis of the field to appear in more than three decades. Featuring [...]

"The Athlete's Clock" answers some of the most compelling questions in sport and exercise science. This unique book takes a broad look at the physiological clock, offering students, researchers, coaches and athletes an approach to understanding how various aspects of time affect sport performance. R[...]

Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some specially d[...]

Adsorption is of considerable industrial importance and is a major part of many different processes throughout the chemical and process industries, including many reactions, purification and filtration, gas and liquid processing and catalysis. This book provides with a guide to the essentials of ads[...]

Offering a broad description of qualitative research, this book facilitates the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in organizational research. It examines the methods and tactics for both generating and testing management theories, including guidelines for deciding whether to use qu[...]