This is the book builders turn to when they need an answer fast! Whether you're a construction professional who needs a solution-oriented, quick-find manual or a homeowner who wants help tackling tough weekend repairs, "Builder's Instant Answers" is the on-the-job resource you should always keep wit[...]
The most comprehensive, up-to-date construction project management system Fully revised for the latest technologies and standards, Total Construction Project Management, Second Edition provides a proven framework for completing construction jobs as specified, on schedule, and within budget. You'll l[...]
"Retailing Management" by Levy and Weitz is the best-selling textbook in the retailing market. Retailing is a high tech, global, growth industry that provides challenging and rewarding career opportunities for college graduates. This book and its corresponding tools and exercises were written to exp[...]
Retailing is a high-tech, global, growth industry that plays a vital economic role in society. The authors' objective in preparing the eighth edition is to stimulate student interest in retailing courses and careers by capturing the exciting, challenging, and rewarding opportunities facing both reta[...]
The team behind London's most inviting artisan bakery shares their secrets for high-quality handmade bread and delicious vibrant food--from French Dark Sourdough to Ricotta, Lemon, and Sage Bread Pie
The first stunning cookbook from Gail's takes us through the day with inventive, fresh recipes. [...]
This set contains two books on computational finance: Computational Finance presents a modern computational approach to mathematical finance within the Windows environment. George Levy illustrates how numeric components can be developed by Financial Analysts that allow financial routines on the comp[...]
Provides end users with the calculations necessary for ensuring the on-time project delivery, within-budget projects. This guide gives you various useful calculations used on the construction site. It presents day-to-day construction work calculations in plain easy to read language.[...]
The Story Behind the Macintosh Computer INSANELY GREAT: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MACINTOSH covers the research and development that led to the first 128K Mac and the struggles involved to make the continued evolution of the Macintosh possible. Predecessors of the Mac and ideas that made their way into [...]
There are few terms or concepts that have, in the last twenty or so years, rivaled "collective memory" for attention in the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, use of the term has extended far beyond scholarship to the realm of politics and journalism, where it has appeared in speeches at the ce[...]
Neil Levy presents an original theory of freedom and responsibility. Cognitive neuroscience and psychology provide a great deal of evidence that our actions are often shaped by information of which we are not conscious; some psychologists have concluded that we are actually conscious of very few of [...]
The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what luck is. Neil Levy develops an account of luck, which is then applied to the free will debate. He argues that the [...]
This book builds on cutting-edge scholarship and the author's quarter century of hands-on experience at the World Bank to lay out an innovative with-the-grain approach to integrating governance and growth--as a constructive, hopeful way of engaging the challenging governance ambiguities of our early[...]
At the close of the last Ice Age - right as the first humans reached the Americas - a whole menagerie of giant beasts vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, Sharon Levy argues that understanding this mass extinction will be critical to the protection of threatened species worldwide.[...]
This second edition of Social Injustice and Public Health is a comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based resource on the relationship of social injustice to many aspects of public health. With contributions from leading experts in public health, medicine, health, social sciences, and other fields, t[...]