This book explains what every executive should know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and the business world. Based on the authors' rich experience with forward-thinking companies around the world, "Green to Gold" demonstrates how corporations create value by building environment[...]

Suitable for professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in children's services, this book combines theoretical perspectives, research evidence from the 'real world' of children's services, and reflections on policy and practice in inter-[...]

When one night with a stranger becomes more...
On the eve of a business deal, nerves get the better of Orla Kennedy, and a drink with a handsome stranger ends in a night of passion she'll never forget Only after does Orla discover that the man in question is Antonio Chatsfield--her rival
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The last five years have seen a major paradigm shift in the role of human factors in product design. Previously this was seen as pertaining almost exclusively to product usability, but new recognition is being given to "pleasure-based" human factors. This emphasizes the holistic nature of the experi[...]

In the Nightside, the hidden heart of London, Detective John Taylor must find an elusive singer known as The Nightingale. Her silken voice has inexplicably lured many a fan to suicide--and Taylor is determined to stop her before the whole neighborhood falls under her trance. Original.[...]

I'm Eddie Drood. AKA Shaman Bond, a member of the Drood family. We Droods have been holding back the forces of darkness for generations. It's a hell of a job--and we're good at it... But now, the Droods have hit a bad patch, what with the death of our Matriarch and the discovery that she was killed [...]

A book to cover developments in corrosion inhibitors is long overdue. This need has been addressed by Dr. Sastri in a book that presents fundamental aspects of corrosion inhibition, historical developments and the industrial applications of inhibitors. The applications of corrosion inhibition are wi[...]

Plastics are everywhere. Bags, bank cards, bottles, and even boats can all be made of this celebrated but much-maligned material. Yet most of us know next to nothing about plastics. We do know that they are practical and cheap - but they also represent a huge environmental problem, for they literall[...]

Once patronized primarily by the counterculture and the health food establishment, the organic food industry today is a multi-billion-dollar business driven by ever-growing consumer demand for safe food and greater public awareness of ecological issues. Assumed by many to be a recent phenomenon, tha[...]