The leading thinker in the field of human resources - and author of the bestselling "HR Champions" - outlines a blueprint that will make HR professionals true strategic partners in their firms. Dave Ulrich's "HR Champions" defined the agenda for HR professionals in the 1990s. That book has gone on t[...]

It's Berlin in the summer of 2003 - sunshine for weeks on end, weather for falling in love. And that's just what Christian Eich, the main character in Ulrich Peltzer's acclaimed novel "Part of the Solution", does; but that's not all. Eich, a thirty-something freelance journalist, is researching a st[...]

Prof. Jurgens is renowned for his scientific work in such fields as human resources, work organization and organization of production and development, especially for automotive industries. In this publication, authors from different countries discuss models of integration in development and producti[...]

"His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet."*On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a dream . . ." It was a speech [...]

Treating such contemporary design and development issues as identifying customer needs, design for manufacturing, prototyping, and industrial design, "Product Design and Development" by Ulrich and Eppinger presents in a clear and detailed way a set of product development techniques aimed at bringing[...]

This book helps you implement GE's legendary Work-Out technique for solving organizational problems fast...and get fast, GE-like results in your organization.[...]

"This definitive work on HR competencies provides ideas and tools that help HR professionals develop their career and make their organization effective". (Edward E. Lawler III, Professor, University of Southern California). "This book is a crucial blueprint of what it takes to succeed. A must have f[...]

Make your leadership efforts stick. Every day, thousands of people put great effort - and money - into becoming more effective leaders, through seminars, personal coaching, and employee development plans. These undertakings can do wonders to help leaders of all stripes improve their effectiveness. B[...]

Provides a framework for the analysis, modelling, and inference of high-frequency financial time series. Emphasizing foreign exchange markets, currency, interest rate and bond futures markets, it investigates price formation processes and reviews systematic trading models for financial assets.[...]

"Multigrid" presents both an elementary introduction to multigrid methods for solving partial differential equations and a contemporary survey of advanced multigrid techniques and real-life applications. Multigrid methods are invaluable to researchers in scientific disciplines including physics, che[...]

In recent times, the fastest growing part of the higher education system has been business schools. With an established set of university based business schools in the USA since the early part of the 20th century, the growth since then has come in Europe between the 1960's and the 1990's, and in Au[...]

This concise, readable introduction to limnology (the science of investigating the structure and function of inland waters), places the subject in the context of modern ecology. Unlike most ecological textbooks, which use examples taken almost exclusively from terrestrial systems, this book integrat[...]