Written for engineers, this book provides more than technical know-how and focuses on how to be an effective communicator. This new edition helps to eliminate the glitches that trip up the busy reader or listener, causing annoyance, confusion, or misunderstanding--so that their writing and speech ar[...]

Now more than ever before, executives and managers need to understand their larger economic context. In "A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics", David Moss leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic concepts in engaging, clear, and conci[...]

Understanding the Ground Rules for the Global Economy In this revised and updated edition of "A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics," David A. Moss draws on his years of teaching at Harvard Business School to explain important macro concepts using clear and engaging language. This guidebook covers the e[...]

David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. Through hundreds of hours of interviews, participant observation, and random tracking of homeless people through social service agencies in Austin, Texas, S[...]

The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE AND A NATION preserves the text's approach to American history as a story of all American people. Known for a number of strengths, including its well-respected author team and engaging narrative, the book emphasizes social history, giving particular attention to race an[...]

Challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Covering the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture, this title approaches American history as a story of the American people. It maintains the emphasis on the social history of the United States.[...]

The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. With the contributors to this volume, they offer a unifying p[...]