How can we ensure our strategy will succeed, especially in changing and uncertain times? The answer, as explained in "Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations", is to become a more responsive organization - one that captures its strategy in strategy maps, learns from that strategy and can adapt t[...]

A core text for one semester courses in Financial Institutions and Markets. A comprehensive exploration of the world's financial markets and institutions.Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions, offers a comprehensive exploration of the revolutionary developments occurring in the world's f[...]

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a versatile method for investigating the structure and dynamics of molecules. This book provides the conceptual and theoretical tools needed to understand the inner workings of modern NMR experiments. The approach is relatively informal, accessible and concise.[...]

This book fills a gap in the literature on the French Revolution, and offers a synthesis which brings together the fruits of two generations’ research in the field of French rural and agrarian history. The contention of Georges Lefebvre (the greatest authority on eighteenth-century rural histor[...]

Fun Class Activities 1 is the first volume of two Fun Class Activities books. If you want to inject humour into your classroom while promoting active and effective learning, then these books are for you. Fun Class Activities 1 contains 65 photocopiable activities which require minimum preparation. [...]

The authors claim to show how lean thinking with a new definition of value can breathe life into a company or economic activity, doubling productivity and sales whilst stabilizing employment, by providing a step by step plan based on in depth studies of fifty lean companies around the world.[...]

A massive disconnect exists today between consumers and providers. As consumers, we have a greater selection of higher quality goods and services to choose from, yet our experience of obtaining and using these items is more frustrating than ever. At the same time, companies find themselves with decl[...]

Documents the evolution and application of "lean production" principles within the automobile industry, drawing on an MIT global study of industrial competition while documenting how Toyota implemented the lean business system at all stages from development and production to sales and service. Repri[...]

Clarifies the difference between terrorism against corporations and their assets, versus terrorism against government assets. This book addresses various misconceptions regarding how terrorism does or does not affect corporations, and provides security professionals and business executives with an u[...]

The sixth edition of "Forest Products and Wood Science: An Introduction" offers a fully revised and updated review of the forest products industry. This important text covers the full spectrum of the subject, basing itself in a thorough understanding of the anatomical and physical nature of wood and[...]