Job Creation and Destruction is the culmination of a long, ongoing research program at the Center for Economic Studies. Using the most complete plant- level data source currently available--the Longitudinal Research Data constructed by the Census Bureau--it focuses on the U.S. manufacturing sector f[...]

This text provides an integrated approach to decision-making as a subject, with particular emphasis on how decisions are made. It also reviews the techniques that help managers arrive at their decisions.[...]

This text begins with an introduction to analysing operations management cases. Each of the subsequent parts deals with a key area of operations management and begins with an expanded introduction, allowing the book to serve as a stand-alone text for introductory operations management courses.[...]

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Includes a new, previously uncollected piece: "My Internet"
In "The Ecstasy of Influence," the incomparable Jonathan Lethem has compiled a career-spannin[...]

This coloring book offers an enjoyable, highly effective way for students to learn physiology. Topics are covered in self-contained two-page spreads, allowing students to easily focus on the material being presented. A unique combination of introductory material, names and illustrations to be colore[...]

This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist analysis in women's/gender studies, cultural studies and sociology. By clarifying and explaining the concepts of gender analys[...]

The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterized as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. "Non-state Actors i[...]

In this fascinating study, the twelve contributors focus on state-formation in Napoleonic Europe. Based upon the 3rd Wiles Trust Colloquium, it brings together the research findings of specilists in the histories of Europe's constituent nations and states during a momentous period in their developme[...]

How have people sought to understand loss and bereavement? What are the current theoretical approaches to loss and bereavement? What are the implications of these approaches for interventions? This book aims to provide students with an understanding of important theoretical perspectives and specific[...]