This completely accessible, classroom-tested book focuses on the need for training in managerial economics to be more responsive to the presence of uncertainty surrounding managerial decisions.[...]

Paralleling Egan's THE SKILLED HELPER, this manual allows students to complete self-development exercises as well as practice communication skills and each of the steps of the model in private before using them in actual face-to-face helping interactions with others.[...]

A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors' comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineage[...]

Economic downturns separate winning companies from the struggling. And as bestselling author Jeffrey J. Fox shows, tough times also give solid companies, strong managers, and potential rainmakers the opportunity to seize market share. How to Be a Fierce Competitor is the definitive ?how-to? guide fo[...]

A presentation of some of the basic ideas of fluid mechanics in a mathematically attractive manner. The text illustrates the physical background and motivation for some constructions used in recent mathematical and numerical work on the Navier- Stokes equations and on hyperbolic systems, so as to in[...]

J. D. Robb's In Death novels have been praised as ?Law & Order: SVU ? in the future? (Entertainment Weekly). Now, together for the first time in one volume, are three stories that spotlight Lieutenant Eve Dallas doing what she does best: solving crime with skill, integrity, and passion. Eternity in [...]

?Dan Siegel and Mary Hartzell have quite deftly managed to translate highly complex neuroscientific and psychological matters into lay strategies for effective parenting.? ? Marilyn B. Benoit, M.D., former president, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Parenting from the Inside Out is [...]

Research suggests that the presence of the therapist, and how the therapist truly forges a connection with the client in therapy, are the most crucial factors affecting the client s healing process. An engaged, committed, caring therapist who is mindful of his or her own self and how that self relat[...]