The art and science of compensation practice. Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach illustrates the art and science of compensation practice and its role in promoting a company's competitive advantage. The seventh edition was thoroughly revised, and now includes current statis[...]

Intended primarily toward undergraduate and graduate systems analysis and design courses, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals. Modern Systems Analysis and Design uses a practical, rather than technical, approach to help students learn the methods [...]

Updated and expanded to cover iOS 7 and Xcode 5, iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications. After completing this book, you will have the know-how and the confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of y[...]

Wild Abandon is Joe Dunthorne's outrageously funny novel of life in a Welsh commune. Kate and Albert, sister and brother, are not yet the last two human beings on earth, but Albert has high hopes. The secluded communal farm they grew up on is - after twenty years - disintegrating, along with their p[...]

"The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management" ("Los Angeles Times"(on the first edition))
In an age of great economic uncertainty when everyone is concerned about money and how they spend what they have, this new edition of the bestselling "Your Money or Your Life" is an e[...]

Gone-Away Lake is a recipient of the Newberry Honor Summer has a magic all its own in Elizabeth Enright's beloved story about two children and their discovery of a ghostly lakeside resort. This modern classic is once again available, but now with handsome new cover art by Mary GrandPre to complemen[...]

A BIG box for three "tiny "heroes . . . Mary Norton's beloved, best-selling books about the tiny, stouthearted Borrowers are now available together in one gorgeous package, perfect for gift giving. Put this boxed set into the hands of little people--or of any reader who delights in classic adventure[...]

The brilliantly funny and cringe-worthy secret blog of 14-year-old Joe Cowley (wannabe comic artist and self-confessed repeller of girls): Sunday 1st January So here's the thing. I've decided to start writing a blog. A private one. The idea is that it'll help me sort my life out, because quite fra[...]

Right blog. I'm back! Let's not waste time with pleasantries - there is absolutely NOTHING pleasant about my life right now. Reasons why everything is terrible: 1. The love of my life, AKA Natalie, still hates me all because of one tiny - OK, huge - mistake. 2. Natalie has now started hanging around[...]

Though "Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey" boasts a large and ever-expanding fan-base, there are few among even the most avid enthusiasts who fully understand the film's inheritance, complexities, and ironies. The essays in this collection, commissioned from a wide variety of scholars, examine[...]

Management Consultancy provides a comprehensive introduction to the consulting industry, bringing together, for the first time, a number of competing and complementary perspectives on the consulting industry into one book. The text begins with the presentation of a theoretical underpinning, before o[...]