IBM Cognos 10 is the next generation of the leading performance management, analysis, and reporting standard for mid- to large-sized companies. One of the most exciting and useful aspects of IBM Cognos software is its powerful custom report creation capabilities. After learning the basics, report au[...]
The Economics of Public Issues is a collection of brief, relevant readings that spark independent thinking.[...]
Best is the book that focuses on marketing performance, marketing profitability, and the role marketing strategies play in building the profits of a business.[...]
Intended primarily for principles of economics, public policy, and social issues courses, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals. Brief, relevant readings that spark independent thinking and classroom discussions. The Economics of Public Issues is a [...]
Economics Today, which highlighted the dramatic changes technology has made to the economic landscape, is now available with a free self-paced tutorial CD, Economics in Action, which provides another means to mastering content crucial for success.[...]
For principles of economics, public policy, and social issues courses. Brief, relevant readings that spark independent thinking and classroom discussions. The Economics of Public Issues is a collection of brief, relevant readings that spark independent thinking and classroom discussions in Princip[...]
Where did we come from? Where are we going?Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin continue the pioneering field work of Louis and Mary Leakey by fitting together the pieces of our past to discover new answers to these age-old questions. The authors explore our long-buried pastfrom the feral roots of humanit[...]
This companion volume to the negotiation classic "Getting to Yes" explores the negotiation process in depth and presents case studies, charts, and worksheets for blueprinting and personalized negotiating strategy.[...]
"Fisher and two colleagues associated with the Harvard Negotiation Project, Harvard Law School, spell out conflict resolution techniques useful at the international level, and also in other contexts."--"Book News, Inc."[...]
Philosopher Roger Scruton offers a wide-ranging perspective on philosophy, from logic to aesthetics, written in a lively and engaging way that is sure to stimulate debate. Rather than producing a survey of an academic discipline, Scruton reclaims philosophy for worldly concerns.[...]
A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians. This is a core book.[...]
"Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism,[...]
The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his leadership strengths and his coolness and certainty in [...]
Abbate and Parker's A History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition. "The best single volume ever written on the subject." (The Times Literary Supplement). Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Caroly[...]
Roger Deakin's "Wildwood" is a much loved classic of nature writing. "Wildwood" is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to[...]
This work is an updated selection of Roger McGough's finest, best-loved verse. The complete span of McGough's writing, from the 1960s to the new millennium, is represented. "McGough's trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown, the jokes that are something more, the underlying heartache, the[...]
From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ...none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it c[...]
"Notes from Walnut Tree Farm" is a collection of writing by Roger Deakin. For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations about and around his home, Walnut Tree Farm. Collected here are the very best of thes[...]
The fascinating true history of ghosts - how we see them and why we believe in them, from Roger Clarke. What explains spectral sightings? Why do we fear the supernatural? What proof is there? Growing up in a haunted house, Roger Clarke spent much of his childhood trying to see a ghost. From the terr[...]
Middle-aged, brilliant and bored, Roger Lambert is a professor of Divinity at a New England university. Firmly convinced that religious belief can only be justified by recourse to pure faith, he is dismissive when visited by a gangling student who claims, with evangelical zeal, that computer technol[...]
King Arthur is one of the greatest legends of all time. From the magical moment when Arthur releases the sword in the stone to the quest for the Holy Grail and the final tragedy of the Last Battle, Roger Lancelyn Green brings the enchanting world of King Arthur stunningly to life. One of the greates[...]