Douglas: 4895 books
Climbing Mount Laurel
The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Under the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households. Mount Laurel was the town...
by Douglas M. Eichar
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Corporate social responsibility was one of the most consequential business trends of the twentieth century. Having spent decades burnishing reputations as both great places to work and generous philanthropists, large corporations suddenly abandoned their commitment to their communities and employees...
by Douglas W. Bostick
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Douglas Bostick, historian and former director of Save the Light, Inc., recounts the stories of the many lightkeepers and their families who braved meager provisions, low pay and grueling conditions living on a small island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor.
by Douglas Klostermann
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The E-Book Handbook is a comprehensive guide that will help you create, publish, and market your own e-book and sell it online through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Apple - all easily and inexpensively.
As one reader has said, "I wish I had found this e-book and read it first, before starting...
Irrationality in Health Care
What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make...
by Douglas R. Bohi, Michael A. Toman
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Originally published in 1984, Douglas A. Bohi and Michael A. Toman have produced a convenient reference source about disparate elements in the theory of nonrenewable resource supply and about general issues that arise when applying dynamic economic analysis. The authors emphasise the inherently dynamic...
by Douglas W. Hubbard, Richard Seiersen
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
A ground shaking exposé on the failure of popular cyber risk management methods
How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk exposes the shortcomings of current "risk management" practices, and offers a series of improvement techniques that help you fill the holes and ramp up security....
Return of the "L" Word
A Liberal Vision for the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the "L" Word. Faced with the difficult politics of race and class, liberals used the heavy hand of government to impose policies...
The Failure of Risk Management
Why It's Broken and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approach
The Failure of Risk Management takes a close look at misused and misapplied basic analysis methods and shows how some of the most popular "risk management" methods are no better than astrology! Using examples from the 2008...
How to Measure Anything
Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Now updated with new measurement methods and new examples, How to Measure Anything shows managers how to inform themselves in order to make less risky, more profitable business decisions
This insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure those things in your own business, government...
Let the Records Show
A Practical Guide to Power of Attorney and Estate Record Keeping
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Acting as a power of attorney or as an estate trustee carries a great deal of financial and legal responsibility. But in Let the Records Show, authors Linda A. Alderson and Douglas Alan Alderson have distilled the information and have provided a step-by-step guide to keeping financial and property...
Sustainable Urbanism
Urban Design With Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and...
The Scramble for African Oil
Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa's Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Africa is often seen as a place to be pitied or feared as an area of instability. This book challenges these complacent assumptions, showing how our demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing the continent.
Douglas A. Yates shows how the 'scramble' by the great powers for African...
Peacemakers
How people around the world are building a world free of war
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
A world without war: this is the vision that Douglas Roche has pursued for decades. A long-time Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Canadian ambassador for disarmament, and later a senator, Roche has been in the thick of international affairs for more than forty years.
Though few...