J P P: 1902 books
Defying the Odds
The 2016 Elections and American Politics, Post 2018 Election Update
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Now updated to include the 2018 midterms and previewing the coming 2020 election cycle, Defying the Odds provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. With its keen insights...
Alert and Ready
An Organizational Design Assessment of Marine Corps Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. This has resulted in a number of ad hoc arrangements, practices, and organizations. A broad review of the organizational design of...
Energy and the Social Sciences
An Examination of Research Needs
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Originally published in 1974, this report dwells on the problems of meeting global energy demands and the time, effort and knowledge needed to research new energy methods. With rising costs, the uncertainty of supply from the Middle East and concern over the environmental impact of energy products,...
by Professor P.A.J Waddington, Dr Martin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
This text provides an accessible, up-to-date and thought-provoking introduction to policing for all those undertaking degrees and foundation degrees. It aims not only to inform students and prepare them for their course, but also to expose them to some of the challenges they will face as they begin...
by J. Colin Dodds, P. Coffey, Enrique Lazcano
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
NAFTA has been described by one expert as being a partial customs union. It is, in any case, a special kind of free trade area because it consists of two highly developed economies and one large third world economy.
In this book, the contributors examine the specific interests of the three member...
by Terry L. Anderson, Ann M. Carlos, Christian Dippel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...
Managing Social Businesses
Mission, Governance, Strategy and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Social businesses and non-profit organizations act at the interface of markets and civil societies. Their executives are challenged by issues of social mission and economic rationale. This book presents a new concept of social businesses and a framework for the mission and strategy-related decision making in this complex concept.
Organizational Stress
A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2001
This book examines stress in organizational contexts. The authors review the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its...
Software Sourcing in the Age of Open
Leveraging the Unknown Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This SpringerBrief discusses multiple forms of open-source-inspired outsourcing: opensourcing, innersourcing and crowdsourcing. It uses a framework-based comparison to explain the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. By pointing out characteristics along with benefits and pitfalls of each approach,...
by P.J. Night
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
During a round of Truth or Dare, Abby Miller confesses her crush on Jake Chilson. The only people who know her secret are her friends at the sleepover—and whoever sent her a text message in the middle of the night warning her to stay away from Jake…or else!
But Abby isn’t going to stay away...
La Planète folle
Cal de Ter, T3
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Venue du fond de l'espace, une planète vagabonde fonce sur Vaha. Une fois de plus, Cal de Ter doit intervenir pour éviter à sa planète bien-aimée d'être anéantie. Avec une réticence croissante, il poursuit également son rôle de démiurge secret de la civilisation vahussie.
Run, Professor, Run!
Mayhem + Misery = Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Run, Professor, Run chronicles the journey of Lynda Stuart form a manipulative miserable childhood, as part of a large family, until she is swallowed whole by mental illness as an adult. It is about chaos and murder, and the lives that she deliberately destroys along the way. No one is safe. Her marriage...
by P.J. Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Beth Tanner has a secret. It's one she's kept from her husband, Jackson, for more than a decade of marriage. Now, a chance encounter with a device that allows your past to be viewed in full detail, Beth Tanner must confront her long ago transgressions. Beth lives an ideal soccer-mom suburban lifestyle....
by P J Keegan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.