Michael J: 2158 books
Grow from Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Create Business and Generate Profits in New Markets through Innovation!
“The best account I have read about how companies can enable and support internal entrepreneurs to achieve innovation-led growth.”
Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg...
Jesus Under Fire
Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Who is Jesus? What did he do? What did he say? -Are the traditional answer to these questions still to be trusted? - Did the early church and tradition "Christianize" Jesus? - Was Christianity built on clever conceptions of the church, or on the character and actions of an actual person?...
Running on Empty
Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The fall of Saigon in April 1975 resulted in the largest and most ambitious refugee resettlement effort in Canada’s history. Running on Empty presents the challenges and successes of this bold refugee resettlement program. It traces the actions of a few dozen men and women who travelled to seventy...
The NSA Report
Liberty and Security in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake...
The Heresy of Orthodoxy (Foreword by I. Howard Marshall): How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity
How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Beginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament criticism, recently given new life through the work of spokesmen like Bart Ehrman. Spreading from academia into mainstream media, the suggestion that diversity...
Mastering Project Portfolio Management
A Systems Approach to Achieving Strategic Objectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This unique text provides a holistic view of project portfolio management (PPM) that includes people, process, tools, and techniques that work synergistically within the organization to produce portfolio decisions with the best chance of success. It illustrates the entire PPM process from strategic planning...
Valuation for Financial Reporting
Fair Value, Business Combinations, Intangible Assets, Goodwill, and Impairment Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Praise for Valuation for Financial Reporting, Third Edition
"Writing a book on financial reporting is a challenge in and of itself, let alone to focus on the shifting sands of valuation in financial reporting. Yet, Mard and company have done it again, and this time, it is even more user-friendly,...
by James J. Rice, Michael J. Prince
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A consistent bestseller since its publication in 2000, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy is a one-of-a-kind resource in the fields of political science and social work. Examining current conditions affecting the development of social policies in Canada, this book offers in-depth critical...
Rethinking the Welfare State
Government by Voucher
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Rethinking the Welfare State offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of social welfare policy in an international context, with a particular emphasis on the US and Canada.
The authors investigate the claim that a decentralized delivery of government supported goods and services enables...
Corruption in the Contemporary World
Theory, Practice, and Hotspots
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book deals with large-scale, systemic corruption, a phenomenon that it identifies as part of the political landscape in most, if not all, societies of the contemporary world. While the analysis is grounded in the political thought of earlier thinkers, especially Edmund Burke, and integrates the...
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools
A Critical Demography Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical...
by Stephanie Presber James, George R. Hughes, Donald R. Leal
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
The Politics and Economics of Park Management examines national protected area systems, in both developed and developing countries, that have made a transformation from 'fortress parks' to a sustainable use model. The contributors—park management, academics, and members of nongovenmental organizations—contend...
Counterspace
The Next Hours of World War III
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Space Wars, Scott, Coumatos, and Birnes created a fascinating war gaming scenario of how World War III might unfold in above the Earth's surface. Now this thrilling team of writers reunites with Counterspace, an even more chilling fictionalized look at America's most catastrophic fears.
What...
Violence
Humans in Dark Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world.
The market for this book includes...