Powell: 1221 books
by Warren B. Powell, Ilya O. Ryzhov
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Learn the science of collecting information to make effective decisions
Everyday decisions are made without the benefit of accurate information. Optimal Learning develops the needed principles for gathering information to make decisions, especially when collecting information is time-consuming...
Out of Poverty
Sweatshops in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive defense of third-world sweatshops. It explains how these sweatshops provide the best available opportunity to workers and how they play an important role in the process of development that eventually leads to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory,...
by Yongzheng Yang, Robert Mr. Powell, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Over the next decade, African countries are expected to be the largest beneficiaries of increased donor aid, which is intended to improve their prospects for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This handbook will help these countries assess the macroeconomic implications of increased aid and...
Performance Standards for Restaurants
A New Approach to Addressing the Obesity Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This report presents the results of a conference of 38 national experts in nutrition and public health who met to develop performance standards that could guide restaurants toward facilitating healthier choices among consumers and that local communities or states could use as a model for developing and implementing either voluntary or mandatory certification programs.
by Gabriel J. Lord, Catherine E. Powell, Tony Shardlow
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
This book gives a comprehensive introduction to numerical methods and analysis of stochastic processes, random fields and stochastic differential equations, and offers graduate students and researchers powerful tools for understanding uncertainty quantification for risk analysis. Coverage includes...
Communicator-in-Chief
How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House examines the fascinating and precedent-setting role new media technologies and the Internet played in the 2008 presidential campaign that allowed for the historic election of the nation's first African American...
by Jeffrey Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Shopping Addiction Shopping is a raging phenomenon among developed countries and has been studied over and over. Sociologists say it’s a ‘female drive’, in an attempt to explain the differences in shopping behaviour between men and women. It was said that the same obsession of men over sports can...
Sustainability in the Public Sector
An Essential Briefing for Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Sustainability in the Public Sector provides a quick-start guide for a wide variety of public sector stakeholders, equipping them with knowledge of both the sustainable development challenges and the political backdrop to this agenda.This guide: uncovers the history of the term "sustainable development"...
Strategies for Growth in SMEs
The Role of Information and Information Sytems
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Strategies for Growth in SMEs explores for the first time the role of information and information systems (IS) concepts in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Most IS research focuses on large firms, yet the majority of firms in most economies are SMEs. The book considers the applicability...
Help! I'm a Woman in Youth Ministry!
Practical Empowerment for Your Calling and Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Looking for answers about your life and ministry from a woman’s perspective?Geared for professionals and volunteers alike, Help! I’m a Woman in Youth Ministry! focuses on the unique ministry issues that you wrestle with every day, including:The challenges of singleness, marriage, and parenthoodMentoring...
by Jeffrey Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Shopping Addiction Shopping is a raging phenomenon among developed countries and has been studied over and over. Sociologists say it’s a ‘female drive’, in an attempt to explain the differences in shopping behaviour between men and women. Autism Looking for steps and strategies on how to help your...
by Aubrey Powell
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
A stunning collection of over 200 essential and influential album covers of the decade A visual reflection of psychedelia-influenced artwork to Punk anti- design from Pink Floyd to the Sex Pistols Indispensable purchase for the dedicated follower of music and art The seventies are often regarded as...
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics
Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence...
The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence...