Authors:George P. Baker, George David Smith,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: creation, corporate, value, roberts, kravis, financial, capitalists, kohlberg, new
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-10-13
List price: $37.99
ISBN-10: 0521642604
ISBN-13: 9780521642606

A widespread misunderstanding concerning leveraged buyouts (LBOs) is the belief that they accomplish little but the ruin of companies and the loss of employment. How else could it be? Until recently, journalists, including much of the business press, have depicted LBO specialists as generally greedy, if not sinister, forces whose activities compound the dislocations of modern American economic and social life. This kind of criticism reached a crescendo in the press and in Congress at the end of the 1980s, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts found itself in the middle of the controversy. Based on

Authors:George A. Cowan, David Pines, David Meltzer,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: reality, models, metaphors, complexity
Number of Pages: 731
Published: 1999-11-15
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0738202320
ISBN-13: 9780738202327

A classic overview of the science of complexity from the prestigious Santa Fe Institute. There has been a remarkable growth in collaborative academic research focused on complexity in recent years. One of the greatest challenges is to discover which features are essential and which shared by all the seemingly disparate systems that are described as complex. This book describes current views on this subject held by various eminent scholars associated with the Santa Fe Institute, including Murray Gell-Mann, Brian Arthur, Stuart Kauffman, John Holland, and Kenneth Arrow.

Author: David George
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: drama, english, records, lancashire
Number of Pages: 470
Published: 1992-03-17
List price: $146.00
ISBN-10: 0802028624
ISBN-13: 9780802028624

The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama, music, ceremonial dance, and other forms of communal public entertainment in Britain from the Middle Ages to 1642, when the Puritans closed the London theatres.

Author: David George
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: tradition, critical, shakespeare, coriolanus
Number of Pages: 455
Published: 2004-05
List price: $360.00
ISBN-10: 0826458203
ISBN-13: 9780826458209

Volumes in this series trace the course of Shakespeare criticism, play-by-play, from the earliest items of recorded criticism to the beginnings of the modern period. The focus of the documentary material is from the early 18th century to the first half of the 20th century. Thus the Series makes a major contribution to our understanding of the plays and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism as they have developed from century to century. The introduction to each volume constitutes an important chapter of literary history, tracing the entire critical career of each play from the beginning

Author: David George
Publisher: LULU
Keywords: seo, abc
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2005-02-14
List price: $19.90
ISBN-10: 1411622510
ISBN-13: 9781411622517

The ABC of SEO is a concise and clear introduction to the art of search engine optimization and marketing. It presents current website optimization strategies, discusses their pitfalls and builds the foundations for long term success. Readers will discover how to get their website listed on the major search engines quickly and for free, analyze and beat their competitors’ strategies, increase their search engine rankings and boost the number and quality of visitors. The book is written in an informal style and is packed full of interesting facts and background to search engines. The f

Author: David R. George III
Publisher: Pocket Books
Keywords: star, trek, wandering, crucible, kirk
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 074349170X
ISBN-13: 9780743491709

IN A SINGLE MOMENT. . . the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but nothing would color their lives more than that one, isolated instant on the edge of forever.IN A SINGLE MOMENT. . . James T. Kirk, displaced in time, allows the love of his life to die in a traffic accident, thereby preserving Earth’s history. Returning to the present, he continues a storied career as a starship captain, opening up the galaxy. Bu

Authors:George S. Day, David J. Reibstei,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: strategy, competitive, dynamic, wharton
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-08-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0471689572
ISBN-13: 9780471689577

WHARTON on DYNAMIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGY "A valuable contribution, this insightful book makes it clear that strategy is not a one-time search for a sustainable competitive advantage, but a continuous monitoring of the environment, consumers, and competitors with the object of making the right moves in a dynamically changing competitive landscape." -Philip Kotler S.C. Johnson & Sons Distinguished Professor of International Marketing J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University. "An ambitious and welcomed effort at addressing strategy from an interdisciplinary perspective."