Author: Eugene F. Ferraro
Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Keywords: workplace, investigations
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2005-07-15
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 0849316480
ISBN-13: 9780849316487

Confronted with the opposing demands of loss prevention, asset protection, and ever expanding employee rights issues, security professionals, lawyers, and human resource directors need to understand the process of investigation and know how to properly conduct internal investigations. Investigations in the Workplace targets both the private security professional and the consumer of corporate investigative services. The text provides the tools necessary to serve the reader who is contemplating an internal investigation for the first time, or one who conducts them regularly. The book’s mod

Author: Gary Ferraro
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: business, international, dimension, cultural
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-10-09
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0205645283
ISBN-13: 9780205645282

For junior/senior level undergraduate/graduate courses in Anthropology of Business, International Business, Applied Anthropology, International Marketing, and International Management. This is only book that demonstrates how the theory and insights of cultural anthropology can positively influence the conduct of international business. The text takes a unique five-pronged approach to the study of the cultural environment of global business. It explores (1) such general concepts as culture, ethnocentrism, and culture change; (2) the nature of the communication process, both linguistic and non

Author: Gary Ferraro
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: anthropology, cultural, readings, classic
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2008-04-03
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0495507369
ISBN-13: 9780495507369

Concise, inexpensive, and accessible, CLASSIC READINGS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Second Edition, provides an excellent introduction to the field of anthropology and the contributions it makes to understanding the world around us.

Author: Thomas J. Ferraro
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: century, america, twentieth, immigrants, passages, literary, ethnic
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 1993-04-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0226244423
ISBN-13: 9780226244426

Ethnic literature figures prominently in the current debate on multiculturalism, but even its supporters have had little to say about it as literature, stressing instead its political and sociological context. Thomas J. Ferraro, in this lively and accessible study of modern fiction by Americans of immigrant background, argues that the best of these stories demand—and reward—close reading and attention to questions of genre and literary form. Ferraro engages the literature of immigration and mobility by asking what motivates its authors and what their work actually accomplishes. He concentr

Author: Tina Ferraro
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Keywords: dress, prom, unworn, uses, top
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-03-13
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0385733682
ISBN-13: 9780385733687

Sophomore year, Nicolette Antonovich was dumped two days before prom by the hottest guy at school. As a result, she became the proud owner of one unworn, perfectly magical pink vintage dress. But Nic is determined to put that night behind her for good. She’s a junior now— older, wiser, and completely overwhelmed by a new set of problems: (1) The bank’s ready to foreclose on her childhood home. (2) Her father’s too busy with his "replacement" daughter to care. (3) Her best friend’s brother is an eternal thorn in her side. (4) Her best friend isn’t exactly the ros

Author: Tina Ferraro
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Keywords: hottie, hook
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0385734387
ISBN-13: 9780385734387

At 17, Kate Delvecchio has one goal in life: to become a millionaire before the age of 20. And as far as she’s concerned, college will only slow her down. Unfortunately for Kate, the one thing her parents do agree on is that they totally disagree with her strategy. And so the deal is born. If Kate can raise five thousand big ones by graduation day, her parents will hand over the balance of her college account to invest as she pleases. No college, no degree, and no way she’ll ever be able to pull it off. But when Kate accidentally agrees to go to the sports banquet with the hottest guy at s

Author: Gary Ferraro
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: perspective, applied, anthropology, cultural
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $146.95
ISBN-10: 0495100080
ISBN-13: 9780495100089

Explore cultural anthropology in an applied and fascinating way with Gary Ferraro’s CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE. This contemporary and student-relevant text gives you all the key material you need for your introductory course, plus it will show you that anthropology is for you! With real world applications of the principles and practices of anthropology, this book will help you learn to appreciate other cultures as well as your own. Apply what you learn in this course to those situations that you are likely to encounter in your personal and professional life. What can y