Authors:Judith Calder, Ann McCollum,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: open, learning, flexible, series, training, vocational, education
Number of Pages: 161
Published: 1998-08-31
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 074942172X
ISBN-13: 9780749421724

This text reviews the strategies adopted in a range of behaviourist approaches to the setting and realization of standards - identifying the background from which they emerged and ways they might be further developed. Examples are included throughout the book, and are taken from such areas as management training, language development and industry lead bodies.

Authors:Judith Hall, Judith Allanson, Karen Gripp, Anne Slavo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: handbook, oxford, physical, measurements
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2006-11-16
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195301498
ISBN-13: 9780195301496

Updated and revised, this is a comprehensive sourcebook of reference data for health professionals involved in evaluating people with abnormal features or syndromes. It includes many graphs, tables, and charts needed by clinicians to define normal patterns of growth and provides standards of comparison for possible congenital abnormalities. Numerous "how-to" illustrations give the step-by-step guidance needed to ensure that standardized measurements are properly taken for accurate recordkeeping. Designed for ease of use, the pocket-sized book has a durable plastic cover, making it ideal for us

Author: Lendol Calder
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: dream, american, financing
Number of Pages: 377
Published: 1999-02-22
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 069105827X
ISBN-13: 9780691058276

"At last--an accessible and scholarly history of the American consumer’s best friend and worst enemy."--James Grant, author of Money of the Mind and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer "Lendol Calder is the first scholar in the field of modern U.S. social history to describe and analyze the century-long (1820s through 1920s) evolution of the incidence of debt, the availability of credit, and the prevailing attitudes toward both, as keystones to understanding twentieth-century changes in U.S. consumer cultureO. The quality of writing in the book is exceptional."--Otis A. Pea

Author: Lendol Calder
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: consumer, credit, history, cultural, american, dream, financing
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-01-22
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0691074550
ISBN-13: 9780691074559

Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and the delay of gratification while encouraging reckless consumerism. Or so we commonly believe. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Lendol Calder shows that this conception of the past is in fact a myth. Calder presents the first book-length social and cultural history of the rise of consumer

Author: Alan Calder
Publisher: Kogan Page
Keywords: international, codes, practice, frameworks, legal, governance, practical, guide, corporate
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-05-28
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0749448172
ISBN-13: 9780749448172

Studies have shown that a company’s share price is often linked to how well governed the company is, providing board members with a strong financial incentive to maintain good corporate governance practices. Yet what may constitute good governance will vary across different countries and companies. There is no "one size fits all" model of corporate governance. Corporate Governance will help readers become familiar with the principles and practice of good governance appropriate to their companies, enabling them to uphold those standards that will improve their corporate reputation while p

Author: Alan Calder
Publisher: IT Governance Publishing
Keywords: implementation, overview, iso, success, steps, nine
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1905356129
ISBN-13: 9781905356126

Read the world’s first practical hard copy/soft cover guidance on achieving ISO 27001 certification and the 9 essential steps to an effective ISMS implementation; 9 critical steps that are the absolute difference between project success and abject failure. This book is the ideal guide for anyone tackling - or about to tackle - ISO27001 for the first time. It gives a clear overview of: how to get management and board buy-in; how to get cross-organizational, cross functional buy-in; the gap analysis: how much do you really need to do; the relationship between ISO27001 and ISO17799; how to

Author: Nigel Calder
Publisher: Gramercy
Keywords: universe, einstein
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1988-11-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0517385708
ISBN-13: 9780517385708

This brilliantly written book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein’s revolutionary theories on the nature of science, time and motion. It far surpasses any previous explanation of Relativity for laymen.