Authors:Thomas L. Whitman, Thomas V. Merluzzi, Robert D. Whi
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: illness, health, perspectives, span, life
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0805827722
ISBN-13: 9780805827729

This volume offers a comprehensive and conceptually integrated overview of the changing biological, psychological, and social/environmental influences on health and illness from the prenatal period through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Based on the premise that protective and risk factors vary with life stage, several chapters examine the development of major biological systems and the changing role of genetics and environment over time. In addition, they provide information on environmental influences during the prenatal period and early childhood, chronic illness in childho

Authors:Robert M. Kirkham, Robert B. Scott, Thomas W. Judkin
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Keywords: paper, special, geological, society, america, colorado, central, evaporite, tectonism, volcanism, west, cenozoic
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2002-12
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0813723663
ISBN-13: 9780813723662

Authors:Robert L. Cross, Robert J. Thomas,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: networks, non, growth, franchise, leadership, performance, organizations, results, social, top, driving, leverage
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-01-09
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0470392495
ISBN-13: 9780470392492

Driving Results Through Social Networks shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging these traditionally invisible assets. For the past decade, Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas have worked closely with executives from over a hundred top-level companies and government agencies. In this groundbreaking book, they describe in-depth how these leaders are using network thinking to increase revenues, lower costs, and accelerate innovation.

Author: Robert L. Thomas
Publisher: Kregel Academic & Professional
Keywords: old, versus, new, hermeneutics, evangelical
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-01-13
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 082543839X
ISBN-13: 9780825438394

A thorough and competent examination of divergent hermeneutical methods widely used by evangelicals today. (20040603)

Author: Robert J. Thomas
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: leader, experience, learn, leadership, crucibles
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-03-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1591391377
ISBN-13: 9781591391371

Experience may be a leader’s best teacher--but there’s a hitch. Two people can have identical experiences, but one blossoms while the other is depleted. The same can be said for any pair of fired CEOs, unsuccessful political candidates, or rookie supervisors. In Crucibles of Leadership, Robert J. Thomas concludes that what matters most is what one makes of experience, particularly the traumatic and often unplanned crucible events that challenge one’s identity as a leader. What distinguishes leaders who grow through a crucible experience? Their approach to learning. Like accom

Author: Robert J. Thomas
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: success, portable, mba, series, strategic, forecasting, product, development, managing, new
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1993-11-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0471572268
ISBN-13: 9780471572268

Learn how to maintain a firm grasp of a project throughout its development, how to forecast with greater accuracy and how to ensure the successful launch of a product. Covers new consumer and industrial products, the latest services and technologies. Contains a slew of examples and case studies to illustrate concepts.

Author: Robert Thomas
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: practical, second, spectroscopy, beginners, tutorial, guide, icp
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-06-24
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 1420067869
ISBN-13: 9781420067866

The Practical Guide to ICP-MS, Second Edition presents an in-depth discussion of the fundamental principles, analytical advantages, and practical capabilities of ICP-MS. It offers key concepts in a reader-friendly format suitable for those with limited knowledge of the technique. This edition features new and updated coverage of hyphenated techniques, particularly LC-ICP-MS, collision/reaction cell technology, and ICP-MS applications in the environmental, semiconductor, metallurgical, and petrochemical industries. It also provides selection criteria for commercial ICP-MS equipment and a new gl