Authors:Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerald Salancik,
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: stanford, business, classics, perspective, dependence, control, organizations, resource, external
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-03-26
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 080474789X
ISBN-13: 9780804747899

Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, The External Control of Organizations has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book, reissued on its 25th anniversary as part of the Stanford Business Classics series, includes a new preface written by Jeffrey Pfeffer, which examines the legacy of this influential work in current research and its relationship to other theories.The External Control of Organizations explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these cons

Author: Gerald D. Feldman and Peter HertnerGerald D. Feld
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: financial, history, banking, studies, modernization, finance
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-12-08
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754662713
ISBN-13: 9780754662716

"Finance and Modernization" centres on a set of historical developments and problems typified by the long history of the Osterreichische Creditanstalt and its successor organizations, and opens the way to compare and contrast experiences throughout Central and Western Europe and also on other continents.The structure of this volume reflects the changing role and nature of banks as economies become industrialized and modernized. For banks adapt to the needs of an industrializing economy but, at the same time, industrialization influences the manner in which banking systems grow and the structur

Authors:Gerald Poyo, Gerald Poyo, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto,
Publisher: Arte Publico Pr
Keywords: heritage, recovering, literary, hispanic, vii, volume
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1558855262
ISBN-13: 9781558855267

This volume of essays is the seventh in the series produced under the auspices of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. This ongoing and comprehensive program seeks to locate, identify, preserve, and disseminate the literary contributions of U.S. Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times. The eleven essays included in this volume examine key issues relevant to the exploration of Hispanic literary production in the United States, including cultural identity, exile thought, class and women’s issues. Originally present

Authors:Gerald Michaelson, Steven Michaelson, Gerald Micha
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: winning, war, essential, principles, customers, marketing, tzu, strategies, sun
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2003-10-20
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0071427317
ISBN-13: 9780071427319

Battle-tested strategies for marketing your product or service to victory! Millions of business warriors have been inspired by lessons from one of the world’s greatest strategists, Sun Tzu. In Sun Tzu Strategies for Winning the Marketing War, the bestselling author and Sun Tzu expert Gerald Michaelson interprets the influential thinker’s classic battle strategies specifically for today’s marketing professionals by boiling down the classic The Art of War into "The Principles of the Marketing War," such as: Organization of Intelligence: Know your market as well as you know your

Authors:William Blake, Gerald E. Bentley, Gerald E. Bentley,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, william, blake, poems, selected
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-03-28
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140424466
ISBN-13: 9780140424461

The soulful mysticism of Blake—captured in a definitive new collection of his finest verse Writer and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him throughout his remarkable life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth, or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings depict a world in which spirits dominate and the mind is the gateway to Heaven. Presenting many of Blake’s major works in their complete texts, alongside extensive passages from such poems as "Jerus

Authors:Anthony W. Norman, Gerald Litwack, Gerald Litwack,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: second, hormones
Number of Pages: 558
Published: 1997-10-10
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0125214413
ISBN-13: 9780125214414

The newly revised and updated Hormones, Second Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of human hormones, viewed in light of modern theories of hormone action and in the context of current understanding of subcellular and cellular architecture and classical organ physiology. Each chapter presents a physiological description of the hormone system under consideration, followed by a listing of the mode-of-action of the hormone. This book includes significant advances in the molecular biology of receptors, hormones, and studies of hormone action that have transpired over the past five years. Th

Authors:Professor Gerald Grace, Gerald Grace,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: management, education, leadership, school
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1995-04-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0750704152
ISBN-13: 9780750704151

This text provides a study of the education policy scholarship of leadership. It examines the ways in which concepts of educational leadership and management have evolved historically and culturally, reviewing contemporary debates about the nature of school leadership.; The question of what school leadership could and should be is at the centre of political, ideological and educational debate in many societies. These debates involve cultural conservatives, New Right marketeers, democrats and community educators, feminists and critical theorists as well as school governors, headteachers and tea