Authors:Andrew Cox, Chris Lonsdale, Joe Sanderson, Glyn Watso
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: tools, specific, business, purposes, management, implementing, job, selecting, right, appropriate
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-03-16
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1403918813
ISBN-13: 9781403918819

This book is the result of a four-year study into the most commonly used management tools and techniques in the areas of business strategy and finance, marketing, production and operations, and procurement and supply chain management. It explains which tools are used in small, medium-sized and large companies, whether based in the US, Europe or Asia, across many different industrial and service sectors. It explains where companies find out about particular tools, and examines which appear to be the most successful.

Author: James Paul Gee
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: second, revised, updated, literacy, learning, games, teach, video
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-12-26
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1403984530
ISBN-13: 9781403984531

James Paul Gee begins his classic book with "I want to talk about video games--yes, even violent video games--and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive statement, one of America’s most well-respected educators looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. In this revised edition, new games like World of WarCraft and Half Life 2 are evaluated and theories of cognitive development are expanded. Gee looks at major cognitive activities including how individuals develop a sense of identity, how we grasp meaning, how we evaluate and follow a

Author: Karl Kroeber
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: verbal, storytelling, visual, fiction, film, believe
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-05-13
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 1403972796
ISBN-13: 9781403972798

Describing in detail precise differences between the psychological experience of reading a novel and watching a movie, Make Believe in Film and Fiction shows how movies’ unique magnification of movements produces stories especially potent in exposing hypocrisy, the spread of criminality in contemporary society, and the relation of private experience to the natural environment. By contrasts of novels with visual storytelling the book also displays how fiction facilitates sharing of subjective fantasies, frees the mind from limiting spatial and temporal preconceptions, and dramatizes the e

Author: John Ward
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: business, successful, families, lasting, lessons, family, perpetuating, learned
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1403933979
ISBN-13: 9781403933973

John L. Ward, a leading world expert on family business, offers the best practices of the most successful and long-lasting families in business, including Ford Motors, Marriott Hotels, Levi-Strauss, and the New York Times. He provides a framework of five insights and four principles in which to position his fifty "lessons learned" for family business longevity. This is a comprehensive book on sustaining family businesses that contains international examples, cases, essential tools, and checklists of best practices; a how-to every entrepreneur should have.John L. Ward, a leading world expert o

Author: Anna Greenspan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: culture, global, networks, revolution, india
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-03-02
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1403939438
ISBN-13: 9781403939432

India and the IT Revolution explores the contemporary emergence of cosmopolitan, high-tech India as marking the arrival of a truly global cyberculture. It argues against the notion that globalization is a process of "Westernization," which radiates out unilaterally from the core, imposing itself upon a passive, backward periphery. Instead, it conceives of global culture as a dynamic, innovative network, which proceeds primarily from its edges.India and the IT Revolution explores the contemporary emergence of cosmopolitan, high-tech India as marking the arrival of a truly global cyberculture. I

Author: Ken Ferguson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: students, business, guide, economics, essential
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $41.15
ISBN-10: 0333962974
ISBN-13: 9780333962978

This text is specifically aimed at non-specialist students who have to take a compulsory module in economics as part of their undergraduate foundation year. Containing numerous illustrations and examples, the book explains in plain English all the key economic ideas, from the market mechanism to monetary theory and the balance of payments. This should enable the student to rapidly revise the main topic areas in preparation for exam time. It also contains self-test questions at the end of each chapter with answers provided at the back of the book.

Authors:Ferdinand A. Gul, Judy S.l. Tsui,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: asian, financial, crisis, post, corporations, east, governance
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-03-02
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1403944105
ISBN-13: 9781403944108

This book examines government/regulatory responses to the Asian financial crisis which brought unprecedented financial turmoil for most East Asian countries. It provides thought-provoking insights on fundamental differences in the institutional and regulatory framework of ten East Asian countries, including an assessment of the various corporate governance reforms after the crisis.This book examines government/regulatory responses to the Asian financial crisis which brought unprecedented financial turmoil for most East Asian countries. It provides thought-provoking insights on fundamental diff