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The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change is an essential tool for both practitioners and students who want to know how to effectively bring about meaningful and sustainable change in organizations. Featuring contributions from leading practitioners, academics, and scholars in the field, each chapter comprehensively explores a key aspect of organization development including core theories and methods, OD in the international and world setting, practical applications, the future of OD, and many others. Co-published with the NTL Institute, a long-time leader and champion for the field, The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change boasts an extensive range of knowledge, experience, and methods integrated by a philosophical system that underscores the vital mission of OD as well as provides expert guidance in the art and science of making organizational development and change work.

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Superb overview of modern Organization Development.......2006-03-19

Edited collections at this price point can be a problem. But compared to its competitors, this NTL Handbook is an outstanding volume, written by some of the biggest names in OD for practitioners at all levels. Great value after you get over the sticker shock.

As a skimmed the book I was amazed by the new insights that leapt out at me, by the clear, jargon-free writing (relatively, after all it's a professional book) and by the generous references and citations. History, ethics, techniques, it's all there. While the formatting of tables is sometimes inconvenient (I found myself turning the book sideways more than I should have had to), it's a small price to pay for the comprehensiveness of the treatment.

My only disappointments were the two chapters on large group interventions. One covers the familiar territory the familiar way (refer to the books you already own). The other gives a partial account of the newest, technology-enabled 'town meetings' without grounding the story in the theory of why they work (or should) and how cost-effective they are as OD interventions, as opposed to political rallys. The rest of the book is fresh and new, even of topics that we practitioners think we know like the back of our hand. I marvelled at the new life some chapters breathed into traditional material.

This book from NTL Institute should be in every consultant's library, as a refresher and, more important, as a source of new inspiration as you work with organizations and the people in them.

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Title: Judgment Enforcement Practice and Litigation. (book reviews)
Author: Kevin T. Keating
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1995
Publisher: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Volume: 31 Issue: n5 Page: 89(2)

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Resolving business disputes through litigation or other alternatives: the effects of jurisdictional rules and recognition practice.(Transatlantic Business ... from: Houston Journal of International Law

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Resolving business disputes through litigation or other alternatives: the effects of jurisdictional rules and recognition practice.(Transatlantic Business ... from: Houston Journal of International Law
Willibald Posch
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This digital document is an article from Houston Journal of International Law, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 7789 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Resolving business disputes through litigation or other alternatives: the effects of jurisdictional rules and recognition practice.(Transatlantic Business Transactions: Choice of Law, Jurisdiction, and Judgments)
Author: Willibald Posch
Publication: Houston Journal of International Law (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 26 Issue: 2 Page: 363(21)

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Geodesic flows are of considerable current interest since they are, perhaps, the most remarkable class of conservative dynamical systems. They provide a unified arena in which one can explore numerous interplays among several fields, including smooth ergodic theory, symplectic and Riemannian geometry, and algebraic topology.

The work begins with a concise introduction to the geodesic flow of a complete Riemannian manifold, emphasizing its symplectic properties and culminating with various applications, such as the non-existence of continuous invariant Lagrangian subbundles for manifolds with conjugate points. Subsequent chapters develop the relationship between the exponential growth rate of the average number of geodesic arcs between two points in the manifold and the topological entropy of the geodesic flow. A complete proof of Mae's formula relating these two quantities is presented. A final chapter explores the link between the topological entropy of the geodesic flow and the homology of the loop space of a manifold.

This self-contained monograph will be of interest to graduate students and researchers of dynamical systems and differential geometry. Numerous exercises and examples as well as a comprehensive bibliography and index make the work an excellent self-study resource or useful text for a one-semester course or seminar.

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Riemannian geometry has today become a vast and important subject. This new book of Marcel Berger sets out to introduce readers to most of the living topics of the field and convey them quickly to the main results known to date. These results are stated without detailed proofs but the main ideas involved are described and motivated. This enables the reader to obtain a sweeping panoramic view of almost the entirety of the field. However, since a Riemannian manifold is, even initially, a subtle object, appealing to highly non-natural concepts, the first three chapters devote themselves to introducing the various concepts and tools of Riemannian geometry in the most natural and motivating way, following in particular Gauss and Riemann.

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A fine book........2004-06-24

This book is a good reference for anyone who wants to know about the development of riemannian geometry. It covers many active topics in modern differential geometry for every graduated students who can choose some interested fields for the thesis.

Fanning curve of Lagrangian manifolds and geodesic flow (MSRI)

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Fanning curve of Lagrangian manifolds and geodesic flow (MSRI)
Shahla Marvizi
Manufacturer: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
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Geodesic Flow and An Approach to the Classification of Manifolds of Nonpositive Curvature: MSRI 004-83; October 1983

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Geodesic Flow and An Approach to the Classification of Manifolds of Nonpositive Curvature: MSRI 004-83; October 1983
R.J. Spatzier
Manufacturer: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
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ASIN: B000KGIL4G

Geometry and Dynamics of Groups and Spaces: In Memory of Alexander Reznikov (Progress in Mathematics)

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Geometry and Dynamics of Groups and Spaces: In Memory of Alexander Reznikov (Progress in Mathematics)

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This book presents 18 articles by prominent mathematicians, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Reznikov (1960-2003), a brilliant highly original mathematician with broad mathematical interests. In addition it contains an influential, so far unpublished manuscript of Reznikov of book length. The research articles broadly reflect the range of Reznikov's own interests in geometry, group and number theory, functional analysis, dynamical systems and topology. In addition, there are surveys "Geometrization of probability", "Kleinian groups in higher dimensions", "(C,F)-construction of funny rank-one actions for locally compact groups", and some articles centering on Reznikov as a person.

Integrable Geodesic Flows on Two-Dimensional Surfaces (MONOGRAPHS IN CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS formerly titled Contemporary Soviet Mathematics) (Monographs in Contemporary Mathematics)

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Integrable Geodesic Flows on Two-Dimensional Surfaces (MONOGRAPHS IN CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS formerly titled Contemporary Soviet Mathematics) (Monographs in Contemporary Mathematics)
A.V. Bolsinov , and A.T. Fomenko
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ASIN: 0306110652

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Presenting a new approach to qualitative analysis of integrable geodesic flows based on the theory of topological classification of integrable Hamiltonian systems, this is the first book to apply this technique systematically to a wide class of integrable systems. The first part of the book provides an introduction to the qualitative theory of integrable Hamiltonian systems and their invariants (symplectic geometry, integrability, the topology of Liouville foliations, the orbital classification theory for integrable nondegenerate Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom, obstructions to integrability, etc). In the second part, the class of integrable geodesic flows on two-dimensional surfaces is discussed both from the classical and contemporary point of view. The authors classify them up to different equivalence relations such as an isometry, the Liouville equivalence, the trajectory equivalence (smooth and continuous), and the geodesic equivalence. A new technique, which provides the possibility to classify integrable geodesic flows up to these kinds of equivalences, is presented together with applications. Together with systematic presentation of wide material on this subject, the book contains previously unpublished new results, and is enhanced with many original illustrations.

Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification

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Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification
A.V. Bolsinov , and A.T. Fomenko
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ASIN: 0415298059

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Integrable Hamiltonian systems have been of growing interest over the past 30 years and represent one of the most intriguing and mysterious classes of dynamical systems. This book explores the topology of integrable systems and the general theory underlying their qualitative properties, singularites, and topological invariants. The authors, both of whom have contributed significantly to the field, develop the classification theory for integrable systems with two degrees of freedom. This theory allows one to distinguish such systems up to two natural equivalence relations: the equivalence of the associated foliation into Liouville tori and the usual orbital equaivalence. The authors show that in both cases, one can find complete sets of invariants that give the solution of the classification problem. The first part of the book systematically presents the general construction of these invariants, including many examples and applications. In the second part, the authors apply the general methods of the classification theory to the classical integrable problems in rigid body dynamics and describe their topological portraits, bifurcations of Liouville tori, and local and global topological invariants. They show how the classification theory helps find hidden isomorphisms between integrable systems and present as an example their proof that two famous systems--the Euler case in rigid body dynamics and the Jacobi problem of geodesics on the ellipsoid--are orbitally equivalent. Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification offers a unique opportunity to explore important, previously unpublished results and acquire generally applicable techniques and tools that enable you to work with a broad class of integrable systems.

Lectures on Spaces of Nonpositive Curvature (Oberwolfach Seminars)

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Lectures on Spaces of Nonpositive Curvature (Oberwolfach Seminars)
Werner Ballmann
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ASIN: 3764352426

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Singular spaces with upper curvature bounds and, in particular, spaces of nonpositive curvature, have been of interest in many fields, including geometric (and combinatorial) group theory, topology, dynamical systems and probability theory. In the first two chapters of the book, a concise introduction into these spaces is given, culminating in the Hadamard-Cartan theorem and the discussion of the ideal boundary at infinity for simply connected complete spaces of nonpositive curvature. In the third chapter, qualitative properties of the geodesic flow on geodesically complete spaces of nonpositive curvature are discussed, as are random walks on groups of isometries of nonpositively curved spaces. The main class of spaces considered should be precisely complementary to symmetric spaces of higher rank and Euclidean buildings of dimension at least two (Rank Rigidity conjecture). In the smooth case, this is known and is the content of the Rank Rigidity theorem. An updated version of the proof of the latter theorem (in the smooth case) is presented in Chapter IV of the book. This chapter contains also a short introduction into the geometry of the unit tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold and the basic facts about the geodesic flow. In an appendix by Misha Brin, a self-contained and short proof of the ergodicity of the geodesic flow of a compact Riemannian manifold of negative curvature is given. The proof is elementary and should be accessible to the non-specialist. Some of the essential features and problems of the ergodic theory of smooth dynamical systems are discussed, and the appendix can serve as an introduction into this theory.

New Curvature Invarian and Entropy of Geodesic Flows: MRI 02408404; April 1984

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New Curvature Invarian and Entropy of Geodesic Flows: MRI 02408404; April 1984
R; P Sarnak Osserman
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Two Classes of Riemannian Manifolds Whose Geodesic Flows Are Integrable (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)

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Two Classes of Riemannian Manifolds Whose Geodesic Flows Are Integrable (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)
Kazuyoshi Kiyohara
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Two classes of manifolds whose geodesic flows are integrable are defined, and their global structures are investigated. They are called Liouville manifolds and Kähler-Liouville manifolds respectively. In each case, the author finds several invariants with which they are partly classified. The classification indicates, in particular, that these classes contain many new examples of manifolds with integrable geodesic flow.

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