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Income Reconstruction: A Guide to Discovering Unreported Income
Manufacturer: American Institute of Certified Public Accoun ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0870512560 |
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The Essentials of the New Workplace: A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices
Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0470022159 |
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The original hardback edition of The New Workplace examined modern business terms such as total quality management, just-in-time production, e-business, lean manufacturing and teleworking. It explored what these terms really mean and what effect they have in practice - especially their impact on productivity and performance and their social and psychological consequences. This paperback is a shorter, revised version of the original book. It will focus on working practices, especially technology orientated ones, which are the most relevant and innovative for consultants.Download Description
The original hardback edition of The New Workplace examined modern business terms such as total quality management, just-in-time production, e-business, lean manufacturing and teleworking. It explored what these terms really mean and what effect they have in practice - especially their impact on productivity and performance and their social and psychological consequences. This paperback is a shorter, revised version of the original book. It will focus on working practices, especially technology orientated ones, which are the most relevant and innovative for consultants.
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The New Workplace: A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices
Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471485438 |
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"Just-in-time", "total quality management", "lean manufacturing", "call centres", "team work", "empowerment" - most people in business have heard these buzz words, often offered as a panacea to all profit ills. So why don't they always work? Can you combine them anyhow? If not, why not?The New Workplace Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the evidence available on how modern working practices and technology affect the people in organizations. Within a broad psychological framework, leading experts examine how people work, their experience of work, the impact on productivity and performance and the human resource implications. Guidance is offered on a range of different methods, tools and practices that can be used to guide the design and implementation of modern working practices to ensure that pitfalls are avoided and the best possible results are obtained from new initiatives.
Indispensable for consultants, this Handbook will also be useful for students and scholars in the psychology of business, human resource professionals and anyone involved in the management of new working practices.
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"We are all increasingly familiar with modern business terms such as total quality management, just-in-time production, e-business, lean manufacturing and teleworking. But what really lies behind these terms and what effect do these and other new practices have on productivity and performance and, crucially, what is their social and psychological impact? Written by leading authors from around the world, The New Workplace provides an up-to-date assessment of research into the human effects of new working practices, including team-working, call centres, virtual organizations and supply chain partnering. The impact on productivity and performance is considered in detail in a later section, while the final sections give guidance on a range of methods and tools for evaluating the social and psychological effects, as well as looking to the future. The practical focus means that The New Workplace can be used to help with the design and implementation of new working practices, ensuring that best results are achieved. Indispensable for students and scholars of organizational psychology, The New Workplace will also be useful for consultants, as well as human resource managers and others charged with the management of new working practices. "
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The New Workplace - A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices
D. HOLMAN Manufacturer: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N5A5QQ |
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The New WorkPlace Handbook: A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices
David Holman Manufacturer: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MBR082 |
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Prospects for Pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan: From State Farms to Private Flocks (Central Asia Research Forum)
Carol Kerven Manufacturer: RoutledgeCurzon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0700716998 |
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Pastoralism has an ancient heritage in the vast natural pastures of Central Asia. These pastoral systems were profoundly altered after the incorporation of Kazakstan and Turkmenistan into the Soviet Union. Pastoralists were collectivized into state farms, building an industrialized nomadism, which was highly productive while preserving elements of the pastoral systems. Independence from the Soviet Union then brought new policies, which reorganized the state farms and removed state support in what has been termed the 'second revolution'.
This collection traces how pastoralists have coped with the challenge of change in a part of the world with a long-tradition of livestock keeping. Their precarious position-balanced between a market system where only the fittest may survive, and their attempt to remain a human resource for the future development of the natural pastures and livestock industry-is carefully and critically examined by the contributors. The pastoralists' unique skill at managing livestock in a variable and challenging environment, and their ability to supply commodities much in demand mean that an understanding of their societal position is essential for anyone interested in transition in the former Soviet Union.
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Prospects for Pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan: From State Farms to Private Flocks.(Book review) : An article from: The Geographical Journal
Nick Megoran Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000FFJDEO Release Date: 2006-04-18 |
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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 499 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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Dust and Chemistry in Astronomy (The Graduate Series in Astronomy)
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0750302712 |
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Dust is widespread in the galaxy. To astronomers studying stars it may be just an irritating fog, but it is becoming widely recognized that cosmic dust plays an active role in astrochemistry. Without dust, the galaxy would have evolved differently, and planetary systems like ours would not have occurred. To explore and consolidate this active area of research, Dust and Chemistry in Astronomy covers the role of dust in the formation of molecules in the interstellar medium, with the exception of dust in the solar system. Each chapter provides thorough coverage of our understanding of interstellar dust, particularly its interaction with interstellar gas. Aimed at postgraduate researchers, the book also serves as a thorough review of this significant area of astrophysics for practicing astronomers and graduate students.
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From Dust To Stars: Studies of the Formation and Early Evolution of Stars (Springer Praxis Books / Astronomy and Planetary Sciences)
Norbert Schulz Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 3540237119 |
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Studies of stellar formation in galaxies have a profound impact on our understanding of the present and the early universe. The book describes complex physical processes involved in the creation of stars and during their young lives. It illustrates how these processes reveal themselves from radio wavelengths to high energy X-rays and gamma -rays, with special reference towards high energy signatures. Several sections devoted to key analysis techniques demonstrate how modern research in this field is pursued.
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Dust in the Galactic Environment (Graduate Series in Astronomy)
D. C. B. Whittet Manufacturer: Institute of Physics Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0750302097 |
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Dusty Universe, The
Aneurin Evans Manufacturer: Ellis Horwood Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Textbook Binding ASIN: 0132216493 |
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Space dust.......2000-03-29
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Advanced Mineralogy: Volume 3: Mineral Matter in Space, Mantle, Ocean Floor, Biosphere, Environmental Management, and Jewelry
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3540582452 |
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This reference book is the third in a series of five volumes presenting a concise treatise on problems and final results of modern studies of earth and planetary materials in their most sophisticated aspects. It is encyclopedic in its coverage of subjects, which include the systematic description of all areas of mineral matter studies corresponding to the actual capabilities and needs of science and industry. This third volume, with contributions from 200 top specialists from all over the world, contains chapters on Mineral Matter in Space, Mineralogy of the Mantle and Core, Mineralogy of the Ocean Floor, Biomineralization, Environmental Mineralogy, Radiation Mineralogy, and Gemology and Jewelry.
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Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe
Michael A. Dopita , and Ralph S. Sutherland Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 3540433627 |
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The book is designed as an astrophysics textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of Interstellar Matter. It is aimed primarily at those undertaking postgraduate courses, or those doing advanced projects as part of honors undergraduate courses in physics or astrophysics. It should also provide a handy reference to the field for astrophysics faculty and other researchers who are not necessarily experts in this particular subdiscipline. The objective of Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe is to show how physics can be applied to the understanding and diagnosis of the phase structure, the physical conditions, and the chemical make-up and evolution of the interstellar medium. Consistent with the authors' lecture and course experience, here a systematic approach has been adopted to assist the development of the reader's insight into the physics underlying the subject.Customer Reviews:
A good supplemental read.......2005-12-26
Another terrible book, like Osterbrock.......2004-05-16
Dopita is written a little better than Osterbrock, and there isnt the ridiculous amount of tables strewn within the text, but its not MUCH better.
Topical, but lots of typos.......2003-11-05
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Cosmic dust (Newnes international monographs on astronautics and astronomy)
A Dauvillier Manufacturer: G. Newnes ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007J3SXA |
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The Cosmic Dust Connection (NATO Science Series C:)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792343654 |
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Solid particles are followed from their creation through their evolution in the Galaxy to their participation in the formation of solar systems like our own, these being now clearly deduced from observations by the Hubble Space Telescope as well as by IR and visual observations of protostellar disks, like that of the famous Beta Pictoris object. The most recent observational, laboratory and theoretical methods are examined in detail. In our own solar system, studies of meteorites, comets and comet dust reveal many features that follow directly from the interstellar dust from which they formed. The properties of interstellar dust provide possible keys to its origin in comets and asteroids and its ultimate origin in the early solar system. But this is a continuing story: what happens to the solid particles in space after they emerge from stellar sources has important scientific consequences since it ultimately bears on our own origins - the origins of solar systems and, especially, of our own earth and life in the universe.
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The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies: Proceedings of the 4th Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt-Symposium "The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies", Zermatt, ... 2003 (Springer Proceedings in Physics)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 354021254X |
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The Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt symposium is a well established series of conferences, occurring on a 5-year cycle, on the dense interstellar medium and related topics. The main results constitute valuable proceedings that offer everyone working in this field an authoritative and comprehensive source of reference.
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Dust and Molecules in Evolved Stars
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 079235009X |
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Dust and molecules are found in a large variety of astrophysical environments, in particular in the circumstellar material ejected by evolved stars. This book brings together the leading astronomers and astrophysicists in the field of molecular astrophysics and stellar physics to discuss the important issues of dust and molecular formation, the role of solids in circumstellar environments, molecules as probes of circumstellar parameters, the stellar contribution to the enrichment of the Galaxy, and the latest observational data in various wavelength domains, in partiular in the infrared with results from the Infrared Space Observatory. The astrophysical senarios include late-type stars, novae, Wolf-Rayet stars, Luminous Blue Variables and supernovae.Books:
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