A collection of techniques from more than 40 years of managing client-oriented projects.Rise above the day-to-day administration of projects, so often the focus of project management training. Learn how top project managers succeed when others, even those qualified in project management, fail. Understand the true meaning of quality when measured by clients. Explore the extraordinary impact people, both on your team and at your client, have on everything. Delve into...

Charles Coolidge Parlin was considered by many to be the founder of market research. Working for the dominant Curtis Publishing Company, he revolutionized the industry by providing added value to advertisers through information about the racial, ethnic, and regional biases of readers and consumers. By maintaining contact with both businesses and customers, Parlin and Curtis publications were able to turn consumer wants into corporate profits.In A New Brand of Business, Dou...

In a remote wildlife reserve in Africa, a young girl makes contact with anunusual elephant. They share a past that is almost forgotten and find they areable to communicate with each other.Ivory poachers threaten the existence of the herd, and Erica, the young girl,starts an investigation into the possibility of insider information alerting thepoaching gangs.A sinister army officer enters the plot, aided by an evil storekeeper andmerci...

Author G. Douglas Ward was sworn in as a police officer in the small North Carolina town of Tarboro at the age of twenty-one. He was about to embark on a ten-year career that he would never forget.In this collection of memoirs, he shares his recollections about adventures that will leave you on the edge of your seat, make you laugh, and make you think. Join him as he recallswhat it was like growing up as the son of a deputy sheriff;what it meant to go through basic a...

In this historical novel, Jonathan, son of Saul and one of the most widely admired characters in the Hebrew Bible, tells his own story, from his harsh and secret instruction in arms as a youth, through his father's sudden elevation to political power he did not want, to his father's decline into fear and madness with the appearance of the charismatic David. Despite being a hero of Israel's war to throw off Philistine domination, Jonathan lives an agony of divided loyalties: between his own...

Una escritora de misterio. Un asesinato idéntico al de su último manuscrito. Pero solo su editora y su familia lo han leído. Descubre a Claire Douglas, la autora de thriller del momento. Una novela inquietante que no podrás soltar.Emilia Ward, la escritora de las exitosas novelas de misterio protagonizadas por la policía Miranda Moody, vive feliz en un barrio acomodado de Londres con su marido y sus dos hijos, una adolescente de su primer matrimonio y un niño peque...

Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political philosophy: he argues that humans are by nature political animals, having their natural end in the city whose regime is hierarchically structured based on differences in moral and intel...

In the rugged Australian outback, where the sun beats down relentlessly and the land stretches endlessly, a simple object holds profound significance: the swagman's mat. In Andrew Barton Paterson's classic poem, "Our Mat," we follow the journey of a swagman, a wandering laborer, as he traverses the unforgiving landscape. Through his eyes, we witness the hardships and triumphs of life on the road, the camaraderie of fellow travelers, and the enduring spirit that binds them together. Paterso...

This is the story of a week spent on a closed psychiatric ward. Getting in, getting out, and after images (memories of those first months off of the ward) are also included. It is an accurate, factual first person account of one person's madness.

Global hit-maker Andrew Lloyd-Webber's new musical spotlights the world of Stephen Ward - the social cavalier who knew everyone who mattered - and his enigmatic role in the great political scandal of the 20th Century.Yet, few truly knew the rakish charmer who was the catalytic character of The Profumo Affair.A talented osteopath and artist, Stephen Ward treated, sketched and seduced the great and often not-so-good of the post-war years. He healed Churchill, Gandhi, Frank Sinatra and Elizab...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each author addresses a single thinker’s reflections on the virtues and defects of democracy and the relationship between democracy and other regimes. Together, these essays explore the tensions within the democratic way of life that arise from an attachment to equality, liberty, citizenship, law, and the divine. Above all, ...