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Deadline! how premier organizations win the race against time / by Carrison, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Turner Construction Company makes the Rocky Mountains thunder : delayed, stymied, frustrated at every turn, Turner Construction Company delivers the new Broncos football stadium, ahead of time and under budget -- Airborne Express and the technicolor challenge : Airborne Express enters a venture so fraught with deadlines that UPS and Fedex had backed away -- Mission to Mars--the 2001 Odyssey orbiter : successful deadline management doesn't have to be "rocket science" -- The ultimate deadline--how the FBI manages a kidnapping : agents rush to meet a literal "drop dead" deadline -- Boeing's race to deliver the 777 Wide-Body : a plane, and a management philosophy, for the twenty-first century -- Conoco's weekend of caring : volunteerism as the ultimate business deadline management tool.…”
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Working virtue virtue ethics and contemporary moral problems /

Table of Contents: “…Walker -- Law, morality, and virtue / Peter Koller -- Virtue ethics, role ethics, and business ethics / Christine Swanton -- Racial virtues / Lawrence Blum -- Virtue and a warrior's anger / Nancy Sherman -- Famine, affluence, and virtue / Michael Slote -- Filial piety as a virtue / Philip J. …”
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Beyond the Middle Kingdom comparative perspectives on China's capitalist transformation /

Table of Contents: “…Frazier -- Fragmented influence : business lobbying in China in comparative perspective / Scott Kennedy -- Comparing China's capitalists : neither democratic nor exceptional / Kellee S. …”
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Perspectives for European consumer law towards a directive on consumer rights and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Pre-contractual information duties : the forseeable failure of full harmonisation / Luc Grynbaum -- The right of withdrawal / Reiner Schulze -- The provisions on consumer sales / Jules Stuyck -- Core issues of consumer sales law / Thomas Pfeiffer -- Unfair terms in consumer contracts / Luboš Tichý -- Unilateral change of contractual terms / Tomáš Pelikán -- The new directive on consumer protection : objectives from the perspective of the EU and the member states / Lenka Froňková -- Some remarks on the proposal of a directive on consumer rights / Tomáš Břicháček -- The judiciary and consumer protection / Jiří Grygar -- Contracts concluded away from business premises and contracts concluded through distance communication in the light of the Proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights / Martin Rezek -- The system of consumer law on its way to integration into the system of private law / Jan Hurdik.…”
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Unquenchable America's water crisis and what to do about it / by Glennon, Robert Jerome, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Real and surreal solutions. 6. Business as usual -- 7. Water alchemists -- 8. The ancient mariner's lament -- 9. …”
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Frontiers of engineering reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2011 symposium /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction [Additive manufacturing] -- Additive manufacturing technologies: technology introduction and business implications -- Additive manufacturing in aerospace: examples and research outlook --- Additive manufacturing is changing surgery -- The shape of things to come: frontiers in additive manufacturing -- Introduction [Semantic processing] -- Automatic text understanding of content and text quality -- Advancing natural language understanding with collaboratively generated content -- Large-scale visual semantic extraction -- Searching for statistical diagrams -- Introduction [Engineering-sustainable buildings] -- Challenges and opportunities for low-carbon buildings -- Expanding design spaces -- Opportunities and challenges for multiscale modeling of sustainable buildings -- Accelerating green building market transformation with information technology -- Introduction [Neuroprosthetics] -- Retinal prosthetic systems for treatment of blindness -- The evolution of brain-computer interfaces -- Ultra low-power biomedical and bio-inspired systems.…”
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New Bedford's Civil War by Mulderink, Earl F.

Table of Contents: “…"A burning and shining light": prosperity and enlightened governance in antebellum New Bedford -- "The nearest approach to freedom and equality": African Americans in antebellum New Bedford -- "Suppression of an unholy rebellion": wartime mobilization on the home front -- "Citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts": New Bedford's volunteers in the Civil War -- "Boys, I only did my duty": New Bedford's black soldiers in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts -- "Worthy recipients": New Bedford's black veterans and the web of social welfare -- "Business is extremely dull": whaling and manufacturing in wartime New Bedford -- "The position of our city has materially changed": public costs and municipal governance during the Civil War -- "The great hope for the future": New Bedford in the postbellum era -- "On the altar of our common country": contested commemorations of the Civil War.…”
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Endtimes? crises and turmoil at the New York times, 1999-2009 / by Schwarz, Daniel R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: crises and turmoil at the New York times -- The way we were: a brief history of the Times with a focus on major events -- Looking backward: the (failed) Raines reformation -- Digital revolution: www.nytimes.com -- Media economics 101: the business crises of the New York times -- Counter reformation: the way we are (i): new bearings -- And continuity in the contemporary times under Keller -- The way we are (ii): where the contemporary times under Keller is and where is it going -- Dramatic changes in Sunday's magazines: competing for attention among myriad reading and leisure choices -- The challenge to the first amendment: the Judith Miller saga and the story of domestic spying -- Struggling with its ethnic heritage: has the Times's waged war against the Jews? …”
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Beyond the Middle Kingdom comparative perspectives on China's capitalist transformation /

Table of Contents: “…Frazier -- Fragmented influence : business lobbying in China in comparative perspective / Scott Kennedy -- Comparing China's capitalists : neither democratic nor exceptional / Kellee S. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Perspectives for European consumer law towards a directive on consumer rights and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Pre-contractual information duties : the forseeable failure of full harmonisation / Luc Grynbaum -- The right of withdrawal / Reiner Schulze -- The provisions on consumer sales / Jules Stuyck -- Core issues of consumer sales law / Thomas Pfeiffer -- Unfair terms in consumer contracts / Luboš Tichý -- Unilateral change of contractual terms / Tomáš Pelikán -- The new directive on consumer protection : objectives from the perspective of the EU and the member states / Lenka Froňková -- Some remarks on the proposal of a directive on consumer rights / Tomáš Břicháček -- The judiciary and consumer protection / Jiří Grygar -- Contracts concluded away from business premises and contracts concluded through distance communication in the light of the Proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights / Martin Rezek -- The system of consumer law on its way to integration into the system of private law / Jan Hurdik.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Unquenchable America's water crisis and what to do about it / by Glennon, Robert Jerome, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Real and surreal solutions. 6. Business as usual -- 7. Water alchemists -- 8. The ancient mariner's lament -- 9. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Frontiers of engineering reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2011 symposium /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction [Additive manufacturing] -- Additive manufacturing technologies: technology introduction and business implications -- Additive manufacturing in aerospace: examples and research outlook --- Additive manufacturing is changing surgery -- The shape of things to come: frontiers in additive manufacturing -- Introduction [Semantic processing] -- Automatic text understanding of content and text quality -- Advancing natural language understanding with collaboratively generated content -- Large-scale visual semantic extraction -- Searching for statistical diagrams -- Introduction [Engineering-sustainable buildings] -- Challenges and opportunities for low-carbon buildings -- Expanding design spaces -- Opportunities and challenges for multiscale modeling of sustainable buildings -- Accelerating green building market transformation with information technology -- Introduction [Neuroprosthetics] -- Retinal prosthetic systems for treatment of blindness -- The evolution of brain-computer interfaces -- Ultra low-power biomedical and bio-inspired systems.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

New Bedford's Civil War by Mulderink, Earl F.

Table of Contents: “…"A burning and shining light": prosperity and enlightened governance in antebellum New Bedford -- "The nearest approach to freedom and equality": African Americans in antebellum New Bedford -- "Suppression of an unholy rebellion": wartime mobilization on the home front -- "Citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts": New Bedford's volunteers in the Civil War -- "Boys, I only did my duty": New Bedford's black soldiers in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts -- "Worthy recipients": New Bedford's black veterans and the web of social welfare -- "Business is extremely dull": whaling and manufacturing in wartime New Bedford -- "The position of our city has materially changed": public costs and municipal governance during the Civil War -- "The great hope for the future": New Bedford in the postbellum era -- "On the altar of our common country": contested commemorations of the Civil War.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Endtimes? crises and turmoil at the New York times, 1999-2009 / by Schwarz, Daniel R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: crises and turmoil at the New York times -- The way we were: a brief history of the Times with a focus on major events -- Looking backward: the (failed) Raines reformation -- Digital revolution: www.nytimes.com -- Media economics 101: the business crises of the New York times -- Counter reformation: the way we are (i): new bearings -- And continuity in the contemporary times under Keller -- The way we are (ii): where the contemporary times under Keller is and where is it going -- Dramatic changes in Sunday's magazines: competing for attention among myriad reading and leisure choices -- The challenge to the first amendment: the Judith Miller saga and the story of domestic spying -- Struggling with its ethnic heritage: has the Times's waged war against the Jews? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Surprise! : The secret to customer loyalty in the service sector / by Magnini, Vincent P.

Table of Contents: “…Feedback from your customers -- 12. Scanning the business environment for surprise ideas -- Final thought: 3 + 4 = 9 or 10 -- About the author -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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Proverbs Are The Best Policy : Folk Wisdom And American Politics / by Mieder, Wolfgang

Table of Contents: “…"Different strokes for different folks" : American proverbs as an international, national, and global phenomenon -- "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" : the making and meaning of an American proverb about democracy -- "God helps them who help themselves" : proverbial resolve in the letters of Abigail Adams -- "A house divided against itself cannot stand" : from biblical proverb to Abraham Lincoln and beyond -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" : Frederick Douglass's proverbial struggle for civil rights -- "It's not a president's business to catch flies" : proverbial rhetoric in presidential inaugural addresses -- "We are all in the same boat now" : proverbial discourse in the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence -- "Good fences make good neighbors" : the sociopolitical significance of an ambiguous proverb.…”
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Deadline! how premier organizations win the race against time / by Carrison, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Turner Construction Company makes the Rocky Mountains thunder : delayed, stymied, frustrated at every turn, Turner Construction Company delivers the new Broncos football stadium, ahead of time and under budget -- Airborne Express and the technicolor challenge : Airborne Express enters a venture so fraught with deadlines that UPS and Fedex had backed away -- Mission to Mars--the 2001 Odyssey orbiter : successful deadline management doesn't have to be "rocket science" -- The ultimate deadline--how the FBI manages a kidnapping : agents rush to meet a literal "drop dead" deadline -- Boeing's race to deliver the 777 Wide-Body : a plane, and a management philosophy, for the twenty-first century -- Conoco's weekend of caring : volunteerism as the ultimate business deadline management tool.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Working virtue virtue ethics and contemporary moral problems /

Table of Contents: “…Walker -- Law, morality, and virtue / Peter Koller -- Virtue ethics, role ethics, and business ethics / Christine Swanton -- Racial virtues / Lawrence Blum -- Virtue and a warrior's anger / Nancy Sherman -- Famine, affluence, and virtue / Michael Slote -- Filial piety as a virtue / Philip J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Surprise! : The secret to customer loyalty in the service sector / by Magnini, Vincent P.

Table of Contents: “…Feedback from your customers -- 12. Scanning the business environment for surprise ideas -- Final thought: 3 + 4 = 9 or 10 -- About the author -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Proverbs Are The Best Policy : Folk Wisdom And American Politics / by Mieder, Wolfgang

Table of Contents: “…"Different strokes for different folks" : American proverbs as an international, national, and global phenomenon -- "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" : the making and meaning of an American proverb about democracy -- "God helps them who help themselves" : proverbial resolve in the letters of Abigail Adams -- "A house divided against itself cannot stand" : from biblical proverb to Abraham Lincoln and beyond -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" : Frederick Douglass's proverbial struggle for civil rights -- "It's not a president's business to catch flies" : proverbial rhetoric in presidential inaugural addresses -- "We are all in the same boat now" : proverbial discourse in the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence -- "Good fences make good neighbors" : the sociopolitical significance of an ambiguous proverb.…”
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