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Who says elephants can't dance? Who says elephants can't dance? Louis V. Gerstner "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? tells the story of IBM's competitive and cultural transformation. In his own words, Gerstner offers a blow-by-blow account of his arrival at the company and his campa… OL12332067W
Great cases of Scotland Yard Great cases of Scotland Yard Emlyn Williams,Andrew Garve,Julian Symons,Clive Egleton,Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy,Elizabeth Jenkins,Winston Graham,Eric Ambler,Russell Braddon Commissioned to investigate these cases and develop a classic mystery story, eight of England's most distinguished mystery writers have recreated some of Scotland Yard's most exciting and notorious c… OL15160663W
Finance and Competitiveness in Developing Countries Finance and Competitiveness in Developing Countries Jose M Fanelli As recent events in Southeast Asian have demonstrated, the fragility of a country’s financial sector can have severe macroeconomic consequences, affecting its ability to manufacture, import, and expo… OL15179228W
The rejects The rejects Nathan Aaseng Describes various companies that succeeded despite initial rejection and the certainty of "experts" that the product they offered would fail. OL15216201W
Random family Random family Adrian Nicole LeBlanc The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles a… OL15844775W
The Polk conspiracy The Polk conspiracy Kati Marton On May 16, 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk was found floating in Greece's Salonika Bay, where he had been stationed to report on a bloody civil war. The murder was allegedly solved, b… OL15856428W
Selling women short Selling women short Liza Featherstone "Betty Dukes is a devoutly religious African-American woman who didn't know the meaning of sex discrimination until she started working for Wal-Mart. She joined the company to get ahead, hoping to be… OL16039359W
Boys and girls learn differently! Boys and girls learn differently! Michael Gurian Explores the biological gender differences which influence how boys and girls learn and discusses how the American education system can be adapted to better serve various learning rates. OL16071924W
Understanding the social economy Understanding the social economy Jack Quarter In this resource the authors integrate a wide array of organizations founded upon a social mission - social enterprises, nonprofits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development associatio… OL16565413W
The macroeconomics of scaling up aid The macroeconomics of scaling up aid Andrew Berg This study analyzes key issues associated with large increases in aid, including absorptive capacity, Dutch disease, and inflation. The authors develop a framework that emphasizes the different roles… OL18407525W
Team of Rivals Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a 2005 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster. The book is a biographical por… OL1856010W
On becoming a leader On becoming a leader Warren G. Bennis My first report on the subject was published as Leaders (Harper and Row, 1985, co-authored with Bert Nanus). Leaders covered the whats. On Becoming a Leader is the hows: how people become leaders, ho… OL1883445W
Penser les pratiques sociales comme rituels Penser les pratiques sociales comme rituels Christoph Wulf "Notre analyse est une étude de cas thématique dans laquelle on cherche à savoir comment, à l'aide de rituels, est générée une communauté dans quatre domaines de socialisation.... Notre étude se conc… OL19107836W
Discovering the soul of service Discovering the soul of service Leonard L. Berry "From Berry's exacting study of fourteen mature, highly successful, labor-intensive companies comes an astonishing revelation: the single most important factor in building a lasting service business … OL1953903W
Social welfare programs Social welfare programs Louise Skolnik,Raymond Albert This text aims to help readers understand the social programs affecting professional practice with those who have been economically dislocated, the near-poor and poor situated on the fringe of the ec… OL20436737W
Negotiation Negotiation Roy J. Lewicki Explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation. This book also looks at the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution. OL20546411W
Leçons de vie Leçons de vie Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Partant de leur expérience auprès de malades en phase terminale aussi bien que de ce que leur propre vie s'est chargée de leur enseigner, les auteurs abordent, souvent sous forme de courts récits com… OL20823063W
Internet marketing 2010 Internet marketing 2010 Julia Jouffroy,Guillaume Ber,Martin Tissier Un exposé des grands prinicpes, acteurs et techniques du marketing et de la communication sur Internet et la téléphonie mobile et 62 analyses de campagnes marquantes de l'année 2009. OL20876908W
Les contes au coeur de la thérapie infirmière Les contes au coeur de la thérapie infirmière Solange Langenfeld Serranelli De l'utilisation du conte dans la pratique du soin relationnel en tant que processus thérapeutique. L'auteure présente le cadre théorique et les enjeux en matière de prise en charge. OL20974784W
Against the grain Against the grain Gillian Ranson "Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The … OL21377859W
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