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Principles of Critical Care: Companion Handbook

kitira — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:53:32 GMT

Referenced by chapter to the new edition of its parent book, the coverage here is concise and focused and intended for "middle of the night" use. Tables, charts and an outline format provide fast access to the essential clinical data to diagnose and successfully manage the patient in the ICU.

Gurus on business strategy

kitira — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:09:09 GMT

Here is a one-stop guide to the world's most important thinkers and writers on business strategy. It expertly summarises all the key strategic concepts and describes the work and contribution of each of the leading thinkers in the field. It goes on to analyse the pro's and con's of many of the key theories in practice and offers two enlightening case-studies. The third section of the book provides a series of detailed checklists to help you to develop your own strategy.

Essentials of Knowledge Management

kitira — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:49:41 GMT

This volume shows senior level executives how to work with knowledge management professionals, understand what to look for when hiring knowledge management staff, and understand the investment and likely returns on various knowledge management approaches.

The Naked Manager: Games Executives Play

kitira — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:25:45 GMT

This book is dedicated to all those executives who did the right thing for the wrong reason, and were acclaimed as geniuses and heroes; and to all those who did (he wrong thing for the right, the wrong, or no reason at all and still hold their overpaid jobs. Maybe there are less of the latter around than there used to be, though. Maybe there are more, many more, managements that actually do the right thing for I fie right reason, Deep recession and foreign competition have wonderfully concentrated the managerial mind-and wonderfully concentrated many a business on its roil business, as described in these pages, which is to manage the affairs of the corporation so that everybody involved (employees, stockholders, customers, communities) has good cause to be profoundly thankful for management's work.

Managing Financial Resources, 3rd edition

kitira — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:20:43 GMT

This book is one of a series designed for people wanting to develop their capabilities as managers. You might think that there isn’t anything very new in that. In one way you would be right. The fact that very many people want to learn to become better managers is not new, and for many years a wide range of approaches to such learning and development has been available. These have included courses leading to formal qualifications, organizationally- based management development programmes and a whole variety of self-study materials. A copious literature, extending from academic textbooks to sometimes idiosyncratic prescriptions from successful managers and consultants, has existed to aid – or perhaps confuse – the potential seeker after managerial truth and enlightenment.

Risks from the CEO and Board Perspective

kitira — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:50:47 GMT

If you knew in 1998 what you know now, what would your company have done differently? No doubt the answers run from limiting debt financing, to paying a lot more attention to cash generation, to much more focus on bottom- rather than top-line results. But no one would say, "I wouldn't change a thing." The early Greeks and Romans didn't worry about uncertainty. Though they had the mathematical skills to have conceived and developed ways of analyzing probabilities, it didn't occur to them to try. The very idea of uncertainty would have been foreign. They believed that everything was predestined. It wasn't until the Middle Ages that the idea of probability arose and rigorous attempts at analysis occurred. Within a couple of centuries the pendulum had swung so far that many believed every system could be precisely analyzed in probability terms. Humanity had thus developed the concept of "uncertainty," and began applying its skills to sorting the odds.

Big, Soft, Chewy Cookies

kitira — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:34:03 GMT

Passionate about cookies? You'll want to sink your teeth into Big, Soft, Chewy Cookies. This delectable cookie cookbook is packed with more than seventy-five recipes for colossal cookie creations. From tried-and-true favorites such as Oatmeal Walnut Raisin, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, and Rugelach to future favorites such as Banana Blitz and Super Duper Snickerdoodles there's a cookie here to please every palette. Plus, you'll even find recipes for chewy cookie bars and special treats like the spirited and festive Eggnog Cookie with Rum Butter Icing.

Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques

kitira — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:23:58 GMT

The landscape of doing SharePoint development has changed considerably in the last year, with the release of SharePoint Server 2007 and its related technologies. You need a contemporary reference to stay on top of the latest ways to combine .NET development techniques with your SharePoint development techniques, and SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques is your guide.

Learning ASP.NET 3.5, Second Edition

kitira — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:35:35 GMT

This book will teach you how to build professional quality, interactive, robust datadriven web applications using Visual Basic 2008. ASP.NET is not difficult to learn. All of the concepts are straightforward, and the Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer environments simplify the process of building powerful web applications. The difficulty in ASP.NET is only that it is so complete and flexible that there are many pieces that must be woven together to build a robust, scalable, and efficient application. This book cuts to the heart of the matter, showing in clear, easy-to-follow steps how to understand and build a web site.

The Porcelain God: A Social History of the Toilet

kitira — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:38:17 GMT

Elvis died on one, and Charles V was born on one. Although we use them every day, most of us know very little about toilets. This unique history contends that civilization began, not with the written word, but with the toilet. As the ultimate bathroom book, The Porcelain God offers an amusing diversion.

Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development

kitira — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:04:29 GMT

Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. It discusses the Garden Cities movement and the suburban developments it generated, the German-Russian architectural experiments of the 1920s, the place of the avant-garde in the plastic arts, and the uses and pitfalls of seismological approaches toarchitecture, and assesses the prospects of socialist alternatives.

The Sociology of War and Violence

kitira — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:14:30 GMT

War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This new book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the historical and contemporary impact that coercion and warfare have on the transformation of social life, and vice versa. Although war and violence were decisive components in the formation of modernity most analyses tend to shy away from the sociological study of the gory origins of contemporary social life. In contrast, this book brings the study of organised violence to the fore by pring a wide-ranging sociological analysis that links classical and contemporary theories with specific historical and geographical contexts. Topics covered include violence before modernity, warfare in the modern age, nationalism and war, war propaganda, battlefield solidarity, war and social stratification, gender and organised violence, and the new wars debate.

When Miners March

kitira — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:07:04 GMT

Chronicling the West Virginia Mine Wars of the 1920s, this first-hand account of the coal miners' uprisings offers a new perspective onlabor unrest during thistime period. Complete with previously unpublished family photographs and documents, this retelling shares the experiences of Bill Blizzard, the author's father who was the leader of the Red Neck Army. Thetensions between the union and the coal companies that led up to the famous Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest open and armed rebellion in United States history, are described in detail, as are its aftermath and legacy. Addressing labor issues in contemporary times, this historical narrative makes clear the human costs of extracting coal for electricity.

They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism

kitira — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:55:55 GMT

They Used to Call Us Witches is an informative, highly readable account of the role played by Chilean women exiles during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973-1990. Sociologist Julie Shayne looks at the movement organized by exiled Chileans in Vancouver, British Columbia, to denounce Pinochet's dictatorship and support those who remained in Chile. Through the use of extensive interviews, the history is told from the perspective of Chilean women in the exile community established in Vancouver.

Anarchy In Action

kitira — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:33:33 GMT

Once you begin to look at human society from an anarchist point of view, you discover that the alternatives are already there in the interstices of the dominant power structure. If you want to build a free society, the parts are all at hand." -Colin Ward This bright little 150 page gem of a book is densely packed with solid examples of anarchism in practice, and sparkles lucidly with the author's intelligence and hope. It's a to-the-point and highly entertaining introduction to practical anarchy. How do we move from here to there. It's a little dated, being that it was written in the 70's but it still offers a lot of insight on building a free society. Mr. Ward discusses schooling, hospitals, crime, work, and many other urgent every-day concerns. He argues that anarchy already does exist, in the interstices of hierarchy and domination, in the everyday workings of people and their everyday interactions, in their neighborhoods.

Mental Health Nursing: A South African Perspective, 4th edition

kitira — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:17:18 GMT

The essentials of mental health nursing are presented in this fourth edition of a landmark nursing textbook on psychiatric nursing in South African primary health care and community health care settings.

First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development.

kitira — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:25:34 GMT

The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much so that we risk losing sight of the underlying principles that apply to all development. To cut through this thicket, John Tyler Bonner ponders a moment in evolution when development was at its most basic--the moment when signaling between cells began. Although multicellularity arose numerous times, most of those events happened many millions of years ago. Many of the details of development that we see today, even in simple organisms, accrued over a long evolutionary timeline, and the initial events are obscured. The relatively uncomplicated and easy-to-grow cellular slime molds offer a unique opportunity to analyze development at a primitive stage and perhaps gain insight into how early multicellular development might have started.

Taking the Crime out of Sex Work: New Zealand Sex Workers' Fight for Decriminalisation

kitira — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:15:15 GMT

New Zealand was the first country in the world to decriminalise all sectors of sex work. Previous criminal or civil laws governing sex work and related offences were revoked in 2003 and sex workers became subject to the same controls and regulations as any other occupational group. This book pres an in-depth look at New Zealand's experience of decriminalisation. It pres first hand views and experience on this policy from the point of view of those involved in the sex industry, as well as people involved in developing, implementing, researching and reviewing the policies.

Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India

kitira — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:03:21 GMT

Using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis, and memoir writing, the author pres macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay at a particular point in time. Specifically, he explores what being gay means to members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate locality and globalization, their sense of identity as well as a feeling of community within its online/offline world. On a broader level, he critically examines the formulation and reconfiguration of contemporary Indian gayness in the light of its emergent cultural, media, and political alliances.

Video Cultures: Media Technology and Everyday Creativity

kitira — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:49:16 GMT

Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in ordinary people's access to video production technology. These essays explore the theoretical significance of this trend and its impact on society, as well as examining a wide range of case studies, from camcorders and camera phones to YouTube and citizen journalism.