Take 50 simple steps toward a safer, healthier & ... more

Take 50 simple steps toward a safer, healthier & happier future.If you, like so many others, are eager to alter the course of climate change, let 50 Simple Steps be your roadmap! This practical and approachable guide to protecting our planet from global warming will inspire and empower you to begin making changes for a greener lifestyle today.50 Simple Steps will: Show you how something as simple as drinking fair trade coffee can help fight global warming Teach you how a sustainable lifestyle benefits other pressing issues including national security and the future of our economy Create awareness, enthusiasm, and support for your green lifestyle Offer new ideas even if you are already environmentally savvy Improve your quality of life by saving you money and improving your health Change the way you think and shop... less

The preservation, conservation, and protection of... more

The preservation, conservation, and protection of our physical or green environment (i.e., environmentalism) pose a crucial challenge to business. Many executives believe that environmentalism will become one of the critical issues organizations will need to integrate into their activities for successful operations in the twenty-first century. Hence, concern over the environment has emerged as an important topic in the practice of marketing.The articles included in this book are both conceptual and empirical in nature, and represent the broad spectrum of work being undertaken in this topical area. The main objective of this book is to introduce readers to a number of green marketing issues. The materials included are presented to assist both practitioners and academics to better understand the implications of green marketing.... less

This is a chilling story of human depravity and u... more

This is a chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness a court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of torturing and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism. Doctors from Hell includes trial transcripts that have not been easily available to the general public and previously unpublished photographs used as evidence in the trial.The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for 18 months while working on the trial. Once a Nazi sympathizer tossed bombs into the dining room of the hotel where she lived moments before she arrived for dinner. She takes us into the courtroom to hear the dramatic testimony and see the reactions of the defendants to the proceedings. The witnesses tell of experiments in which they were deprived of oxygen; frozen; injected with malaria, typhus and jaundice; subjected to the amputation of healthy limbs; forced to drink sea water for weeks at a time; and other horrors.... less

In this new biography, students will follow Agnes... more

In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, India, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world is revealed to have a singular determination from a young age. As a woman in the patriarchal Catholic system, she had to prove to the hierarchy, even the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each project she proposed. Her vision to live and work among the poorest of the poor led to the founding of a new order that tended to societys outcasts.This biography suggests that Mother Teresa transcended her ordinariness with a belief that she was called to her lifes work. When her work brought Mother Teresa unsought fame, she used it to further her causes. In a global age, celebrity worship allowed her to work the system, and she became an icon of service and selflessnessyet her human flaws remained behind the saintliness.... less

50 Essential Management Techniques brings togethe... more

50 Essential Management Techniques brings together a formidable array of tools designed to improve managerial performance. For each entry the author introduces the techniques in question, explains how it works, then goes on to show how it can be used to solve an actual problem. The fifty techniques are grouped into subject areas, ranging from strategy to learning. For managers in every type of organization and at any level, as well for students and consultants, this book is likely to become an indispensable source.... less

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary ac... more

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. Leaders are those who determine the area of excellence for the group. Anyone working with people, from entrepreneurs and fast-paced executives to community volunteers and medical professionals, will find the advice in Great Little Book on Effective Leadership helpful and exhilarating.... less

The Japanese are hard to understand'. So say many... more

The Japanese are hard to understand'. So say many people, but what makes this understanding so difficult is the fact that their values are diverse and often polarised. This book entitled The Eight Core Values of the Japanese Businessman brings out some of the most commonly shared values of the Japanese business organisation. Values like group orientation, diligence, perfectionism, curiosity etc. depicts the thinking and behaviour of a Japanese. Further, the book focuses on the customs, and the work ethics of a Japanese management. A number of theories and history of natural disaster have been cited as a principal influence on Japanese values.... less

Key Feature * Applicable for May 2012 exams and c... more

Key Feature * Applicable for May 2012 exams and covers the provisions for AY 2012-13 * Question paper of the November 2011 exams included * Practice Questions with solutions at the end of each chapter, grouped into objective type, theory and practical problems * Recap summary of the important provisions given in the appendix for easy revision * Flowcharts and tables used throughout the book * Concepts supported by worked examples * Key points provided for each topic discussed in a particular chapter * Formulae and calculation methodologies given prominently * Exhibits from the chapters summarised provision wise in the appendix.... less

The present selection is an attempt to represent ... more

The present selection is an attempt to represent the wide range and variety of Mulk Raj Anands short stories. The first group represents the stories of lyric awareness. As in all poetry, the themes are elemental, such as birth and death, beauty, love and childhood, and the treatment often reveals a symbolic dimension added to realistic presentation.The prevailing mood of the second group of stories in this selection is of the tears at the heart of things. These stories are naturally allied to the brief tales of lyric awareness but with a difference. Through his acute understanding of the complex social forces at work, Anand describes an India where tradition clashes with modernity.The range and variety of Anands short stories are not only in mood, tone and spirit but also in locale, characters and form. The setting ranges from the Punjab (as in The Parrot in the Cage) to Uttar Pradesh (as in The Price of Bananas) and Kashmir (as in Kashmir Idyll). Both the village and the city get almost equal representation. Mulk Raj Anands stories are a museum of human nature. Among the Indian writers of the short story in English, he has few peers.... less

This book provides a theoretical framework to ena... more

This book provides a theoretical framework to enable students to place organizational practice in a theoretical context. It thus constitutes a solid knowledge base in organizational theory, and in the application of that theory, for both undergraduate students and those on postgraduate and MBA programmes who are studying organizational theory or organizational behavior.... less