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This unique volume delivers practical and successful techniques used by some of the world's most competitive and innovative companies to the hands of the Human Resource Manager. Techniques described in the book can help any company enhance its ability to recruit, retain and improve its employee relations.A synthesis of effective recruiting techniques is explained including a review of Merck's Interview Skills workshop, Hewlett-Packard's Behavi...

This text draws on organizational research, information technology research, and research in information economics to develop an empirical basis for the integration of the three disciplines. It also analyzes organizational and managerial motivations leading to investment in IT.

Monasteries are one of the few types of communities that have been able to exist without the family. In this first-hand study of the daily life in a Trappist monastery, Hillery concludes that what binds this unusual and highly successful community together is its emphases on freedom and agape love.

Considers the social and economic arrangements that would be necessary for rational mechanisms of exchange and distribution to emerge, function, and remain viable if extreme conditions produced an absence or the severe destruction of an institutional infrastructure and resource endowments.

`An interesting collection of the state of the art of social constructionism and therapy, and a major contribution to reflection on therapeutic theory and practice' - Changes `The chapters are interesting as windows into wider debates beyond therapy to those within the human sciences over the organization of meaning and change in culture... the value of this book is that it makes it possible for the reader to step back and think that therapy ...

Describes the background and analyzes the process of decision making and the passage of selected landmark decisions of the 1960s. The book tracks the changes that have occured in legislation in the past 20 years and discusses the current and possible future status of social policies and programmes.

Contents: Optimality and Duality. - Mathematical Programming - Algorithms: -Computational Geometry. - Discrete Optimization. - Linear programming and Complementarity. - Nonlinear Programming. - Optimal Control: - Control Problems. - Distributed Parameter Systems, Stochastic Programming, Applied Modelling and Optimization: Biological and Medical Systems. - Computer-aided Modelling and Design. -Ecology. - Economy and Energy. - Financial S...

Explores why films involving biblical figures or set in biblical times have been a staple of filmmaking since talkies began. Forshey suggests that the purpose was to mediate between a monistic scientific world view and a dualistic religious world view, and between secular and religious ethics.

This work reports on a range of research studies in the career field that use biographical, narrative, and ecological approaches within an interpretive framework. It responds to the recognized dissonance between career theory and research, on the one part, and practice, on the other. It also responds to the view that in recent years practice has outstripped career theory and research. The qualitative approaches used in the research reported ha...

A series of experts provide a systematic overview of this major world problem today, point to major trends and shocks in the immediate future, and assess global targets and networks for combatting the drug trade in the next decade. A valuable survey of major consumers and suppliers of drugs and of national and international responses and enforcement measures, this book defines the problem, describes money laundering, asset forfeiture problems,...

This book is a 'Best of Haury' Collection of many of his previously published works, with excellent introductory essays by colleagues and noted archaeologists-gathered into one, readable volume.

Beginning with a flight of mute swans occupying the width of a busy street in Edinburgh, this book follows the author's observations of swans in Scotland. He also discusses swans in folklore and in literature and the need for legislation to outlaw cruelty to swans.

One of the most exciting medical developments during the past thirty years has been the rebirth of family medicine as a dynamic specialty. In the face of ever-widening definitions of health, the family physician has been challenged to integrate the physical, emotional, and social concepts of modern medicine into traditional medical services. Invariably, in establishing a mutual understanding between doctor and patient, the doctor's emotions co...

Sexuality and spirituality are two of the most powerful and creative forces we experience as human beings. This work examines how men of Roman Catholic background have come to understand and integrate their homosexuality into daily life.

Actor Richard Burton conquered British theater as Hamlet in 1953 at the Old Vic, and, after a series of theatrical triumphs launched a film career that earned him seven Academy Award nominations among other awards and tributes. This bio-bibliography captures the significant events of his multimedia performances in theater, film, television, radio, and recordings as well as the excitement of a tumultuous and rich life off-stage with Elizabeth T...

Walter T. Schmid offers the first original interpretation of the "Laches "since Hermann Bonitz in the nineteenth century in the only full-length commentary on the "Laches "available in English.Schmid divides the book into five main discussions: the historical background of the dialogue, the relation of form and content in a Platonic dialogue and specific structural and aesthetic features of the "Laches, "the first half of the dialogue, which i...

Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand, rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we understand each other. An affirmative answer to the latter question is apparently taken for granted. However, in Mutual Misunderstanding, Talbot J. Taylor shows that the sceptical doubts ...

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This book is the only full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany published in the last 20 years, and is also the only one that treats the British and the Americans with parity. Much of what Levine writes about British operations will be unfamiliar to American readers. Levine gets past a simple account of "what we did to them" and describes the target systems and German countermeasures in detail, providing exact yet drama...