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The pursuit of quality is now one of management's chief concerns and its achievement is demanded by consumers and society in general. Quality achievement is also essential if American business to is to succeed in today's highly competitive international marketplace. Taking an accountant's perspective, Riahi-Belkaoui examines and analyzes what quality achievement means in terms of costs and other factors, and the part played by control. Timely ...

Biography of a maverick naval officer who became a legend in the Navy's early years.

Provides citations for more than 700 resources essential for planning, funding, initiating, implementing, facilitating and evaluating a broad range of formal and informal older adult education programmes. The entries are arranged in topical chapters for ease of use.

Contains nearly 400 sources of information for researchers, planners and practitioners interested in the older volunteer. This bibliography includes entries for books and articles on particular programmes, characteristics of older volunteers and sources of statistical information.

An overview of fundamental principles in American law which points out how unfairly the law is administered and how wrongly it is conceived if it is to meet basic needs in contemporary society. Houseman examines legal education and practice, also law and business, government, labour and elections.

Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19 and examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty and domesticity constitute the duties of women. "On Sisterhoods" by Dinah Mulock Craik advocates the encouragement of Anglican sisterhoods.

Peer review is the sometimes controversial practice of subjecting an academic manuscript or project to critique by scholars in the same area of expertise. It is employed widely by journal editors and, to a lesser extent, by book editors, and it is a major factor in the determination of foundation grants. Doubts have been raised about the efficacy and ethics of peer review, but the process has never been systematically studied. Speck has collec...

Leading experts critically summarize the state of knowledge concerning the molecular, anatomical, physiological, and behavioral aspects of NPY and its congeners. Each article provides a comprehensive and in-depth survey, an overview of the role of NPY in the discipline covered, a discussion of the likely future direction that the field will take, and an up-to-date bibliography. Chapters include a treatment of the evolution of the PP family o...

In this rigorous and challenging analysis of American postmodernity, Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past 60 years. Exploring the rise and fall of modernism as a social ideology, he offers a distinctive and original interpretation of the unique experience of American modernity and the arrival of the postmodern world. The result is both a novel history of postwar America and ...

A publishing phenomenon--the subject of enormous media attention, lavish acclaim from reviewers, and extraordinary sales--this national bestseller explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Schor shows how labor supply, unemployment, and the addictive nature of consumption lead to longer and longer hours, and what we can do about it.

A masterful exploration of the major schools of yoga, published on the 100th anniversary of yoga in America. With this book, readers will discover the wisdom of the millenia--and learn to live yoga. Topics include the yoga approach to diet and nutrition, meditation as an antidote to stress, the yoga of love and devotion, and more. Photographs and illustrations.

It's fascinating for me to read, for the first time in over forty years, the stumbling starts toward the creation of "Lie Down in Darkness." These passages show how, in my early twenties, I may have been in possession of a luminous vision for a novel but how it was a luminosity clouded by much indecision and awkwardness. . . . "Inheritance of Night, " then, is made up of fragments of a beginning, bits of fruitful inspiration mingled with conce...

Lucky is a very hungry puppy, so he sniffs and sniffs and digs and digs. He finds lots of things--a jump rope, an old sock, a smelly shoe, and finally, a bone!

Did you know that snakes pick up smells with their tongues . . . and that a python can swallow a whole pig in one bite? Fun and fantastic facts about snakes--the creatures kids love to hate--with eye-popping collage illustrations.