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Written for university presidents, college deans, program directors, and other leaders in higher education, "Information Alchemy" presents a foundational introduction to knowledge management and its growing significance to campuses everywhere. Each chapter addresses a critical aspect of knowledge management, identifies key strategic issues, and offers practical advice and guidance on how such issues might be addressed on an institutional or de...

Bruce Jay Friedman has been hailed by critics as a comic genius, a writer whose vision confronts the malaise of contemporary life with a liberating deadpan humor. Grove Press is proud to reissue the collected short stories by this acclaimed master of modern humor. Hailed by Newsweek as "a bona fide literary event, " The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman brings together Friedman's fifty-seven greatest stories, which appeared in Esqu...

Post-apartheid novel that has been selected as recommended reading for the National Curriculum from September 2000. Described in "The Observer" as "a beautifully manipulated work of art".

In this dark fairy tale, Latife Tekin has written a grim parable of survival and dignity.

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The first American release of a 1974 British novel offering a strangely impressionistic, and not altogether satisfying, coming-of-age love story. Helen Wykham is the ugly duckling teenage daughter of the glamorous and outrageous Monica, who's on the lookout for her next husband. While searching, Monica sends her two daughters, Helen and the older, sophisticated Stephanie, to a country house party in their native Ireland. An assemblage of brigh...

Danish writer Stangerup completes a trilogy here - a set of works based on Kierkegaard's understanding of the Tripartite Man. The Road to Lagoa Santa (1984) represented, with its main character Peter Lund, the "ethical man", Peter Moiler in The Seducer (1990) stood in for the "aesthetical man", and now Stangerup comes to the "religious man" - choosing not Kierkegaard himself (too daunting) but the 16th-century Franciscan Brother Jacob, son of ...

Asher takes us inside the warped and perverted mind of an eighteen year-old school boy, obsessed with sex, drugs, power and lies, in a hard-hitting expose of today's corrupt culture: selfish, anguished, superficial, confused about morality and evoking nastiness and despair.

Rupert is an honored American poet, Gemma a retired architect. They live happily and comfortably in a Greenwich Village apartment, the setting, for over thirty years, of their married life. Each with a previous marriage behind them - which left her with two daughters and him with the promise of greatness - they are now facing the challenge of old age together. Both, in their own way, defy the inevitability of death, and yet both are busy prepa...

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enterprise and the nation-state. Both have a major role to play, and yet must make basic changes in their practices and policies to accommodate each other.

Lehrbuch und Kompendium für Studenten, Pfarrer, Religionslehrer, Berater. Die Seelsorge in Theorie und Praxis wird in ihrer Geschichte bis hin zur gegenwärtigen Lage in ihren typischen Konzeptionen dargestellt. Der Umgang mit Lebenskonflikten in der Seelsorge wird ebenso behandelt wie die verschiedenen Handlungsfelder seelsorgerlicher Arbeit.

The world of artificial systems is reaching complexity levels that es­ cape human understanding. Surface traffic, electricity distribution, air­ planes, mobile communications, etc. , are examples that demonstrate that we are running into problems that are beyond classical scientific or engi­ neering knowledge. There is an ongoing world-wide effort to understand these systems and develop models that can capture its behavior. The reason for this...

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Frontmatter -- I Fundamentalgruppe und Überlagerungen -- II Flächen -- III Homotopiegruppen -- IV Axiomatische Homologie und Kohomologie -- V Singuläre Homologie und Kohomologie -- VI Homotopie -- VII Komplexe -- VIII Mannigfaltigkeiten -- IX Bündel -- X Dualität. Produkte -- XI Charakteristische Klassen -- Literatur -- Index

Praise for Damn Right! From the author of the bestselling WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS. . . "Charlie Munger, whose reputation is deep and wide, based on an extraordinary record of brilliantly successful business strategies, sees things that others don't. There is a method to his mastery and, through this book, we get a chance to learn about this rare individual." -MICHAEL EISNER, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company "Janet Lowe uncovers the i...

Ein Leitfaden für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen auf dem Weg zur Internationalisierung. Im ersten Teil stellen die Autoren die grundsätzlichen Probleme des Auslandsengagements dar und gehen auf die aktuelle Globalisierungsdiskussion ein. Im zweiten Teil spielen sie die verschiedenen Aktionsmöglichkeiten der Unternehmen durch und stellen operative Schritte vor. Ausgewählte Praxisbeispiele geben Einblick in das Vorgehen erfolgreicher Unternehme...

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Extreme Programming Installed explains the core principles of Extreme Programming and details each step in the XP development cycle. This book conveys the essence of the XP approach--techniques for implementation, obstacles likely to be encountered, and experience-based advice for successful execution.