Man gone down

“Powerful and moving . . . [Thomas] knows how the odds are stacked in America.”—Kaiama L. Glover, New York Times Book Review (cover review)A beautifully written and devastating first novel, Man Gone Down is the story of a young Black father in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the Am...

Man in the universe

Man in the Universe: Some Continuities in Indian Thought brings to print the fourth series of the Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Lectures, delivered by renowned Sanskritist and Indologist W. Norman Brown at the University of Michigan in March 1965. A scholar of international stature whose work help...

Man is wolf to man

FROM THE BOOK:"The pit I was ordered to dig had the precise dimensions of a casket. The NKVD officer carefully designed it. He measured my size with a stick, made lines on the forest floor, and told me to dig. He wanted to make sure I'd fit well inside."In 1941 Janusz Bardach's death sentence wa...

Man of letters

Man of taste

Rob King uses Radley Metzger’s work to explore what taste means and how it works, tracing the evolution of the adult film industry and the changing frontiers of cultural acceptability.

Man up

The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West—from an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentatorWhat two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? M...

Man, the state, and war

In this landmark work of international relations theory, first published in 1959, the eminent realist scholar Kenneth N. Waltz offers a foundational analysis of the nature of conflict between states.

Man-devil

A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth centuryIn 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humorous ta...

Man-eating monsters

What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of...

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Management accounting at the hudson's bay company

In examining a company for 335 years, Management Accounting at the Hudson's Bay Company: From Quill Pen to Digitization finds five significant management accounting changes. Each difficult to make change was made for significant strategic and survival reasons. Thus, the focus is on the making and...

Management and administration of higher education institutions in times of change

The experts and practitioners contributing to this volume reveal a complex reality of HEI today. The book links the debate on education to topical issues in politics, society and economy, including questions of technological progress, social responsibility, sustainability, well-being and, broadly...

Management and diversity

International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion examines the complex nature of equality, diversity and inclusion in the world of work through interdisciplinary, comparative and critical perspectives.

Management and diversity

International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion examines the complex nature of equality, diversity and inclusion in the world of work through interdisciplinary, comparative and critical perspectives.

Management and information technology in the digital era

Management and Information Technology in the Digital Era: Challenges and Perspectives explores the management and practical implications of digital information management to provide theoretical insight for managers and researchers to co-create their technology values and better understand its pro...

Management and organizational studies on blue & grey collar workers

Highlighting the workers who provide the essential services, maintenance and manufactured goods that power the global economy, Management and Organizational Studies on Blue and Grey Collar Workers supplies essential knowledge on an often overlooked workforce for a variety of disciplines.

Management basics in easy steps

Management by seclusion

Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest ...

Management development training

Develop Winning Managers—the Heart of the TeamFrontline managers are an organization’s first level of management: the “people managers” across its business operations and functions. Developing frontline managers is key to an organization’s overall health and prosperity. The latest book in ATD’s s...

Management education for corporate social performance

Management Education for Corporate Social Performance explores how academia can develop and apply concepts of corporate social performance for greater impact. It presents diverse insights from various cultures and educational systems, divided into five parts, combining international views to insp...

Management for scientists

Management for Scientists explores the core theories and practices in management studies today in a context applicable to those working in the scientific industries. Chapters feature a range of real-world examples presented by experienced scientists with strategic and economic business expertise.

Management fundamentals

This book is a succinct handbook of the essentials of management for current and future practitioners. Leadership experts Steven Cohen and William Eimicke concisely explain management best practices, aiming to equip managers with the tools of the trade and prepare them to tackle decision making.

Management of islamic finance

In this issue, we have presented issues relevant to the most recent debate on the performance, practices, and principles of the Islamic finance industry as a whole, covering eleven distinct issues.

Management sciences – new horizons

The monograph outlines the directions of evolution in management sciences, focusing on changes emerging in the environment and emphasizing the processes of adaptation and resilience building.

Managerial practice issues in strategy and organization

This volume explores diverse issues in strategy science, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches and hybrid organizations. It covers topics like Big Science collaborations, open innovations, business modeling, management of uncertainty, and institutional logics in alliances, providing a comprehe...

Managing ambiguity

First ethnographic study of favors in a former Yugoslav country; First ethnographic study of a welfare system in a former Yugoslav country; It explores how the same people pursue favors across several fields (social protection, healthcare, humanitarianism), rather than just to focus ...

Managing and negotiating disagreements

Managing and Negotiating Disagreements shows how AI can both aid and complicate conflict resolution processes, offering readers a nuanced perspective on the intersection of technology and human conflict management.

Managing biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems

Published in three other languages and growing, Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems takes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, and benefit from biodiversity in agricultural production systems. The volume includes the most recent research and developments in the maintenance of loca...

Managing brands in 4d

The main value of this book is an organized and systematic approach to branding, supported by literature research, findings and practical implementation.

Managing challenging behaviour in schools

This book presents approaches and solutions for understanding and acting in difficult educational situations at school.

Managing change

Managing Change: Sustainable Practices, Inclusive Leadership, and Gender Equality in the Digital Industrial Revolution is a timely exploration of the multifaceted transformations occurring in today’s business environment under the influence of the Digital Industrial Revolution.

Managing complexity in mrt renewals

Written for infrastructure operators, programme directors, and engineers, Managing Complexity in MRT Renewals offers a systems-based analysis of long-term metro renewal programmes, as well as practical frameworks for understanding and managing complexity in live urban rail environments.

Managing customer experiences in an omnichannel world

Managing Customer Experiences in an Omnichannel World explores how organizations integrating both the physical and virtual environments for consumers will enable them to effectively manage the customer experience.

Managing destinations

Topics covered include policy, planning and strategy, stakeholders, new markets, infrastructure, transport and research and knowledge transfer with contributions from countries as diverse as Brazil, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain.

Managing environmental conflict

Conflicts frequently arise over environmental issues such as land use, natural resource management, and laws and regulation. This book is a primer on causes of and solutions to such conflicts. Joshua D. Fisher provides a foundational overview of the theory and practice of collaborative approaches...

Managing ethics in business organizations

This book broadens the range of theoretically informed empirical research on business ethics (using data from major American corporations) and addresses the underlying questions about business ethics scholarship. It culminates a decade’s work by the authors—individually, jointly, and with others...

Managing expatriates

This volume examines the individual, social, and environmental factors that contribute to the success of expatriate employees. Using data from large-scale studies from both the public and private sectors, this volume provides valuable insights into expatriate success with implications for both th...

Managing for the long run

Conventional thinking holds that family-controlled businesses are beset by inherent weaknesses from "clan" cultures to stable ownership that hobble success and erode competitive advantage. This book argues that those very traits are part of what has ensured the sustained success of some of the wo...

Managing global sport events

Managing Global Sport Events: Logistics and Coordination provides a look behind the scenes of large-scale sports events, combining the previously separate but inextricably bound areas of sports, logistics and coordination management.