“…But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external-increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. …”

“…Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Night wood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, James Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. …”

“…Starting from the surprising encounters writers have had with asbestos--Franz Kafka's part ownership of an asbestos factory, Primo Levi's work in an asbestos mine, and James Kelman's early life as an asbestos factory worker--the book looks to literature to rethink received truths in historical, legal and medical scholarship. …”

“…Dieses Buch beschreibt umfassend und praxisorientiert die Grundlagen, Methoden und Praktiken agiler Softwareentwicklung. James Shore gibt wertvolle Ratschlg̃e für den Projektstart, inkrementellen Entwurf, Continuous Integration, iterative Planung und testgetriebene Entwicklung sowie die Bereitstellung und Refactoring von Software. …”

“…With films like Boogie Nights, Rushmore, Being John Malkovich, and Memento, young filmmakers have in many ways forced the major studios to march to the beat of their very different drummer.In Sundance Kids, James Mottram paints a vibrant portrait of Hollywood as it stands today. …”

“…The new edition of James L. Baughman's successful book The Republic of Mass Culture examines the advent of television and the impact it had on the established mass media -- radio, film, newspapers, and magazines. …”
Sumario

“…Paul “el acosador” Brennan, Charles “el motivador” McDevitt, James “el conejo” Baker, y Raymond “el toro” Martos, bautizados con esos sobrenombres por sus estilos particulares de ventas – mientras hacen sus rondas de venta. …”

“…Traverso conecta las teorías con las trayectorias existenciales de los intelectuales revolucionarios que las elaboraron, delineando sus perfiles como parias y marginados, desde Marx y Bakunin hasta Rosa Luxemburg y los bolcheviques, de Mao y Ho Chi Minh a José Carlos Mariátegui, C. L. R. James y otros espíritus rebeldes del Sur. Por último, analiza el entramado entre revolución y comunismo que tan profundamente ha marcado la historia del siglo XX -- Contracubierta…”

“…In prose sometimes somber, often high-spirited, and always accessible and moving, Touching Feeling interrogates - through virtuoso readings of works by Henry James, J.L. Austin, Judith Butler, the psychologist Silvan Tomkins and others - emotion in many forms. …”

“…Un recorrido por la literatura universal de la mano de sus más importantes escritores: Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, Marguerite Yourcenar, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, James Joyce, Marguerite Duras... Conocer la vida de los autores, sus más íntimas obsesiones, sus manías, sus preocupaciones, ayuda a los lectores a acercarse a su obra y, en muchos casos, a entenderla mejor. …”

“…Contributors include children's singer and advocate Raffi, author and creativity consultant Sir Ken Robinson, scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki, inventor James Dyson, and other experts who are working to create fresh solutions to problems and design bettr spaces for teaching and learning." -- prové de l'editor…”

“…Con orígenes en la Depresión norteamericana y a pocos años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Daniel James Brown narra la epopeya del equipo de ocho remeros y su timonel de la Universidad de Washington, y su épica misión de ganar la medalla de oro en 1936 en los Juegos Olímpicos del Berlín de Hitler. …”

“…Los relatos van desde la oscarizada descripción de la clase trabajadora estadounidense de Harlan County, USA, de Barbara Kopple hasta la impresionante obra de James Marsh Man on Wire; o historias de resiliencia como Touching the Void, de Kevin Macdonald, o de injusticia sangrante como Enmienda XIII, de Ava DuVernay.Hay piezas que ganaron un Óscar pero también joyas desconocidas, pero todas ellas tienen en común que harán que una vez las hayas visto sientas la necesidad de decir a todo el mundo: «¡Tienes que verlo! …”

“…Christensen -- Diomedes as audience and speaker in the Iliad / James O'Maley -- Hektor, the marginal hero : performance theory and the Homeric monologue / Lorenzo F. …”

“…Here is Brunelleschi, who built the 'unbuildable dome of Florence Cathedral; Sinan, a Christian engineer who became chief architect to the Ottoman court; Joseph Paxton, scribbling down a design for the Crystal Palace, London, on a piece of blotting paper; and James Bogardus, an early American evangelist of the opportunities offered by cast-iron architecture. …”

“…--from the foreword by James J. Cramer, CNBC’s Mad Money and TheStreet.com “Even investors who concentrate on fundamentals can benefit from Jim DePorre’s Shark approach to investing. …”

“…I'm grateful that this book provides clarity on what is often a baffling subject!" James I. Conrad, MCSE 2003, Server+, Certified Ethical Hacker James@accusource.net "Full of relevant and insightful information. …”

“…CCIE Routing and Switching Practice Labs (Digital Short Cut) Martin James Duggan ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-789-2 ISBN-10: 1-58705-789-1 CCIE Routing and Switching Practice Labs (Digital Short Cut) presents you with two full lab scenarios in exam style format to echo the real eight-hour CCIE Routing and Switching lab exam. …”

“…Referring mainly to works by Latour, William James and Heinrich Rickert, Petersen develops 'transcendental naturalism' to reinterpret the interface between science and politics in the context of climate change. …”

“…This edition's new and updated coverage includes: Creating Mission Impossible projects out of DM projects Negotiating your project's conditions: making the best of a bad situation XP, agile methods, and death march projects Time management for teams: eliminating distractions that can derail your project "Critical chain scheduling": identifying and eliminating organizational dysfunction Predicting the "straw that breaks the camel's back": lessons from system dynamics Choosing tools and methodologies most likely to work in your environment Project "flight simulators": wargaming your next project Applying triage to deliver the features that matter most When it's time to walk away This isn't a book about perfectly organized projects in "textbook" companies. …”