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Sam Minot
The Strange Poverty of the Rich : Accounts of a transient artist`s life

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionA young man from a wealthy New England family attends private schools, goes to a Prep School, and as a teenager becomes disenchanted with his background. Embarrassed by the materialistic people he sees around him, he takes himself out of this protected lifestyle and spirals into an odyssey of poverty that is compounded by his compulsive behavior patterns with gambling, alcohol and other drugs. A personal revolution takes place that leads him to a sanctuary within the eye of his ownstorm where he finds salvation and meaning as an artist. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0595316425
Book size: —; Page extent: 124.

 

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Gary Carey
The Stranger (Cliffs Notes)

1965 y.
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Description: The meaninglessness and randomness of life was a constant theme in Camus`s writing. This story is absurd, yet touches a chord within the reader that surely will resonate for years to come. A man is condemned to beheading because he was indifferent at his mother`s funeral. In prison he finds freedom and happiness. Death becomes his greatest moment of life. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0822012294
Book size: —; Page extent: 72.

 

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Paul Theroux
The Stranger at the Palazzo d`Oro

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionFrom the best-selling author of Dark Star Safari and Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux`s latest offers provocative tales of memory and desire. The sensual story of an unusual love affair leads the collection. The thrill and risk of pursuit andconquest mark the accompanying stories, which tell of the sexual awakening and rites of passage of a Boston boyhood, the ruin of a writer in Africa, and the bewitchment of a retiree in Hawaii. Filled with Theroux`s typically exquisite yet devastating descriptions of people and places, The Stranger at the Palazzo D`Oro evokes `the complexities of matters of the heart with subtlety and grace` (People). [detailed...]

ISBN: 0618485333
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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G. E. Bentley
The Stranger from Paradise : A Biography of William Blake

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThis fascinating and generously illustrated biography of William Blake, the great English artist, poet, and mystic, encompasses virtually everything that is known of his life and times. Often invoking the words of Blake?s own contemporaries, G. E. Bentley describes the struggles of Blake?s youth, his gradual embrace of the power of the spirit and visionary art and literature, and the serenity he achieved in his old age. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0300100302
Book size: —; Page extent: 632.

 

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The Stranger in Medieval Society (Medieval Cultures)

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Examines the presence of outsiders in medieval Europe.Whether welcome or unwelcome, voluntary or involuntary, strangers appear in every society, they leave their own communities, venture into new environments, confront differences, and often spark changes. The first collection in medieval studies to concentrate on the notion of the stranger, these essays show how outsiders influenced the culture of Europe in the Middle Ages.Among the topics explored are Edward III and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as historical and literary instances of chivalric skill and courage, political conflict in the late French epic Renaut de Montauban, and a group of people who were doubly strangers—some thirty thousand Jews, who after being expelled from France in 1306 returned under an experimental agreement a few years later.Contributors: William Calin, Susan Crane, Maria Dobozy, Edward R. Haymes, William Chester Jordan, Derek Pearsall, William D. Phillips Jr., Kathryn L. Reyerson, and Janet L. Solberg. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0816630321
Book size: —; Page extent: 180.

 

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Albert Camus
The Stranger

1989 y.
Publisher: Vintage
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ISBN: 0679720200
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Graham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. One of Einstein’s most admired colleagues, Dirac was in 1933 the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics.Dirac’s personality is legendary. He was an extraordinarily reserved loner, relentlessly literal-minded and appeared to have no empathy with most people. Yet he was a family man and was intensely loyal to his friends. His tastes in the arts ranged from Beethoven to Cher, from Rembrandt to Mickey Mouse.Based on previously undiscovered archives, The Strangest Man reveals the many facets of Dirac’s brilliantly original mind. A compelling human story, The Strangest Man also depicts a spectacularly exciting era in scientific history. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0465018270
Book size: —; Page extent: 560.

 

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Graham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. One of the youngest theoreticians ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather. Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac`s massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship. `The Strangest Man` is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0571222781
Book size: —; Page extent: 560.

 

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Mark Light
The Strategic Board: The Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Governance

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: A SIMPLE, PRACTICAL PLAN FOR BUILDING A GREAT, EFFECTIVE BOARD Every nonprofit board wants to be great. But the reality is, few are. It?s one of the great puzzles of governance. How do you mold highly talented individuals with diverse backgrounds, limited time, and no governance expertise into an effective board? The Strategic Board provides the answer. Drawing on more than twenty years of nonprofit experience, Mark Light outlines a practical model that overcomes the built-in deficiencies of nonprofit boards and guides them to strategic effectiveness. The Strategic Board™ model of governance is a step-by-step, easy-to-implement, multilevel course of action that enables a board to craft a comprehensive Governance Plan™ that: Develops a Leadership Plan that determines `Where to go tomorrow?` Creates a Delegation Plan that specifies `Who does what?` Follows through with a Management Plan that decides `What gets done… [detailed...]

ISBN: 047140358X
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David Hussey
The Strategic Decision Challenge

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Strategic Decision Challenge edited by David Hussey A sound base in analysis and method is a cornerstone to achieving a successful business strategy. With the benefit of hindsight is it possible to see that for decades many organizations have not achieved the degree of success which they sought in their strategic moves. This book seeks to give insights into this important area and to build bridges to other sources of information. The historical evidence for the success and failure of strategic decisions over the last thirty years is examined, along with consideration for why so many strategic moves are subsequently reversed. Possible causes are explored, and a close examination is made of issues of misperceptions of the business environment, poor analysis and lack of creative thinking. Many aspects of improving strategic decisions are also dealt with. A glossary of techniques for strategic analysis is also included. Following on from previous volumes in the series, this book… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471974803
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Giorgio Nardone
The Strategic Dialogue: Rendering the Diagnostic Process a Real Therapeutic Intervention

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1855755564
Book size: —; Page extent: 200.

 

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Michael A. Hitt, Patricia Gorman Clifford, Robert D. Nixon, Kevin P. Coyne
The Strategic Management Series, Dynamic Strategic Resources: Development, Diffusion and Integration

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Since the early 1980s it has been recognized that a firms resources, capabilities and competencies help it gain a competitive advantage, that in turn produces higher performance. This resource-based view of the firm has been an important development in the field of strategic management. It explains why some organizations perform better than others and shows that leveraging, both tangible and intangible, resources is necessary to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Bringing together contributions from multiple perspectives this book examines the management of strategic resources. First, the book discusses resource strategy and firm performance ? how resources lead to competitive advantage and how firm resources interplay with the firm strategy to produce specific outcomes. Second, it addresses the development, commitment and governance of firm resources ? how firms develop critical resources, including the especially difficult development of intangible resources such as… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471625337
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Chun Wei Choo, Nick Bontis
The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Increasingly, the challenge of management is to create and supply knowledge in order to sustain organizational performance. However, few books on management strategy have been written using this concept as a foundation. This unique volume adopts a knowledge-based approach that will complement and perhaps supplant other perspectives. Editors Nick Bontis and Chun Wei Choo look at the literature through the lens of strategic management and from the vantage point of organizational science. The thirty readings have been carefully selected and commissioned to provide the best literature available--from articles newly written for this book and from existing publications. [detailed...]

ISBN: 019513866X
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Roger Miller, Donald Lessard, Serghei Floricel
The Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects: Shaping Institutions, Risks, and Governance

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: As the number, complexity, and scope of large engineering projects (LEPs) increase worldwide, the huge stakes may endanger the survival of corporations and threaten the stability of countries that approach these projects unprepared. According to the authors, the `front-end` engineering of institutional arrangements and strategic systems is a far greater determinant of an LEP`s success than are the more tangible aspects of project engineering and management. The book is based on an international research project that analyzed sixty LEPs, among them the Boston Harbor cleanup, the first phase of subway construction in Ankara, Turkey, a hydro dam on the Caroni River in Venezuela, and the construction of offshore oil platforms west of Flor, Norway. The authors use the research results to develop an experience-based theoretical framework that will allow managers to understand and respond to the complexity and uncertainty inherent in all LEPs. In addition to managers and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0262122367
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David Baker
The Strategic Management of Technology: A Guide for Library and Information Services

2004 y.
Publisher: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd.
Description: Geared toward LIS professionals, this book deals with the management of technology in a strategic context and provides managers and students of LIS at the undergraduate and graduate level with the critical principles and skills needed to respond effectively and efficiently to the constant development of new technologies, both in general and within the LIS profession in particular. Формат: 15,5 см x 23,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1 84334 041 0, 1-84334-041-0
Book size: —; Page extent: 330.

 

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Michael Baker
The Strategic Marketing Plan Audit

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The Strategic Marketing Plan Audit gives you a comprehensive review of your strategic marketing planning. It covers the whole process of planning your corporate marketing strategy (or - in larger organisations - the marketing strategy of a business unit). The audit identifies and explains 7 types of strategic marketing planning - you`ll discover which one you should be using and which one you are using now. Then go on to evaluate your existing marketing objectives and find out: a) how well your marketing strategy and tactics are aligned with those objectives b) and whether they are achieving those objectives in practice. Following an Executive Summary and detailed background briefing, the audit is broken down into 8 clear steps: Step 1: Mission Statement Step 2: Marketing Appreciation Step 3: Conclusions and Key Assumptions 4Step : Strategic Objectives Step 5: Core Strategy Step 6: Key Policies Step 7: Administration and Control Step 8:… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1902433998
Book size: —; Page extent: 120.

 

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Steven W. Floyd, Bill Wooldridge
The Strategic Middle Manager : How to Create and Sustain Competitive Advantage

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: An exceptional job of refocusing the middle manager`s role?a must read for practitioners and educators alike. --Jack Viega, editor, The Academy of Management Executives In their quest to become leaner, flatter, and reengineered, organizations have systematically cut out the very positions that once made them successful?mid-level managers. In The Strategic Middle Manager, management experts Steven Floyd and Bill Wooldridge draw on a decade of research involving over 250 middle managers to demonstrate that the success of future organizations rests decisively on strong middle management. The authors present the tools managers need to: Redefine their roles Increase their strategic value Secure their futures Identify the top performers in the ranks…and much more! Far from lacking perspective, middle managers have a unique, pivotal perspective that places them at the forefront of organizational change. They can play the role of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 078790208X
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Tony Lendrum
The Strategic Partnering Pocketbook

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description Following the successful Strategic Partnering Handbook , this is a concise introduction to the culture, strategy, processes, and people needed to make sustainable business relationships. The Strategic Partnering Pocketbook is the practitioner`s guide to developing these long-term, strategic, interdependent, and transparent relationships. It looks at the culture, strategies, structure, processes, and people required to make these complex relationships successful, and is a concise primer for all levels of management. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0074714031
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J. Kent Crawford
The Strategic Project Office: A Guide to Improving Organizational Performance

— y.
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ISBN: 0824707508
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Richard E. Westney
The Strategic Project Planner: A Profit-Driven Project Management Process for Planning Projects to Meet Business Goals

— y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0824703928
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Terrence L. Gargiulo
The Strategic Use of Stories in Organizational Communication and Learning

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: - [detailed...]

ISBN: 0765614138
Book size: —; Page extent: 252.

 

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Michel Robert
The Strategist CEO : How Visionary Executives Build Organizations

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: This practical guide describes a unique and proven method for setting and implementing strategy and for dealing with the qualitative variables that face an organization. After the concepts have been clearly elucidated, Robert describes their implementation in a variety of corporate settings. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0899302688
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Arnoldo C. Hax, Nicolas S. Majluf
The Strategy Concept and Process: A Pragmatic Approach (2nd Edition)

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Hax and Mailuf offer a pragmatic approach to strategic management, offering practicing managers and business readers a disciplined process that facilitates the formulation and implementation of strategy. Most comprehensive, integrated, explicit approach to strategy formulation, Proctor &, Gamble used as a running case throughout the text. Other real world examples include NKK and Merck, global perspective, companies are drawn from all over the world. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0134588940
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Craig R. Hickman
The Strategy Game

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Will the fictional MedTech, Inc., survive or die? The outcome is up to readers of this uniquely challenging book. Chapter by chapter they must hammer out the tough sequence of choices that a real CEO must make. The fun lies in the `what if?` approach, with each option branching into a myriad of instructive paths. Because there are 30 different endings, readers can play The Strategy Game again and again to explore the outcomes of different choices. The result is an interactiive business adventure that turns employees at all levels into better strategists and decision-makers. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0070287252
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Michael Coveney, Brian Hartlen, Dennis Ganster, Dave King
The Strategy Gap: Leveraging Technology to Execute Winning Strategies

2003 y.
Publisher: Wiley Publishing, Inc
Description: With shortened business cycles, increased competition, and rapidly changing technologies, companies need to be more nimble than ever. They must narrow the gap between strategy formulation and operation execution to guarantee success. The Strategy Gap will provide a framework that senior financial managers can use to ensure that their strategies are implemented successfully and that their corporations remain competitive. Filled with informative case studies and best practices for optimum financial processes, this valuable resource will help managers leverage information technology to successfully implement corporate strategies. This book also shows managers how to eliminate surprises in poorly managed or unforeseen activities, while applying new approaches to financial management for faster and more accurate business modeling. Expert advice from those who have used these strategies clearly explains how to integrate planning, budgeting, consolidation, and reporting into one… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-47121-450-7
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Markus Venzin
The Strategy Process : A Practical Handbook for Implementation in Business

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description Dismissing the plethora of meaningless buzz words, simplistic checklists, and impractical business models common to management theory, this handbook advocates down-to-earth techniques for creating and implementing realistic business strategies. Presenting an array of methods that have stood the test of time in real-world business and academic environments, the content focuses on the strategic process as the backbone for the planning and implementation of strategic initiatives. Serving to remind readers that questions such as What do I do? When do I do it? and What goals should I be trying to achieve? should be posed at each stage of the strategic process, chapters begin with a brief introduction summarizing the tasks associated with specific stages, such as market analysis and development of a long-term vision, and the anticipated results. Would-be strategists are also advised on the axioms of patience, realism, and perseverance as they pertain to… [detailed...]

ISBN: 190487911X
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Robert F. Grattan
The Strategy Process: A Military-Business Comparison

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: This book investigates strategy formulation by comparing military &, business practices. It assesses whether the strategy process in the business field also prevails in the military context. Based on interviews and case studies, the author uses a framework of influences including organization, leadership, risk, theory and context to consider the areas of similarity and difference. While significant parallels can be found, greater importance is placed on the formulation of aims and goals, and the identification and training of leaders in the military. This provides valuable lessons for business strategists. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0333984455
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Susan Segal-Horn
The Strategy Reader

2004 y.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Description: Made up of many classic articles, this popular Strategy Reader provides a remarkable overview of continuing debates in the field of strategic management. In an extended introduction, the editor gives an overview of the development of the field of strategic management. Introductions to each section explain the thinking in each article.The second edition retains many of the classic readings from the previous edition, including those by Porter, Mintzberg, Grant, Hamel and Prahalad, while adding more recent top-quality articles by prominent international scholars such as Teece, Pascale, Bartlett and Ghoshal, Shapiro, Hitt and Ireland, Miller, and Birkinshaw. Topics covered by these new readings include ethics in strategy, corporate social responsibility, dynamic capabilities, managing strategic change, modularity in products and organisations, corporate parenting, diversification and performance, strategic alliances, evolution of the transnational, chaos/complexity theory and strategic… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1405126876
Book size: —; Page extent: 544.

 

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David C. Wheelock
The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1924-1933 (Studies in Macroeconomic History)

— y.
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Description: Today, most scholars agree that mismanaged monetary policy contributed to the length and severity of the Great Depression. There is little agreement, however, about the causes of the Federal Reserve`s mistakes. Some argue that leadership and other organizational changes prior to the depression caused a distinct change in policy strategy that lessened the Fed`s responsiveness to economic conditions, while others contend that there was no change in the Fed`s behavior, and that errors during the depressionare traceable to previous policies. This book examines the policy strategy developed by the Federal Reserve during the 1920s and considers whether its continued use could explain the Fed`s failure to respond vigorously to the depression. It also studies the effects on policy of the institutional changes occurring prior to the depression. While these changes enhanced the authority of officials who opposed open-market purchases and also caused some upward bias in discount rates,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 052153139X
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Thomas T. Nagle, John Hogan
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably

2005 y.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Description: `The best book ever written about pricing is The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing by Tom Nagle and Reed Holden-these guys know their stuff and it works!` Guy Kawasaki, CEO, Garage Technology Ventures `For more than a decade, this book has been the most influential and highly regarded reference among pricing professionals.` Eric G.Mitchell, President, The Professional Pricing Society `Most executives name pricing as their major challenge and major weakness. This book is an answer. It is full of new ideas arid insights.` Philip Kotler, S.C.Johnson &, Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University `An investment in Tom and Reed`s book will give you the highest return you`ve ever had. It`s an investment you can`t afford not to make.` Dan Nimer, President, DNA Group [detailed...]

ISBN: 0131856774
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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Thomas C. Schelling
The Strategy of Conflict

2006 y.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Description: `In eminently lucid and often charming language, Professor Schelling`s work opens to rational analysis a crucial field of politics, the international politics of threat, or as the current term goes, of deterrence. In this field, the author`s analysis goes beyond what has been done by earlier writers. It is the best, most incisive, and most stimulating book on the subject.` Annals of the American Academy `An important contribution to understanding the conduct of the ambiguous conflict between the communist bloc on the one hand and the United States and its Free World Allies on the other.` Journal of Politic [detailed...]

ISBN: 0674840313
Book size: —; Page extent: 326.

 

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