Modern Data Warehouse in Azure
Build a modern data warehouse on Microsoft's Azure Platform that is flexible, adaptable, and fast-fast to snap together, reconfigure, and fast at delivering results to drive good decision making in your business. Gone are the days when data wareho...
Quiet Professional
Major Richard J. "Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations. A highly decorated war veteran of the engagements in Korea and Vietnam, Meadows was instrumental in t...
Destructive Leaders and Dysfunctional Organizations
Organizational behavior and leadership research has traditionally been deeply influenced by positive psychology and appreciative inquiry. Yet, in recent times, a wave of corporate scandals and spectacular organizational failures has forced managem...
Emergency Powers in a Time of Pandemic
How do we maintain core values and rights when governments impose restrictive measures on our lives? Declaring a state of emergency is the best way to protect public health in a pandemic but how do these powers differ from those for national secur...
Practice of Eating
This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common underst...
Categorical Data Analysis
Praise for the Second Edition "A must-have book for anyone expecting to do research and/or applications in categorical data analysis." -Statistics in Medicine "It is a total delight reading this book." -Pharmaceutical Research ...
Search the Scriptures
Daily Bible study can be difficult to sustain, but it is essential to spiritual growth. God has given us his Word as a vital means of encountering him. Search the Scriptures offers guidance for daily Bible study and aims to make it a delight as we...
Evolution of Law
One of the world's foremost scholars of Roman and comparative law here describes the nature of legal traditions and develops a general and coherent view of legal change.
The Hadal Zone
The hadal zone represents one of the last great frontiers in marine science, accounting for 45% of the total ocean depth range. Despite very little research effort since the 1950s, the last ten years has seen a renaissance in hadal exploration, al...
Ways of Learning
While most teachers are skilled in providing opportunities for the progression of children's learning, it is sometimes without fully understanding the theory behind it. With greater insight into what is currently known about the processes of learn...
Foundations of Linear and Generalized Linear Models
A valuable overview of the most important ideas and results in statistical modeling Written by a highly-experienced author,¿Foundations of Linear and Generalized Linear Models¿is a clear and comprehensive guide to the key concepts and results of l...
Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean
A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day...
Value-Based Fees
The latest edition of the leading guide to consulting engagement pricing, from the "Rock Star of Consulting" Alan Weiss¿ In the newly revised Third Edition of¿Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth, best-selling au...
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology
Now in its fourth edition, The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a practice- oriented and accessible resource for clinical psychologists in training. Beginning with a set o...
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology
Now in its fourth edition, The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a practice- oriented and accessible resource for clinical psychologists in training. Beginning with a set o...
Getting Started in Consulting
The definitive guide to getting out of the office and getting into consulting Getting Started in Consulting, Fourth Edition is the acclaimed real-world blueprint to professional and financial freedom. For nearly two decades, this invaluable resour...
Million Dollar Consulting Proposals
Bestselling author of Million Dollar Consulting shares the secrets of writing winning proposals Intended for consultants, speakers, and other professional services providers, Million Dollar Consulting¿ Proposals ends forever the time-consuming and...
Schools and Special Needs
Shortlisted for the Standing Conference on Studies in Education (SCSE) book awards for 2001 In Schools and Special Needs , the authors provide a critical perspective on the dominant `inclusion' model of special needs education, in term...
European Rescue of the Nation State
This newly revised and updated second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community. On one level it is an original analysis of the forces which brought the EC together, on another it is an explanat...
Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data
Statistical science's first coordinated manual of methods for analyzing ordered categorical data, now fully revised and updated, continues to present applications and case studies in fields as diverse as sociology, public health, ecology, marketin...
Positive Practice
Originally published in 1995 Positive Practice is for newcomers to the field of family therapy and systemic consultation including professionals from a variety of disciplines, such as psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing, child care and pr...
Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis
A valuable new edition of a standard reference The use of statistical methods for categorical data has increased dramatically, particularly for applications in the biomedical and social sciences. An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis, Third...
American Civil Wars
In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which the United States, Mexico and Canada all transformed themselves into nations. T...
American Republics
In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, an eminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as an internall...
Language in Prehistory
For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had langua...
Companion to Rationalism
This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day. Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers Critically analyses the concept of rationalism Focuses principally on the gold...
Origins of the Russian Revolution, 1861-1917
Alan Wood provides a concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861. The third edition of this successful pamphlet brings the historiography up to date to include...
Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education
What makes a university teacher 'excellent'? As debates rage about whether this is down to subject knowledge, communication skills, taking a research-led approach or being a technological whiz, this book provides the first in-depth examination of ...