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Managing Large Systems

Organizations for the Future

By: Leonard Robert Sayles,Margaret K. Chandler

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Managing Large Systems

Organizations for the Future

By: Leonard Robert Sayles,Margaret K. Chandler

Managing Large Systems examines a wide range of human, organizational, and managerial challenges associated with large systems. Special attention is given to the behavioral relationships among scientists and engineers, business and technical managers, sponsor organizations and their contractors, business and government offi cials, and line and functional managers.

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1412828007

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Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide

By: Leonard Maltin

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Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide

By: Leonard Maltin

Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese; the timeless comedy of the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton; animated classics from Walt Disney and Pixar; the finest foreign films ever made. This 2014 edition covers the modern era, from 1965 to the present, while including all the great older films you can’t afford to miss—and those you can—from box-office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with all the essential information you could ask for. NEW Nearly 16,000 capsule movie reviews, with more than 300 new entries NEW More than 25,000 DVD and video listings NEW Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos NEW Completely updated index of leading performers MORE Official motion picture code ratings from G to NC-17 MORE Old and new theatrical and video releases rated **** to BOMB MORE Exact running times—an invaluable guide for recording and for discovering which movies have been edited MORE Reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities, and classics AND Leonard’s all-new personal recommendations for movie lovers • Date of release, running time, director, stars, MPAA ratings, color or black-and-white • Concise summary, capsule review, and four-star-to-BOMB rating system • Precise information on films shot in widescreen format • Symbols for DVDs, videos, and laserdiscs • Completely updated index of leading actors • Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos

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Penguin

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1101609559

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9781101609552

The Working Leader

The Triumph of High Performance Over Conventional Management Principles

By: Leonard R. Sayles

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The Working Leader

The Triumph of High Performance Over Conventional Management Principles

By: Leonard R. Sayles

The goal: To be a leader who has an agenda, knows the system inside out, is comfortable with fluidity, and recognizes that the parts do not always fit into an integrated whole. Schooled to oversee fixed, almost unvarying routines, managers today are unprepared to manage the conflicts in modern work flow relationships. Sayles shows with vivid case studies how middle managers with an in-depth understanding of the organization can resolve the inherent contradictions and ambiguities among design, sales, and manufacturing.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439106347

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9781439106341

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide

The Modern Era, Previously Published as Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide

By: Leonard Maltin

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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide

The Modern Era, Previously Published as Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide

By: Leonard Maltin

Previously published as Leonard Maltin’s 2015 Movie Guide, this capstone edition includes a new Introduction by the author. (Note: No new reviews have been added to this edition) Now that streaming services like Netflix and Hulu can deliver thousands of movies at the touch of a button, the only question is: What should I watch? Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; the masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese; the timeless comedy of the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen; animated classics from Walt Disney and Pixar; the finest foreign films ever made. This capstone edition covers the modern era while including all the great older films you can’t afford to miss—and those you can—from box-office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with all the essential information you could ask for. With nearly 16,000 entries and more than 13,000 DVD listings, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide remains “head and shoulders above the rest.” (The New York Times) Also included are a list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos, official motion picture code ratings from G to NC-17, and Leonard's list of recommended films.

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1643

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Penguin

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0525536310

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9780525536314

Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide

The Modern Era

By: Leonard Maltin

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Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide

The Modern Era

By: Leonard Maltin

NEW More than 16,000 capsule movie reviews, with more than 300 new entries NEW More than 13,000 DVD and 13,000 video listings NEW Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos NEW Completely updated index of leading performers MORE Official motion picture code ratings from G to NC-17 MORE Old and new theatrical and video releases rated **** to BOMB MORE Exact running times—an invaluable guide for recording and for discovering which movies have been edited MORE Reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities, and classics AND Leonard's personal list of fifty notable debut features Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese; the timeless comedy of the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton; animated classics from Walt Disney and Pixar; the finest foreign films ever made. This 2013 edition covers the modern era, from 1965 to the present, while including all the great older films you can’t afford to miss—and those you can—from box-office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with all the essential information you could ask for. • Date of release, running time, director, stars, MPAA ratings, color or black and white • Concise summary, capsule review, and four-star-to-BOMB rating system • Precise information on films shot in widescreen format • Symbols for DVD s, videos, and laserdiscs • Completely updated index of leading actors • Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos

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Penguin

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1101604638

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9781101604632

Rhapsody on a Film by Kurosawa

By: Leonard Ginsberg

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Rhapsody on a Film by Kurosawa

By: Leonard Ginsberg

One of Akira Kurosawa's most popular films, Yojimbo (1961) tells the story of a vagrant samurai who outsmarts two gangs warring to control a small town in mid-19th century Japan. This plot a lone hero who challenges both potent rivals struggling to control a place has proved remarkably adaptable. Recent film settings include the American southwest, New York, the coast of Ireland, Viking Iceland, and outer space. The rivals include drug dealers, police, witches, and seals, the hero a hit-man, a psychopath, a senior, an orphan. These films track the basic plot or veer off in unexpected directions. They provide an evening's delight or arouse enduring intellectual engagement with a wide variety of disciplines. Rhapsody on a Film by Kurosawa explores this cultural complex. Films discussed include American Beauty (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), The King of Masks (1996), Memento (2000), Ponette (1996), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Se7en (1995), and The Witches (1990). Other sections discuss possible origins of the plot in the work of Dashiell Hammett and Shakespeare, a Yojimbo hero who emerged in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the relation of Yojimbo to Kurosawa's cinematic career. Rhapsody on a Film by Kurosawa is the author's first book.

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Trafford Publishing

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142517437X

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9781425174378

Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2001

By: Leonard Maltin

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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2001

By: Leonard Maltin

The latest version of this bestselling guide has more than 20,000 capsule movie reviews--including over 300 new entries--with ratings and running times. Also featured is information on videos and laser discs and a newly updated Index of leading performers.

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Signet

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0451201078

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9780451201072

American Film and Society since 1945

By: Leonard Quart,Albert Auster

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American Film and Society since 1945

By: Leonard Quart,Albert Auster

From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent the feelings and values of American society. One of the few authoritative books about American film and society, American Film and Society since 1945 combines accessible, fun-to-read text with a detailed, insightful, and scholarly political and social analysis that thoroughly explores the relationship of American film to society and provides essential historical context. The historical overview provides a "capsule analysis" of both American and Hollywood history for the most recent decade as well as past eras, in which topics like American realism; Vietnam, counterculture revolutions, and 1960s films; and Hollywood depictions of big business like Wall Street are covered. Readers will better understand the explicit and hidden meanings of films and appreciate the effects of the passion and personal engagement that viewers experience with films. This new edition prominently features a new chapter on American and Hollywood history from 2010 to 2017, giving readers an expanded examination of a breadth of culturally and socially important modern films that serves student research or pleasure reading. The coauthors have also included additional analysis of classic films such as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and A Face in the Crowd (1957).

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440833222

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9781440833229

Mothers of Innovation

How Expanding Social Networks Gave Birth to the Industrial Revolution

By: Leonard Dudley

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Mothers of Innovation

How Expanding Social Networks Gave Birth to the Industrial Revolution

By: Leonard Dudley

What does it take for a society to be able to innovate? The question is crucial today when an increasing share of world patents are taken out by countries such as Japan, South Korea and China, which have limited energy resources and cultures very different from those in the West. However, most previous studies of the beginnings of industrialization have focused on the resources and institutions of Britain alone. As a result, they have missed the lessons to be learned from casting the net more widely so as to examine all regions of the North-Atlantic community. This book pinpoints the surprising differences between innovating and non-innovating regions. Protection of property rights, a practical ideology and abundant resources were not sufficient to spark accelerated innovation. The key to the Industrial Revolution, this study shows through case studies and rigorous verification, was the effect of expanding social networks on people’s willingness to cooperate. Language standardization permitted the widening of circles of cooperation to encompass individuals with increasingly different sets of knowledge. The result was an unprecedented burst of what some linguists have called “double-scope blending” – the integration of hitherto unrelated concepts to create something new. These findings have important implications for corporate and government policy.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443843121

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9781443843126

The American Woman in Colonial and Revolutionary Times, 1565-1800

A Syllabus with Bibliography

By: Eugenie Andruss Leonard,Sophie Hutchinson Drinker,Miriam Young Holden

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The American Woman in Colonial and Revolutionary Times, 1565-1800

A Syllabus with Bibliography

By: Eugenie Andruss Leonard,Sophie Hutchinson Drinker,Miriam Young Holden

This first comprehensive bibliography of the life and work of colonial women helps to foster an historical understanding of the rights, privileges, and functions of women in today's society. The Syllabus, containing 1082 items, is organized to provide an inclusive picture of the colonial woman in all aspects of her life and work. It includes references giving insight into home life with its manifold problems and dangers, the evolution of the colonial woman's status as owned property to being an independent owner of property, the leadership she gave to the religious life of the colonies, the contributions she made to cultural life, her part in the developing political life, and the extent of her participation in economic life. The Bibliography contains 765 books 309 magazine articles, and eight pictorial publications. To facilitate the study of individual women of note, the List of 104 Outstanding Women includes references.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512817589

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9781512817584

Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1993

By: Leonard Maltin

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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1993

By: Leonard Maltin

Widely acclaimed as the biggest, best, most authoritative book in its field, this guide has been updated for 1993 and now includes a new feature--a symbol to designate movies available on increasingly popular laser discs. Features 300 new movie summaries, plus expanded coverage of films available on video for home viewing.

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Plume Books

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0452268575

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9780452268579

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Managing Large Systems

Managing Large Systems

Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide

Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide

The Working Leader

The Working Leader

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide

Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide

Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide

Rhapsody on a Film by Kurosawa

Rhapsody on a Film by Kurosawa

Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2001

Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2001

American Film and Society since 1945

American Film and Society since 1945

Mothers of Innovation

Mothers of Innovation

The American Woman in Colonial and Revolutionary Times, 1565-1800

The American Woman in Colonial and Revolutionary Times, 1565-1800

Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1993

Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1993

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