In this edition, the communities of sisters have been arranged according to their general apostolic work, viz., contemplative, domestic, foreign and home missions, nursing, retreat and social work, teaching, and writing and publications.
First published in 1998, this work is a study of the relationship between intelligence and policy and focuses on the function of intelligence in crisis management. It provides an integrated approach to the theory of the intelligence process and the principles of crisis management. It identifies those factors that influence the producer-consumer relationship within the context of the Traditionalist vs. Activist approaches, i.e. The Kent-Kendall debate. New insight into the practical limitations of the Traditionalist approach to intelligence is provided. Using terrorism as a crisis phenomenon, the study analyses the function of intelligence and the reasons behind the intelligence and the reasons behind the intelligence failures during the Reagan Administration’s Foreign Policy initiatives in Lebanon, 1981-1985. With its focus on intelligence theory and management, as well as crisis management and policy making, this book will appeal to academics, scholars, intelligence practitioners, historians, policy makers and business management professionals. Although the work focuses on the U.S. intelligence community and the behavioural trends within American intelligence and security organisations, the principles and lessons learned can be applied to business and government in other democracies.
For full-time vegans as well as those who just love healthful foods that taste fabulous, this book, created by gourmet chef Brian McCarthy, contains over 400 dairy-free and egg-free vegetarian recipes--including traditional family favorites such as birthday cakes and "turkey" dinners with pumpkin pie.
Essentials of Marketing: A Marketing Strategy Planning Approach is about marketing and marketing strategy planning. At its essence, marketing strategy planning is about figuring out how to do a superior job of satisfying customers. This author team takes that point of view seriously and believes in practicing what they preach. Instructors and students can trust that this new edition of Essentials of Marketing 14e- and all of the teaching and learning materials that accompany it - will satisfy every instructor and students' needs. Building on Pioneering Strengths This author team pioneered an innovative structure-- using the "four Ps" with a managerial approach--for the introductory marketing course. It has become one of the most widely used business textbooks ever published because it organizes the best ideas about marketing so that readers can both understand and apply them. The unifying focus of these ideas is on how to make marketing decisions that a manager must make in deciding what customers to target and how best to meet their needs. Over many editions of Essentials of Marketing, there have been constant changes in marketing management and the marketing environment. Some of the changes have been dramatic, and others have been subtle. As a result, the authors have made ongoing updates to the text to reflect marketing's best practices and ideas. What's unique about Essentials of Marketing? The four Ps framework, managerial orientation, and strategy planning focus have proven to be foundational pillars that are remarkably robust for supporting new developments in the field and innovations in the text and package. 1. Essentials of Marketing teaches students analytical abilities and how-to-do-it skills that prepare them for success. The author team has deliberately included a variety of examples, explanations, frameworks, models, classification systems, cases, and "how-to-do-it" techniques that relate to our overall framework for marketing strategy planning. Similarly, the online Marketing Plan Coach helps students see how to create marketing plans. Taken together, these items speed the development of "marketing sense" and enable the student to analyze marketing situations and develop marketing plans in a confident and meaningful way. They are practical and they work. 2. The authors emphasize careful integration of special topics. Some textbooks treat "special" topics--like relationship marketing, international marketing, services marketing, marketing and the Internet, marketing for nonprofit organizations, marketing ethics, social issues, and business-to-business marketing--in separate chapters. The authors deliberatively avoid doing that because they are convinced that treating such topics separately leads to an unfortunate compartmentalization of ideas. 3. The comprehensive package of materials gives instructors the flexibility to teach marketing their way- or for the student, the ability to learn marketing their way.
This is the story of how Phila. got safe drinking water -- or safe so far as the medical standards of the time were concerned, the major culprit in the 19th cent. being typhoid. Typhoid frightened the urbanizing world of the late 19th cent. A virulent micro-organism that attacks the intestinal tract, in most cases it spreads when the excreta of an ill person get into the water supply. Phila. was suffering from a typhoid epidemic when a terrible snowstorm hit in Feb. 1899. The disease struck every ward in the city -- wealthy & poor alike suffered since infected river water made its way through the entire system. Phila. public health officials, the major & common council recognized that the city's pumping stations required new filtration systems, but the select council killed the bill. Thanks to episodes like this in other civic affairs, Phila. suffered from a poor reputation for being, in Lincoln Steffens' words, "corrupt & contented." This negative view of the city's performance around the turn of the century is still prevalent. This study takes another look at the people who were trying to solve the public health crisis. It also explores the problem of typhoid from the viewpoint of professionals in the emerging field of public health, beginning with the early years of the Phila. water works. Illus.
The author, an investment banker and attorney, explains money management for people, like him, who are under forty. Includes chapters on budgets, needs, taxes, credit and debt, buying a car, insurance, investments, wills, and buying a house.
A tactical field guide to the landscape of the e-business world The Art of .Combat examines the internal workings of both the high-tech world and the Internet business development process, providing a blueprint for navigating the complex terrain. General Sun Tzu's The Art of War for the e-business world, this handbook expands to cover things like developing online logistics to win battles, preparing long-term strategy and discovering the new goal of frictionless commerce—leveraging the Internet to squeeze out inefficiencies. Required reading for everyone making their way in the e-business world, this book is laced with tactics and real examples of strategy in action. Learn how to appraise a looming e-commerce battle through the factors of politics, climate, terrain, commander, doctrine, and vision. Irritate your opponents and find their weak points (Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems employed this tactic in his dealings with Hewlett-Packard). The author is a great writer and business consultant who draws on his experience at Lycos and with client companies as well as interviews with industry leaders. This book will have full support from his employer, Lycos, Inc., including a Web site on the Lycos Network featuring lessons from the book. Shawn P. McCarthy (New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA) is a Product Manager and developer at Lycos, Inc. He also consults on Internet business development issues for Fortune 500 companies. McCarthy contributes to the Washington Post and is a regular speaker at conferences such as MacWorld, Internet World, and Comdex.
In this bold intervention into the understanding of the diasporic experience within cultural studies, McCarthy challenges a critical position emergent over the last thirty years (what he calls the 'new marginalism'). He confronts the liberal orthodoxies that prevail in this area, exposing contradictions in the thinking of its major theorists.
In this book, the authors bring together the extant research evidence on occupational violence and bullying, estimate the costs to organizations and the community at large, examine the overlaps between manifestation in the broader community and the extent of spillover into workplaces, and identity preventive interventions that may safeguard organizations from these threats. Opportunities for safeguarding strategies to add value to organizational skills, productivity, quality and reputation amongst clients, investors and government stakeholders are emphasized.
Introduces the skills of dribbling, juggling, passing, and receiving the ball, discusses field positions and strategies, and offers advice on warmups, conditioning, and practice drills.
Part of the Betterway Coaching Kids Series, this book is a very well-illustrated handbook that serves as the perfect step-by-step introductory primer for parents and coaches. It is written in a conversational style and covers all the basic skill-building techniques, rules of the game and proper equipment for the sport. Special attention is paid to developing a child's confidence and self-esteem.
Hidden Generalizations is the first monograph devoted exclusively to the problem of phonological opacity. Opacity arises when the conditions for or results of an active phonological process are not evident in the speech signal. Opacity is particularly important in Optimality Theory, which lacks the standard means of analyzing opacity, rule ordering. This book is a thorough reexamination of phonological opacity. It finds insights in the extensive literature on rule interaction of the 1970's. It describes and critiques the oft-voiced opinion that there are no authentic cases of opacity. It evaluates representational approaches to opacity that emerged in the 1980's. Primarily, though, it discusses various ideas about opacity in OT and offers a new proposal, candidate chain theory. This proposal is illustrated and tested with analyses of the phonology of several Semitic languages.
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