"In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair--The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, quick-witted and impulsive, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, practical and widowed with a young son, are determined to achieve some independence and do some good in a rapidly changing world. But the promising start to their marriage bureau is threatened when their...

The move to teams has largely failed, say Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley, mainly because teams themselves are failing to think through the human implications of teaming. The New Why Teams Don't Work is a handbook for team members and team leaders to maintain the highest possible level of team intelligence-the skills, attitudes, and emotional flexibility to get the most out of a team's inherent differences. Describing what teams are really like,...

Professor Roth, a military historian, presents a different look at war and its history. Instead of focusing on battles, campaigns, and strategies in individual wars, he looks at the story of the intimate interconnections of war with human cultures and societies and how these connections have shaped history. War not only destroys it creates: the growth of essential new technologies; the adoption of complex economic systems; the ideology and culture...

If you want to build and customize your portfolio, become an experienced developer, and get hired, then this is the right course for you About This Video Build websites with three core technologies Learn how to make a modern website with beautiful effects and designs Explore the many ways by which one can make the project responsive In Detail In this course, we will build together 10 mega and complete responsive websites with three core technologies--HTML,...

This career development tool kit is for people who want to take charge of their own professional futures. /> />If you want to have a career that is meaningful and inspires you, you must prepare for it the same way you would a marathon'developing an overall training plan to carry you through to race day and beyond. This is especially important in today's unpredictable work world, where organizations are in a state of constant flux, and many have either...

Code Craft teaches programmers how to move beyond writing correct code to writing great code. The book covers code writing concerns, including code presentation style, variable naming, error handling, and security; and the wider issues of programming in the real world, such as good teamwork, development processes, and documentation. Code Craft presents language-agnostic advice that is relevant to all developers, from an author with loads of practical...

Corrosion is a naturally occurring cost, worth billions in the oil and gas sector. New regulations, stiffer penalties for non-compliance and aging assets are all leading companies to develop new technology, procedures and bigger budgets catering to one prevailing method of prevention, cathodic protection. Cathodic Corrosion Protection Systems: A Guide for Oil and Gas Industries trains on all the necessary reports, inspection criteria, corrective measures...

This course will provide a systematic introduction to the rapidly changing field of behavioral economics. It will consider how behavioral economics adopts traits from its parent disciplines of economics and psychology but combines them into a new approach for studying decision making. It will explore a remarkable range of counterintuitive and sometimes even paradoxical aspects of human behavior, often revealing that our decisions are based on completely...

If you're managing a team, you know that emotional issues -- such as lack of trust and commitment, unresolved conflicts, and the inability of individuals to understand how their actions impact others -- can stop even the most promising groups from delivering great results. This book gives you powerful, proven exercises you can use to help you and your team. The book follows each activity with a discussion of its purpose, how to use it, and a list...

"The comprehensive M & A guide, updated to reflect the latest changes in the M & A environmentM & A provides a practical primer on mergers and acquisitions for corporate executives and anyone involved in the deal. Its comprehensive approach covers each step in the process, from finding an opportunity, to analyzing the potential, to closing the deal, with new coverage of private equity funds and international transactions. This updated second edition...