Taking readers through the essentials of strategic planning, this lively guide reflects the effect our rapidly changing world has on strategic management theory and practice. Coming from a practitioner-oriented perspective, it includes numerous Experiential Exercises, and now incorporates the most up-to-date compilation of real-world company cases ever assembled in a business policy book. It integrates three very contemporary themes throughout each chapter globalization, the natural environment, and technology - and focuses on skill-building in all major areas of strategy formation, implementation, and evaluation. 7th Edition features include the latest strategic management research and practices, plus hundreds of new examples throughout.

Cases in Strategic Management

Business & Money

David, Fred R.

Management & Leadership

MacMillan Publishing Company

Updated in a new 8th edition, this book goes beyond a simple presentation of data to include a critical analysis of the role of public opinion in American democracy. It provides an in-depth analysis of public opinion, beginning with its origins in political socialization, the impact of the media, the extent and breadth of democratic values, to the role of public opinion in the electoral process. Using the most current survey data from the 2008 elections and the latest literature on the subject, Erikson and Tedin analyze public opinion and its role in the policy and politics of the United States. 

American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content, and Impact

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Erikson, Robert S.

Women's Health

This book provides students with a clear and thorough presentation of the theory and application of structural analysis as it applies to trusses, beams, and frames. Emphases are placed on teaching readers to both model and analyze a structure. A hallmark of the book, Procedures for Analysis, has been retained in this edition to provide learners with a logical, orderly method to follow when applying theory. Chapter topics include types of structures and loads, analysis of statically determinate structures, analysis of statically determinate trusses, internal loadings developed in structural members, cables and arches, influence lines for statically determinate structures, approximate analysis of statically indeterminate structures, deflections, analysis of statically indeterminate structures by the force method, displacement method of analysis: slope-deflection equations, displacement method of analysis: moment distribution, analysis of beams and frames consisting of nonprismatic members, truss analysis using the stiffness method, beam analysis using the stiffness method, and plane frame analysis using the stiffness method. For individuals planning for a career as structural engineers.

Structural Analysis

Computers & Technology

Russell C. Hibbeler

Web Development & Design

THE WESTERN HERITAGE, FOURTH EDITION DONALD KAGAN STEVEN OZMENT FRANK TURNER

The Western Heritage

History

Kagan, Donald

Europe

Providing a comprehensive introduction to operating systems, this book emphasizes the fundamentals of the key mechanisms of modern operating systems, and the types of design tradeoffs and decisions involved in operating system design. It presents recent developments in operating system design, and uses three running examples of operating systems to illustrate the material--Windows NT, UNIX, and IBM MVS.

Operating Systems

STALLINGS WILLIAM

Legal thesaurus

Burton, William C.

Legal Thesaurus

Legal terms can be confusing and vague to the lay person. This legal Thesaurus is a must have in fully understanding legal documents. This is a valuable tool.

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.

Robinson Crusoe (MacMillan Classics)

Children's Books

DEFOE, DANIEL

Action & Adventure

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades.  An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps.

General chemistry: Principles and modern applications

General Chemistry: Principles and Modern Applications

Science & Math

Petrucci, Ralph H.

Chemistry

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