In The Battle to Do Good, former McDonald's executive Bob Langert takes readers on a behind-the-scenes eye witness account of the mega brand's battle to address numerous societal hot-button issues, such as packaging, waste, recycling, obesity, deforestation, and animal welfare. …
Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In "Being There", John Borneman and Abdellah …
What do we mean by 'visual evidence'? How should we interpret visual texts, and what can they tell us? Why is 'visual literacy' so important and what benefits does it offer? Visual evidence encompasses a diverse range of media, from painting, cartoons and photography, to film, t…
Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usua…
How to close the gap between strategy and execution Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don't have the capabilities to support their strategy. In Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that u…
Describe the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters and provides effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy
Object-oriented analysis
by Yourdon, Edward, Coad, Peter
fromYourdon press computing series
After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term? In particular, how can outsiders facilitate durable conflict-managing institutions through statebuilding - a process that historically has been the outcome of bloody struggles to establish the state's authority over …
Publisher description: "Offering techniques to manage global software development, this book helps to realize effective communication, coordination, and control in a globally distributed software development environment. It focuses on strategies for monitoring the quality of the…
Offering techniques to manage global software development, this book helps to realize effective communication, coordination, and control in a globally distributed software development environment. It focuses on strategies for monitoring the quality of the distributed software de…
Publisher description: "Offering techniques to manage global software development, this book helps to realize effective communication, coordination, and control in a globally distributed software development environment. It focuses on strategies for monitoring the quality of the…
Publisher description: "Offering techniques to manage global software development, this book helps to realize effective communication, coordination, and control in a globally distributed software development environment. It focuses on strategies for monitoring the quality of the…
Explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and it emphasises the imporatnce of developing policy-related theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology. This book will be of use to graduate students and sc…