Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david butler

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  • THE LOS ANGELES RIOTS
    MARK BALDASSARE / DAVID O SEARS / EDGAR W BUTLER / PETER A MORRISON
    The Los Angeles riots in the Spring of 1992 were among the most violent and destructive events in twentieth-century urban America. This collection of original essays by leading urban experts offers the first comprehensive analysis of the unrest that took place after a jury acquitted the police officers who were accused of using excessive force in t ...

    $1,299.00

  • URBAN DRAINAGE
    DAVID BUTLER / CHRISTOPHER JAMES DIGMAN / CHRISTOS MAKROPOULOS / JOHN W. DAVIES
    This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the environmental and engineering aspects of the management of rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and research, this n...

    $1,599.00

  • MANAGING VOLUNTARY AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
    RICHARD BUTLER / DAVID C. WILSON
    Drawing on detailed empirical data and a range of case studies, Managing Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations, first published in 1990, demonstrates how voluntary organizations formulate strategies for securing funds, providing services, and dealing with other non-profit bodies, public agencies, and the private sector. The central theme is organizational change and how manage...

    $1,039.00

  • YOUNG MEN AND DOMESTIC ABUSE
    DAVID GADD / CLAIRE L. FOX / MARY-LOUISE CORR / STEPH ALGER / IAN BUTLER
    Surveys reveal that domestic abuse is more commonplace among teenagers and young adults than older populations, yet surprisingly little is written about young men’s involvement in it. Reporting on a three-year study based in the UK, this book explores young men’s involvement in domestic abuse, whether as victims, perpetrators or witnesses to violent behaviors between adults. Or...

    $1,099.00

  • BUSINESS PLANNING FOR NEW VENTURES
    DAVID BUTLER
    Starting a new business takes a lot of energy and organization. The failure rate is alarmingly high and the task can look herculean at the outset. This new textbook provides a simple guide to help plan a successful new business, taking entrepreneurs and students through the steps required to avoid pitfalls and get a business going. Unlike most entrepreneurship textbooks, the au...

    $1,899.00

  • RHETORIC AND THE ARTS OF DESIGN
    DAVID S. KAUFER / BRIAN S. BUTLER
    The design arts -- from the design of buildings and machines to software and interfaces -- are associated with types of knowledge and performance thought to be structured, modular, and systematic. Such arts have become increasingly prestigious in our technocratic society. Since Aristotle, the art of rhetoric was conceived as a loosely structured "practical" art thought to be li...

    $1,179.00

  • BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: A GUIDE TO SMALL BUSINESS STRATEGY
    DAVID BUTLER
    'Business Development' provides a readable and practical book for the growth and development of businesses. This is primarily a textbook for the NVQ4 Business Development qualification, the Institute of Management Certificate in Owner Management courses, and HND Small business modules, but the text is also an invaluable practical guide to owner-managers of small businesses. All...

    $1,279.00

  • BUSINESS PLANNING: A GUIDE TO BUSINESS START-UP
    DAVID BUTLER
    A readable and structured guide for the increasing numbers of people each year who consider setting up a small business or becoming self-employed. 'Business Planning' outlines the options and risks involved in setting up a business. The importance of thorough planning is often overlooked and only becomes evident if the business fails. This is highlighted in a recent study by th...

    $1,199.00

  • BOTTOM-LINE CALL CENTER MANAGEMENT
    DAVID L. BUTLER
    'Bottom-Line Call Center Management breaks new ground by addressing key skills and techniques in assessing and implementing effective management practices to maximize the human and capital resources at the call center manager's disposal. Drawing on the author's unique data sets and years of research experience in the industry, 'Bottom-Line Call Center Management' helps call cen...

    $1,559.00

  • ENTERPRISE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
    DAVID BUTLER
    Enterprise Planning and Development outlines the options and risks involved in setting up a business. It shows how to avoid this failure by focusing on the planning stage and building on this framework as the business develops. The book contains all the underpinning factual information required to prepare a successful Business Plan for presentation to a bank manager, or an alte...

    $1,399.00

  • DESIGNING INTERACTIVE WORLDS WITH WORDS
    DAVID S. KAUFER / BRIAN S. BUTLER
    No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity of texts to perform culturally holistic communicative functions (e.g., the memo...

    $899.00

  • THE CHANGING ALPINE TREELINE
    DAVID R. BUTLER
    The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky expanses above. Alpine tundra is an island biome and its ecotone with forest is subject to change, and like oceanic islands, alpine tundra is subject to invasion – or the upward advance of treeline. The inva...

    $2,792.00

  • THE POWER OF WORDS
    DAVID S. KAUFER / SUGURU ISHIZAKI / BRIAN S. BUTLER / JEFF COLLINS
    In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and one who is "willing" even though the difference does not cross word-stems or parts of speech. We recog...

    $1,259.00

  • WATER MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES IN GLOBAL CHANGE
    B. ULANICKI / KALANITHY VAIRAVAMOORTHY / DAVID BUTLER
    Water Management Challenges in Global Change contains the proceedings of the 9th Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI2007) and the Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM2007) conferences. The rationale behind these conferences is to improve the management of urban water systems through the development of computerbased methods. Issues such as economic globalisati...

    $5,200.00