Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brian smith

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  • MEDIAWRITING
    DEBORAH A. SILVERMAN / BRIAN S. MEYER / JOE MARREN / W. RICHARD WHITAKER / RONALD D. SMITH / JANET E. RAM
    Accessible and engaging, this book is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing. Drawing on a wealth of real-world examples and featuring helpful "How To" boxes throughout, MediaWriting explains the various styles of writing for print, broadcast, online, social media, public relations, and multimedia outlets. Expanded ...

    $2,100.00

  • FIELD ADMINISTRATION
    BRIAN C. SMITH
    First published in 1967, Field Administration provides a useful introduction to a much-neglected aspect of administration. Every government finds it necessary to decentralise its administration. But in Britain much more attention has been paid to devolution, i.e., to local government, than to deconcentration, i.e., to local and regional administrative organisation, or what Mr. ...

    $840.00

  • DECENTRALIZATION
    BRIAN C. SMITH
    First published in 1985, Decentralization provides an analytical framework for the comparative study of decentralization in contemporary systems of government. It discusses the structures and processes of all forms of decentralized government and administration, drawing on a wide range of states, developed and developing, capitalist and socialist. The book provides a comparativ...

    $800.00

  • ADVISING MINISTERS
    BRIAN C SMITH
    First published in 1969, Advising Ministers is a general account of the arrangements for ‘advising Ministers’, based on a case-study, enabling the reader to judge the effectiveness of an advisory body in a particular case, which itself gained much publicity and in which hopes were high that results would be achieved. Mr. Smith’s conclusions are based on published material and i...

    $840.00

  • NEW DRUGS, FAIR PRICES
    BRIAN D. SMITH
    New Drugs, Fair Prices addresses the important question of how we might get the innovative new medicines we need at prices we can afford. Today, this debate is impassioned but sterile. One side calls for price controls, discounting their impact on investment in innovation. The other points to miraculous new therapies, disregarding their affordability and social inequity. This p...

    $1,060.00

  • JOHN LOCKE, TERRITORY, AND TRANSMIGRATION
    BRIAN SMITH
    This book examines John Locke as a theorist of migration, immigration, and the movement of peoples. It outlines the contours of the public discourse surrounding migration in the seventeenth century and situates Locke’s in-depth involvement in these debates. The volume presents a variety of undercurrents in Locke’s writing — his ideas on populationism, naturalization, colonizati...

    $1,240.00

  • LEADERSHIP IN THE LIFE SCIENCES
    BRIAN D. SMITH
    The healthcare professionals who save and extend our lives are helpless without the medicines and technologies that have revolutionised medical care. But the industry that invents, makes and provides these indispensable tools is transforming under the pressure of ageing populations, globalisation and revolutions in biological and information technology. How this industry adapts...

    $980.00

  • KAIKHOSRU SORABJI'S LETTERS TO PHILIP HESELTINE (PETER WARLOCK)
    BRIAN INGLIS / BARRY SMITH
    Two extraordinary personalities, and one remarkable friendship, are reflected in the unique corpus of letters from Anglo-Parsi composer-critic Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) (1894-1930): a fascinating primary source for the period 1913-1922 available in a complete scholarly edition for the first time. The volume also provides a new contextual,...

    $1,240.00

  • PROMOTING HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY
    JURGEN SCHMANDT / ROBERT WILSON / SUZANNE E SMITH / BRIAN H MULLER
    In the wake of declining federal involvement in state affairs, state governments have taken the initiative in creating science and technology policies and programs for economic development. The contributors to this study look at the attempts of eight states—California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and T ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL HEART OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
    KATHERINE GREENBERG / BRIAN SOHN / NEIL GREENBERG / HOWARD R POLLIO / SANDRA THOMAS / JOHN SMITH
    This book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical foundations of phenomenology. Based on an extensive, multi-dimensional case study focused around the ‘lived experience’ of college-level teaching preparation, classroom interaction, and students’ reflections, this book presents evidence for the claim that the w...

    $1,200.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH
    BRIAN ABEL-SMITH
    This book concerns itself with the key question: how to improve health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. What makes people healthy? Why are the poor less healthy than the rich? Why do some countries have a better health record than others? An Introduction to Health is divided into four parts comprising the determinants of health, health service planning, healt...

    $2,420.00

  • FORENSIC DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
    BRIAN DALRYMPLE / JILL SMITH
    The digital revolution over the past several decades has advanced every facet of evidence detection, photography, optimization, and interpretation. Forensic scientists and practitioners have benefited tremendously from the move from film to digital. With proper procedures in place, digital images and casework capabilities have increased tremendously in both complexity and range...

    $1,940.00

  • INFRARED SPECTRAL INTERPRETATION
    BRIAN C. SMITH
    This author's second volume introduces basic principles of interpreting infrared spectral data, teaching its readers to make sense of the data coming from an infrared spectrometer. Contents include spectra and diagnostic bands for the more common functional groups as well as chapters on polyester spectra and interpretation aids. Discussions include: Science of infrared interpre...

    $5,300.00

  • INTRODUCING CULTURAL STUDIES
    BRIAN LONGHURST / GREG SMITH / GAYNOR BAGNALL / GARRY CRAWFORD / MILES OGBORN
    This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first guide the reader through cultural theory before branching out to examine different dimensions of culture in detail – including gl...

    $1,580.00

  • DARWIN'S MEDICINE
    BRIAN D. SMITH
    Darwin’s Medicine is the sequel to Brian D. Smith’s influential and critically acclaimed Future of Pharma (Gower, 2011). Whereas the earlier book predicted the evolution of the pharmaceutical market and the business models of pharmaceutical companies, Darwin’s Medicine goes much deeper into the drivers of industry change and how leading pharmaceutical and medical technology com...

    $1,000.00

  • THE FUTURE OF PHARMA
    BRIAN D. SMITH
    By any standard, the pharmaceutical industry's history has been a successful one. In addition to its profits and shareholder dividends, it has been seen by investors as relatively low risk and, largely, counter-cyclical to stock market trends. However, that important contribution appears to be petering out, with significant global implications for employees, shareholders, gover...

    $1,460.00

  • HANDBOOK OF SOCIOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    DAVID L. BRUNSMA / KERI E. IYALL SMITH / BRIAN K GRAN
    Long the province of international law, human rights now enjoys a renaissance of studies and new perspectives from the social sciences. This landmark book is the first to synthesize and comprehensively evaluate this body of work. It fosters an interdisciplinary, international, and critical engagement both in the social study of human rights and the establishment of a human righ...

    $1,040.00

  • WORLD POLITICS
    BRIAN HOCKING / MICHAEL SMITH
    A quick, step-by-step guide to developing the practical negotiating skills that every business manager needs. The authors cover preparation, strategy development, getting started, building understanding, bargaining, and closing the deal. Managers learn effective tools for negotiating within their own groups, including organizing successful meetings and techniques for building c...

    $2,220.00

  • WELDING PRACTICE
    BRIAN SMITH
    The book is aimed at those wishing to gain a basic knowledge of the practical aspects of the four most widely used welding processes: manual metal arc (MMA), metal inert/active gas (MIG/AG), tungsten inert gas (TIG) and oxy-acetylene welding and cutting. In addition to a detailed treatment of these four methods, further sections deal with the various angles at which welding can...

    $1,420.00

  • SOCIAL POLICIES AND POPULATION GROWTH IN MAURITIUS
    BRIAN ABEL-SMITH / RICHARD M. TITMUSS
    First Published in 1968. This a report of the Ministerial Committee, to advise the Government of Mauritius as to the provisions to be made for social security, bearing in mind the resources of the territory and the needs of its people. ...

    $660.00

  • 3DS MAX DESIGN ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION
    BRIAN L. SMITH
    Learn time-saving techniques and tested production-ready tips for maximum speed and efficiency in creating professional-level architectural visualizations in 3ds Max. Move from intermediate to an advanced level with specific and comprehensive instruction with this collaboration from nine different authors from around the world. Get their experience and skills in this full-color...

    $1,840.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY
    BRIAN C. SMITH
    Reflecting the myriad changes and advancements in the technologies involved in FTIR, particularly the development of diamond ATRs, this second edition of Fundamentals of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy has been extensively rewritten and expanded to include new topics and figures as well as updates of existing chapters. Designed for those new to FTIR, but with enough ref...

    $5,100.00

  • MAKING MARKETING HAPPEN
    BRIAN D. SMITH
    'Making Marketing Happen' is prompted by needs of practising managers who have found the traditional marketing planning texts to be "fine in theory, but hard to apply to my special market". In short, it holds that marketing planning fails for most companies because it either does not fit their organizational culture, their market conditions or both.Successful companies do not p...

    $1,420.00

  • QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY: THEORY AND PRACTICE: THEORY AND PRACTICE
    SMITH, BRIAN C.
    The determination of the concentrations of molecules in samples has long been an important application of spectroscopy. In the last 20 years advances in algorithms, computers, instruments, and software have led to a growing interest in this field. These developments mean samples and analytes that were once considered intractable are increasingly yielding usable calibrations. Th...

    $1,602.00

  • MARKETING DUE DILIGENCE: RECONNECTING STRATEGY TO SHARE PRICE
    MCDONALD, MALCOLM / WARD, KEITH / SMITH, BRIAN
    At the top of a company, sales do not matter, profits do not matter, even return on investment is a secondary concern. What matters is share price and what drives share price is the creation of shareholder value. Many marketing directors, obsessed with branding and other promotional tactics, miss this fundamental truth of modern business and so destroy the wealth of their compa...

    $699.00

  • GOD IN STORY
    BRIAN D. BABCOCK / PATRICIA CLARKE / CAROLYN SMITH / JAMES H. SULLIVAN
    Whether you've ever been to church, read the Bible, or know about Jesus, you've probably had thoughts about God. You may have wondered whether God exists or what God is like. We get to know humans through personal experience, what others say about them, or what people say about themselves. The same is true with God. This book examines stories in the Old Testament to help us ca...

    $213.00

  • AMPLE HILLS CREAMERY
    BRIAN SMITH / JACKIE CUSCUNA
    Create your own tasty ice cream concoctions at home with this collection of recipes from the beloved Brooklyn ice cream shop. Ample Hills Creamery is an ice-cream destination that attracts thousands of customers each day from near and far to Prospect Heights and Gowanus, Brooklyn. Lines wind around the block, spurred on by the chance to try one of their unforget­table flavors, ...

    $314.00