Employee Training & Development: Raymond A. Noe

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The Noe book recognizes the broadening role of training in corporate life. It includes chapters related to instructional design and employee development, careers, and career management. The Noe book includes the most up-to-date developments in training research and practice, including the strategic role of training and the use of new technologies [...]

The Social Life of Information: John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid

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How many times has your PC crashed today? While Gordon Moore’s now famous law projecting the doubling of computer power every 18 months has more than borne itself out, it’s too bad that a similar trajectory projecting the reliability and usefulness of all that power didn’t come [...]

The Social Life of Information: John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid

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How many times has your PC crashed today? While Gordon Moore’s now famous law projecting the doubling of computer power every 18 months has more than borne itself out, it’s too bad that a similar trajectory projecting the reliability and usefulness of all that power didn’t come [...]

The Social Life of Information: John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid

How many times has your PC crashed today? While Gordon Moore’s now famous law projecting the doubling of computer power every 18 months has more than borne itself out, it’s too bad that a similar trajectory projecting the reliability and usefulness of all that power didn’t come to pass, [...]

The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor–and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!: Tim Harford

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From Publishers Weekly
Nattily packaged-the cover sports a Roy Lichtensteinesque image of an economist in Dick Tracy garb-and cleverly written, this book applies basic economic theory to such modern phenomena as Starbucks’ pricing system and Microsoft’s stock values. While the concepts explored are those encountered in Microeconomics [...]

FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change: Edie Weiner, Arnold Brown

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In The Untrapped Mind, two leading futurists reveal the breakthrough thinking techniques they've developed to liberate the mind from its old assumptions, and sensitize it to the earliest signals of change. Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown show how to overcome both personal and institutional biases, to [...]

How the Markets Really Work: Joel Kurtzman

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From Library Journal
A former reporter and editor at the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review who now works at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kurtzman here offers insight into how the stock and bond markets function. He explains how these markets operate and what they do (e.g., package [...]

Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets: A New View of Cycles, Prices, and Market Volatility (Wiley Finance): Edgar E. Peters

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The latest developments in chaos theory - from an industry expert
Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets was the first book to introduce and popularize chaos as it applies to finance. It has since become the classic source on the topic. [...]

Academic Scientists at Work: Navigating the Biomedical Research Career: Jeremy M. Boss, Susan H. Eckert

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“Assuming that the more you know about a task the better you are likely to perform it then this book should be studied in depth by every aspiring academic scientist. However, they would also benefit just from browsing through this book. It is packed with useful [...]

Quest for the Best: Stanley Marcus

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Houston Chronicle
“A thoughtful and readable examination of success in the retail business by the late Stanley Marcus.”

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