The Office Worker's Game of Up-From-Under

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The definitive examination of strategic investment from the viewpoint of the people who run the company--the CEO and principal officers. Includes four case histories that follow specific investment projects from their inception to their approval by top management. A Harvard Business School Classics Edition.

Managing the Resource Allocation Process: a Study of Corporate Planning and Investment

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Managing the Resource Allocation Process: a Study of Corporate Planning and Investment
Joseph L. Bower
Manufacturer: Schools
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGX4LC

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In Cross Examinations of Law and Literature Brook Thomas uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important fictions of antebellum America. The lens reflects both ways, and we learn as much about the literature in the context of contemporary legal concerns as we do about the legal ideologies that the fiction subverts or reveals. Successive chapters deal with Cooper's Pioneers and Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables (property law and the image of the judiciary), Melville's "Benito Cereno" and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (slavery), Melville's White Jacket, Pierre and "Bartleby" (worker exploitation or wage slavery), The Confidence-Man (contracts), and finally, "Billy Budd," which examines a number of issues illustrative of the triumph of legal formalism after the Civil War.

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Much attention has been given to above ground biomass and its potential as a carbon sink, but in a mature forest ecosystem 40 to 60 percent of the stored carbon is below ground. As increasing numbers of forests are managed in a wide diversity of climates and soils, the importance of forest soils as a potential carbon sink grows. The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect provides researchers and policy makers with an understanding of soil processes and their relation to carbon dynamics, as well as strategies to monitor and techniques to measure forest soil carbon. It covers the effects of management on soils in a wide range of forest ecosystems together with policy options that are effective and benefit both the forest community and the over all environment. This valuable reference provides forest managers, urban planners, land owners, policy makers, and the general public with guidance that will allow for a holistic approach to land management, environmental quality, and improved forest productivity.

The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

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The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

Manufacturer: CRC
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1566705541

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The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect describes grazing lands, the areas they occupy, and their role in improving the environment. The book gives professionals and students insight into the two crucial issues: shaping policy and targeting research. The reader gets visual and graphic descriptions from the 98 figures included as well as east access to data from the 55 tables. It explores the extent grazing lands should be considered as potential carbon sinks, compares practices that result in soil carbon sequestration, and summarizes approaches for policy makers and research agencies.

Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect (S S S a Special Publication)

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Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect (S S S a Special Publication)

Manufacturer: Soil Science Society of America
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ASIN: 0891188363

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Worldwide concern about increases in greenhouse gases and their potential effects on global climate change has brought attention to what scientists are calling the missing C question. This publication delivers information on soil C sequestration in croplands, range lands, forest lands, and set-aside or CRP lands in the United States and Canada. A state-of-the-art knowledge compendium, this text will be valued by environmental scientists, and is also a well-written, accessible addition to the classroom.

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Our understanding of the quantitative aspects of free radical chemistry and the involvement of radicals in such areas as biology, medicine, the environment, etc., has developed spectacularly over recent years, yet the various topics are commonly discussed separately, in specific meetings and specialised publications. Free Radicals in Biology and Environment draws together two important areas of free radical chemistry, using as a bridge the fundamental physical chemistry of free radicals (spectroscopic detection of free radicals, evaluation of absolute rate constants, elucidation of mechanisms of free radical reactions and catalysis, photochemical and radiation processes, etc.).
The most relevant topics covered are the EPR detection of radicals in biochemical systems and in pollutant formation and degradation, oxidation processes in biology and in the troposphere, radiation and induced damage, and atmospheric pollutants arising from incomplete combustion. Also covered are the chemistry and biochemistry of nitric oxide and peroxynitrite, the chemistry and biochemistry of DNA radicals, the role of radicals in myeloperoxidase, lignineperoxidase, radicals and cardiovascular injury, radiation and the fragmentation of cells and tissues.

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Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms provides a modern, comprehensive summary of glacial geology. It is presented in a clear and concise format, which is not cluttered with unnecessary detail. During the Late Cenozoic period much of the northern hemisphere was extensively glaciated. This had a profound effect on the nature of the landscape. In order to understand this landscape one must be able to identify and interpret the glacial landforms and sediments from which it is composed. These landforms and sediments tell a unique part of the story of the Cenozoic Ice Age. This book is about these landforms and sediments and provides the reader with the tools with which to interpret them. It shows how glaciers work and how the processes of glacial erosion and deposition which operate within them are recorded in the glacial landscape.

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A great tool for a great class.......2007-02-07

I bought this book for a class this semester. The first minute I opened the book I was intrigued with all the tables, figures and pictures aside from all of the other information that makes this book a great tool in my glacial geology class. I'd advise this book for any geology student who wants to add to their unending libraries of college textbooks.

Glacial events in the Transantarctic Mountains: A record of the east Antarctic ice sheet (Geology of the central Transantarctic Mountains)

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Glacial events in the Transantarctic Mountains: A record of the east Antarctic ice sheet (Geology of the central Transantarctic Mountains)
Paul A Mayewski
Manufacturer: American Geophysical Union
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Glacial geology of the northern Barents Sea, with emphasis on the surge related, ice proximal depositional environment (Norsk Polarinstitutt Rapportserie)

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Glacial geology of the northern Barents Sea, with emphasis on the surge related, ice proximal depositional environment (Norsk Polarinstitutt Rapportserie)
Anders Solheim
Manufacturer: Norsk Polarinstitutt
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Open-file report
Lee Clayton
Manufacturer: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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This BriefBook is a much extended glossary or a much condensed handbook, depending on the way one looks at it. In encyclopedic format, it covers subjects in statistics, computing, analysis, and related fields, resulting in a book that is both an introduction and a reference for scientists and engineers, especially experimental physicists dealing with data analysis.

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Statistics for physisists.......2000-05-31

I had to read this book since I took a cource in the university. The course is about data analysis using advanced methods.The book helped to understand some basic principles that may be hard for deep analyzing when heard for the first time orally during the lecture. It helps to base the knowledge an start to use it in practice. Such as an overall used Monte Carlo method is described quite ubderstandable in the book. It covers quite much of the course material although briefly.

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In an age of mass markets, mass audiences, and mass culture, the role of poetry in our moral or political world seems at best uncertain. This was a dilemma faced by such poets as James Thomson, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Masters of Repetition, Lisa M. Steinman examines this issue by focusing on the work of these four poets. Covering the period between 1725 and 1847, Steinman looks at the involvement of these poets with both literary history and the changing social climates each of them confronted. She addresses the idea of influence and each poet's debt to the poets who came before him, as well as the struggle for an original voice. Describing how all four poets seized on the practice of poetry as not just art but as a vehicle for social action and change, Steinman contemporizes this idea and reveals the ways in which each poet attempted to align his work with power. She also shows how these poets responded to the conflict posed by inherited literary models and current cultural changes. Masters of Repetition offers a uniquely-crafted model for reading modern poetry's engagement with power--both literary and worldly, past and present.

Wordsworth and the Critics: The Development of a Critical Reputation (Studies in English and American Literature and Culture)

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Wordsworth and the Critics: The Development of a Critical Reputation (Studies in English and American Literature and Culture)
John L. Mahoney
Manufacturer: Camden House
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 157113090X

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William Wordsworth, often regarded as the High Priest of British Romantic Poetry, certainly had the longest career of the Romantics,one extending from his days as a schoolboy almost to the end of his life in 1850, from the Lyrical Ballads and descriptive poetry of 1790s to the late poetry of the 1840s. With this long career came a remarkable history of critical reception: from the reviews of his contemporaries in journals and magazines; to the major statements of Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill, and others; to the amazing variety of books, essays, and theoretical approaches of the twentieth century. Although there have been a number of studies about the critical reception of Wordsworth's poetry and critical theory, Professor Mahoney's book is the first full-length study of how critics -- from the earliest reviewers to the major Victorian voices, to the enormous 20th-century response -- have approached the many facets of the great English Romantic's work. Mahoney does not aim at following the course of Wordsworth's life and career, as many admirable and recent biographies have done, but rather follows the course of a critical reputation as it has evolved from the poet's earliest probes to the present day. Thus Wordsworth and the Critics offers an engaging narrative of the reputation of this most prominent of Romantic poets. John L. Mahoney is Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English at Boston College and has written extensively on Wordsworth and English Romanticism.

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Wordsworth in American Literary Culture

Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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This new collection of specially-commissioned essays provides the most complete picture yet produced of the influence of William Wordsworth's writing on major American writers of the nineteenth century, such as Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Melville, and Dickinson. In addition to providing a thorough account of Wordsworth's influence on American literature, this collection also seeks to address the poet's influence on American culture, from religious reform to civic humanism, and in so doing hints at a new theory of transatlantic influence that accounts for transnational literary as well as cultural exchange. Contributors include James Butler, Elizabeth Fay, Stephen Gill, Susan Manning, and Adam Potkay.

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