Patrick Smith - Böcker

Dagens rekryteringsarbete kräver strukturerade och forsknings¿baserade metoder som förmår att motivera anställningsbeslut såväl internt som externt. Den här boken erbjuder en heltäckande intro¿duktion till området rekrytering och urval. Bedömning,...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fascinating fear of flying book from a commercial airline pilot and author of the popular website askthepilot.com. For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even frightening experience. ...

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A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKY 'After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day's work in your life ... Thi...

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Oil work is hard, manual and deadly. In this blistering memoir, Michael Flanagan Smith offers a vision of what life is like for the men doing the world's dirty work.

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A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy'DAVID LIPSKY'After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day's work in your life ... This l...

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A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021?Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ? like Educated¿and¿Hillbilly Elegy?DAVID LIPSKY?After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day?s work in your life ? This lyr...

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A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy DAVID LIPSKY After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard days work in your life This lyrical an...

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Oceans and Human Health highlights an unprecedented collaboration of environmental scientists, ecologists and physicians working together on this important new discipline, to the benefit of human health and ocean environmental integrity alike. Oce...

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In Fragments of Bone, thirteen essayists discuss African religions as forms of resistance and survival in the face of Western cultural hegemony and imperialism. The collection presents scholars working outside of the Western tradition with backgro...

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Haitian Vodou breaks away from European and American heuristic models for understanding a religio-philosophical system such as Vodou in order to form new approaches with an African ethos. The contributors to this volume, all Haitians, examine the ...

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Läs ett provkapitel här GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT. FAST. Projects are there to deliver measurable benefits and value to an organisation. Delivering on time and on budget is important, but to be an effective project manager y...

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GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT. FAST. Projects are there to deliver measurable benefits and value to an organisation. Delivering on time and on budget is important, but project management is not just about doing things right, it is...

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People differ in their cognitive stylestheir ways of getting and using information to solve problems and make decisions. Alfred G. Smith and his associates studied these differences in a selected group of over 800 students at a score of law school...

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Why Americas founding myths no longer apply, and why we must reconsider the facts of our history Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the countrys founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad ...

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Why America’s founding myths no longer apply, and why we must reconsider the facts of our history Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country’s founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand am...

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From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West.  In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s endeavor to adopt Western technology an...

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The Japanese are in the process of re-creating themselves--an endeavor they have undertaken at intervals throughout history, always prompted by a combination of domestic and global forces. In this landmark book, Patrick Smith asserts that a variet...

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Providing easy access to information on nearly 450 short stories, this unique guide surveys a wide spectrum of world literature, canonical works, and contemporary fiction. Librarians and teachers will find multiple purposes for this expertly-compi...

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Providing easy access to information on nearly 450 short stories, this unique guide surveys a wide spectrum of world literature, canonical works, and contemporary fiction. Librarians and teachers will find multiple purposes for this expertly-compi...

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After growing up in Minnesota and graduating from college, Tim O'Brien received a draft notice and joined the war effort in Vietnam. He chronicled his combat experiences in his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, and...

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In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-old Seminole man. Unlike the younger American Indians who have adopted white civilization, Charlie and his wife cling to the ol...

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First Published in 2004. Islands are coming under increasing environmental and social pressure, particularly as a result of the impact of tourism. In many ways, the small scale of these islandsalmost enclosed systemsprovides researchers with ideal...

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Post traumatic stress disorder develops after exposure to one or more terrifying events that have caused, or threatened to cause the sufferer grave physical harm. This book discusses how trauma-focused cognitive therapy can be used to help childre...

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A Handbook of Children and Young Peoples Participation brings together key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts across the globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theory and practice around childrens participation. P...

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A Handbook of Children and Young Peoples Participation brings together key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts across the globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theory and practice around childrens participation. P...

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Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. Incorporating both socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives, the book maps the dive...

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Events such as Trafigura's illegal dumping of toxic waste in Cte dIvoire and BP's environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have highlighted ethical issues in international business at a time when business leaders, acade...

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Events such as Trafigura's illegal dumping of toxic waste in Cte dIvoire and BP's environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have highlighted ethical issues in international business at a time when business leaders, acade...

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This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. The documents in this volume, many released into the public realm for the first time, describe the development of Britis...

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