by Roger E. Backhouse (Editor) Hardcover: 256 pages ISBN-13: 978-0415174701 Was: $1050.00 Roger Backhouse is a key figure in the field of economic methodology. Explorations in Economic Methodology both clarifies and responds to the issues raised by the literature and argues that methodology is an essential activity. Offering a constructive, but critical, response to the recent literature, this collection provides important...

by Raymond M. Brooks (Author) Paperback: 617 pages ISBN-13: 978-0132671033 Was: $595.00 Brooks uses a tools-based approach that presents the key concepts of finance (or “tools”) early on in the text, followed by an application of those concepts to various finance problems. By introducing key finance concepts with personal and business-related finance examples, this text helps readers understand how the tools of finance can help...

by Suresh Sundaresan (Author) Hardcover: 456 pages ISBN-13: 978-0123704719 Was: $495.00 This well-respected textbook continues the tradition of providing clear and concise explanations for fixed income securities, pricing, and markets. Fixed Income Markets and Their Derivatives matches well with fixed income securities courses. The book's organization emphasizes institutions in the first part, analytics in the second,...

by Arthur J. Keown  (Author) Hardcover: 624 pages ISBN-13: 978-0132339223 Was: $650.00 KEY BENEFIT: Keown allows readers to see the big picture by letting them understand the logic that drives finance rather than memorizing formulas. Very user friendly, the basic pedagogical approach to the presentation of new tools and techniques is “say it” then “illustrate it with an example” and reinforce with lots of “real...

by Thomas P Edmonds (Author) Hardcover: 1296 pages ISBN-13: 978-0072846003 Was: $525.00 Students are often overwhelmed by the amount of information presented in the introductory financial accounting course. Fundamental Financial and Managerial Accounting Concepts gives students the big picture, by focusing on fundamental concepts in a logical sequence. The authors intentionally limit the scope of the material to help students build a solid...

 by Thomas Edmonds (Author) Hardcover: 704 pages ISBN-13: 978-0073526799 Was: $595.00 Edmonds/Edmonds/Tsay/Olds focuses on helping students truely understand the underlying principles of accounting, not just memorizing content. Pedagogical innovations like the unique Horizontal Financial Statements Model and a multiple accounting cycle approach that demonstrates the impact of related events over a series of accounting cycles,...

by Joe Ben Hoyle  (Author) Hardcover: 637 pages ISBN-13: 978-0072981925 Was: $595.00 Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting, is ideal for those schools wanting to cover 12 chapters in their advanced accounting course. This concise text allows students to think critically about accounting, just as they will do preparing for the CPA exam. The text continues to show the development of financial reporting as a product of intense and considered...

by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz (Author) Hardcover: 336 pages ISBN-13: 978-0470037263 Was: $280.00 Great organizations are made up of great people. And for leaders at all levels within those organizations, the ability to find, hire, integrate, and retain great people is an absolutely critical skill—critical to their organization's success, and critical to their own success. But for most people, making great appointments...

by Joseph S. Wholey (Editor) Hardcover: 768 pages ISBN-13: 978-0787967130 Was: $325.00 The second edition of Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation offers managers, analysts, consultants, and educators in government, nonprofit, and private institutions a valuable resource that outlines efficient and economical methods for assessing program results and identifying ways to improve program performance. The Handbook has...

by Ap Eigenhuis  (Author) Hardcover: 207 pages ISBN-13: 978-0749450137 Was: $475.00 Authors Ap Eigenhuis and Rob van Dijk see a natural alliance between the CEO and the HR executive. HR executives, they argue, must position themselves in the forefront of solving new business challenges. In High Performance Business Strategy, they show senior management -- both within HR and outside of it -- how to analyze the weak points in a business and focus...

by Thomas F. Gilbert  (Author) Hardcover: 416 pages ISBN-13: 978-0787996154 Was: $475.00 What People Have Said About Human Competence: "Among the ideas bulging from this classic work: performance exemplars, potential for improving performance, behavior-accomplishment distinction, performance matrix, ACORN troubleshooting test, performance audits, states, Worth = Value - Cost, knowledge maps, mediators, and job...

by Zachary Wong Ph. D (Author) Hardcover: 368 pages ISBN-13: 978-0787996291 Was: $450.00 In Human Factors in Project Management, author Zachary Wong—a noted trainer and acclaimed leader of more than 250 project teams—provides a summary of "people-based" management skills and techniques that can be applied when working in a team environment. This comprehensive resource brings together in one book...

by John Ivancevich (Author) Hardcover: 672 pages ISBN-13: 978-0073381466 Was: $525.00 Human Resource Management, by Ivancevich and Konopaske takes a managerial orientation; that is it takes the position that HRM is relevant to managers in every unit, project, or team. Managers are constantly faced with HRM issues, problems, and decision-making and the text's primary goal is to show how each manager must be a human resource problem solver and...

by Mark Fuller (Author) Paperback: 528 pages ISBN-13: 978-0131454170 Was: $525.00 For undergraduate and graduate courses in IT/IS Project Management.   Information Systems Project Management operates from the assumption that organizational project management is a complex team-based activity, and that various types of technologies are an inherent part of the project management process.  ...

 by Paul Trott  (Author) Paperback: 536 pages ISBN-13: 978-0273686439 Was: $495.00 Innovation Management and New Product development is an established, text for MBA, MSc and advanced undergraduate courses on innovation management, management of technology, new product development and entrepreneurship. It is also widely used by practitioners of innovation. ...

by J. David Spiceland  (Author) Hardcover: 1248 pages ISBN-13: 978-0073215426 Was: $695.00 Adopters and reviewers praise Intermediate Accounting, by Spiceland/Sepe/Tomassini for its superior readability, strong supplements package/learning system, good EOC, real-world flavor, consistent quality; and high student engagement. SST 4e will gain support in both traditional and progressive accounting departments, especially those...

by Tamer Cavusgil (Author) Paperback: 704 pages ISBN-13: 978-0137128334 Was: $350.00 KEY BENEFIT: CKR is an evolving learning package that makes teaching easier and captures IB as practiced today. The text addresses emerging markets, the growing participation of small and medium-sized firms in international business, and examples of both international and national businesses so students can see IB from all perspectives. CKR also offers an...

by Kelly-Kate S. Pease  (Author) Paperback: 366 pages ISBN-13: 978-0205179992 Was: $395.00 Drawing on mainstream and critical theoretical approaches, International Organizations offers a comprehensive examination of international organizations’ political and structural role in world politics. This text details the types and activities of international organizations and provides students with the conceptual...

by Paul R. Viotti  (Author) Paperback: 528 pages ISBN-13: 978-0135076217 Was: $395.00 Combining extensive commentary by the authors and excerpts from original scholarship, International Relations Theory evaluates all the major theoretical perspectives that political scientists use to analyze world politics. This unique survey/reader not only looks at classic international relations theory but takes into account changes in the...

by Karen P. Schoenebeck (Author) Paperback: 212 page ISBN-13: 978-0136121985 Was: $325.00 This text helps students analyze real company financial statement information. Each activity in the book concentrates on only one aspect of the analysis and uses data from well-known corporations to pique students' interest and add relevancy.