Author: Bailey Maxim Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica ISBN: 1508100454 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
This book presents biographies of 100 innovators of technology who have affected nearly every facet of life, from transportation and communication to science and entertainment. Their names range from the familiar, such as Thomas Edison, to the more obscure, such as Henrietta Swan Leavitt, but their contributions to today's world are all vital.
Author: Monica Gill Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica ISBN: 1508100950 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 364
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This book presents biographies of 100 individuals in the medical field responsible for everything from vaccinations to gene therapy. It allows readers to understand how each pioneer built on the work of his or her peers and predecessors and how concepts relate to each other.
Author: Virginia Forte Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica ISBN: 1508100438 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 475
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This book presents biographies of 100 of the most influential entertainers of all time. It includes the best-known actors, comedians, directors, and musicians who have kept audiences tuned in and have constantly pushed the limits of entertainment.
Author: Kevin Geller Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica ISBN: 1508100446 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 551
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This book presents biographies of 100 military leaders, both good and evil, who represent nations throughout the world and the most significant wars in history. Each entry includes information about childhood influences, education, career highlights, post-military life, and legacy as it relates to military history.
Author: Hope Killcoyne Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica ISBN: 150810042X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 494
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This book presents biographies of 100 religious leaders who have had the greatest impact on their respective followers, nations, regions, and the world at large. Young readers not only learn about notable leaders of the various strands of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, but also read about the contributions of offshoot sects and more obscure religions.
Author: Amy McKenna Senior Editor, Geography and History Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1615300155 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 383
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Collects profiles of the one hundred most influential leaders throughout history, including such heads of state as Constantine and Barack Obama, such religious leaders as the Dalai Lama, and such influential social leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author: Robert Curley Manager, Science and Technology Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1615300031 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 337
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Profile famous inventors, ranging from Imhotep and Archimedes to Leo Fender and Bill Gates.
Author: Mina Michel Samaan Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030026655 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 303
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This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River. It presents a thorough and in-depth analysis of the historical path through which conflict and cooperation have been generated among the Nile riparians over large-scale developmental schemes. This is done through modeling water interactions in the basin as an iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game and employing process-tracing method to compare four distinguishable rounds of the game: the colonial round, the Cold War round, the post-Cold War round, and the post-2011 round. The book examines the influences of the changing political contexts at the domestic, regional, and global levels on the game outcomes. This framework is initially applied on several cases of international rivers worldwide, while the rest of the book is devoted to the Nile case. The book's central argument is that the riparians' interests, capabilities, and beliefs are heterogeneous in varying degrees and that the changing multilevel political contexts influence the level of such heterogeneities among the riparians, which ultimately drive the equilibrium dynamics in the Nile game to generate different conflictive and cooperative outcomes over time. Although the book's main conclusion indicates that the absence of economic interdependence and regional integration will transfer the game into tug-of-war, which will impose harsh punishment on the basin communities and ecosystems on the long term, the final chapter lists a group of recommendations addressed to the riparian states and international donors, exploring the way for boosting cooperation and preventing conflicts in the basin. Presenting clear theoretical, methodological, and policy implications, this book is appropriate for students and scholars of international relations, hydrology, and development studies.
Author: Basic Books Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465026346 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 229
Book Description
Given the urgency and immediacy of so many business problems and challenges, a solid grounding in the history and evolution of business thinking will help managers separate fad from fact and apply the cumulative wisdom of the writers whose ideas have demonstrated profound and lasting impact. From Sun Tzu's timeless Art of War to the inventors of modern management in the 1920s-'40s to the books that have the captured the New Economy Zeitgeist, The Best Business Books Ever illuminates the key ideas and contributions of the 100 books that should form the basis of any manager's, business student's, or entrepreneur's library. The Best Business Books Ever places both historical and contemporary works in context and draws fascinating parallels and points of connection between books from different places and times, all of which have contributed to our collective understanding and practice of the art of management.
Author: Bailey Maxim
Author: Monica Gill
Author: Virginia Forte
Author: Kevin Geller
Author: Hope Killcoyne
Author: Amy McKenna Senior Editor, Geography and History
Author: Robert Curley Manager, Science and Technology
Author: Perseus Publishing
Author: Mina Michel Samaan
Author: Basic Books