Beyond defining moments like the Bay of Pigs, this book reveals lesser-known events: Che’s adventures, Castro’s possible link to JFK’s assassination, and Cuba’s silent wars. Utilizing sources previously available only in Spanish, it corrects the record on the Cuban Revolution.
Bandol is more than an idyllic town. It is the only French wine appellation where the Mourvèdre grape is dominant. Discover stories of celebrity residents and aged rosé, plus tasting notes and food pairings for over 50 wine producers and their best bottles.
Neoteric Developments in Management Science in Engineering
This book identifies the major research categories in Management Science in Engineering (MSE) and evaluates and classifies each journal. Compiled by leading academics and editors, it is an essential resource for scientists, researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students.
This book explores the philosophical foundations of justice, arguing our modern views on equality and class struggle fail those in need. A renewed Jewish perspective is offered, proposing poverty alleviation based on a generalized responsibility to help vulnerable neighbors.
Financial mathematics is the base for corporate finance, financial management, and investment. This textbook provides knowledge necessary for every financier, economist, and financial analyst. It is for students and specialists who want to master quantitative methods in finance.
Based on real science, this book offers a new methodology for assessing coaching’s effects on managers’ personalities. It shows how they can respond to the challenges they face in a more effective and professional way.
Developing Third-Generation Learning Organizations
To build the agile, knowledge-creating organization of the future, leaders must first undergo their own transformation. This book offers the theory and methodology needed to guide this process, outlining how developing people leads to enhanced profitability.
Management Footsteps and Foundations
For the first time, the foundations of management are brought to life through historical analysis. This daringly innovative book takes the reader on a journey through human history from a management perspective, utterly transforming our understanding of the subject.
This book offers HR practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to measuring workplace diversity. It shows how to apply diversity indices and use regression methods to assess the organizational factors that influence age, ethnic, and gender diversity, with practical examples.
A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects
This book compares industry approaches to software effort estimation, from traditional function points to agile story points. Using real-life case studies, learn to apply each technique immediately and answer the question all managers dread: “How is your project going?”
Massive oil revenues led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to invest their enormous wealth abroad. This book shows how foreign investment is a crucial tool for diversification and a strategy for preserving and expanding their oil wealth for the future.
This hands-on guide shows HR practitioners and researchers how to apply the Shannon diversity index to measure workplace diversity. With practical examples, it also illustrates how regression methods can assess the factors that influence age, ethnic, and gender diversity.
This book offers HR practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to measuring workplace diversity with Simpson’s diversity index. With examples from real employment data, it illustrates how to analyze demographic diversity and use regression to assess its influencing factors.
Precision Agriculture and Food Production
The world faces a dilemma of food scarcity and abundance, with massive waste. A cocoa farmer in Africa earns less than $1 a day, yet rich countries have easy access to food. This book studies the food system, from corporate models to the role of science and technology.
This volume explores approaches to monitoring sustainable tourism at seaside destinations, focusing on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. It presents a systematic process of gathering data to assess and manage development. Essential for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
This book examines the link between individual entrepreneurship and the competitive performance of an industry, using Kenya’s leather industry as a case study. It refocuses attention from knowledge-based industries to primary sectors that are typical of African economies.
This book argues that the omnipotence of algorithms in marketing is not what it seems. Programmatic marketing can be improved, but first we must understand the strategic and cultural boundaries of Big Data, which repeats mistakes marketing has already overcome once.
This book critiques the partial explanations of current change management theories. It proposes a comprehensive model, using case studies to introduce a “polyphonic” management style where considering the interests of all stakeholders contributes to successful change projects.
Journal evaluation and classification are critical for researchers, engineers, and students in Management Science in Engineering (MSE). This book identifies the main research categories of MSE, and evaluates and classifies each journal in the field.
This is the first-ever reprinting of 27 letters by Mary Mason Fairbanks from the 1867 Quaker City cruise, one of the most famous travel excursions in American history. The letters feature cameo appearances by her fellow passenger and lifelong friend, Mark Twain.