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Project management is the key to effective drug development. Given the costs of development and the critical issue of 'time to market', project management techniques - appropriately used - are a key factor in bringing a drug to market. Laura Brown and Tony Grundy's book offers the reader a guide to the tools and techniques of project management and how to apply them in the pharmaceutical context. The authors cover both the technical and human aspects of project management to provide clinical research, drug development and quality assurance managers or directors with a must-have reference.

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Introduces a ground-breaking new model for managing creativity within a corporate environment, describing the dynamics of a workplace that encourages breakthrough ideas and initiative, rejects bureaucracy, questions convention, and allows employees to foster individual creative ideas. 50,000 first printing.

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In this bold and provocative book, Laura Brown explores the representation of women in English literature from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole--a time during which an expansionist economic system was consolidated, a fertile ideology advocating a benevolent and progressive imperialism took root, and the slave trade was institutionalized. In this period, she maintains, the image of the female not only played a leading role in literary culture but also profoundly affected mercantile capitalist ideology.

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