Product Description: In this book, China-Latin America relations experts Margaret Myers and Carol Wise examine the political and economic forces that have underpinned Chinese engagement in the region, as well as the ways in which these forces have shaped economic sectors and policy-making in Latin America...read more

Product Description: Fifty years ago, Brazil relocated its capital city, situating it a thousand kilometers away from the coast, on the high, parched savanna. Here they built a brand new city, Brasilia, in the shape of an airplane speeding into the future...read more

Product Description: "TheseThings I Remember" describes the life of a learned man in a religious Jewish environment in Northeast Poland. Imbued from early childhood with a deep love of learning, he marries at 15 then makes a career in the cloth and leather trades...read more

A late newscaster whose final years were marked by her struggle with Lou Gehrig's disease recounts her efforts to document and bring meaning to her life as a way of preparing herself and her family for her death. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Winner of the Young Minds Book Prize 2007 This book is a moving and thoughtful anthology of the experiences of thirty-one children and teenagers who have lost a parent. In their own words, children and young people of a variety of ages talk openly and honestly about losing their mother or father...read more

Product Description: To tackle the complex problems of life today, we need to coordinate a wide range of expertise. Systems concepts and methods offer the means of integrating the contributions of specialists, including managers, scientists and engineers...read more

Describes the work, educational requirements, and job outlook for librarians, and discusses future concerns of the profession. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume offers a new systems paradigm, presents a systems outlook, defines key concepts and outlines the principles of characterizing complex systems in a qualitative way and by the systematic use of models and measures. The book presents the product/process (P/p) methodology: a coherent collection of generic but readily understandable concepts, rigorous but applicable methods and principles of reasoning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This survey was prepared under the direction of Mary Jo Lynch, with assistance from Margaret Myers and Jeniece Guy. It reports salaries paid to incumbents in seven positions commonly found in US public and academic libraries, with responses stratified by size and type of library and geographic area...read more

Product Description: A survey that reports salaries paid to incumbents in seven positions commonly found in US public and academic libraries, with responses stratified by size and type of library and geographic area.

Product Description: Systems, Models and Measures seeks to bridge the gap between the 'classical' and the newer technologies by constructing a systematic measurement framework for both. The authors use their experience as consultants in systems, software and quality engineering to take the subject from concept and theory, via strategy and procedure, to tools and applications...read more

Product Description: This is the 1993 edition of the "ALA Survey of Librarian Salaries". Covering seven typical postions, it is the use of library administrators setting salaries, librarians seeking employment, personnel officers studying compensation trends, and persons concerned with equitable pay for librarians...read more