Product Description: This text combines a positive and practical approach to the study of marriage and family life. It is based on extensive and up-to-date research as reported in the journals and monographs. It shows how sociological theories apply to the various topics...read more

In the past, vertical integration was a way to gain efficiency in supply chains. Today, vertical integration doesn't work as well because specialty organizations have developed to perform specific tasks very efficiently. Efficiency through supply chains is achieved today by linking specialists throughout the vertical business hierarchy. This sort of linkage is possible because of the technology that has developed which facilitates it, making today supply chains both faster and more cost effective. Supply Chain Information Technology surveys the different systems that are used by businesses to achieve these efficiencies. The target market for this book is practitioners in the supply chain management field, one of the fastest growing fields in our economy. The rapid growth in computer technology provides supply chains with valuable tools to better coordinate and control their operations. This book describes how these systems provide supply chains with information system support. The design of these systems and the tasks they perform are demonstrated with the help of analytic techniques and models that are used in the book.

Product Description: Ben enjoys exploring new cities, new lands, and new people. Allowing himself three months and $500 per week, Ben set out to learn what he could about South America, and those who call it home. Navigate with Ben through nine countries and Antarctica, taking a closer look at nine different South Americans along the way...read more

Product Description: Jerome Bruner is the vanguard of "the cognitive revolution" in psychology and the predominant spokesman for the role of culture and education in the making of the modern mind. In this text Olson encourages the reader to think about children as Bruner did, not as bundles of traits and dispositions to be diagnosed and remediated, but as thoughtful, keenly interested, agentive persons who are willing and indeed able to play an important role in their own learning and development...read more

The atlas contains an entry for each unique zeolite framework type. The term zeolite framework refers to a corner-sharing network of tetrahedrally coordinated atoms. This 5th edition is again an updated version of the previous compilation, and the number of entries has risen significantly to 133.

Product Description: Finally a book about corporate survival written from the employee's point of view! This sarcastic look at office life will not only help guide the new employee through a tangled web of insane bureaucracy, but seasoned employees will also enjoy the humorous observations of typical coworkers and supervisors alike...read more

Product Description: Prepared Companions discusses issues in preparing for marriage and improving marital relationships. Suitable for group discussions and self-help.

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Product Description: Featuring an overview of Client/Server strategies and system design, including distributed and centralized models, this book provides an in-depth, topic-by-topic treatment of all issues relevant to building C/S applications in Visual Basic...read more

Product Description: Literacy is an important concern of contemporary societies. This book offers a comprehensive survey of recent efforts to understand the nature of written language and its role in cognition and in social and intellectual life. The authors represent a wide range of disciplines - cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, education, history and philosophy - and address a wide range of questions...read more

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