When a Russian courier is gunned down in Helsinki, CIA agent Jack Horn becomes entangled in a complicated web of intrigue, involving a clandestine love affair, a defection plot, and betrayal

Product Description: Part of SAGE’s Mastering Business Research Methods, conceived and edited by Bill Lee, Mark N. K. Saunders and Vadake K. Narayanan and designed to support researchers by providing in-depth and practical guidance on using a chosen method of data collection or analysis...read more

Product Description: How do you turn a really good idea into a really good question, and how do you turn this into successful research?   Barbara Fawcett and Rosalie Pockett use their expertise as supervisors and researchers to provide you with the frameworks and the theoretical and practical guidance you need to design, carry out and communicate your research effectively...read more

Product Description: A directory of publicly owned corporations that spend on R&D, published annually in June. Corporate name, address, telephone number, and website are provided along with the names and titles of three senior executives, R&D budgets, sales, fiscal year closing, and more...read more

Product Description: Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling travel guide Road Trip USA. In this expanded tour of the Pacific Coast Highway, Jamie takes you from the dense green forests of Washington to the gorgeous beaches of Southern California...read more

Product Description: The Public Sector R&D Enterprise combines a primer on how government R&D programs actually work with a sophisticated methodology for prospectively putting a dollar figure on the value of R&D investments before they are made.

Product Description: Available as an E-Inspection Copy! Go here to order 'This book clearly approaches the "21st century skills-issue" ... Hands-on, reflective, thorough: a definite must-have for students, professionals and HE institutions.' - Nieke Campagne, Careers/Policy Advisor, Leiden University, The Netherlands   Whether you are about to embark on your business degree programme, are already a business student or are a business graduate, this book helps you to develop yourself and your career in ways which will benefit you, your current and future employers and society...read more

Product Description: 'It is difficult to think of a more pressingly momentous political challenge than the topic addressed in this volume, and there could hardly be a better group of researchers to unfold key implications. In the broadest of senses referred to here, 'socio-technical systems' pervade all the great political dilemmas of the contemporary world...read more

Product Description: Die Arbeit untersucht multiparadigmatisch das für Forschung & Entwicklung spezifische Bilanzierungsverhalten. Ausgangspunkt ist eine normendeskriptive Analyse der abschlusspolitischen Gestaltungsspielräume nach internationalen und handelsrechtlichen Rechnungslegungsvorschriften...read more

Product Description: A directory of publicly owned corporations that spend on R&D. Corporate name, address, telephone number and website are provided along with the names and titles of three senior executives, R&D budgets, sales, fiscal year closing, and more...read more

Product Description: A directory of publicly owned corporations that spend on R&D, published annually in June. Corporate name, address, telephone number, and website are provided along with the names and titles of three senior executives, R&D budgets, sales, fiscal year closing, and more...read more

Product Description: Research and development is no longer a headquarters function. More and more companies internationalize their R&D activities. The pros and cons of this approach are discussed in this book. The organizational alternatives for international R&D as well as the consequences that they have for decision making and performing R&D are also of great interest...read more

Product Description: Industrial research has come under pressure. Will recent budget cuts reduce competitiveness? Based on interviews in Japanese and European high-tech firms it is shown that research supports important potentials. These can be used for project funding, location decisions, and an analysis of sufficient conditions for research success...read more

Product Description: 'Radiation Oncology: MCQs for Exams' (ROME) will cover the essential aspects of radiation physics, radiobiology, and clinical radiation oncology designed to meet the needs of a large scale of examinees. Topics of this new book will be in the order of our previous "Basic Radiation Oncology" (Springer, 2010) with additional two new chapters (Pediatric tumors and Rare tumors-Benign Diseases) making a total of 15 chapters and instead of old style question and answer format,current MCQ examination pattern helpful for both oral exams and written exams is used in this comprehensive bedside recall book complementing the "Basic Radiation Oncology"1st Edition...read more

Product Description: In 2003 Michael Kennedy's Product Development for the Lean Enterprise was published and promptly turned product development in major corporations on its head. Now, five years later, comes a continuation of that book, including case histories that identify the pitfalls and lessons learned in implementing Toyota's product development system...read more

What are the secrets of competitive R&D on a global scale? Based on empirical research of over 240 interviews, the authors present new concepts and trends in global R&D management. Case studies from 18 best-practice companies give detailed answers to the most pressing challenges for mastering international innovation. "The new style of global team work is rapidly spreading in all technology areas." Dr. Yutaka Kuwahara, General Manager R&D, Hitachi Europe "The challenge will be the creation of R&D organizations that serve highly networked and distributed enterprises." Mark B. Myers, PhD, Senior Vice President Corporate R&D, Xerox "This excellent book demonstrates how the dynamics of innovation and creativity can be mastered. Important reading for senior management and a must for R&D leaders." Karl Weinberger, Head of Corporate R&D, Schindler