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    • Understanding novelty in organizations : a research path across agency and consequences 

      Frigotto, Maria Laura (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      Providing a first tentative understanding of novelty and a set of implications for organizations to manage it, this book focuses on the potential offered by emergent novelty, namely novelty which is neither designed nor ...

    • Understanding Participant-Reference Shifts in the Book of Jeremiah: A Study of Exegetical Method and Its Consequences for the Interpretation of Referential Incoherence 

      Glanz, Oliver (Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)
      In prophetic and poetic literature of the Old Testament references to textual participants are inconsistent with regard to their gender, number and person characteristics. Oliver Glanz for the first time provides a systematic ...

    • Understanding Psychology 

      Feldman, Robert S. (McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)
      Using a revolutionary revision process, Understanding Psychology is a fully integrated learning system that brings the "Students First" goal to a new level.With the adaptive learning program, SmartBook, every student has ...

    • Understanding statistics in psychology with SPSS 

      Cramer, Duncan; Howitt, Dennis (Pearson, 2017)
      This is a book for students, though its emphasis on statistics in practice means that it should be valuable to anyone seeking to familiarise themselves with the vast majority of common statistical techniques employed in ...

    • Understanding Statistics Using R 

      Schumacker, Randall; Tomek, Sara (Springer, 2013)
      This book was written to provide resource materials for teachers to use in their introductory or intermediate statistics class. The chapter content is ordered along the lines of many popular statistics books so it should ...

    • Understanding stocks 

      Sincere, Michael (McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)
      In this edition, the author spent more time on how to make money using investing and trading strategies, how to find stocks to buy and sell, how to use market indicators to predict what the market might do, how to invest ...

    • Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing 

      Perrin, Kathleen; MacLeod, Carrie (Pearson, 2017)
      This title is appropriate for all associate and baccalaureate-level courses in critical care and advanced adult or medical surgical nursing, as well as for hospital orientation programs for beginning critical care nurses. ...

    • Understanding Vision: Theory, Models, and Data 

      Zhaoping, Li (Oxford University Press, 2014)
      While the field of vision science has grown significantly in the past two decades, there have been few comprehensive books that showed readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along ...

    • Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe: From Survey to Ethnography 

      Pilkington, Hilary; Pollock, Gary; Franc, Renata (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages. Drawing on new ...

    • The Underwater Museum: The Submerged Sculptures of Jason deCaires Taylor 

      Taylor, Jason De Caires; Cormick, Carlo Mc; Scales, Helen (Chronicle Books, 2014)
      A one-of-a-kind blend of art, nature, and conservation, The Underwater Museum re-creates an awe-inspiring dive into the dazzling under-ocean sculpture parks of artist Jason deCaires Taylor. Taylor casts his life-size statues ...

    • Unemployment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policies: A New Keynesian Perspective 

      Galí, Jordi (MIT Press, 2011)
      The past fifteen years have witnessed the rise of the New Keynesian model as a framework of reference for the analysis of fluctuations and stabilization policies. That framework, which combines the rigor and internal ...

    • The unfinished Enlightenment: description in the age of the encyclopedia 

      Stalnaker, Joanna (Cornell University Press, 2010)
      In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a ...

    • The unintended Reformation : how a religious revolution secularized society 

      Wilde, Oscar; Frankel, Nicholas (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
      More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This ...

    • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice 

      Donnelly, Jack (Cornell University Press, 2013)
      In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as ...

    • The Universe in the Rearview Mirror How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality 

      Goldberg, Dave (Dutton, 2013)
      There is a gleeful skepticism of the orthodox i n popular discussion of science. Reading some of the twittering, blogging chatter out there, you might suppose that relattivity is nothing more than the ...

    • Universe: Solar System, Stars, and Galaxies, 7th Edition 

      Seeds, Michael A.; Backman, Dana (Cengage Learning, 2011)
      With their best-selling astronomy textbook, UNIVERSE: SOLAR SYSTEM, STARS, AND GALAXIES, authors Mike Seeds and Dana Backman help you understand your place in the universe--not just your location in space but your role in ...

    • Universities and the Production of Elites: Discourses, Policies, and Strategies of Excellence and Stratification in Higher Education 

      Peter, Tobias (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, ...

    • Universities as Agencies 

      Christensen, Tom; Gornitzka, Åse; Ramirez, Francisco O. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use reputation management in relation to internal and external challenges. Universities are increasingly characterized by social embeddedness, relating to many ...

    • Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System 

      Lester, Richard K.; Hart, David M. (MIT Press, 2011)
      Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a ...

    • Untangling the Web 

      Krotoski, Aleks (Faber & Faber, 2013)
      The World Wide Web is the most revolutionary innovation of our time. In the last decade, it has utterly transformed our lives. But what real effects is it having on our social world? What does it mean to be a modern family ...