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  • Executive Talent

    Developing and Keeping the Best People

    by Peter Blau ...
    This brilliant, up-to-date compendium argues that the most successful factor in company life is good people: individuals who are capable, competent, and savvy. Can corporate life attract such people? Ginzberg argues that despite demographic dislocations and the challenges to the work ethic, the answer to this question is a loud yes. In Executive Talent, Ginzberg and his colleagues show how to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Organization of Academic Work

    by Peter M. Blau ...
    Series series Foundations of Higher Education
    This book originated in an analysis of government bureaucracies. Peter Blau was led to wonder whether corresponding patterns are observable in the administrative structures of other types of organisations. This text examines the institutions of higher education, which Blau believes are the formal organisations that differ most in objectives and performance from government bureaucracies. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theory

    by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Douglas D. Heckathorn, David R. Heise, Ronald L. Jepperson, Michael Lovaglia, Barry Markovsky, Morris Zelditch, Gerald Marwell, Bruce Buena de Mesquita, James D. Morrow, Pamela E. Oliver, Brent Simpson, Randolph Siverson, John Skvoretz, Alastair Smith, David G. Wagner, Henry Walker, David Willer, Robb Willer, Shane Thye, Jack A. Goldstone, Guillermina Jasso, John D. McCarthy, Immanuel Wallerstein, Mayer N. Zald ...
    Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical programs; many chapters contain a description of the inception, growth, and present status ... Read more

    $51.09 USD

  • Exchange and Power in Social Life

    by Peter M. Blau ...
    In his landmark study of exchange and power in social life, Peter M. Blau contributes to an understanding of social structure by analyzing the social processes that govern the relations between individuals and groups. The basic question that Blau considers is: How does social life become organized into increasingly complex structures of associations among humans.This analysis, first published in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Formal Organizations

    A Comparative Approach

    by Peter M. Blau, W. Richard Scott ...
    Series series Stanford Business Classics
    Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse approaches, it presented a new focus of interest: the formal organization. Blau and Scott raised the level of analysis from attention solely on individual participants and work groups to a broader understanding of organizations as collective actors.In the book, the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Formal Organizations

    A Comparative Approach

    by Peter M. Blau, W. Richard Scott ...
    Series series Stanford Business Classics
    Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse approaches, it presented a new focus of interest: the formal organization. Blau and Scott raised the level of analysis from attention solely on individual participants and work groups to a broader understanding of organizations as collective actors.In the book, the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Three Stages of a Physician's Career

    Navigating from Training to Beyond Retirement

    by Neil Baum, Peter Moskowitz, Joel Blau ...
    Today's medical graduates are superbly trained to practice state-of-the art clinical medicine. However, only in rare instances are they trained to self-manage their careers and medical practices. This book fills that gap in training and knowledge. To assist students, interns, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians manage the many challenges of their career, the authors have divided ... Read more

    $39.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Objectivist Nexus

    Essays in Cultural Poetics

    by Eric Homberger, Alan Golding, Charles Altieri, Yves di Manno, Charles Bernstein, John Seed, Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Nichols, Robert Franciosi, Andrew Crozier, Stephen Fredman, Ming-Qian Ma, Professor Peter Middleton, Professor Burton Hatlen ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    Outstanding poets and critics present cultural readings of the Objectivist poets, a group whose works have been largely unexamined."Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Tribosystem Analysis

    A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of Wear Problems

    by Peter J. Blau ...
    Tribosystem Analysis: A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of Wear Problems provides a systematic framework for conducting root cause analyses and categorizing various types of wear. Designed specifically for engineers without formal training in tribology, this book:Describes a number of direct and indirect methods for detecting and quantifying wear problemsSurveys different microscopy techniques ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Friction Science and Technology

    From Concepts to Applications, Second Edition

    by Peter J. Blau ...
    "Should have broad appeal in many kinds of industry, ranging from automotive to computers-basically any organization concerned with products having moving parts!"-David A. Rigney, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, USAIn-Depth Coverage of Frictional ConceptsFriction affects so many aspects of daily l ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Understanding the Neurotransmitters: Key to the Workings of the Brain

    by Walter Birkmayer, Peter Riederer ...
    Translated by Karl Blau ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)

    $89.09 USD

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  • Professionalism Reborn

    Theory, Prophecy and Policy

    by Eliot Freidson ...
    This book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Western industrial societies today. ... Read more

    $24.00 USD