The Golden Guide provides clear advice and guidance for developing the habits of mind and effective behaviors that are likely to lead to career success - no matter what profession or field of inquiry. I wrote Dean Lazar's Golden Guide after working for more than a decade overseeing graduate law (LL.M) and policy (M.P.P....

Adolescence is often regarded as full of changes and turmoil. Scholars from different areas echo the viewpoint of psychologists who show stress and emotional variation and of sociologists and criminologists who find surging delinquency in this stage of life....

Maximizing the profits obtained in the conversion of hardwood logs into lumber is a primary concern of forest products companies. Trends of increased log costs and limited availability are forcing wood processors to become more efficient in their operations....

The daily work experiences of people in almost any part of the world are shaped by workplace innovations. This book provides a close-up of eight Japanese affiliated manufacturing facilities operating in the United States, tracing the flow of ideas from Japan to the US and the beginnings of a reverse diffusion of innovation back to Japan....

Bringing together mathematical tools and engineering concepts with ideas from sociology and human behavior analysis, this comprehensive and accessible resource uses examples from real-world multimedia social networks to demonstrate how signal processing techniques can be used to model user dynamics and optimize design of media-sharing network syste...