In this book, Jenny Moon explores and clarifies critical thinking and provides practical guidance for improving student learning and supporting the teaching process. Key themes covered include: * different views of and approaches to critical thinking with an emphasis on a practical basis that can be translated into use in the classroom. * links between learning, thinking and writing * the place…

Offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of current research in an important area of social choice theory, Wulf Gaertner's monograph provides an essential reference for economists and political scientists. In the interests of accessibilty and readability, extensive formal proofs to theorems are not included in the text but are carefully referenced, allowing interested readers to pu…

Gone are the days of the hegemony of la pensée unique (or the one-and-only-way of thinking) and the euphoria created by the globalization of markets. Rising unemployment and insecurity, the insidious dismantling of public services, repeated fi nancial crises, ecological imbalances and US unilateralism: all these have helped to undermine the neoliberal discourse. People have lost their confi de…

The wide range and the frequently renewed formulation of strategies and organization models of corporate banking highlight (a) the absence of both an established theoretical framework and a dominant model, (b) the huge risk of misalignment of strategy, market policies, macro/micro and hard/soft organizational profiles, (c) the pressure imposed on banks personnel who have to reshape skills and c…

Cooperative Strategy Competing Successfully through Strategic Alliances Pierre Dussauge and Bernard Garrette HEC-School of Management, France In recent years, such corporate giants as Boeing, Toyota, Nestlé, Philips, United Airlines, IBM, and Intel have increasingly turned to alliances in order to develop new products and technologies, enter new markets, and globalize their activities. Indeed,…

The organization, functioning, and the role of libraries in university communities continue to change dramatically. While academic research libraries continue to acquire information, the critical issues for their management teams in the twenty-first century are to formulate a clear mission and role for their library, particularly as libraries transition to meet the new information needs of thei…

Research confirms that reading success starts with young Children enjoying library storytimes! Preschoolers' earliest experiences with books and reading are important; parent/caregiver knowledge can build on those experiences, according to research from the National Institute of Child Health & Development, conducted with PLA and ALSC, the co-initiators of the

Outlining specific types of fraud, with tips to combat each, this book also addresses such key questions as: Why are libraries particularly susceptible to fraud? Who commits fraud? How does fraud happen? What have other libraries done to detect and prevent fraud? It is intended for library directors, business managers, board members and trustees.

An overview of the process and ramifications of starting and running an online library reference service. Using checklists, it covers the basics of designing, implementing, operating and marketing a virtual reference service, including a study of the costs and a look into the future.

This is a book for all those who sincerely believe that library services and reading are too good to be missed. It is for people who believe, as the writer do, that good reading habits are essential to getting the most out of life, and that those habits are difficult or impossible to acquire if they are not learned early. It focuses specifically on boys in that period when they are no longer ch…