Authors:Stephen J. Wall, Shannon Wall, Sharon Rye Wall,
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: work, sealed, mergers, corporate, making, morning
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0738205230
ISBN-13: 9780738205236

Real-world strategies for overcoming roadblocks and making the most out of your company’s acquisitions. Despite the economic downturn, the corporate marriage frenzy continues to proceed at fever pitch, as companies reach beyond their traditional boundaries to gain access to resources, expertise, and markets. But after the ink is dry, most experiments in corporate acquisition fail to live up to expectations. In The Morning After, Stephen and Shannon Rye Wall showcase dozens of cases to identify the seven common myths and misconceptions of mergers and offer a wealth of concrete tools fo

Authors:Stephen J. Wall, Shannon Rye Wall,
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: levels, leaders, creating, strategists, new
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-03-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0743254090
ISBN-13: 9780743254090

A pivotal shift in business strategy-making is taking place, assert Stephen Wall and Shannon Rye Wall. Strategy, once the exclusive province of senior management, is now the responsibility of people at every level in today’s most forward-looking companies. Drawing on a ten-year study of more than 200 firms such as AT&T, 3M, The Geon Company, and Ritz Carlton Hotels, which included questionnaires and interviews with more than 4,000 line managers and human resource professionals, the authors demonstrate how companies can incorporate the experience of every employee to become more focus

Author: Stephen B. Vander Wall
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: animals, hoarding, food
Number of Pages: 453
Published: 1990-07-10
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0226847357
ISBN-13: 9780226847351

In this first comprehensive synthesis of the literature on food hoarding in animals, Stephen B. Vander Wall discusses how animals store food, how they use food and how this use affects individual fitness, why and how food hoarding evolved, how cached food is lost, mechanisms for protecting and recovering cached food, physiological and behavioral factors that influence hoarding, and the impact that hoarding animals have on plant populations and plant dispersal. He then provides detailed coverage of hoarding behavior across taxa—mammals, birds, and arthropods—to address issues in evolution,

Authors:Stephen Ison, Stuart Wall,
Publisher: Not Avail
Keywords: economics
Number of Pages: 543
Published: 2007-06-30
List price: $87.50
ISBN-10: 0273681079
ISBN-13: 9780273681076

Economics 4th edition is a concise introduction to the core principles of economics, aimed at students taking their first, and probably only, one semester course in Economics. These students may be taking a business related degree, or may be from other degree schemes in the university taking a service course in Introductory Economics. There is a balanced split between the micro and macro economics section and the use of case studies and numerous examples makes this a lively little book for the reader. The real difference that this book offers the student is the amount and variety of questionin

Authors:Bruce Prideaux, Stephen Wanhill, Geoffrey Wall, Jo
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: directions, new, attractions, visitor, managing
Number of Pages: 313
Published: 2002-11-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0750653817
ISBN-13: 9780750653817

’Managing Visitor Attractions’ is a unique text that provides a cutting edge insight into the issues, principles and practices of visitor attractions today and into the future.Divided into five parts, the book tackles the following topics:· the role and nature of visitor attractions· the development of visitor attraction provision· the management of visitor attractions· the marketing of visitor attractions · future issues and trends With contributions from around the world, the book is illustrated with up-to-date, international case studies from the UK, USA, Singapore, Austral

Authors:Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, dorrit, little
Number of Pages: 1024
Published: 2004-01-27
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0141439963
ISBN-13: 9780141439969

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A m

Authors:Philip Rayner, Peter Wall, Stephen Kruger,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: essentials, resource, essential, studies, media
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-12-29
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415291739
ISBN-13: 9780415291736

This new textbook brings together a comprehensive collection of primary source material for all those studying media at university and pre-university level. Extracts include a range of texts from academic and non-academic works including journalism and writings on film, television and popular culture.