“catherine fredman”

The chairman and CEO of Dell Computer offers up the strategies that helped revolutionize an industry, including his philosophies on capital investment, the effect of employees on the health of a company, and ways to exploit the competition.At nineteen, Michael Dell started his company as a freshman ... More

En este libro, el fundador y CEO de Dell Computer relata como empezo su negocio desde un cuarto en la Universidad de Texas con solo u$s 1.000 hasta transformarlo en una industria que mueve alrededor de US$ 100.000 millones anualmente. La compania se distingue por su metodo de venta y no por sus prod... More

What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity. Catherine Belsey now calls for a more nuance... More

Getting a new job or a big promotion is like building a house: You need to get the foundation right for both. With a job, the quick-drying cement is how well you do in your first hundred days, since they establish the foundation for long-term momentum and great performance. Tom Neff and Jim Citrin a... More

This is an original and incisive analysis of pressing legal issues ranging from low pay, sexual harassment, and flexible working to parental rights and reverse discrimination. The book locates women's role in the family as a contributory factor to their continued disadvantage within the paid workfor... More

Fredman provides a thought-provoking introduction to discrimination law. Drawing on a wide variety of philosophical and legal sources, the concepts of equality and anti-discrimination law are introduced and discussed in their social and historical contexts.... More

Human rights have traditionally been understood as protecting individual freedom against intrusion by the State. In this book, Sandra Fredman argues that this understanding requires radical revision. Human rights are based on a far richer view of freedom, which goes beyond being let alone, and inste... More

Poet's Prose is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to American prose poetry and has been recognized as a groundbreaking study in contemporary American poetry. Many recent American poets have been writing prose; Fredman has set out to determine why and what it means. Three central works of ... More