“joseph s lombardo”

Designed for the non-operations person, this book explains why operations management tools are critical and how it can easily be integrated into their jobs. This text uses 200+ examples from real companies to show how people in professions outside of operations are using operations management concep... More

An up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biosurveillance techniques With the worldwide awareness of bioterrorism and drug-resistant infectious diseases, the need for surveillance systems to accurately detect emerging epidemicsis essential for maintaining global safety. Responding to these issues... More

Why isn't globalization benefitting as many people as it should? Joseph Stiglitz shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really does work.Stiglitz examines how change has occurred rapidly over the past four years, proposing solutions and looking... More

‘Globalisation today is not working…for many of the world’s poor…for much of the environment… for the stability of the global economy.’From a leader of the anti-globalisation movement, a statement like this would not be remarkable. But coming from Joseph Stiglitz—former Chief Economist... More

From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe. Such awe is shared by astrophysicists, too as they seek to understand its nature, and whether it has any limits. In he Infinite Cosmos, Joseph Silk, Savillian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University, cosm... More

The demands of today's economy are driving commercial businesses, the military, and government civil service organizations to think differently about how they do business, and quality assurance is no exception. To respond to these evolving demands, many organizations have created a new kind of manag... More

The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard pr... More

'A searing critique of Dubyanomics ... The Nobel laureate who took on the IMF is now turning his guns on the American President. Stiglitz knows when to pick a fight' - Observer His previous book revealed the shocking truth about globalization. Now, Joseph Stiglitz blows the whistle on the devastat... More

Astronomer Joseph Silk explores the Universe from its beginnings to its ultimate fate. He demonstrates how cosmologists study cosmic fossils and relics from the distant past to construct theories of the birth, evolution and future of the Universe. Stars, galaxies, dark matter and dark energy are des... More