“mark s levin”

Composite decisions consist of interconnected parts or subdecisions and correspond to a composite (composable, modular, decomposable) system. The composite decision approach extends the traditional paradigm of decision making of Herbert A. Simon, i.e. choice of the best alternative(s), and realizes ... More

"An example of new thinking in area studies, "Retuning Culture" is an important book, valuable for its originality and for its overall statement regarding the nature of culture in political change. Of all the professional discourses brought to bear on the study of Eastern Europe in the past, musicol... More

Founded during World War Two, Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program (AMP) is an exhausting 10-week boot camp (six days a week, fourteen hours a day) that teaches an elite group of business executives how to thrive in the highly combative and competitive global marketplace. The course... More

From inception to implementation, from opening to expansion, this is the definitive nuts-and-bolts guide for the budding entrepreneur--be it the M.B.A. who wants out of the rat race to the homemaker who wants to work out of the living room.... More

Combinatorial Engineering of Decomposable Systems presents a morphological approach to the combinatorial design/synthesis of decomposable systems. Applications involve the following: design (e.g., information systems; user's interfaces; educational courses); planning (e.g., problem-solving strategie... More

In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure, without constructing any intervening structural repr... More

Throughout history, material goods have been valued for more than their usefulness; they have also been symbols of status and wealth. During the colonial period of Australia, material goods took on an even more important role for the new arrivals to the island. Material Culture and Consumer Society ... More

Allies in War offers a complete diplomatic and military history of the Second World War, as it was fought by the United States and Britain. Award-winning historian Mark Stoler examines the war these two powers fought in the European and Far Eastern theatres against Germany, Italy and Japan and the n... More