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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his own level of incompetence.This dangerously simple maxim of organisational dysfunction, first spelt out more than thirty-three years ago, has wormed its way into everyday management vocabulary.The Peter Principle is rife wherever hierarchies existâ€... More

This new biographyof the most celebrated African American in history provides a thoroughre-examination of both the man and the Civil Rights Movement, showing how Kinggrew into his leadership role and kept his faith when the movement weakenedafter 1965. Drawing on recent scholarship on the Civil Righ... More

What does the speed of light have to do with the Koran, St. John and Aldous Huxley? Where does quantum physics meet the psychology of meditation? And if "I think, therefore I am," why can't physics, chemistry or biology explain where human thought comes from?'From Science to God' offers a crash cour... More

"iGenetics: A Molecular Approach" reflects the dynamic nature of modern genetics by emphasizing an experimental, inquiry-based approach with a solid treatment of many research experiments. Genetics: An Introduction, DNA: The Genetic Material, DNA Replication, Gene Control of Proteins, Gene Expressio... More

This book explores four key issues in the world economy: the changing context of international business, the continuing pace of economic integration, international joint ventures and knowledge management. More specifically the book explores how each of the issues affects the strategies of multinatio... More

The story of life's splendid drama has intrigued the public and scientists since the publication of Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES in 1859. Yet historians have continued to focus on theory more than actual science. Here historian Peter Bowler recovers the fascinating lost history of morphology and its r... More