“peter leach”

Family firms are to be found in every sector of commercial activity, and their special strengths mean that they flourish best where their advantages can be fully exploited. This comprehensive guide covers every aspect of managing a family-owned firm, from day-to-day issues to long-term planning for ... More

The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Riviere employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as so... More

The tellers of Tales of Resistance speak in voices imagined from archival material or heard in Missouri by the author, a returned native of St. Louis. They act out personal dramas set off by social forces that seem beyond their comprehension or control, but in some way or other they resist. In one a... More

This is the third in a series of four volumes that are intended to present a complete Corpus of all the church buildings that were built, rebuilt or simply in use in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem between the capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 and the loss of Acre in 1291. This vol... More

Designed for instructor-led training in AutoCAD software, this new text covers the essentials of two-dimensional drawing construction and editing as well as three-dimensional solid modeling. This companion is especially well-suited for courses using additional discipline-specific concept texts such ... More

Improving project management through the synthesis of three areas of knowledge, this book provides an understanding of the project system via the perspectives gained through the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(TM) Guide)--2000 Edition, total quality management (TQM), and t... More