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Part i: Aim for Market Leadership in Every Cycle [Edison to Coffin] Part II: Diversify the Business Portfolio [Cordiner to Jones] Part III: Manage the Portfolio Strategically [The Jack Welch Revolution] Part IV: Back to the Future Strategy [The Inmelt Era] Table of contents Part i: Aim ... More

All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well-established in the organizational hierarchy, can use a little brushing up now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to t... More

Table of contents 1 Partial Dynamics 2 The Two Body Problem 3 Earth Satellite Operations 4 Rigid Body Dynamics 5 Satellite Attitude Dynamics 6 Gyroscopic Instruments 7 Rocket Performances 8 Reentry Dynamics 9 The Space Environment 10 The Restricted Three Body Problem 11 Interpl... More

Table of contents 1.Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering 2. Atomic Structure and Bonding 3. Crystal and Amorphous Structures in Materials 4. Solidification, Crystalline Imperfections 5. Thermally Activated Processes and Diffusion in Solids 6. Mechanical Properties of M... More

In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the... More

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Ever since the first furore was created on publication day in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, The Sound and t... More

'Brilliant and compelling-one is constrained to follow to the end' Spectator The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are reve... More

James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company. Although eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation, it was he who was conquered—not by an army but by a Muslim Indian princess. Kirkpatrick was the British Resi... More