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^iEco-Hydrology is the first book to offer an overview of the complex relationships between plants and water across a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic environments. Leading ecologists and hydrologists present reviews of the eco-hydrology of drylands, wetlands, temperate and tropical rain forest... More

The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge’s decades-long tenure on the Chicago police force was marked by racist ... More

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 184.Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands examines the role that northern peatlands play in regulating the atmospheric carbon budget. It summarizes current research in four interconnected areas: large-scal... More

This book provides a guide to the complexities of medical care through adolescence and into adulthood. The principles of transition, the management of patients and parents, and developmentally appropriate adolescent health care are discussed and evaluated. The academic importance of understanding lo... More

To maximize internal growth and profitability, organizations must transform people's work in order to leverage the value of previous learning and take full advantage of future learning. This chapter examines how organizations can leverage knowledge to achieve competitive advantage.... More

To respond to changing and unique customer wants and needs, firms are relying more and more on the experience of a flexible, knowledgeable, and skilled craftlike workforce. The primary challenge is to create value from a craft worker's talents, experience, skills, and intellect.... More

The ability to capture articulated knowledge and transform it into a standardized production process is a powerful competitive lever that allows companies to gain market share. This chapter looks at the advantages of mass production and how to deploy it effectively.... More

Achieving quality through the process enhancement capability is a powerful source of market advantage. This chapter outlines the benefits of process enhancement and addresses several important issues that are fundamental to its success.... More

In market conditions where customer preferences both vary and matter, mass customization offers potentially dominant competitive advantage. This chapter explores the experiments of some firms with mass customization, addressing key problems and challenges.... More

Firms that succeed in the long run create market value by continuously transforming their capabilities, and by making the transformation process part of the daily activities, decisions, and learning of managers and workers. This chapter introduces a series of four steps for transforming present capa... More

There are three key steps to any development transformation: selecting the best way to perform a function, leveraging the process so it can be standardized, and codifying the process so that it can be used repeatedly by another person or machine. This chapter addresses the key challenges of the deve... More

Workers who master their jobs generate valuable knowledge for process innovation. Linking enables a firm to capture this knowledge and use it for process enhancement. It also creates a work environment that fosters process innovation knowledge without disrupting efficient production processes.... More

Learning in process enhancement creates architectural knowledge. This chapter shows you how to tackle the challenge of modularization to leverage this knowledge and apply it to structure, jobs, and technology to build a mass customization capability.... More

For ongoing success, a firm must transcend its current limitations by using knowledge gained from present work to transform itself again and again, always inventing new capabilities. This chapter describes how organizations complete the renewal transformation, making renewal a continual resource tha... More

With co-configuration, companies can create products that are not only made to order, but perpetually remake themselves as customers' needs change. To achieve this kind of customer intelligence, a company must continuously configure its products and services in interaction with the customer.... More

To transform your business along the right path, you have to make the specific transformations your firm needs to satisfy its customers today and tomorrow. This chapter serves as a practical guide for transformation.... More

In the latest volume in this classic series, Rockman, Rudalevige, and Campbell once again bring together top-notch scholars, this time to take a comprehensive look at the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency. Assessing Obama’s political strategy, as well as his administration’s successes and... More

Learn how to create your own websites simply, safely, and quickly with Django by tackling practical activities based on realistic case studiesKey FeaturesUnderstand Django functionality and the Model-View-Template (MVT) paradigmCreate and iteratively build a book review website, adding features as y... More

A focus on creating and sustaining a flow of profitable transactions, in other words, the creation of sustainable competitive advantage is the seemingly simple, yet complex goal of strategic leaders and managers. Allen Amason and Andrew Ward approach the topic of strategic management with this focus... More

The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the most important, innovative and recent critical developments to the interdisciplinar... More

What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people’s well-being? How would policy change if well-being was the main objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters... More

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. . . . We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict where the future leaders of science will come from."--Carl Saga... More

THE ENDURING VISION's engaging narrative integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework. Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history, public health and medicine, and the West -- inc... More

Prestige Television explores how a growing array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Contributing authors demonstrate that these shows are positioned and understood as comprising an increasingly recog... More

Updated and revised, this bestselling textbook continues to provide a broad introduction to the key topics in the welfare of animals both large and small, farm and companion, wild and zoo. It retains all the popular features of the previous editions with coverage of key issues such as ethics, anima... More