Product Description: This book is about depression, which most people - if they think about it at all - consider to be a medical condition treatable with modern drugs, and the medical analogy that underpins this viewpoint compares the diabetic's pancreas with the depressive's brain...read more

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With its accessible new approach to the key problems of modern strategic management, "A Strategy of Change" provides a critical appraisal of current ideas about "total quality management", "flexibility" and "excellence", testing them against case material drawn from a wide range of different organizational settings. This practical, issue-centred approach contrasts with the functionally orientated way in which management is often taught in the classroom and reflects instead the real needs of managers who have to work and communicate on a cross-functional basis. Dealing in an integrated way with strategic management problems across the full spectrum of marketing, production, financial and human resource management functions, this book provides an important tool for all those concerned with organizational survival in the changing environment of the 1990s. This book should be of interest as an MBA modular text, and to management consultants.

Product Description: Combining philosophical respectability with accessibility and wit, this brief text concerns the evaluation of reasoning as found in written and spoken language and in our thinking. The book spells out a single, simple, coherent system - what amounts to a checklist of steps - for clarifying / outlining arguments and for evaluating arguments...read more

Product Description: An illustrated exploration of the revolution that has taken place in locomotive transport since the end of steam in the 1960s and the arrival of the high-tech, high speed trains of the 1990s. Includes an account of the record-breaking speed runs achieved on the East Coast routes in June 1995...read more