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News of a merger or acquisition is a big event in the life of a
company, which stirs uncertainty, anxiety and fear. The changes,
redundancies and so on, that often follow this news, are a further
source of turmoil for the employees of both companies involved.
There is no magic formula to avoid these effects completely.
However, good planning, communication and human resource practice
can mitigate the worst of them; keep everyone that matters on
board; and ensure that the new organization maintains your
reputation for sensitive people management. Get it wrong, on the
other hand, and you may lose the very people you were most anxious
to keep; put the success of the process at risk and even face
employment tribunals or other legal proceedings. In addition,
imagine how these processes are complicated by any transnational
elements. James F. Klein and Robert-Charles Kahn provide a
practical, hands-on guide to successfully integrating HR functions
following any merger or acquisition within Europe. The book guides
you step by step, providing the methodology, tools, sequence of
events and necessary material. It includes comparative tables, tips
and stories illustrating the differences, specific issues and
pitfalls that are particular to the different European countries.
20 years of human resources experience across companies in
continental Europe has gone into creating this blueprint to
successfully implementing the people side of successful mergers and
acquisitions.
News of a merger or acquisition is a big event in the life of a
company, which stirs uncertainty, anxiety and fear. The changes,
redundancies and so on, that often follow this news, are a further
source of turmoil for the employees of both companies involved.
There is no magic formula to avoid these effects completely.
However, good planning, communication and human resource practice
can mitigate the worst of them; keep everyone that matters on
board; and ensure that the new organization maintains your
reputation for sensitive people management. Get it wrong, on the
other hand, and you may lose the very people you were most anxious
to keep; put the success of the process at risk and even face
employment tribunals or other legal proceedings. In addition,
imagine how these processes are complicated by any transnational
elements. James F. Klein and Robert-Charles Kahn provide a
practical, hands-on guide to successfully integrating HR functions
following any merger or acquisition within Europe. The book guides
you step by step, providing the methodology, tools, sequence of
events and necessary material. It includes comparative tables, tips
and stories illustrating the differences, specific issues and
pitfalls that are particular to the different European countries.
20 years of human resources experience across companies in
continental Europe has gone into creating this blueprint to
successfully implementing the people side of successful mergers and
acquisitions.
The first comprehensive study of William Ince and John Mayhew's
famous eighteenth-century cabinetmaking partnership, complemented
by high-quality photographs of their work. The partnership of
William Ince (1737-1804) and John Mayhew (1736-1811) ran from 1758
to 1804, and was one of the most enduring and well-connected
collaborations in Georgian London's tight-knit cabinetmaking
community. The partners' clientele was probably larger, and their
work was arguably more influential over a longer period, than most
other leading metropolitan makers - perhaps even than that of their
older contemporary, the celebrated Thomas Chippendale. Despite
their considerable output and an impressive tally of clients and
commissions, much of Ince and Mayhew's work has remained
unidentified until recent times. The authors' substantial research
in private family archives, county record offices and bank archives
has allowed them to uncover much new evidence about the business
and its influence within cabinetmaking circles. In Industry and
Ingenuity, the results of these new investigations are presented
alongside an impressive selection of more than 500 colourful,
vibrant photographs of Ince and Mayhew's works, many previously
unpublished, which together emphasise the partnership's proper
position in the pantheon of great eighteenth-century cabinetmakers.
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Poems (Paperback)
John Masefield, Robert Charles Phillimore
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R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than
ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and
perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the
human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as
theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed.
As Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson argues in Owning
the Unknown, the genre’s freewheeling speculation and systematic
world-building make it it a unique lens for understanding,
examining, and assessing the truth claims of religions in general
and Christianity in particular. Drawing on his personal experience,
his work as a science fiction writer, and his deep knowledge of the
classics of the genre, he makes the case for what he calls
intuitive atheism—an atheism drawn from everyday personal
knowledge that doesn’t depend on familiarity with the scholarly
debate about theology and metaphysics, any more than a robust
personal Christianity does. And as he reminds us, the secrets that
remain hidden beyond the borders of the known universe—should we
ever discover them—will probably not resemble anything currently
found in our most prized philosophies, our most sacred texts, or
our most imaginative science fiction.
The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with
annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and
cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the
popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story
by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old
author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva,
the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together
creature can be read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris.
Victor, "the modern Prometheus," tried to do what he perhaps should
have left to Nature: create life. Although the novel is most often
discussed in literary-historical terms-as a seminal example of
romanticism or as a groundbreaking early work of science
fiction-Mary Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific
developments and incorporated them into her story. In our era of
synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate
engineering, this edition of Frankenstein will resonate forcefully
for readers with a background or interest in science and
engineering, and anyone intrigued by the fundamental questions of
creativity and responsibility. This edition of Frankenstein pairs
the original 1818 version of the manuscript-meticulously
line-edited and amended by Charles E. Robinson, one of the world's
preeminent authorities on the text-with annotations and essays by
leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of
scientific creativity raised by this remarkable story. The result
is a unique and accessible edition of one of the most
thought-provoking and influential novels ever written. Essays by
Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Heather E. Douglas, Josephine
Johnston, Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, Anne K. Mellor, Alfred
Nordmann
"He deftly examines Foster's outstanding career on the diamond in
the early 1900s...Cottrell effectively documents Foster's
contributions to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981."
--"Choice"
"Robert Charles Cottrell's definitive biography of Rube Foster
adds much to our knowledge of this commanding figure in the history
of the old black baseball leagues."
--Robert Peterson, author of "Only the Ball Was White"
"Rube Foster ranks with Charles Comiskey, Connie Mack, and John
McGraw as one of the founding giants of modern baseball. As player,
manager, owner, and executive he set the standard for baseball in
black America during the early twentieth century. "The Best Pitcher
In Baseball" clearly establishes Foster's greatness and his
extraordinary contributions to the national pastime."
--Jules Tygiel, author of "Past Time: Baseball As History"
When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of
Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest
black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher,
a formidable manager, and a brilliant administrator, Rube Foster
was arguably more influential in breaking down the color barrier in
major league baseball than the venerable Jackie Robinson.
Born in 1879, Rube Foster pitched for the legendary black
baseball teamsthe Cuban X-Giants and the Philadelphia Giants before
becoming player-manager of the Leland Giants and the Chicago
American Giants. Long a central figure in black baseball, he
founded baseball's first black leaguethe Negro National League in
1920. From its inception, the Negro League served as a vehicle
through which many of the finest black players could showcase
theirconsiderable talents. Challenging racial discrimination and
stereotypes, it ultimately set the stage for future efforts to
contest Jim Crow.
Despite the long-standing success of the Negro National League
as an influential black institution, Rube Foster was deeply
embittered by organized baseball's unmitigated refusal to lift the
color barrier. He died a broken man in 1930.
The Best Pitcher in Baseball is the story of a man of
unparalleled vision and organizational acumen whose passion for
justice changed the face of baseball forever. It is a moving
tribute to a man and his dream.
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Chronoliths (Paperback)
Robert Charles Wilson
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R485
R403
Discovery Miles 4 030
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One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an
impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone
pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its
base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And
the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military
victory...sixteen years hence.
As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our
own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott
into the central mystery--and a final battle with the future.
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Axis (Paperback)
Robert Charles Wilson
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R509
R429
Discovery Miles 4 290
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Darwinia (Paperback)
Robert Charles Wilson
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R507
R427
Discovery Miles 4 270
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In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of
Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish
jungle and antediluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle was an act
of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out
a new empire. Leaving an America now ruled by religious
fundamentalists, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a
mission of discovery that will take him further than he can
possibly imagine...to a shattering revelation about mankind's
destiny in the universe. Robert Charles Wilson has crafted a
brilliant science fiction novel--a view of an utterly different
20th century. "Darwinia "is a 1999 Hugo Award Nominee for Best
Novel.
Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the
Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and
choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of
twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of
military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography examines how
the Sino-Burmese have lived in between states, cognizant of the
insecurity in their unclear political status but aware of the
social and economic possibilities in this gray zone between two
oppressive regimes. For the Sino-Burmese in Rangoon, the labels of
Chinese and Tayout (the Burmese equivalent of Chinese) fail to
recognize the linguistic and cultural differences between the
separate groups that have settled in the city-Hokkien, Cantonese,
and Hakka-and conflate this diverse population with the state
actions of the People's Republic of China and the supposed
dominance of the overseas Chinese network. In this first
English-language study of the Sino-Burmese, Mapping Chinese Rangoon
examines the concepts of ethnicity, territory, and nation in an
area where ethnicity is inextricably tied to state violence.
Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the
Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and
choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of
twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of
military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography examines how
the Sino-Burmese have lived in between states, cognizant of the
insecurity in their unclear political status but aware of the
social and economic possibilities in this gray zone between two
oppressive regimes. For the Sino-Burmese in Rangoon, the labels of
Chinese and Tayout (the Burmese equivalent of Chinese) fail to
recognize the linguistic and cultural differences between the
separate groups that have settled in the city-Hokkien, Cantonese,
and Hakka-and conflate this diverse population with the state
actions of the People's Republic of China and the supposed
dominance of the overseas Chinese network. In this first
English-language study of the Sino-Burmese, Mapping Chinese Rangoon
examines the concepts of ethnicity, territory, and nation in an
area where ethnicity is inextricably tied to state violence.
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