As the most comprehensive reference work dealing with knowledge management (KM), this work is essential for the library of every KM practitioner, researcher, and educator. Written by an international array of KM luminaries, its approximately 60 chapters approach knowledge management from a wide variety of perspectives ranging from classic foundations to cutting-edge thought, informative to provocative, theoretical to practical, historical to futuristic, human to technological, and operational to strategic

This book highlights transit and land-use integration as one of the most important strategic initiatives available to develop more sustainable urban future

Leigh Botts has been author Boyd Henshaw`s number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid at school. He is lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals from his lunchbag. Then Leigh`s teacher assigns a letter-writing project. Naturally Leigh chooses to write to Mr. Henshaw, whose surprising answer changes Leigh`s life

In Researching Entrepreneurship one of the most highly recognized entreprenurship scholars shares in a personal and readable way his rich experience and ideas on how entrepreneurship can or should be researched

This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can avoid their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures

Networking Essentials is the reference which helps to learn the fundamental networking concepts required by today`s IT professional

The aim of this book is first to provide a historical-doctrinal review of the development of entrepreneurship and small business research, and second, to present some of the key pioneers that have shaped the research field during the past three decades

Good Green Homes is the guide to creating better homes that are healthier to live in, easier on the environment, more valuable over the long-term, and more delightful to come home to

This book presents the highlights of recent developments in the global economy; an overview of the principal trends in FDI flows into and from developing countries; the findings of a corporate survey of foreign investors regarding their investment intentions; also looks at the links between sovereign default and expropriation

This memoir and autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn is a great story and was completed before his death in 2007. He was one of the last great explorers and adventureers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, journals, and an exquisite photographic collection, Washburn completes the self-portrait of a man drawn to altitude, from his first great climb of Mount Washington at age eleven, through numerous first ascents of peaks all over the world