Motown is first and foremost the tale of the incredible entrepreneurship of Berry Gordy. Posner presents Berry and Motown"s stars as they lived and worked: a circle of friends, lovers, and sometimes vicious foes. Based on original interviews, extensive documentation, and official court records, Motown is a singular story, a made-in America Greek tragedy about the rise and fall of a music empire that provided the virtual soundtrack to a generation

This book offers an up-to-the minute survey of the changing landscape in strategic management. Managers and students of management will find in this book's pages a blueprint for incorporating and maintaining an entrepreneurial mindest in their organizational endeavors

In this book, two eminent ecologists explain how the millions of species living on Earth-some microscopic, some obscure, many threatened-not only help keep us alive but also hold possibilities for previously unimagined products, medicines, and even industries

Ante la explosión demográfica de las ciudades de los países en desarrollo, el control de la gestión urbana se ha vuelto aún más difícil debido a que las colectividades locales, a menudo no pudieron dotarse de los medios necesarios para hacer frente al crecimiento de la población

This Book examines the actual management issues involved in implementing CRM initiatives, relying exclusively on more than two dozen case histories from around the world. Readers will be introduced to the groundbreakers, the pathfinders, and the explorers of a vast and rapidly expanding new universe of customer - based business strategies

This book studies how the changes in land institutions and land allocation required for Vietnam's agrarian transition affected people's living standards-notably that of the country's rural poor

This is a Guide to what an airline passenger sees out the window while flying over the United States. With its ingenious design and a map of preferred flight paths, it's easy to find those pages that correspond to a passenger's particular flight, and then to identify features that can be seen from the air

This book is a division of English language teaching that makes extensive use of content - and task-based syllabi, and varying use of grammatical, notional-functional, and rhetorical syllabi

This book is designed to provide short, topical and achievable teaching ideas for teachers of English to young learners, whether they are following a required syllabus or textbook, or preparing a curriculum that is targeted at their own group of learners

Teachers of English as a second or foreign language to young children must impart English skills at the same time that they foster socialization; heighten an awareness of the self, the immediate classroom community, and the community beyond the school; introduce content concepts; and expose students to art, drama, literature, and music. This volume offers 14 chapters of language activities that involve children in social interaction, real-life situations, learning through the senses etc.