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Improving Learning Environments provides the first systematic comparative cross-national study of school disciplinary climates.

Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change offers an empirically based explanation that expands our understanding about the nature of resistance to organizational change and the effects of champion behavior.

This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers.

Digital Video Surveillance and Security provides a blueprint for the IP-based electronic security system clients need, allowing security professionals to protect their client's place of business or home.

Health and Safety: Risk Management is the clearest and most comprehensive book on risk management available today.

Implement Oracle's Internet-based Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management products using this Oracle authorized resource.

Rice is cultivated throughout the world under submerged conditions.

Your Hands-On Guide to SAP Business Information WarehouseGive your company the competitive edge by delivering up-to-date, pertinent business reports to users inside and outside your enterprise.

Category Management in Purchasing is a comprehensive guide to strategic category management which provides a step-by-step guide to its implementation and use, and enables readers to deliver value and cost savings when sourcing and purchasing.

This book focuses on several topical issues related to the operational risk management in bank: regulation, organisation and strategy.

What does it take to change the world?

In the 1990s, large insurance companies failed in virtually every major market, prompting a fierce and ongoing debate about how to better protect policyholders.

In Before Conflict: Preventing Aggressive Behavior, John Byrnes gets to the heart of the concept of aggression prevention.

To succeed, teams must assure the quality of IoT systems.

The application of quality tools and techniques in construction projects has a great influence on the cost-effectiveness results of construction projects and achieving successful project performance.

Use this reference for IT security practitioners to get an overview of the major standards and frameworks, and a proposed architecture to meet them.

Throughout history, thinkers within every part of society have been crippled by an ingrained bias toward their own views and the views of their preferred social groups.

Developed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking, The International Critical Thinking Reading and Writing Test assesses the extent to which students have acquired the reading and writing abilities required for skilled analysis and evaluation.

Though close reading and substantive writing are essential skills for the educated person, they are frequently ignored in education.

The Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn a Discipline empowers students to take control of their own learning by asking questions, challenging assumptions, drawing upon reliable information, and exploring alternative opinions.

The Thinker's Guide to the Art of Socratic Questioning introduces readers to powerful methods of inquiry that pinpoint underlying beliefs and systems of logic.

The Art of Asking Essential Questions illuminates an underappreciated yet vital skill set that lies at the root of all learning and success.

How to Read a Paragraph introduces the importance of purposeful skilled reading and lays out methods by which to develop close reading skills using the tools of critical thinking.

Critical Thinking, 2nd Edition is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your lifeas a professional, as a consumer, citizen, friend, or parent.

In The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning, Richard Paul and Linda Elder present the vital role of ethics in the creation and ultimate success of cooperative societies.

Written by international authorities on critical thinking, this book details an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and applicable to any and every situation in which human thinking is necessary.

In How to Improve Student Learning, critical thinking pioneer Richard Paul and educational psychologist Linda Elder distill decades of teaching experience into thirty methods to increase student comprehension and engagement in any area of study.

The Thinker's Guide to Scientific Thinking focuses on developing the intellectual skills inherent in the well-cultivated practice of every area of scientific research and study.

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this introductory text presents critical thinking as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one's thinking.

While creativity and criticality may seem contrary to one another, they are in fact intimately interconnected.

This powerful book introduces core critical thinking concepts and principles as an empowering problem-solving framework for every profession, course of study, and indeed every area of life.

The Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standardsdetails and analyzes the ways by which reasoning is judged in skilled thought.

The history of education is also the history of short-term solutions to deep-seated educational problems.

The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies introduces the concept of mental trickery and shows readers how to discern and see through forty-four different types of fallacies.

The Aspiring Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking introduces concepts and strategies for developing essential reasoning skills and intellectual character.

A teacher's guide to empowering students with modern thinking skills that will help them throughout life.

This book offers the latest research results and predictions in data protection with a special focus on post-pandemic society.

Risk management has become a key factor of successful organizations.

Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and location.

This book covers the subject of economic damages and its role in insurance claims, lawsuits, and injunctions against businesses.

If you think risk management is a bit of meaningless management-speak, this is the book for you.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Risk Management is about using AI to manage risk in the corporate environment.

Since the last financial crisis, much work has been undertaken to strengthen the ability to respond to distress in the EU financial system.

In the era of big data and real-time monitoring, vast amounts of information are generated every second through sensors and advanced tracking systems.

A number of dramatic changes are currently reshaping infrastructure, a sector that investors and asset managers have traditionally considered to be a safe harbor in the field of alternative investments.

This book explores the emerging field of risk management and risk analysis of cryptocurrencies, an area that has been generating considerable research.

This book analyses the methodologies and functions of a systemic approach to risk governance and internal control capable of tackling the complexity of the insurance business.

Logistics professionals must utilize a broad array of analytic techniques and approaches for decision-making.

Initially, introducing compliance functions within the financial industry had been forced by regulatory scrutiny.

The growth of Islamic finance today is significant, making it timely to meet the market demand across the world and particularly for Muslim countries by producing a cryptocurrency model under the Shari'ah ethical principles.