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Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

From the author of the bestselling The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes another incredible trip to an even more mysterious terrain. Michael Hanlon identifies ten scientific questions that we simply can't seem to answer and explains why these compelling mysteries will remain unsolved for...

Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a new and alarming epidemic. While sociologists have attributed the trigger of violence to peer pressure, such as bullying and social isolation, prominent...

Kanzi's Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of Primates into Language

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's work on the language capabilities of the bonobo Kanzi has intrigued the world because of its far-reaching implications for understanding the evolution of the human language. This book takes the reader behind the scenes of the filmed language tests. It argues that while the tests prove that Kanzi has language, the...

Interest Rate Modelling (Finance and Capital Markets)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Growth in the derivatives markets has brought with it an ever-increasing volume and range of interest rate dependent derivative products. To allow profitable, efficient trading in these products, accurate and mathematically sound valuation techniques are required to make pricing, hedging and risk management of the resulting positions possible. ...

Offshore Outsourcing of IT Work: Client and Supplier Perspectives

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Based on over 200 interviews, this new book provides rich insights and practices on the toughest challenges facing offshore client/supplier relationships. While many client organizations found benefits to be gained from the offshoring of IT work, others struggled to realize any cost savings or other improvements. How...

Global Energy Transformation: Four Necessary Steps to Make Clean Energy the Next Success Story

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Over the next few years, political and financial power will move in the direction of individuals, companies and nations that are able to use energy in a more efficient way. This book describes this challenge and presents a way forward by which we may achieve the goal of increased energy efficiency in the different areas that need to...

Business Creativity: Breaking the Invisible Barriers

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Many companies and organizations have found it difficult to develop creative skills. The authors argue that while individuals have inherent creativity there are a number of assassins or barriers that block individual creative development. This bold new approach to creativity enhancement will focus upon how to remove barriers and create...

Open Source Leadership

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

'Why do we have so many theories of leadership? Because none of them work very well all of the time. For 70 years we have spewed out content leadership theories. In the new digital world of the twenty-first century we need a new leadership theory. This is it! Open Source Leadership is a process theory ruled by attention, awareness, intention!and,...

The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

"An informative study of the biblical origins of Satan…With resourceful though never excessive citation, Mobley and Wray make a good job of pinning down the roots of a notoriously protean character."--The Times Literary Supplement

"Let's admit it. Even in a secular age we are all still...

Stop the Screaming: How to Turn Angry Conflict With Your Child into Positive Communication

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

I wrote Stop the Screaming in order to help parents better understand and resolve conflicts with their children and adolescents. Not abusive or violent, these are the conflicts that arise in the normal course of family life. They happen at any time or on any occasion—during play, at family meals, and even on vacations. They are typically...

Sherman (Great Generals)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

"A fast-paced look at the military career of Grant’s most trusted, effective subordinate, the latest from the publisher’s handy Great Generals Series." -- Kirkus Reviews

"An excellent brief life of a major and controversial...

Learning, Working and Living: Mapping the Terrain of Working Life Learning

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Debate about organization and workplace learning has now moved on from viewing learning as a way of fostering control. This book suggests that by focusing on learning as a way of living, the needs of production can be reconciled with the need for employees to have satisfying engagement with their work.

This book draws together two...

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