What Is This Thing Called Theory of Constraints (Goldratt Eliyahu M.)(Paperback)

What Is This Thing Called Theory of Constraints (Goldratt Eliyahu M.)(Paperback)

The Choice (Goldratt Eliyahu M.)(Paperback)

The Choice, revised edition, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag Goldratt presents his thought provoking approach, this time through a conversation with his daughter Efrat, as he explains to her his fundamental system of beliefs. The revised edition includes Efrat's own notes and maps

It's Not Luck (Goldratt Eliyahu M.)(Paperback)

Critical Chain: A Business Novel (Goldratt Eliyahu M.)(Paperback)

This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing. Goldratt's novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like common sense once you read them. Critical Chain is

This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Bennett Andrew)(Paperback)

What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how?Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, this beautifully written book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and rewarding subject to study. Bennett

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Goldratt Eliyahu M.)(Paperback)

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting

What is This Thing Called Science? (Chalmers Alan)(Paperback / softback)

A new edition of a classic text in the philosophy of science illuminating the major developments in the

What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems (Addonizio Kim)(Paperback)

A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing

It's Not Luck (Goldratt Eliyahu M.)(Paperback / softback)

Cash is needed and Alex Rogo's companies are to be put on the block. Alex needs to complete the turnaround of his companies if they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. This text highlights the techniques needed to survive at home and at

The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel (Goldratt Eliyahu)(Paperback)

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager who has been given 90 days to save his failing factory. If he doesn't improve the plant's performance, corporate headquarters will close it down and hundreds of workers will lose their jobs. It takes a chance meeting with Jonah, a former professor, to help him

What Is Called Thinking? (Heidegger Martin)(Paperback)

'For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? is as important as Being and Time. It is the only systematic presentation of the thinker's late philosophy and . . . it is perhaps the most exciting of his books.'--Hannah

On Learning: A General Theory of Objects and Object-Relations (Scott David)(Paperback)

A philosophical work that tackles the question, 'What is learning?'. What is learning? This book is a philosophical work that develops a general theory of ontological objects and object-relations, examining concepts as acquired dispositions. David Scott answers a series of questions about concepts

Literary Theory (Culler Jonathan)(Paperback)

What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this new edition of his highly popular Very Short Introduction. Culler, an extremely lucid commentator and much admired in the field of literary theory, uses

Introduction to the Mori Program (Matsuki Kenji)(Pevná vazba)

The purpose of this book is to give a comprehensible account of what is called Mori's Program. The author presents this theory in an easy and understandable way with lots of background motivation. Prerequisites are those covered in Hartshorne's book 'Algebraic Geometry.' It is the first book in

Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (Garcia Tristan)(Paperback)

What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects and in so doing gives deep insights into the world and our place in it. Garcia's original and systematic formal ontology of things strips

Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (Audi Robert)(Paperback)

Epistemology, or 'the theory of knowledge,' is concerned with how we know what we know, what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience. This comprehensive introduction to the field of epistemology

Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory (McKenna Jed)(Paperback)

If life is but a dream, to what do we awake? The central premise of Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory, is the admittedly ridiculous but incontrovertibly true assertion that the universe does not exist. This is something you can understand conceptually, like watching a documentary about Antarctica, or

This Thing Called You (Holmes Ernest)(Paperback)

The beloved classic that has awakened generations to the power within. One of Ernest Holmes's cornerstone works, This Thing Called You is an intimate guide through which readers learn the important lesson of how they are an immutable part of the flow of life, and how they may fulfill the longing,

Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance (Testa M.)(Paperback)

Fascism is not a thing of the past. In this era of crisis and austerity, it is growing even stronger. The question is: How do we stop it?According to M. Testa, the fight against it must be aggressive and unrelenting. Using a mixture of orthodox history, eyewitness accounts, and unflinching

What Is Philosophy of Mind? (McClelland Tom)(Paperback)

We all have minds, but what exactly is a mind? Is your mind the same thing as your brain? How does what's happening in your mind cause your behaviour? Can you know what's going on in other people's minds? Can you even be sure what's going on in your own? Are babies conscious? How about cats? Or

What Is the History of Knowledge? (Burke Peter)(Paperback)

What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, 'knowledges in the plural') and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of

Hazel's Theory of Evolution (Bigelow Lisa Jenn)(Paperback)

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award The Thing About Jellyfish meets Raymie Nightingale in this tender middle grade novel from Lisa Jenn Bigelow, acclaimed author of Drum Roll, Please.Hazel knows a lot about the world. That's because when she's not hanging with her best friend, taking care of her

Moral Constraints on War: Principles and Cases, Third Edition (Coppieters Bruno)(Paperback)

This third edition of Moral Constraints on War offers a principle by principle presentation of the ethics of war as is found in the age-old tradition of the Just War. Parts one and two trace the evolution of Just War Theory, analyzing the principles of jus ad bellum and jus in bello: the principles

What Is Philosophy? (Deleuze Gilles)(Paperback)

Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Felix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited