Author: Oskar Grün
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540248188
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Giant projects often end in giant failures. From the ancient tower of Babel to the recent Transrapid Train, giant projects stumble from crisis to crisis. Based on an analysis of the technical, time, and financial goals from case studies (Olympic Games, university hospitals, and a huge wind energy converter), four success factors in managing giant projects are identified: Formulation and change of goals, basic configuration, socio-political environment, and management structure and capacity. The book focuses on the crucial role of the project owner and the relations among the four success factors. It offers recommendations and guidance on successfully completing giant projects to owners, project managers and contractors.
Taming Giant Projects
Author: Oskar Grün
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540248188
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Giant projects often end in giant failures. From the ancient tower of Babel to the recent Transrapid Train, giant projects stumble from crisis to crisis. Based on an analysis of the technical, time, and financial goals from case studies (Olympic Games, university hospitals, and a huge wind energy converter), four success factors in managing giant projects are identified: Formulation and change of goals, basic configuration, socio-political environment, and management structure and capacity. The book focuses on the crucial role of the project owner and the relations among the four success factors. It offers recommendations and guidance on successfully completing giant projects to owners, project managers and contractors.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540248188
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Giant projects often end in giant failures. From the ancient tower of Babel to the recent Transrapid Train, giant projects stumble from crisis to crisis. Based on an analysis of the technical, time, and financial goals from case studies (Olympic Games, university hospitals, and a huge wind energy converter), four success factors in managing giant projects are identified: Formulation and change of goals, basic configuration, socio-political environment, and management structure and capacity. The book focuses on the crucial role of the project owner and the relations among the four success factors. It offers recommendations and guidance on successfully completing giant projects to owners, project managers and contractors.
The Taming of Giants
Author: Joan Howard
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Mice
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Apodemus, a young field mouse, learns how to tame the giants that inhabit his world and finds a new home.
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Mice
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Apodemus, a young field mouse, learns how to tame the giants that inhabit his world and finds a new home.
In Defense of the Corporation
Author: Robert Hessen
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817970734
Category : Big business
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817970734
Category : Big business
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Taming the Giant Corporation
Author: Ralph Nader
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393008722
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A book no one interested in business and public policy can afford to ignore. Business Week"
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393008722
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A book no one interested in business and public policy can afford to ignore. Business Week"
Taming the Giant
Author: Evangeline Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A Princess ruling on a cold, dark world, longing for a male to love her...A Warrior dreaming of a female he can love and protect...A Perfect match? Maybe not...He's a Giant.Can Alanah and Bram overcome their differences to be together?Read Taming the Giant to find out...The Princess and the Giant...Meet the Jor'gen Kindred. After leaving the main Mother Ship centuries ago to make a genetic trade with a massive race of people, they are thirty percent bigger than their ancestors. Which makes them 9 feet tall-giants to regular sized humanoids. Now, hundreds of years after the genetic trade which made them so huge, the Jor'gen Kindred have no more females and are seeking a new people to trade with. Bram, their captain, has been dream-sharing with a female from a small, cold, rocky planet at the far edge of the galaxy. The problem? She's tiny compared to him. Alanah is the ruler of her people but not by choice. After a plague carried off all the men and boys, including her father the king, she and the female members of her pre-industrial society were left to fend for themselves. Alanah has always felt like an outsider. Not only is she a princess but she's considered much too tall for a woman. The other ladies at court sneer at her behind her back, wondering where she will ever find a man big enough to take her on. Enter Bram, a giant three feet taller than Alanah. Suddenly the formerly too-tall princess is feeling positively petite. But Alanah's planet is stuck in the Dark Ages and Kindred technology looks like magic to them-black magic. Can Alanah convince her people the giant race is safe to join with? And can she and Bram overcome their differences-both physical and emotional-to form a lasting relationship?You'll have to read Taming the Giant to find out.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A Princess ruling on a cold, dark world, longing for a male to love her...A Warrior dreaming of a female he can love and protect...A Perfect match? Maybe not...He's a Giant.Can Alanah and Bram overcome their differences to be together?Read Taming the Giant to find out...The Princess and the Giant...Meet the Jor'gen Kindred. After leaving the main Mother Ship centuries ago to make a genetic trade with a massive race of people, they are thirty percent bigger than their ancestors. Which makes them 9 feet tall-giants to regular sized humanoids. Now, hundreds of years after the genetic trade which made them so huge, the Jor'gen Kindred have no more females and are seeking a new people to trade with. Bram, their captain, has been dream-sharing with a female from a small, cold, rocky planet at the far edge of the galaxy. The problem? She's tiny compared to him. Alanah is the ruler of her people but not by choice. After a plague carried off all the men and boys, including her father the king, she and the female members of her pre-industrial society were left to fend for themselves. Alanah has always felt like an outsider. Not only is she a princess but she's considered much too tall for a woman. The other ladies at court sneer at her behind her back, wondering where she will ever find a man big enough to take her on. Enter Bram, a giant three feet taller than Alanah. Suddenly the formerly too-tall princess is feeling positively petite. But Alanah's planet is stuck in the Dark Ages and Kindred technology looks like magic to them-black magic. Can Alanah convince her people the giant race is safe to join with? And can she and Bram overcome their differences-both physical and emotional-to form a lasting relationship?You'll have to read Taming the Giant to find out.
Taming Lust
Author: Doron S. Ben-Atar
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown delve into the specifics to determine what larger social, political, or religious forces could have compelled New England courts to condemn two octogenarians for sexual misbehavior typically associated with much younger men. The stories of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn are less about the two old men than New England officials who, riding the rough waves of modernity, returned to the severity of their ancestors. The political upheaval of the Revolution and the new republic created new kinds of cultural experience—both exciting and frightening—at a moment when New England farmers and village elites were contesting long-standing assumptions about divine creation and the social order. Ben-Atar and Brown offer a rare and vivid perspective on anxieties about sexual and social deviance in the early republic.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown delve into the specifics to determine what larger social, political, or religious forces could have compelled New England courts to condemn two octogenarians for sexual misbehavior typically associated with much younger men. The stories of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn are less about the two old men than New England officials who, riding the rough waves of modernity, returned to the severity of their ancestors. The political upheaval of the Revolution and the new republic created new kinds of cultural experience—both exciting and frightening—at a moment when New England farmers and village elites were contesting long-standing assumptions about divine creation and the social order. Ben-Atar and Brown offer a rare and vivid perspective on anxieties about sexual and social deviance in the early republic.
Furfastrix Roleplaying System: Core Rulebook
Author: Steve Alford
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244483019
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Furfastrix Roleplaying System enables players to create characters and run adventures in any time, from the dawn of the dinosaurs to the pinnacle of interstellar space travel, and everything in between. Player have freedom to create any style of character, from one of over 90 playable species (with many more optional ones available), and customise them as they grow in experience. Requires paper, a pencil and two six-sided dice to play.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244483019
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Furfastrix Roleplaying System enables players to create characters and run adventures in any time, from the dawn of the dinosaurs to the pinnacle of interstellar space travel, and everything in between. Player have freedom to create any style of character, from one of over 90 playable species (with many more optional ones available), and customise them as they grow in experience. Requires paper, a pencil and two six-sided dice to play.
Architectural Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
The Nation's Schools
Author: Michael Vincent O'Shea
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Stinky Giant
Author: Ellen Weiss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375983449
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Pepper and Jake love herding sheep in the little valley where they live. But there's a problem— a big problem. Urk, a giant who lives on a nearby mountain, is big and stinky and doesn't care that dumping dirty laundry water in the nearby stream causes a flood down below every single week. So Pepper and Jake hike to Urk's mountaintop lair to confront him. But there's no reasoning with a giant, especially one who gives cryptic puzzles to solve. If the kids can solve it, Urk will move away. If not, Pepper and Jake (and their sheep) will be the featured ingredients in Urk's next bowl of smelly soup!
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375983449
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Pepper and Jake love herding sheep in the little valley where they live. But there's a problem— a big problem. Urk, a giant who lives on a nearby mountain, is big and stinky and doesn't care that dumping dirty laundry water in the nearby stream causes a flood down below every single week. So Pepper and Jake hike to Urk's mountaintop lair to confront him. But there's no reasoning with a giant, especially one who gives cryptic puzzles to solve. If the kids can solve it, Urk will move away. If not, Pepper and Jake (and their sheep) will be the featured ingredients in Urk's next bowl of smelly soup!