Building The Bridge

Badawy, M. K.. DEVELOPING MANAGERIAL SKILLS IN ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS .. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982.
Very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; 6th printing . Index. Charts . Dark green boards, white lettering on spine and front cover . Business. Managerial skills can be developed. An invaluable primer of basic principles . Provides a practical framework for managing engineering, R&D, and other technical functions, as well as exploring options and avenues for developing and improving the managerial skills of technical people. Badawy focuses on technical management 'in action, ' giving you skill-building, thoroughly concrete approaches that always address the specific needs of the practitioner. Practical examples bridge the traditional gap between the theory and practice of technical managment. ; 9-1/8" Tall; 368 pages. 0442204817.

Hardcover; Fifth Printing, VG/G-.

[KW: Managerial Skills For Engineers Managerial Skills For Scientists Decision Making Division Of Labor Principle Management Management Education Measuring Engineering And R&D Performance Standards Planning Skills,]

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No Author. THE PROVIDENCE WATERFRONT 1636 - 2000. Providence RI: Providence Foundation,
Several spotty stains (coffee? ) on front and back covers with the back cover's stains penetrating through to the last printed page on its other side. Remainder of contents are clean. Minor wear. ; 8-1/2 x 11", 9-page corner-stapled publication, printed on light paper stock, about the weight of typing paper. No publishing date, circa 1984. AMERICANA. This is the hand-out presented at the "final Workshop, the culmination of Phase I of the Providence Waterfront Study. The plans and model incorporate suggestions made by the public during the past several months. " It presents the plans for improvements to be made in the waterfront area of Providence, Rhode Island including: Providence River Proposals; Fox and India Points Proposals; Seekonk River Proposal; Transportation-Parking proposals; Development proposals for Market Square and Capital Center, The Point at Fox Point, India Point; Bascule Bridge Village, and Richmond Square; Proposals for building and landscaping of parks (Waterfront Heritage Park, India Point Park, The Point at Fox Point, Old Harbor) . The front cover is an architect's rendering of "Looking up the Providence River. " Full-page map of Providence Waterfront Study Area. Full-page architect's rendering of The Providence River at The Esplanade at Market Square. Full-page architect's rendering of India Trades Market Place Looking West at The Point at Fox Point. Full-page architect's rendering of View of Rivers at New Confluence..

Ephemera, G+.

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Postman, Neil: Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future. New York : Knopf, 1999. ; sig. ISBN: 0375401296
Acceptable. Dust jacket creased. Some pages with pnciled underlinings and annotations. With dedication by the author.

224 p. Hardcover.

[KW: signature signed Widmungsexemplar]

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McClure, S. S. (Ed.): McClure's Magazine: November 1900-April 1901(6 bound issues) New York McClure's Magazine 1900-01

Reform journalism and articles (w/photos) on the first flight of Count Zeppelin's airship (this is his first machine @ 128 metres long), Confusion of Goods, a football story by F. C. Baldy, ill. By Frederic Remington and Albert T. Reid, A Temperance Campaign-a comedy of ward politics by G. K. Turner, ill. By F. D. Steele, Making a German Soldier by Ray S. Baker, Senator Hanna by William Allen White, A Woman's Diary of the Siege of Pekin by Mrs. E. K. Lowry, How the Law came to Jenkins Creek, the story of a Montana township, Last Days of the Confederate Government from papers left by Stephen Mallory, Secretary of the Navy to Davis ( 2 chapters presented), More Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope with ill. By H. C. Christy, Kim by R. Kipling (1st appearance in print--considered his best work, first six chapters), A Character Study of the Chinaman, a story about cholera in Siam, an episode in the Latin Quarter, Hamlin Garland's People of the Buffalo, ill. By H. D. Nichols, Josephine Dodge Daskam's The Madness of Philip, a kindergarten tragedy, ill. By F. Y. Cory, and The Heart of a Child, and A Study in Piracy ill by Cory, Recollections of the Stage and its People, My First Appearance in New York by Clara Morris, The Kaiser as seen in Germany by R. S. Baker, Great Achievements in Modern Bridge-Building by Frank Skinner, Some Recollections of John Wilkes Booth by Clara Morris, Richard Croker by W. A. White, In the World of Graft by Josiah Flynt (two essays), The Woman and Her Bonds, A Story fo Wall Street and The Break in Turpentine by Edwin Lefevre, Adventures with the Leaping Tuna, George W. Smalley's Edward VII, Life Portraits of Queen Victoria, Disbanding the Union Army (two essays) by Ida M. Tarbell (in her McClure days before her Standard Oil study), J. Lincoln Steffens' Dan McCarthy, Captain of the Police, The Law of Life by Jack London (one of his earliest stories), What We Know about Mars by E. S. Holden, Reform Through Social Work: Some Forces that Tell for Denceny in NYC by Theodore Roosevelt, Frederic Remington's Billy's Tearless Woe, Walks and Talks with Tolstoy by Andrew D. White, plus others. Some wear as G but internally clean and very readable.

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