books about: contingency

books about: contingency

books:

Contingency

Variance, 2005

Stunning Collision of Biblical History & Science Fiction
Whether you find yourself a believer of the Christian Bible or not, author Jeremy Robinson has crafted a sci-fi thriller that any history or sci-fi enthusiast will love. He has created a character, a quantum physicist named Tom, who has the brains, the ability and the ...

The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive
Mary Ann Doane

Harvard University Press, 2002

Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work ...

The Didymus Contingency: A Time Travel Thriller

Jeremy Robinson

Breakneck Books, 2007

A Must Read - Great Book!
I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I particularly enjoy stories with time travel themes. I'm also a committed Christian. I've long felt that there's a lack of quality Christian fiction, and there's almost no Christian science fiction. I can understand the difficulty ...

Applied Strategic Planning: How to Develop a Plan That Really Works

Leonard Goodstein, Timothy Nolan, ...

McGraw-Hill, 1993

Applied Strategic Planning by Leonard D Goodstein, Timothy M
In Applied Strategic Planning, the authors give a comprehensive step-by-step guide to conducting applied strategic planning. They clearly demonstrate organisations' need for strategic planning. The book is different from other strategic planning models in some ...

Risk and Security Management: Protecting People and Sites Worldwide

Michael Blyth

Wiley, 2008

Review of Risk and Security Management
I was slightly taken aback by the price of the book, however the combination of specialized subject matter and potential value of the information (the security industry is well known as a lucrative endeavor) outweighed any hesitations I had. When the book arrived in ...

After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency

Quentin Meillassoux

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008

A Great Work of Contemporary Philosophy
Meillassoux's first book is nothing less than a completely original and meticulously argued philosophical manifesto. Drawing upon the ontology of his teacher, Alain Badiou, Meillassoux aims to prove what was only implicit in Badiou's "Being and Event": the absolute ...

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

Cambridge University Press, 1989

A stimulating opportunity...
I've noticed a trend that various reviewers on philosophy books use this cyberspace as an opportunity to display their understanding and mastery over the work in question. This is, in ways, an interesting and useful phenomenon, but it can also be misleading. This is ...

Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery: A Small Business Guide

Donna R. Childs, Stefan Dietrich

Wiley, 2002

Yes it can happen to you!
A superbly practical and comprehensive guide - cogent and succinct but thorough. Having just gone through an office disaster similar to worked examples and real life situations presented in the book, incurring tens of thousands of dollars of damages and subsequent ...

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, ...

Verso, 2000

better than most...
This book represents an attempt by (the) three social thinkers of our time to bring their differing views of what is to done together by beginning with what it is that they have in common, namely: Marx (and Gramsci), Lacan, and Derrida. Although all three critique the ...

Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for Small Businesses
Donna R. Childs

Wiley, 2008

Now in its second edition, Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best presents you with a structured, time-tested blueprint to help you evaluate your business in terms of its vulnerability and guide you through developing a cost-effective, individualized disaster and recovery plan. This book is an essential handbook for anyone who owns, or plans ...

The Chronicles of Soone - Heir to the King

James Somers

Breakneck Books, 2006

An action packed read with spiritual overtones
Everything an action sci-fi fan could ask for: Full of battle scenes packed with blazing swords and "ray" guns. From the opening scene I was captivated. Woven into the action are moral dilemmas and tragedy, coupled with a unique perspective on the battle between good ...

Fallback Position: Anyone Who Can Be Fired Needs a Fallback Position Preparing a Contingency Plan for the ...

John E. Arnold

Exurba Publishing, 2003

An absolute "must-read" for negotiating the best career deal
The days of expecting to keep one's job for 50 years or more are over. Fallback Position: Preparing A Contingency Plan For The Worst Case Scenario is a solid and practical guide to preparing the reader in the event of being fired, downzied, right-sized, outsourced, or ...

Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan (2007 Edition)

Rothstein Associates Inc., 2007

From the Publisher
I first edited and published the original edition of this book in 1994, when there was not one other book on the market addressing exercising contingency plans. In the ensuing years, one other book appeared and quickly went out of print over a decade ago. It amazes ...

Solutions Manual for Bowers et al. Actuarial Mathematics: Life Contingencies and Ruin Theory for the ...
Ph.D. Michael A. Gauger

Actex Publications, 2005

Solutions manual for actuarial students with 14 chapters/

Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory

Barbara H. Smith

Harvard University Press, 1991

sobering example of current literary theorizing
Herrnstein Smith is to be commended for tackling so difficult a subject, especially in view of how inadequately equipped she is in the field of value theory. To readers who have studied philosophy, this book--when dealing with such questions--has an undergraduate feel ...