Follow the D-Day landings through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary, and photographs 
Written by a historian of military cartography, this is a unique insight into D-Day landings 70 years later. Along with the maps, key historical events are described, giving a plotted history the D-Day landings from an expert historian. Starting with a summary of World War II up to 1944, the book then covers deception schemes, terrain, intelligence, reconnaissance, and mapping. It discusses Operation NEPTUNE: naval and air bombardments and the assault landings, and Operation OVERLORD: establishing the beachheads. The final chapter discusses the break-out, German unconditional surrender; and VE Day.

D-Day: Over 100 Maps Reveal How D-Day Landings Unfolded

History

Chasseaud, Peter

Harper, Richard

Europe

Collins, UK

In this book, Richard Harper uses the International Monetary Fund as a case study to show how thinking differently about IT systems can dramatically improve the manageability and accessibility of documents in organisations. The systems he considers uses search and retrieval applications, the use of hypertext documents and shared database applications like Lotus Notes. Key Features * Advises how to improve the work processes and computer systems of organizations * Considers such IT systems as search and retrieval applications, the use of hypertext documents, and shared database applications * Provides the first study to reveal the inside workings of the IMF * Utilizes sociological methods to understand the technology which underpins office and commercial life

Inside the IMF: An Ethnography of Documents, Technology and Organisational Action (Computers and People Series)

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide these changes, both in terms of helping better understanding and redraw work processes and through providing more accurate and flexible understanding of the role technology plays. It places the reported research in context by contrasting it with those approaches more commonly associated with change, including business process engineering, participative design and soft systems methodologies. The book explains what are the benefits of ethnography, as well as the potential it has in helping achieve more desirable change in any and all organizations, financial services included. The book will be of interest to all international researchers concerned with organizational and technological change, as well as managers of organisational development. It will also interest advanced students in sociology, anthropology, management science and organizational studies The authors have published widely in the various disciplines associated with organizational life and technology design, and have built a considerable reputation for bringing new sociological insights into the organizational change literature

Organisational Change and Retail Finance: An Ethnographic Perspective (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)

Randall, David

Rouncefield, Mark

Death to the Dancing Masters

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Fawcett

Choice

We make decisions every day. Yet we are sometimes perplexed by these decisions and the decisions of others. To complicate things further, we live in an age where there are more things to choose from than ever before – the Internet is transforming our choices and making us more accountable for them: what we choose is recorded, modelled and used to predict our future behaviour. So are we in a position to make better choices today than we were a decade ago? Certainly there are some who believe so. Psychologists claim we are subject to hidden mental processes that lead us to one thing rather than another; economists offer predictions about what people will buy; and some philosophers claim that our choices echo our evolutionary past. Are these claims merited? Do they reflect the beginnings of a new science of choice? This book offers a critical overview of these and other claims, showing where they are justified and where they are exaggerated. It will be an essential reference for anyone interested in whether science can help us to understand both the ways people make choices in their everyday lives and how these may be changing.

Sharrock, Wes

Randall, Dave

Management & Leadership

Polity

Greenland Passage

Leisure Books

Wrexham & Shropshire: Open Access - The One That Got Away

Adlestrop Press

Organisational Change in Retail Finance

La Pantera de las Palmas

Poetry

lulu.com

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