Global Teams: How Top Multinationals Span Boundaries and Cultures with High-Speed Teamwork Publisher: Davies-Black | ISBN: 0891061576 | edition 2001 | PDF | 256 pages | 2,7 mb Just like the companies in which they function, teams are going global. In every corner of the world, organizations are calling upon people to communicate and cooperate across different cultures, to manage widely dispersed work groups and corporate subsidiaries, and to hurdle multiple time zones. From Singapore to Zurich, Sao Paulo to Detroit, Michael Marquardt and Lisa Horvath have culled the best practices and lessons learned from such global leaders as Glaxo-Wellcome, General Motors University, Marriott, and Colgate-Palmolive to show how any organization can create and sustain teams that will work well across the boundaries and barriers of diversity and distance.

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Adaptation to Climate Change: A Spatial Challenge By Rob Roggema Publisher: Springer 2009-11-18 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 1402093586 | 16.1 MB As it becomes clear that climate change is not easily within the boundaries of the 1990’s, society needs to be prepared and needs to anticipate future changes due to the uncertain changes in climate. So far, extensive research has been carried out on several issues including the coastal defence or shifting ecozones

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End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth Publisher: Cisco Press | ISBN: 1587053322 | edition 2007 | PDF | 480 pages | 11 mb Information security practices have evolved from Internet perimeter protection to an in-depth defense model in which multiple countermeasures are layered throughout the infrastructure to address vulnerabilities and attacks. This is necessary due to increased attack frequency, diverse attack sophistication, and the rapid nature of attack velocity–all blurring the boundaries between the network and perimeter.

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No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization (Studies in Book and Print Culture) Publisher: University of Toronto Press | ISBN: 080208835X | 2004 | PDF | 224 pages | 16 MB

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Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World Publisher: Gale Cengage | ISBN: 0954381122 | edition 2004 | PDF | 577 pages | 10,6 mb A reference tool for understanding the sources of political instability and terrorism throughout the world. Compiled by some 80 contributors from around the world, this 4th edition covers all significant organizations that operate outside the permitted sphere of political activity. These range from violent terrorist units in democratic societies to dissident groups operating in authoritarian states.

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Aliki Varvogli, “World that is the Book: Paul Auster’s Fiction” Publisher: Liverpool University Press | PDF | 2001 | ISBN 0853236879 | 193 pages | 11 Mb The World that is the Book offers an in-depth analysis of Paul Auster’s fiction. It explores the rich literary and cultural sources that Auster taps into in order to create compelling stories that investigate the nature of language, the workings of chance, and the individual’s complex relations with the world at large

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Larry D. Lankton, “Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840-1875″. Publisher: Oxford University Press | english | ISBN: 0195108043 | edition: 1997 | PDF | 288 Pages | 18 Mb Winner of the 1992 Great Lakes History Prize, Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991) related the history of the copper mining industry along Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula

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Julie Scanlon, “Crossing Boundaries: Thinking Through Literature” Sheffield Academic Press | 2001 | ISBN: 1841272329 | 224 pages | PDF | 11,5 MB

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Michael Berger “Nano-Society: Pushing the Boundaries of Technology” Royal Society of Chemistry | English | 2009-10-23 | ISBN: 1847558836 | 317 pages | PDF | 18,4 MB

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Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity+Military Intelligence Blunders Publisher: University of Georgia+Carroll & Graf Publishers | ISBN: 0820327654+0786707151 | edition 2005+2000 | PDF | 254+372 pages | 10,5 mb Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. John Cox makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts that includes slave narratives, domestic literature, and soldiers’ diaries, as well as more traditional forms of travel writing. In the process he extends the boundaries of travel literature both as a genre and as a subject of academic study

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