New Releases by David Farmer

O texto deste livro busca equilibrar as exigências acadêmicas e a prática profissional. Inicia-se examinando os fatores que moldam o desenvolvimento da função compras, assuntos e considerações estratégicas relevantes, estrutura e organização de compras e desenvolvimento e evolução da atividade. A seguir, aborda as variáveis-chave de compras, como qualidade, quantidade, tempo, preço, fonte de suprimento e negociação. A terceira parte envolve as atividades e as implicações de compras, examinando os processos associados a compras em mercados ou setores econômicos específicos. A parte final aborda sistemas, controles e pessoal e inclui um comentário sobre a direção que a pesquisa referente a compras está tomando.

Observations of tidal flow over a sill show that upstream solitary wave generation occurred in conjunction with the downstream movement of a streamline bifurcation over the obstacle crest. Solitary waves appeared upstream of the bifurcation, riding on the surface stratification. Shear flow instabilities on the plunging interface were also evident and may contribute to wave generation through subharmonic interaction. Nonlinear waves generated downstream of an internal control became trapped in the supercritical flow.

Ivor Allchurch won 68 caps - then a Welsh national record - during his long career as an elegant and skilful inside-forward with Cardiff City, Newcastle United and Swansea Town. This biography, which includes a statistical section, offers a portrait of a dedicated and highly popular footballer.

Drawn largely from the extensive personal papers of Stanley Marcus, now housed in the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University, Stanley Marcus: A Life with Books sparkles with the names of literary history, most but not all of them Texans - Tom Lea, Henry Nash Smith, J. Evetts Haley, Alfred Knopf, Jose Cisneros, Elizabeth Ann McMurray and McMurray''s Personal Bookstore, E. L. DeGolyer, Paul Horgan, and a host of others. David Farmer chronicles Marcus'' early fascination with books during his Harvard years, his founding of the Book Club of Texas, his friendship with J. Frank Dobie and his working relationship with El Paso''s Carl Hertzog, his own books - Minding the Store and Quest for the Best, and his Somesuch Press, noted for publishing exquisite miniature books.

Number 17 in the series of occasional papers produced by the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC). Examines the role of banks and the social responsibility they have in the light of the gospel. Surveys relevant biblical and church teaching on banking and considers specific issues of deregulation and banking practice. The author is a freelance writer and consultant. He holds honours degrees in economics and theology and has spent 15 years working with one of the major Australian banks.

This book attempts to provide an analysis of several of the commonest classic industrial accidents and draw from them valuable lessons about how and why they happen and how they can be prevented.

D. H. Lawrence''s Women in Love - ''the beginning of a new world'', as he called it - suffered in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women in Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence''s revisions. This edition, edited by scholars in England and America, clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist''s work as he himself created it. The edition includes the ''Foreword'' Lawrence wrote in 1919 and two preliminary and discarded chapters which have attracted widespread critical and biographical discussion. The introduction gives a full history of the novel''s composition, revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions and references; the textual apparatus records all variants between the base-text and the first printed editions.