Best Selling Books by Douglas McGregor

“What are your assumptions (implicit as well as explicit) about the most effective way to manage people?” So began Douglas McGregor in this 1960 management classic. It was a seemingly simple question he asked, yet it led to a fundamental revolution in management. Today, with the rise of the global economy, the information revolution, and the growth of knowledge-driven work, McGregor''s simple but provocative question continues to resonate-perhaps more powerfully than ever before. Heralded as one of the most important pieces of management literature ever written, a touchstone for scholars and a handbook for practitioners, The Human Side of Enterprise continues to receive the highest accolades nearly half a century after its initial publication. Influencing such major management gurus such as Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, McGregor''s revolutionary Theory Y-which contends that individuals are self-motivated and self-directed-and Theory X-in which employees must be commanded and controlled-has been widely taught in business schools, industrial relations schools, psychology departments, and professional development seminars for over four decades. In this special annotated edition of the worldwide management classic, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Senior Research Scientist in MIT''s Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division, shows us how today''s leaders have successfully incorporated McGregor''s methods into modern management styles and practices. The added quotes and commentary bring the content right into today''s debates and business models. Now more than ever, the timeless wisdom of Douglas McGregor can light the path towards a management style that nurtures leadership capability, creates effective teams, ensures internal alignment, achieves high performance, and cultivates an authentic, value-driven workplace--lessons we all need to learn as we make our way in this brave new world of the 21st century.

A crime has been committed in Alphabet Town. The vowels have been kidnapped and without them there is the threat that no words will ever be spelled again. Will one of the remaining letters have the courage to save the day? In true Dr. Seuss fashion, Douglas J. McGregor takes us on a whimsical rhyming adventure of lettered proportions.

Radiation Detection: Concepts, Methods, and Devices provides a modern overview of radiation detection devices and radiation measurement methods. The book topics have been selected on the basis of the authors’ many years of experience designing radiation detectors and teaching radiation detection and measurement in a classroom environment. This book is designed to give the reader more than a glimpse at radiation detection devices and a few packaged equations. Rather it seeks to provide an understanding that allows the reader to choose the appropriate detection technology for a particular application, to design detectors, and to competently perform radiation measurements. The authors describe assumptions used to derive frequently encountered equations used in radiation detection and measurement, thereby providing insight when and when not to apply the many approaches used in different aspects of radiation detection. Detailed in many of the chapters are specific aspects of radiation detectors, including comprehensive reviews of the historical development and current state of each topic. Such a review necessarily entails citations to many of the important discoveries, providing a resource to find quickly additional and more detailed information. This book generally has five main themes: Physics and Electrostatics needed to Design Radiation Detectors Properties and Design of Common Radiation Detectors Description and Modeling of the Different Types of Radiation Detectors Radiation Measurements and Subsequent Analysis Introductory Electronics Used for Radiation Detectors Topics covered include atomic and nuclear physics, radiation interactions, sources of radiation, and background radiation. Detector operation is addressed with chapters on radiation counting statistics, radiation source and detector effects, electrostatics for signal generation, solid-state and semiconductor physics, background radiations, and radiation counting and spectroscopy. Detectors for gamma-rays, charged-particles, and neutrons are detailed in chapters on gas-filled, scintillator, semiconductor, thermoluminescence and optically stimulated luminescence, photographic film, and a variety of other detection devices.

This text on radiation detection and measurement is a response to numerous requests expressed by students at various universities, in which the most popularly used books do not provide adequate background material, nor explain matters in understandable terms. This work provides a modern overview of radiation detection devices and radiation measurement methods. The topics selected in the book have been selected on the basis of the author’s many years of experience designing radiation detectors and teaching radiation detection and measurement in a classroom environment.

''How to talk to your Robot Dog'' is a description of how to communicate with an advanced design of an artificial intelligence entity - the ''Robot Dog'' - structured largely on canine behaviours. The ''Robot Dog'' links with its keeper and has a mission described as ''To ensure the safety and wellbeing of those in its charge and act as an active information resource and caring companion to enrich their life experience.'' The book draws from extensive examples of canine attributes, especially those demonstrated by assistance dogs of various kinds, and indicates how these are included in the ''persona'' of the ''Robot Dog''. The identification of such canine attributes provides a fresh insight into the constructive engagement of artificial intelligence and does so with a humorous touch.The canine persona of the ''robot dog'' emerges as a constructive framework within which to draw in the benefits of a technological age.

Este livro é uma tentativa de fundamentar a tese de que o lado humano da empresa é ''um todo coerente'' - que as idéias teóricas sustentadas pela direção sobre como controlar os seus recursos humanos determinam o caráter total da empresa. E determinam, também, a qualidade de suas sucessivas gerações de administradores. Naturalmente, o processo é circular, e nisso reside a possibilidade e a esperança de progresso futuro.

El administrador y las ciencias humanas ; La conducta del administrador; Hacia una mayor eficiencia administrativa; El trabajo en aquipo y las tensiones.

To study CdZnTe as a high energy resolution gamma ray detector with a novel new design, and to build a detector array from the new detector design.