Elements of Modern Topology

Science & Math

Brown, Ronald

Mathematics

McGraw=Hill

The Black College Mystique

This study compares the culture of black colleges and universities a generation ago with those that exist today, and makes projections into the future, based on a comprehensive review of professional literature and an analysis of the management skills of contemporary black college leaders. The book considers the assets and liabilities of historically Black colleges and discusses the ways in which Black colleges can be of help to non-Blacks (including white students) who can benefit from the unique kind of education offered by such schools. The mission of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) a generation ago focused on opening doors closed to students because of their scores on standardized aptitude tests, providing remedial and supportive services to students whose academic backgrounds reflect low levels of achievement, combining academic as well as vocational course concentrations, modifying instructional methods and techniques to meet students where they are, and take them to the higher levels they are capable of attaining. This mission of opening new opportunities, giving support to overcome deficits of the past, and preparing students for professional and academic vocations continues today for these institutions.

Politics & Social Sciences

Reddick, Richard J.

Willie Charles William Eliot Pro, Charles V.

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

From Selling to Managing: Guidelines for the First-Time Sales Manager

"Joan's a blockbuster sales rep who can outsell and outtalk anyone on the force. She deserves a reward, and she gets it -- a promotion to sales manager. Now Joan is responsible for how others perform, for keeping the sales numbers up, for leading the troops. This sudden transformation from player to coach is a dramatic one, and managers are usually expected to make the transition under their own steam. This dilemma is faced by many high- powered salespeople, and for over two decades AMACOM's best-selling From Selling to Managing has been there to help. Now revised to reflect changes in technology, distribution, and the complexity of the modern sales force, this book is needed more than ever. A compact primer on making the difficult move from a narrow independent workstyle to a host of diverse responsibilities, this guidebook is written in a quick-grasp, conversational style perfect for the new sales manager. In clear, simple terms it shows how to: * Plan sales force operations efficiently * Implement the plan * Appraise the sales force and operations * Control operations * Communicate up and down in the organization * Recruit and maintain the sales force From Selling to Managing gives the newly appointed manager everything he or she needs to be a success -- again."

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

AMACOM

From Selling to Managing: Guidelines for the Newly Appointed Field Sales Manager

American Management Association

This revised edition of the classic that's been snatched up by nearly 25,000 novice sales managers offers new insights on changes in technology, distribution, and the complexion of the modern sales force. Includes practical examples.

From Selling to Managing: Guidelines for the First Time-Sales Manager

Management & Leadership

Amacom Books

Reading list on mental retardation

Kingston upon Hull City Libraries

Electronics at the point of sale: A research report on cash registers, credit checking and cash dispensers,

Ovum Ltd

Telephone facsimile for business: A research report on systems, equipment, costs, advantages and markets

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

The Author]

This is the third edition of a classic text, previously published in 1968, 1988, and now extended, revised, retitled, updated, and reasonably priced. Throughout it gives motivation and context for theorems and definitions. Thus the definition of a topology is first related to the example of the real line; it is then given in terms of the intuitive notion of neighbourhoods, and then shown to be equivalent to the elegant but spare definition in terms of open sets. Many constructions of topologies are shown to be necessitated by the desire to construct continuous functions, either from or into a space. This is in the modern categorical spirit, and often leads to clearer and simpler proofs. There is a full treatment of finite cell complexes, with the cell decompositions given of projective spaces, in the real, complex and quaternionic cases. This is based on an exposition of identification spaces and adjunction spaces. The exposition of general topology ends with a description of the topology for function spaces, using the modern treatment of the test-open topology, from compact Hausdorff spaces, and so a description of a convenient category of spaces (a term due to the author) in the non Hausdorff case. The second half of the book demonstrates how the use of groupoids rather than just groups gives in 1-dimensional homotopy theory more powerful theorems with simpler proofs. Some of the proofs of results on the fundamental groupoid would be difficult to envisage except in the form given: `We verify the required universal property'. This is in the modern categorical spirit. Chapter 6 contains the development of the fundamental groupoid on a set of base points, including the background in category theory. The proof of the van Kampen Theorem in this general form resolves a failure of traditional treatments, in giving a direct computation of the fundamental group of the circle, as well as more complicated examples. Chapter 7 uses the notion of cofibration to develop the notion of operations of the fundamental groupoid on certain sets of homotopy classes. This allows for an important theorem on gluing homotopy equivalences by a method which gives control of the homotopies involved. This theorem first appeared in the 1968 edition. Also given is the family of exact sequences arising from a fibration of groupoids. The development of Combinatorial Groupoid Theory in Chapter 8 allows for unified treatments of free groups, free products of groups, and HNN-extensions, in terms of pushouts of groupoids, and well models the topology of gluing spaces together. These methods lead in Chapter 9 to results on the Phragmen-Brouwer Property, with a Corollary that the complement of any arc in an n-sphere is connected, and then to a proof of the Jordan Curve Theorem. Chapter 10 on covering spaces is again fully in the base point free spirit; it proves the natural theorem that for suitable spaces X, the category of covering spaces of X is equivalent to the category of covering morphisms of the fundamental groupoid of X. This approach gives a convenient way of obtaining covering maps from covering morphisms, and leads easily to traditional results using operations of the fundamental group. Results on pullbacks of coverings are proved using a Mayer-Vietoris type sequence. No other text treats the whole theory directly in this way. Chapter 11 is on Orbit Spaces and Orbit Groupoids, and gives conditions for the fundamental groupoid of the orbit space to be the orbit groupoid of the fundamental groupoid. No other topology text treats this important area. Comments on the relations to the literature are given in Notes at the end of each Chapter. There are over 500 exercises, 114 figures, numerous diagrams. See http://www.bangor.ac.uk/r.brown/topgpds.html for more information. See http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/?rpa=reviews&amp;sa=viewBook&amp; bookId=69421 for a Mathematical Association of America review.

Topology and Groupoids

BookSurge Publishing

From Paris to Panama City, San Antonio to Saigon, Lima to Los Angeles, this story follows the adventures and misadventures of a man who lived most of his life in the shadows. Reared in the hard-scrabble coal camps of West Virginia, he spent a lifetime looking for, and finding, trouble across four continents. Along the way he manages to find love and excitement in a wide variety of places and encounters, not always to his best interests. Are you ready for a bumpy ride? Then come along with "The Drifter," as he relives his chaotic life in these memoirs.

Memoirs of a Modern-Day Drifter

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

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