Provides managers techniques such as intervention and arbitration to maintain a productive working environment despite problem employees, and discusses ways employees can effectively communicate with difficult bosses and co-workers.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Difficult Employee

Business & Money

WOODS, JOHN

Management & Leadership

Alpha

Completely updated for 1999, including all new articles and chapters from the world's leading experts in quality. The Quality Yearbook enables people interested in implementing quality management keep up-to-date with all the latest trends, new technqiues, and measurements, etc. in the ever-growing field of quality management. The Yearbook includes a selection of articles and chapters from several different current books and periodicals in order to expose readers to a wide sampling of the best and most current materials on the quality perspective. The book is divided into four parts: Background for Quality--articles from pioneers in the quality management field; Quality by Industry--includes manufacturing, services, and the public sector; Implementing Quality--quality transformation, tools and techniques, functional processes, and standards and assessments; Quality References--directories and bibliographies, quotes, and awards.

The Quality Yearbook, 1999

Cortada, James W.

McGraw=Hill

This text is designed for the Critical Thinking course found in philosophy and general education departments at both universities and colleges. The most unique feature of the text is its solid foundation in logic. The discussion of fallacies is integrated with logic in a way not seen in other texts. This treatment provides students with tools to evaluate their own and other peoples thinking logically as well as analyze and assess an argument.

Argument: The Logic of the Fallacies

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson, Ltd.

This text is designed for the Critical Thinking and Logic courses found in philosophy and general education departments at both universities and colleges. The most unique feature of the text is its solid foundation in logic. The discussion of fallacies is integrated with logic in a way not seen in other texts. This treatment provides students with tools to evaluate their own and other peoples thinking logically as well as analyze and assess an argument.

Argument: Critical Thinking, Logic, and the Fallacies, Second Canadian Edition (2nd Edition)

Walton, Douglas

Irvine, Andrew

Pearson Education Canada

For courses in Probability and Random Processes. Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes for Engineers, 4e is a useful text for electrical and computer engineers. This book is a comprehensive treatment of probability and random processes that, more than any other available source, combines rigor with accessibility. Beginning with the fundamentals of probability theory and requiring only college-level calculus, the book develops all the tools needed to understand more advanced topics such as random sequences, continuous-time random processes, and statistical signal processing. The book progresses at a leisurely pace, never assuming more knowledge than contained in the material already covered. Rigor is established by developing all results from the basic axioms and carefully defining and discussing such advanced notions as stochastic convergence, stochastic integrals and resolution of stochastic processes.

Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes for Engineers

Computers & Technology

Stark, Henry

Computer Science

Pearson

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Striking the earth

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Indiana University Press

Turning to look back;: Poems, 1955-1970

The Handbook of the Logic of Argument and Inference is an authoritative reference work in a single volume, designed for the attention of senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in all the leading research areas concerned with the logic of practical argument and inference. After an introductory chapter, the role of standard logics is surveyed in two chapters. These chapters can serve as a mini-course for interested readers, in deductive and inductive logic, or as a refresher. Then follow two chapters of criticism; one the internal critique and the other the empirical critique. The first deals with objections to standard logics (as theories of argument and inference) arising from the research programme in philosophical logic. The second canvasses criticisms arising from work in cognitive and experimental psychology. 
The next five chapters deal with developments in dialogue logic, interrogative logic, informal logic, probability logic and artificial intelligence. 
The last chapter surveys formal approaches to practical reasoning and anticipates possible future developments. Taken as a whole the Handbook is a single-volume indication of the present state of the logic of argument and inference at its conceptual and theoretical best. Future editions will periodically incorporate significant new developments.

Handbook of the Logic of Argument and Inference: The Turn Towards the Practical (Volume 1) (Studies in Logic and Practical Reasoning, Volume 1)

Johnson, R.H.

Ohlbach, H.J.

Gabbay, Dov. M.

North-Holland

The present work is a continuation of the authors' acclaimed multi-volume A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. After having investigated the notion of relevance in their previous volume, Gabbay and Woods now turn to abduction. In this highly original approach, abduction is construed as ignorance-preserving inference, in which conjecture plays a pivotal role. Abduction is a response to a cognitive target that cannot be hit on the basis of what the agent currently knows. The abducer selects a hypothesis which were it true would enable the reasoner to attain his target. He concludes from this fact that the hypothesis may be conjectured. In allowing conjecture to stand in for the knowledge he fails to have, the abducer reveals himself to be a satisficer, since an abductive solution is not a solution from knowledge. Key to the authors' analysis is the requirement that a conjectured proposition is not just what a reasoner might allow himself to assume, but a proposition he must defeasibly release as a premiss for further inferences in the domain of enquiry in which the original abduction problem has arisen.
 The coverage of the book is extensive, from the philosophy of science to computer science and AI, from diagnostics to the law, from historical explanation to linguistic interpretation. One of the volume's strongest contributions is its exploration of the abductive character of criminal trials, with special attention given to the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
 Underlying their analysis of abductive reasoning is the authors' conception of practical agency. In this approach, practical agency is dominantly a matter of the comparative modesty of an agent's cognitive agendas, together with comparatively scant resources available for their advancement. Seen in these ways, abduction has a significantly practical character, precisely because it is a form of inference that satisfices rather than maximizes its response to the agent's cognitive target.
 The Reach of Abduction will be necessary reading for researchers, graduate students and senior undergraduates in logic, computer science, AI, belief dynamics, argumentation theory, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, forensic science, legal reasoning and related areas.
 Key features:
 - Reach of Abduction is fully integrated with a background logic of cognitive systems. - The most extensive coverage compared to competitive works. - Demonstrates not only that abduction is a form of ignorance preserving inference but that it is a mode of inference that is wholly rational. - Demonstrates the satisficing rather than maximizing character of abduction. - The development of formal models of abduction is considerably more extensive than one finds in existing literature. It is an especially impressive amalgam of sophisticated conceptual analysis and extensive logical modelling.

A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems: The Reach of Abduction: Insight and Trial

Elsevier Science

Paradox and Paraconsistency: Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences

In a world plagued by conflict, one might expect that the exact sciences of logic and mathematics would provide a safe harbor. In fact, these disciplines are rife with internal divisions between different, often incompatible systems. This original work explores apparently intractable disagreements in logic and the foundations of mathematics and sets out conflict resolution strategies that evade these stalemates. The book is a significant contribution to such areas of philosophy as logic, philosophy of language and argumentation theory. It is also of interest to mathematicians and computer scientists.

Cambridge University Press

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