Production and Operations Management (With Skill Development, Caselets and Cases)

This book further discusses in detail the production system concept, facility location, plant layout design, production scheduling, mass production techniques such as assembly line balancing maintenance planning and control, quality control and modern production management tools that include CIM, TQM,TPM and ISO 9000 & 14000 Series. Primarily designed as a textbook for various courses like BBM, BBA, B.Com., MBA and also useful for students pursuing courses: Production and Operations Management, Mechanical and Industrial & Production Engineering of Bangalore University and other Indian Universities.

British Imperialism (Histories and Controversies)

This essential guide offers a succinct, easy-to-read introduction to the key issues and historiography of British imperialism from the late 18th century to the present. Each chapter addresses questions posed by the nature of imperialism in its various military, economic, political, and cultural forms, while current controversies--including the impact of Orientalism and post-colonialism--are explained and set in the context of previous debates. The first book in the new Histories and Controversies series, British Imperialism enables readers to rapidly assimilate both historiography and key aspects of Britain's imperial power and influence.

Textual Analysis: A Beginner's Guide

Alan McKee presents a student friendly introduction to the analysis of cultural texts. The book highlights the cultural differences in interpretation with an array of fascinating examples. Textual Analysis is written in an accessible style with several useful case studies. Each chapter also includes exercises for classroom.

Text covers textual analysis, a methodology for researchers who are interested in the ways in which people make sense of the world. Uses examples from advertising, films, novels, comic books, television, and videos to provide students with a workable understanding of what textual analysis is, why it matters, and how to do it.

Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer (Medieval Cultures)

Historicism and its discontents have long been central to the work of Louise Fradenburg, one of the world's most original and provocative literary medievalists.
Sacrifice Your Love develops the idea that sacrifice is a mode of enjoyment-that our willingness to sacrifice our desire is actually a way of pursuing it. Fradenburg considers the implications of this idea for various problems important in medieval studies today-how to understand the religiosity of cultural forms, particularly chivalry, in the later Middle Ages and how to understand the ethics of Chaucer's famously nondidactic poetry-as well as in other fields of inquiry.

Samurai Commanders (2) 1577 - 1638

This second volume about Japan's samurai commanders covers the generals of the later years of the Age of the Warring States, a period when only the most able leaders survived. This was a time when the prowess of a commander was measured as much by his strategic and organizational abilities as by his individual fighting skills and he was expected to give as great a show of strength in the council chamber as on the battlefield. This book discusses the lives, battles and wider roles of talented commanders such as Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi - great men who stood out prominently due to their elaborate suits of armour and helmets, their stunning personal heraldry and their great armies.