case studies

Covers business case studies focused on issues in emerging markets and emerging industries across the globe.

From Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world to the generals leading today's campaigns in Afghanistan, this handbook casts new light on the leaders who are forging history on the battlefield.

"Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck"--Provided by publisher.

In 1971, graduate student Penny Patterson began teaching sign language to a gorilla named Koko, a scientific experiment that evolved into an intimate friendship lasting almost half a century and changed the course of human-animal communication.

This episode of Nova profiles the profilers, the FBI agents who track the most elusive killers.

"True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In 'Evidence of Things Seen,' fourteen. . . innovative crime writers . . . cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. This anthology pulls back the curtain on how crime itself is a by-product of America's systemic harms and inequalities. And in doing so, it reveals how the genre of true crime can be a catalyst for social change"--Provided by publisher.

"Drawing on research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence and new interviews, this . . . work of investigative journalism revisits the 1990 unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, revealing the dark secrets teens tell--and keep"--Provided by publisher.

As Morrie Schwartz, a sociology professor, is dying from ALS, he tells a former student, Mitch Albom, about dying, living and what's important in life.

As Morrie Schwartz, a sociology professor, is dying from ALS, he tells a former student, Mitch Albom, about dying, living and what's important in life.

Recounts the events surrounding the fifty-year-long investigation into the unsolved murder of a young boy whose body was found in a cardboard box in 1957.