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The Squam Lake Report
Fixing the Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.
The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights...
The Effectiveness of Policy Instruments for Energy-Efficiency Improvement in Firms
The Dutch Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
How can governments stimulate energy-efficiency improvement? This book analyzes environmental policy in the Netherlands to present a wealth of empirical results on the successes and failures of governmental initiatives in environmental policy. Discussion extends to such topics as free-rider effects...
by G. Tomas M. Hult, David Closs, David Frayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
LEVERAGE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN FOR MAXIMUM PROFIT
Do you have a global supply chain strategy designed for the long run?
About 90 percent of global demand is not fully met by local supply, and global supply chains will soon account for 25 percent of multinational firms' performance--meanwhile, supply...
by Antonio Gorgulho, Rui F.M.F. Neves, Nuno C.G. Horta
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The management of financial portfolios or funds constitutes a widely known problematic in financial markets which normally requires a rigorous analysis in order to select the most profitable assets. This subject is becoming popular among computer scientists which try to adapt known Intelligent Computation...
Key Questions in Career Counseling
Techniques To Deliver Effective Career Counseling Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This book's purpose is to provide a tool for career services personnel to deliver more effective, consistent career counseling. Its primary objective is to present a career counseling process model, including sequential stages and steps, along with a method (the Key Questions Technique) for successfully...
Living and Loving Better with Time Perspective Therapy
Healing from the Past, Embracing the Present, Creating an Ideal Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
In his 2012 book Time Cure, psychologist Philip Zimbardo introduced a groundbreaking therapeutic approach for PTSD sufferers, co-developed with Rosemary Sword. “Time Perspective Therapy” shifts mental focus from the past to the present, and from negative to positive events, helping anyone achieve...
The War Within
Preventing Suicide in the U.S. Military
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
The increase in suicides among military personnel has raised concern. This book reviews the current evidence on suicide epidemiology in the military, identifies state-of-the-art suicide-prevention programs, describes and catalogs suicide-prevention activities in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)...
The Rise of China and India in Africa
Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive...
From Individualism to the Individual
Ideology and Inquiry in Financial Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This title was first published in 2002: From Individualism to the Individual treats finance as a social and cultural process, exploring the unseen side of academic discourse and the many obstacles the deeply entrenched elite puts in the way of alternative thinking. Opening with a detailed discussion...
College Student Retention
Formula for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.
In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue...
by David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson, David Closs
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing city
When car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person—the city’s newly elected mayor—stood up and said “no.” Initially, it was the cry of a man in the...
by Jonathan Unger, Unn Målfrid H. Rolandsen, Christian Göbel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signalled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization,...
Project-Management in Practice
A Guideline and Toolbox for Successful Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This practice-oriented book explores a variety of cross-project topics and specific aspects of different project phases. It also offers tips, examples, templates and checklists, and discusses concrete problems and solutions from project practice in IT and the automotive industry.
The authors...
Relic
How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the deficit to climate change, our political institutions have long shown that they are incapable of meeting the challenges of modern society. Why the dysfunction?
In Relic, William Howell and Terry Moe point to the Constitution...