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Free Cash Flow and Shareholder Yield
New Priorities for the Global Investor
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Praise for Free Cash Flow and Shareholder Yield
"Free Cash Flow and Shareholder Yield provides a provocative solution to the profound paradigm shift now redefining valuation standards for markets around the globe. In commonsense terms, it defines how the investment community has begun...
Fragile by Design
The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business...
Hazardous to Our Health?
FDA Regulation of Health Care Products
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Some have described the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a scientific bureaucracy with police powers. Does a “cult of infallibility” exist within the FDA, leading to decisions that are contrary to the best interests of patients and their physicians?The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is...
The Field Guide to the 6Ds
How to Use the Six Disciplines to Transform Learning into Business Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Practical guidelines for implementing the six disciplines of breakthrough learning
The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning has become a standard for companies serious about increasing the return on their investment in learning and development. Now the authors help workplace learning professionals...
Team Building
Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
This book is filled with the concepts, ideas, and practical suggestions that are needed for any manager to have at hand if he or she is a member or creator of a committee, team, task-force, or any other activity involving collaboration among several people. The ideas are proven by several decades of experience and well-supported in the text with numerous examples.
by Kaye Sung Chon, Clayton W Barrows, Robert H Bosselman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field!
Hospitality Management Education focuses on the academic aspect of hospitality--the mechanisms of hospitality education programs, their missions, their constituents, and the outcomes of their efforts. This book...
Globalization
The Return of Borders to a Borderless World?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Written by two leading scholars of global politics, Globalization: the return of borders to a borderless world? is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains globalization and its origins, and examines its future in light of key recent political and global trends and...
by Berry Hsu, Syren Johnstone, Paul Lejot
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, financial regulation around the world has changed dramatically as a result of the 2008 global financial crisis. As one of the world's leading financial centres, international regulatory reforms have had a significant impact on the legal and regulatory...
by Terry L. Anderson, Ann M. Carlos, Christian Dippel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...
by Susanna Delfino, Angela Lakwete, Martin Reuf
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes -- planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle...
Public Sociology
Research, Action, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
This timely resource, written by a team of authors who are working at the forefront of the public sociology movement, provides a contemporary analysis of public sociology. The book highlights a variety of ways in which sociology brings about social change in community settings, assists nonprofit and...
Schools Can Change
A Step-by-Step Change Creation System for Building Innovative Schools and Increasing Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Build a dynamic system for change!
From NCLB to Common Core standards, we are inundated with directives for improving our schools. How can we really create lasting change? By applying the Change Creation system! Learning community pioneers Dale Lick, Karl Clauset, and Carlene Murphy lead teachers,...
The Bridge To Organic Chemistry
Concepts and Nomenclature
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Make the leap from introductory to organic chemistry
The transition from first-year chemistry to an organic chemistry course can be a challenge for many students. Not only must they recall their first-year studies of bonding, structure, and reactivity, but they must also master a whole new...
Criminal Investigation
A Method for Reconstructing the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
This text presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a sound method for reconstructing a past event (i.e., a crime), based on three major sources of information — people, records, and physical evidence. Its tried-and-true system for conducting an investigation is updated with...