Kenneth L : 235 books
The Handbook of Financing Growth
Strategies, Capital Structure, and M&A Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
The Second Edition of The Handbook of Financing Growth has been designed to help leaders and advisors gain a solid understanding of the financing strategies, sources, and transactions that will allow them to excel in such an unpredictable environment.
Written by an experienced group of practitioners...
Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
In the first anthology of its kind, Thomas O'Brien and Scott Paeth have gathered unique pieces from across religious perspectives to illustrate the growing influence and contribution of religion to the field of business ethics. Events in the recent past make clear people in business urgently need...
by William L. Dunn, J. Kenneth Shultis
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Exploring Monte Carlo Methods is a basic text that describes the numerical methods that have come to be known as "Monte Carlo." The book treats the subject generically through the first eight chapters and, thus, should be of use to anyone who wants to learn to use Monte Carlo. The next two chapters...
The Arab Awakening
America and the Transformation of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustration erupted throughout the streets; public unrest provoked violent police backlash; long-established dictatorships fell. How did this all happen? What might...
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools
A Critical Demography Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical...
Signs of Power
The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies.
By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this...
by Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...
by Andrew F. Herrmann, Art Herbig, Tony E. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business...
Queer as Camp
Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Unique study to bring studies of summer camp together with critical work on "camp" as queer style or practice.
The Religion and Science Debate
Why Does It Continue?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools, the debate between science and religion continues. In this book scholars from a variety of disciplines—sociology, history, science, and theology—provide new insights into the contemporary...
An Introduction to IMS
Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
IBM’s Definitive One-Stop Guide to IMS Versions 12, 11, and 10: for Every IMS DBA, Developer, and System Programmer Over 90% of the top Fortune® 1000 companies rely on IBM’s Information Management System (IMS) for their most critical IBM System z® data management needs: 50,000,000,000+...
Black LGBT Health in the United States
The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the...
Writing History with Lightning
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
Reading- The Grand Illusion
How and Why People Make Sense of Print
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
What is reading? In this groundbreaking book, esteemed researchers Ken Goodman, Peter Fries, and Steven Strauss, explain not only what reading really is but also why common sense makes it seem to be something quite different from that reality. How can this grand illusion be explained? That is the...