Ronald: 2667 books
Country Risk Analysis
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Country-Risk Analysis is a comprehensive, practical guide to the management of international risk and cross-border lending. The last fifteen years of international commercial bank lending have witnessed a classical boom-and-bust cycle. Yet it is only recently that a formalized approach to country...
by Ronald L. Meek
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The birth of Physiocracy was the birth of the science of economics in the broad general form in which it is known to us today. It is surprising therefore that the Physiocrats should have received so little attention from economists in the English-speaking world. This book fills that gap.
The...
The Lord's Resistance Army
Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa’s most persistent and notorious 'terrorist' group. Led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, it has committed a series of horrific human rights abuses, including massacres and mutilations. Since the mid 1980s, it has abducted tens of thousands of people, including large...
America
Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
America: Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur is an extensive ecopolitical treatise that delivers an intense overview of the key social maladies that plague todays world-- and their historical American, European, colonial, economic and ideological roots. It also provides a clear, bold and visionary formula...
The Roots of the Hardcastles
An Old Yorkshire Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This is the history of the Hardcastle family who appears to have been originated from Northumberland, near the Hadrian's Roman Wall. In the 13th century, the family settled in Yorkshire where land was granted to Fountains Abbey, and, in all probability, gave name to the place Hardcastle on Greenhow...
Cosmopolitan Communications
Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century, conventional interpretations, Norris and Inglehart...
by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Jack A. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...
Truth and Indignation
Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The original edition of Truth and Indignation offered the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it was unfolding. Niezen used testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission as well as interviews with survivors, priests, and nuns...
by Ronald A. Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Tools for matrix management success: This book offers insight into matrix management design and implementation and provides real-life examples to demonstrate how to avoid common pitfalls that impede success.
by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Experts examine censorship, surveillance, and resistance across Asia, from China and India to Malaysia and the Philippines.
Biostatistics
A Guide to Design, Analysis and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Biostatistics, Second Edition, is a user-friendly guide on biostatistics, which focuses on the proper use and interpretation of statistical methods.
This textbook does not require extensive background in mathematics, making it user-friendly for all students in the public health sciences field....
Anti-Corruption
Implementing Curriculum Change in Management Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Successful businesses are built on trust. Employees and colleagues need to trust one another and they need to deserve and receive trust from customers and suppliers. Anti-Corruption provides resources for building trust through the implementation of comprehensive guidelines on how to professionalize...
The Economics of the Frontier
Conquest and Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers – conceptual, theoretical and empirical – and introduce...
Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought
A Global Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine. In order to mitigate such effects, researchers must first be able to monitor them, and then predict them; however no book currently focuses on accurate monitoring or prediction of these...