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Managing Corporate Social Responsibility
A Communication Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Managing Corporate Social Responsibility offers a strategic, communication-centred approach to integrating CSR into organizations. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and written in a highly accessible style, the book guides readers in a focused progression providing the key points they need to...
The People Factor
Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Successful businesses have spent the past two decades retooling and rethinking how to manage their people better. Most big companies that have survived and prospered in the 21st century view employees as a vital strategic asset. In comparison, the U.S. federal government is a Stone Age relic, with...
by Richard A. DeFusco, Dennis W. McLeavey, David E. Runkle
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Your complete guide to quantitative analysis in the investment industry
Quantitative Investment Analysis, Third Edition is a newly revised and updated text that presents you with a blend of theory and practice materials to guide you through the use of statistics within the context of finance...
Sustainability in Higher Education
Stories and Strategies for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs.
In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging...
by Michael R. Greenberg, Bernadette M. West, Karen W. Lowrie
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
An essential reference for journalists, activists, and students, this book presents scientifically accurate and accessible overviews of 24 of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, TMI and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation,...
Shopping for Water
How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The American West has a long tradition of conflict over water. But after fifteen years of drought across the region, it is no longer simply conflict: it is crisis. In the face of unprecedented declines in reservoir storage and groundwater reserves throughout the West, Shopping for Water focuses on...
by Christopher W. Moore, Peter J. Woodrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Praise for Handbook of Global and Multicultural Negotiation
"In today's globalized world, few competencies are as essential as the ability to negotiate across cultures. In this insightful and practical book, Chris Moore and Peter Woodrow draw on their extensive global experience to help...
by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Katrin Golsch, Alexander W. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Many economic and social surveys are designed as panel studies, which provide important data for describing social changes and testing causal relations between social phenomena. This textbook shows how to manage, describe, and model these kinds of data. It presents models for continuous and categorical...
Financial Advice and Investment Decisions
A Manifesto for Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
A practical guide to adapting financial advice and investing to a post crisis world
There's no room for "business as usual" in today's investment management environment. Following the recent financial crisis, both retail and institutional investors are searching for new ways to oversee...
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 Simon Birchall, J W Ramus
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
This book provides a detailed guide to the principles and practice of construction contracts. It is written for both students and professionals working in all branches of surveying and construction. Based around the JCT 05 Standard Building Contracts, it has been fully revised and updated to reflect...
Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction
An Anthology for Researchers, Policy Makers, and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This anthology on teacher induction research is intended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of teacher induction both nationally and internationally. This book is the final and major project of the Association of Teacher Educators' (ATE) Commission on Teacher Induction...
Needs Assessment Phase I
Getting Started (Book 2)
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
"The Authors have done a good job of conveying the nuts and bolts of the process and problem situations that can arise from political and social conditions."
—Stephanie Brzuzy, Xavier University
"The authors offer a nice overview of the process involved in developing and conducting...
Tourism and Trails
Cultural, Ecological and Management Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and the present. This book is the first to comprehensively examine these tourism trails from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume...