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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Through key research papers from Palgrave's Journal of Operational Research, this book showcases how Operational Research can be applied to sports in a variety of ways, including: timetabling fixtures; scheduling officials; forecasting outcomes; optimizing tactics and strategy; analyzing the effects...
Working with Dual Diagnosis
A Psychosocial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In the UK it is estimated that a third of patients in mental health services have a substance use problem, and that half of patients in drug and alcohol services have a mental health problem. Part of Palgrave's Foundations of Mental Health series, this book explores the intertwined issues of substance...
Children's Perspectives on Integrated Services
Every Child Matters in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Launching Palgrave's new Interagency Working in Health and Social Care series, this book provides one of the first reflective assessments of the Every Child Matters legacy of New Labour. Woven through with the voice of the child, it examines the new landscape of children's services, in bothprinciple and practice.
by Dennis Yang
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This collection of papers is from Palgrave's journal Comparative Economic Studies, carefully selected by a team of expert editors, this volumes collates the most sophisticated works to provide the readers with an essential guide to the economic development of China.
Internet Governance and the Global South
Demand for a New Framework
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
A welcome addition to Palgrave's Global Media Policy and Business series, Internet Governance and the Global South documents the role of the global south in Internet policymaking and challenges the globalization theories that declared the death of the state in global decision-making. Abu Bhuiyan argues...
by D. Ohana
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Part of Palgrave's Modernism and ... series, Modernism and Zionism explores the relationship between modernism and the Jewish national ideology, the Zionist movement, which was operative in all areas of Jewish art and culture.
The Financial Value of Entrepreneurship
Using Applied Research to Quantify Entrepreneurial Competence
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
This Palgrave Pivot examines the essence of competence value in corporate and small business finance, offering empirical evidence to better understand financial practices within entrepreneurial settings. Mantovani suggests an innovative methodology to detect the financial value of entrepreneurial...
Artificial Intelligence in Financial Markets
Cutting Edge Applications for Risk Management, Portfolio Optimization and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
As technology advancement has increased, so to have computational applications for forecasting, modelling and trading financial markets and information, and practitioners are finding ever more complex solutions to financial challenges. Neural networking is a highly effective, trainable algorithmic...
Basic Income Guarantee
Your Right to Economic Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
A Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is the unconditional government-ensured guarantee that all citizens will have enough income to meet their basic needs without a work requirement. Significant questions include: Why should we adopt a BIG? Can the U.S. afford it? Why don't the current welfare programs...
Can Pay Be Strategic?
A Critical Exploration of Strategic Pay in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Pay is a key element of the employment relationship and it has been advocated by some recently as a tool for enhancing organizational performance and sustained competitiveness. This book explores the realities of contemporary pay management in seven leading companies operating globally in the fast moving consumer goods sector.
Fixed and Variable Costs
Theory and Practice in Electricity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Fixed and Marginal Costs in Electricity Markets lays out clear cost methodologies for understanding marginal price structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs.
Marketing Shares, Sharing Markets
Experts in Investment Banking
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This book introduces the reader to the 'world of finance', more exactly to one core activity: investment banking. Analysing the practices of traders, analysts, brokers and bankers it reveals how their contrasting perspectives on shares are put to use and the consequences this has for investment banks, corporations, investors and the stock markets.
Italian Banking and Financial Law: Regulating Activities
Regulating Activities
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Italian banks and financial intermediaries are subject to extensive regulation which has evolved throughout the country's history. There has also been much change to the country's financial regulation in recent years in response to the globalization of markets and intermediaries. The Italian administrative...
by W. Sinclair, E. Lipkin
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The 40th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain. This practical and user-friendly guide is a bestseller with students, professionals, accountants and private individuals; explaining in simple terms how the UK tax system works and how best to minimise tax liabilities.