Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map

Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
Palgrave Macmillan | 2010 | ISBN: 0230621813 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.1MB

In a perfect storm, the environment, the global economic system and geopolitics are all undergoing rapid, uncontrolled change. In the same way that the climate is in a state of flux, exhibiting erratic behavior before settling into a new norm, in the wake of the global economic crisis, many of the assumptions about the Western economic system have been destroyed, which leads to some troubling questions.

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The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
David Remnick | Knopf | Pages: 672 | 2010-04-06 | ISBN : 1400043603 | PDF | 1.6 MB

No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama’s own best-selling memoir or his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to emphasize, but now—from a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peer—we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.



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Eventful Cities: Cultural management and urban revitalisation

Eventful Cities: Cultural management and urban revitalisation
Butterworth-Heinemann | Pages: 534 | 2010-07-30 | ISBN : 9780750669 | PDF | 2 MB

Processes of globalisation, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Events offer the potential to achieve economic, social, cultural and environmental outcomes within broader urban development strategies.

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Exchange Rate Parity for Trade and Development: Theory, Tests, and Case Studies

Exchange Rate Parity for Trade and Development: Theory, Tests, and Case Studies
Cambridge University Press | November 10, 2005 | English | 344 pages | ISBN : 0521022622,0521022620 | PDF | 2MB

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Yotopoulos extends recent theories of incomplete markets to investigate empirically the appropriate balance between the market and the state in the trade relations between developed and developing countries. The conclusion is that in an ideal world government intervention in foreign exchange and trade is necessary in developing countries in the early stages and inevitably decreases as development occurs. The analysis and tests draw on empirical research from seventy countries and four extended country studies to confirm the usefulness and validity of the theoretical framework.

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Economics, Information Systems, and Electronic Commerce: Empirical Research

Economics, Information Systems, and Electronic Commerce: Empirical Research
M.E. Sharpe | September 30, 2008 | English | 318 pages | ISBN : 0765615320,0765615329 | PDF | 4.5MB

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The methods and thinking of economics permeate a large part of the IS discipline. Reciprocally, newly emerging research methods relying on the IT-enabled treatment of massive data aggregates feed economic research. As new and radical forms of IT innovation continue to energize electronic commerce, IS researchers face a daunting task in using existing empirical methods and tools to understand the threats, opportunities, risks, and rewards of these new techniques. This groundbreaking volume leads the way. It introduces new methodological approaches to data analysis as well as new techniques for collecting and cataloging transactional data. The ideas it presents have broad appeal and demonstrate what is possible when new techniques and new ways of thinking are brought to bear on complex research problems.

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Ulrike Binder, Michael Jünemann - Die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft (SE): Recht, Steuern, Beratung

Ulrike Binder, Michael Jünemann - Die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft (SE): Recht, Steuern, Beratung
Gabler, Betriebswirt.-Vlg | ISBN: 3834904449 | 2007-08 | PDF | 350 pages | 1.88 Mb

Die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft ist eine interessante Gestaltungsalternative für internationale Konzerne und für Mittelständler, die grenzüberschreitend in Europa aktiv sind oder werden wollen. Damit wird die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft in der Beratungspraxis immer wichtiger.Mit der Umsetzung der steuerlichen Rahmenbedingungen für grenzüberschreitende Umwandlungen gewinnt die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft immer mehr an Bedeutung. Sie ist eine interessante Gestaltungsalternative für große internationale Konzerne und für Mittelständler, die grenzüberschreitend in Europa aktiv sind oder werden wollen. Damit wird die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft in der Beratungspraxis immer wichtiger.Das Werk- beschreibt die Gründungsformen und die Verfassung der SE,- führt durch das Gründungsverfahren,- erläutert die steuerlichen Implikationen,- erklärt die Mitbestimmung in der SE,- geht auf Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zuanderen Gesellschaftsformen einund- gibt wichtige Entscheidungshilfen auf dem Weg zur SE.Die Reform des Umwandlungssteuerrechts (SEStEG) wurde bereits vollständig im Werk eingearbeitet.

Mit der Umsetzung der steuerlichen Rahmenbedingungen für grenzüberschreitende Umwandlungen gewinnt die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft immer mehr an Bedeutung. Sie ist eine interessante Gestaltungsalternative für große internationale Konzerne und für Mittelständler, die grenzüberschreitend in Europa aktiv sind oder werden wollen. Damit wird die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft in der Beratungspraxis immer wichtiger.

Das Werk
- beschreibt die Gründungsformen und die Verfassung der SE,
- führt durch das Gründungsverfahren,
- erläutert die steuerlichen Implikationen,
- erklärt die Mitbestimmung in der SE,
- geht auf Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zu anderen Gesellschaftsformen ein
und
- gibt wichtige Entscheidungshilfen auf dem Weg zur SE.

Die Reform des Umwandlungssteuerrechts (SEStEG) wurde bereits vollständig im
Werk eingearbeitet.

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The American Way to Change: How National Service and Volunteers Are Transforming America

Shirley Sagawa, "The American Way to Change: How National Service and Volunteers Are Transforming America"
Jossey-Bass | 2010 | ISBN: 0470565578 | 256 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB

How ordinary citizens dedicated to service can change the face of America's most critical issues

What if the nation were able to capitalize on the energy of Americans willing to serve and volunteer for a year or more? This inspirational book tells the stories of real people who have dedicated themselves to service and the nonprofits that engaged them. It shows how selflessness and service have transformed lives and communities, and can address similar problems throughout the country. The author profiles successes, demonstrates measurable effects, and shows how impact is made. This book describes how we can achieve change, through action at both the community and organizational level.

•Filled with illustrative examples and key lessons
•Highlights programs such as Teach for America, City Year, and Community Health Corps
•Shows how nonprofits can create successful service programs to tackle different issues
The book shows what America would look like if programs like these operated at scale across the country not just in one or two neighborhoods, but wherever they were needed.

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The Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right

Tom Kendrick PMP, "The Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right"
AMACOM | 2010 | ISBN: 0814414761 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB

Today's projects are more complex and challenging than ever, and project managers need all the help they can get to succeed amid shifting priorities, interruptions, inadequate funding, expectations of multiple stakeholders, and other obstacles. A practical on-the-job resource for project managers in any industry, this fully revised and updated edition of "The Project Management Tool Kit" is packed with results oriented, practical tips. Complete with checklists, examples, and clear graphics, "The Project Management Tool Kit" offers 100 practical, use-them-now strategies for mastering any project challenge.

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Nice Teams Finish Last: The Secret to Unleashing Your Team's Maximum Potential

Brian Cole Miller, "Nice Teams Finish Last: The Secret to Unleashing Your Team's Maximum Potential"
AMACOM | 2010 | ISBN: 0814413935 | 209 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Don't rock the boat. Don't make waves. Don't offend anyone. There's a palpable feeling that clouds many team meetings and keeps them from being productive: over-politeness. And while the conflict that naturally exists in most organizations hasn't gone away, it manifests itself in passive aggression, mediocrity, and a molasses-like inability to get anything done. "Nice Teams Finish Last" provides the antidote to this all too common tendency, giving managers, team leaders and members, and facilitators the practical exercises and assessment tools they need to battle 'the nice trap' and start getting results! The book helps readers encourage skills such as constructive criticism, honest communication, and the kind of conflict that drives innovation and quality. From giving clear, sharp feedback, to effectively challenging others, this book provides the eye-opening tools teams need to achieve very nice results!

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Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit: The Secrets of Building a Five-Star Customer Service Organization

Leonardo Inghilleri, Micah Solomon, "Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit: The Secrets of Building a Five-Star Customer Service Organization"
AMACOM | 2010 | ISBN: 0814415385 | 170 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

"Filled with treasure and big ideas, this book will help you become exceptional." - SETH GODIN

In a tight market, your most powerful growth engine and your best protection from competitive inroads is this: put every thing you can into cultivating true customer loyalty. Loyal customers are less sensitive to price competition, more forgiving of small glitches, and, ultimately, become "walking billboards" who will happily promote your brand. In Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit insiders Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon reveal the secrets of providing online and offline customer service so superior it nearly guarantees loyalty. Their anticipatory customer service approach was first developed at The Ritz-Carlton as well as at Solomon's entertainment and technology company Oasis, and has since proven itself in countless companies around the globe from luxury giant BVLGARI to value-sensitive auto parts leader Carquest, and everywhere in between. Now, readers can take the techniques that minted money for these brands and apply them directly to their own businesses. As Ken Blanchard writes, "Leonardo and Micah's philosophies, rules, and winning examples of service excellence will make you want to implement their suggestions immediately in your own organization." Filled with detailed, behind-the-scenes examples, the book unlocks a new level of customer relationship that leaves your competitors in the dust, your customers coming back day after day, and your bottom line looking better than it ever has before.

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Criminal Dilemmas: Understanding and Preventing Crime

Katri K. Sieberg, "Criminal Dilemmas: Understanding and Preventing Crime"
Springer | 2005 | ISBN: 3540240098 | 199 pages | PDF | 10,1 MB

Fighting crime breeds emotional responses which often lead to counter-productive government policy. To allow a rational analysis of these important concerns, this book employs the thinking of economics, political science, and game theory to develop new perspectives on crime and its causes. A basic assumption is that the criminal is a rational actor who makes decisions based on his or her personal expected gains and costs. By using this assumption, predictions about behaviour as well as emotional concerns such as prostitution and gun control are given a theoretical perspective. By understanding the strategic variables which cause, for example, gang wars and drug sales, we are better equipped to design effective public policy.

In the new edition, a chapter on police corruption has been added. The Gangs chapter has been updated and focuses more on evaluating competing hypotheses about gang organization and activity.

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Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach

Bob Litterman (GSAM), "Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach"
Wiley | ISBN: 0471124108 | 2003 | PDF | 648 pages | 3.2 mb

Introduces the modern investment management techniques used by Goldman Sachs asset management to a broad range of institutional and sophisticated investors.
With names ranging from Alford to Zangari, but led by Bob Litterman, an academy of 23 authors has produced the 600-page Goldman Sachs Asset Management textbook entitled Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach*. This is a state-of-the-art exposition of modern investment techniques, full of brilliant analysis but oddly detached from the real world.


PRAISE FOR Modern Investment Management

"This powerful book brilliantly discovers the routes to superior investment results in the roots of economic theory. In the process, it combines elegance of presentation with the highest levels of lucidity. The authors offer lessons that neither the scholar nor the investor-in-action can afford to ignore."
–– Peter Bernstein, bestselling author of Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street and Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

"In Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach, Bob Litterman and his colleagues at Goldman Sachs Asset Management provide the reader with a gentle introduction to modern financial theory and a survey of their own monumental contributions to theory and practice. The role of the late Fischer Black is amply noted."
–– Harry M. Markowitz, 1990 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics

"This comprehensive guide to equilibrium investing is perhaps the finest demonstration of the relevance of financial theory to investment practice. Both the academy and industry owe a huge debt to this exceptionally talented team for reuniting their paths. Study this book carefully and keep it close at hand if you are serious about investing or teaching about it."
–– Mark Kritzman, Managing Partner, Windham Capital Management Boston and Research Director, The Research Foundation of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR)

"This book develops a powerful framework for making better investment decisions. The equilibrium approach frees you up to focus on what you know, without being blinded by what you don’t know."
–– Andre Perold, Professor, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Director
Harvard Business School

"An invaluable investment manual ably supported by the highest-quality financial theory, but well peppered with common sense. The fund manager and the institutional investor ignore this book at their peril. It will be a key reference book for our pension plan."
–– David Morgan, Chief Executive, Coal Pension Trustees Services Ltd.

"This novel and ambitious book breaks new ground in demonstrating how modern investment theory can be refined and adapted to practice. The authors’ experience as investment professionals in a sophisticated institutional setting lends much credibility to their skillful blending of rigorous analysis, intuition, and real-world application."
–– Robert F. Stambaugh, Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Finance
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania


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Principles of General Management: The Art and Science of Getting Results Across Organizational Boundaries

Principles of General Management: The Art and Science of Getting Results Across Organizational Boundaries
English | Yale University Press | May 31, 2007 | 488 pages | English | ISBN : 0300117094,0300117097 | PDF | 1.55MB

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Stop! If you have been looking for the one resource for managing a business of any size, this is it. Based on the extensive business experience of five experts, this authoritative guide provides an in-depth look at what every leader must know about managing across departments, functions, divisions, or companies.
Drawing on decades of combined experience, John Colley and colleagues detail the wide range of skills, tools, and conceptual understanding as well as the qualities of leadership that a successful general manager must acquire. In an era of specialization and specialists, the authors return due focus to the generalist. No other book so passionately and thoroughly examines the roles and responsibilities of the general manager and the full scope of this distinct, pressure-filled occupation. The authors explore the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the job and discuss how the skilled manager moves an organization from abstract goals to definitive action. For every profit center or plant manager, function head, division president, or CEO, this book is indispensable reading.

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