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Survey Research in Corporate Finance
Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Corporate finance is a multifaceted discipline in which everything works in theory but not necessarily in practice. To bridge this gap, intelligently designed and executed surveys are essential in empirically validating conceptual hypotheses and the relative usefulness of various theories. Survey...
Loss Models
Further Topics
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
An essential resource for constructing and analyzing advanced actuarial models
Loss Models: Further Topics presents extended coverage of modeling through the use of tools related to risk theory, loss distributions, and survival models. The book uses these methods to construct and evaluate actuarial...
by Robert H. Scarlett, Lawrence E. Koslow, J.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In today's world, more and more businesses are taking steps toward globalization, and companies must work to remain competitive. 'Global Business' will help every business professional understand how all the components fit together to create a truly global business.
This quick-reference guide...
The Path of Labor
Theme: Christianity and The World’s Workers
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Those who labored with such desire and earnestness for the selection of a theme for the textbooks for 1918–1919, that should present not only a vital but a paramount issue to the church at this time when only great realities and issues claim serious thought, chose better than they knew when they...
Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making
Mental Models, Milgram and the Problem of Obedience
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
In commerce, many moral failures are due to narrow mindsets that preclude taking into account the moral dimensions of a decision or action. In turn, sometimes these mindsets are caused by failing to question managerial decisions from a moral point of view, because of a perceived authority of management....
Food Safety for the 21st Century
Managing HACCP and Food Safety Throughout the Global Supply Chain
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
The HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) system is still recognised internationally as the most effective way to produce safe food throughout the supply chain, but a HACCP system cannot operate in a vacuum. It requires prerequisite programmes to be in place and it can be highly affected...
by P. A. Brown, Editor, R. H. Tawney
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list)
SECTION I THE EARLY ENGLISH MANOR AND BOROUGH
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SECTION VI FINANCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
Act abolishing Tenure by Knight Service, etc., 1660
Navigation Act, 1660
Proposals for Free Exportation...
The Brilliance of Bioenergy
In Business and In Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The time for modern biomass has come. It has long been overshadowed by other, more widely-publicized renewable energy technologies such as wind, solar and hydro, and still retains an outmoded image in comparison to its apparently more attractive cousins. The potential for biomass to act as a store...
Loss Models
From Data to Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
A guide that provides in-depth coverage of modeling techniques used throughout many branches of actuarial science, revised and updated
Now in its fifth edition, Loss Models: From Data to Decisions puts the focus on material tested in the Society of Actuaries (SOA) newly revised Exams STAM (Short-Term...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Natural Childbirth
The Support You Need for the Birth You Want
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Thoughtful planning so mom and her supporters are ready when the baby is!
A midwife helps expecting mothers decide how natural they want their labor to be, what birthing methods are available, and the type of professional they want present. It helps women weigh factors, prepare mentally, make...
The Motherhood Business
Consumption, Communication, and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers how different forms of privilege (class, race,...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
by Jasper Eshuis, E.H. Klijn
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Politicians and public managers utilize branding to communicate with the public as well as to position themselves within the ever-present media now so central to political and administrative life. They must further contend with stakeholders holding contradictory opinions about the nature of a problem,...
Academic Leadership and Governance of Higher Education
A Guide for Trustees, Leaders, and Aspiring Leaders of Two- and Four-Year Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
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