H W : 1212 books
by Kaye Sung Chon, Clayton W Barrows, Robert H Bosselman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field!
Hospitality Management Education focuses on the academic aspect of hospitality--the mechanisms of hospitality education programs, their missions, their constituents, and the outcomes of their efforts. This book...
Globalization
The Return of Borders to a Borderless World?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Written by two leading scholars of global politics, Globalization: the return of borders to a borderless world? is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains globalization and its origins, and examines its future in light of key recent political and global trends and...
In Your Best Interest
The Ultimate Guide to the Canadian Bond Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
In Your Best Interest will put you ahead of the average investor or financial advisor by giving you the tools to demystify the fixed income market and meet your income and retirement needs.
by Berry Hsu, Syren Johnstone, Paul Lejot
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, financial regulation around the world has changed dramatically as a result of the 2008 global financial crisis. As one of the world's leading financial centres, international regulatory reforms have had a significant impact on the legal and regulatory...
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 Susanna Delfino, Angela Lakwete, Martin Reuf
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes -- planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle...
Public Sociology
Research, Action, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
This timely resource, written by a team of authors who are working at the forefront of the public sociology movement, provides a contemporary analysis of public sociology. The book highlights a variety of ways in which sociology brings about social change in community settings, assists nonprofit and...
Schools Can Change
A Step-by-Step Change Creation System for Building Innovative Schools and Increasing Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Build a dynamic system for change!
From NCLB to Common Core standards, we are inundated with directives for improving our schools. How can we really create lasting change? By applying the Change Creation system! Learning community pioneers Dale Lick, Karl Clauset, and Carlene Murphy lead teachers,...
The Bridge To Organic Chemistry
Concepts and Nomenclature
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Make the leap from introductory to organic chemistry
The transition from first-year chemistry to an organic chemistry course can be a challenge for many students. Not only must they recall their first-year studies of bonding, structure, and reactivity, but they must also master a whole new...
Criminal Investigation
A Method for Reconstructing the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
This text presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a sound method for reconstructing a past event (i.e., a crime), based on three major sources of information — people, records, and physical evidence. Its tried-and-true system for conducting an investigation is updated with...
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...
CERT Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM)
A Maturity Model for Managing Operational Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
CERT® Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM) is an innovative and transformative way to manage operational resilience in complex, risk-evolving environments. CERT-RMM distills years of research into best practices for managing the security and survivability of people, information, technology, and facilities....
by Anne W. Ackerson, Joan H. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Today’s history and cultural heritage museum leaders are part visionary and part foot soldier, but what makes them tick? Are there attitudes, philosophies and skills that set some people apart from the thousands charged with moving institutions forward? What lessons can we draw from their stories?...
by Ian W.H. Parry, Dirk Mr. Heine, Eliza Lis
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Energy taxes can produce substantial environmental and revenue benefits and are an important component of countries fiscal systems. Although the principle that these taxes should reflect global warming, air pollution, road congestion, and other adverse environmental impacts of energy use is well established,...