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How can municipalities in Central Europe create favourable conditions for local business? What and how can municipalities learn from each other? How can each individual in the local area contribute? And what requirements have to be met before know-how can successfully be transferred on a communal...

Want to make money online? Then ignore social media at your own risk. Social media is vital if you want to your business to thrive, and though you can’t control the conversations, you can influence them. This book will teach you how. If mismanaged, social media can create more noise than...

Twenty-five essays covering a range of areas from religion and immigration to family structure and crime examine America's changing racial and ethnic scene. They clearly show that old civil rights strategies will not solve today's problems and offer a bold new civil rights agenda based on today's realities.

Two years into the deepest global financial crisis in the post-war era the world economy is still experiencing uneven economic recovery and financial weakness. Financial market conditions are signaling improved investor confidence and more appetite for cross-border investments. As part of its mandate...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) assumed a prominent role in Central East Europe (CEE) early on in the transition process. Foreign investors were assigned the task of restructuring markets, providing capital and knowledge for investment in technologically outdated and financially ailing firms.

Consumers are more and more concerned with the health of the food they eat. While great public anxiety about genetically engineered foodstuffs and BSE in cattle has developed in Europe, on the positive side there has been a rapidly rising demand for organic produce. Food retailers, including supermarkets,...

This book connects business sustainability to supply network-based value creation and enhancement, and tests a number of key propositions in complex supply networks to identify key challenges. Examining practical issues such as carbon trading, green product development, worker safety, child labour...

This is the third edition of our popular professional resource specifically tailored for non-insurance professionals. Financial planners, tax advisors, and estate planners have all found this book to be invaluable in their practices because it provides the insights, understanding and tools to guide clients as they seek to manage risk and properly plan insurance coverage.

Written by well-respected experts, this how-to guide provides patterns for the design of human computer human interaction (HCHI). An increasing number of applications are currently designed for use by more than one user, eg: multi-player games, interactive web sites, mobile phones, collaborative learning...

Tools & Techniques of Charitable Planning consists of the latest coverage on continued IRS scrutiny of tax-exempt organizations, continuing congressional reforms directed toward tax-exempt organizations, mounting number of restrictions directed toward charity owned life insurance (CHOLI), and prohibitions...

Tools & Techniques of Charitable Planning consists of the latest coverage on continued IRS scrutiny of tax-exempt organizations, continuing congressional reforms directed toward tax-exempt organizations, mounting number of restrictions directed toward charity owned life insurance (CHOLI), and...

Life Settlement Planning, offers objective and authoritative in-depth information on a specialty market, delivered in the respected tried-and-true method that has become a hallmark of the Tools &Techniques Series. Professionals will gain exclusive insight into a market that is currently estimated...

Are you doing the most to maximize your profits and sustainability? Discover detailed steps necessary to effectively run your practice and achieve profitable, client-focused results. This is the industry's first book to address an often-overlooked topic: Business of Financial Planning. In today's...

“[This new edition of] The Scramble for Africa uses tools of international political economy to clarify the challenges of development in today’s Africa from managing mounting demand for the region’s natural resources and land, to navigating the turbulence of global capital and trade flows. It...