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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn electricity at your own pace What makes a light bulb work What overloads a fuse How does a magnetic field differ from an electrical field With Electricity: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more about this powerful, versatile force that everyone uses, yet most of us don't understand. Ralph Morrison demystifies electricity, taking you through the basics step by step. Significantly updated to cover the latest in electrical technology, this easy-to-use guide makes familiar the workings of voltage, current, resistance, power, and other circuit values. You'll discover where electricity comes from, how electric fields cause current to flow, how we harness its tremendous power, and how best to avoid the various pitfalls in many practical applications when the time comes for you to put your knowledge to work. The clearly structured format of Electricity makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview for everyone from the student to the engineer to the hobbyist. Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Electricity allows you to build gradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for anyone who wants to improve his or her understanding of basic electricity.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New chapter by Soros on the secrets to his success along with a new Preface and Introduction.New Foreword by renowned economist Paul Volcker'An extraordinary . . . inside look into the decision-making process of the most successful money manager of our time. Fantastic.' -The Wall Street JournalGeorge Soros is unquestionably one of the most powerful and profitable investors in the world today. Dubbed by BusinessWeek as 'the Man who Moves Markets,' Soros made a fortune competing with the British pound and remains active today in the global financial community. Now, in this special edition of the classic investment book, The Alchemy of Finance, Soros presents a theoretical and practical account of current financial trends and a new paradigm by which to understand the financial market today. This edition's expanded and revised Introduction details Soros's innovative investment practices along with his views of the world and world order. He also describes a new paradigm for the 'theory of reflexivity' which underlies his unique investment strategies. Filled with expert advice and valuable business lessons, The Alchemy of Finance reveals the timeless principles of an investing legend.This special edition will feature a new chapter by Soros on the secrets of his success and a new Foreword by the Honorable Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve.George Soros (New York, NY) is President of Soros Fund Management and Chief Investment Advisor to Quantum Fund N.V., a $12 billion international investment fund. Besides his numerous ventures in finance, Soros is also extremely active in the worlds of education, culture, and economic aid and development through his Open Society Fund and the Soros Foundation. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title a Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociologya .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Corrosive work relationships are like black holes that swallow up energy that people need to do their jobs. In contrast, high-quality relationships generate and sustain energy, equipping people to do work and do it well. Grounded in solid research, this book uses energy as ameasurement to describe the power of positive and negative connections in people's experience at work. Author Jane Dutton provides three pathways for turning negative connections into positive ones that create and sustain employee resilience and flexibility, facilitate the speed and quality of learning, and build individual commitment and cooperation. Through compelling and illustrative stories, Energize Your Workplace offers managers, executives, and human resource professionals the resources they need to build high-quality connections in the workplace.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Redundant Masculinities investigates the links between the so-called crisis of masculinity and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men.Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard.Looks at how the labour market is changing.Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities.Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written for those who work with parents, adolescents, and children in various family contexts, this book describes the practical process of assessment and intervention which can lead to empowering individual families and improving their quality of life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Capable Company provides the 'Rosetta Stone' executives have been seeking: a systematic way to translate strategy into action.Gives executives a systematic way to translate strategy into action.Helps companies to develop the capabilities that make strategy work.Assembles best-practice strategy execution methods from some of the world's most highly-respected companies into a simple step-by-step process.Enables leaders at all levels to rapidly focus and align their actions, even as business conditions change.Packed with models, key points, practical examples, case studies, self-assessment techniques and templates.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Applying practical tools to the volatile process of negotiatingPrognosticators apply Monte Carlo Analysis (MCA) to determine the likelihood and significance of a complete range of future outcomes; Real Options Analysis (ROA) can then be employed to develop pricing structures, or options, for such outcomes. Richard Razgaitis' Dealmaking shows readers how to apply these powerful valuation tools to a variety of business processes, such as pricing, negotiating, or living with a 'deal,' be it a technology license, and R&D partnership, or an outright sales agreement. Dealmaking distinguishes itself from other negotiating guides not only by treating negotiations as an increasingly common situation, but also by presenting a tool-based approach that creates flexible, practical valuation models. This forward-thinking guide includes a variety of checklists, case studies, and a CD-ROM with the appropriate software.Richard Razgaitis (Bloomsbury, NJ) is a Managing Director at InteCap, Inc. He has over twenty-five years of experience working with the development, commercialization, and strategic management of technology, seventeen of which have been spent in the commercialization of intellectual property.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a workbook for health professionals working with diabetic patients. It is based on the experiences of one group of health care workers in an inner city area. It illustrates how using individual patients' stories can inform and help health care workers to understand and manage their patients' difficulties better. In this way it has similar aims to the narrative based medicine books. It also provides the interactive learning element with suggested learning objectives, assignments and further reading in each unit.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A cliche it may be but we are living in ever more turbulent times. Business decision-making has become more challenging and unpredictable than ever: we see unforeseen and often cataclysmic changes in consumer demand, both at home and in export markets; customers continue to demand more, more quickly and for less; new laws and regulations abound; competitors steal loyal customers; and, increasingly, the advice that once could be found from a 'Small Business Adviser' has been replaced by a call centre. Hand in hand with these challenges, the risks associated with expansion, or a new strategy, have grown significantly. In the context of a small business, where a manager has not necessarily had the breadth of experience of someone in a larger organization or formal management learning, they can seem extremely daunting. This book addresses the issues confronting managers/owners of SMEs by providing practical, jargon-free advice on which a SME can create a sound platform from which to prosper.\* Uncomplicated and jargon free to appeal to the SME director or manager who has little time to read\* Can be used as a continuous read or a source of ides for dealing with the day-to-day problems of running and growing a small business\* Based on the practical experience of the authors with examples taken from consulting practice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Global Positioning System is the first book to guide social scientists with little or no mapping or GPS experience through the process of collecting field data from start to finish.Takes readers step-by-step through the key stages of a GPS fieldwork project.Explains complex background topics in clear, easy-to-understand language.Provides simple guidelines for GPS equipment selection.Provides practical solutions for real GPS data collection issues.Offers a concise guide to using GPS-collected data within geographic information systems.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Concise Companion to Feminist Theory introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the last 35 years.Introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the past 35 years.Guides students along the cutting edge of current feminist theory.Suitable for students and scholars of all fields touched by feminist thought.Covers an exceptionally broad range of disciplines, discourses and feminist positions.Organised around concepts rather than schools of feminism.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history. - Broad in scope - covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. - Rich in detail - incorporates illustrations that provide visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress. - Combines perspectives from design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history. - Considers 'material strategies' in relation to production and consumption, the public and the private, the body and sexuality, and national identity. - Written in a jargon-free style, making it accessible to readers from a wide range of backgrounds.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book situates state failure and state collapse in historical context and explains the structures and forces that have led to state collapse in a number of countries around the world. It also analyses and critiques contemporary interventions and reconstruction efforts in collapsed states.Addresses the subject of state failure which has received high-profile attention from both scholars and policy-makers.Examines how and why states collapse.Analyses and critiques post-conflict reconstruction efforts.Has contemporary relevance for developments in places such as East Timor, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Georgia.Challenges our assumptions about states and the state system.…

Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The essential resource for the successful option traderHigh Performance Options Trading offers a fresh perspective on trading options from a seasoned options trader programmer/engineer, Leonard Yates. Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as an options trader and software programmer, Yates has written this straightforward guide. First he provides readers with a solid foundation to trading options, including an introduction to basic options terminology, a thorough explanation on how options are traded, and specific trading strategies. Accompanied by the OptionVue Software CD, this hands-on guide to the options market is a thorough and essential resource for any trader looking to increase his or her practical knowledge of options.Leonard Yates, CTA (Chicago, IL), is the Founder/President and Chief Programmer of OptionVue Systems International, Inc., which specializes in developing and marketing options trading software and services.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With contributions from a stellar panel of student services experts, Student Academic Services is a comprehensive resource that addresses the intricacies of today's academy and provides a hands-on guide to the expanded and complex functions of today's student academic services. This helpful book offers an in-depth examination of the most effective models, current practices, and trends in student services. The authors explore highly integrated student academic services practices from various campuses that reflect a holistic, interdependent approach to assessing and addressing the needs of students, and they offer a selection of effective management tools for assessment, evaluation, and continuous improvement. Student Academic Services includes a wealth of information on a wide variety of topics such as - Advances in information technology to make services available - A model for a comprehensive, integrated career services unit - A systematic and strategic view of academic advising - The creation of accurate, secure, and accessible academic records - The growth of financial aid and scholarship services - The challenges of helping a diverse student body achieve success - Integration of online student academic services - Management of change in student academic services - Future trends in student services.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this volume leading contemporary philosophical historians of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods examine the works of important figures of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century. While Midwest Studies in Philosophy has produced other volumes devoted to historical periods in philosophy, this is the first to offer such extensive and focused original materials on specific crucial figures as this volume. - Original papers by twenty contemporary philosophers writing about the works of the major philosophers of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth centuries - This historically and philosophically broad collection extends from such fifteenth century figures as Ficino, Machiavelli, and Pompanazzi to the work of Montesquieu in the eighteenth century.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Managing Risk in Organizations offers a proven framework for handling risks across all types of organizations. In this comprehensive resource, David Frame-- a leading expert in risk management-- examines the risks routinely encountered in business, offers prescriptions to assess the effects of various risks, and shows how to develop effective strategies to cope with risks. In addition, the book is filled with practical tools and techniques used by professional risk practitioners that can be readily applied by project managers, financial managers, and any manager or consultant who deals with risk within an organization. Managing Risk in Organizations is filled with illustrative case studies and\* Outlines the various types of risk: pure, operational, project, technical, business, and political\* Reveals what risk management can and cannot accomplish\* Shows how to organize risk management efforts to conduct risk assessments, manage crises, and recover from disasters\* Includes a systematic risk management process risk management planning, risk identification, qualitative impact analysis, quantitative impact analysis, risk response planning, and monitoring control\* Provides quantitative and qualitative tools to identify and handle risksThis much-needed book will enable organizations to take risk seriously and act proactively.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'New Consumer Marketing' provides a practical framework for ensuring that marketers have the ability to rethink their marketing tools in a way that delivers sustainable competitive advantage. This book also offers an analysis of leading-edge management research and academic insight into current business-to-consumer practice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book invites readers to join in a fresh and extensive investigation of one of Ancient Greece's greatest inventions: democratic government.Provides an accessible, up-to-date survey of vital issues in Greek democracy.Covers democracy's origins, growth and essential nature.Raises questions of continuing interest.Combines ancient texts in translation and recent scholarly articles.Invites the reader into a process of historical investigation.Contains maps, a glossary and an index.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This reader uses an alternative approach to gender at work to provoke new thinking about traditional management topics, such as leadership and negotiation.Presents students with an alternative conceptual approach to gender in the workplace.Connects gender with other dimensions of difference such as race and class for a deeper understanding of diversity in organizations.Illustrates how traditional images of competence and the ideal worker result in narrow ways of thinking about work, limiting both opportunity and organizational effectiveness.Provokes new ways of thinking about leadership, human resource management, negotiation, globalization and organizational change.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Understanding Human Motivation is a lively presentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience, and society determine what we do.Draws on many different domains of human behavior and links together many motivational factors such as fear, sex, consciousness, and rage.Illustrates the theoretical bases of motivation through real-life examples and case studies.Written in accessible manner for use in courses.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book, the authors argue that too much has been made of customer satisfaction, and that this has come at the expense of hard-edged consumerism. Whether or not 'the customer is king,' the first rule of business is to make money. This pragmatic book destroys seven key myths about customer management that have gained almost folkloric status, and provides a step-by-step action plan for linking customer service with commercial goals.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recent Events -from September 11, to the anti-globalization protests to the collapse of the high-tech boom have accentuated the sense that the global economy is moving into uncharted waters Bringing together the leading authorities on globalization and international business The Future of the Multinational Company looks ahead to the new challenges facing multinational firms and predicts what the multinational company will look like in ten years time.\* Brings together the leading authorities in the field of global / international busi-ness.\* Accademically rigourous but accessible \* Addresses a topic of concern to practitioners and academics alike.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical degradation process that converts complex organic material, such as animal manure, into methane and other byproducts. Part of the author s Wastewater Microbiology series, Microbiology of Anareboic Digesters eschews technical jargon to deliver a practical, how-to guide for wastewater plant operators.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience is a fascinating collection of readings that explores how people negotiate identity in the United States today. Brings together readings that provide a thoroughly engaging and fascinating look at central issues of identity and what it means to be American. Explores the tension between identity and identification to help readers begin to understand how people creatively confront the perks and perils of identity in the United States. Offers a look at a wide range of subjects including: violence and video games, queer pilgrimages to San Francisco, Filipina critiques of 'sleeping around,' and the significance of 'lowriders' in Hispano/Chicano culture.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you buy a new BMW you may be surprised as much by the owner s manual as by the car itself. Thin, personalized, and containing information only on the features you have selected in the language you speak, it is the result of a year s collaboration with Xerox that has radically improved the product and decimated costs. It is just one example of the new organizational structures and processes being developed at leading companies to serve the global marketplace. As firms realize that dealing with global customers is not simply an extension of key account management, their most common response is to launch a formal global account management initiative. Done well this is powerful and effective; however without proper planning it can spell disaster. Drawing on widely accepted key success factors for global account management as well as new elements revealed by their research, David Hennessy and Jean-Pierre Jeannet redefine the process global account management around the premise that sustainable value springs only from an expert understanding of the customer s industry, its structure and its strategy. The book covers all critical aspects of the topic (the planning process, account selection, team building, executive support, global IT requirements, compensation structures and more) and draws on interviews with top global account managers at leading companies including IBM, Cable and Wireless, Siemens, HP, Guinness, Cisco, and Procter & Gamble.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an introductory statistics textbook for business and management students which uses the innovative approach of 'statistical thinking'. Statistics courses are essential for business students but traditional teaching methods are often seen as difficult and are therefore unpopular; this book aims to offer a new and more appealing way of learning to this market. 'An Introduction to Statistical Analysis for Business and Industry' presents a new and innovative introduction to statistics which trains students directly to address problems which commonly arise in business and industry. Having read and worked through the book and its accompanying manual, students should have the essential skills necessary to apply statistical thinking in business and be able to:-recognise statistical variation in processes,-apply a statistical problem-solving strategy for process improvement,-select and apply appropriate methods of statistical analysis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There's no dearth of books on the logistics of event planning, but not much has been published to address the legal and business issues that concern the thousands of companies that make up this industry. This book covers all the legal and business issues that special events professionals need to understand -- from contractual considerations to little-known governmental regulations with heavy ramifications. Ignorance of the law can prove very costly in an industry in which expectations must be met the first time, and in our ever-more litigious society, the need for this niche title is clear.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Active Investment Management looks at where active management has come from, where it is today, what problems it faces and where the answers to these questions are leading it. The book addresses the major issues concerning the key groups within the industry.Charles Jackson's wonderfully readable book will be essential reading for the practitioner and is broken down into five sections covering the whole spectrum of active investment management:\* asset classes and products\* balancing risk and return\* active product selection\* the nature of skill\* the price of skill.…