wiley dez 1998 (63 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Bestseller zur Risikobewertung jetzt als Broschurausgabe. Das ganze Leben ist ein einziges Risiko. Menschen in allen Bereichen des Lebens - Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Geschäftsleute, sogar Familien - müssen regelmäßig Entscheidungen treffen, die in irgendeiner Form Risiken bergen. Die Fähigkeit, das Ausmaß des Risikos solcher Entscheidungen zu bewerten und einzugrenzen gehört zu den Grundprinzipien der modernen Gesellschaft. 'Against the Gods' erzählt die Abenteuer einer Gruppe kühner Denker, die sich auf eine intellektuelle Entdeckungsreise begeben haben und den urzeitlichen Aberglauben verwandelt haben in leistungsstarke Methoden zur Risikokontrolle, wie sie heute Anwendung finden. Interessant und spannend geschrieben und ohne den sonst themabedingten technischen und mathematischen Ballast. (10/98)Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstraße 12, 69469 Weinheim Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Janice VanCleave's A+ Projects in Earth Science The newest volume in the bestselling A+ Science Projects series! Are you having a hard time coming up with a good idea for the science fair Do you want to earn extra credit in your science class Or do you just want to know more about how the world around you works Janice VanCleave's A+ Projects in Earth Science can help you--and the best part is, it won't involve any complicated or expensive equipment. This step-by-step project book explores 30 different topics and offers dozens of experiment ideas. The book also includes lots of charts, diagrams, and illustrations. Here are just a few of the topics you'll be investigating: - Rocks and minerals - Meteorology - Oceanography - Plate tectonics - Air fronts - The greenhouse effect You'll be amazed how easy it is to turn your own ideas into winning science fair projects! Also available: Janice VanCleave's A+ Projects in Biology Janice VanCleave's A+ Projects in Chemistry.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller'Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism.' -The New York Times'An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book.' -The Wall Street Journal'A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it.' -Business Week'Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read.' -The Economist'[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world.' -Worth'No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement.' -Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers'With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it.' -John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard UniversityIn this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.'An extremely readable history of risk.' -Barron's'Fascinating . . . this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face.' -Money'A singular achievement.' -Times Literary Supplement'There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company.' -The Australian; Der Bestseller zur Risikobewertung jetzt als Broschurausgabe. Das ganze Leben ist ein einziges Risiko. Menschen in allen Bereichen des Lebens - Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Geschäftsleute, sogar Familien - müssen regelmäßig Entscheidungen treffen, die in irgendeiner Form Risiken bergen. Die Fähigkeit, das Ausmaß des Risikos solcher Entscheidungen zu bewerten und einzugrenzen gehört zu den Grundprinzipien der modernen Gesellschaft. 'Against the Gods' erzählt die Abenteuer einer Gruppe kühner Denker, die sich auf eine intellektuelle Entdeckungsreise begeben haben und den urzeitlichen Aberglauben verwandelt haben in leistungsstarke Methoden zur Risikokontrolle, wie sie heute Anwendung finden. Interessant und spannend geschrieben und ohne den sonst themabedingten technischen und mathematischen Ballast.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Expert help for the millions of Americans who suffer from chronic snoring.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learning about health and science has never been so fun --and delicious!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book is simple, informative, and fun. You'll love it!' Jake Steinfeld, CEO, Body By Jake Enterprises Praise for Workouts For Dummies(R) 'Longtime fitness instructor Tamilee Webb tells you everything you need to know about designing a workout you'll stick to and see results from.' -- Detroit News 'Combines all of Ms. Webb's experience as a master fitness trainer into an easy-to-understand format to help you reach your fitness goal.' -- Cincinnati Enquirer.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mediating Divorce: A Client's Workbook is written for individuals who are divorcing and need a comprehensive resource and easy-to-understand guide for working through the divorce mediation process. Written by Marilyn S. McKnight and Stephen K. Erickson, two widely-known pioneers in the field of divorce mediation, this useful book will show you how to make the best choices while realistically addressing the many concrete and practical issues that must be confronted as you make the journey into your future. This unprecedented hands-on resource offers you the help you need to create your own settlement without painful adversarial conflicts and includes information about what you can expect during the mediation process:

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'We are beholden to Machivel, and writers of that kind, who openly and unmasked declare what [people] do in fact, and not what they ought to do; for it is impossible to join the wisdom of the serpent and the innocence of the dove, without a previous knowledge of the nature of evil; as without this, virtue lies exposed and unguarded.' Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This ground-breaking book addresses transformations in the understanding of time and the generation and degeneration of value at the cutting edge of modernity and postmodernity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is intended primarily for undergraduate students of English, though it will also be useful for undergraduates in linguistics focusing on English. It shows how a restricted set of principles can account for a wide range of the phenomena of English syntax.While the main focus of the book is empirical, it introduces important theoretical concepts: theta theory, X-bar theory, case theory, locality, binding theory, economy, full interpretation, functional projections. In doing so it prepares the student for more advanced theoretical work. The authors integrate many recent insights into the nature of syntactic structure into their discussion. They present information in a gradual way: hypotheses developed in early chapters are reviewed and modified in subsequent ones. The authors also pay attention to the relation between structure and interpretation and to language variation, and particularly to register variation. They include a wide range of diverse exercises, giving the student an opportunity for creative individual work on English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Today's public and private schools can no longer rely on traditional sources of funding to fulfill their educational goals. Although grants have become increasingly popular alternatives for financial support, principals and their staff must face stiff competition for these limited sources. This practical, step-by-step guide is for principals who want to improve their chances of winning grants for their schools.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This step-by-step primer takes the guesswork out of grantseeking. It shows teachers how to select the right funding sources, organize proposal ideas, write a convincing and well-prepared proposal, identify who will evaluate the proposal and the scoring system they will use, and efficiently implement the proposal when the grant funds are won. Based on time-proven techniques and useful strategies, The Teacher's Guide to Winning Grants reveals how teachers can obtain the inside information they need to increase their chances of grant success. With this knowledge, teachers can develop effective grantseeking methods that will enable them to secure funds and move their schools in the direction they want.'--BOOK JACKET.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume includes seventeen newly-commissioned full-length survey articles on the central topics of epistemology.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Be a better consultant with the 1999 Pfeiffer Annual.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides essential reading for anyone with an academic or professional interest in business ethics today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Data Interpretation Questions in Paediatrics is a book of 150 data interpretation questions for candidates of this section of the membership examination. The questions are not divided into systems, which would bias the answer, to reflect better the exam situation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This books explores why it is we believe what we believe about language, and why we persist in handing down from generation to generation a rag bag collection of fact and fantasy about language.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this selection from the two-volumePlain Speaker, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address some of the most important critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose.Provides the only edition of The Plain Speaker available outside libraries since 1928.Contains Hazlitt s seminal essays on plain speaking and the major romantic topics.Includes a brilliant introduction by Tom Paulin, the greatest poet-critic of his generation and the editorial expertise of Duncan Wu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume examines the development of two sovereign nations over seventy-four momentous years.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Bestseller zur Risikobewertung jetzt als Broschurausgabe. Das ganze Leben ist ein einziges Risiko. Menschen in allen Bereichen des Lebens - Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Geschäftsleute, sogar Familien - müssen regelmäßig Entscheidungen treffen, die in irgendeiner Form Risiken bergen. Die Fähigkeit, das Ausmaß des Risikos solcher Entscheidungen zu bewerten und einzugrenzen gehört zu den Grundprinzipien der modernen Gesellschaft. 'Against the Gods' erzählt die Abenteuer einer Gruppe kühner Denker, die sich auf eine intellektuelle Entdeckungsreise begeben haben und den urzeitlichen Aberglauben verwandelt haben in leistungsstarke Methoden zur Risikokontrolle, wie sie heute Anwendung finden. Interessant und spannend geschrieben und ohne den sonst themabedingten technischen und mathematischen Ballast. (10/98) Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Stanley Fish Reader assembles for the first time the best work of this brightest intellectual light.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aimed at undergraduates, Contemporary Ethics presupposes little or no familiarity with ethics and is written in a clear and engaging style. It provides students with a sympathetic but critical guide to utilitarianism, explaining its different forms and exploring the debates it has spawned. The book leads students through a number of current issues in contemporary ethics that are connected to controversies over and within utilitarianism. At the same time, it uses utilitarianism to introduce students to ethics as a subject. In these ways, the book is not only a guide to utilitarianism, but also an introduction to some standard problems of ethics and to several important topics in contemporary ethical theory.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume provides an outstanding survey of the major political philosophers of the twentieth century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this powerful volume, 15 leading American philosophers examine and critically reassess Douglass's significance for contemporary social and political thought.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Proven Technique Applying Brief Therapy to Difficult andChallenging Disorders Changing the Unchangeable is a myth shattering book that revealshow short-term therapy can be used as a powerful tool for treatingclients who present a range of complex psychological disordersincluding severe depression, delusions and paranoia, anorexia,alcoholism, obsessive-compulsive behavior, and borderlinepersonality disorder. 'Fisch and Schlanger have done an admirable job of addressing thedifficult. They have done this with detailed description of casesand of step-by-step explanations for dealing with the'unchangeable' briefly.''Filled with rich examples, this is anincisive, carefully analyzed exploration of the pioneeringpractices created at MRI's Brief Therapy Center.'-Carlos E. Sluzki,clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California LosAngeles.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is the first to provide students with critical understandings of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives inspired from Michel Foucault.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A language develops over time, it develops in a child, and the capacity for language has evolved in the human species.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Named Best Book in Public and Nonprofit Management, 1999-2000> Named Best Book in Environmental Management, 1999> Leaking landfills, oil contamination, illegal waste disposal, andpervasive air pollution . . . Today's managers and policy makersface a multitude of environmental challenges, choices, andopportunities. Some work in the public or private sectors. Some areregulators or regulated. Whether they are environmental specialistsor not, managers must understand scientifically complexenvironmental mandates and shifting ambiguities in order to addressthem proactively. They must not only cultivate organizationalawareness of environmental values, but also remain committed toengaging in these values.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Joan Martin provides a detailed examination of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, food and occupational therapy. This book is a comprehensive resource for all those with an academic or professional interest in eating disorders and the social and cultural contexts of food and eating. In addition, it provides a guide to the valuable contribution occupational therapists can make to the treatment of those suffering from an eating disorder.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a story of brilliance, order and sophistication, of supreme confidence and great achievement - that begins in uncertainty and ends in iconoclasm.