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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Demystifies the scholarship selection process.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - CALCULUS + PEPPERONI / FUN = MATH SUCCESS.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Effective time management is an issue which affects our working routines, as well as our lives outside of work. An effective regime will help alleviate stress, free up time for more personal interests, as well as help put some order and direction into your life. Kickstart Your Time Management is full of useful hints, tips and techniques to keep the thieves of time at bay.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Damn Right!From the author of the bestselling WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS. . .'Charlie Munger, whose reputation is deep and wide, based on an extraordinary record of brilliantly successful business strategies, sees things that others don't. There is a method to his mastery and, through this book, we get a chance to learn about this rare individual.' -MICHAEL EISNER, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company'Janet Lowe uncovers the iconoclastic genius and subtle charm behind Charlie Munger's curmudgeonly facade in this richly woven portrait of our era's heir to Ben Franklin. With a biographer's detachment, an historian's thoroughness, and a financial writer's common sense, Lowe produces a riveting account of the family, personal, and business life of the idiosyncratically complex and endlessly fascinating figure.' -LAWRENCE CUNNINGHAM, Cardozo Law School, Author of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America'For years, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and investors worldwide (me included) have struggled to learn more about Warren Buffett's cerebral sidekick. Now we can rest and enjoy reading Janet Lowe's book about this rare intellectual jewel called Charlie Munger.' -ROBERT G. HAGSTROM, Author of The Warren Buffett Way'Charlie has lived by the creed that one should live a life that doesn't need explaining. But his life should be explained. In a city where heroism is too often confused with celebrity, Charlie is a true hero and mentor. He lives the life lessons that he has studiously extracted from other true heroes and mentors, from Ben Franklin to Ben Graham. This book illuminates those life lessons.' -RONALD L. OLSON, Munger, Tolles & Olson llp'Janet Lowe's unprecedented access to Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett has resulted in a first-class book that investors, academics, and CEOs will find entertaining and highly useful.'-TIMOTHY P. VICK, Money Manager and Author of How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Practical advice for investors from investorsPresenting a fresh approach to investment guidance, Wealth of Experience is built on real investors' stories about what has worked-and what hasn't worked-for them during their personal investment journeys. The Vanguard Group, one of the world's most respected investment companies, asked hundreds of investors who have succeeded in accumulating real wealth to explain how they've gone about it. Their personal accounts make this a one-in-a-kind book with extraordinary insights on saving, investing, and managing money from 'ordinary investors' for their peers. Wealth of Experience has straightforward, battle-tested advice on investing for retirement, learning about finance, and managing money. The invaluable guidance from experienced fellow investors can help readers avoid major financial pitfalls and learn from mistakes others have made. Vanguard's research confirmed its long-held belief that individual investors-sometimes derided on Wall Street as unsophisticated-are a savvy and capable group. This book proves that their collective wisdom is as valuable as any 'expert' advice.The Vanguard Group (based in Valley Forge, PA) is the world's second-largest mutual fund company with 15 million shareholders and $600 billion in assets under management. Vanguard pioneered low-cost index mutual funds, and distinguished itself as a champion of superior client service and low investor costs. Andrew Clarke is a senior financial writer at The Vanguard Group. Before joining Vanguard, he worked for Morningstar, Inc., the investment research firm. Mr. Clarke is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Jack Brennan is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Vanguard Group. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Mr. Brennan received a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rollercoaster is a fast-paced and compelling business narrative that chronicles one of the most dramatic periods in business history. It is the story of Chris Gent and Vodafone.Loved by the City as a brilliant dealmaker, Gent himself is often described by those who know him as affable and self-effacing. Yet he has somehow fostered a deeply engrained culture of ruthless ambition in those who run Vodafone in his name. But as the telecommunications sector has imploded, Vodafone has been swept along by bad news amongst accusations of poor acquisitions, over-investment and 'fat cat' payouts for Gent himself. Trevor Merriden charts the dramatic rise of Gent and Vodafone and assesses the underlying forces driving the man and the company. He examines the turbulent recent history, of Gent's resignation, and asks searching questions about the future of the company.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The European Union is on the brink of fundamental change. Just as the EU is about to enlarge radically, the Convention on the Future of Europe may transform it into a political entity governed by a constitution. This timely volume brings together a world-class group of scholars and practitioners to examine the fundamentals of integration in an expanding EU. - - A timely examination of fundamental questions about the future of Europe. - Written by a top-class group of contributors. - Combines contributions from theorists and practitioners. - Spans all the principal disciplines with an interest in the EU.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A top technical analyst prepares today's investor for the upcoming market rallyRide the Rally-Cash the Crash by Larry Williams, market timing expert and industry professional for over twenty-five years, shows every investor how to choose the best stocks even under the worst market conditions. The message of this book is quite contrary to what the marketplace has been hearing. At a time when most investors are gripped with fear, and selling their shares at record speed, Williams's exhaustive research shows that this is the perfect opportunity to find 'diamonds in the rough' and prepare for the upcoming rally that his market analysis predicts. After setting this basic foundation, Williams guides investors, step by step, along the path to profits by showing them how they can make money by simply being in the market at the right time and selecting the right stocks during that time. Ride the Rally-Cash the Crash will prepare investors for a prosperous future-no matter what the market is doing.Larry Williams (Solano Beach, CA), veteran trader, author, newsletter editor, and money manager is one of the all-time top winners of the Robbins World Cup Championships in Futures Trading, making $1,100,000 out of $10,000 in less than twelve months. He has served on the Board of the National Futures Association and twice ran for the U.S. Senate in Montana. His other books include Day Trade Futures Online (0-471-38339-2) and Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading (0-471-29722-4), both from Wiley.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years, colleges and universities have experienced tremendous growth in the applications of electronic information and the technologies that support the effective manipulation, transmission, storage, and use of that information. Because the growth has been so rapid, campus leaders are often challenged to effectively manage this increasingly critical function. Organizing and Managing Information Resources on Your Campus provides an overview of current thinking about the most important issues involved in managing information technology and services on campus. This vital resource offers information on how to plan, organize, fund, assess, and govern these strategic assets. It also compares and contrasts approaches appropriate for large versus small institutions, research versus teaching missions, and private verses public models. And the book provides a synthesis of practical advice interwoven with general background discussion.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \* The complete solution! This revolution in product design incorporates 6 books in 1 straightforward desk reference. Provides in depth coverage of the many features and specifications of XML, the data interchange standard of choice.\* XML All in One For Dummies is a true desk reference designed to guide readers through the features and specifications of the leading edge XML dialects and help them develop their own custom Web applications all under one cover.\* Covers XML basics, using DTD's with XML, XML namespaces, XML schemas, styling XML documents, XML's linking languages, XML tools, using XML in the real world, and more.\* The first two editions of XML For Dummies have sold more than 85,000 units.\* According to Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer 'XML will become the universal medium by which Web sites and users of Web sites communicate.'\* Written by NIIT a global training, IT consulting and software development organization. NIIT trains over 150,000 individuals each year in Information Technology areas.\* The For Dummies series a repeat winner, now with more than 100 million books in print.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The critical role of food in contemporary policy, in the UK, Europe and internationally, is explored in a comprehensive and readable account of current issues, including food rights, patenting, safety, aid, choice and poverty.This landmark collection explores the critical role of food in contemporary national and international policy.The contributors represent different professional and academic perspectives.The contributions challenge state, institutional and agency structures and responses to food as a social policy issue.Most of the contributors write from an empirical research base.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Casting for Big Ideas, Andrew Jaffe, industry veteran and Director of the Clio Awards, details important lessons on the management and growth of advertising agencies. He shows how the forty-year-old agency business model is breaking down because the work is becoming marginalized, as clients cut back ad budgets and hire outside marketing services and strategy firms. If agencies are to survive, Jaffe says, they must become idea-focused again and, instead of just making ads, master the art of devising the kind of non-advertising-type promotions that more quickly move a brand into the culture. Based on his long experience in the advertising industry, Jaffe offers practical advice and important lessons for agency heads who want their businesses to stand the test of time. This one-of-a-kind resource covers a subject often ignored-the business side of running an ad agency.Andrew Jaffe (New Canaan, CT) is the founding Publishing Director of Wiley's Adweek and Brandweek books imprints. He is also the Executive Director of the Clio Awards, one of the largest and most famous advertising awards programs in the world, with over 18,000 pieces submitted from agencies and production facilities in fifty-nine countries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Employment and Employee Rights addresses the issue of rights in the workplace. Although much of the literature in this field focuses on employee rights, this volume considers the issue from the perspective of both employees and employers.Considers the rights of both employees and employers.Discusses the moral and legal landscape and traditional assumptions about right in employment.Investigates arguments for guaranteeing rights, particularly for employees, which are derived from relational, developmental, and economic bases.Explores new dimensions of employment including a model that incorporates growing workplace diversity, builds upon our understanding of the legal landscape, and expands upon our justifications for recognizing and protecting rights.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At a time when religious fundamentalism is having a huge impact upon the world, this book helps us to understand how people acquire, conceptualise and practise religion at both personal and social levels. At a time when religious fundamentalism is having a huge impact upon the world, this book helps us to understand how people acquire, conceptualise and practise religion at both personal and social levels.Explores religion both as a social phenomenon and as a form of inner experience.Explains why people believe what they do.Looks at the effects of religious and spiritual belief upon behaviour, and upon physical and psychological health.Outlines the various approaches to religious and spiritual experience.Surveys all relevant research.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Perception presents classic essays on the conceptual and theoretical problems in the study of vision. In a style that is accessible to the non-expert, the volume lays out core issues in the theory of vision and then sets up a dialogue on the topics among philosophers and psychologists, past and present.Offers an accessible introduction to perception through key readings.Presents a dialogue among philosophers and psychologists on the science of perception.Contains a comprehensive introduction and provides suggestions for further reading.Useful for readers interested in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, computer vision, and visual science.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn to trade using technical analysis, market indicators, simple portfolio analysis, generally successful trading techniques, and common sense with this straightforward, accessible book. Essentially a course in making money, A Short Course in Technical Trading teaches proven long- and short-term trading techniques (with an emphasis on short-term), covering basic indicators and how you can best use them to your advantage.The book includes a trading game so you can trade along with the lessons, posing likely problems that you'll encounter once trading begins. As trading becomes more complicated, so do the problems.You'll get a running start as a trader with usage tips on the most popular trading tools. A Short Course in Technical Trading is unlike any other book on the market and is available at a convenient low price.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These primary sources open a window onto the ways that women and men in Renaissance Italy sought to communicate their beliefs, desires, fears, and hopes, both about their own lives and about the dynamic culture they helped to shape.An ideal complement to Paula Findlen's 'The Italian Renaissance: Essential Readings' (Blackwell Publishing, 2002).Includes canonical texts alongside newly available ones that give fresh perspectives.Selections address topical issues, such as the family strategies of women, attitudes towards non-Italians, and women as patrons of art.Genres represented include correspondence, poetry, the story, dialogue, oratory, and autobiography.Brings the teaching of the Italian Renaissance to life, showing how citizens communicated about their beliefs, desires, fears, and hopes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Strategic Innovation offers a flexible, customizable template that managers, executives, and business leaders can use to introduce an effective innovation strategy throughout their organization. The authors, Nancy Tennant Snyder and Deborah L. Duarte, provide the tools needed to craft a workable strategy for embedding innovation as a core competency across an enterprise. Instead of innovation for innovation's sake, the authors offer a proven business-focused way to change a culture from point-in-time innovations from a few to a continuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyone.Based on the real-life example of Whirlpool a solid company with a significant track record and global reach-- Strategic Innovation shows how the world's largest appliance company put innovation in place as a core competency. During this process, Whirlpool transformed itself from a quality producer of appliances to a customer-focused company that strategically embeds innovation throughout the organization. Filled with challenges and struggles, and ultimately successful results, the Whirlpool story can help any organization develop a successful innovation strategy. Written as a practical guide, the book contains in each chapter a variety of hands-on resources including checklists and worksheets. Strategic Innovation offers the tools, ideas, and approaches needed for transforming an organization to a company where anyone and everyone can contribute to the organization's prosperity-- through innovation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Monograph addresses three questions: 1) How can we best describe childhood personality 2) How is personality related to the child's successes and failures 3) What sort of factors are related to personality development - Uses a longitudinal analyses of thousands of children from across the United States to define the three personality types that best describe personality: resilient, over-controlled, and under-controlled. - Studies the relationship between personality type and children's successes and failures - Explores how the stresses characteristic of poverty affect children's personality development.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists is a survey of contemporary social theory that focuses on the thinkers themselves.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists provides a comprehensive review of classical social theory. Containing original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 12 major theorists.Includes 12 original essays by leading scholars on major classical social theoristsCovers the key figures who shaped social theory, such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim, as well as additional classical theorists such as Harriet Martineau and W. E. B. Du BoisEssays include biographical sketches, the social and intellectual context, and the impact of the thinker s work on social theory generallyIncludes bibliographies of the theorist s most important works as well as key secondary worksCan be used in conjunction with The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists , edited by George Ritzer, for a complete reference source in social theory.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Motivation is one of the key learner characteristics that determine the rate and success of language learning. This volume addresses motivation in language learning - motives associated with certain features of the language, the language learner, and the learning situation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Truett and Truett's Eighth Edition shows how to use economic analysis to solve problems and make effective decisions in the complex world of business. The highly successful problem-solving approach, clear and accurate presentation of economic theory, and outstanding cases combine to make the best presentation of managerial economics yet.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena.Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and cultural texts.Documents shed light on the themes and styles that appear in Chaucer and other Middle English literature.Contains twelve important images from the period.Concise introductions and bibliographies accompany all documents.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Revolution in Corporate Finance has established itself as a key text for students of corporate finance with wide use on a range of courses. Using seminal articles from the highly regardedBank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance , it gives students real insight into the practical implications of the most recent theoretical advances in the field. This extensively revised and updated fourth edition contains a significant amount of new material while retaining key original articles from previous editions. It offers, in one volume, coverage of the latest academic thinking, written by leading financial economists in a way that is accessible to students and corporate management.Uses seminal articles from the highly regarded Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.Gives insight into the practical implications of recent theoretical advances in the field.Enhanced by new material, including two new sections on International Finance and International Corporate Governance.Highlights contributions of Nobel Laureate Merton Miller to the field of Finance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Complete coverage of basic design principles illustrated by student examplesDesign for Communication offers a unique approach to mastering the basic design principles, conceptual problem-solving methods, and critical-thinking skills that distinguish graphic designers from desktop technicians.This book presents forty-two basic to advanced graphic design and typography assignments collaboratively written by college educators to teach the fundamental processes, concepts, and techniques through hands-on applications. Each assignment is illustrated with actual student solutions, and each includes a process narrative and an educator's critical analysis revealing the reasoning behind the creative strategies employed by each individual student solution.Assignments are organized from basic to advanced within six sections:\* The elements and principles of design\* Typography as image\* Creative word play\* Word and image\* Grid and visual hierarchy\* Visual advocacyDesign for Communication is a highly visual resource of instruction, information, ideas, and inspiration for students and professionals.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is the third in a series with the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (Series Editor: Matthew P. Janicki). These publications are designed to address the issues of health, adult development and aging among persons with intellectual disabilities. For many years it has been recognized that some adults with intellectual disabilities are at elevated risk for mental and behavioral health problems. Often the aging process can complicate the identification, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of this type of dual diagnosis and present complex challenges to clinicians and carers. This book is designed as a practical resource for those involved with the support, care and treatment of persons with intellectual disabilities, and should prove particularly useful as this community achieves increased longevity. The book is divided into three parts: Prevalence and Characteristics; Diagnosis and Treatment; and Service System Issues.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is specifically designed as a study guide and resource for science students confronted with mathematics that they need extra help on. This math skills review and practice guide is written in a clear, accessible manner to bring readers up to speed quickly on basic math principles.Offering the right amount of depth on the right selection of topics, the book provides quick, clear, and accessible guidance on basic algebraic methods, right when students need it most. In addition to a full range of mathematics topics, Math Survival Guide includes special chapters focused on helping students improve their problem solving and study skills.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Russian monarchs have long been regarded as majestic, all-powerful autocrats who ruled as despots. Challenging this prevailing view, Whittaker shows how the concept of monarchy evolved during the eighteenth century as rulers from Peter the Great to Catherine II responded to the political discussion taking place among the literate public. This dialogue helped to shape the boundaries of the royal power and revolutionized the idea of monarchy.