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Rural Populations and Health
Determinants, Disparities, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Health provides an overview of the critical issues surrounding rural health and offers a strong theoretical and evidence-based rationale for rectifying rural...
Data Mining for Business Analytics
Concepts, Techniques, and Applications with JMP Pro
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications with JMP Pro® presents an applied and interactive approach to data mining.
Featuring hands-on applications with JMP Pro®, a statistical package from the SAS Institute, the book
uses engaging, real-world examples to...
by Walter L. Baker, Michael V. Marn, Craig C. Zawada
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
A comprehensive look at creating pricing strategies that work in both good economic times and bad
Written by three preeminent pricing experts at McKinsey & Company, the Second Edition of The Price Advantage is a practical pricing guide for the executive or pricing practitioner who wants...
Patent Valuation
Improving Decision Making through Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
A practical resource for valuing patents that is accessible to the complete spectrum of decision makers in the patent process
In today's economy, patents tend to be the most important of the intellectual property (IP) assets. It is often the ability to create, manage, defend, and extract value...
The Pricing and Revenue Management of Services
A Strategic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
In a world of changing lifestyles brought about by new services, technology and e-commerce, this book enters the arena of contemporary research with particular topicality. Integrating both theory and real world practices, Ng advances the latest concepts in pricing and revenue management for services in a language that is useful, prescriptive and ye
Head, Heart and Guts
How the World's Best Companies Develop Complete Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
This book reveals the three most important capabilities leaders must demonstrate today: the ability to set strategy, empathize with others, and take risks—all at the same time. In Head, Heart, and Guts, leadership experts David Dotlich, Peter Cairo, and Stephen Rhinesmith—who teach and coach CEOs...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
by António M.L. Canelas, Rui F.M.F. Neves, Nuno C.G. Horta
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This book presents a new computational finance approach combining a Symbolic Aggregate approximation (SAX) technique with an optimization kernel based on genetic algorithms (GA). While the SAX representation is used to describe the financial time series, the evolutionary optimization kernel is used...
Twisted Leadership
How to Engage the Full Talents of Everyone in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Discover a new way of thinking about leadership – learn how anyone, at any level of an organization, can be a leader. Today’s business, political, and not-for-profit worlds are plagued by a leadership disease – the overly simplistic view of leadership as something that resides in one person, or...
by Freddie L. Barnard, John C. Foltz, Elizabeth A. Yeager
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Today’s food and agribusiness managers operate in a rapidly changing, highly volatile, international, high technology, consumer-focused world. Agribusiness Management helps prepare students and managers for a successful career in this new world of food and fiber production and marketing.
This...
by Evan L. Katz, M.C., LPC
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Evan Katz, affectionately known as The Anger Guy, has a unique ability to identify and connect with the underlying causes of anger in men. By telling his own story, Evan leads the way through the angry man's mind, shining light on why angry men really act the way they do. His disarming delivery,...
Conventional Wisdom and American Elections
Exploding Myths, Exploring Misconceptions
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Many students develop misinformed opinions about the American electoral process. Conventional Wisdom and American Elections: Exploding Myths and Misconceptions debunks some of the more common misunderstandings that have arisen about the electoral process in the past few decades. This book engages...
Gardening in Sandy Soil
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-169
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Moral Soundings
Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2004
Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent...