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Presidential Transitions
It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than...
by John R. Wiens, Garth Pickard, Clive Beck
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Inspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education is an edited collection that offers a variety of conceptual and research-based discussions on teaching and teacher education in Canada and internationally. The ideas, research, and practices presented in the book focus on three broad themes:...
by David L. Gleason, Psy.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Anxiety, depression, and their dangerous manifestations—substance abuse, eating disorders, self-injury and suicide— are increasing student conditions at many competitive high schools. Paradoxically, most of these schools promote themselves as being committed to students’ holistic development...
Discipline with Dignity
How to Build Responsibility, Relationships, and Respect in Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
In this revised and updated 4th edition, Discipline with Dignity provides in-depth guidance for implementing a proven approach to classroom management that can help students make better choices and teachers be more effective. Emphasizing the importance of mutual respect and self-control, the authors...
Overcoming Employment Barriers
127 Great Tips for Burying Red Flags and Finding a Job That's Right for You
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Millions of job seekers face employment barriers. While some barriers may be caused by other people (discrimination) or circumstances beyond one’s control (chronic health issues or natural disasters), most barriers represent self-inflected red flags created by poor choices, questionable skills,...
by Todd L. VanPool, Robert D. Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology introduces the application of quantitative methods in archaeology. It outlines conceptual and statistical principles, illustrates their application, and provides problem sets for practice.
Discusses both methodological frameworks and quantitative methods of...
Police Ethics
The Corruption of Noble Cause
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Police Ethics, Fourth Edition, provides an analysis of corruption in law enforcement organizations. The authors argue that the noble cause—a commitment to “doing something about bad people”—is a central “ends-based” police ethic. This fundamental principle of police ethics can paradoxically...
Essential Statistical Inference
Theory and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
This book is for students and researchers who have had a first year graduate level mathematical statistics course. It covers classical likelihood, Bayesian, and permutation inference; an introduction to basic asymptotic distribution theory; and modern topics like M-estimation, the jackknife,...
Sovereign Wealth Funds
Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of these financial institutions, examining their governance and investment management, and issues of domestic and international...
by D. Mr. Folkerts-Landau, Donald Mr. Mathieson, Morris Mr. Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1991
The growing integration of capital markets has strengthened incentives for greater international coordination of economic and financial policies. Structural changes in these financial market, however, may have undermined the effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy and complicated market access...
Inference and Intervention
Causal Models for Business Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Ryall and Bramson's Inference and Intervention is the first textbook on causal modeling with Bayesian networks for business applications. In a world of resource scarcity, a decision about which business elements to control or change – as the authors put it, a managerial intervention – must precede...
Environmental Markets
A Property Rights Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares standard approaches to these problems using...
by Franklin A. Díaz Lárez
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2019
This book is dedicated to people who want to dedicate to the real estate business and haven’t got an indispensable basic formation to do it.
The real estate management is a very profitable activity, which offers the possibility to obtain economical and financial independence in a very brief period...
by Alison Brooks, , Chanin
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Much has changed in US politics since the historic 2008 election. While the press covers the actions and agendas of the new administration, other impacts of this political shift have not received as much attention. These changes have forced the nation to rethink the necessary role of government, the...