Belén Díaz Díaz, Samuel O. Idowu, Philip Molyneux, "Corporate Governance in Banking and Investor Protection: From Theory to Practice"
English | 2018 | pages: 348 | ISBN: 3319700065 | PDF | 3,8 mb
This book explores the status quo of corporate governance in banking and investor protection from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Bringing together original conclusions with a regional and international focus, it provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the effectiveness of corporate governance in the financial sector and an assessment of investor protection. It also includes a number of examples and case studies to illustrate the findings. The book compares corporate governance in the banking and financial industries before and after the financial crisis, and helps to evaluate the effect of the recommendations and regulations that have been developed in the interim.

Coping with Infertility: Clinically Proven Ways of Managing the Emotional Roller Coaster By Negar Nicole Jacobs, William T. O'Donohue
2006 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 0415954215 | PDF | 7 MB
Coping with Infertility is an essential source of emotional support for any couple struggling with involuntary childlessness. The book offers proven techniques and real-life examples from both men and women, in order to outline common emotional reactions and remind couples that they are not alone in their ups and downs. The coping skills discussed in the book have been assembled from years of working with individuals in clinical trials and have undergone rigorous scientific testing. These state-of-the-art techniques have been shown to be effective in helping couples deal with the stress, depression, relationship problems, and grief often associated with infertility. Coping with Infertility is an easily accessible and problem-focused guide for couples to use in overcoming the emotional roadblocks of infertility.

Contemporary Corporate Strategy: Global Perspectives By John Saee
2008 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0415385954 | PDF | 3 MB
With the onset of the third millennium, increasing numbers of corporations around the world have been undergoing cultural and mindset shift paradigms whilst developing corporate strategies that are increasingly attuned to the highly competitive and dynamic business realities arising from globalising national economies around the world. This research book represents an eclectic collection of latest research articles and empirical studies conducted in different parts of the world on corporate strategy, including usually neglected countries of study such as Germany, Turkey, Greece and Spain. This research book contains over twenty research papers examining various aspects of corporate strategy in different national and international settings, this book is intended to equip readers with the latest knowledge to understand the complexities of corporate strategy both at a theoretical and operational levels.В Further, the book is specifically written with the needs of the students of strategy both at an undergraduate and postgraduate who may want to gain contemporary knowledge of strategy based on empirical research.

Matthew Pembleton, "Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America's Global Drug War"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1625343167 | PDF | pages: 410 | 23.4 mb
The story of America's "War on Drugs" usually begins with Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan. In Containing Addiction, Matthew R. Pembleton argues that its origins instead lie in the years following World War II, when the Federal Bureau of Narcotics―the country's first drug control agency, established in 1930―began to depict drug control as a paramilitary conflict and sent agents abroad to disrupt the flow of drugs to American shores. U.S. policymakers had long viewed addiction and organized crime as profound domestic and trans-national threats. Yet World War II presented new opportunities to implement drug control on a global scale. Skeptical of public health efforts to address demand, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics believed that reducing the global supply of drugs was the only way to contain the spread of addiction. In effect, America applied a foreign policy solution to a domestic social crisis, demonstrating how consistently policymakers have assumed that security at home can only be achieved through hegemony abroad. The result is a drug war that persists into the present day.

Carmen Llinares-Millán, Igor Fernández-Plazaola, Francisco Hidalgo-Delgado, "Construction and Building Research"
English | 2014 | pages: 528 | ISBN: 9402401695 | PDF | 25,8 mb
Many areas of knowledge converge in the building industry and therefore research in this field necessarily involves an interdisciplinary approach. Effective research requires strongrelation between a broad variety of scientific and technological domains and more conventional construction or craft processes, while also considering advanced management processes, where all the main actors permanently interact. This publication takes an interdisciplinary approach grouping various studies on the building industry chosen from among the works presented for the 2nd International Conference on Construction and Building Research. The papers examine aspects of materials and building systems; construction technology; energy and sustainability; construction management; heritage, refurbishment and conservation. The information contained within these pages may be of interestto researchers and practitioners in construction and building activities from the academic sphere, as well as public and private sectors.

Krishan Kumar Chitkara, "Construction Project Management: planning, scheduling and controlling"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 9339205448 | PDF | pages: 848 | 20.8 mb
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Charles M. Lamb, "Constitutional Landmarks: Supreme Court Decisions on Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Economic Rights"
English | ISBN: 3030555747 | 2021 | 301 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
This book examines leading Supreme Court decisions involving the powers of the Court, the president, and Congress, as well as cases addressing American federalism and Americans' economic rights. By analyzing both the Court's opinions and voting patterns from 1791 through 2018, this volume presents an overview of the role of the Supreme Court in the legal and political system of the United States throughout its entire history, regularly relying on Robert McCloskey's theory of the nation's three major constitutional eras and the Supreme Court Database in its organizational approach. Over 100 of the Supreme Court`s most significant rulings, old and new, are covered and clarified in this volume to provide an objective, reliable, and valuable resource for students, academics, legal professionals, and the general public alike.

Gerardo David Abreu Pederzini, "Considering Leadership Anew"
English | ISBN: 1527537803 | 2019 | 186 pages | PDF | 2 MB
For years now, leadership studies have emphasized functional social psychology approaches that reduce leadership to a couple of traits, styles, or recipes that supposedly give us the steps to follow when leading. The latter have taught us a lot, but are not enough to cope with the immense challenges of leading in a chaotic, intricate, complex and nonsensical world. This book compiles essays on alternative leadership theory from leading authors who have been defending unorthodox approaches to leadership. As such, it provides students, academics and researchers with options in terms of leadership theory. If mainstream approaches to leadership are not enough, then why do we not look for novel and different ones? Thus, this book is an effort to develop sui generis leadership theory, by exploring leadership from novel lenses from the arts and humanities, sciences, and sociology, as well as other social sciences.

Joyce Hill Stoner, Rebecca Rushfieldб "Conservation of Easel Paintings, 2nd Edition (Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology)"
English | ISBN: 0367023792 | 2020 | EPUB | 948 pages | 21 MB
Conservation of Easel Paintings, Second Edition provides a much-anticipated update to the previous edition, which has come to be known internationally as an invaluable and comprehensive text on the history, philosophy and methods of the treatment of easel paintings.

Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Fred Baker, "Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0073376248 | PDF | pages: 768 | 9.5 mb
Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, and Fred Baker's Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach is the first text to implement an open source approach, discussing the network layers, their applications, and the implementation issues. The book features 56 open-source code examples to narrow the gap between domain knowledge and hands-on skills. Students learn by doing and are aided by the book's extensive pedagogy.