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Avery Chenoweth, Robert Llewellyn
Empires in the Forest: Jamestown And the Beginning of America

2006 y.
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Description: From the author and photographer who brought us `a new genre of art book` in Albemarle: A Story of Landscape and American Identity comes a new collaborative effort detailing the story of our nation`s birth: Jamestown and the Making of America. This beautiful work of photography and prose traces the ways in which American culture grew out of the conflict that characterized the first contact between Native Americans and Europeans. Expanding in their unique treatment of Albemarle County, the artists use photographs from our time to suggest both the ancient and recent pasts, creating a virtual experience from the Colonial era into modern times. Telling this great story in modern terms by dusting off the history to reveal the main players as fresh and alive today as they were then, Jamestown and the Making of America beautifully depicts a landscape synonymous with American history, from its tumultuous beginning through today. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0974270717
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Duncan Clarke
Empires of Oil: Corporate Oil in Barbarian Worlds

2008 y.
Publisher: Profile Books
Description: In `Empires of Oil` Duncan Clarke explains where the new empires of oil will be around the world, the hidden threats and unknown enemies, and where companies have gone wrong and can improve their global strategies. `Empires of Oil` reveals how the world will change because of global battles over the commodity that underpins our lives. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1846680468
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Daniel Litvin
Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility

2004 y.
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Description: Empires of Profit tells a series of dramatic stories to illustrate the greed, benevolence, and ignorance of western business in the developing world. The stories ? which are at times a shocking reminder of the origins of the present-day anti-capitalist movement ? illustrate the extremely delicate and volatile nature of western involvement in the developing world. The message that emerges is clear: unless the lessons of the past are heeded ? and corporate social responsibility taken seriously ? the current wave of investment will be far less secure than most corporations believe. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587991926
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Daniel Litvin
Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility

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Description: Empires of Profit tells a series of dramatic stories to illustrate the greed, benevolence, and ignorance of western business in the developing world. The stories which are at times a shocking reminder of the origins of the present-day anti-capitalist movement illustrate the extremely delicate and volatile nature of western involvement in the developing world. The message that emerges is clear: unless the lessons of the past are heeded and corporate social responsibility taken seriously the current wave of investment will be far less secure than most corporations believe. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587991160
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Alec Worley
Empires of the Imagination: A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Melies to the Lord of the Rings

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe warlocks and ghosts of fantasy film haunt our popular culture, but the genre has too long been ignored by critics. This comprehensive critical survey of fantasy cinema demonstrates that the fantasy genre amounts to more than escapism.Through a meticulously researched analysis of over a century of fantasy pictures?from the seminal work of Georges Melies to Peter Jackson?s recent tours of Middle?earth?the work identifies narrative strategies and their recurring components and studies patterns of challenge and return, setting and character. First addressing the difficult task of defining the genre, the work examines fantasy as a cultural force in both film and literature and explores its relation to science fiction, horror, and fairy tales. Fantasy?s development is traced from the first days of film, with emphasis on how the evolving genre reflected such events as economic depression and war. Also considered is fantasy?s… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0786423242
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Denis Waitley
Empires of the Mind : Lessons To Lead And Succeed In A Knowledge-Based .

— y.
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Description: Empires of the Mind is a revolutionary book that offers answers to men and women interested in `reengineering` their jobs as well as their corporations. Providing dozens of specific techniques and tools for maximizing personal potential, Denis Waitley uncovers the key foundations of authentic self-leadership and delivers career-enhancing strategies on how to thrive on risk and adversity, inspire yourself and others to maximum performance, become more powerful by sharing power, and much more. With Empires of the Mind, you learn how to get ahead and stay ahead in a fast-paced world where the only rule is change. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0688147631
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Max Savelle
Empires to Nations: Expansion in America, 1713-1824 (Europe and the World in Age of Expansion)

2009 y.
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Description: This history traces the growth of the Euroamerican societies in the Western Hemisphere during the eighteenth-century period of European expansion. Professor Savelle reviews the continuation and completion of the exploration of the American continent and describes the evolution of the New World empires of the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch, He devotes separate chapters to the development of the political structures of the colonies and the rivalries, wars, and diplomatic exchanges among the empires. He also reviews and analyzes the economic history of the colonial societies in their three-way relationships – with their mother countries, with each other, and within themselves as regional or local entities. Final chapters are devoted to the birth and growth of national self-consciousness among the new societies. “Sevelle’s ideas are first rate: insightful, reasonable, and exciting.” Pacific Historical Review. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0816607818
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Christopher Parson, Sheridan Titman
Empirical Capital Structure

2009 y.
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Description: The firm`s capital structure - how it funds operations by raising capital from a variety of sources -- has attracted considerable attention from both academics and practitioners. The empirical capital structure literature explores both the cross-sectional determinants of capital structure as well as time-series changes. Empirical Capital Structure reviews both aspects of this literature. Empirical Capital Structure is organized around a simple framework that contains three key ingredients: · the costs and benefits that determine a firm`s capital structure · the existence of shocks that cause firms to deviate, at least temporarily, from their targets. · the presence of factors that may prevent firms from constantly maintaining debt ratios that match their targets. Empirical Capital Structure is organized as follows. Section II discusses specification and econometric issues that will be important for many of the tests considered. Section III reviews cross-sectional… [detailed...]

ISBN: 160198202X
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Kenneth J. Singleton
Empirical Dynamic Asset Pricing: Model Specification and Econometric Assessment

2006 y.
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Description: Written by one of the leading experts in the field, this book focuses on the interplay between model specification, data collection, and econometric testing of dynamic asset pricing models. The first several chapters provide an in-depth treatment of the econometric methods used in analyzing financial time-series models. The remainder explores the goodness-of-fit of preference-based and no-arbitrage models of equity returns and the term structure of interest rates, equity and fixed-income derivatives prices, and the prices of defaultable securities. Singleton addresses the restrictions on the joint distributions of asset returns and other economic variables implied by dynamic asset pricing models, as well as the interplay between model formulation and the choice of econometric estimation strategy. For each pricing problem, he provides a comprehensive overview of the empirical evidence on goodness-of-fit, with tables and graphs that facilitate critical assessment of the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691122970
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Empirical Entrepreneurship in Europe: New Perspectives

2007 y.
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Description: This book embodies the ever-increasing scope and depth of empirical entrepreneurship research in Europe. Contributors from different disciplinary backgrounds within the business field - including finance, management, and entrepreneurship, and from other related disciplines such as economics and economic geography - employ various methodologies to study the phenomenon of entrepreneurship. Drawing on this wealth of theoretically based and empirically sound research, the contributors examine three overarching themes. First, entrepreneurship issues in specific country settings are discussed: these encompass Portugal, the UK and Germany in Western Europe, Eastern European countries such as Russia and Latvia, and then Scandinavia and Finland. Second, special issues concerning technology-based companies are explored, and finally, unique aspects of venture capital markets in Europe are studied. Presenting cutting edge empirical research on myriad entrepreneurship … [detailed...]

ISBN: 1847202128
Book size: —; Page extent: 255.

 

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Dr. Alexander Darku
Empirical Essays in Open Economy Macroeconomics: A Policy Regime Analysis of Monetary Policy Rules andthe Determination of the Current Account in SmallOpen Economies

2008 y.
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Description: This book is comprised of two parts. The first usesdata on Canada to determine the role asset pricechanges should play in the conduct of monetary policywithin the inflation targeting and money growthtargeting frameworks. The findings indicate thatirrespective of the targeting framework, the policyrule that incorporates a response to asset pricechanges controls inflation better. Contrary to theconventional view, simulation experiments indicatethat the money growth targeting policy rule is moreefficient in controlling inflation than the inflationtargeting policy rule. The second part presents theoretical and econometricanalysis of the determinants of current accountbalances for Ghana. The results point to changes inworld real interest rate, exchange rate, and theterms of trade as important determinants of currentaccount. A policy regime analysis shows that therecent implementation of capital liberalizationpolicies in Ghana has enabled Ghanaians to use theinternational financial market… [detailed...]

ISBN: 3639067401
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Kevin W. Bowyer, P. Jonathon Phillips
Empirical Evaluation Techniques in Computer Vision (IEEE Computer Society Press)

— y.
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ISBN: 0818684011
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Sardar M.N. Islam
Empirical Finance : Modelling and Analysis of Emerging Financial and Stock Markets (Contributions to Economics)

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe emphasis of this book is on understanding special characteristics of the financial systems of emerging markets, where the existence of market imperfections such as asymmetric information, adverse selection and moral hazard can cause financial market failures. Considering the Thai stock market as an example, this book provides an econometric study of a typical Asian financial system. Many contemporary techniques and models are used in this study, including simple multivariate regression, multi-factor model, exponential smoothing, Holt Winter’s models, and GARCH type models. The findings of the existence of rational bubbles, anomalies, volatility and other characteristics reveal evidence of inefficiency in the Thai stock market. Based on these results, the book includes justifications for public policies in such economies and makes suggestions for further research areas. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3790815519
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Empirical Industrial Organization (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series, 172)

2004 y.
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Description: This two-volume collection presents the most important recent articles on empirical issues in industrial organization, related primarily to the analysis of imperfect competition. The papers cover empirical analysis of non-cooperative and cooperative oligopoly, auctions, differentiated product markets, dynamic competition and entry, plus selected work on innovation, vertical contractual relationships, and incentive issues. New research in these areas relies on detailed data for specific industries, typically integrates modern imperfect competition theory into the empirical specifications, commonly uses structural empirical models derived directly from microeconomic theory, and applies modern econometric techniques. This work and the associated techniques play an increasingly important role in antitrust policy, market design and in newly deregulated markets. This collection provides an easily accessible source of the key papers on these topics, which are otherwise not readily… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1843763141
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Theresa J. Devine, Nicholas Kiefer
Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approach

— y.
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Description: Presenting a complete survey of labor economics from the search point of view, this is the first book to coordinate a vast and scattered literature, making an increasingly important and sophisticated area in modern applied economics readily accessible. Completely comprehensive, Empirical Labor Economics covers not only sequential and random search, but all stochastic models of the labor market, and treats underlying economic theory and econometric methods as needed. It examines structural search models, studies directed at particular policy questions--such as the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations--and simple descriptive studies, considering data from all over the world. With valuable summaries and trenchant assessments of the strengths and weaknesses of the search approach, Empirical Labor Economics is essential for those embarking on labor market research. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0195059360
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Reidar Conradi, Alf Inge Wang, Esernet
Empirical Methods and Studies in Software Engineering: Experiences from Esernet (LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE)

— y.
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Description: Nowadays, societies crucially depend on high-quality software for a large part of their functionalities and activities. Therefore, software professionals, researchers, managers, and practitioners alike have to competently decide what software technologies and products to choose for which purpose. For various reasons, systematic empirical studies employing strictly scientific methods are hardly practiced in software engineering. Thus there is an unquestioned need for developing improved and better-qualified empirical methods, for their application in practice and for dissemination of the results. This book describes different kinds of empirical studies and methods for performing such studies, e.g., for planning, performing, analyzing, and reporting such studies. Actual studies are presented in detail in various chapters dealing with inspections, testing, object-oriented techniques, and component-based software engineering. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540406727
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I. Dan Melamed
Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts

— y.
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Description: Parallel texts (bitexts) are a goldmine of linguistic knowledge, because the translation of a text into another language can be viewed as a detailed annotation of what that text means. Knowledge about translational equivalence, which can be gleaned from bitexts, is of central importance for applications such as manual and machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, and corpus linguistics. The availability of bitexts has increased dramatically since the advent of the Web, making their studyan exciting new area of research in natural language processing. This book lays out the theory and the practical techniques for discovering and applying translational equivalence at the lexical level. It is a start-to-finish guide to designing and evaluating many translingual applications. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0262133806
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K. Wolpin
Empirical Methods for the Study of Labor-Force Dynamics

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Description: In the last twenty years there has been an explosion of economic research on labor force dynamics, the movement of individuals between labor force states. This book focuses on the methods by which behavioral theories of labor force dynamics have been empirically implemented. Most attention is paid to the partial equilibrium two-state transitional model of job search behavior. That model is the foundation for much of our thinking about the nature of unemployment at both the individual and aggregate levels. Although the basic formulation has remained the same, approaches to the empirical implementation of such models has changed dramatically. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415269407
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Huug van den Dool
Empirical Methods in Short-Term Climate Prediction

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0199202788
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Frank A. G. Den Butter, Mary S. Morgan
Empirical Models and Policy Making: Interaction and Institutions

— y.
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Description: This collection, written by highly-placed practitioners and academic economists, provides a picture of how economic modellers and policy makers interact. This book provides international case studies of particular interactions between models and policy making, and argues that the flow of information is two-way. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415232171
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Empirical Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at the Real World

2006 y.
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ISBN: 0765613298
Book size: —; Page extent: 340.

 

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Katja Nothnagel
Empirical Research within Resource-Based Theory

2008 y.
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Description: During the last 20 years, resource-based theory has become one of the most important theoretical perspectives in the field of strategic management. Often criticized for not being subject to empirical research, the results of numerous empirical tests have yet to be compiled and compared. Katja Nothnagel evaluates this growing body of empirical research in resource-based theory. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3834909211
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Jeffrey A. Dubin
Empirical Studies in Applied Economics

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Description: Empirical Studies In Applied Economics presents nine previously unpublished analyses in monograph form. In this work, the topics are presented so that each chapter stands on its own. The emphasis is on the applications but attention is also given to the econometric and statistical issues for advanced readers. Econometric methods include multivariate regression analysis, limited dependent variable analysis, and other maximum likelihood techniques. The empirical topics include the measurement of competition and market power in natural gas transportation markets and in the pharmaceutical market for chemotherapy drugs. Additional topics include an empirical analysis of NFL football demand, the accuracy of an econometric model for mail demand, and the allocation of police services in rural Alaska. Other chapters consider the valuation of technology patents and the determination of patent scope, duration, and reasonable royalty, and the reaction of financial markets to health scares in the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0792373952
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Paul Krugman, Alasdair Smith
Empirical Studies of Strategic Trade Policy (A National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

— y.
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Description: Since the 1980s, economists have used the concept of strategic trade policy, which takes account of imperfect competition and increasing returns in the international marketplace, to criticize conventional views about free trade. According to the newview, a government can take strategic steps to raise its income at another country`s expense--by subsidizing exports or erecting trade barriers, protecting certain firms from foreign competition, or promoting the development of new industries. This volume looks at the experience of specific industries in order to determine the effectiveness of strategic trade policy in promoting economic growth. The nine papers cover the U.S. and European auto industries, the U.S. steel industry, the commercial aircraft industry, airline deregulation in Scandinavia, and labor and industrial policy in Korea and Taiwan. The authors refine the basic techniques for measuring policy effectiveness, extend them to encompass industry dynamics, and test… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0226454606
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Eugenie M. J .H. Hol
Empirical Studies on Volatility in International Stock Markets (Dynamic Modelling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance?, ?6)

— y.
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Description: Financial market volatility plays a crucial role in financial decision making, as volatility forecasts are important input parameters in areas such as option pricing, hedging strategies, portfolio allocation and Value-at-Risk calculations. The fact that financial innovations arrive at an ever-increasing rate has motivated both academic researchers and practitioners and advances in this field have been considerable. The use of Stochastic Volatility (SV) models is one of the latest developments in this area. Empirical Studies on Volatility in International Stock Markets describes the existing techniques for the measurement and estimation of volatility in international stock markets with emphasis on the SV model and its empirical application. Eugenie Hol develops various extensions of the SV model, which allow for additional variables in both the mean and the variance equation. In addition, the forecasting performance of SV models is compared not only to that of the well-established… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1402075197
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Ramaprasad Bhar
Empirical Techniques in Finance (Springer Finance)

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe rapid advances in financial technology in the past decade have led to a commensurate increase in sophistication for modelling techniques needed by the researchers for the understanding of financial markets. The book aims at equipping graduate students, market analysts and others with a wide range of empirical techniques. It not only discusses the analytical structures behind such modelling approaches, but also explains how they are applied to actual data. Besides traditional elements of financial econometrics and statistical techniques commonly used in quantitative finance, the book covers: estimation of parametric and non-parametric models, advanced tools to deal with unobserved components, discrete time models of asset prices and ofinterest rates. Illustrations include speculative equity prices, equity and currency risk premium as well as real investment opportunity analysis and interest rate contingent claim valuation. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540251235
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Jill Russell
Employability Factor: Do You Know What It Takes To Get The Job?

2005 y.
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ISBN: 1420820257
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Patricia Weinert, Michele Baukens, Patrick Bollerot, Marina Pineschi-Gapenne, Ulrich Walwei, Marina Pineschi Gapenne
Employability: From Theory to Practice (International Social Security Series, V. 7)

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ISBN: 076580879X
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P. Anthony Burnham
Employed for Life!: An Insider`s Secrets for Guaranteed Employment in Our Permanently Changed Workplace

2008 y.
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Description: In the instability and turbulence that characterize the modern workplace, most Americans are increasingly fearful about the security of their jobs as the corporate ax swings in ever wider arcs. How does one compete in the race to lower operating costs while maintaining a productive edge over the competition? P. Anthony Burnham answers, `by realizing the value of YOU`. In `Employed for Life`, Anthony Burnham uses his 35 years of experience on both sides of the corporate desk to examine the ?new rules? of the business landscape, and explain how to navigate it by using your own value as a resource to current or prospective employers. By realizing `the Value of YOU`, and marketing your personal `product`, Burnham shows how ?self-empowerment? is the new watchword for maintaining and improving your employability over your lifetime. Begin reading to assess your own personal value, to become `Employed for Life`. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1590791851
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P. Anthony Burnham
Employed for Life: An Insider`s Secrets For Guaranteed Employment In Our Permanently Changed Workplace

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Description: In the instability and turbulence that characterize the modern workplace, most Americans are increasingly fearful about the security of their jobs as the corporate ax swings in ever wider arcs. How does one compete in the race to lower operating costs while maintaining a productive edge over the competition? P. Anthony Burnham answers, `by realizing the value of YOU`. In `Employed for Life`, Anthony Burnham uses his 35 years of experience on both sides of the corporate desk to examine the ?new rules? of the business landscape, and explain how to navigate it by using your own value as a resource to current or prospective employers. By realizing `the Value of YOU`, and marketing your personal `product`, Burnham shows how ?self-empowerment? is the new watchword for maintaining and improving your employability over your lifetime. Begin reading to assess your own personal value, to become `Employed for Life`. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1590790588
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Employee Assistance Programs: Wellness/Enhancement Programming

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe current spiraling and escalating rate of change within the business and working world, fueled by the events as well as those emanating from September 11, 2001, were the impetus and driving force behind the initiative and development of this new edition. That single event catapulted EA and the support EA professionals can give to work organizations in ways not imagined in the past. This third edition of EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS will add to the existing body of knowledge by helping EA practitioners to assist employers in managing and supporting their greatest asset, which is its human capital. The current issues and trends discussed demonstrate that the field of employee assistance is dynamic and changing, as are work organizations.Employers now include EA practitioners in their crisis management planning and consult with them on a variety of other issues ranging from organizational change, sexual harassment, workplace trauma and violence, substance abuse, and… [detailed...]

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