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The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

A must-read for anyone who makes business decisions that have a major financial impact.

As the recent collapse on Wall Street shows, we are often ill-equipped to deal with uncertainty and risk. Yet every day we base our personal and business plans on uncertainties, whether they be next month’s sales, next year’s...

Perfect Phrases for Professional Networking: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Meeting and Keeping Helpful Contacts Everywhere You Go

McGraw-Hill, 2009

Put these words to work for you!
Learn the gift of gab and get closer to your dream job

This latest addition to the bestselling Perfect Phrases series is a must-read for anyone who dreads networking or who has ever fumbled or frozen during important and possibly career-changing conversations....

Terrorism and Public Safety Policing: Implications for the Obama Presidency

CRC Press, 2009

A Pragmatic Answer to the Systematic Change Already Underway

The trends, data, and battle-tested logic do not lie. A perfect storm of extremist ideologies is on the horizon that threatens to challenge the current state of public safety—forcing police chiefs, public administrators, and security...

Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England

Oxford University Press, 2009

John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman is generally known to have been devoted to reading the Church Fathers. In this volume, Benjamin King draws on archive as well as published material to explore how Newman interpreted specific Fathers at different periods of his life. King draws connections between the Alexandrian Fathers Newman was reading and the...

Schaum's Outline of XML

McGraw-Hill, 2002

Another spin-off of the browser wars has been the desire by the software giants to merge the Web and the desktop. With the browser becoming more of an application as well as a surfing tool, it grew in size, complexity, glitz, and glamour. What was needed was a simple, back-to-basics method of data exchange. It is not necessary to change the Web...

New Marketing

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002

The New Marketing presents a comprehensively revised blueprint for the marketing process developed by Malcolm McDonald and Hugh Wilson to address second-generation changes brought about by technological development and the associated 'information revolution'. Built around the leading concept of a value exchange with customers, it provides essential...

Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Oil Multinationals and Social Challenges

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important approach for addressing the social and environmental impact of company activities. Yet companies are increasingly expected to go beyond this. They are now often expected to assist in addressing many of the world's most pressing problems, including climate change, poverty and...

Mountain Timberlines: Ecology, Patchiness, and Dynamics (Advances in Global Change Research)

Springer, 2009

This book is published as part of the broad area of research on the changing global climate and its impact on the environment. After an introduction into the complexities of the subject, the history and present state of timberline research are outlined. Chapters on the tree species at timberline and on the relationship of timberline elevation to...

News and Journalism in the UK: A Textbook (Communication and Society)

Routledge, 2009

News and Journalism in the UK is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Ireland.

Surveying the industry in a period of radical economic and technological change, Brian McNair examines the main...

Foundations of Quantum Physics (Frontiers in Physics)

W. A. Benjamin, 1976

The content of this book has been used for courses on the foundations of quantum physics in Geneva and other places. It is designed to serve as a textbook for graduate students.

The reader is presumed to have a certain background in mathematics, though the text is fairly self-contained and complete. All the basic notions are explicitly...

IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Advance praise for

IQ A Smart History of a Failed Idea

"An up-to-date, reader-friendly account of the continuing saga of the mismeasure of women and men."
—Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons

"The good news is that you won't be...

Say It Like Obama and WIN!: The Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision

McGraw-Hill, 2009

A fully updated, expanded edition of the leadership classic!

President Barack Obama never fails to fire up a crowd. Whether he’s addressing societal injustices or explaining complex policy decisions, Obama gains legions of enthusiastic supporters with every speech he makes.

With Say it Like Obama and Win!, you...

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