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Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Whether an international corporation or a small business, developing and utilizing

a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Plan protects companies and their personnel, facilities, materials, and activities from the broad spectrum of risks that face businesses and government agencies on a daily basis, whether at home or...

Sams Teach Yourself OpenOffice.org All In One

Sams Publishing, 2003

An alternative for Microsoft Office and StarOffice users has arrived in the form of OpenOffice.org. If you are part of the growing number of people who are making the switch from Microsoft Office or StarOffice to the free OpenOffice.org 1.1 suite, Sams Teach Yourself OpenOffice.org All In One is a must-have tool....

Corporate Tax Reform: Taxing Profits in the 21st Century

Apress, 2011

Corporate tax reform is in the air. Competitive pressures from globalization, as well as skyrocketing budget deficits, are forcing lawmakers to rethink how America’s largest businesses are taxed. Some want to close “loopholes.” Others want to end all U.S. tax on foreign profits. Some want to lower rates, while still others...

The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion

Skyhorse Publishing, 2019

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER.

There has never been a more important political investigation than Robert S. Mueller III's into President Donald Trump's possible collusion with Russia. His...

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley

University of California Press, 2006

"In a time when we have great need to understand Mexican immigrants and their place in U.S. society, Zlolniski offers a superior analysis of why and how advanced capitalist economies employ undocumented workers. After reading his book, we will never think again of immigration as something that exclusively comes from outside. The immigrants,...

Law, Legislation and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy (Vol 1-3)

Routledge, 1982

'A careful and brilliant statement of the conditions of human freedom. It is a major work of political and economic philosophy which sets terms that neither its friends or critics can ignore.' - THES

At last this work can appear in the form it was intended to take when I started on it nearly twenty years ago. Half...

Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability

Palgrave Pivot, 2018

In recent years the Arctic has become the focus of political, popular and scholarly debates around the future of our world’s Energy. Increasing consumption, dwindling reserves, climate warming and developing technologies are expected to push energy-related activities ever further into the previously inaccessible north. Within this...

From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times

Duke University Press, 2019

While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred...

Russia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (112)

Kuperard, 2021

Don’t just see the sights—get to know the people.

Discovering the Russian soul is like opening a matryoshka, a Russian doll, revealing the many layers. The Russian orthodox religion is unique; Russian history is tragic; and the people are unpredictable. Russia s military and political...

Financial Structure and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Comparison of Banks, Markets, and Development

MIT Press, 2001

This is the first broad cross-country assessment of the ties between financial structure -- the mix of financial instruments, institutions, and markets in a given economy -- and economic growth since Raymond Goldsmith's 1969 landmark study. Most studies focus on developed countries and compare bank-based and market-based systems. Debates over the...

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (3 Volumes)

Routledge, 2005

Photography is an international cultural form, practice, and profession. Encompassing art, advertising, journalism, fashion, commercial, political, and everyday photography, the field of photography also includes chemical processes, mechanical inventions, equipment, industries, movements, techniques, terms and concepts. In addition, photography has...

Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Alyssa Ayres' fascinating study examines Pakistan's troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of the nation's great cultural past, but due to its limited base great efforts would be required to make it truly national. This paradox underscores the importance of...

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