Houses in Fredensborg (Opus)

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The knowledge and use of metals has played an important role in the evolution of many African cultures. This bibliography brings together, in one volume, publications on the origins, spread, mining, smelting, smithing, use, functions, aesthetics, significance, and impact of various metals and their alloys on African cultures. Covering African metallurgy from the African Iron Age to the present, this guide is a useful reference tool for archaeology, anthropology, ethnology, history, art, and religion. Arranged geographically by country, the volume is fully annotated and includes both printed and electronic sources.

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This book accompanied a retrospective exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY titled "Light Work: Photography Over the 70s and 80s." Included are 48 color and black and white reproductions of photographs produced by artists who participated in the programs of Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run photography center in Syracuse, NY from 1973 to 1985. Included in the book is work by Larry Fink, Steven Hirsch, Kenda North, Bob Hower, Michael Spano, Ellen Carey, Doug Muir, David Broda, Chris Enos, Tom Zimmermann, Ricardo Salcedo, Peter DeLory, Ed Grazda, Susan Brodie, Ellen Blalock, Jon Reis, Sy Rubin, Willyum Rowe, Courtney Frisse, Joel Sternfeld, Elaine Mayes, Bill Burke, Christian Sunde, Melanie Walker, Lou Stoumen, Joel Sackett, Lucinda Devlin, Dan Powell, James Casebere, Roger Mertin, Hollis Frampton, Patt Blue, Jim Goldberg, Benjamin Porter, Linn Underhill, Warren Wheeler, Karl Baden, Janice Giarracco, Anthony Hernandez, Jim Stone, Zeke Berman, Toby Old, Lawrence McFarland, Bruce Gilden, Vilem Kriz, Charles Gatewood, and Clarence John Laughlin.

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A political graphic novel that tells the life story of Victor Evertor, head of EATU, a pollution-spewing, people-crunching multi-national and shows how this developmentally arrested corporate titan amalgamated power. A satirical treatment of the past six decades of American culture that connects the dots between personal pathology and the plight of the planet. Victor Evertor's dream is our nightmare.

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The rash of corporate scandals in recent years underscores a fact too often ignored in the business world: flouting the law holds serious consequences. Indeed, all it takes is one rogue trader, one greedy executive, or one misinformed manager to place an entire organization at risk. But respected legal expert Constance E. Bagley argues that staying out of trouble is only part of the picture when it comes to legality in business. In Winning Legally, Bagley shows how managers can proactively harness the power of the law to maximize corporate value, marshal human and financial resources, and manage risk. Through scores of classic and contemporary examples across the business landscape, this no-nonsense guide completely reframes the relationship of law to business. Bagley explains how managers can use the law as a strategic tool to help select and work effectively with legal advisers, spot legal issues before they become problems, weigh the legal risks of specific opportunities, and more. Ultimately, the responsibility for making tough business decisions lies with managers—not with lawyers. This timely book shows how managers can combine business audacity and vision with integrity and respect for the law to build truly great and enduring firms.

Financial Risk Manual, The (Revised): A Systematic Guide to Identifying and Managing Financial Risk

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Financial Risk Manual, The (Revised): A Systematic Guide to Identifying and Managing Financial Risk
John Holliwell
Manufacturer: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Covers the major financial functions, instruments, and transactions.

No Risk: Gordon Williams' Step-By-Step Program to Safeguard Your Financial Future

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No Risk: Gordon Williams' Step-By-Step Program to Safeguard Your Financial Future
Gordon Williams
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0671451715

The Regulatory Risk Management Handbook: 2001-2002 (Pricewaterhousecoopers Regulatory Handbooks)

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The Regulatory Risk Management Handbook: 2001-2002 (Pricewaterhousecoopers Regulatory Handbooks)

Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0765606518

Applications of Monte Carlo Methods to Financial and Insurance Solutions Manual

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Applications of Monte Carlo Methods to Financial and Insurance Solutions Manual
ASA, Ph.D. Graham Lord , and ASA, Ph.D. Thomas Herzog
Manufacturer: ACTEX Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1566984432

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This is a separate solutions manual for the text exercises that are found in the textbook, Applications of Monte Carlo Methods to Finance and Insurance. ISBN:1-56698-433-5

Banking and financial risk management: Training handbook (EDI working papers)

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Banking and financial risk management: Training handbook (EDI working papers)
Margaret E Osius
Manufacturer: Economic Development Institute of the World Bank
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Financial Management Theory and Practice (INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL) (11th Edition)

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Financial Management Theory and Practice (INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL) (11th Edition)
Eugene F. Brigham
Manufacturer: Thomson South-Western
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ROGQWU

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Includes a Preface which contains a description of how some have used Financial Management. Additionally, it gives some suggestions on how the instructional aids contained in this manual or available separately can be used to enhance the course. Part I is the Course Syllabus. Part II is a table of contents for answers and solutions to end-of-chapter questions, problems and mini cases.

Instructor's Manual for Financial Investigation and Forensic Accounting, 2nd Edition

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Instructor's Manual for Financial Investigation and Forensic Accounting, 2nd Edition
George A. Manning
Manufacturer: CRC Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0849338247

Quality assurance risk management manual

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Quality assurance risk management manual
Patricia A Richmond
Manufacturer: Healthcare Network
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00071J77Y

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This book shows how the hybrid model, which uses both market and committee mechanisms, explains standard setting and firm competition in the mobile communications industry. The hybrid model explains why certain mobile communication standards like GSM have become global standards while others, for example digital standards supposed by US firms, have not become global standards. The hybrid model also explains why Nokia is the leading producer of mobile phones and Ericsson the leading producer of mobile infrastructure.

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Contrary to the stereotype which depicts them as economic successes, Asian workers have a high incidence of underemployment when compared to white workers. This book integrates immigration and labor market trends into an analysis of the economic assimilation of Asians in the U.S. It examines four forms of underemployment (unemployment, part-time employment, working poverty, and job mismatch) for Asian Indian, Filipino, and Vietnamese men and women. This study shows that Asian underemployment rates are consistently higher than for non-Hispanic whites, with Asian Indians having the highest rate. Each Asian group displayed varied effects of human capital, family and household, industry, and assimilation variables on the different underemployment categories. Important implications of the findings show that ethnic group variation in underemployment appears stronger than differences by gender.
(Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1994; revised with new preface and index)

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a hot topic rendered dull.......2006-02-02

Talking heads that exploit Asian Americans as "model minorities" assume that all Asian Americans are doing well. The author hear divides underemployment into four parts: those with no job, those with a job beneath their qualifications, those working part-time who could work full-time, and those getting paid unconscionable salaries and then asks how this affects three Asian-American groups: Indians, Filipinos, and the Vietnamese.

The author is diverse in choosing these groups, they are both yellow and brown, South Asian and Southeast Asian. The groups came to the United States at differing times, in differing numbers, and for differing reasons. The author also looks at how gender, years in the US, college education, and other factors affect this data. Her point is that Asian Americans are not in better positions than European Americans as some falsely argue.

While I loved this book's subject, the actual reading was painful. Only number crunchers would enjoy this book. She could have been discussing issues about which I don't care as boring as most of this read. I also wonder if the Census Bureau now has computer programs that could generate this info in a few minutes compared to someone actually getting a Ph.D. through presenting this info. This book felt so impersonal. Firstly, the author describes Asian immigration in terms that I don't think underscored the racism and imperialism that these groups faced. Second, when Apu spoke of being the top of his graduate class but still working at the Quik-E-Mart, I related more to a cartoon character than the dull info presented here.

This topic is timely and important. However, this book is only for hardcore statisticians, not for round-the-way anti-racist activists, readers, and thinkers.

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Vaccinations: The Rest of the Story : A Selection of Articles, Letters, and Resources 1979-1992

Manufacturer: Mothering Magazine
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations

ASIN: 0914257102

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Excellent effort on a difficult topic

The Anatomy of Courage: The Classic WWI Study of the Psychological Effects of War
Lord Moran
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Fields of Fire

ASIN: 0786718994

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Fear, and man's attempt to master it, is of eternal interest and just as significant today as when Moran, as a young medical officer, went to the trenches in 1914 to research the subject scientifically. He asked why a man can appear to be as brave as a lion one day and break the next and, crucially, "what can be done to delay or prevent the using up of courage?"

First published in 1945, this early groundbreaking account of the psychological effects of war, recounted by means of vivid first-hand observation and anecdote, came at a time when shell-shock was equated with lack of moral fiber. In 1940, Moran became Churchill's doctor and his position as a one of history's most important war physicians was secured. His humane, considered observations, scientific analysis and proposed solutions constitute one of the great First World War sources. However, they are perhaps just as relevant to our own conflict-ridden times.

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Excellent effort on a difficult topic.......2005-12-18

The Anatomy of Courage strives to dissect the problem of courage and give the commander a tool to enhance it in battle, to increase it in training, or to find it in recruiting. He discusses the mystery of why one person can fight in the trenches (In WWI) for days or weeks and then one day, simply break. He searches for methods to discover than breaking point and extend it - to maximize the use of that precious commodity. He fails. Instead, he seems to say that the only really beneficial thing the commander can do is recognize the man that has courage and recruit him for service. Promote him when he demonstrates it and hope for the best from the rest of his troops. It is not a happy discovery for the author but he doesn't do well discovering a solution to the problem. It is not for lack of effort and his thoroughness makes the prospects for another would be problem solver seem just as bleak.
It is a wonderful journey and a great exploration of the topic. If there isn't a solution to the problem of maximizing courage then the commander can see how important recruiting is and spend his resources there instead. The US marine recruiting goal of looking for "a few good men" seems to be on the mark. Well worth the read.

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The Anatomy Of Courage
Lord Moran
Manufacturer: Constable
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OIQH64

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The Anatomy of Courage
Lord Moran
Manufacturer: Constable
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M1779E

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The Anatomy of Courage
Lord Moran
Manufacturer: Constable
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SSP8HO

The Anatomy of Courage - the Classic WWI Account of the Psychological Effects of War

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The Anatomy of Courage - the Classic WWI Account of the Psychological Effects of War
Lord ( Wilson, Charles McMorgan ) Moran
Manufacturer: Robinson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000TYV0X8

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French Huguenots: Anatomy of Courage
Janet Glenn Gray
Manufacturer: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Anatomy of Courage (Art of Command Series)

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The Anatomy of Courage (Art of Command Series)
Moran
Manufacturer: Constable 1945
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MCA92K

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These collected letters were written by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, one of the country's most well known bird artists, to ornithologist and bird illustrator George Miksch Sutton when Sutton was still a boy struggling to learn the art of bird painting. Written between 1915 and 1927, the letters are filled with Fuertes' observations of bird behavior, descriptions of his bird study and painting techniques, and advice on how to paint lifelike avian images and make one's way in the rapidly changing birding world all at a time when birding was becoming less an exclusive activity for scientists and more a popular hobby for the general public. Words of wisdom from the "father of modern bird art" A birding classic brought back to print.

TO A YOUNG BIRD ARTIST. LETTERS FROM LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES TO GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON.

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TO A YOUNG BIRD ARTIST. LETTERS FROM LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES TO GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON.
G. M. Sutton
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WPS3PM

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