Personal Wellness: Your Most Profitable Investment (Fifty-Minute Series)

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To have a clear picture of developments in public financial management, a multidimensional perspective of the field is needed, since governments--unlike for-profit organizations-- serve multiple and often conflicting interests. This book provides this dynamic approach by integrating insights from economics, business, and political science. Written by some of the leading scholars in the field, this collection presents eleven chapters that run the gamut of public financial management issues. Topics include: Transaction costs in contractual relationships; Uncertain conditions and probability assessment in the bond market; Rational choice and the institutional framework in public investment decision; E-Government financial management models; Budget balance as the building block of public financial strategy. Together the contributors present a robust framework for understanding and analyzing financial decision making in the public sector.

Financial Management in the Public Sector: Tools, Applications, And Cases

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Financial Management in the Public Sector: Tools, Applications, And Cases
Xiaohu Wang
Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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ASIN: 0765616777

Handbook of Debt Management (Public Administration and Public Policy)

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Handbook of Debt Management (Public Administration and Public Policy)

Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0824793889

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Examining various methods of debt management used in the US., Handbook of Debt Management, provides a comprehensive analysis of securities offered for sale by municipalities, states, and the federal government. The book covers laws regarding municipal bonds, the economic choice between debt and taxes and the tax-exempt status of municipal bond owners, capital budgeting, including state and local government practices, developing governmental and intergovernmental debt policies, pay-as-you-go with debt financing for capital projects, US Internal Revenue Service regulations on arbitrage in state and local government debt proceeds investment, US treasury auctions, and more.

Understanding Nonprofit Funding: Managing Revenues in Social Services and Community Development Organizations (Jossey Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series)

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Understanding Nonprofit Funding: Managing Revenues in Social Services and Community Development Organizations (Jossey Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series)
Kirsten A. Gronbjerg
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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Binding: Hardcover

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Draws from in-depth case studies to reveal how nonprofits manage their relationships with different funding sources. Emphasizes social services and community development organizations.

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Ultimate Patient Satisfaction: Designing, Implementing or Rejuvenating an Effective Patient Satisfaction and TQM Program is an in-depth, hands-on book which details the various approaches, steps and processes for creating an overall internal and external patient satisfaction program.

Written by healthcare consultant John F. O'Malley, Ultimate Patient Satisfaction gives you tools, tips, and techniques stressing such internal and external satisfaction points as: Focusing on your forgotten customer - Visitors!

Employee attitude can cost you

How to turn testimonials into referrals

Encouraging written complaints and how to deal with upset patients

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The ultimate guide for achieving TQM patient satisfaction........1997-06-13

Ultimate Patient Satisfaction propels one full steam into the real world of patient satisfaction and provides the mind set and tools for making a differentciating difference. No other book takes such a no holds barred approach to telling the truth about healthcare providers and their patient encounters. A must read for today's healthcare professionals and providers wanting to survive and thrive in a highly competitive world. Great source of information for rejuvenating an existing patient satisfaction program

Ipa, Pho, and Mso Developmental Strategies: Building Successful Provider Alliances (Hfma Healthcare Financial Management Series)

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Ipa, Pho, and Mso Developmental Strategies: Building Successful Provider Alliances (Hfma Healthcare Financial Management Series)
Maria K. Todd
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co
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IPA, PHO, and MSO Development Strategies is the hands-on reference you need to create the business entity that will maximize economic clout, provide quality of care and retain the traditional values of autonomy. In IPA, PHO and MSO Development Strategies, an understanding of your local hometown integrated delivery system is what you'll get, along with: Government and legal issues pertaining to the development of IPA, PHO and MSO models

Capitalization concerns involved with each model

Administrative, billing, human resource management and other operational issues involved in the MSO model

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This new textbook uses programmed learning to demonstrate the ideas of cost control and cost planning from first principles and takes them forward into practice. Worked examples are used throughout

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The Nonprofit Organization Handbook
Tracy D. Connors
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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More than six million public service, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) exist in America today. Now, this ground-breaking handbook offers the NPO manager, professional, and volunteer a total desktop reference on the effective management and operation of an NPO. Be it a church group, the Boy Scouts of America, or The Ford Foundation, virtually every NPO operates on seven common areas of management: organization and corporate principles; leadership, management, and control; human resources; sources of revenue; public relations and communication; fiscal management and administration; and assessment and evaluation. All of these areas are covered in a down-to-earth, comprehensive manner by over 30 of the nations' most knowledgeable practitioners of NPO management. They give valuable and current how-to advice on such topics as: the pros... and cons of NPOs... securing tax-exempt status... management by objective in an NPO... planning and key result areas... the role of the board of directors... meetings and committees... utilizing volunteers... membership and dues... successful fund raising... securing grants... public relations and community support... utilizing electronic media... special events... legislative lobbying... budgeting, accounting and bookkeeping... evaluating for effectiveness... research checklists, charts, examples, planning formats, and case studies illustrate every important concept and method throughout the book. No other resource currently available provides the answers to so many questions on how to manage a Nonprofit Organization.

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The issue of rights to genetic information is considered in this study from the standpoint of individuals, their relatives, employers, insurers and the state. Graeme Laurie provides a concept of privacy and property rights for the person, and argues for stronger legal protection following new developments in genetics. This book will interest lawyers, philosophers and doctors concerned with genetic information and issues of privacy, as well as genetic counselors, researchers and policy makers worldwide for its practical position on dilemmas in modern genetic medicine.

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The phenomenon of the New Genetics raises complex social problems, particularly those of privacy. This book offers ethical and legal perspectives on the questions of a right to know and not to know genetic information from the standpoint of individuals, their relatives, employers, insurers and the state. Graeme Laurie provides a unique definition of privacy, including a concept of property rights in the person, and argues for stronger legal protection of privacy in the shadow of developments in human genetics. He challenges the role and the limits of established principles in medical law and ethics, including respect for patient autonomy and confidentiality. This book will interest lawyers, philosophers and doctors concerned both with genetic information and issues of privacy; it will also interest genetic counsellors, researchers, and policy makers worldwide for its practical stance on dilemmas in modern genetic medicine.

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This book gives a general overview of the biology and molecular biology of yeasts. Topics emphasized include yeast taxonomy (including evolution of yeasts), yeast ecology, with as much emphasis as possible on the relationship between the organisms and the environment, the structure and function of the yeast cell, its life cycle and metabolism, and the relationship between yeasts and mankind, including pathogenicity, traditional and current industrial and therapeutic uses and related topics. The contribution of yeasts to fundamental research in biology is discussed as an integral part of the subject.

Yeasts: Their Lives in Natural and Artificial Habitats

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Yeasts: Their Lives in Natural and Artificial Habitats
John F.T. Spencer
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBQNOE

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Provides an introduction to the chemistry of the solid-water interface, progressing from the simple to more complex and applied. Discusses the important interfaces in natural systems, especially geochemistry, in natural waters, soils and sediments. The processes occurring at mineral-water, particle-water and organism-water interfaces play critical roles in regulating the composition and ecology of oceans and fresh waters, the development of soils and plant nutrient's supply, preserving the integrity of water repositories and in such applications as water technology and corrosion science.

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not an easy read.......1999-03-27

this book needs to be edited properply, it's giving Stumm a bad name

The Surface Chemistry of Natural Particles

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Environmental Chemistry at the Interface

The Surface Chemistry of Natural Particles
Garrison Sposito
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195117808

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This book covers the development of both experiment and theory in natural surface particle chemistry. It emphasizes insights gained over the past few years, and concentrates on molecular spectroscopy, kinetics, and equilibrium as they apply to natural particle surface reactions in aqueous media. The discussion, divided among five chapters, is complemented by lengthy annotations, reading suggestions, and end-of-chapter problem sets that require a critical reading of important technical journal articles.

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Environmental Chemistry at the Interface.......2004-06-09

This is an outstanding text written by an internationally recognized authority in the field of surface geochemistry of aqueous systems. Reactions on particle surfaces in freshwaters, soils and aquifers are among the most important chemical processes affecting water quality and biogeochemical cycles. In this book, Dr. Sposito builds upon the foundations of his earlier (1984) popular advanced textbook, "The Surface Chemistry of Soils", to synthesize and highlight new findings and conceptual understandings that have resulted from active research worldwide over the past 20 years into the interfacial chemistry of natural particles. The text emphasizes mechanistic interpretations of surface chemistry, as revealed by a thoughtful synthetic review of macroscopic, kinetic, modeling and spectroscopic studies.

The book would be a fine choice as a text for graduate level courses in aqueous surface geochemistry. It will be read widely and referenced often by practitioners in this active field of science.

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SURFACE CHEMISTRY OF NATURAL PARTICLES
SPOSITO
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKAAN8

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This book presents articles written by leading experts surveying several major subfields in Condensed Matter Physics and related sciences. The articles are based on invited talks presented at a recent conference honoring Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson of Princeton University, who coined the phrase "More is different" while formulating his contention that all fields of physics, indeed all of science, involve equally fundamental insights. The articles introduce and survey current research in areas that have been close to Anderson's interests. Together, they illustrate both the deep impact that Anderson has had in this multifaceted field during the past half century and the progress spawned by his insights. The contributors cover numerous topics under the umbrellas of superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetism, electron localization, strongly interacting electronic systems, heavy fermions, and disorder and frustration in glass and spin-glass systems. They also describe interdisciplinary areas such as the science of olfaction and color vision, the screening of macroions in electrolytes, scaling and renormalization in cosmology, forest fires and the spread of measles, and the investigation of "NP-complete" problems in computer science.

The articles are authored by Philip W. Anderson, Per Bak and Kan Chen, G. Baskaran, Juan Carlos Campuzano, Paul Chaikin, John Hopfield, Bernhard Keimer, Scott Kirkpatrick and Bart Selman, Gabriel Kotliar, Patrick Lee, Yoshiteru Maeno, Marc Mezard, Douglas Osheroff et al., H. R. Ott, L. Pietronero et al., T. V. Ramakrishnan, A. Ramirez, Myriam Sarachik, T. Senthil and Matthew P. A. Fisher, B. I. Shklovskii et al., and F. Steglich et al.

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`I love the German character more than anything else in the world, and my breast is an archive of German song' So wrote Heinrich Heine in 1824, adding: `It is likely that my Muse gave her German dress something of a foreign cut from annoyance with the German character'. Here Heine sums up the ambivalent emotions of Jews who felt at home in German culture and yet, even in the age of emancipation, found Germany less than welcoming. This anthology illustrates the history of Jews in Germany from the eighteenth century, when it was first proposed to give Jews civil rights, to the 1990's and the problems of living after the Holocaust. The texts include short stories, plays, poems, essays, letters and diary entries, all chosen for their literary merit as well as the light they shed on the relations between Jews in Germany and Austria and their Gentile fellow-citizens. Ritchie Robertson's lucid introduction provides the necessary historical context and his translations make available in English in some cases for the first time - both Jewish writers on various aspects of Jewish experience and responses of Gentile writers to the Jews in their midst. Each is introduced by a short illuminating preface.

The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993 (Oxford World's Classics)

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The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993 (Oxford World's Classics)
Editor-Ritchie Robertson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKNGRA

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