The Work-Life Manual: Gaining a Competitive Edge by Balancing the Demands of Employee's Work and Home Lives

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This manual will help you think through a viable work-life strategy, integrate work-life into existing initatives and encourage acceptance of your work-life plan throughout the organization. Changeing nature of the trade union role, the inspiration behind the union-management partnership. who has asked themselves What is my human resources team there to do? management conveys the essentials of good people management in helpful and clear terms.

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Applied Stochastic Models and Control for Finance and Insurance presents at an introductory level some essential stochastic models applied in economics, finance and insurance. Markov chains, random walks, stochastic differential equations and other stochastic processes are used throughout the book and systematically applied to economic and financial applications. In addition, a dynamic programming framework is used to deal with some basic optimization problems.
The book begins by introducing problems of economics, finance and insurance which involve time, uncertainty and risk. A number of cases are treated in detail, spanning risk management, volatility, memory, the time structure of preferences, interest rates and yields, etc. The second and third chapters provide an introduction to stochastic models and their application. Stochastic differential equations and stochastic calculus are presented in an intuitive manner, and numerous applications and exercises are used to facilitate their understanding and their use in Chapter 3. A number of other processes which are increasingly used in finance and insurance are introduced in Chapter 4. In the fifth chapter, ARCH and GARCH models are presented and their application to modeling volatility is emphasized. An outline of decision-making procedures is presented in Chapter 6. Furthermore, we also introduce the essentials of stochastic dynamic programming and control, and provide first steps for the student who seeks to apply these techniques. Finally, in Chapter 7, numerical techniques and approximations to stochastic processes are examined.
This book can be used in business, economics, financial engineering and decision sciences schools for second year Master's students, as well as in a number of courses widely given in departments of statistics, systems and decision sciences.

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Effective Enforcement of EC Labour Law deals with the rules designed to enforce EC labour law directives in the workplace. Directives normally do not provide any specific rules on procedures and sanctions according to which the substantive rules of the directives are to be enforced. Instead, domestic rules shall apply. However, the European Court of Justice has developed some principles of enforcement that limit the autonomy of the Member States. The aim of this book is to analyse the meaning of the principle of effective enforcement developed by the Court in three areas of labour law:

working time in the context of EU health and safety law; the restructuring of enterprises through collective redundancies and transfers of undertakings; and equality of opportunity between women and men. The principle of effective enforcement is analysed in the light of how labour law directives are enforced in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. The book also includes an analysis of regulations in Poland, which illustrates some of the challenges that candidate countries will face in joining the EU.

Effective Enforcement of EC Labour Law is the result of collaboration between a group of labour law researchers from a number of European countries. The work has been co-ordinated by Jonas Malmberg, Associate Professor at the National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, and Uppsala University.

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Fodder conservation, with special reference to grass drying: A report prepared for the Committee on the Preservation of Grass and Other Fodder Crops (Agricultural Research Council)

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This new 4th edition SPM Handbook of Health Assessment Tools provides detailed descriptions of some 50 major health assessment instruments - including general health outcome measures and lifestyle assessments widely used in scientific studies and as essential data-gathering devices in managed care organizations, as well as traditional health risk assessment tools. Like its predecessors, the Handbook offers expert guidance for organizations and individuals on how to select and use health assessment tools.

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This updated and enhanced Fourth Edition of ESSENTIALS OF METEOROLOGY is written by the most widely read, trusted author in introductory meteorology. Ahrens' ability to explain relatively complicated ideas in a student-friendly, manageable fashion allows even non-science students to visualize the principles of meteorology. Introductory stories at the beginning of each chapter draw students naturally into the discussion while "Did You Know?" sections highlight interesting weather facts and recent meteorological events. Updated material in this edition includes new Weather Watch and Focus boxes, as well as updated art, maps, and figures. The package of teaching and learning tools to accompany this text will now include course management, and a FREE, brand-new, student tutorial system - MeteorologyNow. MeteorologyNow is Web-based, assessment-driven, completely flexible, and contains a wealth of book-specific interactivities. It also offers a personalized learning plan based on each student's assessment results, helping the student focus on the concepts they don't yet understand. This complete teaching package provides each student with fun, interactive learning opportunities and an even greater chance for success.

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Excellent.......2007-05-30

This is a wonderful book to teach to Junior High kids. I bought it though for my Meteorology class at the Junior college I attend.

Essentials of Meteorology (International Version): An Invitation to the Atmosphere

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Essentials of Meteorology (International Version): An Invitation to the Atmosphere
C. Donald Ahrens
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This total learning package for the introductory meteorology course includes much more than a text--the book is packaged with the exciting Blue SkiesÖ CD-ROM. At the core of this learning package is Ahrens' respected text, which presents the fundamental concepts of meteorology in the context of everyday weather observations. Fun and easy to understand and relate to, the book and its cumulative organization enables students to build on each concept and gain greater understanding into the dynamic nature of the atmosphere.

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Well-written, clear, and a very descriptive analysis.......1999-01-03

I am a college student at the Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder. I was required to read Ahrens book and I found it very helpful and informative. At times it was a little dull and simple, but it covered the atmosphere and weather related topics extremely well. I recommend this text to anyone interested in weather. The pictures and graphs were great too!

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C. Donald Ahrens
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This volume presents a summary of our current understanding of molecular electronics combined with selected state-of-the-art results at a level accessible to the advanced undergraduate or novice postgraduate. This single book comprises the basic knowledge of both theory and experiment underpinning this rapidly growing field. Concepts and techniques such as density functional theory and charge transport, break junctions and scanning probe microscopy are introduced step-by-step and are subsequently used in specific examples. The text addresses a wide range of systems including molecular junctions made of single-molecules, self-assembled monolayers, carbon nanotubes and DNA.

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It seems like the perfect premise--Charles Darwin's great-grandson travels by bus from New York City to Dayton, Tennessee, to witness a reenactment of the infamous 1925 Scopes trial and see how--or if--attitudes toward evolution have changed. Call it "The Voyage of the Greyhound," if you will. But it didn't work out that way.

Matthew Chapman set out to write such a book, but ended up penning this "accidental memoir." Trials of the Monkey is remarkably compelling, given that the narrative wanders back and forth in time, across continents, and all over the place thematically. Descriptions of Chapman's youthful desires, his mother's alcoholism, and the world of Hollywood screenwriting are interspersed with tales of riding along with a Dayton cop on a Friday night, spelunking with Christian students, even sipping moonshine from a jam jar in a restroom stall ("To my surprise, it's excellent").

Those seeking a detailed account of the trial may be disappointed, though Chapman does offer up evocative glimpses, such as prosecuting attorney William Jennings Bryan--renowned as an orator--quietly telling attorney for the defense Dudley Malone, "Dudley, that was the greatest speech I ever heard." The book is at its best, however, when Chapman reveals his own feelings, such as his realization that though he came in part to "poke fun at [the] hillbillies," everyone had been "just as nice as all get out" to him. The intervening 75 years since the trial may not have changed Dayton very much, but they have seen a widening of the division between creationists and evolutionists. "If something like the Scopes trial was staged now," Chapman notes, "people would be afraid for their lives." --Sunny Delaney

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"When Darwin called his second book The Descent of Man instead of The Ascent of Man he was thinking of his progeny."So declares Darwin's great-great grandson Matthew Chapman as he leaves behind his stressful career as a Hollywood screenwriter and travels to Dayton, Tennessee, where in 1925, creationist opposition to the teaching of evolution in schools was played out in a famous legal drama, the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial.The purpose of his journey is to see if opinions have changed in the intervening 75 years. A defiant atheist, Chapman records his encounters in the South, where he is confronted not only by fundamentalists still trying to banish the theory of evolution but also, ironically, by his own spiritual malaise. The outward journey becomes an inward quest in this tragicomic accidental memoir.AUTHORBIO: Matthew Chapman was born in Cambridge, England and now lives in New York City. A Hollywood screenwriter, he has also directed five films.

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Charles Darwin's great-great grandson, a highly successful Hollywood screenwriter, travels to Dayton, Tennessee. In 1925 this is where The Scopes Trial, the most famous trial of its day, put the teaching of evolution in schools in the dock, and each year there is re-enactment. Wondering how much has changed in people's attitudes in the last seventy years, and what it might be like to have a religious faith, Chapman has written a funny, sometimes dark and utterly compelling accidental memoir. Dave Eggers for the forty-somethings.

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read this!.......2007-06-12

Not your typical atheist's perspective of religion, Matthew Chapman writes with poigniancy and wit about life, love and faith.

Monkey Man Tells All.......2005-08-14

Matthew Chapman is a great talent. He is a naturally gifted and funny writer. That being said, for most of his life he was convinced he was the center of the universe. Now he is not so sure. Matthew Chapman is the great great grandson of Charles Darwin, and that is a lot to live up too. In this autobiography, Chapman's first book we discover he is the worst possible combination of human beings. He is a committed Darwinist, an atheist, a Hollywood liberal, and on top of all that, Eurotrash.

I have been doing some reading on Evolution and the Creation/Evolution conflict and came across Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental Memoir. It was a quick and enjoyable read, and for most of the book, I really wanted to hate this, Chapman's first book. But, I could not put it down. As a human being, for most of his life he was a poor excuse for a man, but by the end of the book I came to like him. The book is about Chapman's adventures in Dayton, TN home of the infamous "Monkey Trial." In between writing about going to Dayton, visiting Dayton, and leaving Dayton we learn about the life of Matthew Chapman, his parents, especially his mother, and his siblings.

While Chapman certainly has no place for organzied religion, he does admit that "faith" has a place in humanity. He also came to respect those fundamentalist Christians he interacted with in Dayton. I could say more, but would give away too much.

Are there better books about Evolution, Creationism, and The Scope's Trial, yes. That being said Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental Memoir is an enjoyable and amusing read.

Not quite what I expected, but engaging and educational.......2004-12-08

I was interested in reading this book because I knew a person who went with a group to see the Scopes Trial reenactment in the mid-1990s, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Matthew Chapman mention them with a one sentence acknowledgement in his book (yes, a group of atheists from Atlanta, it has to be them!). I really enjoyed reading this account of a British person's perspective on the South and the Bible Belt. He's a self-admitted atheist who struggles with religion because of all the inconsistencies (which any honest person will admit that religion has a lot of), but the surprise is that he also admits to having a certain kind of admiration towards people of faith, because of the effect it has on believers that he never got. He's quite honest about his own past and unfortunately goes into too much detail about his sexual discoveries as a teenager, which I didn't think fit well with the main premise behind this book.

This book is kind of two books in one, and while I bought it for information on the Scopes Trial (which I did learn quite a bit more than the little I knew about it--since he goes into fascinating detail about the trial itself), I didn't expect it to be his biography/memoir also. He alternates every few chapters between these two story lines and I thought it was too much focused on his own back history, which wasn't really fascinating to me (sorry guy, but your sexual exploits aren't worth bragging about!). A lot of it was focused on his troubled relations with his alcoholic mother, with one long, drawn out chapter about her death and funeral. I didn't see what that had to do with the Scopes Monkey Trial, and my guess is that he figured that he was only going to get one published book and it would be his only opportunity to tell his life story, now that he captured our attention with the premise of the Scopes Trial. That's the reason why I subtract a star. If he had slimmed down his life story/memoir and focused more on the Scopes Trial, I would have enjoyed this book a lot more and given it five stars. As it is, it is interesting, and I suppose you can skip the chapters on his life story and still enjoy it tremendously. I absolutely agree with his main tenets of a personal religion/faith he feels a need to develop: 1) responsibility to self; 2) responsibility to family and friends; and 3) responsibility to the world at large. His critiques of religion and materialism are right on, but he seemed to hint at his own life being driven by society's ratrace (his daughter goes to a private school in NYC, he drives an SUV, and he claims that even though he makes over a million dollars a year writing screenplays, he's having financial difficulties...sounds like he's living beyond his means, if you ask me and anyone who makes that much money and still has debt problems isn't going to get my sympathy). By the way, I bought this book marked down in price at a discount bookstore, so I hope I'm not contributing to his "affluent lifestyle". Stay on the spiritual path, Chapman! And listen to your wife more. She sounds really cool.

enjoyable recounting of a life and history.......2004-11-24

I had this book for several years, given to me as a birthday present by my wife along with Will Self's Great Apes (which I've also reviewed on Amazon.com), before finally getting around to reading it. I should have picked it up earlier. What starts out as a story of Matthew Chapman, great great grandson of Charles Darwin, traveling to Dayton, Tennessee to observe the annual re-enactment of the Scopes Trial becomes something more, the "accidental memoir" of the title. Chapman recounts some highlights and lowlights from his life, including "f-ing" himself out of an education and falling into a career as a Hollywood director and screenwriter, his relationship with his alcoholic mother. In the present, he interacts with a variety of interesting people in Dayton, Tennessee, who bend and in some instances break his stereotypes of backwoods fundamentalist Christians. An example of the latter is his "favorite creationist," Bryan College creationist Kurt Wise, to whom Chapman devotes an entire chapter and part of another.

Several chapters give a vivid account of the Scopes Trial itself, and Chapman gives references at the end for more comprehensive details. While the book does center around Dayton and the Scopes trial, the re-enactment doesn't become the planned centerpiece of the book when Chapman arrives too late to see it. He ends up speaking with the director of the play, and meeting some young Christians who are further examples of stereotype breaking, as he finds them to be quite cosmopolitan.

In the end, Chapman doesn't end up too far from where he started from, but he indicates that he's willing to give up the term "atheist" for himself in favor of "agnostic," and that his experiences in Dayton gave him a better appreciation for the multiple spiritual views endorsed by his Brazilian wife, Denise Texeiria.

I found the book a quite enjoyable read, especially with my familiarity of creationism and the Scopes Trial. I recommend it.

A Fortunate "Accident".......2003-05-07

I bought this book on vacation. I'm a person that frequently judges books by their covers and this one looked interesting. If it weren't good, it would be cute on my bookselves later. I read it in about 5 large chunks spread out over 3 days. Got a little preoccupied by it to be quite honest. It drew me right in.

I've reccommended it since to friends who have all thanked me. It has a lot going for it: history, personality, humor, honesty, insight. Memoirs are hit or miss, but Matthew Chapman is a genuinely intruiging person. What is different about this memoir is that it wasn't intended to be one. The author realized ultimately though, that his own story is the one that should be told. He wrote it with a sense of humor, candidness, perspective, and without being self-indulgent. It's a great, well-written story.

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Trials of the Monkey : An Accidental Memoir
Matthew Chapman
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