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Global Capitalism at Bay (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy, 21)
John Dunning Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0415238633 |
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In this collection of his latest essays, John H. Dunning - renowned authority in international business - elaborates his theories on the current situation of the foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises.
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Renowned authority in international business, John H. Dunning, here elaborates his theories on the current situation of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises. A unique study of contemproary capitalism and its possible future.
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Global Capitalism at Bay?(Book Review): An article from: Transnational Corporations
Alan M. Rugman Manufacturer: United Nations Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FG3SU Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Transnational Corporations, published by United Nations Publications on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1476 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Risk Management, Derivatives, and Financial Analysis under SFAS No. 133
Gary L. Gastineau , Donald J. Smith , and Rebecca Todd Manufacturer: Research Foundation of AIMR & Blackwell Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0943205514 |
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The authors begin this monograph by providing an overview of the elements of risk management and then delve into the specifics of derivative and hedging activity under SFAS No. 133. They conclude by coming full circle and discussing the implications for financial analysts of a firm's risk management practices and its derivative and hedging activity. Although no single work can be an exhaustive discussion of risk management, derivatives, and SFAS No. 133, this monograph fills in many of the gaps and sets a precedent of clarity and usefulness for others to follow.
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Oil and Gas Law in Nigeria
Yinka Omorogbe Manufacturer: Malthouse Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9780231331 |
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A new empirical study on oil and gas in Nigeria, which serves as a useful general introduction to many aspects of the country's oil and gas industries and related laws. Contents: introductions - definitions, importance, the international oil industry, how oil was found; the Nigerian oil industry: historical perspectives and acts of law; legislation governing the industry; ownership of oil and gas - ownership theories in the oil and gas industries, sovereignty over natural resources and international law; contracts for exploration and production; the natural gas industry; fiscal matters pertaining to the petroleum industry; OPEC; national oil corporations and the Nigerian Petroleum Corporation; downstream oil and gas law and policy; trade in crude oil and products; environmental issues; oil community issues; topical issues in the petroleum industry - e.g. acquisitions of technology, indigenous oil companies; nationalisation and privatisation; and dispute settlements. Yinka Omorogbe is a lecturer in law at the Universities of Benin and Lagos, Nigeria.
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The anthropology of oil: the impact of the oil industry on a fishing community in the Niger Delta.: An article from: Social Justice
Alicia Fentiman Manufacturer: Crime and Social Justice Associates ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00096Q7V6 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Social Justice, published by Crime and Social Justice Associates on December 22, 1996. The length of the article is 6015 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Offshore oil and gas resources: economics, politics and the rule of law in the Nigeria-Sao tome e Principe joint development zone.: An article from: Journal of International Affairs
Hurst Groves Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000E1OER0 Release Date: 2005-12-29 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 8169 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Milk & Milk Products From Medieval to Modern Times: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Ethnological Food Research
Manufacturer: Diane Pub. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0788196480 |
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Milk flows through our history as a vital human food. This volume will be of interest not only to ethnologists, folklorists & food historians, but also to all those concerned with the role of basic foods in the human diet. Milk is a uniquely vulnerable commodity, & while in some cultures it was considered a luxury food, in others it was thought both unwholesome & unhealthy. Folklore highlights the part women play in the production of milk & milk products, & their econ. import. in the household & farm economy. In their role as producers & processors of milk, women are credited with supernatural powers to protect or promote the individual or collective dairying process. Ill.
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Modern Farm Power
William J. Promersberger Manufacturer: Reston Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 083594560X |
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Cellular Proteases and Control Mechanisms
Tony Hugli Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471562270 |
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Cellular proteases and control mechanisms: Proceedings of a Glaxo-UCLA Colloquium on Cellular Proteases and Control Mechanisms, held at Lake Tahoe, California, ... symposia on molecular and cellular biology)
Manufacturer: Liss ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 084514703X |
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The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards (NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402042337 |
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Tectonic motion of the Adria microplate exerts a first-order control on the tectonics, geology, seismology, resource distribution, and the geological hazards across a broad zone of south-central Europe and the north-central Mediterranean. Since its first application to geodynamical problems, GPS geodesy has gradually revealed the nature of motion and deformation for most active areas of deformation across the Earth. One of the last remaining regional-scale problems on the planet is the motion and associated deformation in the peri-Adriatic region. Selected local-scale studies have examined aspects of this motion, but to date no truly regional analysis or regional team has systematically attacked the full breadth of this problem. A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was held in Veszprém, Hungary from April 4-7, 2004. This workshop brought together a distinguished international group of scientists working in the peri-Adriatic region to: (1) review research activities and results, (2) share technical expertise, and (3) provide a springboard for future collaborative research on Adria geodynamics. Areas of agreement were identified, as well as remaining areas of debate. In addition, attention focused on important scientific questions and the potential for international and interdisciplinary research in the future.
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Using REDUCE in High Energy Physics
A. G. Grozin Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521560020 |
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This book describes the use of the symbolic manipulation language REDUCE in particle physics. There are several general purpose mathematics packages available to physicists, including Mathematica, Maple, and REDUCE. Each has advantages and disadvantages, but REDUCE has been found to be both powerful and convenient in solving a wide range of problems. This book introduces the reader to REDUCE and demonstrates its utility as a mathematical tool in physics. The first chapter of the book describes the REDUCE system, including some library packages. The following chapters show the use of REDUCE in examples from classical mechanics, hydrodynamics, general relativity and quantum mechanics. The rest of the book systematically presents the Standard Model of particle physics (QED, weak interactions, QCD). A large number of scattering and decay processes are calculated with REDUCE. All example programs from the book can be downloaded via Internet, from http://www.inp.nsk.su/~grozin/book/. The emphasis throughout is on learning through worked examples.
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The Hobbit (Illustrated Edition)
J.R.R. Tolkien Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0395873460 |
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"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.
The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber
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"In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit." So begins one of the most beloved and delightful tales in the English language. Set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth, at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale, The Hobbit is one of literature's most enduring and well-loved novels. This gift edition, with new watercolor paintings by the artist Alan Lee, celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the first publication in 1937.Customer Reviews:
Tolkien at his best!.......2007-10-09
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Tolkien Set the Stage.......2007-10-02
Better than LOTR.......2007-09-08
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Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic (Abridged)
J. R. R. Tolkien Manufacturer: Tandem Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: School & Library Binding ASIN: 0613536843 |
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For Want of a Horse: Choice and Chance in History
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0866160493 |
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Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
Neil Postman Manufacturer: Vintage ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0375701273 Release Date: 2000-10-10 |
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The problem with the world today, says Neil Postman, is that we've become so caught up in hurtling towards the future that we've lost our societal "narrative," a humane cultural tradition that creates "a sense of purpose and continuity"--in other words, something to believe in. "In order to have an agreeable encounter with the twenty-first century," he asserts, "we will have to take into it some good ideas. And in order to do that, we need to look back to take stock of the good ideas available to us." He finds rich source material in the Enlightenment, the salad days for philosophers such as Goethe, Voltaire, Diderot, Paine, and Jefferson, "the beginnings of much that is worthwhile about the modern world." Yet Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century is a call for cultural progress, not regression: "I am not suggesting that we become the eighteenth century," Postman notes, "only that we use it for what it is worth and all it is worth."Chief among the values Postman cites is the development of the intellect; it plays a part in many of his recommendations, from the cultivation of a healthy skepticism towards overhyped technology to sweeping educational reforms that include replacing grammar instruction with logic and rhetoric and introducing courses on comparative religion and the history of science. He also lashes out at postmodernists who start with the premise that language "is a major factor in producing our perceptions, judgments, knowledge, and institutions" and conclude that language is therefore tenuously connected to reality at best. Enlightenment thinkers knew that language molded perception, he notes, but they also believed that "it is possible to use language to say things about the world that are true" and "to communicate ideas to oneself and to others." Postman is excessively curmudgeonly at times, as in his reference to philosopher Jean Baudrillard as "a Frenchman, of all things," or his remarks on the ancient Athenians: "I know they are the classic example of Dead White Males, but we should probably listen to them anyway." But for anybody with a stake in the culture wars, or who wants to apply the lessons of philosophy to the modern world, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century will make for provocative reading.
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In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world.Customer Reviews:
Essential reading for educators in history.......2007-08-10
How the past can improve our future.......2007-04-06
A brilliant case for the value of the humanities in the modern age.......2006-05-28
Not a Luddite.......2001-11-23
Postman Delivers!.......2001-10-22
Even though it is possible to read his book in a cursory manner, don't fault the easily accessible work as trite. Postman's criticism is erudite, precise and well-articulated.
I hope he doesn't stop writing. His voice needs to continue.
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Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
Neil Postman Manufacturer: Vintage Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OUVTHO |
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Latent Variable Models: An Introduction to Factor, Path, and Structural Equation Analysis (Latent Variable Models: An Introduction to)
John C. Loehlin Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0805849106 |
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This book introduces multiple-latent variable models by utilizing path diagrams to explain the underlying relationships in the models. This approach helps less mathematically inclined students grasp the underlying relationships between path analysis, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling more easily. A few sections of the book make use of elementary matrix algebra. An appendix on the topic is provided for those who need a review. The author maintains an informal style so as to increase the book's accessibility. Notes at the end of each chapter provide some of the more technical details. The book is not tied to a particular computer program, but special attention is paid to LISREL, EQS, AMOS, and Mx.
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a data CD that features the correlation and covariance matrices used in the exercises;
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new sections on missing data, non-normality, mediation, factorial invariance, and automating the construction of path diagrams; and
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reorganization of chapters 3-7 to enhance the flow of the book and its flexibility for teaching.
Intended for advanced students and researchers in the areas of social, educational, clinical, industrial, consumer, personality, and developmental psychology, sociology, political science, and marketing, some prior familiarity with correlation and regression is helpful.
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fast shipment and perfect condition.......2006-02-19
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Latent Variable Models: An Introduction to Factor, Path, and Structural Analysis
John C. Loehlin Manufacturer: Lea ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0805828311 |
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Deep, lucid coverage of statistical methods.......1997-06-21
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Models for illuminating things otherwise unseen: Co-editor's introduction [An article from: Contemporary Educational Psychology]
G.R. Hancock Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000PDSYP0 |
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This digital document is a journal article from Contemporary Educational Psychology, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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An Introduction to Latent Variable Models (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
B. Everett Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0412253100 |
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Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology)
J. Baird Callicott Manufacturer: State University of New York Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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