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The forewarned investor

don't get fooled again by corporate fraud

The authors identify common manifestations of fraud visible to investors. When an investor encounters a collection of these danger signs, he should follow the lead of a poker player with a lousy hand and fold.

The byzantine and early islamic near east

The essays in this volume deal with the history of the Middle East from c.550 to 1000 AD. There are three main themes: Syria in Late Antiquity and the changes and continuities with the early Islamic period; relations between Muslims and the Byzantine Empire ...

Electricity services in remote rural communities

the small enterprise model

This work describes the design and use of a particular management model for electricity services in isolated rural communities. This model was designed with the clear objective of efficient financial and technical management, taking into account the social and economic environment and the committed participation ...

Service management

operations, strategy, information technology

This is the most comprehensive and widely used introduction to service operations on the market. It is written by one of the top authorities on the subject.

Mujeres directivas en España

estereotipos y realidad

En las políticas para la igualdad de género, apenas se ha prestado atenmción al hecho de que la mujer sufre una fuerte discriminación en el acceso a niveles directivos. El presente libro recoge los resultados de una investigación donde se analizan, por un lado, las ...

Sociology

This fully revised and updated version of Anthony Giddens's "Sociology", now in its fifth edition, offers an unrivalled introduction for students new to the subject - lucid, lively, authoritative and original. Written by one of the world's leading sociologists, this comprehensive textbook manages to ...

Myself and other more important matters

Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's "Thought for the Day". Long recognised as one of the world's leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been sold ...

The hostage at the table

how leaders can overcome conflict, influence others, and raise performance

George Kohlrieser - an international leadership professor, consultant, and veteran hostage negotiator - explains that it is only by openly facing conflict that we can truly progress through the most difficult business challenges. In this book, he reveals how the proven techniques and psychological insights used in ...

Business guide to Japan

a quick guide to openning doors and closing deals

Everything you need to know to win at the business game in Japan is explained in this no-nonsense guide. Learn how to penetrate company bureaucracy, how to read the subtle signals of "belly talk," how to win the name-card game and how to master the ...

Finding the best business school for you

looking past the rankings

Every year, more than 250,000 people take the Graduate Management Administration Test, in preparation for applying to MBA programs. While many will seek admission to the topranked schools, only a small percentage will end up at one of these designated "elite" programs. As the ...

The future of public domain

identifying the commons in information Law

The presence of a robust public domain is an essential precondition for cultural, social and economic development and for a healthy democratic process. But the public domain is under pressure as a result of the ongoing march towards an information economy. Items of information, which ...

Introduction to stochastic calculus for finance

a new didactic approach

The large number of already available textbooks on stochastic calculus with specific applications to finance requires a justification for another contribution to this subject. The justification is mainly pedagogical. These lecture notes start with an elementary approach to stochastic calculus due to Follmer, who showed ...

Collective management of copyright and related rights

Authors, individual and corporate, are routinely compensated for the use by others of copyrighted material. Yet relatively little attention is paid to the vast and complex system of collective management that underlies these payments - capital flows that amount to ten billion euros each year. This ...

The concept of legislation in European Community Law

a comparative perspective

A notable trend in recent scholarship on the nature of the European Union and its democratic legitimacy focuses on the concept of `legislation and its employment within the European Community s legal system. In this remarkable work of synthesis, Alexander T rk exposes and elucidates ...

The European Commission´s jurisdiction to scrutinise mergers

On the Merger Regulation s all-important element focusing on the Community dimension i.e., the test whether a merger is to be examined by the European Commission or by the Member States this classic has held the field since 1998. Now with this new Third ...

Mergers and acquisitions

the industrial organization perspective

Drawing on twenty years of merger analysis literature, this single source offers practical solutions to a wide range of problems faced by specialists working in the field of mergers and acquisitions. The authors take an industrial organization approach in which effects on profits, on consumer ...

The EC merger control regulation

a critical analysis of DG COMP practice and community courts´jurisprudence

Merger control constitutes a well-established pillar of EU competition law. However, the drafters of the Community competition merger legislation, in view of the need to attain the imperative goal of market integration, put more emphasis on the clarification of the substantive rules applied by the ...

Contract Law and practice

the english system, with scotish, Commonwealth, and continental comparisions

International commerce is made more difficult and costly by the requirements of all the different legal systems involved and nowhere more so than within the European Union. There are fundamental differences here between the attitudes and responses of the English common law and those of ...

Handbook of economic forecasting

volume 1

SUMARY: Part 1. Forecasting methodology. 1. Bayesian forecasting (J. Geweke, C. Whiteman). 2. Forecasting and decision theory (C.W.J.Granger, M.J. Machina). 3. Forecast evaluation (K.D. West). 4. Forecast combinations (A. Timmermann). 5. Predictive density evaluation (V. Corradi, N.R. Swanson). Part ...

The central Asian economies since independence

The 9/11 attacks, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and the oil boom of recent years have greatly increased the strategic importance of resource-rich Central Asia, making an understanding of its economic - and therefore political - prospects more important than ever. In "The Central Asian ...