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Economic conditions can change dramatically over time, requiring significant changes in interest rates. Loans that appeared desirable methods of expansion when taken out can, with a change in interest rates, become massive outgoings that leave the unprepared business exposed to potentially crippling debt. Whether borrowing, investing, saving or trading, a company will always have to take into account the cost of capital and therefore interest rate risk. The efficient management of this risk is essential for the survival of a company and any business that is exposed to such a risk should ensure that it is fully prepared to manage it. Aimed at senior managers within businesses, this book is a practical primer on how to reduce risk from changes in interest rates.
Currency fluctuations cause more financial losses to business than any other single factor. Exchange rates between one currency and another can change dramatically in a short period of time, leaving the unprepared business exposed to potentially crippling losses. Every business that traders internationally or relies on imported goods is exposed to the effects of currency fluctuations. The efficient management of this risk is essential for the survival of a company and any business that is exposed to such a risk should ensure that it is fully prepared to manage it. Aimed at senior managers within businesses, this book is a practical primer on how to reduce risk from volatility in the foreign markets.
Most businesses will face commodity risk in some form. It is how the company manages this risk that will help to determine the success of the firm. In this highly practical book, John J. Stephens explains in a clear concise manner the best techniques for managing such risks. Aimed at the ordinary businessperson, this book is a practical primer for those who wish to manage and minimise the risk to their industry, through instruments such as commodity futures, without wishing to have the technical knowledge of professional financiers. This book provides the ideal starting point for the good manager not only to minimise commodity risk but to gain benefit also.
At the time of this writing, there is much uncertainty about the form of this country's future healthcare system and the role of psychiatry and other mental health disciplines in that system. Current experience with various managed healthcare programs is not encouraging. Most often patients with severe psychiatrie disturbances receive, at best, so me form of crisis intervention or brief treatment. Marital and family approaches to treatment receive even less support. This discouraging socioeconomic context makes the work of John Schwab and his colleagues even more important than it would be in more favorable times. Their message is clear: The family is crucial to an understanding of psychiatrie disorders and must often be the major focus in the treatment of these disorders. This book is unique in its direct reflection of the senior author's long-term professional interests-the family, epidemiology, and history. A careful reading provides family therapists and researchers with won derful opportunities to examine the ways in which history, socio economie and politieal contexts, and epidemiology can be used to in crease understanding of the family. This his tory of the family is unusually thorough; in particular, I found fascinating the information about early Egyptian families (3000 B.C.) and their accordance of high status of women.
At the time of this writing, there is much uncertainty about the form of this country's future healthcare system and the role of psychiatry and other mental health disciplines in that system. Current experience with various managed healthcare programs is not encouraging. Most often patients with severe psychiatrie disturbances receive, at best, so me form of crisis intervention or brief treatment. Marital and family approaches to treatment receive even less support. This discouraging socioeconomic context makes the work of John Schwab and his colleagues even more important than it would be in more favorable times. Their message is clear: The family is crucial to an understanding of psychiatrie disorders and must often be the major focus in the treatment of these disorders. This book is unique in its direct reflection of the senior author's long-term professional interests-the family, epidemiology, and history. A careful reading provides family therapists and researchers with won derful opportunities to examine the ways in which history, socio economie and politieal contexts, and epidemiology can be used to in crease understanding of the family. This his tory of the family is unusually thorough; in particular, I found fascinating the information about early Egyptian families (3000 B.C.) and their accordance of high status of women.
Nigel Pennick; John Matthews; Caroline Wise; Caitlín Matthews; Carol Clancy; R.J. Stewart; Bernard Nesfield-Cookson; Gareth Knight; Robert Stephenson; Geraldine Beskin; Chesca Potter; William Stukeley; Lewis Spence; Harold Bayley; Alan V. Insole; Ross Nichols
With a foreword by Iain Sinclair. London is an ancient city, whose foundation dates back literally thousands of years into the legendary prehistory of these islands. Not surprisingly it has accumulated a large number of stories, both historic and mythical, during this period, many of which, though faithfully recorded at the time, have lain almost forgotten in dusty libraries throughout the city. The Secret Lore of London is a guide to the legends, including a discussion of their importance as part of the oral tradition of Britain, combining Prehistoric, Celtic, Arthurian, Roman, Saxon and Norman levels - each of which has contributed to the many-layered life of the city. The first part contains a unique selection of essays (some printed here for the first time) by experts in their fields, each of whom possesses a unique interest in the legends of these islands, and who have written widely on associated themes. The second part of the book will consist of a Gazetteer of the sites mentioned which are still in existence, together with various other sites of associated interest, compiled by the Editor, the contributors, and members of the London Earth Mysteries Group. This part will be fully updated and extended to include many more sites. The result is a wide ranging and wholly fascinating book, with wide sales application possible. A series of appendixes will include William Stukley's extraordinary document The Brill, which relates to the ancient prehistoric sites around the area of present day St. Pancras, and excerpts from some of the best known 19th and early 20th century works on Legendary London by Lewis Spence and Harold BayleyContributors to the book are: Nigel PennickJohn MatthewsCaroline WiseCaitlín MatthewsCarol Clancy R.J. StewartBernard Nesfield-CooksonGareth KnightRobert StephensonGeraldine BeskinChesca PotterWilliam StukeleyLewis SpenceHarold BayleyAlan V. InsoleRoss Nichols
Does America’s pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America’s relationship with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape foreign policy in a way that is profoundly damaging both to the United States and Israel itself. Israel is an important, valued American ally, yet Mearsheimer and Walt show that, by encouraging unconditional US financial and diplomatic support for Israel and promoting the use of its power to remake the Middle East, the lobby has jeopardized America’s and Israel’s long-term security and put other countries – including Britain – at risk.
I denna bok har samlats fyra uppmärksammade artiklar som publicerades i Foreign Affairs 2014. I den första artikeln argumenterar statsvetarprofessorn John J. Mearsheimer för att det inte är Ryssland, utan USA och dess allierade, som bär huvudansvaret för den Ukrainakris som intensivt flammade upp åren 2013-2014.I två efterföljande artiklar hävdar tvärtom Michael McFaul och Stephen Sestanovich, tidigare diplomater och regeringsrådgivare, att Ukrainakrisen uteslutande måste skyllas på Ryssland och Putins aggressiva erövringspolitik. I en avslutande reflektion bemöter John J. Mearsheimer dessa invändningar.John J. Mearsheimers föredrag »Why is Ukraine the West's Fault?«, som grundar sig på hans bidrag i denna bok, har haft 28 miljoner visningar på Youtube (University of Chicagos kanal: https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4). Foreign Affairs, grundad 1922, är USA:s ledande tidskrift för analys och debatt om utrikespolitik, geopolitik och internationella förhållanden. OM FÖRFATTARNA John J. Mearsheimer är professor i statsvetenskap vid University of Chicago. Hans senaste böcker är The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (2018) och Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics (2013). Michael McFaul är professor i statsvetenskap vid Stanford University. Han var rådgivare till president Obamas nationella säkerhetsråd 2009-2012 och ambassadör i Ryssland 2012-2014. Han är författare till From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia (2018). Stephen Sestanovich är professor i internationell diplomati vid Columbia University och verksam på tankesmedjan Council on Foreign Relations avdelning för ryska och eurasiska studier. Han var under åren 1997-2001 särskild rådgivare till USA:s utrikesminister Madeleine Albright tillika ambassadör för de nya oberoende stater som då nyligen hade bildats på det forna Sovjetunionens territorium. Han är författare till Maximalist: America and the World From Truman to Obama (2014).
The world-wide sales of polysiloxanes or silicones at the beginning of this new millennium is approximately $10 billion per year. Commercial products range from those entirely composed of silicone to products where the silicone is a low level but key component. This symposium covered the recent academic and technological developments behind silicones and silicone-modified materials and the sessions were well attended of wide interest to both the academic and industrial communities. The papers from our two highly successful symposia in this important area were published in the books Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials, (Eds. S. J. Clarson, J. J. Fitzgerald, M. J. Owen and S. D. Smith), ACS Symposium Series Vol. 729 / Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8412-3613-5 and Synthesis and Properties of Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials, (Eds. S. J. Clarson, J. J. Fitzgerald, M. J. Owen, S. D. Smith and M. E. Van Dyke), ACS Symposium Series Vol 838 / Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8412-3804-9
The TABS Assessment Tool is a norm-referenced tool designed to identify temperament and self-regulation problems that can indicate that a child is developing atypically or is at risk for atypical development. This 55-item checklist covers areas such as temperament, attention, attachment, social behavior, play, vocal and oral behavior, sense and movement, self-stimulation and self-injury, and neurobehavioral state. The parent-completed checklist takes approximately 15 minutes. The results give a detailed evaluation of atypical behavior in four categories-detached, hypersensitive-active, underreactive, and dysregulated.The TABS Assessment Tool is sold as a package of 30 4-page assessment forms.This tool is part of the TABS, a norm-referenced screening and assessment tool designed to identify temperament and self-regulation problems that may indicate a child's risk for developmental delay. For use with children ages 11 to 71 months, TABS can be used for screening, research, determining eligibility for special services, planning programs, and monitoring child progress and program effectiveness.
THE THIRD IN A SPECTACULAR NEW SERIES OF TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURES EVOLVING FROM THE WORK OF RAY BRADBURY, AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.YOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE.The sign said it all, but the hunters soon became the hunted. Their safari took them to the age of dinosaurs, but the hunt went terribly wrong, sending ripples of change throughout the timestream.Eckels, a psychotic time-traveler, has shot a dinosaur and meddled with history, destroying the future and trapping himself in the past. Transported to an alternate prehistoric period by a savage timestorm, Aaron Cofield manages to link up with a lost Time Safari guide, Travis. Together, they must hunt down Eckels and restore the shape of history.Attacked by sentient dinosaurs, Aaron and Travis escape to an alternate medieval Japan. Caught between dinosaurs, ferocious samurai warriors, and the cold-blooded Eckels, the two must fight for their own survival--and to restore the timestream of our future
THE FIFTH IN A SPECTACULAR NEW SERIES OF TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURES EVOLVING FROM THE WORK OF RAY BRADBURY, AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN CHRONICLESYOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE. The sign said it all, but the hunters soon became the hunted. Their safari took them to the age of dinosaurs, but the hunt went terribly wrong, sending ripples of change throughout the timestream.Aaron Cofield and his friends find themselves in ancient Egypt--but an Egypt changed from the one they knew. The Sphinx now bears the head of Klaido, a savage dinosaur warrior. And the Pharaoh about to be entombed within the Sphinx has decreed that all his belongings be buried with him--including the last fragment of the time-crosssing roadway in this world Aaron faces a race against time to retrieve the roadway, and stay ahead of the savage dinosaur empire, if there is to be any hope of restoring the timestream.
