This book is about international businessinternational firms, their business activities across borders, the environment in which they operate, and management. The book produces a clear and concise introduction to international business, setting a global standard for studying and understanding of international business as required by practicing managers and those in colleges and universities who are aspiring to become international business managers.
This book produces a clear and concise introduction to principles and techniques of management, as required by practicing managers and those in colleges and universities who are aspiring to be managers.
This book renders help for self-help. It provides a valuable contribution to the promotion of captives as a new insurance phenomenon in the area of risk management. It does so by helping to identify potentials of captive as a strategic instrument for risk management. The result is aimed at providing a good information base for individuals who are already involved with captive insurance and those interested in it.
Captain Isaac "Ike" Emerson, riding high on the international success of his patent, Bromo-Seltzer, lived a storied life of opulence. This first biography of the "Bromo-Seltzer King" traces his path from North Carolina farm boy to Baltimore-based multimillionaire with a penchant for lavish entertaining. Emerson is presented as an entrepreneur, patriot, civic leader, sportsman, and philanthropist. He was a phenom in his era, and this book, drawing from archival records, newspapers of the day, and interviews with descendants, details the ups and downs of his complex and indulgent life.
This book produces a clear and concise introduction to principles and concepts of international management as required by practicing managers and those in colleges and universities who are aspiring to become managers in international organizations.
This book is about small business start-ups and management. The book provides those fundamental principles needed for identifying and developing business ideas before and during the process of business start-ups and management respectively. These are principles needed to translate business ideas into profitable and sustainable small business enterprise.
This book produces a comprehensive introduction to business strategy. The purpose is to help managers and students who aim to be managers develop their awareness and understanding of business strategy.
The aim of this book is to provide the much-needed insight and knowledge into entrepreneurshipinitiation and development of a new venture. The book is valuable to practicing entrepreneurs, university and college students who will become entrepreneurs of the future, and individuals interested in entrepreneurship.
This book provides a complete package of the fundamentals of marketing that is one of a kind in the market. The book delivers a one-stop package that will enable the reader to gain total access to knowledge and understanding of all marketing principles (traditional, digital, and integrated marketing). It is critical for delivering the best marketing practices and performances in todays very competitive marketing environment.
The first biography of a man who was at the center of American foreign policy for a generation Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did—in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that influence under presidents of both parties. For three decades, he was at the center of American foreign policy, serving as advisor to five presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Gerald Ford, and as ambassador to the United Nations, Vietnam, West Germany, and the Vatican. Lodge’s political influence was immense. He was the first person, in 1943, to see Eisenhower as a potential president; he entered Eisenhower in the 1952 New Hampshire primary without the candidate’s knowledge, crafted his political positions, and managed his campaign. As UN ambassador in the 1950s, Lodge was effectively a second secretary of state. In the 1960s, he was called twice, by John F. Kennedy and by Lyndon Johnson, to serve in the toughest position in the State Department’s portfolio, as ambassador to Vietnam. In the 1970s, he paved the way for permanent American ties with the Holy See. Over his career, beginning with his arrival in the U.S. Senate at age thirty-four in 1937, when there were just seventeen Republican senators, he did more than anyone else to transform the Republican Party from a regional, isolationist party into the nation’s dominant force in foreign policy, a position it held from Eisenhower’s time until the twenty-first century. In this book, historian Luke A. Nichter gives us a compelling narrative of Lodge’s extraordinary and consequential life. Lodge was among the last of the well‑heeled Eastern Establishment Republicans who put duty over partisanship and saw themselves as the hereditary captains of the American state. Unlike many who reach his position, Lodge took his secrets to the grave—including some that, revealed here for the first time, will force historians to rethink their understanding of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
This Book, The Apprentice Boy Part II, is the continuation of The Apprentice Boy Part I. You probably have read The Apprentice Boy Part I. The Apprentice Boy is an African story of a Nigerian boy born in a poor family without any future. His father died after he fell from height, and there was no one to pay his schools fees. He loved to go to school, but his mother could not afford to send him to school. Eventually he managed to attain a high level of education through self-effort and hardwork. There were many obstacles on his way as he wrestled with life. The climax of his woes came when he was captured by some barbaric natives who needed human heads for a sacrificial burial for a dead King. While Part I of The apprentice Boy narrated the boys life from age 4 up to age 22, when he was captured by barbaric natives, Part II narrated what happened to the young man in his captivity. The book is rich with Nigerian (African) legend, idioms, and figurative speech. It is excellent for improving the knowledge of English language, especially for English learners. The Book is also excellent for English Literature text book in High Schools and Universities.
One of the top twenty-five westerns of all time: an action-packed tale about a range war in a violent town—and the honest foreman who risks his life to keep the peace. Phil Evarts is dead, and the Hatchet Range is up for grabs. That’s 70,000 acres of prime turf just waiting for the man rich enough to buy it . . . or the gunman crazy enough to kill for it. Every schemer in town has his eyes on Hatchet, and Bide Mariner leads the charge. An unscrupulous rancher who’ll stop at nothing for cash, Mariner has the money and the guns to take whatever he wants. Only Will Ballard stands in his way—and that means Ballard is marked for death. The foreman at Hatchet Range, Ballard is an honest man who’ll do anything to keep the ranch from falling into Mariner’s hands. In a town so rotten with greed that even the sheriff is against him, Ballard must stand alone to save this little piece of the American West. Voted one of the top twenty-five westerns of all time by the Western Writers of America and made into a 1952 Republic film starring Rod Cameron, Ride the Man Down showcases award-winning author Luke Short at the height of his writing powers.
The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics "A fresh, authoritative analysis of a pivotal election year."--Kirkus Reviews The 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between vice president Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy and was bitterly divided on the Vietnam War and domestic issues, including civil rights and rising crime. Drawing on previously unexamined archives and numerous interviews, Luke A. Nichter upends the conventional understanding of the campaign. Nichter chronicles how the evangelist Billy Graham met with Johnson after the president's attempt to reenter the race was stymied by his own party, and offered him a deal: Nixon, if elected, would continue Johnson's Vietnam War policy and also not oppose his Great Society, if Johnson would soften his support for Humphrey. Johnson agreed. Nichter also shows that Johnson was far more active in the campaign than has previously been described; that Humphrey's resurgence in October had nothing to do with his changing his position on the war; that Nixon's "Southern Strategy" has been misunderstood, since he hardly even campaigned there; and that Wallace's appeal went far beyond the South and anticipated today's Republican populism. This eye-opening account of the political calculations and maneuvering that decided this fiercely fought election reshapes our understanding of a key moment in twentieth-century American history.
In this and every age, the church desperately needs prophecy. It needs the bold proclamation of God’s transforming vision to challenge its very human tendency toward expediency and self-interest — to jolt it into new insight and energy. For Luke Timothy Johnson, the New Testament books Luke and Acts provide that much-needed jolt to conventional norms. To read Luke-Acts as a literary unit, he says, is to uncover a startling prophetic vision of Jesus and the church — and an ongoing call for today’s church to embody and proclaim God’s vision for the world.
This Book, The Apprentice Boy Part II, is the continuation of The Apprentice Boy Part I. You probably have read The Apprentice Boy Part I. The Apprentice Boy is an African story of a Nigerian boy born in a poor family without any future. His father died after he fell from height, and there was no one to pay his schools fees. He loved to go to school, but his mother could not afford to send him to school. Eventually he managed to attain a high level of education through self-effort and hardwork. There were many obstacles on his way as he wrestled with life. The climax of his woes came when he was captured by some barbaric natives who needed human heads for a sacrificial burial for a dead King. While Part I of The apprentice Boy narrated the boys life from age 4 up to age 22, when he was captured by barbaric natives, Part II narrated what happened to the young man in his captivity. The book is rich with Nigerian (African) legend, idioms, and figurative speech. It is excellent for improving the knowledge of English language, especially for English learners. The Book is also excellent for English Literature text book in High Schools and Universities.
How do we learn? And how can we learn better? In this groundbreaking look at the science of learning, Sanjay Sarma, head of Open Learning at MIT, shows how we can harness this knowledge to discover our true potential. Drawing from his own experience as an educator as well as the work of researchers and innovators at MIT and beyond, in Grasp, Sarma explores the history of modern education, tracing the way in which traditional classroom methods—lecture, homework, test, repeat—became the norm and showing why things needs to change. The book takes readers across multiple frontiers, from fundamental neuroscience to cognitive psychology and beyond, as it considers the future of learning. It introduces scientists who study forgetting, exposing it not as a simple failure of memory but as a critical weapon in our learning arsenal. It examines the role curiosity plays in promoting a state of “readiness to learn” in the brain (and its troublesome twin, “unreadiness to learn”). And it reveals how such ideas are being put into practice in the real world, such as at unorthodox new programs like Ad Astra, located on the SpaceX campus. Along the way, Grasp debunks long-held views such as the noxious idea of “learning styles,” equipping readers with practical tools for absorbing and retaining information across a lifetime of learning.
With a war raging overseas, there was no way American Peter Morrison was just going to sit back and watch. He volunteers to join England’s Royal Air Force and prepares to fight Hitler and his German soldiers. But on his very first mission Peter is shot down and injured. He’s thankfully rescued but still frustrated by his turn of bad luck—although it could have been worse. Lexi Stuart-Crossman is an English air vice-marshal’s daughter and one of the most sought-after models in her country. When not hiding during air raids, she works at the local hospital until one day a bomb strikes. The roof collapses, and Lexi loses her sight. Despite this new handicap, she is a bright, shining star to those in need and a joy to her patients. Eventually Peter and Lexi’s paths cross, and they forge a heartfelt connection. War rages around them as they struggle to survive and plan a future together, however unlikely. It’s said this is “the war to end all wars,” but the battle has just begun for this pilot and his brave beauty as the world falls down around them. Yet, they remain standing on the strength of their love.
Nathan Raab, America’s preeminent rare documents dealer, delivers a “diverting account of treasure hunting in the fast lane” (The Wall Street Journal) that recounts his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts, questing after precious finds and determining their authenticity. A box uncovered in a Maine attic with twenty letters written by Alexander Hamilton; a handheld address to Congress by President George Washington; a long-lost Gold Medal that belonged to an American President; a note that Winston Churchill wrote to his captor when he was a young POW in South Africa; paperwork signed and filled out by Amelia Earhart when she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic; an American flag carried to the moon and back by Neil Armstrong; an unpublished letter written by Albert Einstein, discussing his theory of relativity. Each day, people from all over the world contact Nathan Raab for help understanding what they have, what it might be worth, and how to sell it. The Raab Collection’s president, Nathan is a modern-day treasure hunter and one of the world’s most prominent dealers of historical artifacts. Most weeks, he travels the country, scours auctions, or fields phone calls and emails from people who think they may have found something of note in a grandparent’s attic. In The Hunt for History, “Raab takes us on a wild hunt and deliciously opens up numerous hidden crevices of history” (Jay Winik, author of April 1865)—spotting a letter from British officials that secured the Rosetta Stone; discovering a piece of the first electric cable laid by Edison; restoring a fragmented letter from Andrew Jackson that led to the infamous Trail of Tears; and locating copies of missing audio that had been recorded on Air Force One as the plane brought JFK’s body back to Washington. Whether it’s the first report of Napoleon’s death or an unpublished letter penned by Albert Einstein to a curious soldier, every document and artifact Raab uncovers comes with a spellbinding story—and often offers new insights into a life we thought we knew.
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