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In Wealth, Merrill Lynch and Capgemini present a readable guide on what drives the success of HNWIs, as well as the trends, growth, increased complexity and competitiveness of the global wealth management market, all based on over a decade of researc…

Настоящий том представляет читателю второе издание главного труда «отца» классической политической экономии Адама Смита – «Исследование о природе и причинах богатства народов» (1776). Первое издание, вышедшее в серии «Антологии экономической мысли» в…

Explore the complexity of teacher-student relationships in secondary school settings and learn how these largely unscripted relationships function for students and teachers in their learning and socioemotional development. For teachers, the relations…

A veteran hockey writer takes on hockey culture and the NHL–addressing the games most controversial issue Whether its on-ice fist fights or head shots into the glass, hockey has become a nightly news spectacle–with players pummeling and bashing each …

If you're seriously considering a career in private equity, you have to become familiar with how firms hire. With Getting a Job in Private Equity, you'll gain invaluable insights that will allow you to stay one step ahead of other individuals looking…

The only resource available to help calculate investment value versus fair market value Whether buying or selling, the question of «what's it worth?» is multifaceted. In an M&A setting, it is necessary to compute fair market value, but it is far more…

Whereas previous research concentrated on articulating what global strategies look like in large multinational companies with decades of experience in operations abroad, The Leap to Globalization focuses on how globalizing is realized over time in co…

If you're a Canadian investor who's feeling ripped off lately, you're not alone. Canadians pay the highest fees in the world when it comes to investments in RRSPs and other registered accounts. Is this just because Canadians are foolish, or is there …

Each year, more than a million Canadians, affectionately dubbed «Snowbirds,» migrate to southern climes to enjoy warm weather and sandy beaches. The strong Canadian dollar is making the trip more affordable and attractive than ever. But post-9/11, Ca…

You could think of Setting Up LAMP as four books in one, but it's actually something much more valuable: a single volume that presents the open-source technologies known collectively as LAMP—Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP—as tightly dovetailed compone…

Hands-On Math Projects with Real-Life Applications, Second Edition offers an exciting collection of 60 hands-on projects to help students in grades 6–12 apply math concepts and skills to solving everyday, real-life problems! The book is filled with c…

Shareholder control over large corporations is worryingly weak and the unrestrained hunt for profits is taking a toll on the environment and society. In Corpocracy, corporate lawyer, venture capitalist, and shareholder activist Robert Monks reveals h…

A trail of mismanaged or terminated projects in recent years has cost the North American economy $100 to $150 billion dollars annually in lost productivity and shareholders capital. Unfortunately, the gap between project selection and project executi…

New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the «whole game» David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He des…

This three-volume handbook contains a wealth of information on energy sources, energy generation and storage, fossil and renewable fuels as well as the associated processing technology. Fossil as well as renewable fuels, nuclear technology, power gen…

Expanding the learning day is gaining national momentum as an important school-improvement and whole-child development strategy. This issue focuses on school-community partnerships that provide a seamless, longer learning day that best meets the acad…

Dedicated to the hundreds of practitioners who work at international branch campuses (IBCs), this volume examines the unique challenges ICB professionals face in the leading edge of development in the global higher education sector and how they are u…

Янис Варуфакис (р. 1961) – профессор экономики в Афинском и Техасском университетах, консультант по рынку виртуальных товаров в компьютерных играх компании Valve, министр экономики Греции (27 января – 6 июля 2015 года). В этой небольшой книге, написа…

Книга выдающегося бразильского антрополога, профессора Национального музея Бразилии при Федеральном университете Рио-де-Жанейро, Эдуарду Вивейруша де Кастру (р. 1951) «Каннибальские метафизики. Рубежи постструктурной антропологии» посвящена актуальны…

Акула плавает лучше человека, гепард лучше бегает, стриж лучше его летает, а капуцин – лазает. Слон сильнее человека, а секвойя – долговечнее. Однако, напоминает автор книг “Эгоистичный ген” и “Бог как иллюзия” – у нас есть нечто гораздо более ценное…