Subject(s): Creative ability in business -- Management | Entrepreneurship Summary: "As an employee, you suspect that your best ideas are valuable and could greatly benefit your organization. Management also recognizes that a company's ability to compete is contingent on how well it leverages its employees' ideas. So, why are individ

Subject(s): Language and languages -- Political aspects | Linguistic minorities | Ethnicity | Nationalism | Sociolinguistics | Language and education Summary: "The first edition of Language and Minority Rights, an outstanding interdisciplinary analysis of the questions and issues concerning minority language rights in modern nation-states,

Subject(s): Income distribution -- United States | Industries -- United States | Capitalism -- United States | Right and left (Political science) | United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century Summary: "People, regular people, many of whom have never shown a previous interest in economics are now eager to understand this economy. Th

Subject(s): Politics and war -- History -- Africa | International cooperation | Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- Summary: "After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main

Subject(s): Corporations -- Finance Summary: "The book is aimed at the relative newcomer to the subject in that it does not make many assumptions about the prior knowledge of the reader and does not develop the theoretical aspects beyond the level needed to provide the reader with the necessary understanding to apply the concepts in practic

Subject(s): Money laundering -- Prevention Summary: "A how-to guide for the discovery and prevention of the illegal transfer of money Written for the private sector--where most money laundering takes place--this book clearly explains shows business professionals how to deter, detect, and resolve financial fraud cases internally. It expertly

Subject(s): Education and state | Educational change Summary: The phenomenon of travelling reforms has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny. The fact that the same set of educational reforms is transferred from one country to another made scholars wonder whether policy transfer has increased as a resul

Subject(s): Eating disorders in children | Eating disorders in adolescence Summary: "Eating disorders typically first appear during childhood and adolescence. Despite this early age of onset, edited volumes on eating disorders have not focused on this age cohort. One of the primary purposes of this book is to redress this imbalance and targ

Subject(s): Credit derivatives | Portfolio management | Investment analysis Summary: "An innovative approach to post-crash credit portfolio management Credit portfolio managers traditionally rely on fundamental research for decisions on issuer selection and sector rotation. Quantitative researchers tend to use more mathematical techniques f

Subject(s): Rocks -- Fracture | Rock mechanics | Hydrogeology | Geology, Structural | Fluid mechanics Summary: "Rock fractures control many of Earth's dynamic processes, including plate-boundary development, tectonic earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and fluid transport in the crust. An understanding of rock fractures is also essential f