Author : Randall N. Bills
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451458728
As Princess Katrina and her brother vie for power in a civil war, Leftenant Colonel Grayson Addison and his Fusiliers sit in an island of calm, neither supporting nor opposing any side and walking a dangerous line between life and death. When an invading army lands upon them, it's time to choose sides.
Author : Igor Galynker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0197582710
The Suicidal Crisis has everything clinicians need to evaluate the risk of imminent suicide. What sets it apart is its clinical focus on those at the highest risk--the book includes individual case studies of acutely suicidal individuals, detailed instructions on how to conduct risk assessments, test cases with answer keys, and empirically validated Suicidal Crisis risk assessment scales.
Author : Grant Wonders
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9781452866338
The unsustainable debt levels of Greece are fast developing into a full-blown crisis. Even more strikingly, they have exposed merely the tip of the iceberg in the specter that now hangs over Europe. Inspired by his economics work at Harvard, Wonders brilliantly documents why the socio-economic realities are fast guiding the inexorable collapse of the Euro.
Author : Robert K. Critchley
Publisher : Thomson South-Western
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Age and employment
ISBN : 9780324223262
In the next 20 years, citizens over the age of 65 will outnumber children for the first time. America’s labor force is not only growing older, it’s also ushering in a whole new set of work force issues to tackle - including an impending labor shortage. By 2010 there will be 169 million jobs in the United States, but only 159 million workers to undertake them - a 10 million worker shortfall! Exhaustively researched, masterfully written, and extremely informative - this book candidly and comprehensively lays out the statistics of the graying labor pool, the implications for business organizations, and suggested solutions and strategies. It helps organizations plan and position for the changing labor market, offering strategies to help companies effectively compete for the best and the brightest of the shrinking labor pool. It also explores how to leverage the strengths of older workers, slowdown strategies, phased retirement, rehiring, and much more. It’s a must read for business owners, executives, HR professionals, consultants - any anyone responsible for staffing and business strategy.
Author : Sasha Chanoff
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1626564515
Making the Hardest Decisions As a young aid worker, Sasha Chanoff was sent to evacuate a group of refugees from the violence-torn Congo. But when he arrived he discovered a second group. Evacuating them too could endanger the entire mission. But leaving them behind would mean their certain death. All leaders face defining moments, when values are in conflict and decisions impact lives. Why is moral courage the essential factor at such times? How do we access our own rock-bottom values, and how can we take advantage of them to make the best decisions? Through Sasha's own extraordinary story and those of eight other brave leaders from business, government, nongovernment organizations, and the military, this book reveals five principles for confronting crucial decisions and inspires all of us to use our moral core as a lodestar for leadership.
Author : Sheila Newman
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2008-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Thoroughly revised and updated edition of this comprehensive survey of resource depletion.
Author : Dominic Barton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2002-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0471429732
A corporate guide to crisis management in volatile financial markets Current financial crises in Argentina, Japan, and Turkey are being played out on the front pages of newspapers, and these are just the most recent financial crises that have rolled across the globe in the last decade and whose far-reaching impact hurts business around the world. Dangerous Markets: Managing in Financial Crises recognizes that no global corporation or financial institution can afford to ignore the potential of a financial storm and will help top management and financial professionals navigate through this often disastrous maze. While many books discuss financial crises and their ramifications, none has presented an action plan for managing these storms—until now. Dangerous Markets: Managing in Financial Crises presents a method that allows executives and financial professionals to recognize the warning signs of a financial crisis and act appropriately before the situation spirals out of control. Based on years of research and practice in cleaning up the mess, McKinsey consultants Barton, Newell, and Wilson reveal the warning signs of potential financial catastrophes and provide unique principles that can be followed to shape and manage a strategy for survival.
Author : Colin John Campbell
Publisher : multi-science publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780906522394
"Colin Campbell is renowned for his lucid earlier work, 'The coming oil crisis'. Eight years on, events have proved his analysis right. Now, he argues that the oil crisis has come. The familiar technical explanation of the crisis is carefully made again : essentially, that there is no more oil to be found. That fact is beginning to manifest itself in heightened competition for the remaining resource ; which is why America invaded Iraq ; why Central Asia is in turmoil ; why oil is persistently priced above $50/barrel (and why Goldman Sachs think $100 a barrel is not too unlikely in the near future). The problem - of an oil-less world - is beyond the grasp of politicians. They can fiddle with ideas about renewables or hydrogen but they, along with most of humanity, have not really grasped that it is the oil economy that enables about a 7 billion world population to be sustained. A wholly new world is imminent. It is not likely to be very pleasant. Dr Campbell outlines our grim future." -- book cover.
Author : Jeroen Dijsselbloem
Publisher : Prometheus
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9044640054
A lot has already been said and written about the euro crisis: about the causes and consequences of the collapsing economy, the costly rescue of banks, the rising debts, the predicted end of the euro, the imminent exit of Greece, the ongoing search for the guilty parties, the disagreement about solutions, and the big consequences for people across the eurozone. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup, was present at all meetings and sometimes spent nights searching for solutions. In this special book he takes us into the honest, not yet told story behind the euro crisis. Where did it really go wrong? How has the crisis finally been stopped? And how to proceed in the future of the euro zone? The Eurocrisis is the highly personal book of former Eurogroup chairman Dijsselbloem, in which he, as an insider, describes how a continent balanced on the edge of the abyss for years, and how it was ultimately saved. Jeroen Dijsselbloem (1966) is a Dutch politician. From 2012 to 2017 he was Minister of Finance in the Netherlands. From 2013 to January 2018 he was also chairman of the Eurogroup.
Author : Alexander Larman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250274850
The thrilling and definitive account of the Abdication Crisis of 1936 On December 10, 1936, King Edward VIII brought a great international drama to a close when he abdicated, renouncing the throne of the United Kingdom for himself and his heirs. The reason he gave when addressing his subjects was that he could not fulfill his duties without the woman he loved—the notorious American divorcee Wallis Simpson—by his side. His actions scandalized the establishment, who were desperate to avoid an international embarrassment at a time when war seemed imminent. That the King was rumored to have Nazi sympathies only strengthened their determination that he should be forced off the throne, by any means necessary. Alexander Larman’s The Crown in Crisis will treat readers to a new, thrilling view of this legendary story. Informed by revelatory archival material never-before-seen, as well as by interviews with many of Edward’s and Wallis’s close friends, Larman creates an hour-by-hour, day-by-day suspenseful narrative that brings readers up to the point where the microphone is turned on and the king speaks to his subjects. As well as focusing on King Edward and Mrs. Simpson, Larman looks closely at the roles played by those that stood against him: Prime minister Stanley Baldwin, his private secretary Alec Hardinge, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang. Larman also takes the full measure of those who supported him: the great politician Winston Churchill, Machiavellian newspaper owner Lord Beaverbrook, and the brilliant lawyer Walter Monckton. For the first time in a book about the abdication, readers will read an in-depth account of the assassination attempt on Edward’s life and its consequences, a first-person chronicle of Wallis Simpson’s scandalous divorce proceedings, information from the Royal Archives about the government’s worries about Edward’s relationship with Nazi high-command Ribbentrop and a boots-on-the-ground view of how the British people saw Edward as they watched the drama unfold. You won’t be able to put down The Crown in Crisis, a full panorama of the people and the times surrounding Edward and the woman he loved.
