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61. |  E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet By: Celia Romm Livermore Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2012 Insert Date: 23-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet Technological advancements have always influenced politics in society, but never in as strong and direct a manner as in the Internet Age.E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet: Power, Influence, and Social Change charts this influence and describes the unique effect electronic communication has on organizations, communities, nations, and cultures. This book presents the most current research on both the history of these powerful new tools and their preliminary impact both in across the world and in daily life. A thorough understanding of these technologies is necessary to...
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62. |  Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval By: Kenneth Feinberg Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 26-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 18-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: each was a disaster in its own right. What they had in common was their aftermath—each required compensation for lives lost, bodies maimed, livelihoods wrecked, economies and ecosystems upended. In each instance, an objective third party had to step up and dole out allocated funds: in each instance, Presidents, Attorneys General, and other public officials have asked Kenneth R. Feinberg to get the job done. In Who Gets What?, Feinberg reveals the...
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63. |  Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future By: Roy Williams; Michael Drew Publisher: Vanguard Press Publication Date: 02-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 18-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind.There is a pattern and it is 40 years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite. Pendulum explains where we have been as a society, how we got here, and where we...
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64. |  Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World By: Dambisa Moyo Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 05-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 18-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World
Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance—their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life—few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of impending doom--shortages of arable land, clashes over water, and political conflict as global demand for fossil fuels outstrips supply. The picture is bleak, but our grasp of the details and the macro shifts in commodities markets remain blurry.Winner...
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65. |  Virtual Work and Human Interaction Research By: Shawn Long Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2012 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Virtual Work and Human Interaction Research As organizations shift their work space from more traditional tethered locations to geographically dispersed spaces, virtual work is emerging as a critical feature of contemporary organizational life.Virtual Work and Human Interaction Research uses humanistic and social scientific inquiry from interdisciplinary and international perspectives to explore how individuals engage in the new virtual work paradigm. This book explores a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, boundary management in virtual work, shadowing virtual work practices, creative workers’ attitudes in virtual...
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66. |  Réinventer la banque de détail: Douze clés pour décrypter un métier en pleine mutation By: Philippe De Backer; Paul de Leusse; Nicolas Lioliakis Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 01-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Réinventer la banque de détail: Douze clés pour décrypter un métier en pleine mutation
Au-delà de l'analyse du tourbillon provoqué par la crise actuelle des subprimes, ce livre examine les tendances de fond que connaît le métier de banque de détail : internationalisation de l'activité, arrivée en force de nouvelles concurrences, fragmentation de son modèle... sans oublier les évolutions radicales dans le comportement des clients, mieux informés, plus exigeants, friands de technologie et de moins en moins confiants dans l'institution bancaire qui découvre à son tour le zapping consumériste.
Dans ce contexte, comment les banques de détail européennes peuvent-elles préserver...
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67. |  Environnement et Entreprises: En finir avec les discours By: Dominique Bourg; Alain Grandjean; Thierry Libaert Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 01-APR-2006 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Environnement et Entreprises: En finir avec les discours
Face à la dégradation de l'environnement, notamment le réchauffement climatique, les entreprises ne peuvent plus se contenter des comportements attentistes, sous peine de se condamner elles-mêmes à la décroissance.
Faisant état des données scientifiques les plus récentes, ce livre lance un cri d'alarme. Une seule illustration : les mécanismes économiques mis en place par la France pour atteindre les objectifs de Kyoto ne parviendront à réduire les émissions que de 10% alors qu'il faudrait les diviser par quatre. Soulignant l'usage trop communicationnel qui est fait du concept de...
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68. |  By: Dave Parks Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Health Care Reform Simplified: What Professionals in Medicine, Government, Insurance, and Business Need to Know describes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate and other key parts of the law—what must busy healthcare professionals, insurance industry professionals, business and HR managers, and policymakers do?
First, read this book. It translates the law's complex language into terms that are easy to understand, explaining what the new law does, when its provisions take effect, and how to implement it....
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69. |  The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups By: William Michael Cunningham Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 26-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups
On April 5, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, better known as the JOBS Act. The act is designed to "reopen American capital markets to small companies," defined in the act as Emerging Growth Companies. This is one of the most significant legislative initiatives in finance since the Securities and Exchange Acts of 1933 and 1934, and it opens up funding to a slew of companies previously shut out of the capital markets.
Here's the good news: Small businesses and startups will be able to raise up to $1 million in equity (or debt) funding online via...
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70. |  Why Good People Can't Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It By: Peter Cappelli Publisher: Wharton Digital Press Publication Date: 29-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 10-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Why Good People Can't Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It
Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right, prospective employees won’t accept jobs at the wages offered. In this powerful and fast-reading book, Peter Cappelli, Wharton management professor and director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, debunks the arguments and exposes the real reasons good...
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71. |  The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited By: Richard Florida Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 12-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 29-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited
Ten years ago, Richard Florida published a path-breaking book about the forces that were reshaping our economy, our geography, our work, and our whole way of life. Weaving story-telling with reams of original research, he traced a fundamental theme through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity. In the decade since, we have endured a series of world shattering events—from the collapse of the tech bubble to 9/11 to the economic meltdown of 2008—any one of which might have been sufficient to derail the forces he described Instead, the...
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72. |  Ne tirez pas sur les banquiers !: Mythes et réalités de la banque de détail By: Brice Welti Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 01-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 28-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ne tirez pas sur les banquiers !: Mythes et réalités de la banque de détail
« La crise, c'est la faute des banques ! »
« Les banques ne prêtent qu'aux riches. »
« Les banques ne pensent qu'à leur intérêt. »
La banque souffre en France d'une mauvaise image et l'incompréhension de ses mécanismes ne favorise pas l'indulgence à son égard, en partie parce que les informations à charge sont celles qui sont le plus diffusées.
Et pourtant, entre la tempête de la crise des subprimes et celle de la crise des dettes souveraines, les banques françaises, bien qu'ébranlées, restent debout. Et elles constituent l'un des secteurs les plus dynamiques de l'économie...
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73. |  The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940 By: I. Grattan-Guinness Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 06-NOV-2000 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940
While many books have been written about Bertrand Russell's philosophy and some on his logic, I. Grattan-Guinness has written the first comprehensive history of the mathematical background, content, and impact of the mathematical logic and philosophy of mathematics that Russell developed with A. N. Whitehead in their Principia mathematica (1910-1913). This definitive history of a critical period in mathematics includes detailed accounts of the two principal influences upon Russell around 1900: the set theory of Cantor and the mathematical logic of Peano and his followers. Substantial...
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74. |  Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future By: John MacCormick; Chris Bishop Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 27-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without even knowing it, we use public-key cryptography to transmit secret information like credit card numbers; and we use digital signatures to verify the identity of the websites we visit. How do our computers perform...
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75. |  Pourquoi l'Inde ?: Promesses et risques d'un géant émergent By: Michel Testard Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 01-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 04-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pourquoi l'Inde ?: Promesses et risques d'un géant émergent
Alors que l'Occident peine à sortir de la crise, l'Inde, après la Chine, confirme son rôle moteur d'une croissance mondiale fragilisée. Ce géant en marche, déjà premier centre mondial des services offshore, capable de créer la voiture la moins chère du monde, affirme sa présence sur tous les fronts : il produit des ingénieurs en masse, lance des satellites ou fabrique des supercalculateurs, tout en faisant irruption dans les biotechnologies et devenant centre de R&D pour plus d'une centaine de grandes entreprises. Tata, Mittal, Reliance, Infosys ou Airtel ne cessent de grandir et rachètent...
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76. |  L'entreprise verte: Le développement durable change l'entreprise pour changer le monde, 3e édition By: Elisabeth Laville Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 01-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 04-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: L'entreprise verte: Le développement durable change l'entreprise pour changer le monde, 3e édition
Quels sont les derniers efforts des entreprises en matière de développement durable, et comment savoir si on peut leur faire confiance ? Pollution, gaspillage des ressources naturelles de la planète, travail des enfants ou travail forcé, des lois permettent-elles aujourd'hui de juguler, voire d'interdire les abus de certaines sociétés ? Choisir un produit en fonction de son fabricant fait-il de nous des consommateurs responsables ? Est-il enfin réaliste pour une entreprise d'espérer pouvoir concilier respect de l'environnement, justice sociale et prospérité économique ?
En tant que...
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77. |  The Soros Lectures: At the Central European University By: George Soros Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 08-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 01-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Soros Lectures: At the Central European University
Five lectures George Soros recently delivered at the Central European University in Budapest - which he founded in 1991 - distill a lifetime of thinking on finance, capitalism and open society In a series of lectures delivered at the Central European University in October 2009, George Soros provided a broad overview of his thoughts on economics and politics. The lectures are the culmination of a lifetime of practical and philosophical reflection. In the first and second lecture, Soros discusses his general theory of reflexivity and its application to financial markets, providing insight...
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78. |  The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money By: J. Bradford DeLong; Stephen S. Cohen Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 15-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 29-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money
At the end of World War II, the United States had all the money—and all the power. Now, America finds itself cash poor, and to a great extent power follows money. In The End of Influence, renowned economic analysts Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong explore the grave consequences this loss will have for America’s place in the world. America, Cohen and DeLong argue, will no longer be the world’s hyperpower. It will no longer wield soft cultural power or dictate a monolithic foreign policy. More damaging, though, is the blow to the world’s ability to innovate economically,...
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79. |  The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East By: Kishore Mahbubani Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 07-APR-2009 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the center stage it occupied for eighteen centuries before the rise of the West. By 2050, three of the world’s largest economies will be Asian: China, India, and Japan. In The New Asian Hemisphere, Kishore Mahbubani argues that Western minds need to step outside their “comfort zone” and prepare new mental maps to understand the rise of Asia. The West, he says, must gracefully share power with Asia by giving...
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80. |  The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets By: Charles Morris Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 01-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets
Throughout the violent financial disruptions of the past several years, three men have stood out as beacons of judgment and wisdom: Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Paul Volcker. Though their experiences and styles vary—Buffett is the canny stock market investor; Soros is the reader of shifting global tides in trade and currencies; and Volcker is the regulator and governor, sheriff and clean-up crew—they have very much in common. All three men have more than fifty years of deep involvement in markets. All are skeptical of Wall Street frenzies. They believe that markets tend to be...
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