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1. |  Greening the Data Center: A Pocket Guide By: George Spafford Publisher: IT Governance Ltd Publication Date: 02-APR-2009 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Greening the Data Center: A Pocket Guide
Save the planet, and save money too!
The information economy depends on the old energy economy. Without the electricity that powers computer and communications systems, no IT business could function. Moreover, computers use a lot of electricity. Much of the world's electricity is generated in coal- or gas-fired power stations. So the more electricity computers use, the bigger their carbon footprint.
Forward planning
Information is vital to how you understand your customers and increase your sales. Almost certainly, this information will be stored and updated...
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2. |  By: Simon Pont Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital State What is the Digital State? What is our Digital State of Mind?
What does this Digital State mean for brands and for businesses?
Big data, new distribution platforms, content collaboration, geo-targeting, crowdsourcing, viral marketing, mobile apps - the technological revolution has transformed the way society communicates and understands itself, and unleashed a whirlwind of new possibilities for marketers, as well as new risks.
Mirroring the 'collaborative play space' Tim Berners-Lee first envisaged for the internet, Digital State brings together Simon Pont and 13 thought-leaders drawn from...
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3. |  Health Care in the United States: Organization, Management, and Policy Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 12-APR-2010 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Health Care in the United States: Organization, Management, and Policy
Health Care in the United States combines an explanation of population health with a comprehensive introduction to health services delivery. The author, an expert on health care policy and management, shows how the U.S. health services system is organized, managed, financed, and evaluated. Filled with numerous examples and tables, this important resource illustrates key concepts, trends, and features of the system. It places special emphasis on recent health care reform legislation and its implications for the future.
Health Care in the United States reviews the historical origins of...
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4. |  Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management: Techniques and Applications, 2nd Edition By: Yasar A. Ozcan, PhD Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 18-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management: Techniques and Applications, 2nd Edition
Thoroughly revised and updated for Excel®, this second edition of Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management offers a comprehensive introduction to quantitative methods and techniques for the student or new administrator. Its broad range of practical methods and analysis spans operational, tactical, and strategic decisions. Users will find techniques for forecasting, decision-making, facility location, facility layout, reengineering, staffing, scheduling, productivity, resource allocation, supply chain and inventory management, quality control, project management, queuing models for...
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5. |  By: Beth L. Leech Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 24-APR-2013 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lobbyists at Work
"Lobbyists at Work is a must-read for anyone interested in the serious business of government. Leech's probing questions reflect her years of research tracking the real impact of money and influence on policy." —Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (Chairman, Patton Boggs LLP)
Received wisdom has it that lobbyists run the American government on behalf of moneyed interests. But what makes lobbyists run, and how do they induce legislators and bureaucrats to do their bidding? These are questions for which even the harshest critics lack satisfying answers. Lobbyists at Work explores what lobbyists really...
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6. |  By: Jeremy Kourdi Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Answers: North Korea
How do you solve a problem like North Korea? Much has been written about the deaths of North Korea's first two leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, and the implications for the country and its people, but what about the future? Is the Korean peninsula doomed to an unstable, insecure future, or does a brighter future lie ahead? Above all, how is North Korea doing and what will be the fate of its people in the future? This matters, because instability in a region with traditional enmities, unresolved conflicts and nuclear weapons clearly has the potential for disaster. In this book, North...
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7. |  By: Jeremy Kourdi Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Answers: Terrorism
What is the answer to global terrorism? The fundamental point about terrorism is present in its very name: it is violence designed to achieve political gain by spreading terror. Terrorism is essentially asymmetric and works by cowing people into submission. Which is precisely why it can be answered; after all, who wants to be bullied in to submission? In fact, the fight against terror does not only take place in the dusty hills of Afghanistan, Africa or Asia: it takes place in our own minds.In this book, world expert Paul Wilkinson answers several frequently asked questions about...
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8. |  Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - For Lack of Leadership, Airlines are Flying Blind By: Craig Chappelow Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2004 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - For Lack of Leadership, Airlines are Flying Blind
The leaders who make up the current group of airline CEOs have their work cut out. They inherited bloated businesses offering a commodity product in a service industry, yet they seem to have completely lost touch with customer service.
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9. |  By: Kevin Wilhelm; Bob Willard Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 23-APR-2013 Insert Date: 25-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | This book highlights the risk of inaction
for businesses when it comes to climate change, but also contains
best practices to allow them to capitalize on the numerous business
opportunities that climate change presents, including increased
profitability, enhanced brand value, and improved shareholder
relations. The first section contains practical actions and
real-world case studies of companies, such as Yakima, Sun
Microsystems, and Lockheed Martin, that have successfully improved
their climate performances, enhanced brand value, and increased
profitability at the same time. The second and...
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10. |  The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America By: David Stockman Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 17-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. In The Great Deformation Stockman describes how the working of free markets and democracy has long been under threat in America, and provides a nonpartisan, surprising catalog of the corrupters and defenders. His analysis overturns the assumptions of Keynesians and monetarists alike, showing how both “liberal” and “neo-conservative” interference in markets has proved damaging and often...
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11. |  By: Joseph Nye Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 11-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 17-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Future of Power
Power evolves. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, unsurpassed in military strength and ownership of world resources, the United States was indisputably the most powerful nation in the world. But the global information age is rendering these traditional markers of power obsolete. To remain at the pinnacle of world power, the United States must adopt a strategy that considers the impact of the internet on global power resources. The Future of Power examines what it means to be powerful in the twenty-first century and illuminates the road ahead.
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12. |  The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis By: Steven Harper Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 02-APR-2013 Insert Date: 13-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis
Forty-five thousand law students graduate each year with an average of more than $100,000 in debt. Upon graduation, only half will find jobs requiring a legal degree. Those lucky enough to land a job with a firm will find that an obsession with misguided short-term metrics has transformed a once-noble profession into just another business. They and their colleagues will face high rates of depression, and the majority will counsel their own protégés to choose a different career path. In The Lawyer Bubble, lawyer and law professor Steven J. Harper investigates how the legal profession...
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13. |  By: Moisés Naím Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 05-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 13-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Power is shifting—from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose. As a result, argues award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím, all leaders have less power than their predecessors, and the potential for upheaval is unprecedented. In The End of Power, Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor....
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14. |  Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth By: Peter Blair Henry Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 12-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 13-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth
Thirty years ago, China seemed hopelessly mired in poverty, Mexico triggered the Third World Debt Crisis, and Brazil suffered under hyperinflation. Since then, these and other developing countries have turned themselves around, while First World nations, battered by crises, depend more than ever on sustained growth in emerging markets. In Turnaround , economist Peter Blair Henry argues that the secret to emerging countries’ success (and ours) is discipline—sustained commitment to a pragmatic growth strategy. With the global economy teetering on the brink, the stakes are higher than...
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15. |  L'essentiel des marchés financiers By: Éric Chardoillet; Marc Salvat; Henri Tournyol du Clos Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: L'essentiel des marchés financiers
PrésentationLes années 2008-2009 ont montré le rôle crucial des marchés financiers dans la diffusion des crises dans l'économie réelle ainsi que la complexité croissante des opérations financières. L'essentiel des marchés financiers présente de façon claire et synthétique :la naissance et le développement des marchés ;les produits négociés ;les motivations et les contraintes des différents intervenants ;les processus et traitements administratifs des opérations ;les mécanismes de suivi des risques ;les outils mathématiques de valorisation.Complet et précis, illustré de nombreux exemples,...
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16. |  Kerviel : enquête sur un séisme financier By: Olivia Dufour Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 31-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Kerviel : enquête sur un séisme financier
PrésentationOn l'accuse d'avoir battu le record de la perte de trading, 4,9 milliards, et mené sa banque au bord de la faillite. Pourtant, Jérôme Kerviel l'avoue lui-même "je suis Monsieur Personne". Mais alors, comment un garçon ordinaire a-t-il pu déclencher un tel séisme ?Le récit de cette affaire hors normes, depuis l'embauche du trader jusqu'à sa condamnation, démonte les ressorts secrets du drame. Surtout, il met en lumière un nouveau risque de société : nos systèmes ultrasophistiqués sont en réalité à la merci du moindre grain de sable.Fruit de deux années d'enquête, cet ouvrage...
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17. |  By: Evariste Lefeuvre Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 13-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sortir de l'Euro ?
PrésentationZone euro, l'épreuve du feuL'euro est mort ! L'euro doit disparaître ! C'est la faute de l'euro ! A l'heure où l'Europe économique vacille, la monnaie unique est la cible de toutes les attaques. La situation est suffisamment grave pour appeler une analyse approfondie et dépassionnée. En faisant le point sur les concepts économiques, les intérêts politiques et les enjeux constitutionnels qui ont fait l'euro, ce livre donne les clés pour comprendre la crise actuelle. Il décrit les insuffisances initiales, les trajectoires divergentes et les discours populistes qui nous ont menés...
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18. |  By: Le cercle Turgot; Jean-Louis Chambon Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: La Chinamérique
PrésentationRegards croisés sur le nouvel ordre mondial"Les relations entre la Chine et les États-Unis vont façonner le XXIe siècle" : par cette déclaration, Barack Obama annonçait-il un "pacte faustien", prix à payer pour sortir de la grande crise mondiale ?"La décennie qui vient de s'achever a mis au jour les liens puissants et apparemment contre-nature qu'ont tissé ces deux pays dans les domaines économiques, financiers et monétaires, créant de facto une forme de solidarité et d'interdépendance sans précédent. Etats-Unis et Chine sont-ils en passe, en vertu d'un principe de réalité, de...
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19. |  On entend dire que... Il faut une révolution fiscale By: Alain Trannoy Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 13-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: On entend dire que... Il faut une révolution fiscale
PrésentationA droite comme à gauche, on veut non seulement augmenter les impôts mais changer la fiscalité pour sortir de la crise. En effet, la France peut difficilement échapper à une hausse globale des impôts pour résorber déficit et dette. Raison de plus pour s'inquiéter de l'équité et de l'efficacité du système fiscal.Equité parce que les Français accepteront difficilement de payer s'ils ont le sentiment que le système est injuste. Efficacité parce qu'un mauvais système fiscal peut avoir des effets négatifs sur la croissance, l'emploi et la compétitivité internationale.Il faut non...
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20. |  By: Sébastien Boyé; Jérémy Hajdenberg; Christine Poursat; David Munnich; Alix Pinel Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Le guide de la microfinance
Présentation"Ces praticiens de la microfinance dressent un panorama détaillé des initiatives permettant aux plus pauvres d'accéder au crédit et aux services financiers et analysent leur fonctionnement et leur évolution."
Le Monde de l'ÉconomieAujourd'hui, plus de 150 millions de personnes dans le monde bénéficient de services de microfinance. Pour ces familles et ces très petites entreprises, exclues des banques classiques, pouvoir épargner ou emprunter, c'est avoir les moyens de développer des activités autonomes et d'échapper à la pauvreté. Depuis plus de 30 ans, de nombreuses...
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