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The Inventive Schoolmaster: Simón Rodríguez
"A constant belief seems to give life to Kohan's theoretical work and philosophical practice. A supposition that one could never prove, or disprove, motivates Kohan's ceaseless erring and essaying, his efforts to invent school. We read it in-between the lines of nearly all of his published work, and those who have had the chance to take part in his manner of philosophical askēsis feel it in hi…
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- 978-9462099067
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- The Inventive Schoolmaster
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The Introverted Presenter: Ten Steps for Preparing and Delivering Successful …
The introvert is a personality type that draws energy from the outside inward. According to standard personality testing assessments, most people are introverts and no group is more introverted than technical professionals. Introverts are congenitally programmed to recoil from the prospect of public speaking with fear and loathing, yet making presentations to expert and non-expert audiences i…
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- 978-1484210895
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- 113 pages
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- The Introverted Presenter
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The Internationalization of German Software-based Companies
This book takes an in-depth look at the software industry as a major factor in future global economic performance. It explores how software-based companies are a significant factor behind economic growth and serve as important bridge builders between industries. Countries with a weak and underdeveloped software industry risk being left behind in the 21st century. The book examines the case o…
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- 978-3-319-13548-9
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- VIII, 82, 13 b/w illustrations
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- Progress in IS
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The International Handbook of Shipping Finance
Edited by two leading academics in this area, and with contributions from 25 prominent market practitioners and academics over 16 chapters, this Handbook covers shipping finance and banking, maritime financial management and investments. As such, it includes: shipping markets; asset backed finance; shipbuilding finance; debt finance; public and private equity and debt markets; structured financ…
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- 978-1-137-46546-7
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- XLII, 430, 20 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
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- The International Handbook of Shipping Finance
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The Influence of Blockholders on Agency Costs and Firm Value
Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and effect of shareholder engagement with due regard to the specifics of the German institutional environm…
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- 978-3-658-11402-2
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- XXXVI, 462,
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- Auditing and Accounting Studies
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The Relevance of Academic Work in Comparative Perspective
This book is the first of two volumes that look at the changed landscape of higher education and the academic profession. This volume focuses on academic work, examining the significant changes that have taken place in the backgrounds, specialisations, expectations and work roles of academic staff. The academic profession is ageing, and becoming increasingly insecure, more accountable, more int…
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- 978-3-319-11767-6
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- X, 252
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- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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The Public Economy in Crisis
This Brief proposes a new theory of public economics which deemphasizes reliance on the free market and affirms the importance of public goods and services within the context of the democratic process and constitutional governance. Public non-market production makes up from a quarter to more than half of all economic activity in advanced democratic nation-states. Yet by imposing market precepts…
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- 978-3-319-40487-5
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- XV, 128
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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The Inexorable Evolution of Financialisation: Financial Crises in Emerging Ma…
Since the 2007 financial crisis, discussion on issues related to the size, spread and frequency of financial crises has captivated a wide variety of audiences. Why has the world economy experienced such a marked increase in financial transactions and private and public indebtedness since the 1980s? How have middle-income developing countries suddenly become a part of this dynamic? And, most imp…
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- 978-1137553638
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- 2635 KB
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- The Inexorable Evolution of Financialisation: Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
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The Impact of eConveyancing on Title Registration
This work is an assessment of how to manage risk in property transactions in the context of the move from paper-based to electronic conveyancing (eConveyancing). In particular the focus is on risks that impact on title registration, and the security, protection or lack thereof that this registration offers to land owners, third parties and property claimants. The impact is the extent to which a…
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- 978-3-319-10341-9
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- XV, 316, 7 illustrations in colour
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- The Impact of eConveyancing on Title Registration
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The Impact of Mobile Phones on Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries
This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries. To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual utilization of mobile phones as a means of communication and the degree to which they have supplanted…
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- 978-3-319-27368-6
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- VIII, 93, 4 illustrations in colour
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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