Together with the development of transformative technologies that epitomize globalization, the ongoing movements of people across borders and other socio-economic pressures are creating a fast-changing business environment that is difficult for business to understand, let alone control. Dominant social expectations that immigrants should seek to adopt an assimilationist socialization path towards the host country’s mainstream are contradicted by minority ethnic group resilience. There is n...

Local government affects us all. Wherever we live, in towns, cities, villages, or the smallest of communities, there are locally elected councils tasked with representing people’s interests in the running of the local area. This involves, inter alia, providing public services, maintaining local spaces, and acting as a level of democratic governance within the broader constitutional and executive structure of the state. To fulfil these responsibilities, though, local government mus...

Cancer for Jokers is an irreverent account of dealing with a recent diagnosis of incurable metastatic prostate cancer. Philosophical musings on life, death, and even politics, are peppered throughout the book. Cites to some medical studies are also included within providing some educational value for the reader. It is a one of a kind work that will appeal to anyone coping with an incurable disease, or readers who find dark humor to be good medicine for whatever ails them.

A globalization process epitomised by historically large cross-border population movements with rapidly improving networking and communication technologies, has resulted in the growth of ethnic diversity across newly industrialised economies. Instead of adapting to a dominant, host country culture, many ethnic minorities seek to preserve their identities, both as diasporic communities and within their adopted countries. For marketers it has been recognised as crucial to understand the uniq...

Mrketing reversed prior business logic 50 years ago and said«the customer is king», and the companies began to recognizethat it was not just the product that was the most important aspect oftheir business. Companies recognized that consumers had a myriadof choices of product offerings and marketing was responsibleto ensure that the companys products had the benefits andattributes that customers wanted and were willing to pay for. Today,considering the technology development, which influen...

Novel Treatments of Strong Correlations, Volume 90 in the Advances in Quantum Chemistry series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Topics covered include Coupled Cluster, Stochastic CC, NOFT, Breaking the Symmetry Dilemma : Capturing Strong-Correlations by Restoration of Broken Symmetry Solutions, Flexible wavefunctions, Electronic Coupling to Optical Cavity Modes, Multireference Perturbat...

Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment is a how-to book designed for the marketing practitioner. It provides detailed information on how to prepare and implement a marketing plan based in a total quality environment.For the last twenty years, the authors, as marketing practitioners and educators, have been deeply involved in the planning processes of many corporations. This book, Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment, is the product of what they've learned over the y...

Go inside the high-stakes world of sports ownership as New York Times bestselling author and owner of the Baltimore Orioles David M. Rubenstein reveals the financial strategies, leadership secrets, and billion-dollar deal-making behind championship franchises through conversations with America's most powerful owners—Robert Kraft, Jeff Lurie, Tom Ricketts, and more.What does it really take to own a championship fran...

A love story thrilling that has began by means of modern technology and, through some coincidences amazing, thanks whom those two lovers will live even in the same house, it continues in an atmosphere of strictness and sobriety, only the surface, dominated by prejudices and interests petty. Betrayal and desire revenge, vices unknown for those two until then, they have occurred because of those around their and of the interest despicable. If lovers will be able to defeat evil and stupidity ...

Originally published in 1984, this book focuses, firstly, on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial perspective is of particular importance to the providers of health care – for example, chronic or particularly disabling illnesses. It demonstrates how essential it is to bring an interdisciplinary perspective from the s...

Daily Bread is the Bible reading guide that aims to help you hear from God as you read the Bible. If you've ever asked the question, 'What possible relevance can this verse have for me today?' or 'What difference does this passage make to my life?' then read on...

Western Australia, 1946: When teacher Noel White arrives at government-run Carrolup Native Settlement, he cannot communicate with the traumatised Aboriginal children, as they are so fearful. The children, forcibly removed from their families as part of government policy, live in squalor.Noel connects with the children through his empathy and unique education programme, and inspires them to create beautiful landscape drawings that gain widespread public recognition. The children als...