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Understanding and Preventing Sexual Harassment: The Complete Guide
Peter Md Rutter
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Release Date: 1997-02-03 |
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Sexual harassment is headline news, whether it occurs in the halls of Congress, the top management of corporations, the corridors of the workplace, or the campuses of universities. Yet while most people are aware it is now illegal, exactly what constitutes sexual harassment is less than clear, and the subject leaves women and men everywhere anxious, uncomfortable, and perplexed. Why this is so, and what can be done about preventing or dealing with harassing behavior, is the heart of this insightful and practical book.
This is new territory. Sexual politics boundaries, and laws are changing so rapidly that the status quo can no longer be relied upon in relations between the sexes. How do we determine what is and isn't acceptable behavior when the rules keep changing?
As a psychiatrist with professional expertise in sexual and boundary issues, Peter Rutter, M.D., draws on actual incidents, in-depth research, and legal decisions to answer questions like these. He examines the biological, psychological, and cultural underpinnings of the differences between the sexes; analyzes myths and realities about sex and sexuality in the context of daily life; and lays out the new sexual boundaries and laws on harassment, in the workplace and away from it, as they affect co-workers, supervisors and staffers, teachers and students, professionals and clients.
Women and men will find concrete advice on the complexities of managing relationships, identifying behaviors that infringe on boundaries, taking preventive measures to forestall them, and following specific steps to deal with harassment if it occurs--from giving notice to the harasser that the attention is unwelcome to the ultimate step of filing a complaint and/or a lawsuit. The good news is that most potential harassers are willing and interested in changing their behavior if given clear guidelines about what is unwanted. Understanding and Preventing Sexual Harassment not only demonstrates how to prevent and deal with the problem, it shows that the new rules and changed practices can actually make the workplace a site for forging fresh and rewarding relationships between men and women.
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Terrific Book!.......1999-01-28
This is an excellent book for every working man and woman. Despite the dry title, it is easy to read and incredibly insightful. I found it useful for understanding my own behavior as well as others. I've recommended it to men and women; they all say it should be required reading at every company! As an attorney, sexual harassment trainer and author, I deeply respect Rutter's work.
Terrific Book!.......1999-01-28
This is an excellent book for every working man and woman. Despite the dry title, it is easy to read and incredibly insightful. I found it useful for understanding my own behavior as well as others. I've recommended it to men and women; they all say it should be required reading at every company! As an attorney, sexual harassment trainer and author, I deeply respect Rutter's work.
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Convert theory into solutions
Applied Corporate Finance, Second Edition converts the theory and models in corporate finance into tools that can be used to analyze, understand, and help any business. With this hands-on guide, you can find real solutions to real corporate finance problems, using real-time data.
Offering a user perspective to corporate finance, this text poses three major questions that every business has to answer, and provides the tools and the analytical techniques needed to answer these questions.
1. Where do we invest our resources? (The Investment Decision)
The first part of the book shows how to assess risk and develop a risk profile for a firm, and convert this risk profile into a hurdle rate. You'll also learn basic rules for estimating the returns on any investment.
2. How should we fund these investments? (The Financing Decision)
Firms generally can use debt, equity, or some combination of the two to fund projects. This part of the book examines the relationship between this choice and the hurdle rate for analyzing projects, and shows how to use the financing decision to maximize firm value. You'll also find a framework for picking the right kind of security for any firm.
3. How much cash can and should we return to the owners? (The Dividend Decision)
The third part of the book establishes a process for deciding how much cash should be taken out of the business and in what form (dividends or stock buybacks).
The final chapter in the book ties the value of the firm to these three decisions, and provides insight into how firms can enhance value.
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Didactic manual.......2007-09-12
From my point of view the financial knowlagde this book transfer is very well organised. The grafics and figures help a lot. The secuence of chapters has been articstically estructured.
The simplicity of the appendixes is very helpful for non-specialist to have an aproximation to corporate finances.
Like Tina Turner once said, "Simply the Best".......2004-10-03
This book is just plain great from top to bottom. Damodaran makes it easy to get both the "bird's eye view" as well as the nitty gritty detail you want in a corporate finance text. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for something beyond an elementary understanding of finance.
Awesome.......2002-12-15
Its easily the best book on corporate finance (yeah! I have read brearley and myers, benninga, ...).
Highly recommended. If you want to MASTER corporate finance. simply buy and read the book. The case studies and excel spreadsheets are very good. Another recommendation for a good financial analysis book is the book by eric helfert - financial analysis. Both books teach finance in common speak which goes a long way in understanding this topic for a new student.
An indispensable guide.......2002-10-21
This book is one of my best investments I have ever made. It is perfectly suited for 1st year MBA students with no prior exposure to finance. The first principles chart appearing at the beginning of each chapter always drags the students to the basics of why we are doing things. Prof Damodaran seems to be an excellent teacher and makes corporate finance a fun subject. The support web site has wealth of information and most importantly solutions to problems(I have never understood why many books hardly bother to give answers to problems)are given. Don't do a corporate finance course without this book.
Great potential. Next edition should be a blockbuster........2000-10-24
The text gets 5 stars for the orientation, organization, and the on-line resources for the text. It describes exactly what you would want in an Applied Corporate Finance course. Unfortunately, I have to deduct 3 stars because the text contains too many typos and smple calculations which I specifically want my students not to make. This has been frustrating for my students, as well as myself. However, I am confident that when this problem is cleaned up, the book will be among the best Applied Corporate Finance text in the market. I strongly recommend a new, corrected edition.
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Applied Corporate Finance - A Users Manual Instructors Lecture Guide with Powerpoint Presentations Im
Aswath Damodaran
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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ASIN: 0471299162 |
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Applied Corporate Finance - A User's Manual Sol (Paper Only)
Damodaran
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ASIN: 0471314161 |
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WIE ISV Applied Corporate Finance: A User's Manual, Second Edition, International Student Version
Aswath Damodaran
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ASIN: 0471742708 |
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After your casebook, "Casenotes" will be your most important reference source for the entire semester. It is the most popular legal briefs series available, with over 140 titles, and is relied on by thousands of students for its expert case summaries, comprehensive analysis of concurrences and dissents, as well as of the majority opinion in the briefs.
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Mechanics of Residual Soils
G.e. Blight
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Tropical Residual Soils (Professional Handbook Series)
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Tropical residual soils differ from transported soils which are principally derived from coastal, fluvial, wind blown or glacial processes. In the tropics, residual soils probably form that largest group with which the engineer has to deal. Being formed in situ these soils have particular characteristics that distinguish them from material deposited from transported soils.
The aim of the original Working Party Report, published in 1990, was to establish a resonably comprehensive guide to the engineering classification and characteristics of tropical residual soils. The Working Party comprised academics, researchers, contractors and consultants known to have been particularly concerned with tropical residual soils. This edition makes the report available in book form for the first time. The opportunity has been taken to revise every chapter in the light of progress in scientific and engineering knowledge since 1990. Chapter 2 has particularly benefited from pedological advances and Chapter 4 from practical advances in engeering geology fieldwork. An index is also included.
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Tropical Residual Soils Engineering
Bujang B.K. Huat ,
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Faisal Haji Ali
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Residual soils are found in many parts of the world. They are formed when rock weathering is faster than transport processes by water, gravity and wind. As an effect, much of the soils formed remain at the place of formation and many of the characteristics of the parent rock are retained. In tropical regions, residual soil layers can be very thick, sometimes extending for hundreds of meters before reaching un-weathered rock. Tropical Residual Soils Engineering forms a unique work with regard to other books on soil mechanics and soil engineering as it is entirely devoted to soils in tropical areas. Subjects treated are the origin, testing, and properties of tropical residual soils; application and stabilization of tropical residual soils; slope, slope assessment, and stabilization; development guidelines; and geoenvironmental aspects and development of a spatial database. The technical content is illustrated by a case study. Tropical Residual Soils Engineering is authored by experts that have gained extensive experience with this type of soil. This state-of-the art matter is intended for graduate students, researchers and professionals in soil & rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering working in tropical regions.
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Behavioral Characteristics of Residual Soils: Proceedings of Sessions of Geo-Congress 99, October 17-20, 1999 (Geotechnical Special Publication)
N. C.) Geo-Congress 9 (1999 Charlotte
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ASIN: 0784404542 |
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