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Anything to Declare?: The Searching Tales of an HM Customs Officer
by Jon FrostIn more than twenty years, Jon Frost has worked with the mad, the bad, the brave, the stupid, the spectacular and the heroic. In his time as a uniformed officer Jon seized presidential aircraft, a working tank, cars, lorries, boats and coffins; and uncovered wild animals, killer snakes, bush meat, animal porn, poisonous vodka, dodgy medicine, bootleg prescriptions, pirated pills, toxic alcohol, firearms, side-arms, swords, explosives, stolen gold, dirty money, blood diamonds, child pornography and every drug known to man and a few as yet unknown ones. And the dead? He searched them too.When you’ve confiscated everything from a suitcase full human hair to a live monkey hidden in the lining of someone’s overcoat, you know you can never return to a normal line of work.But then Jon went into undercover customs work, and things became really interesting . . .
Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance
by Teresa Wedding Kloster Wendy Sherwin SwireTransform Your Workplace with Anytime CoachingThe Practical Leader series offers a roadmap for individuals striving to achieve leadership effectiveness within the context of today's complex world. Each book explores a different essential element of successful leadership, providing readers with insightful, real-world perspectives, as well as practical tools and techniques, to help them maximize their potential—-personally and professionally.Real-life stories, practical tips and techniques, and the Anytime Coaching model equip managers with a set of coaching tools they can use immediately to transform the way they work with employees and colleagues. This second edition describes how recent findings in neuroscience support the effectiveness of Anytime Coaching practices. You will also discover how the practice of mindfulness can enhance your ability to observe yourself and others. Practical tools and exercises to help you be more present, aware, and focused in day-to-day interactions are included.Whether you lead a cross-functional team on a short-term project or formally manage large groups of people on a daily basis, Anytime Coaching will help you improve performance and achieve results.
Anytime Playdate
by Dade HayesIn this eye-opening book, the first to investigate the explosion of the multibillion-dollar preschool entertainment business and its effects on families, Dade Hayes -- an entertainment expert, author, and concerned father -- lifts the veil on the closely guarded process of marketing to the ultra-young and their parents. Like many parents, Dade Hayes grabbed "me time" by plopping his daughter in front of the TV, relaxing while Margot delighted in the sights and sounds of Barney and the Teletubbies. But when Margot got hooked, screaming whenever the TV was turned off, Hayes set out to explore the vast universe of this industry in which preschoolers devour $21 billion worth of entertainment. Going behind the scenes to talk with executives, writers, and marketers who see the value of educational TV, Hayes finds compelling research that watching TV may raise IQs and increase vocabularies. On the other side, he brings in the voices of pediatricians and child psychologists who warn against "babysitter TV" and ask whether "TV trance" is healthy -- in spite of the relaxation that the lull affords exhausted parents -- as recent studies link early television viewing with obesity, attention and cognitive problems, and violence. Along the way, Hayes narrates the fascinating evolution of Nickelodeon's bilingual preschool gamble, Ni Hao, Kai-lan, from an art student's Internet doodles to its final product: an educationally fortified, Dora-inflected, test audience-approved television show. At the show's debut, jittery experts hold their breath as the tweaked and researched Kai-lan faces Mr. Potato Head in the battle for a three-year-old's attention. Anytime Playdate reveals the marketing science of capturing a toddler's attention, examining whether Baby Einstein and its ilk will make babies smarter, or if, conversely, television makes babies passive and uncritical, their imaginations colonized by marketing schemes before they even speak. It tells us why the raucous Dora the Explorer has usurped Blues Clues for preschool primacy, why the Brit hit In the Night Garden won't follow Teletubbies into American tot stardom, and why the comparatively quiet and wholesome Sesame Street has reigned for decades. Hayes vividly portrays the educators, psychologists, executives, parents, and, lest we forget, kids who have shaped the history of children's television, uncovering the tensions between the many personalities, the creative foment that combines story, music, and message in this medium to produce today's almost dizzying array of products and choices. In the end, Hayes gives readers a provocative but balanced portrait of an age in technological transition, and shows that what's at stake in the "Rattle Battle" is nothing less than the character of the next generation.
Anzeigepflichten für Steuergestaltungen in Deutschland: Verfassungs- und europarechtliche Grenzen sowie Überlegungen zur Ausgestaltung (MPI Studies in Tax Law and Public Finance #7)
by Caroline Heber Christine Osterloh-Konrad Tobias BeuchertDas Buch befasst sich mit den verfassungs- und europarechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen einer Anzeigepflicht für Steuergestaltungen sowie mit ihrer möglichen Ausgestaltung in Deutschland, wobei auch auf Erfahrungen anderer Länder zurückgegriffen wird. Die Anzeigepflicht soll dazu dienen, Gesetzgeber und Verwaltung frühzeitig über Steuervermeidungsstrategien zu informieren, um ihnen eine zeitnahe Reaktion zu ermöglichen (rechtspolitische Zielsetzung). Ein Fokus der europarechtlichen Analyse liegt auf der Bewertung einer Anzeigepflicht für internationale Steuergestaltungen. Im Verfassungsrecht steht neben Bestimmtheits- und Rückwirkungsverbot die Berufsfreiheit der Betroffenen im Vordergrund. Die rechtspolitische Zielsetzung legt einen Zuschnitt der Anzeigepflicht auf modellhafte Gestaltungen nahe; eine Erweiterung auf innovative Gestaltungen erscheint denkbar. Das Buch schließt mit kritischen rechtspolitischen Überlegungen zur Anzeigepflicht im Rahmen eines fairen Steuersystems.
Análise Estratégica de Negócios
by Hiriyappa BA análise estratégica de negócios é uma leitura vital para CEOs e executivos experientes, chefes de estratégia, empreendedores e futuros empreendedores, investidores - especialmente gerentes de desenvolvimento de negócios corporativos - e qualquer empresário que seja responsável pela análise de negócios, indústria e situação competitiva por aplicação das matrizes SWOT, TOWS e BCG para lidar com questões, desafios e problemas relacionados aos negócios. Este livro foi especialmente desenvolvido para quem estuda Administração, MBA, e cursos executivos. Gerenciamento de TI, empresários, empreendedores, gerentes operacionais, gerentes de nível médio e todo consultor de gestão, executivos e profissionais de negócios, como diretores de previsão e planejamento, gerentes de previsão, diretores de planejamento estratégico, diretores de marketing, gerentes de vendas, gerente de publicidades, diretores financeiros, controllers, tesoureiros, analistas financeiros, gerentes de produção, gerentes de marca / produto, gerentes de novos produtos, gerentes de cadeia de suprimentos, gerentes de logística, gerentes de materiais, agentes de compras, gerentes de agendamento e diretores de sistemas de informação.
Análisis estratégico de negocios
by Hiriyappa BEl Análisis Estratégico de Negocios es una lectura vital para los CEO y ejecutivos senior, jefes de estrategia, empresarios actuales y futuros, inversionistas, especialmente gerentes de desarrollo de negocios corporativos, y cualquier persona de negocios que tenga la responsabilidad del análisis de Negocios, industria, Situación Competitiva mediante la aplicación de FODA, TOWS y BCG Matrix para abordar los problemas, desafíos y problemas relacionados con el negocio asociados con el negocio. Este libro está especialmente diseñado para aquellos que son estudiantes de Negocios, MBA, PGDM y Ejecutivos. Gestión de TI, empresarios, empresarios, gerentes de operaciones, gerentes de nivel medio en todo el consultor de gestión, ejecutivos de negocios y profesionales de negocios como director de previsión y planificación, gerente de previsión, director de planificación estratégica, director de marketing, gerente de ventas, gerente de publicidad, CFO, oficial financiero, controlador, tesorero, analista financiero, gerente de producción, gerente de marca / producto, gerente de nuevos productos, gerente de cadena de suministro, gerente de logística, gerente de gestión de materiales, agente de compras, gerente de programación y director de sistemas de información.
Análisis fundamental: Estrategias para invertir en el mercado argentino
by Mariano Pantanetti Sergio MoralesEl análisis fundamental es una de las principales metodologías de estudio de activos financieros. Este libro presenta aspectos teóricos que deberían ser el ABC de un inversor y luego los expone en un caso práctico o con ejemplos reales del mercado local. ¿Qué es el análisis fundamental? ¿Cuáles son los criterios de valoración de activos? ¿Con qué marco normativo se rige? ¿Cómo se interpreta un balance? ¿Cómo se evitan los errores de estrategia? ¿Cómo desarrollar un plan racional para comprar acciones y aumentar su valor a largo plazo? Teniendo en cuenta las particularidades del mercado financiero argentino, los autores nos introducen en el mundo del análisis fundamental de manera integral y con metodología top-down: macroeconomía, microeconomía, estrategia empresarial, contabilidad, análisis bursátil y valoración empresarial. Con ejemplos reales, el lector se familiariza con la terminología y las herramientas específicas de uno de los métodos más utilizados por los especialistas financieros para el manejo de sus inversiones. Este libro, que llena un vacío en la literatura financiera, conduce al lector, de un modo ameno, por las estrategias de inversión que le permitirán alcanzar los objetivos financieros teniendo en cuenta su propósito y horizonte de inversión, así como su tolerancia y perfil de riesgo.
Anécdotas de enfermeras: Edición ampliada con Emergencias que no creerás
by Elisabeth IborraLa nueva edición, actualizada y ampliada, del best seller Anécdotas de enfermeras. Este libro es la demostración de que las leyendas urbanas a menudo se quedan muy cortas con respecto a la realidad. La imaginación de la mente colectiva no llega a la altura de las anécdotas que las enfermeras y los cuerpos de emergencia de este país viven a diario: los enfermos y sus familiares que acuden a estos centros parecen ir en un estado de nerviosismo y despiste que les lleva a protagonizar hazañas verdaderamente surrealistas. La capacidad de sorpresa de estos profesionales es infinita, el ser humano nunca dejará de asombrarles. La misma impresión tendrá el lector: cuando crea que eso es lo más increíble que ha leído jamás, enseguida se topará con un suceso aún más hilarante, desternillante, curioso, escatológico, bestia, alucinante, inaudito, impensable... si piensas que nada puede superar que a alguien se le caigan cuatro metros de intestino al suelo, todavía alucinarás más al leer los extravagantes objetos que la gente se introduce en sus partes íntimas. La crítica ha dicho...«Un libro que nos cuenta lo poco reconocida que está la labor de estas personas, cuyo mejor aliado es un indesmayable sentido del humor ante la tragicomedia de la existencia.»La Vanguardia
Apache Hive Cookbook
by Shrey Mehrotra Hanish Bansal Saurabh ChauhanEasy, hands-on recipes to help you understand Hive and its integration with frameworks that are used widely in today's big data world About This Book * Grasp a complete reference of different Hive topics. * Get to know the latest recipes in development in Hive including CRUD operations * Understand Hive internals and integration of Hive with different frameworks used in today's world. Who This Book Is For The book is intended for those who want to start in Hive or who have basic understanding of Hive framework. Prior knowledge of basic SQL command is also required What You Will Learn * Learn different features and offering on the latest Hive * Understand the working and structure of the Hive internals * Get an insight on the latest development in Hive framework * Grasp the concepts of Hive Data Model * Master the key concepts like Partition, Buckets and Statistics * Know how to integrate Hive with other frameworks such as Spark, Accumulo, etc In Detail Hive was developed by Facebook and later open sourced in apache community. Hive provides SQL like interface to run queries on Big Data frameworks. Hive provides SQL like syntax also called as HQL that includes all SQL capabilities like analytical functions which are the need of the hour in today's Big Data world. This book provides you easy installation steps with different types of metastores supported by Hive. This book has simple and easy to learn recipes for configuring Hive clients and services. You would also learn different Hive optimizations including Partitions and Bucketing. The book also cover the source code explanation of latest Hive version. Hive Query Language is being used by other frameworks including spark. Towards the end you will cover integration of Hive with these frameworks. Style and approach Starting with the basics and covering the core concepts with the practical usage, this book is a complete guide to learn and explore Hive offerings.
Apache Hive Essentials
by Dayong DuIf you are a data analyst, developer, or simply someone who wants to use Hive to explore and analyze data in Hadoop, this is the book for you. Whether you are new to big data or an expert, with this book, you will be able to master both the basic and the advanced features of Hive. Since Hive is an SQL-like language, some previous experience with the SQL language and databases is useful to have a better understanding of this book.
Apache Mahout Cookbook
by Piero GiacomelliApache Mahout Cookbook uses over 35 recipes packed with illustrations and real-world examples to help beginners as well as advanced programmers get acquainted with the features of Mahout."Apache Mahout Cookbook" is great for developers who want to have a fresh and fast introduction to Mahout coding. No previous knowledge of Mahout is required, and even skilled developers or system administrators will benefit from the various recipes presented
Apache OfBiz Cookbook
by Ruth HoffmanThe best way to experience OFBiz is to dive right in and start "kicking the tires". No matter if you are an end user exploring the out-of-the-box e-commerce web store or a software developer getting ready to build a new application, you will find, eventually, that you perform the same tasks over and over again. This book is designed as a reference to guide you though those oft-encountered OFBiz tasks. It is a collection of recipes, not necessarily in any particular order of importance, that address and give answers to many of the real-world questions asked about how to do things with OFBiz. If you are an OFBiz user who has some familiarity with enterprise software systems, and perhaps more importantly, Internet and Web exposure, you will be able to glean useful information from this book. You will need only basic knowledge of modern browser behavior (for example: how to click a mouse button) to follow some recipes, while others assume a passing familiarity with a text-editor and XML documents. If you are a software developer looking for Java and/or Groovy examples, this book also includes a chapter on Java software development.
Apache Solr High Performance
by Surendra MohanThis book is an easy-to-follow guide, full of hands-on, real-world examples. Each topic is explained and demonstrated in a specific and user-friendly flow, from search optimization using Solr to Deployment of Zookeeper applications. This book is ideal for Apache Solr developers and want to learn different techniques to optimize Solr performance with utmost efficiency, along with effectively troubleshooting the problems that usually occur while trying to boost performance. Familiarity with search servers and database querying is expected.
Apasionado por las inversiones en Bolsa: La Guía Rápida para Invertir en el Mercado de Valores
by Adriana Rojas Alex Uwajeh***Por favor note: Esto es una guía rápida para invertir en el Mercado de Valores - Para Principiantes *** Usted sólo puede trabara tantas horas y ganar tanto como un empleado. Sin embargo, no hay límite en cuando dinero puede ganar en el mercado de valores excepto los límites que usted se fije. Puede construir su riqueza y asegurar el futuro que siempre soñó a través de inversiones inteligentes y bien monitoreadas. Este libro le mostrará cómo construir éxito duradero en el mercado de valores.
Apax Digital
by Jo Tango Alys FerragamoThe Apax Digital team faced important decisions as they contemplated raising a second fund. Apax Digital Fund I was a $1.1 billion vehicle focused on mid-market growth equity and growth buyouts in the technology sector. The fund had performed well, and the Managing Partners Marcelo Gigliani and Dan O'Keefe felt that demand from investors would be strong for ADF II. However, raising a bigger fund would come with several strategic implications for the team's size, investment strategy, and sourcing model. What should be ADF II's hard cap, and how should they handle the implications of a larger fund?
Apax Partners and Dialog Semiconductor: March 1998
by Josh Lerner G. Felda Hardymon Borja Martinez Antonio Alvarez-CanoApax Partners is considering a complex buyout of a semiconductor manufacturer. The firms must assess in a compressed timeframe the complex technological, financial, and operational risks that the proposed transaction poses.
Apax Partners and Duck Creek Technologies
by Josh Lerner Terrence Shu Alys FerragamoThis case follows Jason Wright and Umang Kajaria at Apax Partners as they consider an investment in Duck Creek Technologies, a technology provider for property & casualty insurance companies. The deal required a complex carve-out from Accenture, Duck Creek's parent organization, and several operational improvements to rejuvenate the company. The case provides the opportunity to evaluate the deal's investment thesis, structure, and risks, along with calculating Duck Creek's valuation.
Apax Partners and Xerium S.A.
by Josh Lerner G. Felda Hardymon Ann LeamonIn 2002, Apax Partners had to decide whether to accept a less-than-perfect offer for one of its portfolio companies or to refinance it. This company, a maker of paper industry consumables with a global presence, had been purchased in 1999 and performed extremely well since then. Despite being a solid, cash-generative operation, it didn't excite a lot of interest in the market. An early exit at a good multiple would be helpful for Apax's current fund and future fund-raising efforts, whereas refinancing would allow Apax to take some money off the table and share in future upsides. Which is the better choice?
Aperture Investors
by David Lane Krishna G. Palepu George SerafeimAperture Investors is a startup investment firm that seeks disrupt the asset management industry through competitive differentiation by charging investors primarily when its portfolio managers outperform the marketplace. Headed by Wall Street veteran Peter Kraus and backed with substantial and patient seed capital, Aperture seeks to attract both star portfolio managers and assets from mutual funds and hedge funds. Kraus believes that his innovative business model addresses the current dysfunctional fee and incentive structures in the industry, which have led to long-term market underperformance, and that Aperture will address the reasons that are motivating investors to shift to cheaper, passively-managed index and exchange-traded funds.
Apex Investment Partners (A): April 1995
by Josh LernerThe partners of Apex Investment Partners are seeking to provide financing for Accessine Technologies, a small firm specializing in providing "One Person, One Number" telecommunication services. The negotiation of the terms-and-conditions of the deal, as well as its pricing, prove challenging.
Apex Ski Boots
by John T. Gourville Kate BaraszApex Ski Boots has introduced a new ski boot that, due to its radical design, is meeting resistance in the marketplace from many retailers, ski experts, and consumers. The company must decide how best to drive sales in the face of this resistance.
Apollo Hospitals of India (A)
by Gary W. Loveman Jamie O'ConnellDr. Prathap Reddy has created India's first corporate hospital, Apollo Hospitals of Madras. The hospital is managed according to an integrated philosophy of customer service and support to employees. A new hospital, in the city of Hyderabad, has not performed as well, however. Futhermore, the company is considering widely franchising the Apollo brand name, and establishing India's first health maintenance organization. Main subjects for analysis and discussion include: the connections between Apollo's management philosophy and its success in Madras, the reasons for Hyderabad's less impressive performance, and the merits of franchising and establishing the HMO given Apollo's expertise and conditions in India.
Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices
by Tarun Khanna Carin-Isabel Knoop Felix Oberholzer-GeeThe Apollo Hospitals Group, one of Asia's premier health care organizations, had come to rival the best health care organizations on the globe. Apollo offered advanced medical procedures, such as cardiac surgery using the beating heart technique, at very high levels of quality but at a fraction of the cost of hospitals in the West. Apollo's managers must decide how best to capitalize on the group's remarkable medical capabilities. One option was to bet on global medical tourism by trying to attract patients from Asia and worldwide needing advanced medical procedures. Thailand had set the example for medical tourism and attracted more than one million patients a year, most of them undergoing plastic surgery. Another option Apollo considered was to build and manage hospitals abroad.
Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760–1860
by Jim HandyBetween 1760 and 1860, the English countryside was subject to constant attempts at agricultural improvement. Most often these meant depriving cottagers and rural workers of access to land they could cultivate, despite evidence that they were the most productive farmers in a country constantly short of food. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary sources, Apostles of Inequality argues that such attempts, driven by a flawed faith in the wonders of capital, did little to increase agricultural productivity and instead led to a century of increasing impoverishment in rural England. Jim Handy rejects the assertions about the benefits that accompanied the transition to "improved" agriculture and details the abundant evidence for the efficiency of smallholder, peasant agriculture. He traces the development of both economic theory and government policy through the work of agricultural improver Arthur Young (1741–1820), government advisor Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), and the editors and writers of the Economist, as well as Adam Smith and Thomas Robert Malthus. Apostles of Inequality demonstrates how a fascination with capital – promoted by political economy and farmers’ desires to have a labour force completely dependent on wage labour – fostered widespread destitution in rural England for over a century.