This laboratory based text centres itself around decision-making activities, where students apply their chemistry knowledge to realistic situations. This fifth edition includes more photographs, new drawings and new design.
’Private Equity’ is an advanced applied corporate finance book with a mixture of chapters devoted to exploring a range of topics from a private equity investor’s perspective. The goal is to understand why and which practices are likely to deliver sustained profitability in the future. The book is a collection of cases based on actual investment decisions at different stages for process tackled by experienced industry professionals. The majority of the chapters deal with growth equity and buyout investments. However, a range of size targets and investments in different geographical markets are covered as well. These markets include several developed economies and emerging markets like China, Russia, Turkey, Egypt and Argentina. This compilation of cases is rich in institutional details, information about different markets, and segments of the industry as well as different players and their investment practices – it is a unique insight into the key alternative asset class.
When Christina Larsen's fiance dies, she vows to never fall in love again and throws all her energy into her work. Brad Hightower, an entrepreneur and pilot, makes her quickly forget her vow, sweeping her off her feet with his personal charm and generosity. Brad treats her like a princess, and they soon get married despite the red flags. Brad's desire to control Christina started small, with his telling her to dress a certain way and to sell her home and business. Now wedded, his true dark side comes to life. Brad wants Christina to be his intelligent and glamorous trophy wife in public but subservient and obedient at home. His true obsessions are his shady business practices, his son, and his extramarital affairs. Despite her trepidation, Christina still stays with him, hoping their marriage will improve, but must endure mental and physical abuse before realizing escape and divorce are her only options. Inspired by the #MeToo movement, author Ginny Roberts wrote A Destroyed Love for women everywhere, whether they've been in an abusive relationship or not, to encourage empathy and prevent the vicious cycle from continuing in the new generation.
This book proposes a process-oriented model for business networking and the concept of networkability to develop realistic strategies for managing enterprises relationships in the Internet economy. It formulates key success factors and management guidelines which were developed in close co-operation between research and practice.
Touted as the most successful NSF-funded project published, Chemistry in the Community (ChemCom) by the American Chemical Society (ACS) offers a meaningful and memorable chemistry program for all levels of high school students. ChemCom covers traditional chemistry topics within the context of societal issues and real-world scenarios. Centered on decision-making activities where students are responsible for generating data in an investigating, analyzing that data and then applying their chemistry knowledge to solve the presented problem. The text is intensively laboratory-based, with all 39 of the investigations integrated within the text, not separate from the reading. With the ChemCom program, students learn more organic and biochemistry, more environmental and industrial chemistry, and more on the particulate nature of matter than other textbooks all within the relevance of solving problems that arise in everyday life. Meticulously updated to meet the needs of today's teachers and students, the new sixth edition of ChemCom adheres to the new science framework as well as the forthcoming next generation of science standards. Incorporating advances in learning and cognitive sciences, ChemCom’s wide-ranging coverage builds upon the concepts and principles found in the National Science Education Standards. Correlations are available showing how closely aligned ChemCom is to these and other state standards