Mathematics and Physics for Speech and Hearing is a CD-ROM designed to help users develop the knowledge, skills, and problem-solving abilities required... for the mastery of concepts in math and physics. This multimedia courseware integrates common concepts in math, physics, and speech and hearing in five learning modules. Each module includes specific multimedia-based assignments and suggested laboratory exercises. Within each topic, relevant examples are included along with numerous multimedia demonstrations in the form of sound files, animations, and interactive displays. The breadth of topics covered, use of problem-based learning, and integration of formal mathematics, physics, speech, and hearing via computer makes Mathematics and Physics for Speech and Hearing the ideal tool to learn requisite mathematics and physics skills in speech-language pathology.

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's... enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"

Don't Just Plan-Zero In on a Winning Business Model! Before you write a business plan, before you start marketing, before you look for funding,... you should develop the most important tool in your business arsenal: a business model. A great business model sets amazing successes apart from failures. Don Debelak reveals how to create a winning business concept, develop a business plan around it, and turn it into a successful business venture. Whether you're starting a new business or looking to revitalize an existing operation, you'll learn: What a model is, why it's important, how it works and how it can improve your business How to maximize your chances of success with an easy-to-use scoring system How to use your business model to increase your chances of receiving funding Strategies for using your model to write a business plan that really works Take your business to the height of success with this can't-miss strategy.

Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits new... development. In Syria, state-business involvement through informal networks has contributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private businessmen and select state officials during a critical period of transition, this book examines Syria's political economy from 1970 to 2005 to explain the nation's pattern of state intervention and prolonged economic stagnation.As state income from oil sales and aid declined, collusion was a bid for political security by an embattled regime. To achieve a modicum of economic growth, the Syrian regime would develop ties with select members of the business community, reserving the right to reverse their inclusion in the future. Haddad ultimately reveals that this practice paved the way for forms of economic agency that maintained the security of the regime but diminished the development potential of the state and the private sector.

Business Now focuses on business from a real-world perspective. With more practical application exercises, examples, and reinforced learning throughout,... it allows students to continually exercise their critical thinking and problem solving skills with realistic business problems they will likely encounter in their professional lives. The chapters are carefully organized by learning objectives which correlate directly to all of the chapter materials and student and instructor ancillaries.

The "Businessmen's Revival" was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving... into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significance. He uses it as a focal point for addressing a spectacular range of phenomena in American culture: the ecclesiastical and business history of Boston; gender roles and family life; the history of the theater and public spectacle; education; boyculture; and, especially, ideas about emotion during this period.This vividly written narrative recovers the emotional experiences of individuals from a wide array of little-used sources including diaries, correspondence, public records, and other materials. From these sources, Corrigan discovers that for these Protestants, the expression of emotion was a matter of transactions. They saw emotion as a commodity, and conceptualized relations between people, and between individuals and God, as transactions of emotion governed by contract. Religion became a business relation with God, with prayer as its legal tender. Entering this relationship, they were conducting the "business of the heart." This innovative study shows that the revival--with its commodification of emotional experience--became an occasion for white Protestants to underscore differences between themselves and others. The display of emotion was a primary indicator of membership in the Protestant majority, as much as language, skin color, or dress style. As Corrigan unravels the significance of these culturally constructed standards for emotional life, his book makes an important contribution to recent efforts to explore the links between religion and emotion, and is an important new chapter in the history of religion.

Klein, Coffee, and Partnoy's Business Organization and Finance, Legal and Economic Principles, 11th explains the basic economic elements and legal... principles of business organization and finance. It is the best additional resource to assign to students for background. It distills in a straightforward and accessible way the essential elements of these often complex topics and explains the basic economic elements and legal principles of business organization and finance with concise, conceptual overviews. It contains a detailed introduction outlining the essential functions of corporate law. It contains an invaluable new section covering recent developments in financial markets, the financial crisis, the role of derivatives and financial complexity in the modern corporation to give students background on modern financial issues. An authoritative introduction to the law, the Foundation Press Concepts and Insights Series offers law students concise, conceptual overviews of important areas of law, as written by leading scholars. Students reap the benefit of the authors expert opinions, insight, and experience, with illustrative case studies, case notes, and examples.

Elegantly written, thoughtful and often amusing, Business Organizations analyzes the law of business organizations: corporate law, partnership and LLC... law, agency, and selected aspects of securities regulation. In clean, uncomplicated prose, the text offers a clear and thoughtful overview. Business Organizations explains the structure of the law itself, placing it within an historical context, and outlines its economic effect. Integrating basic principles of business and finance in an unintimidating, uncomplicated manner, the text engages readers who have either an elemental or a sophisticated grasp of economics. Various pedagogical features support learning and facilitate use, such as the overview in each chapter, giving an over-arching, synthetic account of the law with the details on which many instructors focus. The book propels the analysis with an extensive use of hypothetical examples. The comprehensive coverage embraces all of the principal cases in the main casebooks, and goes beyond to explain what each case decided and why it matters. The authors explores what motivated the parties' actions, and why the judges held as they did. Features of Business Organization: Focuses on the basic structure of corporate, partnership, agency, and securities law Clean, clear, thoughtful prose Places the law within historical context and analyzes its economic effect Integrates basic principles of business and finance in unintimidating, uncomplicated manner Pedagogical features ntegrated overview: over-arching, synthetic account of the law with details many instructors discuss Comprehensive coverage discusses all principal cases in the major casebooks explains what cases decide and why they matter explores the parties' motivations reveals why judges held as they did Integrates economic principles combines discussion of legal principles with an analysis of their economic effect engages readers with both elementary and sophisticated grasp of economics Hypotheticals: extensive examples propel the analysis forward