FUNDAMENTALS OF INSURANCE, 2E combines hands-on activities, examples from news-making companies, creative special features, and solid content to give... your students a full understanding of insurance. Extensive use of activities help students better understand the importance of insurance and how it affects them today--and through to their retirement days. Insurance careers are integrated throughout the text, as well as being provided as a focus in their own chapter. Research questions require students to make contact with the insurance world where they will get additional career information and bring interest and realism into the classroom. Students learn the importance of risk management, property and auto insurance, health coverage, insurance rates, claims procedures, careers in insurance, annuities and planning for retirement.

"Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building offers an introduction to green building concepts as well as design approaches that reduce... and can eventually eliminate the need for fossil fuel use in buildings while also conserving materials, maximizing their efficiency, protecting the indoor air from chemical intrusion, and reducing the introduction of toxic materials into the environment. It represents a necessary road map to the future designers, builders, and planners of a post-carbon world."—from the Foreword by Ed Mazria A rich sourcebook covering the breadth of environmental building, Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building introduces the student and practitioner to the history, theory and technology of green building. Using an active learning approach, the concepts of sustainble architecture are explained and reinforced through design problems, research exercises, study questions, team projects, and discussion topics.Chapters by specialists in the green movement round out this survey of all the important issues and developments that students and professionals need to know. From history and philosophy to design technologies and practice, this sweeping resource is sure to be referenced until worn out.

Over long spans, much that is truly fundamental has been constant, and many current intellectual property (IP) debates still center on issues raised in... the 1800s and earlier. In addition to often comparative coverage of basic forms of IP -- patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks -- brief attention is given to domain names and rights of publicity. Remedies are considered pervasively. Preemption and speech issues are treated separately as well as pervasively. This book, used twice annually in 3-semester-hour law school survey courses since 1999, flags common themes and critical distinctions among IP components. Its goal is to present the most important and durable aspects of the law for the benefit of potential legal specialists as well as generalists. Organization and contents are informed by over forty years of study and teaching students at every level of technical and legal sophistication. Making sometimes difficult choices has been facilitated by ongoing discussions with current and former students, colleagues and others similarly engaged. The book contains no index. It does, however, have a relatively complete table of cases. Use of Roger E. Schecter's comprehensive statutory supplement (West) or equivalent is suggested. This edition has been updated for use in the spring, 2011.

Text introduces the fundamentals of ITS planning and operations. Places special emphasis on traffic flow issues and principles and provides several... examples of successful ITS applications. A supplementary text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in ITS or related areas. Includes review questions, index.

"Fundamentals of Interfacial Engineering" provides chemical, electronic, mechanical, and biomedical engineers with a coherent, integrated introduction... to the fundamental concepts that relate to interfacial phenomena with applications to different processes and product situations. This book emphasizes the importance of intermolecular forces in holding materials together within a bulk phase or across an interface. It outlines the fundamental intermolecular interactions that occur in all interfacial systems. The work also describes the properties, processing, and behavior of fluid interfacial systems and treats solid surfaces and interfaces.In addition to being of direct industrial relevance, this book will provide engineering instructors with an excellent starting point for planning curriculum development in this important area.

Now you can get all the accuracy, authority, and student success of the best-selling intermediate accounting text in a brief, streamlined new version!... The authors have made tough decisions about what material remains at the core of the intermediate accounting course, and what details (for example, methods of depreciation) are less important for today's student. The result of their work is the briefest two/three-semester intermediate text on the market. This new streamlined size will also allow you to introduce case material or special readings as you choose.

Fundamentals of International Business is an introductory international business text for use at the undergraduate level. Its comprehensive coverage of... the subject also makes it appropriate for use in MBA programs.The book s content is streamlined when compared to the array of international business texts now available, but sufficiently rigorous and demanding to satisfy the professional integrity of the instructor.This text presents a balanced coverage of the subject matter, analyzing decision making in the context of their corporate conditions. We have incorporated cutting-edge primary source research, such as the 2008 Georgetown Delphi Study, which provides students with invaluable insights into the worldview of contemporary real-life practitioners. Also addressed are important topics that are only marginally discussed in other international business texts, such as supply-chain management (logistics), countertrade, north south economic integration, and the development of global management talent.The roles of culture, policies, and politics, both domestic and international, are given in-depth exploration as well. The dimensions of ethics, social responsibility, diversity, and demographics are addressed through examples and vignettes. We appreciate the role, present and future, of corporate transparency, veracity, and vision. For example, the issues of grassroots consumer pressure and sweatshops is explored, highlighting the need for acceptable working conditions and internationally enforced standards, as well as the rise of a new type of socially-conscious, organized consumer base.

There are many guides to the conduct of international business transactions, but none as comprehensive and detailed as this. It clearly identifies in... great depth the many sources of risk in cross-border transactions, analyzes the legal instruments that provide protection to the parties, and describes the practical means--institutional, purchased, and negotiated--of reducing, reallocating, and perhaps even eliminating risks. Each chapter covers a distinct element of risk, with insightful commentary on the relevant national, regional, and international laws and detailed analyses of leading and defining cases from many jurisdictions and international courts, as well as considerations of significant scholarly contributions and guidance through insurance options and matters for negotiation. Beginning with the entry-level commercial transaction and letter of credit financing, the author moves through issues of commercial law, dispute resolution, sovereign involvement, public international law, antitrust law, and taxation. Along the way, he highlights types of transaction to which host country law has special application. The crucial issues of jurisdiction, choice of forum in dispute resolution, recognition and enforcement of judgments, foreign currency judgments, and defenses against claims of sovereign immunity all arise in context with detailed critical analysis and commentary. Other matters covered include the commercial and political risk insurance provided by such US agencies as the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and the protection for investors offered by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and the draft Multilateral Treaty on Investment (MAI).

This text is a theoretical and practical analysis International Financial Management. It builds upon the key ideas that are taught throughout the... traditional finance curriculum, explaining how financial concepts such as capital budgeting are applied in a global setting.

Since its launch in 1999, Fundamentals of US Regulatory Affairs has been RAPS' top selling publication-relied upon by those new to regulatory and... trusted by seasoned professionals. The much anticipated international edition-Fundamentals of International Regulatory Affairs-is now available! Whether you are new to regulatory affairs, preparing for the RAC (General Scope) Exam or looking for a touch-up of the fundamentals in your field, the Fundamentals of International Regulatory Affairs, First Edition will serves as an excellent reference tool to put you on the right path in your career. This essential text provides a comprehensive understanding of established international regulatory requirements across product lines Featuring: * International guidance documents from ICH, GHTF, WHO and ISO * Comparison of submission requirements around the world * Illustrative figures and tables