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Corporate Governance

Economic and Financial Issues

There is little doubt that corporate governance has become one of the key issues for students of business and management in the 1990s. The text is the first to draw together the various strands of the debate from economics, finance, and accounting perspectives, and from an international angle that includes discussion of the issues as they relate to governance in the UK, USA, Germany, Japan and Eastern Europe. The editors identify four main approaches to Corporate Governance. These approaches can be divided into four models: The Principle-Agent or Finance Model; The Myopic-market Model (short-termism); The Abuse of Executive Power; and The Stakeholder Model. Topics covered include: the role of institutional investors the corporate board the market for corporate control management buyouts and venture capital regulation and auditing governance in the public sector This will be an essential purchase for anyone studying corporate governance whether on an undergraduate degree or MBA.

The text is the first to draw together the various strands of the debate from economics, finance, and accounting perspectives, and from an international angle that includes discussion of the issues as they relate to governance in the UK, ...

Understanding and Using Health Experiences

Improving patient care

Improving patient experience is a global priority for health policy-makers and care providers. The need to look at healthcare delivery through the eyes of patients is widely accepted, but how should it be done? What use can be made of this information, and what evidence is there that such exercises lead to better care? Understanding and Using Health Experiences: Improving patient care examines a broad range of different sources and techniques for gathering and analyzing health experiences. Providing an accessible and pragmatic overview of the diversity and richness of research in the field this book explores the strengths and limitations of different approaches, and assesses what each method can contribute to improving people's experience of illness, and the way that health services are delivered. The book looks at topics such as using focus groups to understand experiences of health and illness, patient surveys, and the internet as a source of information on people's experience. Using clear and engaging examples throughout, the book is accessibly written by experts in social science, health services, and health policy, and will be valuable to postgraduate students, healthcare practitioners, and individuals working in health and social policy, public sector management, and research.

s (2005) work on misunderstandings demonstrated that although the policy focus
is often on people who do not speak English, it is equally if not more important to
consider the effect of the ways in which English is spoken by people with limited ...

Genes, Girls and Gamow

In 1953 Watson and Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA and Watson's personal account of the discovery, The Double Helix, was published in 1968. Genes, Girls and Gamow is also autobiographical, covering the period from when The Double Helix ends, in 1953, to a few years later, and ending with a Postscript bringing the story up to date. Here is Watson adjusting to new-found fame, carrying out tantalizing experiments on the role of RNA in biology, and falling in love. The book is enlivened with copies of handwritten letters from the larger than life character George Gamow, who had made significant contributions to physics but became intrigued by genes, RNA and the elusive genetic code. This is a tale of heartbreak, scientific excitement and ambition, laced with travelogue and '50s atmosphere.

This is a tale of heartbreak, scientific excitement and ambition, laced with travelogue and '50s atmosphere.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 8th Edition: Paperback

32-page Oxford Writing Tutor. 1,000 new words and meanings. 64-page Visual Vocabulary Builder. Oxford 3000™plus - the most important words to know in English and the most important meanings of those words. Topic Collocation notes and synonym information. Academic Word List words marked.

Oxford 3000™plus - the most important words to know in English and the most important meanings of those words. Topic Collocation notes and synonym information. Academic Word List words marked.

American English File Second Edition: Level 2: Teacher's Book with Testing Program CD-ROM

English for Life: Elementary: Test Builder DVD-ROM

Placement test with 50 multiple-choice questions on Grammar and Vocabulary. Item-based Quick Tests for every Unit with a bank of 400 randomizable questions covering Grammar, Vocabulary, and Functional English from the chosen units. 10 skills based Progress tests including Listening, Language in use, and Reading with A and B versions, and with editable questions. Mid- and End-of-course tests, with skills based, editable questions and A/B versions. Enclosed booklet provides full technical and practical support for teachers.

Placement test with 50 multiple-choice questions on Grammar and Vocabulary.

natural English Elementary: Teacher's Book

natural English is a syllabus strand which enables students to integrate frequent, natural language into their language framework. Students learn to use real language naturally, through thinking and rehearsal time, confidence-building practice, and task-centred speaking. The listening syllabus teaches students how to listen. A slot-in listening booklet features the tapescripts plus decoding and pronunciation exercises. Teacher's Book lesson plans, a product of the authors' teacher training expertise, talk teachers through the course materials. Teacher's Book chapters cover teaching principles, techniques, and ideas, plus a selected bibliography. Humour engages and motivates through cartoons, and the listening and reading material.

(Lesley Painter includes a photocopiable questionnaire you could use for this
purpose.) ... F 1999 English Vocabulary in Use: Elementary CUP dictionaries
Oxford Essential Dictionary Oxford Photo Dictionary Oxford Student's Dictionary
Oxford ...

The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography

This is a down-to-earth, 'how to do it' textbook on the making of dictionaries. Written by professional lexicographers with over seventy years' experience between them, the book presents a step-by-step course for the training of lexicographers in all settings, including publishing houses, colleges, and universities world-wide, and for the teaching of lexicography as an academic discipline. It takes readers through the processes of designing, collecting, and annotating a corpus of texts; shows how to analyse the data in order to extract the relevant information; and demonstrates how these findings are drawn together in the semantic, grammatical, and pedagogic components that make up an entry. The authors explain the relevance and application of recent linguistic theories, such as prototype theory and frame semantics, and describe the role of software in the manipulation of data and the compilation of entries. They provide practical exercises at every stage. The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography draws on materials developed by the authors over more than twenty years of teaching courses for publishing houses and universities in the US, Japan, Hong Kong and China, South Africa, Australia, the UK, and Europe. It will be welcomed everywhere by lexicographers, teachers of lexicography, and their students. It is also fascinating reading for all those interested in discovering how dictionaries are made.

rush1n 1 FAST MOVEMENT⊲[singular] a sudden fast movement of things or
people : rush of air/wind/water She felt a cold rush of air as she wound down her
window. in a rush Her words came out in a rush. | At five past twelve there was a
 ...

The Role of the Member of Parliament Since 1868

From Gentlemen to Players

This wide-ranging study, by one of the UK's leading scholars of British politics, presents a fascinating picture of the role of the MP during the last 150 years. The author examines the various roles of Members of Parliament since the middle of last century. Backbench MPs have three major roles-a partisan role, a constituency role, and a scrutiny role. They increasingly expect and are expected to support their parties; to help constituents with individual problems and look after their collective interests; and they are expected to keep a check on the government and its policies. These roles existed 150 years ago, but the balance between them has changed. The partisan role now dominates at Westminster, the constituency role has expanded beyond all recognition, and the scrutiny role is widely seen as the poor relation. Moreover, while constituency work has been virtually hived-off as a non-partisan role, the conflict between the partisan and the scrutiny role creates a dilemma at the heart of parliamentary government.

From Gentlemen to Players Michael Rush. 2 The Political Context The
Ideological Context Labour's triumph in 1997 was due in no small measure to the
fact that the party had undergone a significant ideological shift since its defeat in
1983.

Project X Code: Freeze Snowball Attack

Project X CODE introduces a brand new adventure combining systematic synthetic phonics and richer reading, to accelerate the progress of your special needs and struggling readers. It stars the Project X characters, with a new addition to the team - Mini Marvel.

Project X CODE introduces a brand new adventure combining systematic synthetic phonics and richer reading, to accelerate the progress of your special needs and struggling readers.