Book Auction Records

Book Auction Records
Author: Frand Karslake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 714
Release: 1963
Genre: Autographs
ISBN:

A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.

American Art Auction Catalogues 1785-1942

American Art Auction Catalogues 1785-1942
Author: Harold Lancour
Publisher: Lancour Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1406750875

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Compensation and Organizational Performance

Compensation and Organizational Performance
Author: Luis R. Gomez-Mejia
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317473957

This up-to-date, research-oriented textbook focuses on the relationship between compensation systems and firm overall performance. In contrast to more traditional compensation texts, it provides a strategic perspective to compensation administration rather than a functional viewpoint. The text emphasizes the role of managerial pay, its importance, determinants, and impact on organizations. It analyzes recent topics in executive compensation, such as pay in high technology firms, managerial risk taking, rewards in family companies, and the link between compensation and social responsibility and ethical issues, among others. The authors provide a thorough and comprehensive review of the vast literatures relevant to compensation and revisit debates grounded in different theoretical perspectives. They provide insights from disciplines as diverse as management, economics, sociology, and psychology, and amplify previous discussions with the latest empirical findings on compensation, its dynamics, and its contribution to firm overall performance.

Towards Sustainable Global Food Systems

Towards Sustainable Global Food Systems
Author: Ruerd Ruben
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3038978140

One of the major knowledge challenges in the domain of Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems refers to the integration of perspectives on consumption, patterns that support public health, inclusive value chains, and environmentally sustainable food production. While there is a long record of the analysis of separate interventions, this special issue generates integrated insights, provides cross-cutting perspectives, and outlines practical and policy solutions that address these global challenges.The collection of papers promotes the view that sustainable food systems require thorough insights into the structure and dynamics of agri-food production systems, the drivers for integrating food value chains and markets, and key incentives for supporting healthier consumer choices. On the production side, potential linkages between agricultural commercialization and intensification and their effects for food security and nutritional outcomes are analyzed. Value Chains are assessed for their contribution to improving exchange networks and markets for food products that simultaneously support efficiency, circularity, and responsiveness. Individual motives and market structures for food consumption need to be understood in order to be able to outline suitable incentives to enhance healthy dietary choice.The contributed papers focus on interfaces between food system activities and processes of adaptive change that are critical for overcoming key constraints and trade-offs between sustainable food and healthy diets.

Criminal Poisoning

Criminal Poisoning
Author: John H. Trestrail, III
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2007-10-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1597452564

In this revised and expanded edition, leading forensic scientist John Trestrail offers a pioneering survey of all that is known about the use of poison as a weapon in murder. Topics range from the use of poisons in history and literature to convicting the poisoner in court, and include a review of the different types of poisons, techniques for crime scene investigation, and the critical essentials of the forensic autopsy. The author updates what is currently known about poisoners in general and their victims. The Appendix has been updated to include the more commonly used poisons, as well as the use of antifreeze as a poison.

Food Aid After Fifty Years

Food Aid After Fifty Years
Author: Christopher B. Barrett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2007-05-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135992967

This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this important subject matter. This book will prove vital to students of development economics and development studies and those working in the field.

Economic and Business issues in Retrospect and prospect

Economic and Business issues in Retrospect and prospect
Author: Kerem Gökten
Publisher: IJOPEC PUBLICATION
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2019-03-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1912503689

There is a strong view that economics is the academic discipline that best represents the claim of positive science among social sciences. Economics has undergone significant transformations after its emergence as a science. Despite all these transformations, the feature containing positive and normative elements has not changed. While economists from the political economy tradition focus on qualitative studies that relate to other social sciences, especially political science and history, a group of economists adopt the qualitative methods of natural sciences to analyze economic problems. There is a debate among economists on how to understand social reality and what kind of science the economy should be. Business is a discipline that has declared its relative independence from economics over time. Business is a research field that encompasses a wide range of areas ranging from organizational behavior of individuals to the firm’s production and marketing strategies. This book contains articles on essential topics related to these disciplines, which have an in- separable relationship between them. Academicians contributing to the book have produced works on current topics of discussion as well as key subjects that remain important in economics and management.

Artificial Intelligence Today

Artificial Intelligence Today
Author: Michael J. Wooldridge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 489
Release: 1999-08-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540664289

Artificial Intelligence is one of the most fascinating and unusual areas of academic study to have emerged this century. For some, AI is a true scientific discipline, that has made important and fundamental contributions to the use of computation for our understanding of nature and phenomena of the human mind; for others, AI is the black art of computer science. Artificial Intelligence Today provides a showcase for the field of AI as it stands today. The editors invited contributions both from traditional subfields of AI, such as theorem proving, as well as from subfields that have emerged more recently, such as agents, AI and the Internet, or synthetic actors. The papers themselves are a mixture of more specialized research papers and authorative survey papers. The secondary purpose of this book is to celebrate Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.