Authors:Brian W. Head, A.J. Brown and Carmel Connors, Brian
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: governance, ethics, law, integrity, promoting
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 0754649865
ISBN-13: 9780754649861

What are the right institutional settings and strategies for ensuring honesty and accountability in public life? How do these settings and strategies relate to one another, and how do we know what is working and what is missing from the whole complex tapestry? Taking Australia as a case study that is relevant to all countries where public integrity is an issue, this book offers some new answers to these larger questions. This collection reviews a variety of existing efforts to understand, ’map’ and evaluate the effectiveness of integrity policies and institutions, not just in the g

Author: Brian R. Brown
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: trading, street, wall, shanghai, wiley, markets, stock, signals, black, influences, chasing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-03-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0470824883
ISBN-13: 9780470824887

The worst stock market crash since Black Monday during October of 1987 occurred during the first week of August of 2007. But nobody noticed. On the morning of August 6th 2007, investment professionals were baffled with unprecedented stock patterns. Mining sector stocks were up +18% but manufacturing stocks were down -14%. It was an extreme sector skew yet the S&P index was unchanged at +0.5% on the day. The next few days would continue with excessive volatility. MBI Insurance, a stock that had rarely attracted speculation would finish up +15% on Aug 6th, followed by another +7% on A

Author: Brian Brown
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: egyptians, wisdom
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $22.75
ISBN-10: 0559116098
ISBN-13: 9780559116094

1923. The story of the Egyptians, the religion of the ancient Egyptians, the Ptah-Hotep and the Ke’gemini (the oldest books in the world), the Book of the Dead, the Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus, Egyptian magic and the Book of Truth. Also contains the vision of Hermes; the Story of the Book of Thoth; hymn and litany to Osiris; and Egyptian occultism and symbolism. Illustrated.

Author: Brian E. Brown
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Keywords: traditions, buddhist, nature, buddha
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2004-02
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 812080631X
ISBN-13: 9788120806313

rep. of a classic on Buddhist tradition

Authors:J. M. Davies, Brian Brown,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: design, plastic
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-08-15
List price: $169.99
ISBN-10: 0632040882
ISBN-13: 9780632040889

This book examines the plastic design and behaviour of main frames--both low-rise industrial and agricultural, and multistorey. Representative topics, such as member and frame stability and restraints and connections, are explained in clear and detailed presentations, and will interest practitioners and students alike. Explanations are buttressed by many diagrams and numerous worked examples. Published on behalf of the Steel Construction Institute, the book was written by Professor J.M. Davies of the University of Manchester, and Brian Brown, chartered structural engineer.

Authors:Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Peter Nola,
Publisher: Nelson Thorne
Keywords: nursing, languae, care, communicating
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 074873306X
ISBN-13: 9780748733064

This ground-breaking book discusses implications of language awareness for reflective practice.

Authors:Jack Hayward, Brian Barry, Archie Brown,
Publisher: British Academy
Keywords: british, centenary, monographs, academy, twentieth, study, politics, century
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-07-17
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0197262945
ISBN-13: 9780197262948

The distinctive strength of political science in Britain is revealed in this indispensable guide to modern British scholarship in the field. As well as charting the development of the discipline, the essays examine the innovative contributions to the study of nationalism, totalitarianism and authoritarianism and the influential British approach to international relations.