Authors:Larry Colin, Laura Colin,
Publisher: Career Press
Keywords: family, children, laws, business, spouses, siblings, inc, manage, parents
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1564149854
ISBN-13: 9781564149855

More than 24 family businesses in the United States. employ 62 percent of America’s workforce. And in Asia, Europe, Australia, and Latin America, experts say family businesses could account for as much as 80 percent of the private sector. What’s different about dealing with family members than dealing with underlings and managers at an impersonal corporation? When was the last time sales for a Fortune 500 company slumped because two brothers couldn’t get along? Not that often, if ever. But it happens all the time in family businesses. Millions of families spanning the glob

Authors:Colin Archibald, Colin Archibald, Emil Petriu,
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Keywords: series, computer, science, applications, strategies, machine, vision, advances
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1992-07
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 9810209762
ISBN-13: 9789810209766

This book describes recent strategies and applications for extracting useful information from sensor data. For example, the methods presented by Roth and Levine are becoming widely accepted as the "best" way to segment range images, and the neural network methods for alpha numeric character recognition, presented by K. Yamada, are believed to be the best yet presented. An applied system to analyze the images of dental imprints presented by J. Cote, et al is one of several examples of image processing system designer. Important aspects of the automation of processes are presented in a practical

Authors:Dr Colin Brock, Colin Brock, Withold Tulasiewicz,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: europe, single, education
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2000-02-23
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0415164419
ISBN-13: 9780415164412

This book brings together contributors from the different member states of the European Union in order to understand the different degrees of subscription to the concept of Europe and the role education plays in such a process. The material presented will make a significant contribution to the literatue in this field of research and study.

Authors:Colin C Williams, Colin C. Williams, Jan Windebank,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: human, geography, studies, routledge, third, way, poverty
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12-27
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0415257255
ISBN-13: 9780415257251

Poverty and the Third Way uncovers how New Labour’s employment-focussed approach causes, rather than resolves, poverty. Searching for another approach, the authors find the seeds of an alternative ’third way’ in radical European social democratic and ecological thought which seeks to transcend capitalism and socialism by developing work beyond employment. Exploring the reasons why such an approach is needed and how it can be implemented, the authors transcend the ’there is no alternative’ to capitalism school of thought dominant in many advanced economies by provi

Authors:Colin Peter Field, Colin Field,
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: paris, ritz, cocktails
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-06-02
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0743247523
ISBN-13: 9780743247528

The Bar Hemingway is probably one of the most important bars in the world today. Forbes Digital Tool Internet magazine cited it as ’The World’s Greatest Bar, 1998’ and its Head Bartender as ’The World’s Greatest Bartender’. The author was to be cited in 2001 again by Forbes as the Greatest Bartender in the World. In 1983 I had obtained the title of No.2 in the world (Martini Grand Prix World Cocktail Competition) for my knowledge in cocktails and alcohols, and had coveted the premier position ever since. Le Figaro newspaper cited the Head Bartender as one of

Authors:Colin A. Depp, Dilip V. Jeste, Colin A. Depp, Dilip V
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: aging, emotional, cognitive, successful
Number of Pages: 441
Published: 2009-08-24
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1585623512
ISBN-13: 9781585623518

The next two decades will see a profound demographic transformation toward an aging population on a scale never seen before in the entire human history. There have been recent scientific findings on healthy brain aging that have challenged the centuries-old thinking, paving the way for new strategies to maintain and enhance cognitive abilities, functioning, and well-being in older age. From topics as diverse as genes and molecular building blocks to physical exercise, nutrition, wisdom, and spirituality, the editors of Successful Cognitive and Emotional Aging have gathered the foremost experts

Authors:Colin Bayne-Jardine, Dr Colin C Bayne-Jardine, Charl
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: education, quality, improving
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0750709405
ISBN-13: 9780750709408

Makes an important contribution to existing teachers’ competence in the area of quality enhancement and presents reflections on practice distilled over a lifetime of work in education.