Authors:Ana Agostino, Glenn Ashton,
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: knowledge, life, privatisation, world, patented
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1770092293
ISBN-13: 9781770092297

A fascinating collection of essays, this study analyzes the issue of property rights, the growing private possession of life and ideas, and the erosion of human rights as a result. From a wide range of experts and specialists, the breadth of topics discussed include genetically engineered crops, patented computer programs, harvesting of human cells, and the exploitation of biodiversity including the use of molecules and atoms for private profit. From court cases on individuals seeking the property rights to their own spleen cells to corporations securing the rights to breast cancer genes, this

Authors:Robert H. Ashton, Alison Hubbard Ashton,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: judgment, making, decision, series, cambridge, research, accounting, auditing
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1995-09-29
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0521418445
ISBN-13: 9780521418447

The study of behavioral decision making has recently expanded into the area of accounting and auditing. This branch of research seeks to understand the cognitive processes that govern such necessary functions as the pricing of products and services, evaluating corporate performance, granting credit to prospective borrowers, and investing in financial securities. In Judgment and Decision-Making Research in Accounting and Auditing, editors Robert and Alison Ashton present and review more than twenty years of research in decision-making science. The book analyzes the judgments that business manag

Author: K. J. Ashton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: deals, backdoor, news, headline
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1438977786
ISBN-13: 9781438977782

Paul Cullen, a naive reporter, stumbles into the Media lime light while covering a string of murders in the city. As life would have it, this young man learns more about the inner workings of the Mayor’s Office and the devious criminals that govern the local streets than he could ever learn from college. The young reporter is ill prepared to deal with the events that start unfolding on his night shift and is quickly overwhelmed by the ambitious, calculating brutality of the city’s quiet meetings and backdoor deals. Emotionally haunted by the frightening reality that surrounds him,

Author: Helen Ashton
Publisher: Kogan Page
Keywords: duties, responsibilities, statutory, guide, secretary, handbook, company
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2008-01
List price: $23.13
ISBN-10: 0749453214
ISBN-13: 9780749453213

All public companies are required by law to appoint a Company Secretary. Public and private companies have to ensure that they comply with a number of statutory requirements, otherwise they may be criminally liable for defaults and errors can lead to civil penalties. This fully revised new edition of "The Company Secretary’s Handbook" is a comprehensive, jargon-free guide. Up-to-date with the latest legislation in the new Companies Act, it covers the formation of companies, corporate governance and day-to-day administration, keeping the statutory records, annual routines and dissolution.

Author: Dore Ashton
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: art, modern, fable
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1991-01-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0520073010
ISBN-13: 9780520073012

Dore Ashton’s masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac’s brilliant and little known ’philosophic’ story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Czanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac’s fable is discussed not only within the context from which it emergedearly nineteenth-century romanticismbut also in its embodiment of various attitudes towards art. Ashton illuminates a web of associations linking Balzac to Czanne, Rilke, Schoenberg, Kandinsky and Picasso as they struggl

Author: Ashton. Robert
Publisher: Financial Times Management
Keywords: start, business, tips, checklists, book, entrepreneur
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 027371290X
ISBN-13: 9780273712909

"If you are the sort of person who would love to start a business of your own but have not yet dared to take the plunge because you have no idea of where to start, The Entrepreneur’s Book of Checklists could go a long way to reducing the sense of panic and introducing some clarity and order into your life when you need it most." The Sunday Times Easy to navigate and simple to read, The Entrepreneur’s Book of Checklists is not written to be read froom cover to cover, more to become an invaluable source of reference at every stage of the small business journey. As important as an eva

Author: Ashton B. Carter
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: strategy, america, security, new, defense, preventive
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-03-03
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 081571307X
ISBN-13: 9780815713074

"Read the most important book by any ex-Clinton official." - The New York Times "An informative mixture of anecdote, analysis, and advocacy." - Times Literary Supplement "America has had difficulty discerning where to look for the next big threat as opposed to the momentary flash point. That is a problem addressed . . . in a thoughtful new book, Preventive Defense. . . . [The authors’] emphasis is on broadening the definition of defense beyond military strategy to make prevention the most effective form of deterrence." - Christian Science Monitor