Author: Howard Wainer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: uncertainty, graphical, display, control, communicate, uncertain, world, understand, picturing
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2009-04-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691137595
ISBN-13: 9780691137599
In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. Now he’s back with Picturing the Uncertain World, a book that explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. Using a visually diverse sampling of graphical display, from heartrending autobiographical displays of genocide in the Kovno ghetto to the "Pie Chart of Mystery" in a New Yorker cartoon, Wainer illustrates the many ways graphs can be used--and misused--as we try to make sense of
Authors:Juha M. Alho, Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Jukka Lassil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sustainability, fiscal, demographics, uncertain
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-04-21
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0521877407
ISBN-13: 9780521877404
There is widespread acceptance that much of the developed world faces a potential pensions and welfare crisis as a result of declining birth rates and an ageing population. However, there is considerable uncertainty about the specifics of demographic forecasting and this has significant implications for public finances. Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability addresses the economic consequences of uncertainty and, with particular reference to European economies, explores the impact of demographic risks on public finances, including pension systems, health care and old-age care expendi
Authors:Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg,
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: street, washington, wall, choices, world, tough, uncertain
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-11-18
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0375505857
ISBN-13: 9780375505850
Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period in the global economy; it also captured the essence of Rubin himself--short on formality, quick to get into the nitty-gritty.From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current positio
Authors:Robert A. Garson, Christopher J. Bailey,
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: united, states, history, political, power, uncertain
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1990-10-25
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0719026873
ISBN-13: 9780719026874
This is a short political history of the United States since 1929, focusing on the national political agenda. The book deals with civil rights, the anti-communist crusade, social reform, foreign policy and includes a discussion of military strategy in World War II, concentrating on those arenas that were to effect the development of the Cold War.
Authors:Sergei Goncharov, John Lewis, Litai Xue,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: studies, international, security, war, korean, partners, stalin, mao, uncertain
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1995-02-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0804725217
ISBN-13: 9780804725217
The authors use major new documentary sources, including cables and letters between Mao Zedong and Stalin, to tell for the first time the inside story of the creation of the Sino-Soviet alliance and the origins of the Korean War.
Authors:Jesus Benito, Ana Mª Manzanas, Begona Simal,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: literatures, caeal, ethnic, realism, mirrors, magical, uncertain
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-05-18
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 9042026006
ISBN-13: 9789042026001
Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno’s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Le?vinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term "mimesis" as both a "world-reflecting" and a "world-creating" mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic m
Author: Geoffrey W. Coffey
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: complex, uncertain, environment, performance, sustained, approach, leadership, create, systems
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3642011934
ISBN-13: 9783642011931
"A Systems Approach to Leadership" (SAL) is a methodology for creating sustained high performance in conditions of high complexity and uncertainty. SAL places the latest developments in Systems Science into an actionable method for use by everyday leaders. It enables leaders to develop themselves and their organisation (or part of it) quickly and effectively to achieve a competitive advantage in a complex and uncertain world. SAL consists of an integrated framework with an overall strategy of whole system development. Central to the framework is a practical method which can be used by any lead
