Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 8 December 2008
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This is a new edition of this annual bestseller of fascinating facts and figures about the world we live in. Pocket World in Figures contains rankings on more than 200 topics in subject areas as wide-ranging as geography, population, business, the economy, trade, transport, finance, industry, demographics, the environment, society, culture and crime.If you want to know: the highest mountain or longest river; where economic growth is fastest or inflation is highest; who consumes the most energy; where innovation is highest; where computer and mobile phone ownership is highest; which countries have the most asylum seekers; who spends most, and who the least, on healthcare; the heaviest drinkers and smokers; who recycles most; and, facts about obesity - this annual bestseller has the answers to all these questions and more. Now, contains facts on more than 200 topics, data on 182 countries and profiles of more than 65 of the world's major economies, together with special profiles on the Euro Zone and the World. No well-informed person can afford to be without it.
Added by: nigmatan | Karma: 97.72 | Fiction literature | 11 October 2008
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The Vault Guide to Careers and Hiring for Business School Students and Recen Book Description Now in one affordable guide, Vault provides an annual up-to-date overview of major MBA career paths.
Starting with $10,000 in 1956 and today worth some $8.5 billion, with significant holdings in Coca-Cola, Capital Cities/ ABC and the Washington Post Company, Omaha, Nebr.-based Buffet is a major player on Wall Street. Financial consultant Hagstrom, who did not interview his subject but obtained permission to quote from his Berkshire Hathaway annual reports, here outlines Buffet's iconoclastic tenets for investing.
BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. It was first published in 1929 (as The Business Week) under the direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company at the time, Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune and Forbes, which are published bi-weekly.
Since 1988, BusinessWeek has published annual rankings of United States business school MBA programs. In addition to these rankings, it has recently started publishing annual rankings of undergraduate business programs.
On October 12, 2007, BusinessWeek launched a revamped design, its first in four years. Several sections were redesigned to focus the publication more on news and global coverage, while eliminating the Executive Life section.
BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. It was first published in 1929 (as The Business Week) under the direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company at the time. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune and Forbes, which are published bi-weekly.
Since 1988, BusinessWeek has published annual rankings of United States business school MBA programs. In addition to these rankings, it has recently started publishing annual rankings of undergraduate business programs.