Entitled Freedom of Information (FOI) and Women's Rights in Africa, the resource book compiles case studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Zambia.
After a preliminary canter across the historical background of the industrial revolution and the possible problems of coming first, he devotes the heart of his book to case studies of big industries, ranging from textiles to aerospace, and from cars to pharmaceuticals.
The book is full of studies in human behavior and those results can help us, and the people we manage, make better decisions.
Packed with data from dozens of academic studies, this book shows the hard facts about the failure of active management and the fund companies who profit from it despite the chronic underperformance.
In his new book Mr Gazzaniga uses animal studies to argue that the brain is shaped by the tasks before it, pointing out that the brains of New World carnivorous bats are more similar to those of Old World carnivorous bats than they are to New World fruit bats, despite these being their closer cousins.
One in 20 hospitalized patients will die because of misdiagnosis, studies cited in the book show.
So going back and looking, there have, people who've done studies after I wrote the book.
Kirsch, associate director of Harvard Medical School's Program in Placebo Studies, has published a book and several medical journal articles on the effect.
One of the case studies we describe in our book tells the story of John Birrer, the senior vice president of customer experience at Charter Communications.
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Marijn Nieuwenhuis, from the University of Warwick's Department of Politics and International Studies, and contributing author to the book "Shanghai New Towns, " explained that the city's boom began in the early 1990s with the construction of the Pudong commercial district.
While researching my new book Stop Playing Safe, I came upon numerous fascinating studies by neuro-scientists about how our brains work.
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One critic has been US Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, Denise Spellberg, who said the book was a disrespectful mis-representation of history.
Travelling through the book, the reader is introduced to a range of character studies complemented by descriptions of real people, including Marilyn Monroe, whose early sorrows blighted the rest of her life.
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Sears appears to have simply invented this alternative schedule without bothering to conduct any scientific studies, in part to promote sales of his 2007 book, The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of the book The Googlization of Everything, says that this is going to raise some difficult questions for Google, which owns YouTube.
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"Criolo is probably the best example of how Brazilians have forged in the last decade or so their own musical language for hip-hop beyond merely rapping in Portuguese, " said Christopher Dunn, associate professor of Brazilian studies at Tulane University, who co-edited a book on the country's popular music.
In my latest book, The Power of Passive Investing, I summarized several timing studies and conclude that these strategies have reduced investor return by about 1.5 percent annually since 2001.
My upcoming book, The Power of Passive Investing, provides summaries of exhaustive academic studies covering the active versus passive debate going back many decades.
In the book, he does this not only through passion, but also through specific examples and case studies showing the ROI of one-on-one engagement.
To give two high-profile examples, Ibbotson and Associates and the academic duo of Eugene Fama and Kenneth French did similar studies that found that value stocks, as measured by low price-to-book ratios, outperform growth stocks over the long run.
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