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1. Music: An Appreciation
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McGraw-Hill is revolutionizing the Music Appreciation course by introducing its first personalized digital learning experience with Roger Kamiens Music: An Appreciation. Using this market-leading instrument that brings great music to the course in more ways than ever before, students are now transformed into active participants in the Music Appreciation space. The result is active listening, active reading, and active learning.Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective. It provides tools that make assessment easier, learning more engaging, and studying more efficient.
2. Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach (8th Edition)
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The art and science of compensation practice.
Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach illustrates the art and science of compensation practice and its role in promoting a companys competitive advantage.
MyManagementLab for Strategic Compensation is a total learning package. MyManagementLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that truly engages students in learning. It helps students better prepare for class, quizzes, and examsresulting in better performance in the courseand provides educators a dynamic set of tools for gauging individual and class progress.
This program will provide a better teaching and learning experiencefor you and your students. Heres how:
- Improve Results with MyManagementLab: MyManagementLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed and provides engaging experiences that personalize learning.
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- Real-world topics that are relevant to all business majors: Numerous cases and interesting, engaging material will apply and appeal to all business students regardless of their major.
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3. The Career Fitness Program: Exercising Your Options (11th Edition)
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This book is designed to help learners choose, change, or confirm career choices.
The Career Fitness Program is firmly focused on today's career realities and economywith sufficient breadth to encourage change and growth for learners of all ages, backgrounds, and circumstances.User-friendly, easy to read, and appropriate for all learners, it provides three teaching and learning career handles-choice, change, and confirmation-that help students find their career fit. For career choice, the book follows the standard sequence of career search and decision-making issuesPersonal Assessment, World of Work, and Job Search.For career change, it offers critical questions thatgo beyond facts and figures to help learners focus on Whats in it for me? especially when changing careers. For career confirmation, it provides direction, understanding, and reassurance, showing learners how skills acquired in college are transferable to the world of work.
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4. Blockchain: The Complete Guide to Understanding Blockchain Technology
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Cryptocurrencies might be interesting, and there is even profit to be had if you do your own mining, but this pales in comparison to the numerous ways in which blockchain technology will change the way information is shared across the world.
There is no doubt that blockchain technology will become a central part of our lives over the next ten to fifteen years. Soon you will start to see large financial institutions use the technology to revamp the way that they create and are held to contracts. Blockchain will be massively disruptive for payment processors and credit cards. It is a very real possibility that not too long in the future a government will adopt blockchain as the underpinning of their official currency.
Blockchain has truly moved out of the realm of interesting and into the spotlight as a practical, powerful and necessary tool to facilitate information sharing in the twenty first century.
5. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
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The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the future of the world economy has arrived, and it's not self-driving cars, solar energy, or artificial intelligence.
It's called the blockchain.
The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generation - powered by blockchain technology - is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that can help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better.
Blockchain is the ingeniously simple, revolutionary protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously anonymous and secure by maintaining a tamperproof public ledger of value. Though it's the technology that drives bitcoin and other digital currencies, the underlying framework has the potential to go far beyond these and record virtually everything of value to humankind, from birth and death certificates to insurance claims and even votes.
Why should you care? Maybe you're a music lover who wants artists to make a living off their art. Or a consumer who wants to know where that hamburger meat really came from. Perhaps you're an immigrant who's sick of paying big fees to send money home to loved ones. Or an entrepreneur looking for a new platform to build a business.
And those examples are barely the tip of the iceberg. This technology is public, encrypted, and readily available for anyone to use. It's already seeing widespread adoption in a number of areas. For example, forty-two (and counting) of the world's biggest financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Credit Suisse, have formed a consortium to investigate the blockchain for speedier and more secure transactions.
As with major paradigm shifts that preceded it, the blockchain will create winners and losers. And while opportunities abound, the risks of disruption and dislocation must not be ignored.
Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wikinomics, and his son, blockchain expert Alex Tapscott, bring us a brilliantly researched, highly listenable, and utterly foundational book about the future of the modern economy. Blockchain Revolution is the business leaders' playbook for the next decade and beyond.
6. International Human Resource Development: Learning, Education and Training for Individuals and Organizations
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Growing and influential, the discipline of Human Resource Development (HRD) is the framework for helping employees develop their personal and organizational skills, knowledge, and abilities. HRD is increasingly viewed as the only source of sustainable competitive advantage for an organization.
This book offers an international perspective on the significant developments in the field and covers HRD and learning, organizational learning including a discussion of change management, a comparative view of learning education, training and human resource development in both developed and emerging countries, a section covering the training cycle from identification of training needs to design, delivery and evaluation and a final discussion of HRD management including functions and services, leadership development, learning spaces and business ethics.
A distinguished group of international contributors present current views from Europe Ireland, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia UK, USA, India, Iraq, Brazil, Romania, South Africa and Australia. American contributors include Maria Cseh from George Washington University, Douglas Jondle from University of St Thomas Minnesota and K. Peter Kuchinke from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
7. Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation
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Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation explores recent advances in digital banking and cryptocurrency, emphasizing mobile technology and evolving uses of cryptocurrencies as financial assets. Contributors go beyond summaries of standard models to describe new banking business models that will be sustainable and will likely dictate the future of finance. The volume not only emphasizes the financial opportunities made possible by digital banking, such as financial inclusion and impact investing, but it also looks at engineering theories and developments that encourage innovation. Its ability to illuminate present potential and future possibilities make it a unique contribution to the literature.
- Explores recent advances in digital banking and cryptocurrency, emphasizing mobile technology and evolving uses of cryptocurrencies as financial assets
- Explains the practical consequences of both technologies and economics to readers who want to learn about subjects related to their specialties
- Encompasses alternative finance, financial inclusion, impact investing, decentralized consensus ledger and applied cryptography
- Provides the only advanced methodical summary of these subjects available today
8. Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 2: ChinaTech, Mobile Security, and Distributed Ledger
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Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 2: ChinaTech, Mobile Security, and Distributed Ledgeremphasizes technological developments that introduce the future of finance. Descriptions of recent innovations lay the foundations for explorations of feasible solutions for banks and startups to grow. The combination of studies on blockchain technologies and applications, regional financial inclusion movements, advances in Chinese finance, and security issues delivers a grand perspective on both changing industries and lifestyles. Written for students and practitioners, it helps lead the way to future possibilities.
- Explains the practical consequences of both technologies and economics to readers who want to learn about subjects related to their specialties
- Encompasses alternative finance, financial inclusion, impact investing, decentralized consensus ledger and applied cryptography
- Provides the only advanced methodical summary of these subjects available today
9. Business Innovation Through Blockchain: The B Perspective
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This book explores the main challenges and trends related to the use of blockchain technology for digital business innovation with the aim of providing practitioners with stimulating insights and ideas. Readers will find a unified survey of current scientific work on blockchain and related phenomena, such as bitcoin, from a range of perspectives, including information systems, technology management, innovation research, computer science, and engineering. In this way, the book links research and industry practices suitable for use by practitioners in their day-to-day activities and also provides an update on what academia may offer in terms of industry proposals. The contents are divided into three parts. After discussion of blockchain technology and management, including impacts on value chains and systems, governance, and security issues, the bitcoin phenomenon and main technological trends in the use of blockchain are addressed. The final part presents examples of business innovation using blockchain that are drawn from across the globe. Throughout, the author adopts a methodologically rigorous approach while ensuring that the text is readily understandable for readers, regardless of their degree of acquaintance with blockchain.10. Bitcoin and Beyond: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Global Governance (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)
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Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 several hundred different cryptocurrencies have been developed and become accepted for a wide variety of transactions in leading online commercial marketplaces and the sharing economy, as well as by more traditional retailers, manufacturers, and even by charities and political parties.
Bitcoin and its competitors have also garnered attention for their wildly fluctuating values as well as implication in international money laundering, Ponzi schemes and online trade in illicit goods and services across borders. These and other controversies surrounding cryptocurrencies have induced varying governance responses by central banks, government ministries, international organizations, and industry regulators worldwide. Besides formal attempts to ban Bitcoin, there have been multifaceted efforts to incorporate elements of blockchains, the peer-to-peer technology underlying cryptocurrencies, in the wider exchange, recording, and broadcasting of digital transactions. Blockchains are being mobilized to support and extend an array of governance activities. The novelty and breadth of growing blockchain-based activities have fuelled both utopian promises and dystopian fears regarding applications of the emergent technology to Bitcoin and beyond.
This volume brings scholars of anthropology, economics, Science and Technology Studies, and sociology together with GPE scholars in assessing the actual implications posed by Bitcoin and blockchains for contemporary global governance. Its interdisciplinary contributions provide academics, policymakers, industry practitioners and the general public with more nuanced understandings of technological change in the changing character of governance within and across the borders of nation-states.
11. The Future of FinTech: Integrating Finance and Technology in Financial Services (Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology)
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12. Blockchain Technology: Einfhrung Fr Business- Und It Manager (German Edition)
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Das vorliegende Buch fhrt Business- und IT Manager in die neue Technologie Blockchain ein. In Beitrgen von verschiedenen Autoren wird die Funktionsweise der Blockchaintechnologie erlutert. Anhand der Blockchain-Plattform Hyperledger werden wichtige IT-Aspekte besprochen. Die Einsatzgebiete der Blockchaintechnologie werden anhand von Beispielen aus der Finanzindustrie und Energiehandel diskutiert. Checklisten helfen dem Leser das Potential und Auswirkungen von Blockchains auf das eigene Unternehmen zu erkennen. Abschlieend werden die Aspekte des Vertrauens und der Sicherheit errtert.
Das Buch bildet die Grundlage eines dreitgigen Seminars an der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz und eignet sich auch zum Selbststudium.
13. Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains
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Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains establishes and analyzes the connection between this revolutionary technology and global efforts to combat climate change. The benefits of blockchain come through various profound alterations such as the adoption of smart contracts, whichare set to redefine governance and regulatory structures as well as transaction systems in coming decades. Each chapter contains a "problem statement" that describes the challenges blockchain technology can address.
The first book of its kind, Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains brings together original visions and insights from the members of the Blockchain Climate Institute, comprising thought leaders, financial professionals, international development practitioners, technology entrepreneurs, fintech innovators, scholars, experienced lawyers, and journalists from 20 countries. This book will help readers understand blockchain technology, how it can facilitate the implementation of the Paris Agreement and accelerate the global transition to green economy.
- Provides an authoritative examination of this emerging digital technology and its implications on the global climate change governance
- Includes detailed proposals and thorough discussions of implementation issues specific to green economy sectors
- Relates innovative proposals to existing applications to demonstrate the value add of blockchain technology
- Covers blockchain for smarter energy sector; blockchain for fraud-free emissions management; blockchain to streamline climate investment; and legal frameworks for blockchain-based climate finance
