13921Confidence game : how a hedge fund manager called Wall Street's bluff
Confidence Game tells the story how hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's warnings regarding bond insurer MBIA's credit rating went unheeded as Wall Street careened toward disaster.
13922Confident color : an artist's guide to harmony, contrast and unity
Color is what you make it: sensitive, explosive, dreamlike, atmospheric, somber, cheerful... Nita Leland brings logic and intuition together to create a foundation for color selections that allow you to be more inventive, break out of old habits and experiment with new colors. Her approach eliminates time-wasting trial and error while giving you the freedom to use color in personal, meaningful and exciting ways.
13923Configurations of family in contemporary Japan
Part 1: Family, companionship; Part 2: Old age, women, storytelling; Part 3: Contemporary parenting; Part 4: Transnational families.
13924Configuring advanced windows server 2012 R2 services : exam 70-412
This textbook covers the third of three exams required for Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows Server 2012 certification. This course will help validate the skills and knowledge necessary to administer a Windows Server 2012 Infrastructure in an enterprise environment. The three MCSA exams collectively validate the skills and knowledge necessary for implementing, managing, maintaining and provisioning services and infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment. This Microsoft Official Academic Course is mapped to the 70-412 Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services exam skills, including the recent R2 objectives. This textbook focuses on real skills for real jobs and prepares students to prove mastery of Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services such as advanced configuring tasks necessary to deploy, manage, and maintain a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure.
13926Confirmatory factor analysis for applied research
Emphasizes the practical and conceptual aspects of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) over mathematics and formulas. This book uses many examples derived from the psychology, management, and sociology literatures to provide an in-depth treatment of the concepts, procedures, pitfalls, and extensions of CFA methodology.
13927Confirmatory factor analysis for applied research
Emphasizing practical and theoretical aspects of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) rather than mathematics or formulas, Timothy A. Brown uses rich examples derived from the psychology, management, and sociology literatures to provide in-depth treatment of the concepts, procedures, pitfalls, and extensions of CFA methodology. Chock full of useful advice and tables that outline the procedures, the text shows readers how to conduct exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and understand similarities to and differences from CFA; formulate, program, and interpret CFA models using popular latent variable software packages such as LISREL, Mplus, Amos, EQS, and SAS/CALIS; and report results from a CFA study.
13928Conflic and cooperation
Introduction realist theory, transnationalist theory, class system theory, political culture theory, decision-making process theory, human nature theory, cognitive theory, feminist theory, peace studies theory.
13929Conflict and consensus : an introduction to sociology
Chapter 1: The compass of sociology; Chapter 2: The scope of social inquiry; Chapter 3: The cultural dimension; Chapter 4: Socialization and society; Chapter 5: Man as a group animal; Chapter 6: The human community,..
13930Conflicts of interest in the financial services industry : what should we do about them?: Geneva reports on the world economy
This study examines five generic remedies: market discipline, regulation for increased transparency, supervisory oversight, separation of financial activities by function, and socialization of the collection and distribution of information. The authors apply this framework to assess critically the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Global Settlement between American regulators and investment banks.