A journalist assigned to China from 1977 to 1979 recounts his experiences, clarifies misconceptions about modern China, assesses its current economic, social, and political problems, and outlines its attitudes towards the West

The Chinese, Portrait Of A People

FRASER, John

Summit Books

The Chinese: Portrait of a People

History

Asia

HarperCollins, Publishers

The bard in the bush

GRANADA

An Australian Language As Spoken by the Awabakal, the People of Awaba, Or Lake Macquarie (Near Newcastle, New South Wales): Being an Account of Their Language, Traditions, and Customs

Reference

Livingstone, H.

Threlkeld, Lancelot Edward

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Franklin Classics

The Babysitter

G.P.Putnam's Sons

Essential insights on the various aspects of enterprise risk management If you want to understand enterprise risk management from some of the leading academics and practitioners of this exciting new methodology, Enterprise Risk Management is the book for you. Through in-depth insights into what practitioners of this evolving business practice are actually doing as well as anticipating what needs to be taught on the topic, John Fraser and Betty Simkins have sought out the leading experts in this field to clearly explain what enterprise risk management is and how you can teach, learn, and implement these leading practices within the context of your business activities. In this book, the authors take a broad view of ERM, or what is called a holistic approach to ERM. Enterprise Risk Management introduces you to the wide range of concepts and techniques for managing risk in a holistic way that correctly identifies risks and prioritizes the appropriate responses. This invaluable guide offers a broad overview of the different types of techniques: the role of the board, risk tolerances, risk profiles, risk workshops, and allocation of resources, while focusing on the principles that determine business success. This comprehensive resource also provides a thorough introduction to enterprise risk management as it relates to credit, market, and operational risk, as well as the evolving requirements of the rating agencies and their importance to the overall risk management in a corporate setting. Filled with helpful tables and charts, Enterprise Risk Management offers a wealth of knowledge on the drivers, the techniques, the benefits, as well as the pitfalls to avoid, in successfully implementing enterprise risk management. <ul>
<li>Discusses the history of risk management and more recently developed enterprise risk management practices and how you can prudently implement these techniques within the context of your underlying business activities</li> <li>Provides coverage of topics such as the role of the chief risk officer, the use of anonymous voting technology, and risk indicators and their role in risk management</li> <li>Explores the culture and practices of enterprise risk management without getting bogged down by the mathematics surrounding the more conventional approaches to financial risk management</li> </ul>
This informative guide will help you unlock the incredible potential of enterprise risk management, which has been described as a proxy for good management.

Enterprise Risk Management

Business & Money

Simkins, Betty J.

Finance

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Profiles the glamorous yet driven world of the American Ballet Theater and the style and influence of its charismatic and risk-taking artistic director, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and presents a photographic account of the performers

Private View: Inside Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Random House Value Publishing

John Fraser explores a major paradox about the USA: that after the Civil War, in a country now officially dedicated to rational, pacific, industrial progress and equality, there was a growing enthusiasm in the North for chivalric values. With a wealth of examples, modern and medieval, he shows how those values had not simply made for high-toned violence and romantic fictions, but, when transposed into college life, crusading reformism, and the radical labor movement, were powerful modifiers of the Gilded Age ethos of unbridled capitalism. The permeation of American fiction, from Twain to The Great Gatsby and beyond, and the whole of popular culture, especially the movies, by the recognition that behaviors, while legal, could be morally unacceptable because dishonorable, is one of the many admirable things about this country. Fraser has written a book that will move its readers as well as instruct, enlighten, and entertain them.

America and the Patterns of Chivalry

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

This selection from John Fraser's essays forms a triptych with his Violence in the Arts and America and the Patterns of Chivalry (published by the Press in 1974 and 1982) and, like them, explores conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order. Important concerns in all three works are ideas of energy, power, and personal plenitude, and the way in which idealism and heroic intensity can sometimes lead to overstrain and collapse. Yet the dominant emphasis is positive. In this volume the author offers some of his finest analyses both of the workings of heroic and pastoral ideals and of the dangers of irony and nihilism in a violent world. The essays range in subject from Shakespeare to Atget's photographs of Paris, by way of American fiction, sadomasochism, literary theory and patterns of rural culture. Their implicit argument is subtle and absorbing.

The Name of Action: Critical Essays

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