“…In an era that has brought new and unexpected challenges for virtually every company, one would be hard-pressed to find any responsible manager who is not thinking about what the future will bring. In the wake of these challenges, strategic planning has moved from being the reserve of large corporations to becoming an essential need for even small and medium-sized enterprises. …”

“…Over the last few decades, in the wake of the ‘Ethical Turn’, contemporary literature has been examined through the prism of the ethics of alterity. …”

“…However, even though there was little progress on average in the OECD over this period, a number of OECD countries implemented sizable reforms, often in an attempt to boost economic growth in wake of the economic crisis. On average across the OECD, countries have made particular progress in abolishing price controls or improving their design, streamlining administrative procedures for start-ups, simplifying rules and procedures or improving access to information about regulations. …”

“…The importance of such reform lessons is all the greater in the wake of the global financial and economic crisis. …”

“…They give us insights, opinions and sharp perspectives on not just 22 July, but also about Norway today, about values, identities and resilience in Norwegian society in the wake of the terror attacks. An important backdrop for the book and the project is the assertion that, as the events themselves recede into the past, it is even more important to focus on what the terror events have led to and how we can learn from them. …”

“…Bestselling authors Jim Mellon and Al Chalabi were seen as the party poopers just a few years ago when they predicted the financial crisis in Wake Up! Now they take the opposite view - the party is about to start. …”

“…Communism is dead, but in the wake of Enron and similar scandal…”

“…This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to the commonly held belief that Islamists uniformly reject the Western-dominated world order. In the wake of George W. Bush's declaration of a "global war on terror" in 2001, Islamists have often been associated with violence, opposition to liberal values, and the disruption of order. …”

“…We first summarize industry-level evidence linking these diverging patterns to delays in service markets reforms in the wake of the ICT shock. The evidence we survey suggests that, especially in continental EU countries, tight regulation of services has slowed down growth in ICT-using sectors, which use intermediate service inputs intensively. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Beiler -- Forecasting loss : Christoph Saur's Pennsylvania German calender (1751 to 1757) / Bethany Wiggin -- After the fall : the dynamics of social death and rebirth in the wake of the Höchstetter bankruptcy, 1529 to 1586 / Thomas Max Safley…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…"Shooting the Eagle": Lin Changyi's Agony in the Wake of the Opium War -- 6. Information and Knowledge: Qing China's Perceptions of the Maritime World in the Eighteenth Century -- Part Three: Pushing the Traditional Boundaries -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…THE ENERGY BUS: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction; Chapter 1: Flat Tire; Chapter 2: Good News and Bad News; Chapter 3: The Long Walk Home; Chapter 4: George Wakes Up; Chapter 5: No Joy on the Bus; Chapter 6: The Rules; Chapter 7: You're the Driver; Chapter 8: It's All About Energy; Chapter 9: George Shares His Vision; Chapter 10: Focus; Chapter 11: The Power of Positive Energy; Chapter 12: George Takes a Walk; Chapter 13: One Great Golf Shot Theory; Chapter 14: Bus Tickets…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Political Parties and the BundestagInside the German GovernmentGerman BusinessThe Role of German Think Tanks, Political Foundations and AcademiaChapter 4: Doing Business with Russia Inc.Dealing with the Devil: German Business in RussiaThe Costs of CorruptionThe Case of Siemens AGGazprom in GermanyThe Gazprom German TeamImplications of the Energy RevolutionChapter 5: Security and Geo-EconomicsThe Geopolitics of Geo-economicsMilitary Force: Nein DankeDefending Germany Inc.The Resource and Markets ImperativeThe Merkel Doctrine and Arms ExportsDrones and German SecurityCyber Security and Industrial EspionageRussia and German SecurityChapter 6: Germany's Russlandpolitik: Implications for The United States, Poland and EuropeRussia as the Centerpiece in the German-American RelationshipThe Legacy of 1989 in Germany and the United StatesGerman and American Publics and RussiaAssymetrical Economic StakesThe German-American Strategic DebateStrategic Options for the United StatesPoland's Resets with Germany and RussiaThe Role of the European UnionIn the Wake of the Ukraine CrisisChapter 7: Conclusions: Germany the Shaping PowerFuture Scenarios for German-Russian RelationsGermany and the Geo-Economic WorldGermany as a Shaping PowerSelect BibliographyIndex…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Author -- A Note on Typography -- Introduction: On Magic (with Shirley Wu) -- Part I: Pragmatists -- Chapter 1: Unruly Stripes (with Ed Hawkins) -- Chapter 2: A World of Conversation -- Part 2: Eccentrics -- Chapter 3: The Eternal Wanderer (with Jaime Serra) -- Chapter 4: A Certain Inner Light (with Nadieh Bremer) -- Chapter 5: A Mindful Artisan (with Sonja Kuijpers) -- Chapter 6: Living Visualization (with Pedro Cruz) -- Chapter 7: Data and Persons (with Federica Fragapane) -- Chapter 8: Souls Before Numbers (with Mohamad Waked) -- Coda -- Part 3: Ambassadors -- Chapter 9: Building Bridges (with Allen Hillery) -- Chapter 10: The Good Fighter (with Amanda Makulec) -- Chapter 11: Making Data Friendly (with Alli Torban) -- Chapter 12: A Reporter Among Engineers (with Aaron Williams) -- Chapter 13: The Therapy of Visualization (with Deniz Cem Önduygu) -- Chapter 14: The Public Intellectual (with Attila Bátorfy) -- Chapter 15: The Discerning Outsider (with Harkanwal Singh) -- Second Coda -- Part 4: Narrators -- Chapter 16: A Journalism of Care (with Alyssa Fowers) -- Chapter 17: No Treasure Hunts (with Lena Groeger) -- Chapter 18: Smart Brevity (with Danielle Alberti, Jacque Schrag, and Will Chase) -- Chapter 19: Visceral Visualizations (with Gurman Bhatia) -- Chapter 20: The Determined Learner (with Jane Pong) -- Chapter 21: The Jack-of-All-Trades (with Simon Ducroquet) -- Chapter 22: A Journalist at War (with Anatoliy Bondarenko) -- Epilogue: Teachers, Mentors, and Meaning -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index -- EULA…”

“…Instead, the author suggests a counterintuitive yet compelling explanation; that a democratic polity is far more likely than an authoritarian one to engender a successful developmental state. Emerging in the wake of the January revolution in Egypt, when hopes for democratisation were raised, this book provides a fresh perspective on the topical subject of state reform and development in the Middle East and will be of interest to students and scholar alike"--…”
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“…Such understandings are useful in wake of disaster, because they leave us with something to do: danger can be managed by bringing certain people and places up-to-date. …”

“…Fair value accounting (FVA) refers to the practice of updating the valuation of assets or securities on a regular basis, ideally by reference to current prices for similar assets or securities established in the context of a liquid market; historical cost accounting (HCA) instead records the value of an asset as the price at which it was originally purchased. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, conflicting arguments have been made about the contributions of valuation approaches in triggering the crisis. …”

“…Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of their industrial past. …”

“…These new measures capture well the contagion observed e.g. in the wake of the Mexican and Asian crises, and confirm that contagion shocks observed in 2009/10 dwarfed those observed during previous financial crises. …”

“…It is published in the wake of the June 1996 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements- Habitat II. …”