Teaching about the Future

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In 1975 the University of Houston-Clear Lake created the first degree program in Futures Studies. Now the faculty of that
program share their approach to preparing foresight professionals and others doing foresight projects. This volume contains a comprehensive and integrated approach that practitioners and educators alike can use to understand the
theories, methods, and applications of this new field. Based on 35 years of teaching, this volume reveals how to systematically
deal with change, how to develop scenarios that describe alternative futures and how to develop visions and plans for influencing those futures. The systematic description of the past (history) was established 2,500 years ago. Unfortunately,
educational systems around the world have failed to prepare their students for their changing and challenging future. It is
now time to establish a systematic approach to the future. Teaching about the Future is an important step in that direction.

Teaching about the Future Review

For over 35 years the University of Houston has offered a masters program to train futurists. Now two professors from that program have authored a seminal book on the practice of strategic foresight for any trend analyst, manager or consultant who wants an overview of the field. This book is broken down into three parts, 1) how to understand the future through models, systems and theory, 2) how to map a range of futures through research, forecasting and scenarios, and 3) how to influence the future through leadership, vision, planning, and change management. Each chapter introduces a foresight practice, describes its history, explains its key concepts, and considers how it is taught. Resources are also annotated for further study. In keeping with its title, _Teaching about the Future_ is also designed to help educators create their own courses based on a core curriculum that has shaped the futures field. For that audience more support could have been offered through learning objectives for modules of study or competencies of foresight professionals. Beyond this omission, the book contains unique forms that support two key deliverables that foresight professionals provide clients: a horizon scanning report and a forecasting template. If you are serious about mastering the craft of foresight, _Teaching about the Future_ is worth the price. It should be widely used in any futures studies course in a university context, in any MBA program that does environmental analysis, or by any executive development program focused on strategic thinking and adaptive planning.

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Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments (Academic Press Advanced Finance Series)

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Understanding Credit Derivatives offers a comprehensive introduction to the credit derivatives market. Rather than presenting a highly technical exploration of the subject, it offers intuitive and rigorous summaries of the major subjects and the principal perspectives associated with them. The centerpiece is pricing and valuation issues, especially discussions of different valuation tools and their use in credit models.* Offers a broad overview of this growing field* Discusses all the main types of credit derivatives* Provides back-of-the-book summary of statistics and fixed-income mathematics

Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments (Academic Press Advanced Finance Series) Review

I am a financial engineering graduate student with professional experience in corporate and structured finance. I first read this book before I knew anything about the subject and found it very accessible. This is not a technical introduction to credit derivatives, nor will it be particularly useful to quants (other than perhaps as a quick reference to a couple concepts), however this book does an admirable job of explaining and linking the world of CD practice with academic theory. For anyone who doesn't have a derivatives background, but is able to understand mid-level mathematical concepts, this book is very good. It is clear, concise and is a great place to start for an introduction to CD that is not overly pedantic and offers motivation for further inquiry into the area.

If you are looking for a more technical and comprehensive book on credit modeling (which forms the basis of most CD valuation) then I recommend Jeff Bohn's "Active Credit Portfolio Management in Practice" which has in depth discussions about many of the issues in Bonfim's book as well as much more.

Nonetheless, having read and purchased many books on CD this one is one of the best due to its brevity, concision and practical robustness.

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American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader

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This major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.� In terms of content and scope, there is no collection, in or out of print, directly comparable to this one. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings, contextualized and introduced by Keith Eggener.

Drawing together 24 illustrated essays by major and emerging scholars in the field, American Architectural History is a valuable resource for students of the history of American art, architecture, urbanism, and material culture.

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American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader Review

Picked up this book browsing at the recent publications table at the Society for Architectural Historians of Australia & New Zealand conference, and ended up late for the next session of papers! Despite its rather drab cover, it achieves just what editor Keith Eggener sets out to do - assembling essays of 'significant scholarship...that are concise, lively, accessible and engaging.' The ambitious breadth of topics doesn't in any way compromise the rigour of the selection, and there is a great mix of familiar writers and new ones (at least for those of us in the Antopides who struggle to keep up with what's going on on the rest of the world). Liked very much Eggener's previous book on Luis Barragan and the introductory essay displays his characteristic clarity and umnpretentious scholarship. Favourite essay so far? Difficult to pick between the old friend of Alice Friedman's 'People who live in glass houses' and a new one to me, though quite old, Neil Levine, writing about Venturi. An elegant and generous book.

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Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials

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This book presents a logical system of critical appraisal, to allow readers to evaluate studies and to carry out their own studies more effectively. This system emphasizes the central importance of cause and effect relationships. Its great strength is that it is applicable to a wide range of issues, and both to intervention trials and observational studies.

This system unifies the often different approaches used in epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials, and evidence-based medicine, starting from a logical consideration of cause and effect. The author's approach to the issues of study design, selection of subjects, bias, confounding, and the place of statistical methods has been praised for its clarity and interest. Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and the applications of this logic to evidence-based medicine, knowledge-based health care, and health practice and policy are discussed. Current and often controversial examples are used, including screening for prostate cancer, publication bias in psychiatry, public health issues in developing countries, and conflicts between observational studies and randomized trials. Statistical issues are explained clearly without complex mathematics, and the most useful methods are summarized in the appendix.

The final chapters give six applications of the critical appraisal of major studies; randomized trials of medical treatment and prevention, a prospective and a retrospective cohort study, a small matched case-control study, and a large case-control study. In these chapters, sections of the original papers are reproduced and the original studies places in context by a summary of current developments.

Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials Review

Mark Elwood's new book will surely enable you to discover the Clinical Trials' world in an uncommon way. Focused on the causation perspective of
medical clinical problems, you will get into the different types of trials from the design aspects to the most accurate and precise statistical methods to analize results. You will learn to evaluate research findings with confidence and improve your outcomes. "Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials" will be a useful tool for anyone who wants a genuine search of evidence-based medicine whether designing a clinical trial or simply studying up-to-date medical literature by sistematically reviewing its relevance, validity and results to specific situations.

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Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Second Edition

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John Fleagle has improved on his 1988 text by reconceptualizing chapters and by bringing new findings in functional and evolutionary approaches to bear on his synthesis of comparative primate data. The Second Edition provides a foundation upon which students can develop an understanding of our primate heritage. It features up-to-date information gained through academic training, laboratory experience and field research. This beautifully illustrated volume provides a comprehensive introductory text explaining the many aspects of primate biology and human evolution.


Key Features
* Provides up-to-date information about many aspects of primate biology and evolution
* Contains a completely new chapter on primate communities
* Presents totally revised chapters on primate origins, early anthropoids, and fossil platyrrhines
* Includes an updated glossary, new illustrations, and a revised Classification of Order Primates
* Succeeds as the best introductory text on primate evolution because it synthesizes and allows access to primary literature

Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Second Edition Review

Anyone who teaches an intro to primates course will wish to assign this book to their students. There are a variety of textbooks on the subject available, and some of them are excellent. Fleagle's volume, however, is the only one that provides such a complete review of the fossil record and anatomical variation, as well as behavioral variation. It is concise, thorough, and complete, and the best of the choices available to an instructor in this subject.

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Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership

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Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership brings together the foremost thinkers on the subject and is the first book of its kind to address the conceptual, methodological, and practical issues for shared leadership. Its aim is to advance understanding along many dimensions of the shared leadership phenomenon: its dynamics, moderators, appropriate settings, facilitating factors, contingencies, measurement, practice implications, and directions for the future. The volume provides a realistic and practical discussion of the benefits, as well as the risks and problems, associated with shared leadership. It will serve as an indispensable guide for researchers and practicing managers in identifying where and when shared leadership may be appropriate for organizations and teams.

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Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership Review

This is a serious academic look by a number of respected authorities on the idea of shared leadership within teams. Its main merit is that it recognizes that executives cannot provide all the leadership that teams need in a complex, fast changing, knowledge driven world. But, we have had the concept of informal leadership for decades now, so shared leadership is really little more than a new name for an old idea. Indeed, their concept, like informal leadership, sounds a lot like shared management. Too bad we can't agree on how management and leadership differ as this confusion is infecting all our efforts to develop new ideas about leadership, ideas we badly need for the reasons Conger and Pearce rightly state - increasing complexity and pace of change.

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