Business and Human Rights in Africa raises interesting questions about the legitimacy and long-term viability of the business and human rights agenda in Africa, and in developing countries more generally. It explores the key issues for business and human rights in Africa and asks how and to what extent are the UN Guiding Principles changing the law and policy in Africa or the behavior of businesses operating in the continent? The book examines both the international and regional legal and policy initiatives on business and human rights in Africa and how these initiatives are being implemented in selected countries.

This book covers statistical inference for copula and tail copula models with applications in finance, insurance and risk management.

For the last four decades, Rolling Bearing Analysis has been the bible for engineers involved in rolling bearing technology. With this edition, the coverage is split conveniently into two books: Essential Concepts of Bearing Technology introduces the fundamentals involved in the use, design, and performance of rolling bearings for more common applications, and Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology delves into more advanced topics involving dynamic loading, more extreme conditions, and higher-speed applications. Each book includes a CD-ROM that contains numerical examples as well as tables of dimensional, mounting, and life-rating data obtained from ABMA/ANSI standards.

Essential Concepts of Bearing Technology 6/e builds a basic understanding of the fundamentals underlying the use, design, and performance of rolling bearings.

This text provides an overview of the key issues in designing and analyzing observational biomarker studies. The failure to properly design and analyze such studies has led to falsely optimistic expectations regarding biomarker utility. The challenge in presenting relevant material is that the topics, although already published individually, are spread over a wide range of articles and textbooks in epidemiology, statistics and clinical research. This text pulls together all major concepts and presents the material in a non-mathematical fashion.

This book examines the ontological nature of criminal groups and issues of legal responsibility and culpability.

Few events have become as iconic as Gery Keszler's annual Life Ball-for all not to forget that AIDS is still present. From Bill Clinton to Whoopi Goldberg, from Naomi Campbell to Elton John, the worlds of politics and fashion unite at amfAR's (the American Foundation for AIDS Research) gala in Vienna, designed each year by a different artist and now one of the most coveted events in Europe. The spectacle invariably turns into an all-night party with several thousand donors dressed in the most stunning and outrageous costumes. This book is Michel Comte's portrait of the glamour and grit of the Life Ball. Comte remembers: "My first journey started in New York. We all boarded a large chartered Airbus. Wherever I looked, there was somebody I knew, had read about or was interested in meeting. The experience onboard reminded me of a sixties rock-'n'-roll charter. People were frolicking through the aisles with glasses of champagne. In Vienna my assistants and I started working early afternoon before the legendary event began. Everyone was creating something special; chaos later turned into the most surreal experience. From the dazzling black-tie dinner to the fashion show, the performances and the late-night party, it all seemed like a crazy mid-summer night's dream. Here is our story."

Jeff Brouws has spent the last 30 years photographing various aspects of the American cultural landscape, often assembling typologies of common architectural forms in everyday environments. In Silent Monoliths he documents a variety of concrete coaling towers standing dormant in isolated brownfields or along active railroad lines. Built between 1907 and '56 these remnants of railroading's past were once used to dispense coal into steam locomotives. Seemingly impervious to the vicissitudes of time, decay or outright removal, these sculptural examples of former industrial brawn recall an earlier technological era most of us never witnessed. Because of this we glimpse-in real time-what Walker Evans once termed the "historical contemporary" of the modern world. Brouws practices an evidentiary form of photography, taking stand-alone portraits of coaling towers in homage to Hilla and Bernd Becher, as well as wider views revealing their broader contexts and landscapes. These two approaches reflect his dual interests in the New Topographics from the 1970s, as well as the compiling of typologies-a style of image making with historic roots traceable to the invention of photography itself as seen by Louis Daguerre's photo of his fossil collection and William Henry Fox Talbot's botanical photograms. Brouws' coaling towers emerge in dialogue with these nineteenth- and twentieth-century predecessors.

A superb guide to the recently constructed National Museum of Qatar, leading the vistor through the magnificent collection within the museum's extraordinary new space.

The DRAGON MASTERS series is "How to Train Your Dragon" meets the DRAGON SLAYERS' ACADEMY!

This latest edition of a bestseller adds new material and expands on previous work. The book includes new chapters on mathematics and physics for bloodstain pattern analysis, the application of the scientific method to bloodstain pattern analysis and experimentation, the forensic photography of bloodstain patterns, and SWGSTAIN Terminology (FBI

Focusing on the Golden Age of poisoning, the 1820s to the 1920s, for the first time, a book not only examining alleged poisoners' supposed crimes but also for some, their lives after acquittal.

As the speed of business continues to accelerate, B2B enterprises and sales organizations are being disintermediated and disrupted by digital transformation and artificial intelligence.The Amazon effect is permanently altering buying experience expectations while technology has lowered the barriers to entry. "Me-too" competitors lurk around every corner making differentiation a fundamental challenge and margin erosion a constant threat.Along the way, the Business to Business buying journey has fundamentally changed.In this brutal new age of business, every B2B enterprise faces a looming and existential threat of irrelevance and extinction. The undeniable truth is that in this hyper-competitive paradigm, there are only two alternatives:1. A race to the bottom in which price becomes the sole differentiator, customers are merely transactions, and your products and services are viewed as commodities.2. A race to relevance in which you separate yourself from, and rise above, the "me-too" horde with a shift away from pitching "stuff" to a customer-centric focus on delivering real, sustainable value through Measurable Business Outcomes.This is exactly why the world's most agile and profitable companies, along with the highest earning sales professionals, are taking the lead in the race to relevance by transforming how they approach the buying journey.In Business Outcome Selling Strategies Jeb Blount, one of the most celebrated sales strategists of our generation, and business transformation guru Jason Eatmon, give you the secrets for how next generation B2B sales organizations are accelerating sales productivity, operationalizing hyper-growth strategies, and locking out competitors. You'll learn powerful strategies for:* Building the foundation for hyper-growth* Connecting cross organizational disciplines to build an agile sales and growth driven culture* Winning mindshare early through familiarity and shaping* Nine Box Qualifying and the 4Rs: Right Prospect, Right Message, Right Time, Right Fit* Digital Sales Transformation and integration* Targeting tactics, sales engagement strategies, and sequencing* Mastering the Four Levels of Sales to rapidly respond to buyer expectations* Leveraging the MLP strategy to bend win probability in your favor* Effective Stakeholder Mapping* Deploying the READ Influence Methodology to gain stakeholder buy-in and consensus* Differentiating with the MBO + EBO value equation* Leveraging the powerful SCORE Discovery Model to get below the surface and become a true partner for your customers* Uncovering the Metrics that Matter that lead to higher prices and long-term margins* Mapping and presenting Outcome Based Solutions* Leveraging Value Bridges to become the vendor of choice* Linking marketing, sales, operations, and service to deliver Referenceable and Measurable Business Outcomes* Deploying the CAIRE Account Management and Customer Success model to rapidly grow existing accounts and make customer relationships sticky* Leveraging the comprehensive BOSS Strategic Planner to win your biggest opportunitiesBusiness Outcome Selling Strategies (BOSS) isn't a typical sales book. Inside, you'll find a powerful field guide, proven processes, and complete system that connects the dots between sales, marketing, business development, operations, service delivery, account management, and customer success.Leveraging these strategies, tactics, and tools, your organization will transform into a well-oiled, cohesive growth machine that delivers a legendary buying experience and unassailable competitive differentiation.BOSS is ground-breaking. It shatters old-school paradigms and forces readers to come face to face with the cold, hard truth about what it really takes to transform, shift into hyper-growth, and win the race for relevance.

Includes procedures and background knowledge on H2S cracking tests Presents a discussion of H2S related cracking in corrosion resistant alloys Proposes test methods for assessing the environmental cracking resistance of CRAs Provides extensive background information relating to the use of CRAs in oil and gas production Includes a more accurate formula for calculating the strain to be applied for loading four point bend or "C" ring samples prior to testing

Conceived and edited by artist Slavica Perkovic, this book for Lewis Baltz presents letters she asked Baltz's friends to write to him without seeing the images he had secretly made while teaching in Venice. (Baltz had told all he had stopped photographing; he had in fact continued to do so, walking the empty Lido beach to the Grand Hotel des Bains, then closed for renovation.) The first book of new material by Baltz since his passing in 2014, For Lewis Baltz. 8 + 38 texts. 14 images is shaped by the continuing resonance of his oeuvre, his absence and the complex notion of self.

In this new cradle-to-grave, life-and-times biography, Paul Kahan reconstructs (but does not rehabilitate) the life of James Buchanan and emphasizes why and how such an accomplished individual proved unable to manage the defining crisis of the nation.

6x20: From Below to Above takes viewers on a dizzying vertical journey, an urban exploration from deep underground to high above the skyline with adventure photographer Max Leitner.

The Idea of Critique addresses the shortcomings of existing literature by developing an original, detailed and comprehensive interpretation of Bhaskar's account of explanatory critique, exhibiting the dialectical unity of his thought at a deep level, and situating and defending his account as a powerful new paradigm within the tradition of Critical Theory. This book will be of interest both to students and experts interested in critical realism, and more generally to the wider audience of philosophers and social scientists with an interest in social criticism.

Dead Life is an intriguing crossover between horror and medieval alchemy in three parts.