Ketika membeli snack atau naik bus pasti kita memerlukan uang. Bukan pernyataan yang dilebih-lebihkan jika perusahaan sekarang tidak bisa melakukan aktivitas ekonomi dan berkembang jika tidak ada uang. Mengapa uang dan ekonomi harus ada dalam kehidupan seperti itu? "Why? Uang dan Ekonomi" menyediakan penjelasan berbagai macam prinsip ekonomi dan pengetahuan umum yang harus diketahui oleh ana…
n 2011, following the phenomenal global success of Sketching, which has sold over sixty thousand copies in two years, authors Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur debut the sequel entitled Sketching: The Basics. In fact, prequel would be a better word for this new book, since it is aimed towards the novice designer. Whereas Sketching shows you how to draw various aspects of shape and form, and serves…
A human drama that sheds light on the courage, dedication and humour of those trying to rebuild Iraq. This work presents an account of how one man found himself in the middle of one of the most crucial episodes in modern history.
Cost, value, price : three pillars of profit -- Hidden costs -- Tradeoffs : pain versus gain -- Do you know where your costs are? -- People, knowledge, and/or machines -- From volume to variety -- Racing down the learning curve -- Markets and demand : how to listen to your customer -- Calculated risks -- Competing by cooperating.
Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone from Wall Street firms to individual homeowners. It has been widely argued that the crisis and recession were caused by "greed" and the failure of mainstream economics. In this book, leading economist William Barnett argues instead that there was too little use of the relevant economics, especi…
Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street unfurls a gripping chronicle of the 2008 financial collapse, drawing on 180 interviews with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs. Lowenstein looks to the roots of the crisis to reveal how America succumbed to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages. Combining deep analysis with sizzling narrative, The End of Wall Street charts the…
from the back cover: Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell. Between 1950 and 2000 half of the worl…