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As the financial services industry becomes increasingly
international, the more narrowly defined and historically protected
national financial markets become less significant. Consequently,
financial institutions must achieve a critical size in order to
compete. Bank Mergers & Acquisitions analyses the major issues
associated with the large wave of bank mergers and acquisitions in
the 1990's. While the effects of these changes have been most
pronounced in the commercial banking industry, they also have a
profound impact on other financial institutions: insurance firms,
investment banks, and institutional investors. Bank Mergers &
Acquisitions is divided into three major sections: A general and
theoretical background to the topic of bank mergers and
acquisitions; the effect of bank mergers on efficiency and
shareholders' wealth; and regulatory and legal issues associated
with mergers of financial institutions. It brings together
contributions from leading scholars and high-level practitioners in
economics, finance and law.
This volume offers a theoretical and practical overview of the
ethics of pediatric medicine. It serves as a fundamental handbook
and resource for pediatricians, nurses, residents in training,
graduate students, and practitioners of ethics and healthcare
policy. Written by a team of leading experts, Pediatric Bioethics
addresses those difficult ethical questions concerning the clinical
and academic practice of pediatrics, including an approach to
recognizing boundaries when confronted with issues such as end of
life care, life-sustaining treatment, extreme prematurity,
pharmacotherapy, and research. Thorny topics such as what
constitutes best interests, personhood, or distributive justice and
public health concerns such as immunization and newborn genetic
screening are also addressed.
Extreme Prematurity examines the controversial issues surrounding
the clinical management of this group of neonates by the
intervention of modern neonatal intensive care. The foregoing of
life-sustaining treatment is of particular importance. The subject
matter is very relevant because of the alarming increase in
multiple and preterm births, due to the increase in women who are
undergoing assisted reproductive procedures, and the large increase
in premature labor. No recent book covers the subject in such
comparable breadth. The first section of this very timely monograph
covers the epidemiology and practices in different parts of the
world; the second section covers bioethics considerations,
including ethical theories, moral principles and quality of life
issues; the third section covers national and international
guidelines; the last section covers medical law aspects in the US
and around the world.
As the financial services industry becomes increasingly
international, the more narrowly defined and historically protected
national financial markets become less significant. Consequently,
financial institutions must achieve a critical size in order to
compete. Bank Mergers & Acquisitions analyses the major issues
associated with the large wave of bank mergers and acquisitions in
the 1990's. While the effects of these changes have been most
pronounced in the commercial banking industry, they also have a
profound impact on other financial institutions: insurance firms,
investment banks, and institutional investors. Bank Mergers &
Acquisitions is divided into three major sections: A general and
theoretical background to the topic of bank mergers and
acquisitions; the effect of bank mergers on efficiency and
shareholders' wealth; and regulatory and legal issues associated
with mergers of financial institutions. It brings together
contributions from leading scholars and high-level practitioners in
economics, finance and law.
Human intelligence is sexually attractive, and strongly predicts
the success of sexual relationships, but the behavioral sciences
have usually ignored the interface between intelligence and mating.
This is the first serious scholarly effort to explore that
interface, by examining both universal and individual differences
in human mating intelligence. Contributors include some of the most
prominent evolutionary psychologists and promising new researchers
in human intelligence, social psychology, intimate relationships,
and sexuality.
David Buss' foreword and the opening chapter explore what 'mating
intelligence' means, and why it is central to human cognition and
sexuality. The book's six sections then examine (1) our mating
mechanisms - universal emotional and cognitive adaptations for
mating intelligently - that guide mate search, mate choice, and
courtship; (2) how mating intelligence strategically guides our
choice of mating tactics and partners given different relationship
goals, personality traits, forms of deception, and the existence of
children; (3) the genetic and psychiatric causes of individual
differences in mating intelligence; (4) how we use mental fitness
indicators - forms of human intelligence such as creativity, humor,
and emotional intelligence - to attract and retain sexual partners;
(5) the ecological and social contexts of mating intelligence; (6)
integrative models of mating intelligence that can guide future
research.
Mating Intelligence is intended for researchers, advanced students,
and courses in human sexuality, intimate relationships,
intelligence research, behavior genetics, and evolutionary,
personality, social, and clinical psychology.
This volume offers a theoretical and practical overview of the
ethics of pediatric medicine. It serves as a fundamental handbook
and resource for pediatricians, nurses, residents in training,
graduate students, and practitioners of ethics and healthcare
policy. Written by a team of leading experts, Pediatric Bioethics
addresses those difficult ethical questions concerning the clinical
and academic practice of pediatrics, including an approach to
recognizing boundaries when confronted with issues such as end of
life care, life-sustaining treatment, extreme prematurity,
pharmacotherapy, and research. Thorny topics such as what
constitutes best interests, personhood, or distributive justice and
public health concerns such as immunization and newborn genetic
screening are also addressed.
The Traitor is firmly grounded in fact. The majority of the people
referred to in the novel took part in the actions described. Many
of the conversations are based on diary entries, memoranda and
letters subsequently published by the main protagonists. The
principal exception to this is the character of Major Lionel
Samson. When he first appears, Samson is, as he was in fact at the
time, the British Military Consul at the siege of Adrianople in
1913. By 1915 he was, in real life, in charge of the allied
espionage network based in Athens. However, between these two
dates, all actions ascribed to him in The Traitor are fictional.
A leading evolutionary psychologist probes the unconscious
instincts behind American consumer culture
Illuminating the hidden reasons for why we buy what we do, "Spent"
applies evolutionary psychology to the sensual wonderland of
marketing and perceived status that is American consumer culture.
Geoffrey Miller starts with the theory that we purchase things to
advertise ourselves to others, and then examines other factors that
dictate what we spend money on. With humor and insight, Miller
analyzes an array of product choices and deciphers what our
decisions say about ourselves, giving us access to a new way of
understanding-and improving-our behaviors to become happier
consumers.
Many aspects of the human mind remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection can explain the evolution of most life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that s eem most uniquely and profoundly human - art, morality, consciousness, creativity and language. Yet these aspects of human nature need not remain evolutionary mysteries. Until fairly recently most biologists have ignored or rejected Darwin's claims for the other great force of evolution - sexual selection through mate choice, which favours traits simply because they prove attractive to the opposite sex. But over recent years biologists have taken up Darwin's insights into how the reproduction of the sexiest is as much a focus of evolution as the survival of the fittest. Witty, powerfully-argued and continually thought-provoking, Miller's cascade of ideas bears comparison with such critical books as Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct. It is a landmark in our understanding of our own species .
Human intelligence is sexually attractive, and strongly predicts
the success of sexual relationships, but the behavioral sciences
have usually ignored the interface between intelligence and mating.
This is the first serious scholarly effort to explore that
interface, by examining both universals and individual differences
in human mating intelligence. Contributors include some of the most
prominent evolutionary psychologists and promising new researchers
in human intelligence, social psychology, intimate relationships,
and sexuality.
David Buss' Foreword and the opening chapter explore what ' mating
intelligence' means, and why it is central to human cognition and
sexuality. The book' s six sections then examine (1) our mating
mechanisms-- universal emotional and cognitive adaptations for
mating intelligently-- that guide mate search, mate choice, and
courtship; (2) how mating intelligence strategically guides our
choice of mating tactics and partners given different relationship
goals, personality traits, forms of deception, and the existence of
children; (3) the genetic and psychiatric causes of individual
differences in mating intelligence; (4) how we use mental fitness
indicators-- forms of human intelligence such as creativity, humor,
and emotional intelligence-- to attract and retain sexual partners;
(5) the ecological and social contexts of mating intelligence; (6)
integrative models of mating intelligence that can guide future
research.
"Mating Intelligence" is intended forresearchers, advanced
students, and courses in human sexuality, intimate relationships,
intelligence research, behavior genetics, and evolutionary,
personality, social, and clinical psychology.
Extreme Prematurity examines the controversial issues surrounding
the clinical management of this group of neonates by the
intervention of modern neonatal intensive care. The foregoing of
life-sustaining treatment is of particular importance. The subject
matter is very relevant because of the alarming increase in
multiple and preterm births, due to the increase in women who are
undergoing assisted reproductive procedures, and the large increase
in premature labor. No recent book covers the subject in such
comparable breadth. The first section of this very timely monograph
covers the epidemiology and practices in different parts of the
world; the second section covers bioethics considerations,
including ethical theories, moral principles and quality of life
issues; the third section covers national and international
guidelines; the last section covers medical law aspects in the US
and around the world.
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