1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818362903321

Autore

Tracy Brian

Titolo

Time management / / Brian Tracy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : American Management Association, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8144-3344-8

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Collana

The Brian Tracy success library

Disciplina

650.1/1

Soggetti

Time management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Psychology of Time Management; 2 Determine Your Values; 3 Think About Your Vision and Mission; 4 Project Forward, Look Backward; 5 Make Written Plans; 6 Chart Your Projects; 7 Create Your Daily ""To-Do"" List; 8 Set Clear Priorities; 9 Stay on Track; 10 Determine Your Key Result Areas; 11 Delegate to Others; 12 Concentrate Single-Mindedly; 13 Overcome Procrastination; 14 Create Blocks of Time; 15 Control Interruptions; 16 Batch Your Tasks; 17 Manage the Telephone; 18 Conduct Effective Meetings; 19 Read Faster, Remember More

20 Invest in Personal Development21 Organize Your Work Space; Conclusion; Index; About the Author; Free Sample Chapter from Success Under Stress

Sommario/riassunto

This pocket-sized guide reveals 21 proven time management techniques you can use immediately to gain two or more productive hours every day. Featuring the strategies that business expert Brian Tracy has identified as the most effective and that he himself employs.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968418703321

Autore

Kose Ayhan

Titolo

Global Business Cycles : : Convergence or Decoupling? / / Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad, Christopher Otrok

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

9786612840944

9781462339655

1462339654

9781452783390

145278339X

9781451870015

1451870019

9781282840942

1282840940

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (51 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

OtrokChristopher

PrasadEswar

Disciplina

339.015195

Soggetti

Business cycles - Econometric models

Globalization

Business cycles

Classification Methods

Cluster Analysis

Consumption

Econometric models

Econometrics & economic statistics

Econometrics

Economic growth

Economics

Emerging and frontier financial markets

Factor Models

Factor models

Finance

Finance: General

Financial services industry

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Globalization: General

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption



Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Principal Components

Saving

Wealth

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Methodology and Data; A. A Dynamic Factor Model; B. Advantages of Dynamic Factor Models; C. Variance Decompositions; D. Data; III. Dynamic Factors and Episodes of Business Cycles; A. Evolution of the Global and Group-Specific Factors; B. Country Factors and Domestic Economic Activity; IV. Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations: 1960-2005; A. Common Cycles: Global and Country-Specific Factors; B. National Cycles: Country and Idiosyncratic Factors; C. Summary; V. Globalization and the Evolution of International Business Cycles; A. Convergence or Decoupling?

B. Consumption ComovementC. Dynamics of Investment; D. Summary; VI. Sensitivity Experiments; A. Results for Sub-groups of Countries; B. Changes in the Importance of Global and Group Factors; C. Implications of Crises; D. Alternative Breakpoints; VII. Conclusion; References; Appendices; I. A Bayesian Approach to Estimating Dynamic Factor Models; II. Testing for Structural Breaks; III. List of Countries; Tables; 1. Variance Decompositions-All Groups; 2. Variance Decompositions-Industrial Country Subsamples; 3. Variance Decompositions-All Groups

4. Variance Decompositions-Industrial Country Subsamples5. Variance Decompositions-Emerging Economy Subsamples; 6. Variance Decompositions-Other Developing Economy Subsamples; Figures; 1. Global and Group-Specific Factors; 2. Output Growth and Estimated Factors for Selected Countries; 3. Average Variance Explained by the Global and Group Factors; 4. Average Variance Explained by Global and Group Factors; 5. Average Variance Explained by Global Factor; 6. Average Variance Explained by Group Specific Factors; 7. Average Variance Explained by Global and Group-Specific Factors-All Countries

8. Output Variance Explained by Global Factor9. Output Variance Explained by Group Factor

Sommario/riassunto

This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups-industrial countries, emerging markets, and other developing economies. Using a dynamic factor model, we then decompose macroeconomic fluctuations in key macroeconomic aggregates-output, consumption, and investment-into different factors. These are: (i) a global factor, which picks up fluctuations that are common across all variables and countries; (ii) three group-specific factors, which capture fluctuations that are common to all variables and all countries within each group of countries; (iii) country factors, which are common across all aggregates in a given country; and (iv) idiosyncratic factors specific to each time series. Our main result is that, during the period of globalization



(1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies and among the group of emerging market economies. Surprisingly, there has been a concomitant decline in the relative importance of the global factor. In other words, there is evidence of business cycle convergence within each of these two groups of countries but divergence (or decoupling) between them.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973192003321

Autore

Pardes Ilana <1966->

Titolo

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers : The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, 2013

ISBN

9780295804774

0295804777

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies

Disciplina

892.435

Soggetti

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef - Criticism, interpretation, etc

Languages & Literatures

Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock""; ""2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism""; ""3. Rechnitz's Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed""; ""4. The Biblical Ethnographies of "Edo and Enam" and the Quest for the Ultimate Song""; ""Epilogue: Forevermore""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel’s Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture. Standing at a unique crossroads between religion and secularism, Agnon probes the paradoxes and ambiguities of the Zionist hermeneutic project. In adopting the Song, Zionist interpreters sought to return to the erotic, pastoral landscapes of biblical times. Their



quest for a new, uplifting, secular literalism, however, could not efface the haunting impact of allegorical configurations of love. With superb irony, Agnon's tales recast Israeli biblicism as a peculiar chapter within the ever-surprising history of biblical exegesis.