Around 50,000 British people buy second homes abroad each year. Among the popular destinations are France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. This book on buying a property in Portugal has been written by someone who has already done it themselves. Use their experience to learn about the mistakes you can avoid. CONTENTS: 1. Why Portugal? 2. Where? 3. What to buy? 4. Finding property/making a start 5. Renting whilst you look 6. The people involved 7. The process 8. Buying timeshare/property to let 9. Renovating or building your own 10. Money matters 11. Before you go 12. Portuguese systems 13. Daily life 14. Enjoying life in Portugal 15. Changing your mind

Identity 2.0 is the follow-up title to the now sold-out Total Idetity book. Whereas the previous title showcased the projects of the design studio Total Identity , this new book takes a much broader perspective. From the viewpoint of identity, it looks at current and future issues that influence businesses, institutions and service-oriented organizations. The book connects identity - as the driving force behind innovation and change processes - to social and economic topics, illustrated with cases and the opinions of creative and business companies that have participated in projects with Total Identity or have an interesting view on those topics.

The rise of the new technology and the power of the multinationals to shift their production anywhere they choose has led to a massive rise in the employment of women. This text investigates the status of women in the global economy.

Geschiedenis van de overname en opsplitsing van ABN AMRO in 2007.

Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. He shows how such ventures are undermining core academic values and what universities can do to limit the damage. Commercialization has many causes, but it could never have grown to its present state had it not been for the recent, rapid growth of money-making opportunities in a more technologically complex, knowledge-based economy. A brave new world has now emerged in which university presidents, enterprising professors, and even administrative staff can all find seductive opportunities to turn specialized knowledge into profit. Bok argues that universities, faced with these temptations, are jeopardizing their fundamental mission in their eagerness to make money by agreeing to more and more compromises with basic academic values. He discusses the dangers posed by increased secrecy in corporate-funded research, for-profit Internet companies funded by venture capitalists, industry-subsidized educational programs for physicians, conflicts of interest in research on human subjects, and other questionable activities. While entrepreneurial universities may occasionally succeed in the short term, reasons Bok, only those institutions that vigorously uphold academic values, even at the cost of a few lucrative ventures, will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students. Candid, evenhanded, and eminently readable, Universities in the Marketplace will be widely debated by all those concerned with the future of higher education in America and beyond.

Overzicht van de maatschappelijke positie van vrouwen over de gehele wereld en hun achterstelling in sociaal, cultureel en/of juridisch opzicht, met een pleidooi voor gelijke rechten voor iedereen.