UNITED STATES AUTHOR · HISTORY · WITCHCRAFT
Brian P. Levack
Also known as: Levack, Brian P., Levack, Brian P., 1943-....
American historian of early modern Britain and Europe
The native peoples of the West were far more varied than were the Europeans who, out of ignorance, would one day call them all "Indians."
— from The West
Most acclaimed
Valuation
1990
The bestseller that opened the eyes of corporate America to the importance of measuring, managing, and maximizing shareholder value is now expanded and updated to help managers boost their company's value in a vastly altered business climate. In the global economy of the 1990s, investors move their money quickly and easily around the world in search of the greatest return. This expanded edition of Valuation describes the valuation process and explains the differences between valuation and accounting practices in the United States and those in other countries. It illustrates how to take advantage of the American tradition of maximizing shareholder value, demonstrates how value-based management contributes to improved strategic thinking, and shows managers at every level in any corporation how to create value for their companies. In addition, this book provides a new chapter featuring insights into the strategic advantages of value-based management; strategies for multibusiness valuation, valuation of international businesses and valuation for corporate restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions; international comparisons of the cost of capital, differences in accounting procedures, and how valuation works in different countries; and a detailed case study showing how valuation techniques and principles are applied. Truly the crossroads where corporate strategy and finance meet, this book contains the latest information on new ways to apply valuation and value-based management to maximize any company's appeal to investors and other capital sources.
Microeconomics
"Now firmly established as one of the leading economics principles texts in the UK and Europe, this exciting new third edition of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University) and Mark P. Taylor (Warwick University), has undergone some significant restructuring and reorganization to more directly match economics students' course structures and learning and assessment needs. There are new sections covering microeconomic topics and concepts in more depth, whilst at the same time retaining the book's reputation for clarity, authority and real world relevance." --Back cover.
The West
This vivid narrative history -- magnificently illustrated with more than 400 photographs, many of them never before published -- takes us on a gripping journey through the turbulent history of the region that has come to symbolize America around the world. Drawing on hundreds of letters, diaries, memoirs, and journals as well as the latest scholarship, The West presents a cast as rich and diverse as the western landscape itself: explorers and soldiers and Indian warriors, settlers and railroad builders and gaudy showmen. The book is filled with stories of heroism and hope, enterprise and adventure, as well as tragedy and disappointment. It explores the tensions between whites and the native peoples they sought to displace, but it also encompasses the Hispanic experience in the West. Gracefully written, handsomely designed, meticulously researched, The West is an unrivaled work of history that brilliantly captures all the drama and excitement, the sober realities and bright myths of the American West. Book jacket.