Summary: "Understanding investments" helps you to do just that. In 24 lectures, it introduces the fundamentals of investing to those new to the subject while broadening and deepening the knowledge of more experienced investors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 UNDContents: Disc 1. Investment decisions and goals -- A framework for investing -- Mistakes investors make -- The characteristics of security returns -- The theory of efficient markets -- Evidence on efficient markets -- Disc 2. Valuation formulas -- Bond pricing -- The term structure of interest rates -- The risks in bonds -- Quantifying interest rate risk -- Value creation and stock prices -- Disc 3....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 ADVCall number: DVD 332.6 ADV
Huddleston, Emma
Summary: Scientists study climate change to predict future risks so people can prepare. They also learn about ways to slow climate change. Studying Climate Change examines how scientists gather information from the air, soil, water, and ice to learn more about the changes happening to Earth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 HUDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.738 HUDHeifetz, Ronald A. (Ronald Abadian)
Summary: To lead is to live dangerously. It's romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires taking risks that can jeopardize your career and your personal life. It requires putting yourself on the line, disrupting the status quo, and surfacing hidden conflict. And when people resist and push back, there's a strong temptation to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 HEIRipley, Amanda.
Summary: Nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality--anything we've ever learned, thought, or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.935 RIPMcChrystal, Stanley A.
Summary: "Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seenhow individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Peguin 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.15 MCCMarks, Howard
Contents: Second-level thinking -- Understanding market efficiency (and its limitations) -- Value -- The relationship between price and value -- Understanding risk -- Recognizing risk -- Controlling risk -- Being attentive to cycles -- Awareness of the pendulum -- Combating negative influences -- Contrarianism -- Finding bargains -- Patient opportunism -- Knowing what you don't know -- Having a sense for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Business School Pub. 2013
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bernstein, Peter L.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368 BERJones, Chris.
Summary: Every time an astronaut makes the trip into space, he faces the risk of death from the slightest mechanical error or instance of bad luck. In February 2003, American astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin were on what was to be a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Station. But then the shuttle Columbia exploded...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 JONRipley, Amanda.
Summary: Nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality--anything we've ever learned, thought, or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.935 RIPMinervini, Mark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill Education 2013
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Stress, when carefully managed, can actually facilitate academic achievement. Reinforced by on-screen lists and a review segment at the end, this program first defines stress and then promotes three core strategies for dealing with it: a positive attitude, a healthy lifestyle, and relaxation techniques. The harmful aspects of unmanaged stress, which include an increased susceptibility to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: What are the health implications of global warming in urban areas? This program examines the medical repercussions of environmental change and crisis in Canada. Environmental and disaster relief experts, such as Steven King of Sustainable Environment Management and John Saunders of the Red Cross, discuss the risks, including heat stroke and water-borne diseases, associated with rising...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
View online at AVOD
Grylls, Bear
Summary: "For more than a decade, Bear Grylls has introduced TV viewers to the most dramatic wilderness survival situations, through his hit shows such as Man Vs. Wild. Now, with How to Stay Alive, Bear reveals to readers his full toolkit of survival tactics, from everyday basics like avoiding blisters to once-in-a-lifetime events like surviving a kidnapping. Opening with the most essential survival...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.69 GRYLeonard, Richard
Summary: "'Summer Sports Camps 101' is a comprehensive guide for creating and operating a summer sports camp. New or seasoned coaches, sports industry practitioners, and camp administrators in youth and college-level sports will benefit from author Richard Leonard's extensive experience in planning and managing successful sports camps. This guidebook streamlines the process of conceptualizing,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fitness Publishing 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 LEOSummary: U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades goes after hedge fund king, Bobby Axe Axelrod in a battle between two powerful New York figures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BIL RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BILPakroo, Peri
Summary: "This essential guide to starting and running a nonprofit organization includes practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instructions. It explains how to develop a strategic plan and budget; recruit and manage board members, volunteers, and staff; market an organization to a target audience; raise money-including traditional methods and crowdfunding; build a website and use...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.048 PAKSummary: Principles of Business: Management provides students and researchers with a solid understanding of the most important aspects of management, from leadership and operations to project management and entrepreneurship. An understanding of the fundamentals of management will serve job-seekers in all industries, alongside those who want to start their own business.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 PRIPakroo, Peri
Summary: More people than ever are committing themselves to serving their communities and changing the world. Whether you're aiming to protect the environment, support the arts, or help people in need, understanding how to set up a solid nonprofit organization is a great foundation for being as effective as you can be. With practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instructions, this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Pakroo, Peri
Summary: With practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instruction, this guide will help you get your nonprofit up and running. It explains how to: develop a strategic plan and budget; recruit and manage board members, volunteers, and staff; market your organization to your target audience; raise money including traditional methods and crowdfunding; build a website, use social media...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.048 PAKSummary: Employees attending an extreme team-building function for the weekend find new meaning in teamwork, thinking outside the box, and risk management as they fight for survival from a deranged killer bent on revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Films LTD 2011
View online at Hoopla
Summary: Contemporary take on the investigations of detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ELESummary: Danny Reagan deals with the aftermath of a tragic accident involving his family, and NY Police Commissioner Frank Reagan clashes with the new interim mayor. Also, officers Jamie Reagan and Eddie are back as partners when they test the waters going undercover, and NY Asst. District Attorney Erin Reagan continues to serves as the legal compass for her siblings and father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bl 8Summary: What is the most costly element of America's trillion-dollar healthcare system? Surprisingly, experts believe it is the medical quality gap and medical errors, which they estimate take more than 90,000 lives each year. In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines New York's tough performance reports on doctors and hospitals doing open-heart surgery; profiles a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005