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Keeping track of your company’s cash position is essential, because cash flow is the lifeblood of a business and is fund...
20/06/2020

Keeping track of your company’s cash position is essential, because cash flow is the lifeblood of a business and is fundamental to its existence. Without proper cash flow, you cannot pay your bills on time, which may hurt your business’ credit standing. Remember, too, that bankruptcies are caused by lack of cash rather than lack of profit.

So sound cash management is the key to the survival of any business. This book alerts you to the difference between accounting profits and cash flows and teaches you the tools and techniques that allow you to effectively increase and manage your cash flow. It is designed for business owners, entrepreneurs, and companies who want to manage their cash in the best possible way.

AUTHOR: Jae K. Shim
ISBN: 978-1906403638

AVAILABLE @ KES. 4,350.00

Although much is written about contemporary families, the focus is typically limited to marriage and parenting. In this ...
20/06/2020

Although much is written about contemporary families, the focus is typically limited to marriage and parenting. In this path-breaking assessment of families sociologist Robert M. Milardo demonstrates how aunts and uncles contribute to the daily lives of parents and their children. Aunts and uncles complement the work of parents, sometimes act as second parents, and sometimes form entirely unique brands of intimacy grounded in a lifetime of shared experiences. The Forgotten Kin explores how aunts and uncles support parents, buffer the relationships of parents and children, act as family historians, and develop lifelong friendships with parents and their children. The book details the routine activities of aunts and uncles, the features of families that encourage closeness, how aunts and uncles go about mentoring nieces and nephews, and how adults are mentored by the very children for whom they are responsible. This book aims to change the public discourse on families and the involvement of the forgotten kin across generations and households.

The Forgotten Kin: Aunts and Uncles

AUTHOR: Robert M. Milardo, University of Maine, Orono
ISBN: 978-1107531543

AVAILABLE @ KES. 2,995.00

Cultural values and religious beliefs play a substantial role in adolescent development. Developmental scientists have s...
20/06/2020

Cultural values and religious beliefs play a substantial role in adolescent development. Developmental scientists have shown increasing interest in how culture and religion are involved in the processes through which adolescents adapt to environments. This volume constitutes a timely and unique addition to the literature on human development from a cultural-contextual perspective. Editors Gisela Trommsdorff and Xinyin Chen present systematic and in-depth discussions of theoretical perspectives, landmark studies and strategies for further research in the field. The eminent contributors reflect diverse cultural perspectives, transcending the Western emphasis of many previous works. This volume will be of interest to scholars and professionals interested in basic developmental processes, adolescent social psychology and the sociological and psychological dimensions of religion.

ISBN: 9781107014251
FORMAT: Hardback
AUTHOR: Gisela Trommsdorff, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Xinyin Chen, University of Pennsylvania

AVAILABLE @ KES. 7,550.00

Social phobia and disruptive social anxiety are features of the lives of many thousands of people. But exactly what is s...
19/06/2020

Social phobia and disruptive social anxiety are features of the lives of many thousands of people. But exactly what is social phobia? What causes it? What is its nature and what kinds of treatments can improve it? Using key concepts and methods and a substantive body of research, this book aims to answer these questions and clarify social phobia by means of critical discussions and examination of evidence. It takes a sceptical stance towards the received view of social phobia as a species of disease caused by a deficient inner mechanism and considers an alternative construal of social phobia as a purposeful interpersonal pattern of self-overprotection from social threats. The possibility that social phobia might not actually exist in nature is also considered. Fearing Others will appeal to researchers, clinicians and students in clinical and health psychology and psychiatry.

Author: Ariel Stravynski, Université de Montréal
ISBN-13: 978-0521854870

Subjects: Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Medicine, Psychology, Health and Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry

AVAILABLE @ KES. 5,500.00

Studies of learning are too frequently conceptualized only in terms of knowledge development. Yet it is vital to pay clo...
19/06/2020

Studies of learning are too frequently conceptualized only in terms of knowledge development. Yet it is vital to pay close attention to the social and emotional aspects of learning in order to understand why and how it occurs. How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do builds a theoretical argument for and a methodological approach to studying learning in a holistic way. The authors provide examples of urban fourth graders from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds studying science as a way to illustrate how this model contributes to a more complete and complex understanding of learning in school settings. What makes this book unique is its insistence that to fully understand human learning we have to consider the affective-volitional processes of learning along with the more familiar emphasis on knowledge and skills.

By: Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, University of Washington , Véronique Mertl, University of Washington
ISBN: 9780511777608

Subjects: Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Educational Psychology.

AVAILABLE @ KES. 2,990.00

In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, ...
19/06/2020

In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, we are likely to lose a parent--and as commonplace, even expected, as any such event may be, the reperscussions can be dramatic. This book sets out in clear and comprehensive terms what the death of a parent means to most adults--how it in fact functions as a turning point in our emotional, social, and personal lives. Drawing on her own groundbreaking research, in-depth interviews, and data collected nationwide, Debra Umberson explores the social and psychological factors that determine how this important loss will affect us--as a personal crisis or an opportunity for healthy change. Her book shows how adults, far from the "finished" beings we are often assumed to be, can be profoundly transformed by the death of a parent--in beliefs, behavior, goals, sense of self--transformed in ways that will continue to affect us, for better or worse, for the rest of our lives. Debra Umberson is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the only scholar to have published on the topic of parental death in adulthood using national data, and her resume includes 36 published articles and chapters in leading academic journals and books on family and health topics. Dr. Umberson has received many awards. She won an award for her research for Death of a Parent from FIRST Award from the National Institute on Aging. Umberson's newest research, which is also sponsored by the National Institute of Aging, focuses on how marital quality changes over the life course. Umberson is currently serving as an elected officer of both the Mental Health Section and the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (the national professional association of sociologists in the United States). She has served as deputy editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and associate editor of the Journal of Family Issues. She is currently associate editor of Journal of Marriage and the Family.

Author: by Debra Umberson
ISBN-13: 978-0521012966

AVAILABLE @ KES. 2,999.00

This book is the first international handbook of intelligence ever published. It is intended to prove a truly internatio...
19/06/2020

This book is the first international handbook of intelligence ever published. It is intended to prove a truly international perspective on the nature of intelligence. It covers intelligence theory, research, and practice from all over the globe. Areas covered include Great Britain, Australia, French-speaking countries, German-speaking countries, Spanish-speaking countries, India, Japan, Israel, Turkey, and China. Each author is an internationally recognized expert in the field of intelligence. Authors represent not just their own viewpoint, but rather, the full variety of viewpoints indigenous to the area about which they write. Each chapter deals with, for its area, definitions and theories of intelligence, history of research, current research, assessment techniques, and comparison across geographical areas. An integrative final chapter synthesizes the diverse international viewpoints.

Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Yale University, Connecticut

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online ISBN:9780511616648

Subjects: Life Sciences, Pharmacology, Psychology, Educational Psychology

AVAILABLE @ KES 5,980.00

Using language and thought to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational feats that humans perform. In ...
19/06/2020

Using language and thought to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational feats that humans perform. In the first book-length taxonomy of temporal frames of reference, Vyvyan Evans provides an overview of the role of space in structuring human representations of time. Challenging the assumption that time is straightforwardly structured in terms of space, he shows that while space is important for temporal representation, time is nevertheless separate and distinguishable from it. Evans argues for three distinct temporal frames of reference in language and cognition and evaluates the nature of temporal reference from a cross-linguistic perspective. His central thesis is that the hallmark of temporal reference is transience, a property unique to the domain of time. This important study has implications not only for the relationship between space and time, but also for that between language and figurative thought, and the nature of linguistically-mediated meaning construction

AVAILABLE @ KES. 6990.00

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