International Finance 4e or Future Care

International Finance 4e

Author: SarahLevi Maurice D Pink

This impressive new edition builds and improves upon the popular style and structure of the original. With new data, improved pedagogy, and coverage of all of the main developments in international finance over the last few years. This book is sure to be a hit with students and their lecturers in International Finance.

Table of Contents:

1	The world of international finance	1
2	An introduction to exchange rates	29
3	Foreward exchange	53
4	Currency futures and options markets	68
5	The balance of payments	97
6	Supply-and-demand view of exchange rates	119
7	The purchasing-power-parity principle	143
8	Interest parity	159
9	Foreign exchange exposure and risk	191
10	Accounting exposure versus real exposure	216
11	Operating exposure	230
12	Hedging risk and exposure	256
13	Exchange-rate forecasting and speculation	280
14	Cash management	307
15	Portfolio investment	322
16	Capital budgeting for foreign investments	346
17	The growth and concerns about multinationals	373
18	International dimensions of long-term financing	397
19	Multinational banking	423
20	Instruments and institutions of international trade	445
21	Asset-based theories of exchange rates	469
22	Alternative systems of exchange rates	487
23	The international financial system : past, present, and future	514

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Future Care: New Directions in Planning Health and Care Environments

Author: D Salter

Health care in the developed world is in the throws of radical change. Primary health care is having to become more cost effective, large scale hospitals may become a thing of the past and the increasing needs of a growing population will need to be catered for. These are just a few of the issues. Health and care planners, together with architects and designers, need to ensure that what they plan for today will not be redundant in the near future. This book looks at development and design needs across the whole range of health and care facilities.

Donald L. Madison

This book, edited by two British architects, contains contributions from 16 facilities planners and healthcare administrators (from a variety of health professional backgrounds) from the U.K. and the U.S. The purpose is to envision the ""future healthcare landscape."" Although this is a futurist discussion, which inevitably must deal with healthcare organization, the treatment of organizational issues is superficial and tends toward the obvious; the emphasis (and strongest part of the book) is on the physical environment for service, not its organization. ""Future Landscape"" as used here is not a metaphor. The audience would include architects and administrators/planners. A few of the book's 19 chapters address general topics briefly and superficially: ""Healthcare Reform and Change,"" ""The Impact of Technology,"" ""Primary Care,"" etc. The book's focus, however, is on the physical environment for healthcare. There are chapters on ""Senior Day Care,"" ""Life Care,"" ""Assisted Living,"" and on long-term care, nursing homes, facilities for patients with dementia, in-patient hospice care, as well as more general discussions of ""Patient-Focused Design,"" ""The Healing Environment,"" and ""Reusing Existing Buildings."" Many of these topics are illustrated by photographs and architectural schematics. The connection of physical space and service organization is clearly the book's strength. Yet, it could also be its weakness, because many administrators will wish for a more intelligent discussion of the organizational side, and architects may well find similar fault with its elementary treatment of design issues.

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Reviewer: Donald L. Madison, MD (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine)
Description: This book, edited by two British architects, contains contributions from 16 facilities planners and healthcare administrators (from a variety of health professional backgrounds) from the U.K. and the U.S.
Purpose: The purpose is to envision the "future healthcare landscape." Although this is a futurist discussion, which inevitably must deal with healthcare organization, the treatment of organizational issues is superficial and tends toward the obvious; the emphasis (and strongest part of the book) is on the physical environment for service, not its organization. "Future Landscape" as used here is not a metaphor.
Audience: The audience would include architects and administrators/planners.
Features: A few of the book's 19 chapters address general topics briefly and superficially: "Healthcare Reform and Change," "The Impact of Technology," "Primary Care," etc. The book's focus, however, is on the physical environment for healthcare. There are chapters on "Senior Day Care," "Life Care," "Assisted Living," and on long-term care, nursing homes, facilities for patients with dementia, in-patient hospice care, as well as more general discussions of "Patient-Focused Design," "The Healing Environment," and "Reusing Existing Buildings." Many of these topics are illustrated by photographs and architectural schematics.
Assessment: The connection of physical space and service organization is clearly the book's strength. Yet, it could also be its weakness, because many administrators will wish for a more intelligent discussion of the organizational side, and architects may well find similar fault with its elementary treatment of design issues.

Booknews

A description of new architectural directions in health care program facilities and assisted living residences, identifying the core changes in health care delivery expected in the future and the design needs which those changes will require. The 16 essays written by architects, doctors, and facilities managers target the impacts of healthcare reform, technology, community care in the UK, and the more particular issue of creating buildings which humanely and efficiently accommodate requirements for long term care, senior day care, assisted living, nursing homes, dementia care, and hospice care. The design descriptions and outlines are patient focused, and sometimes involve reusing existing buildings. Includes illustrations and some photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

2 Stars from Doody