Global Best Practice in Private Equity InvestingPrivate Equity in Action takes you on a tour of the private equity investment world through a series of case studies written by INSEAD faculty and taught at the world's leading business schools. The book is an ideal complement to Mastering Private Equity and allows readers to apply core concepts to investment targets and portfolio companies in real-life settings. The 19 cases illustrate the managerial challen...

*****50,000+ copies of the first edition sold****Mastering Private Equity – Second Edition: Navigating New Horizons in Private Markets*****Mastering Private Equity, the definitive guide to private equity (PE) since 2017, has been fully updated to reflect the current state of the industry, the latest market data, and the innovation reshaping the private capital industry.Written for a professional audience, the Second Edition of Mastering Private Equity is a valuable ...

'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail' - Hermione Lee, ObserverWith a new introduction by Tessa HadleyNanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager...

This book brings together all the key evidence on recovery capital measurement and its application. It offers a clear and accessible overview of the development of the strengths-based approach in addressing behavioural health issues and quantifying and measuring recovery capital, along with the evidence base for this approach.The book sets out the proven benefits of this approach to measuring and bolstering addiction recovery, demonstrating the impact of the approach in improving t...

WHY NORMAL ISN'T HEALTHY The definitions here for "normal" and "healthy" are different than definitions one learns during medical training. I do not recall much about the topic of "health"/"healthy" being addressed during training. The focus was on the absence of health or to state it more plainly, disease. Diseases were well defined for the most part by objective criteria. And if and when those objective criteria moved back into the normal range and the patient was feeling much better the...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote nonproliferation. Examples range from regional efforts to various worldwide export-control regim...

Artistic Studies Northern Virginia Art Home Study telecast for one year Torpedo Factory Art League School for Watercolor for three years and ongoing North Light Art School home study correspondence for three years Galleries, Exhibitions, and Works Torpedo Factory Art League School Student Art Show (19931994) Alexandria Virginia Seniors Art Show (1995) Torpedo Factory Art League Patron Art Show (1997present) Reston Community Art Show (1997) Borders Bookstore and Caf Gallery (1998) Silver Sp...

This book is pure fiction, influenced by real-life circumstances the author has witnessed over her lifetime. Primary plot: Cody and David fall in love and know they want to be together. However, their families are bitter enemies. Sound familiar? Unlike Shakespeare's characters, however, their lives do not end in suicide. Cody is a confident young woman who can take care of herself, right?Cody 's biological father is a gay ex-con, but unlike her grandmother, Cody isn't worried about...

I paint as a form of self-expression and to show people the world of beauty that God, the greatest artist, created. I want to share the appreciation of all that is in the worldbe it animals, flowers, buildings, or people. Sometimes I express my happiness or sadness through my paintings or even my sense of whimsy. I want to share with others who I am or what I sense through my art. Sometimes I want to touch something inside of them as a way to connect or to help them remember.

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are sudden...

Saints Codependent is the first in a trilogy. Pure fiction, yet influenced by real-life stories, it offers fast-paced action and suspense. Follow the journey of three women, struggling to find their own identities. Wanting to "do the Christian thing" yet habitually leaving themselves out of their circle of care.Constance fails to see how her intense community and social needs have blinded her to Norma's needs. Norma and Libby's choice to be loyal to their abusive husbands becomes h...