The supply chain management field is one of the fastest growing fields in our economy, given the heavy growth in international trade as a means to access outsourced production opportunities to lower costs and the growth in information technology to coordinate supply chains. However, this opportunity to lower costs entails significant risks, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, political unrest, and economic turbulence. This book discusses risks in supply chain management, followed by graphic and...

This textbook, now in its fourth edition, serves as a comprehensive guide to learning various aspects of risk, encompassing supply chain management, artificial intelligence, and sustainability. It demonstrates a wide range of operations research models that have been successfully applied to enterprise supply chain risk management. Each chapter of the book can function as a standalone module focusing on a specific topic, offering dedicated examples, definitions, and discussion notes.

COVID-19 has spread around the world, causing tremendous structural change, and severely affecting global supply chains and financial operations. As such there is a need for analytic tools help deal with the impact of the pandemic on the world’s economies; these tools are not panaceas and certainly won’t cure the problems faced, but they offer a means to aid governments, firms, and individuals in coping with specific problems.This book provides an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Includes an audiobook-exclusive conversation between the authors.The ultimate guide to marriage mentoring so you can feel confident in offering wisdom, encouragement, and practical help to couples who want to live out a love that lasts**!**Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott and Dr. David Olson--renowned marriage experts and founders of the two largest marriage support organizations, SYMBIS and PREPARE/ENRICH--share what they have ...

The ultimate guide to marriage mentoring so you can feel confident in offering wisdom, encouragement, and practical help to couples who want to live out a love that lasts**!**Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott and Dr. David Olson--renowned marriage experts and founders of the two largest marriage support organizations, SYMBIS and PREPARE/ENRICH--share what they have learned from decades of research involving more than five million couples*.* Packed with p...

Her first vow was "I do."Her second vow was to hunt down her husband's killer.Rachel Jaeger planned to become a linguist, not an assassin, but it works for her. For the first time in her life, she has true love, meaningful work, and a bright future.That bright future explodes when her husband is captured on a mission. Heartbroken and lost, Rachel throws herself into her work, becoming the angel of Death to those unlucky enough to cr...

How To Get Laid: The Most Comprehensive Guide Ever Written On Seducing Women is a no-nonsense handbook that will immediately improve your ability to attract the women of your dreams, make them fall in love with you, and get them into your bed.

A book and online profile that identifies a couple's strengths to help them build a more vital relationship.Based on an unprecedented national survey of 50,000 marriages, The Couple Checkup presents the principles for creating a successful couple relationship. The free online profile includes fifteen to twenty categories that are customized based on the relationship stage-whether dating, engaged, or married-the age, and whether or not children are involved...

Max Prescotts new reality hurts like hell. The finality of his recent divorce has left him reeling. As he heads on an extended Caribbean vacation to escape his troubles, Max has no idea that unforeseen events are about to unfold that will forever reshape his world. After he unpacks and settles into the relaxed lifestyle of Grand Cayman, Max drinks in the islands beauty in an effort to forget his life back home. It is not long before he meets many new friends that include a gorgeous consult...

Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book.In this revolutionary book, it is a comprehensive book designed to help unravel the risk factors and present the latest studies for Alzheimer's, and proven strategies to improve cognition and slow progression in those who have already been diagnosed. David Olson identifies the risk factors that anyone can control, and shatters the myth that Alzheimer’s is caused just by genes.

Groundbreaking research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches shows that the overall United States population is growing faster than the church. The director of the American Church Research Project, Dave Olson, has worked to analyze church attendance, showing that it is virtually unchanged from fifteen years ago while our population has grown by fifty-two million people.What does this mean for you, your church, and the future of Christianity in North America? The American C...

Understanding, as Descartes, Locke and Kant all insisted, is the primary 'faculty' of the mind; yet our modern sciences have been slow to advance a clear and testable account of what it means to understand, of children's acquisition of this concept and, in particular, how children come to ascribe understanding to themselves and others. By drawing together developmental and philosophical theories, this book provides a systematic account of children's concept of understanding and places unde...