Michigan [Hardcover]

Dixie Franklin (Author), Dennis Cox (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1993

Both the wild Upper Peninsula and the developed areas of the state reveal their charms in this spectacular book.

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About the Author

DENNIS COX is CEO of Risk Reward Limited, a Strategy and Risk Consultancy for the financial services industry, as well as being a director of a number of other companies. He was formerly Director, Risk Management at HSBC Operational Risk Consultancy and Global Risk Director at Prudential Portfolio Managers Limited, having spent 12 years in practice with Arthur Young and BDO Binder Hamlyn. Among a range of external interests he is a senior Council member of the ICAEW, a member of the Professional Standards Board, Chairman of the Financial Planning Committee of the London Society and a member of the Money Laundering Committee; together with being the Chairman of the Risk Forum for the Securities and Investments Institute. He also represents the public interest in the regulation of the Institute of Actuaries for financial service matters.

MICHAEL COX has spent 25 years teaching quantitative methods to a wide variety of undergraduate students in departments ranging from agriculture, engineering, history, economics, business and medicine. For over 20 years he has taught both statistics and management science to MBA students.
During his career he has published some 50 referred papers in such diverse areas as statistical process control, total quality management, multidimensional scaling and the analytical hierarchy process. In addition Michael has co-authored two text books and developed a major piece of software.
Michael works in applicable mathematics, the solution of real world problems employing statistical and management science techniques. Most of this research has included computer applications.

Franklin has lived in and written about the upper Great Lakes are for thirty-odd years. During that time she was gifted by local inhabitants with a large collection of ghostly tales, passed down from the rich oral tradition of the region's culture.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 142 pages
• Publisher: Graphic Arts Books; First Edition edition (May 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558680993
• ISBN-13: 978-1558680999
• Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 10.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,812,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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