Plain Lives in a Golden Age or Travel Perspectives

Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland

Author: Arie Theodorus van Deursen

st comprehensive study yet published of the plain lives of a 'golden age'.f plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael develops two related strands of analysis. First, she discusses the extent to which true plague epidemics may have occurred, by considering what other infectious diseases contributed significantly to outbreaks of 'pestilence'. She finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics. She then sh

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Van Deursen, a professor of history at the Free University of Amsterdam, shows us how the common people of the Netherlands lived between 1572 and 1648, a period that includes Holland's Golden Age. He explores what these folk did to earn a living, how they spent their leisure time, their relationships to their government, to their God and to their churches. Van Deursen discusses the prevailing concepts of political liberty and exposes a certain mythic aspect of the much-vaunted Dutch religious freedom. He reveals persecution of Catholics and the fact that choice of the ``wrong'' denomination could affect both one's social standing and career advancement. The author also successfully undertakes the difficult task of reconstructing the role of women in the society. The exhaustive footnotes and often minute statistical detail render this a book better suited to the student than to the recreational reader. Still, meticulously researched and well written, unpacking the making of the Dutch character and psyche, the book is a worthy companion piece to Simon Schama's The Embarrassment of Riches . Illustrations not seen by PW. (Sept.)

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Travel Perspectives: A Guide to Becoming a Travel Professional

Author: Susan Ric

Travel Perspectives: A Guide to Becoming a Travel Professional builds a complete foundation for a career in the travel industry. Offering instruction on the most important aspects of the travel industry, this book provides the entry-level agent with enough information to build a solid career foundation. Covered topics include Internet use in the travel industry, career planning, job descriptions, advancement potential, sales and customer services. With this "how to" guide to the travel industry, entry-level agents can be productive from the first day of employment.

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In their third edition Todd and Rice have placed emphasis on the Internet which now plays a pervasive role in the industry. Internet activities, sites and links are provided for every topic to maximize the student's exposure and ensure their proficiency. Aside from the basic topics<-->US air travel, travel products and services, cruises, and international air travel<-->detailed chapters are provided on career options, terminology, product features, reference materials, sales and customer service. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Your Place in Travel. Chapter 2: The Internet-Blessing or Curse? Chapter 3: Air Travel Basics. Chapter 4: Planning United States Flight Itineraries. Chapter 5: U.S. Airfares and Other Charges. Chapter 6: Basic Ticketing and Prepaid. Chapter 7: Refunds, Exchanges, Agency Fees, and Reporting. Chapter 8: Accommodations and Rental Cars. Chapter 9: Travelling By Rail. Chapter 10: Consolidators, Charters, Group Sales, and Insurance. Chapter 11: Tours of the World. Chapter 12: The Basics of Cruising. Chapter 13: Cruise Pricing and Selling Cruise Pricing. Chapter 14: Setting Sail.Chapter 15: Practical Advice for International Travelers. Chapter 16: International Air Travel Basics. Chapter 17: International Airfares and Taxes. Chapter 18: International Schedules and Ticketing. Chapter 19: Basic Selling Skills for the Travel Professional. Chapter 20: Customer Service for the Travel Professional. Summary. Appendix Glossary. Index.

Recreation and Parks or European Foreign Policy

Recreation and Parks: The Profession

Author: Betty van der Smissen

Recreation and Parks: The Profession is a one-of-a-kind resource that delineates the components that make this complex field a profession. This book is an essential guide for undergraduate and graduate students who want to gain a complete understanding of the nature and diversity of the profession. In addition, it is the definitive resource for professors and professionals.

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European Foreign Policy: The EC and Changing Perspectives in Europe, Vol. 24

Author: Walter Carlsnaes

The advent of the "new" Europe will precipitate many changes--and challenges--in the way countries conduct foreign policy. In European Foreign Policy, a team of international contributors shows how the dominant theories in foreign policy analysis can be applied to recent events in Europe. Contributors offer insightful discussions on such issues as the role of multinational companies, the future of European security, the impact of Maastricht, the challenges of a common defense and unified foreign policy, and feminist observations of a "new" Europe. Consideration is also given to the various countries themselves and how each will respond to recent changes. Students and academics in the fields of political science, international relations, comparative politics, and peace studies will find this volume a must read. "A stimulating contribution to the debate on theories of international relations and foreign-policy analysis." --Journal of Peace Research "European Foreign Policy is a landmark collection of studies by European scholars on the value and relevance of foreign policy analysis (FPA) in light of changing international circumstances. European Foreign Policy is a more coherent product than most edited volumes. It is also a welcome revision of, and addition to, the existing literature. This book is a landmark publication in the sense that it takes new initiatives in, and provides new solutions to, problems that are central to foreign policy analysis. As a consequence, it has a rare cumulative impact in the field." -Mershon International Studies Review

Deconstructing Public Relations or Principles and Types of Public Speaking

Deconstructing Public Relations: Public Relations Criticism

Author: Thomas J Mickey

This volume provides a critical look at public relations practice, utilizing case studies from public relations, advertising, and marketing to illustrate the deconstruction and analysis of public relations campaigns. Author Thomas J. Mickey uses a cultural studies approach and demonstrates how it can be used as a critical theory for public relations practice, offering real-world examples to support his argument.

Through the interpretive act of deconstruction, this book serves to challenge the myth of public relations as an objective "science," allowing the social importance of public relations to be redefined and encouraging public relations to take a fuller place in the interdisciplinary study of text and knowledge.

Intended for public relations scholars and students in public relations cases/campaigns, public relations criticism, and media studies courses, Deconstructing Public Relations: Public Relations Criticism demystifies the act of deconstruction and shows how it can give insight into the theory and practice of public relations.

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Principles and Types of Public Speaking

Author: Raymie E McKerrow

Principles and Types of Public Speaking, 16^th Edition

Raymie E. McKerrow, University of Maine

Bruce E. Gronbeck, University of Iowa

 

With a commitment to cultural sensitivity and scholarship in the discipline, Principles and Types of Public Speaking combines a focus on contemporary research with practical skills and advice on how to communicate in public settings.

 

The text focuses on culture and community building, with a goal of helping students understand how they can adapt to cultural differences and what role communication plays in creating social cohesion, whether in informational, persuasive, ceremonial, or business-oriented settings. By focusing on both speechmaking in society and student presentations in the classroom, this text helps students to see the relationship between what they are learning and how they can use this knowledge outside of the classroom.

New in the Sixteenth Edition

• A new discussion on speaking in a mediated society is included, focusing in particular on the use of technology as an asset in presentations.
• Thoroughly updated research is presented throughout the text and includes topics such as VALS and PRIZM.
• Continued emphasis on speaking in a diverse society is found throughout this new edition.
• A new chapter on critical listening provides a solid focus on this key skill.
• A restructured chapter on persuasion makes this critical topic clearer for students. 

 

 

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Table of Contents:

I. PUBLIC SPEAKING IN A GLOBAL WORLD

1. Public Speaking in a Mediated Society

2. Setting the Scene for Community Building: Ethical Communication in a Diverse Culture

3. Getting Started: Basic Tips for Speech Preparation and Delivery

4. Public Speaking and Critical Listening

II. PREPARATION    

5. Public Speaking in a Culturally Diverse Society: To Whom are you Speaking?

6. Developing Central Ideas and Claims: Finding and Using Evidence

7. Organizing Ideas: Relational Language, Internal Organization Patterns, and the Motivated Sequence

8. Maintaining Audience Attention and Involvement    

9. Developing the Speech Outline    

III. CHANNELS    

10. Using Language to Communicate    

11. Using Visual Materials in Speeches    

12. Using Your Voice and Body to Communicate    

IV. TYPES    

13. Speeches to Inform    

14, Speeches to Persuade and Actuate    

15. Argument and Critical Thinking    

16. Performing Culture in Building Communities: Speaking on Special Occasions

Explaining Long Term Economic Change or SELECT Series

Explaining Long-Term Economic Change

Author: J L Anderson

This book provides an introduction to, and critical review of, the competing models that have been developed to explain long-term and large-scale economic change. An acquaintance with these models is necessary for an understanding of the processes that produced the foundations for the modern pattern of global production and distribution. Drawing examples from European and Asian history in the early modern period, the author presents an accessible and nontechnical exposition that will be invaluable to students of economic history.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Note on references
	Introduction	1
1	Models, theories and history	4
2	Market explanations of economic change	11
3	The environment	20
4	Population: the importance of people	27
5	Deus ex machina? Technology and science	34
6	Institutions and change: theory and history	41
7	Development as exploitation?	55
8	Review and preview	64
	Notes	70
	Bibliography	72
	Index	78

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SELECT Series: Microsoft Office XP Brief Edition

Author: Pamela R Toliver

The Select Series Microsoft^® Office XP

Select's easy to follow, step-by-step approach lays the groundwork for students to have early success with Office XP and to gain the confidence they need to apply their skills to text projects and cases, as well as to everyday work challenges!

The Practical Running Case and the clear instructions guide students to mastering Office XP in the classroom and beyond!

Select is certified to the Core and Expert levels, giving students the full range of competencies in Office XP!

Marketing Strategies for Human and Social Service Agencies or Organizational Aspects of Health Communication Campaigns

Marketing Strategies for Human and Social Service Agencies

Author: William J Winston

A practical “how-to” resource for improving your agency's image in the community, this book provides successful strategies and methodologies for marketing a wide variety of social service agencies to both public and private sectors.

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Organizational Aspects of Health Communication Campaigns: What Works?

Author: Thomas E Backer

"This resource is an excellent overview of six health communication campaigns emphasizing insights gained and recommendations from actual experiences. . . . A total of 17 specialists with an impressive diversity of backgrounds and expertise (i.e., campaign experts, management, scientists, etc.) have contributed to this book--one that is loaded with invaluable lessons and insights for future health communications campaigns. . . . The bottom line: If you or your organization is (or will become involved) in such campaigns, this is a book worth reading. It is of interest and value to scholars, students, and professionals across a diversity of fields ranging from media studies and health education, to community policy and social work." --American Journal of Health Promotion "This is useful for its real-life examples." --Communication Booknotes With the steady rise in drug abuse, AIDS, and heart disease, those who devise health communication campaigns have been forced to become more aggressive and efficient in their agendas to promote health and prevent disease. This unique volume investigates the organizational dimensions of health campaigns, bringing together campaign experts and leading management scientists. How do organizations--universities, television and radio networks, advertising agencies, voluntary groups, advocacy and community organizations, and federal agencies--collaborate to make a campaign successful? How do organizational dynamics or structures influence campaign outcomes? Six case studies of some of the most visible campaigns in the last 20 years detail the history, development, operation, and evolution of health communication campaigns.Each case is followed by a commentary from a management expert. Readers will learn to better inspire, design, implement, and evaluate campaigns in various health areas by considering organizational factors. This extensive and accessible volume will be of interest to scholars, students, and professionals in media studies, public opinion, public health, community policy, health education, policy issues, and social work.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Partnership for a Drug-Free America: An Experiment in Social Marketing	10
	Commentary: Organizational Aspects of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America	25
3	Project STAR: A Substance Abuse Prevention Campaign in Kansas City	37
	Commentary: Organizational Aspects of Project STAR	61
4	Turkey's Mass Media Family Planning Campaign	68
	Commentary: Organizational Aspects of Turkey's Mass Media Family Planning Campaign	93
5	The Stanford Five-City Heart Disease Prevention Project	101
	Commentary: Organizational Aspects of the Stanford Five-City Heart Disease Prevention Project	129
6	Diffusion and Re-Invention of Project D.A.R.E.	139
	Commentary: Organizational Aspects of Project D.A.R.E.	163
7	The Harvard Alcohol Project: Promoting the Designated Driver on Television	178
	Commentary: Organizational Aspects of the Harvard Alcohol Project	203
8	Synthesis	214
	Index	228
	About the Authors	241

Managing Software Maniacs or Ilmatars Inspirations

Managing Software Maniacs: Finding, Managing, and Rewarding a Winning Development Team

Author: Ken Whitaker

Using a humorous yet practical style, it offers excellent advice on every aspect of programmer management. Topics range from finding software developers, rewarding them and building an effective team.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	Getting Your Priorities Straight	1
2	Attracting and Keeping Developers	39
3	Becoming a Development Leader	67
4	The Development Team	93
5	Schedules	117
6	Office Dynamics	137
7	Listening to Marketing	151
8	Guiding Your Technology Future	175
	A Maniac's Glossary	209
	Index	213

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Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music

Author: Tina K Ramnarin

Ilmatar gave birth to the bard who sang the Finnish landscape into being in the
Kalevala (the Finnish national epic). In Ilmatar's Inspirations, Tina K. Ramnarine explores creative processes and the critical role that music has played in Finnish nationalism by focusing on Finnish "new folk music" in the shifting spaces between the national imagination and the global marketplace.
Through extensive interviews and observations of performances, Ramnarine reveals how new folk musicians think and talk about past and present folk music practices, the role of folk music in the representation of national identity, and the interactions of Finnish folk musicians with performers from around the globe. She focuses especially on two internationally successful groups—JPP, a group that plays fiddle dance music, and Värttinä, an ensemble that highlights women's vocal traditions. Analyzing the multilayered processes—musical, institutional, political, and commercial—that have shaped and are shaped by new folk music in Finland, Ramnarine gives us an entirely new understanding of the connections between music, place, and identity.

Income Distribution Inflation and Growth or Career Strategies

Income Distribution, Inflation, and Growth: Lectures on Structuralist Macroeconomic Theory

Author: Lance Taylor

Structuralist macroeconomics has emerged recently as the only viable theoretical alternative for economists and practitioners in developing countries. Lance Taylor's innovative work represents a landmark in this field. It codifies a new generation of structuralist macroeconomic models that incorporate the economic power relationships of key institutions and groups, integrates both finance and real macroeconomics, and covers a diverse range of experience in the developing world over the past three decades.

In an introduction Taylor explains his methodology, describes assumptions underlying the models used, and reviews theories that relate economic growth and the role of financial assets. He then takes up basic structuralist models of a closed economy and moves on to consider the open economy cases. He incorporates the latest developments in the field (inflation, financial crisis, exchange rate management, increasing returns, and the like) in a treatment that departs substantially from economic orthodoxy.

Taylor first addresses the question of how to specify .closure" or define the causal structure of macro models. He also considers how income redistribution influences growth and output and how income redistribution interacts with inflation. Next, an investment-driven non-full employment growth model draws on ideas introduced earlier to illustrate how different sorts of macroeconomic policies affect short-run adjustment and growth prospects over time. Taylor then turns to the problems proposed by economic openness in a stylized semi-industrialized country, starting with international trade. A fix-price/flex-price model is developed, and additional models demonstratecases of policy relevance as well as interactions between class conflict and growth.

Lance Taylor is Professor of Economics at MIT.

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Career Strategies

Author: Thomas D Clark

Designed to take the reader through the process of assessing skills and talents, developing a networking data bank, preparing job search marketing tools, and answering interview questions effectively.

Table of Contents:

1. Why Networking Gets Results. 2. Getting Started: Clarifying What You Want in a Future Job. 3. Self Assessment: Taking Stock of Your Skills and Talents. 4. Your Job Search Strategy. 5. Writing Effective Networking Materials. 6. Preparing for Telephone and Face-to-Face Interviews. 7. Answering Questions and Objections Effectively. APPENDIX A. Planning Your Financial Future. B. Finalizing Your Relationship with Your Present Company. C. Networking Quiz.

The Transformation of Corporate Control or Software Project Management for Small to Medium Sized Projects

The Transformation of Corporate Control

Author: Neil Fligstein

In this book Neil Fligstein takes issue with prevailing theories of the corporation and proposes a radically new view that has important implications for American competitiveness.

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Software Project Management for Small to Medium Sized Projects

Author: John Rakos

This title is no longer being mass-produced. It is now being printed on demand by the publisher. While this process keeps information readily available, the print quality of these books is generally that of a copier and not of a normal book. This is a copy of the original book.

Based on the method used successfully at Digital Equipment Corporation, this volume details the time-phased approach to software development for project managers working with mini- or microcomputers.

Features:

• Focuses on planning and control.
• Covers practical skills such as software estimating; a quantitative approach to risk assessment, and contingency planning; and important development tools such as prototyping, Fourth Generation Languages, and SQL.
• Explains the personal aspects of managing a project - including staffing, delegation, motivation, organization, and communication.
• Contains an integrated case study - complete with examples of each project document.

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Based on his experience at Digital Equipment Corporation, Rakos describes a simplified time-phased approach to software development projects, focused on planning, control, and risk management. The three sections cover the activities and milestones of building a project, practical skills and tools required for project management, and issues involving the project team. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

I. THE METHODOLOGY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT.

1. The Seven Phases of Project Management: A Clean, Ordered Approach.
2. The Definition Phase: Understanding the User's Problem.
3. Project Planning.
4. Proposals: The First Ballpark Estimate and Schedule.
5. Negotiation and Contracts: The Legal Aspects.
6. The Analysis Phase: Detailing the Promises.
7. The Design Phase: How It All Works.
8. The Acceptance Test Plan: Agreeing to Agree.
9. The Programming Phase: Building the Pieces.
10. The Systems Test Phase: Putting It All Together.
11. The Acceptance Test Phase: Demonstration to the User — and (Hopefully) Payment.
12. The Operation Phase: The Proof of the Pudding.

II. PRACTICAL METHODS.

13. Estimating: The Weakest Link in the Chain.
14. Scheduling: Putting It All on the Calendar.
15. Prototyping: Working with a Model First.
16. Fourth Generation Languages: Developing Applications Five Times Faster.
17. Project Management Software: Planning and Controlling with a Computer.

III. PEOPLE ISSUES.

18. Organization: Who Does What and When.
19. Staffing: The Right People for the Right Task.
20. Controlling the Project by Monitoring: Management by Exception.
21. Control Using Meetings,Reviews and Reports: Communication with the Outside World.
22. Special Projects: Does the Method Still Apply?
23. Conclusions: Is It All Worth It?
Appendix: Case Study (An Example of All Project Documents).
References.
Index.

Envisioning Process as Content or Latin America

Envisioning Process as Content: Toward a Renaissance Curriculum

Author: Arthur L L Costa

"How will the traditional skillset of the industrial era have to be expanded for successful workers and citizens in the knowledge era? How must the traditional education process be transformed? Two cornerstones to the new system of education will be elevating the learning process to comparable standing with the content of what is learned, and making high-level thinking and learning skills, like systems thinking and collaborative learning, as important as traditional skills of reductionistic thinking and individual problem solving. These could indeed be two elements of a 'thought revolution in education."
From the Foreword by Peter M. Senge, Center for Organizational Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Envisioning Process as Content proposes a radical revision of curriculum, the heart and soul of teaching, too often an overlooked component of school reform and restructuring. The chapter authors of this comprehensive study, all leaders in their respective fields, establish a new framework for our learning communities that fosters a desire to see life as an intellectual and personal quest for knowledge and meaning. Teaching specific disciplines, such as language arts, math, or social studies, reinforces the all-important teaching of processes and skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, information processing, and lifelong learning. The authors explore in detail the dynamics of shifting the primary focus so that the content becomes the vehicle for teaching the process, resulting in a greater mastery of the discipline.

This volume will help you:

• Reconsider specific disciplines as vehicles forteaching processes

• Link processes and content

• Enhance student learning through process-centered teaching

• Create outcomes that ensure all students have learned to think

Envisioning Process as Content is the first volume of a trilogy addressing the curriculum needs for the 21st century. Written for school administrators, teachers, staff developers, curriculum specialists, and students and faculty of teacher education, the series provides new insight about the role of restructuring the curriculum in the school.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface to the Trilogy
	Preface to Envisioning Process as Content
	Acknowledgments
	About the Authors
1	Toward Renaissance Curriculum: An Idea Whose Time Has Come	1
2	Difficulties With the Disciplines	21
3	Shifting Paradigms From Either/Or to Both/And	32
4	Curriculum: A Decision-Making Process	41
5	How Process Is Connected With the Human Spirit	50
6	Process as Content	63
7	Reading as a Thinking Process	76
8	Mathematics Is Process Education	95
9	Teaching the Process of Aesthetic Knowing and Representation	107
10	Science as Inquiry: Transforming Science Education	120
11	Paper Thinking: The Process of Writing	140
12	Learning Creative Process: A Basic Life Skill	163
13	Historical Inquiry	185
14	Above the Word: When Process Is Content in Foreign Language Teaching	199
15	Humor as Process	211
	The Essence: Process as Content	230
	Index	235

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Latin America (Making of the Contemporary World Series): Development and conflict Since 1945

Author: John Ward

Latin America provides an introduction to the volatile economic and political history of the region in the last half century. Beginning with a brief history of Latin America since 1492, John Ward discusses the interactions between economic, political and social issues. The discussions includes:

* the long-term background to the 1980s debt crisis
* the effects of neo-liberal free market reforms
* relations with the United States and the wider world
* welfare provision in relation to wider economic issues
* social trends as reflected by changes in the status of women
* environmental debates
* comparisons with the more dynamic East Asian economies.

This expanded edition brings the story up to date. John Ward updates the book throughout to take into account recent historiography, and considers the current situation in Latin America in relation to the wider world, especially the US. Also included are biographies of the leading figures of the period, among them Peron, Castroand Pinochet.

Texas Real Estate Contracts or Can We Talk

Texas Real Estate Contracts

Author: Michelle L Evans

This text integrates the theory of contract law and its impact on the real estate transaction with practical instruction on Texas real estate employment and sales contracts. Written by an attorney and a real estate broker, you'll find it offers a fully blended view of real estate contracts from two active participants in their respective fields. All required course elements specified by the Texas Real Estate Commission are included along with current real estate contracts and addenda.

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Can We Talk?: A Handbook for Public Speakers

Author: Thomas J Karam

This handbook is a quick and easy-to-use guide for anyone called upon to speak. Contents: Introduction; Controlling Nervousness; Improving Your Credibility; Analyzing Your Audience; Researching Your Speech; Organizing Your Speech; Using Practical Persuasion; Improving Your Delivery; Properly Using Your Visual Aids; Polishing Your Speech; Handling Questions; Index.

Author Biography: Thomas J. Karam teaches at Louisiana State University. James Gaut Ragsdale teaches at Northern Kentucky University.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	Controlling Nervousness	1
	Improving Your Credibility	5
	Analyzing Your Audience	7
	Researching Your Speech	13
	Organizing Your Speech	17
	Using Practical Persuasion	23
	Improving Your Delivery	29
	Properly Using Your Visual Aids	33
	Polishing Your Speech	37
	Handling Questions	41
	Index	43

Pursuing Truth Exercising Power or Managing Human Resources

Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Lisa Anderson

The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy in favor of NGOs, multinational corporations and other private entities, it has raised important questions about the future of the social sciences and their universalist pretensions.

As dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, Lisa Anderson has a unique vantage point on the intersection of social sciences, particularly political science, and public-policy formation and implementation. How do, or should, the research and findings of the academy affect foreign or domestic policy today? Why are politicians often quick to dismiss professors as irrelevant, their undertakings purely "academic", while scholars often shrink from engagement as agents of social or political change? There is a tension at work here, and it reveals a deeper compromise that arose as the modern social sciences were born in the nursery of late nineteenth century American liberalism: social scientists would dedicate themselves to the pursuit of objective, empirically verifiable truth, while relinquishing the exercise of power to governments and their agents. Anderson argues that this compromise helped underwrite the expansion of American influence in the twentieth century, and that it needs serious reexamination at the dawn of the twenty-first.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction : understanding, intervention and the common good	1
2	A science of politics : the American history of scientific policy and policymaking	7
3	A marketplace of ideas : social science and public policy beyond government	41
4	Wars and webs : global public policy and international social science	75
5	Concluding thoughts : social science, policymaking, and the common good in the twenty-first century	103

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Managing Human Resources

Author: Luis R R Gomez Mejia

The Managerial Perspective, a new introduction for every chapter, focuses on the managerial perspective and summarizes why the material is relevant to managers.

Managerial Skill Builder: Issues and Exercises, an end-of-chapter feature, presents a managerial situation relevant to each chapter topic and concludes with questions, issues, exercises, and group projects.

Manager's Notebook, located in every chapter, illustrates procedures, tips, and strategies you can really use in management.

You Manager It! Discussion Cases, found at the end of every chapter, focus on human resources issues from a manager's perspective and encourage you to think critically.

Technology and its influence on human resources information is addressed in every chapter.

Globalization and its effect on human resources practices is discussed throughout the book, and the authors address the unique human resources problems faced by multinational organizations.

The authors and Prentice Hall are committed to providing a unique learning and teaching package to accompany this third edition. New to this edition:

Skills Live! Videos offer dramatizations that highlight a human resources skill related to each part of the text. These videos allow students the opportunity to see what it's like to conduct an interview, give performance appraisals, deal with sexual harassment issues, and more.

PHLIP/CW Web Site provides full academic support for both professors and students. Instructors can find answers to current events and Web exercises, download ancillary materials, and more. For students, there is anon-line study guide, current events articles and exercises, Web exercises, and more.

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Consisting of 16 chapters, divided into six parts, this text provides an overview of emerging challenges in the strategic management of human resources (HR); the contexts in which HRM takes place; staffing issues; human resources development; compensation issues; and workplace governance and the employer-employee relationship. This edition (last, 1995) emphasizes practicalities, with new material in every chapter on concrete skills-building, as well as the results of new research, new graphics, and computer-based HRM simulations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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New edition of a text that illustrates the role and impact of technology on globalization, compensation, legal, safety, and health issues. G<'o>mez-Mej<'i>a and Robert L. Cardy (both of Arizona State U.) and David B. Balkin (U. of Colorado) discuss present and emerging strategic human resource challenges, the contexts of human resource management, staffing, employee development, compensation, and governance. The 17 chapters include features such as the managerial perspective, issues and exercises, procedures and tips, discussion cases, the influence of technology, and the effect of globalization. Contains many color illustrations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Discharge Planning for Home Health Care or Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

Discharge Planning for Home Health Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Author: Barbara Stover Gingerich

Discharge Planning for Home Health Care is a comprehensive, step—by—step guide to assessing the needs of patients and establishing a coordinated hospital—to—home discharge plan. The referral format and assessment tools provide the user with an organized and systematic approach for the transition of the patient through the continuum of care. This comprehensive resource is based on current reimbursement and regulatory issues and contains over 150 tools for easy application to a broad spectrum of health care settings.

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A combination of regulatory issues seeking quality cost-effective care, the increased acuity of discharged patients, and home care's readiness to meet the growing need for trained health professionals within the community have led to the need for enhancement of the home care coordination link in the discharge planning process. This manual provides a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to organizational discharge planning in 11 chapters: overview; the hospital discharge plan; the patient's perspective; the home care coordination perspective; the social work perspective; the nursing perspective; professional collaboration; external linkages; the effects of reimbursement--today and tomorrow; integration with alternative health care settings; and conclusions. A dozen appendices provide additional information. Loose-leaf in a three-ring binder. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Contents: Introduction * Overview * The Hospital Discharge Plan * The Patient' s Perspective * The Home Care Coordination Perspective * The Social Work Perspective * The Nursing Perspective * Professional Collaboration * External Linkages * The Effects of Reimbursement: Today and Tomorrow * Integration with Alternative Health Care Settings * Conclusion

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Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

Author: James T Reason

Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards, and defenses developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity, and their human and financial consequences are all too often catastrophic. One of the challenges facing the next millennium is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence.

This lucid book presents a set of common principles to further our knowledge of the causes of major accidents in a wide variety of high technology systems. It also describes tools and techniques for managing the risks of such organizational accidents that go beyond those currently available to system managers and safety professionals.

The author deals comprehensively with the prevention of major accidents arising from human and organizational causes. He argues that the same general principles and management techniques are appropriate for many different domains. These include banks and insurance companies just as much as nuclear power plants, oil exploration and production companies, chemical process installations, and air, sea, and rail transport.

Its unique combination of principles and practicalities make Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents essential reading for those people whose daily business is to manage, audit, and regulate hazardous technologies of all kinds. It is relevant to those concerned with understanding and controlling human and organizational factors, and will also interest academic readers and those working in industrial and government agencies.

About the Author: James Reason, Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester, UK. He is also co-author of Beyond Aviation Human Factors and the author of Human Error (1990).

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Presents a set of principles related to the causes of major accidents in high technology systems and describes tools and techniques for managing risks of such organizational accidents that go beyond those currently available to system managers and safety professionals. Deals with prevention of major accidents arising from human and organizational causes in many different domains, from banks and insurance companies to nuclear power plants and transport. For those working in management or regulation of hazardous technologies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Origins of American Social Science or Auditing

The Origins of American Social Science

Author: Dorothy Ross

Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a millennial course, exempted from historical change and from the mass poverty and class conflict of Europe. Before the Civil War, this vision of American exceptionalism drew social scientists into the national effort to stay the hand of time. Not until after the Civil War did industrialization force Americans to confront the idea and reality of historical change. The social science disciplines had their origin in that crisis and their development is a story of efforts to evade and tame historical transformation in the interest of exceptionalist ideals. This is the first book to look broadly at American social science in its historical context and to demonstrate the central importance of the national ideology of American exceptionalism to the development of the social sciences and to American social thought generally.

Table of Contents:

Introduction;

Part I. European Social Science in Antebellum America:

1. The discovery of modernity;
2. The American exceptionalist vision;

Part II. The Crisis of American Exceptionalism, 1865-1896:
3. Establishment of the social science disciplines;
4. The threat of socialism in economics and sociology;

Part III. Progressive Social Science, 1896-1914:
5. The liberal revision of American exceptionalism;
6. Marginalism and historicism in economics;
7. Toward a sociology of social control;
8. From historico-politics to political science;

Part IV. American Social Science As The Study Of Natural Process, 1908-1929:
9. Modernist historical consciousness and American liberal change;
10. The advent of scientism; Epilogue; Footnote abbreviations; Footnotes.

Interesting book: The Quest for Cosmic Justice or American Dreamer

Auditing: A Risk Analysis Approach

Author: Larry F Konrath

Utilizing a unique, risk analysis approach to auditing, Konrath's 5e emphasizes auditor identification of risk factors and the allocation of audit resources to high-risk areas. Organized into five distinct parts for better continuity, Konrath's 5e has been completely updated and revised throughout. Konrath's 5e offers expanded coverage of the Internet, assurance services and ethics. These updates and improvements, combined with a built-in, computerized audit practice case, provide an outstanding resource for preparing students for the CPA exam. Auditing: A Risk Analysis Approach, 5e gives students the tools they need to pursue successful careers in a global economy.

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This text guides students through the auditing process from planning through conducting and reporting, and is designed to help students prepare for the auditing portion of the CPA exam. Konrath's (U. of Toledo) risk analysis approach emphasizes auditor identification of risk factors and the allocation of audit resources to high-risk areas. Coverage includes professional responsibility and ethics, legal liability, audit evidence and audit programs, internal control, statistical sampling, substantive audit testing, and other attestation and assurance services. The included CD-ROM contains partially completed audit workpapers in Excel for a practice case. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Managing Economic Volatility and Crises or Business Ethics and the Natural Environment

Managing Economic Volatility and Crises: A Practitioner's Guide

Author: Joshua Aizenman

Over the past ten years, economic volatility has come into its own after being treated for decades as a secondary phenomenon in business cycle literature. This evolution has been driven by the recognition of the permanent negative effects of volatility on long-run growth and inequality, especially in poor countries. After presenting basic features of volatility, this volume investigates commodity price volatility as an absorber and amplifier of shocks. The collection then examines macroeconomic crises, which are driven by the same phenomena that make volatility difficult to treat effectively.

Table of Contents:

	Overview	1
1	Volatility : definitions and consequences	45
2	Volatility and growth	65
3	Volatility, income distribution, and poverty	101
4	Agricultural commodity price volatility	137
5	Managing oil booms and busts in developing countries	186
6	Finance and volatility	213
7	Evaluating pricing signals from the bond markets	281
8	Managing macroeconomic crises : policy lessons	315
9	Lessons from the Russian crisis of 1998 and recovery	406
10	Argentina's macroeconomic collapse : causes and lessons	439
11	Default episodes in the 1980s and 1990s : what have we learned?	471
	Technical appendix	521

Look this: Racing to a Cure or Teach Yourself Stop Smoking

Business Ethics and the Natural Environment

Author: Lisa H Newton

Business Ethics and the Natural Environment examines the present status of relations between corporate enterprise and the natural environment in the world today.
•Discusses such questions as: What obligations does a corporation have toward the environment? To respect entities unprotected by law? To care about future generations?
•Argues that environmentally-friendly business practices yield dividends exceeding expectations, and that the competitive firm of the 21st century will follow “green” standards
•Provides a background in ethics, a survey of business ethics, an account of environmental philosophy, an overview of environmental legal issues, and an account of the problems associated with globalization

Organization Transformation and Learning or Medieval Islamic Economic Thought

Organization Transformation and Learning: A Cybernetic Approach to Management and Organization

Author: Raul Espejo

Complexity is the core issue of organizational concern for the age we have entered, not just for the year 2000 but for the new century we are about to enter. The purpose of this book is showing, both theoretically and practically, how organizational and managerial cybernetics can contribute to this core issue. The authors offer a holistic view of both organizations and individual actions. They provide a framework to relate and organize the myriad activities natural to today's business. It offers a framework to account for organizational complexity, align strategic processes and organization structure and information systems. It also develops further the Viable System Model as a framework for organizational diagnosis and design.

New interesting book: The Year of the Hangman or Beyond the Body Farm

Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics

Author: S M Ghazanfar

This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, roughly during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, like St. Thomas Aquinas.

Table of Contents:

	Notes on contributors
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Scholastic economics and Arab scholars: the "Great Gap" thesis reconsidered	6
2	Economic thought of an Arab Scholastic: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (AH450-505/1058-1111AD)	23
3	Economic thought and religious thought: a comment on Ghazanfar and Islahi	45
4	A rejoinder to "Economic thought and religious thought	49
5	Explorations in medieval Arab-Islamic economic thought: some aspects of Ibn Taimiyah's economics	53
6	History of economic thought: the Schumpeterian "Great Gap", the "lost" Arab-Islamic legacy and the literature gap	72
7	Understanding the market mechanism before Adam Smith: economic thought in medieval Islam	88
8	Inaccuracy of the Schumpeterian "Great Gap" thesis: economic thought in medieval Iran (Persia)	108
9	Explorations in medieval Arab-Islamic economic thought: some aspects of Ibn Qayyim's economics (AH691-751/1292-1350AD)	127
10	Medieval Islamic socio-economic thought: links with Greek and Latin-European scholarship	142
11	Post-Greek/pre-Renaissance economic thought: contributions of Arab-Islamic Scholastics during the "Great Gap" centuries	159
12	The economic thought of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and St Thomas Aquinas: some comparative parallels and links	184
13	Early medieval Islamic economic thought: Abu Yousuf's (731-798AD) economics of public finance	209
14	Public-sector economics in medieval economic thought: contributions of selected Arab-Islamic scholars	228
15	Medieval social thought European Renaissance: the influence of selected Arab-Islamic Scholastics	245
	Bibliography	261
	Index	276

Post Soviet Women or Debating Empire

Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia

Author: Mary Buckley

How have women's lives changed in the republics of the former Soviet Union since the fall of the USSR? This is the first book systematically to examine changes and continuities across these states, focusing on women and work, social roles and women in politics. Drawing on interviews with women in factories, on farms and with women streetsellers, politicians and activists, the book questions whether women are "victims" or "agents" of change, and describes various strategies of coping and adaptation to new economic and social instabilities.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Notes on contributors
	Map
	Introduction
1	Victims and agents: gender in post-Soviet states	3
Pt. I	Women in the Russian Federation	17
2	Do Russian women want to work?	21
3	Rural women and the impact of economic change	38
4	Women and the culture of entrepreneurship	56
5	Images of an ideal woman: perceptions of Russian womanhood through the media, education and women's own eyes	77
6	'She was asking for it': rape and domestic violence against women	99
7	'For the sake of the children': gender and migration in the former Soviet Union	119
8	When the fighting is over: the soldiers' mothers and the Afghan madonnas	143
9	Adaptation of the Soviet Women's Committee: deputies' voices from 'Women of Russia'	157
10	Women's groups in Russia	186
Pt. II	Women Outside Russia in Newly Independent States	201
11	Women in changing societies: Latvia and Lithuania	203
12	Progress on hold: the conservative faces of women in Ukraine	219
13	Out of the kitchen into the crossfire: women in independent Armenia	235
14	The women's peace train in Georgia	250
15	Between tradition and modernity: the dilemma facing contemporary Central Asian women	261
	Index	305

Book review: Che or The Voice of Reason

Debating Empire

Author: Gopal Balakrishnan

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire has been hailed as a latter-day Communist Manifesto. Its ability to develop a theoretical framework relevant to the current period of global neoliberalism and international capitalism captured the imagination of the growing anticapitalist movement and has been claimed as a turning point for the left. As much as it has seduced and delighted some, however, it has enraged and frustrated others. In this collection, a series of some of the most acute international theorists and commentators of our times subject the book to trenchant and probing analysis from political, economic and philosophical perspectives.