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Careers with Animals or Nonprofit Kit For Dummies

2009-12-06T02:23:00.000-08:00

Careers with Animals: Exploring Occupations Involving Dogs, Horses, Cats, Birds, Wildlife, and Exotics

Author: Ellen Shenk

A much-needed guide to animal-related professions, Careers with Animals is a vital resource for the animal lover looking to plan his or her future. Author Ellen Shenk provides straightforward and accurate introductions to a wide range of potential careers—everything from familiar jobs such as veterinarian and zookeeper to cat breeder, animal chiropractor, dog show judge, and other more unusual pursuits. Also included are numerous fascinating profiles of real-life professionals, who give honest looks at the many challenges and unique rewards of working with animals. Includes in-depth profiles of individuals who work with animals every day and provides current information on salaries, educational requirements, and job outlook, along with job information resources.

Author Biography: Ellen Shenk is the author of Outdoor Careers (0811728730). Her experience in the career field includes writing articles and presenting seminars on the topics of the creative job search, interviewing, and writing resumes. She is a past editor of the national newsletter of the Career Information Resource Advisory Group and currently lives in Ottawa, Canada.

	Acknowledgments	v
	Introduction	vi
Chapter 1	Choosing Your Career	1
Chapter 2	Cats, Dogs, and Other Small Pets	9
	Small Animal Breeder	10
	Dog or Cat Trainer	12
	Animal Control Officer	20
	Boarding Kennel Operator	22
	Pet Groomer	23
	Pet Sitter	25
	Shelter Worker	26
	Dog Shows	27
	Professional Dog Handler	27
	Dog Show Judge	28
	Cat Shows	31
	Resources	33
	Profiles	42
	Himalayan Cat and Alpaca Breeder	42
	Professional Dog Trainer	45
	Dog Show Judge and Dog Writer	48
Chapter 3	Horses	53
	Horse Show Work	58
	Horse Care	61
	Equine Massage Therapy	63
	Horse Training	64
	Horse Business	67
	Resources	70
	Profiles	72
	Head Instructor	72
	Equestrienne	75
Chapter 4	Birds	79
	Aviculture	81
	Bird Tour Leader	82
	Field Ornithologist	83
	Bird Trainer	84
	Resources	86
	Profile	88
	Bird Trainer	88
Chapter 5	Marine Animals, Fish, and Other Aquatic Creatures	93
	Aquaculture/Fish Hatcheries	95
	Aquarist	96
	Fisheries Management	98
	Marine Collector	99
	Marine Mammal Trainer	101
	Research Biologist (Fisheries)	103
	Resources	105
	Profiles	109
	Aquarist	108
	Marine Life Fisherman	112
Chapter 6	Reptiles and Amphibians	117
	Herpetologist	118
	Resources	122
	Profiles	123
	Herpetologist and University Professor	123
	Zookeeper and Reptile Zoo Owner	126
Chapter 7	Wild Animals	129
	Wildlife Biologist	131
	Wildlife Technologist or Technician	133
	Wildlife Officer	135
	Wildlife Public Information Officer	136
	Wildlife Rehabilitator	137
	Resources	139
	Profiles	141
	Wildlife Biologist	141
	Wildlife Rehabilitator	144
Chapter 8	Ranch Animals	147
	Cattle	149
	Pigs	151
	Sheep	151
	Goats	152
	Poultry	152
	Other Ranch Animals	153
	Resources	154
Chapter 9	Exotic Animals	159
	Zoos	159
	Curator	163
	Keeper	165
	Sanctuary Work	166
	Resources	167
	Profiles	169
	Senior Elephant Handler	169
	Animal Sanctuary Owners	171
Chapter 10	Caring for Animals	177
	Veterinarian	178
	Veterinary Technician/Technologist	180
	Animal Behaviorist	181
	Holistic Medicine/Alternative Therapies	185
	Animal Chiropractor	187
	Animal Use in Therapy	188
	Resources	189
	Profiles	194
	Veterinarian and Animal Chiropractor	194
	Veterinary Technician	197
Chapter 11	Some Job-Search Tips	201
	Index	212

Interesting textbook: Contemporary U S Tax Policy or True Stories

Nonprofit Kit For Dummies

Author: Frances Phillips

Starting a nonprofit is one of the most exciting and gratifying adventures that you’ll ever partake in, especially when you seal the deal on your first grant. But like all adventures, running a nonprofit organization is a real challenge.

Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, Second Edition shows you the fun-and-easy way to get your nonprofit up-and-running. It contains savvy advice from the experts on everything from incorporating and managing your nonprofit to unbeatable tactics for raising money and managing public relations. This hands-on, no-nonsense guide is packed with tons of useful information that will give you everything you need to:

• Plan your nonprofit for the community

• Write a buy-in guaranteed mission statement

• Incorporate and apply tax exemption

• Build your board of directors with the right people

• Design a volunteer program

• Have a paid staff run your nonprofit

• Create budgets and financial reports

• Craft the perfect fundraising plan

• Write a great grant proposal

• Raise money from individuals

Included in this must-have resource is a bonus CD-ROM that contains sample grant proposals, over a dozen budget and cash flow projections, multiple fundraising plans to choose from, and a list of indispensable Web resources to keep your nonprofit on track. Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, Second Edition is the ultimate nuts-and-bolts guide to getting your nonprofit off the ground and giving back to your community!

Words That Sell or How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs

2009-12-05T00:42:00.000-08:00

Words That Sell: The Thesaurus to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas

Author: Richard Bayan

More than 6,000 words and phrases that make the difference between "yadda-yadda-yadda" and copy that sells

Looking for a better way to say "authentic?" Words That Sell gives you 57 alternatives. How about "appealing?" Take your pick from 76 synonyms. You'll even find more than 100 variations on "exciting." Fully updated and expanded, this edition of the copywriting classic is packed with inspiration-on-demand for busy professionals who need to win customers--by mail, online, or in person.

More than 75 lists of powerful and persuasive words and phrases, including 21 new lists for this edition
Cross-referencing of categories to jump-start creative thinking
A crash course in basic copywriting techniques
Helpful lists of commonly misspelled words, confusing words, pretentious phrases to avoid, and more

Roget's is fine for writing term papers and letters to the editor, but when it comes to the business of writing copy that translates into sales, there is no substitute for Words That Sell.

Richard Bayan spent over two decades as an award-winning advertising copywriter and copy chief. He is the author of three other books, including the companion to this book, More Words That Sell.

How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs

Author: Richard Montauk

Now updated and revised.

Now with new and expanded information on Executive MBA programs, the most up-to-date school rankings, new interviews with admissions officers, and more detailed advice for younger applicants, Montauk offers an up-close and candid view of what leading MBA programs look for in an applicant.

	Preface
	How to Benefit Most from This Book
1	Why Get an MBA?	3
2	Types of MBA Programs	11
3	How to Use the Rankings	30
4	Make the Most of Your Credentials	50
5	How to Choose the Right School for You	83
6	The Admissions Process	103
7	Financing Your MBA	110
8	Marketing Yourself: General Principles	121
9	Understanding the Key Essay Topics	141
10	How to Write Persuasive Essays	179
11	Recommendations	205
12	Interviews	228
13	Application Timetable	268
14	Responding to Wait-Listing, Rejections, and Other Disappointments	283
15	What to Do Once You Are Accepted	290
16	How to Get the Most Out of Business School	309
Appendix	Application Essay Examples	317
	Index	435

How to Wow or The Five Temptations of a CEO

2009-12-03T23:02:00.000-08:00

How to Wow: Proven Strategies for Presenting Your Ideas, Persuading Your Audience, and Perfecting Your Image

Author: Frances Jones

“The invaluable advice in How to Wow guarantees your success in any meeting situation, from the boardroom to the breakfast table.”
–Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone

In today’s fast-paced world, where an elevator ride with your CEO can turn into an impromptu meeting, your lunch date can become a job interview, and your conversation at a cocktail party may be a preamble to a potential business merger, knowing how to market yourself in any situation is vital. Corporate coach Frances Cole Jones has helped numerous CEOs, celebrities, and public personalities present their best selves on camera and onstage, in boardrooms and in person; now in her new book, How to Wow, she shares her strategies for making your mark in business and in life.

Every encounter, Jones believes, provides you with an opportunity to positively influence colleagues, employers, neighbors–even competitors. Not only your words, but your tone of voice and your body language speak volumes. The question, however, is: Are they working together to say what you want them to, as effectively as possible?

Inside, you’ll learn how to

• leave a lasting impression with a simple introduction
• effectively employ the twelve most persuasive words in the English language and command the stage, boardroom, or lunch table
• read nonverbal responses accurately–and shift negative ones immediately
• motivate your team under deadline
• interview fearlessly and flawlessly
• write the perfect pitch, résumè, cover letter, or e-mail
• deliver speeches that bring people totheir feet
• transform a PowerPoint presentation into a powerful success

With easy-to-follow advice, amusing anecdotes, and immediately employable hints, Jones’s guidelines can keep you cool (even in hot water). From asking the right questions to giving the right answers, How to Wow will provide you with the confidence to be calm and commanding in all you do and to wow anyone anywhere anytime.

The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

Author: Patrick M Lencioni

Lencioni delivers a provocative message. CEOs mainly have themselves to blame when things go wrong. If you're a CEO (or a manager for that matter), do you have the courage to face it? Doing so could change your future -- for the better.

Library Journal

This tape presents the story of Andrew, a CEO, and the five temptations he faces in management. The central part of the work is a quirky dream. Very simplified, the temptations are putting self first, wanting to be liked rather than to lead, making decisions reluctantly, elevating harmony above productive argument, and not trusting subordinates. The author's discussions at the end of the story help clarify the main points, and the narration is nicely done by Boyd Gaines. Some of the ideas are good, but the advice is not consistently insightful. Recommended only for libraries with large management collections.--Mark Guyer, Stark Cty. Dist. Lib., Canton, OH Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Zig Ziglars Secrets of Closing the Sale or Scheisse

2009-12-02T21:21:00.000-08:00

Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale

Author: Zig Ziglar

Doctors, housewives, ministers, parents, teachers ... everyone has to "sell" their ideas and themselves to be successful. This new guide by America's #1 professional in the art of persuasion focuses on the most essential part of the sale -- how to make them say "Yes, I will!"

Look this: The Bloodless Revolution or Moorish Recipes

Scheisse!: The Real German You Were Never Taught in School

Author: Gertrude Besserwisser

If you think you have a fairly good command of German, think again. For it's a sure bet that Frau Schultz never taught you those nasty little guttural curses and humiliating invectives so expressive of real low German speech. But relax - here at last is the one book that can introduce you to the very worst beer-hall German. Scheisse! is an indispensible guide to off-color German colloquialisms and profanities - lascivious bedroom slang and boozy insults, jeering scatalogical put-downs and scurrilous ridicule. This hilariously illustrated cornucopia of creative expletives, gauranteed to vex, taunt, aggravate, and provoke as only overwrought low German can, will help you master the fine art of German verbal abuse - with triumphant one-upmanship.

Monday Morning Mentoring or Cold Calling Techniques

2009-12-01T19:40:00.000-08:00

Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder

Author: David Cottrell

Everyone who wants a fulfilling career needs a mentor -- someone who has seen it all before, someone who can share hard-won experiences and teach valuable lessons.

In this expanded and enhanced version of his best-selling book, Monday Morning Leadership, David Cottrell packs all of the wisdom of his wide-ranging business experience into this inspirational story. Cottrell introduces us to Jeff, a successful corporate manager who has hit a major wall. Jeff has been leading his team, quarter after quarter, to great sales and better profits for several years -- until now. The tricks that used to work wonders have lost their magic; Jeff is in a slump and is at a loss to find his way out of it.

Overworked, stressed, and feeling that his personal and professional lives are at risk, Jeff reaches out to the father of a college buddy, a retired and tremendously accomplished former executive named Tony. Tony and Jeff agree to meet every Monday for ten weeks to work through Jeff's problems and get his career back on track.

In the course of these intimate sessions, Jeff discovers the secrets of real leadership: "Until I accept total responsibility -- no matter what -- I will not be able to put plans in place to accomplish my goals." And, "My success is the result of making better choices and recovering quickly from poor choices."

Tony leads Jeff through tough lessons in how to manage his people, how to manage his own time, how to manage his superiors, and how to escape from "management land." Most of all, Jeff learns that his success is intimately bound with the success of his people and that tolerating lackluster performance in himself and otherson the team only leads to discontent from his most prized and productive employees.

Through Jeff's mentoring sessions, the reader meets a character of integrity who dispenses homespun but effective wisdom. Spend time with Tony and Jeff at their Monday morning meetings, and you will find yourself on the road to becoming a better leader and being more successful at work.

Look this: Thinkertoys or The Bridge at the Edge of the World

Cold Calling Techniques: 20th Anniversary Edition

Author: Stephen Schiffman

Follow the advice of Stephan Schiffman- America's #1 Corporate Sales Trainer-and take your career to the next level. This special anniversary edition of his perennial bestseller, Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!), provides you with all of the right tools for turning prospects into meetings, and meetings into big sales.

This easy-to-follow guide helps you beat today's cold calling obstacles, such as voice mail, cell phones, and e-mail. Schiffman's professional experience and corporate wisdom guarantee your future success. The anniversary edition of Cold Calling Techniques packs in plenty of potential leads to help you hunt down more business. Give yourself the edge. Cold Calling Techniques is the one book you need to make your sales opportunities better, pitches stronger, and commissions greater.

About the Author:
Stephan Schiffman is president of D.E.I. Franchise Systems, Inc.

Acknowledgments     ix
Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition     xi
Introduction     xiii
Cold Calling Is Essential     1
By the Numbers     9
Where to Look for Leads     25
Cold Call Mechanics     32
Using Cell Phones     52
Turning Around Common Responses     33
The Ledge     65
Mastering Third-Party and Referral Calls     75
Leaving Messages That Get Results     86
More on Voice Mail     102
E-Mail Tactics     104
Follow-Up Calls     108
The Four-Step Sales Process     115
The Principles of Sales Success     122
Sample Scripts     132
Index     137

The Art of Public Speaking with Learning Tools Suite or International Business

2009-11-30T18:00:00.000-08:00

The Art of Public Speaking with Learning Tools Suite (Student CD-ROMs 5. 0, Audio Abridgement CD set, PowerWeb, and Topic Finder)

Author: Stephen E Lucas

Whether a novice or an experienced speaker, every student will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas' clear explanations and thorough coverage. By far the leading speech textbook of our time, The Art of Public Speaking has defined the art of being the best for more than six million students and instructors. The Lucas Learning Tools Suite offers even more tools and study options to fit the active lifestyles and diverse learning/teaching styles of today's students and instructors.

International Business

Author: Charles W L Hill

One way to compare International Business texts are to classify them as either descriptive or analytical. Descriptive texts describe in detail the internationalization process and answer the question — "How does a business go global/international?" Analytical texts,like Hill,discuss the internationalization process but also address why businesses chose to go global and the managerial implications of the decisions.
International Business,3/e: 1) Explains how and why the world's countries differ; 2) Presents a thorough review of the economics and politics of international trade and investment 3) Explains the functions of and form of the global monetary system; 4) Examines the strategies and structures of international business and 5) Assesses the special roles of an international business's various functions.

Booknews

A text for a first course in international business at the undergraduate or MBA level, focusing on the strategies and structures of international businesses and the implications of international business for firms' various functions. Sections on country factors, the global trade and investment environment, and the global monetary system supplement comprehensive treatment of major theories and the work of theorists including Michael Porter, Robert Reich, and Gary Hamel. Contains chapter summaries, boxes, color diagrams. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

PART I INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
PART II COUNTRY FACTORS
Chapter 2 National Differences in Political Economy
Chapter 3 Differences in Culture
PART III THE GLOBAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 4 International Trade Theory
Chapter 5 The Political Economy of International Trade
Chapter 6 Foreign Direct Investment
PART IV THE GLOBAL MONETARY SYSTEM
Chapter 9 The Foreign Exchange Market
Chapter 10 The International Monetary System
Chapter 11 The Global Capital Market
PART V THE STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Chapter 12 The Strategy of International Business
Chapter 13 The Organization of International Business
Chapter 14 Mode of Entry and Strategic Alliances
PART VI BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Chapter 15 Exporting, Importing and Countertrade
Chapter 16 Global Manufacturing and Materials Management
Chapter 17 Global Marketing and R & D.
Chapter 18 Global Human Resource Management
(and more...)

The Game Changer or The Logic of Life

2009-11-29T16:19:00.000-08:00

The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation

Author: A G Lafley

How you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job.

Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has tripled profits; significantly improved organic revenue growth, cash flow, and operating margins; and averaged earnings per share growth of 12 percent. How? A. G. Lafley and his leadership team have integrated innovation into everything P&G does and created new customers and new markets.

Through eye-opening stories A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan show how P&G and companies such as Honeywell, Nokia, LEGO, GE, HP, and DuPont have become game-changers. Their inspiring lessons can help you learn how to:

• Make consumers and customers the boss, not the CEO or the management team
• Innovate to grow a mature business
• Develop higher growth, higher margin businesses
• Create new customers and new markets
• Revitalize a business model
• Reach outside your own business and tap into the abundant brainpower and creativity of the world
• Integrate innovation into the mainstream of your managerial decision making
• Manage risk
• Become a leader of innovation

We live in a world of unprecedented change, increasing global competitiveness, and the very real threat of commoditization. Innovation in this world is the best way to win-arguably the only way to really win. Innovation is not a separate, discrete activity but the job of everyone in a leadership position and the integral, central driving force for any business that wants to grow organically and succeed on a sustained basis.

The Economist

This is a game-changing book that helps you redefine your leadership and improve your management game. A. G. Lafley has made Procter & Gamble great again.

BusinessWeek

Of all the firms on the 2007 ranking of the 'World's Most Innovative Companies,' few are more closely associated with today's innovation zeitgeist than . . . Procter & Gamble . . . now famous for its open approach to innovation.

U.S. News & World Report

The proof of Lafley's approach is plain enough. . . . P&G has not only doubled the number of new products . . . but also more than doubled its portfolio of billion-dollar brands and its stock price.

Fortune magazine

Lafley brought a whole lot of creativity and rigor to P&G's innovation process.

Chief Executive magazine

A. G. Lafley has reenergized a venerable giant . . . with a style and energy that will be the subject of business school cases for years to come.

Game-Changer: A Definition     vii
Our Goal     xi
How and Why Innovation at Procter & Gamble Changed Its Game     1
What P&G's Innovation Transformation Means for You     18
Drawing the Big Picture
The Customer Is Boss: The Foundation of Successful Innovation     33
Where to Play, How to Win: How Goals and Strategies Achieve Game-Changing Innovation     69
Leveraging What You Do Best: Revitalizing Core Strengths with Innovation     95
Making Innovation Happen
Organizing for Innovation: Building Enabling Structures     119
Integrating Innovation into Your Routine: From Generating Ideas to Go to Market     154
Managing the Risks of Innovation     185
The Culture of Innovation
Innovation Is a Team Sport: Courageous and Connected Culture     221
The New Job of the Leader: Innovation and Growth     253
Conclusion: How Jeff Immelt Made Innovation a Way of Life at GE     283
Afterword     301
Acknowledgments     307
Index     311

Look this: The Three Signs of a Miserable Job or Bringing Home the Birkin

The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

Author: Tim Harford

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions–and you might be surprised to hear the answers coming from an economist. But award-winning journalist Tim Harford likes to spring surprises. In this deftly reasoned book, he argues that life is logical after all. Under the surface of everyday insanity, hidden incentives are at work, and Harford shows these incentives emerging in the most unlikely places.

The New York Times - William Grimes

The world is a crazy place. It makes perfect sense only to conspiracy theorists and economists of a certain stripe. Tim Harford, a columnist for The Financial Times and the author of The Undercover Economist, is one of these, a devotee of rational-choice theory, which he applies ingeniously and entertainingly to all kinds of problems in The Logic of Life…Mr. Harford has a knack for explaining economic principles and problems in plain language and, even better, for making them fun.

Publishers Weekly

Financial Timesand Slate.com columnist Harford (The Undercover Economist)provides an entertaining and provocative look at the logic behind the seemingly irrational. Arguing that rational behavior is more widespread than most people expect, Harford uses economic principles to draw forth the rational elements of gambling, the teenage oral sex craze, crime and other supposedly illogical behaviors to illustrate his larger point. Utilizing John von Neumann and Thomas Schelling's conceptions of game theory, Harford applies their approach to a multitude of arenas, including marriage, the workplace and racism. Contrarily, he also shows that individual rational behavior doesn't always lead to socially desired outcomes. Harford concludes with how to apply this thinking on an even bigger scale, showing how rational behavior shapes cities, politics and the entire history of human civilization. Well-written with highly engaging stories and examples, this book will be of great interest to Freakonomicsand Blinkfans as well as anyone interested in the psychology of human behavior. (Feb.)

Kirkus Reviews

Or, the things people will do for money-and for good reason. Contrary to pop economists who have examined the stranger moments of human behavior vis-a-vis the benjamins (Freakonomics, etc.), Financial Times and Slate columnist Harford (The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor-And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!, 2005) centers on the predictability of much of it. Criminals, for instance, "can be brutal and remorseless, but many of them are far from indifferent to the 'pains of imprisonment,' " because they know that in the calculus of life crime literally doesn't pay. That calculus comes into play when Mexican prostitutes (Harford picks many examples from the demimonde) determine whether or not the john must use a condom, charging more if not; and when soldiers decide whether to risk their lives by re-enlisting in exchange for the healthcare and other benefits offered by the military. "Even a coward like me will risk his life for money," writes the author, and risk is omnipresent, in various degrees, whenever money enters the discussion. Harford occasionally gets caught up in the inevitable abstractions of economics, but for the most part his narrative is refreshingly down-to-earth and even useful. The reader learns here, for instance, why he or she should damn the torpedoes and bet with a handful of bad cards: "Your opponent will have to call you a little more often. Because he knows that your bets are sometimes very weak, he can't afford to fold too easily." Would that the rest of life operated so predictably. But then, at least in a way, it does, so that, as Harford explains, it becomes apparent why Detroit is a third-rate city and NewYork a first-rate one, why New Orleans should not be rebuilt and why agribusiness contributes to political campaigns while real-estate agents do not. Chock-full of numbers and money talk, but oddly entertaining-of a piece with Dan Ariely's superior Predictably Irrational (2007) and other recent popularizing works in behavioral economics. Agent: Sally Holloway/Felicity Bryan Agency

Little Red Book of Selling or Learning to See

2009-11-28T14:38:00.000-08:00

Little Red Book of Selling: The 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness: How to Make Sales Forever

Author: Jeffrey Gitomer

Sales master Jeffrey Gitomer has created a real-world, practical, and fun book that salespeople will love and profit from—and sales managers will buy by the case. Salespeople want answers. That's why the Little Red Book of Selling is short, sweet, and to the point. It's packed with answers that people are searching for in order to help them make sales for the moment—and for the rest of their lives.

In the Little Red Book of Selling salespeople will learn why sales happen and a philosophy of success—long term, relationship driven, and referral oriented—nothing to do with manipulation or other old-world sales tactics. It has everything to do with understanding buying motives and taking ethical, relationship-building actions.

People don't like to be sold but they love to buy has become more than Gitomer's registered trademark—it's a mantra. A mantra every salesperson needs to understand at the core of his selling success. Throughout this book the reader will begin to adopt a philosophy that drives them to a higher, value-driven purpose.

There are 12.5 powerful principles of sales mastery. These principles are at the heart of sales success. They are the difference between red (putting your heart into your career) and black (having a job, coming to work, and making a commission). Other chapters include; What's the Difference between Failure and Success in Salespeople, The Little Salesman that Could, The Two Most Important Words in Selling, and Just Plain "How to Make a Sale."

The cover is classic red cloth. The four-color graphics make it compelling and easy to read, and the content is easy to understand and implement. For your convenience there is ared satin (ok, polyester) bookmark so you can remember your place. It is small enough to carry with you—big enough to contain the answers you need—powerful enough to fill your wallet.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Strategies and Answers From a Lifetime of Selling
Jeffrey Gitomer, the sales guru and author of the bestselling The Sales Bible, has produced another gem of a book that addresses sales with a lively combination of humor and professionalism to help salespeople get their feet in many more doors. For those who are running into dead ends, stale leads, price objections, and unreturned phone calls, Gitomer has created The Little Red Book of Selling to show them how to get past the usual obstacles and sell their products and services with new zest and vigor.

Filled with more than a dozen principles of sales greatness, as well as numerous lists and attack plans for dealing with difficult customers, The Little Red Book of Selling offers the answers to just about every sales question a salesperson could ask, and provides the firsthand experiences and positive enthusiasm to drive them home with vitality and optimism.

Why Red?
Gitomer explains that The Little Red Book of Selling has so much red ink in it and on it for a number of reasons. These include:

Red is the color of passion. Passion is the fulcrum point of selling. No passion, no sales.
Red is the color of love. If you don't love what you sell, go sell something else.
Red is the brightest color. You must be bright in order to convert selling to buying.
Red is the most visible color. You must be visible to your customers with a value message, not just a sales pitch.
Red is fire. If you're not on fire, you'll lose to someone who is.

Bold Directives
Overflowing with Gitomer's rapid pace and quick wit, The Little Red Book of Selling contains more than 18 ways to become a sales success, 20 ways to beat a sales slump, 8.5 resources to tap in a pinch, 14 ways to create a personal brand, and a plethora of other handy tabulations that can help any salesperson quickly get to the root of his or her problems. Thumb tabs on the sides of the book's pages and a ribbon page marker make the book a convenient reference guide to handling sales dilemmas, giving value, using creativity and humor, and reducing a customer's risk. Clever cartoons and page design make The Little Red Book of Selling's contents come alive with bold directives and professional advice.

The emotional edge to Gitomer's work is appropriate for his subject matter due to the important role emotion plays in the sales process. According to Gitomer, "The sale is emotionally driven and emotionally decided. Then it is justified logically." Using colorful language to go along with his punchy lessons, Gitomer minces no words when telling salespeople what they should do to improve their sales numbers.

Show Up Prepared
After each chapter's numbered lists of resources and rules, Gitomer's daring format provides a personal action plan that breaks down his tips into secrets; success strategies; and bold, large-lettered statements or questions that convey the roots of his principles. For example, after discussing the power of networking, the following giant words fill the page:

Networking works well when you employ the two-word secret: Show up.

Networking works best when you employ the three-word secret: Show up prepared.

Gitomer's direct style drives his points home in easy-to-understand quips and quotes that are formatted for maximum retention. Many pages throughout The Little Red Book of Selling offer a cartoon figure that provides a missed point (he calls them "Red Whines") and a solid counterpoint (a "Red Selling Response") that simply state basic principles that can be used along the sales cycle. For example, when discussing decision makers, the Red Whine reads, "The guy said he had to talk it over with ..." and the Red Selling Response is "Decision makers don't need to talk it over with anyone."

Gitomer's sharp sense of humor and professional approach turn The Little Red Book of Selling into a unique and strategy-filled playbook that offers thousands of time-tested sales resources and techniques.

Why We Like This Book
Gitomer's wild style and straight talk make The Little Red Book of Selling a fast read and an inspirational motivator for salespeople who need a powerful spark to ignite their passion for selling. By offering a positive perspective and many years of experience in an easy-to-reference volume, Gitomer puts the fun in the fundamentals of selling. Copyright © 2005 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

	Understanding Red Sales ...
	People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy	1
	Why they buy. An answer every salesperson needs	6
	Selling in the Red zone	12
	How to use the principles of this book to succeed	16
	Why is this book RED?	18
	What's the difference between failure and success?	20
	What's your biggest fear? Speaking, rejection, or failing?	26
	The 12.5 Red Principles of Sales Greatness
1.	Kick your own ass	32
2.	Prepare to win, or lose to someone who is	46
3.	Personal branding IS sales: It's not who you know, it's who knows you	54
4.	It's all about value, it's all about relationship, it's not all about price	64
5.	It's NOT work, it's NETwork	82
6.	If you can't get in front of the real decision maker, you suck	96
7.	Engage me and you can make me convince myself	110
8.	If you can make them laugh, you can make them buy!	124
9.	Use CREATIVITY to differentiate and dominate	136
10.	Reduce their risk and you'll convert selling to buying	152
11.	When you say it about yourself it's bragging. When someone else says it about you its proof	164
12.	Antennas up!	176
12.5	Resign your position as general manager of the universe	184
	The Little Salesman That Could	192
	The Two Most Important Words in Selling	199
	12.5 Principles of Life-long Learning	205
	Implement the Rule of the More, the More	207
	What Does It Take to Be Number One? And Stay There?	208
	This Book Has No Ending	212

Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA

Author: Mike Rother

When John Shook worked at Toyota he noticed that the senior experts on the Toyota Production System often drew simple maps when on the shop floor. These maps showed the current physical flow of a product family and the information flow for that product family as they wound through a complex facility making many products.

Plain Lives in a Golden Age or Travel Perspectives

2009-02-17T12:43:00.000-08:00

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)

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

2009-02-16T11:02:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-15T09:21:00.000-08:00

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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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

2009-02-14T07:40:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-02-13T05:59:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-02-12T04:18:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-02-11T02:38:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-02-10T00:57:00.000-08:00

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.

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)

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

2009-02-08T23:16:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-02-07T21:35:00.000-08:00

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.

New interesting textbook: A Tale of Two Utopias or Saving the Constitution from Lawyers

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.

Pursuing Truth Exercising Power or Managing Human Resources

2009-02-06T19:55:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-02-05T18:14:00.000-08:00

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)

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

Book about: Everyday Public Speaking or Principles of Macroeconomics

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).

Booknews

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

2009-02-04T16:33:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

Booknews

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

2009-02-03T14:53:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-02-02T13:12:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-02-01T11:31:00.000-08:00

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.

	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.

Security and Crime Prevention or Evolving Practices in Human Resource Management Responses to a Changing World of Work

2009-01-31T09:50:00.000-08:00

Security and Crime Prevention

Author: Robert L OBlock

Rising crime rates of all types indicate the need for crime prevention not only in government but also in business and neighborhoods. Security and Crime Prevention, Second Edition, contains the practical information necessary for creating safe and secure communities, businesses, and individuals.

This highly readable and useful reference contains the most up-to-date material and has been adopted by many colleges and universities as the standard textbook in the field. In addition it provides the professional with the most effective information for personal, business and community-based loss prevention and private security.
Robert L. O'Block taught at the college level for 17 years and was a full professor and department head of an Administration of Justice baccalaureate program before leaving academia to become Executive Director of the American Board of Forensic Examiners. Dr. O'Block earned his Ph.D. form Kansas State University where his work centered on criminology, sociology, psychology, administration, and education. His articles have appeared in the journals The Police Chief and The Journal of Police Science and Administration. Dr. O'Block is a winner of Oregon State University's Distinguished Educational Research Award, and his personal biography was published in American Men and Women Of Science.
Joseph F. Donnermeyer is Director of the National Rural Crime Prevention Center and an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the Ohio State University. He previously served as a crime prevention specialist for the Indiana Cooperative Extension Service at Purdue University. Mr. Donnermeyer is a member of the Ohio CrimePrevention Association, the Rural Sociological Society, and the American Sociological Sociological Society.
Stephen E. Doeren is an assistant professor and the graduate program coordinator in the Department of Administration of Justice at the Wichita State University. He is a member of the graduate faculty and formerly served as the undergraduate coordinator in the Department from 1977 to 1982. In addition to his academic background in criminal justice, Dr. Doeren has supervisory-level criminal justice agency experience. He has served as a correctional treatment administrator and penologist with the Louisiana Department of Corrections. Dr.Doeren is active in such professional organizations as the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association, and the National Corrections Recreation Association.

Evolving Practices in Human Resource Management: Responses to a Changing World of Work

Author: Allen I Kraut

Written for non-experts in jargon-free language, this work shows how to create systems within organizations that preempt the monetary, strategic, and emotional costs associated with on-the-job conflict. Its clear and simple approach translates advanced concepts into practical how-tos and provides readers with four guiding principles they can follow to create conflict control systems of their own. Amply illustrated with real-world examples, it details the policies, procedures, and practices that make for successful control systems and tells precisely how to implement them.

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Draws on insights from the latest research, best practices from successful organizations, and the views of leading industrial and organizational psychologists to explore the shifts in demographics, economics, regulations, technology, and values and how they affect the practices employed by human resource managers and organizational psychologists. Addressing specific human resource functions aimed at enhancing effective performance and the individual's sense of personal and social fulfillment, examines the assumptions that underlie traditional practices and reveals areas where new realities demand new strategies and innovations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Business Marketing Management or Joyce Lain Kennedys Career Book

2009-01-30T07:59:00.000-08:00

Business Marketing Management: A Strategic View of Industrial and Organizational Markets

Author: Michael D Hutt

Providing the most current and complete treatment of business-to-business marketing, this comprehensive market leader captures and integrates the latest developments in market analysis, relationship management, supply chain management, marketing strategy development, and electronic commerce. Popular in both the United States and Europe since its first edition, the text provides expanded treatment of relationship strategies, the technology adoption life cycle, strategy formulation in high-tech industries, new product and service development for business markets, and Internet strategies.

Booknews

New edition of a standard undergraduate textbook on the similarities between consumer-goods and business-to-business marketing. A basic marketing principles course (or relevant managerial experience) is assumed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book about: Disuniting of America or Divided America

Joyce Lain Kennedy's Career Book

Author: joyce lain

The Career Book continues to provide essential advice, current statistics, and future outlooks. It includes insights on every career-management issue, including: discovering your interests and aptitudes, setting goals, researching careers and companies, finding help, predicting trends, keeping a positive attitude, getting experience and training, planning for college and beyond, and choosing and succeeding on your first full-time job.

Contemporary Advertising or Managing Wine and Wine Sales

2009-01-29T06:19:00.000-08:00

Contemporary Advertising

Author: William F Arens

Contemporary Advertising is perhaps the most popular advertising text on the market. It is known for its current,real-world examples and clear writing style. As a result of market feedback and the author's knowledge of current trends in the field of advertising,the seventh edition places an increased emphasis on Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) and the role of IMC in planning advertising strategy.

Interesting book: Connaissances de Délégation Cliniques :un Manuel pour la Pratique Professionnelle

Managing Wine and Wine Sales

Author: Joseph Fattorini

This is the first UK textbook to deal specifically with the management of wine sales. It covers all aspects of choosing, purchasing and storing wine in a restaurant, how to draw up wine lists, market and then sell wines, train specialist staff, and select the necessary equipment. The study of wine is an increasingly important part of hotel, catering and related studies. The text adopts a specific hotel and catering emphasis and broadens out into related areas of beverage management.

ActiveBook Business Today or Postmodern Consumer Research

2009-01-28T04:38:00.000-08:00

ActiveBook, Business Today

Author: Michael H H Mescon

DON'T JUST READ. LEARN!

The activebook^™ experience is an interactive, online, digital book that integrates multimedia resources with the textbook to greatly enhance student learning.

THE active book^™ EXPERIENCE:

Uses the Web for what it's good at!
An activebook^™ experience takes full advantage of the online environment. Gearing Up quizzes highlight the chapter's central concepts. Our Active Examples and Active Exercises help students explore the chapter's most important points through video, audio, and text. Our Active Concept Checks allow students to test their understanding of the material at the end of major sections, with links back to appropriate coverage. Chapter Wrap-Ups include a practice quiz, which gives students a chance to test their knowledge. Dynamic content is updated as often as needed.

Lets students learn the way they learn best!
The activebook^™ experience engages students of all learning styles through our online print, audio, and video resources. Students can annotate their activebookT11 experience and customize their view of the book's dynamic resources.

Gives students more for less!
The activebook^™ experience gives students multimedia and interactive content, and costs less than traditional textbooks. Even though the core text is retained in print, the print component is shorter than a traditional text. The boxed material, chapter summaries, exercises, and other content that can be made dynamic reside in the online component.

Book about: How to Zest a Lemon or Blessed Isle

Postmodern Consumer Research: The Study of Consumption as Text, Vol. 1

Author: Elizabeth Hirschman

Published in cooperation with the Association for Consumer Research "A clearly written and useful work. Their book lays out organizing principles that delineate the underlying epistemologies current in consumer research, providing insightful exposure to philosophical positions and associated research methods for both the experienced researcher and the novice. . . . The book provides insight into current epistemologies and associated methods and is an important resource for all consumer behavior researchers. It should be taken as a starting point for delving into and understanding consumer research, a springboard that directs the researcher to relevant theorists and provides a framework for assessing research perspectives." --Journal of Marketing Research The methodological choices now confronting consumer researchers are daunting. For many years, researchers have wrestled with issues related to the nature of knowledge in the study of consumption phenomena. In Postmodern Consumer Research, Elizabeth C. Hirschman and Morris B. Holbrook examine philosophies and methods of consumer research along an objectivist-subjectivist continuum. First, they present philosophical concepts regarding the origin and content of knowledge relevant to consumer-behavior phenomena. Then, they consider a set of research methods aimed at implementing inquiry from the viewpoint of each particular philosophical perspective. They conclude by discussing criteria for evaluating research conducted using the various methods and argue for increased collegial harmony and temperance. An invaluable contribution to the field, this volume will interest researchers, professionals, and students in the areas ofmanagement, qualitative research, organizational studies, and research methods.

Texas Real Estate Contracts or Supervision

2009-01-27T02:57:00.000-08:00

Texas Real Estate Contracts

Author: Ralph Tamper

Whether you're a seasoned real estate professional or a new licensee, Texas Real Estate Contracts will help you: complete the contracts you use every day, learn the basics of contract law, and accurately estimate the "bottom line" of a real estate transaction for the seller and buyer.

	Dedication
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	About the Author
Pt. 1	An Agreement or a Contract?	1
Pt. 2	The Texas Real Estate Act and the Rules of the Texas Real Estate Commission	9
Pt. 3	Contract and Addenda Provisions	19
Pt. 4	Additional TREC Promulgated Contract Forms	63
Pt. 5	Practice Makes Perfect	87
Pt. 6	Estimating Seller Net and Buyer Move-in	205
App. A	Additional Texas Real Estate Commission Promulgated Forms	219
	App. B Answer Key	275

Supervision

Author: R Wayne Mondy

This supervisory management text keeps students in touch with reality by using a practitioner-oriented approach. Written "from the ground up" as a supervisory management text, the book draws from the authors' own extensive management experience. While keeping the text practical, the authors ensure theoretical soundness and demonstrate the prominent theories of management as applied to today's supervisor. The book helps explore today's supervisor's unique role. Unlike most supervisory texts, Mondy/Premeaux clearly differentiates between the environment of the supervisor and that of top management. The book addresses special topics including supervision in large versus small firms. The authors have provided crucial insights into decision making while applying traditional functions of management to the supervisor's role. Readers will see how the latest advancements and computer technology affect productivity. The third edition also addresses communication, managing human resources, and special challenges such as dealing with unions and resolving employee conflict. Sections on effective time management and professional development further equip tomorrow's supervisor for business success.

Consumption and Social Welfare or Inquiries in the Economics of Aging

2009-01-26T01:07:00.000-08:00

Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and their Distribution in the United States

Author: Daniel T Slesnick

The most widely-cited social welfare statistics in the United States are based on tabulations on family income. The picture that emerges is cause for concern. Yet, consumption-based statistics as employed in this work yield rigorous and quite different estimates of real individual and social welfare. Professor Slesnick's assessment is drawn from extended period data in order to chart long-run trends.

Inquiries in the Economics of Aging

Author: David Ed A Wis

Inquiries in the Economics of Aging presents both empirical papers that consider questions that are fundamental to public policy and more theoretical contributions that lay new groundwork for future research in the economics of aging. Inquiries in the Economics of Aging provides a timely overview of some of the most important questions facing researchers on aging and outlines new techniques and models that may help to answer these questions. This important volume will be of great interest to specialists and policy makers as it paves the way for future analysis.

Contemporary Arab Thought or Integrated Operations Management

2009-01-24T23:26:00.000-08:00

Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History

Author: Ibrahim M Abu Rabi

'Contemporary Arab Thought' is a complex term, encompassing a constellation of social, political, religious and ideological ideas that have evolved over the past two hundred years -- ideas that represent the leading positions of the social classes in modern and contemporary Arab societies. Distinguished Islamic scholar Ibrahim Abu-Rabi' addresses such questions as the Shari'ah, human rights, civil society, secularism and globalization. This is complimented by a focused discussion on the writings of key Arab thinkers who represent established trends of thought in the Arab world, including Muhammad 'Abid al-Jabiri, Adallah Laroui, Muhammad al-Ghazali, Rashid al-Ghannoushi, Qutatnine Zurayk, Mahdi 'Amil and many others. Before 1967, some Arab countries launched hopeful programmes of modernisation. After the 1967 defeat with Israel, many of these hopes were dashed. This book retraces the Arab world's aborted modernity of recent decades. Abu-Rabi' explores the development of contemporary Arab thought against the historical background of the rise of modern Islamism, and the impact of the West on the modern Arab world.

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Themes
1	The Scope and Limitation of Post-1967 Arab Thought	43
2	Contemporary Arab Intellectual Trends	63
3	Secularism and its Hazards: The Recent Debate in the Arab World	93
4	Contemporary Arab Philosophical Views of Secularism	114
5	Formation of Contemporary Identities: Nationalism and Islamism in Contemporary Arab Thought	126
6	Traditional Values, Social Change, and the Contemporary Arab Personality	150
7	Globalization: A Contemporary Islamic Response?	164
8	Contemporary Arab Thought and Globalization	185
Pt. 2	Thinkers
9	Rashid al-Ghannushi and the Questions of Shari'ah and Civil Society	203
10	Muslim Self-Criticism in Contemporary Arab Thought: The Case of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali	223
11	Islam and Muslims in Crisis	242
12	Towards a Critical Arab Reason: The Contributions of Muhammad 'Abid al-Jabiri	256
13	Towards Modern Arab Reason	279
14	Costantine Zurayk and the Search for Arab Nationalism	296
15	Mahdi 'Amil and the Unfinished Project of Arab Marxist Philosophy	318
16	Abdallah Laroui: From Objective Marxism to Liberal Etatism	344
17	Conclusions	370
	Notes	375
	Bibliography	453
	Index	482

Integrated Operations Management: A Supply Chain Perspective

Author: Mark D Hanna

With its focus on supply chain management and the increased blending of service theory and applications with traditional manufacturing theory and applications, INTEGRATED OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT: A SUPPLY CHAIN PERSPECTIVE ties together SCM, business process management, with cross functional understanding. The authors cover creating processes, coordinating processes, and improving processes.

Information for Innovation or Macroeconomics of Self fulfilling Prophecies

2009-01-23T21:45:00.000-08:00

Information for Innovation: Managing Change from an Information Perspective

Author: Stuart Macdonald

Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. Here, Stuart Macdonald finds information central to a variety of business/economics disciplines, from patents to high technology, from corporate strategy to industrial espionage. In doing so, he reveals the rather tricky role that information plays in current processes of innovation and change.

Interesting book: Hot Legs or Fed Up

Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies

Author: Roger A E Farmer

For many years it was fashionable to treat macroeconomics and microeconomics as separate subjects without looking too deeply at the relationship between the two. But in the 1970s there occurred an episode of high inflation and high unemployment, which was inconsistent with orthodox theory. As a result, macroeconomists began to pay much greater attention to the microfoundations of their subject.

In this book Roger E. A. Farmer takes a somewhat controversial point of view, arguing for the future of macroeconomics as a branch of applied general equilibrium theory. His main theme is that macroeconomics is best viewed as the study of equilibrium environments in which the welfare theorems break down. This approach makes it possible to discuss the role of government policies in a context in which policy may serve some purpose.

Since the publication of the first edition in 1993, self-fulfilling prophecies has become a major competitor to the real business-cycle view of economic fluctuations. The second edition has been updated in three ways: (1) problems are included at the end of every chapter, and a study guide containing sample answers to all of the problems is available; (2) a new chapter discusses research from the past five years on business fluctuations in multisector models; and (3) the chapter on representative agent growth models now includes an appendix that explains the transversality condition.

	Preface to Second Edition
1	Introduction	1
2	Linear Difference Equations: Part 1	11
3	Linear Difference Equations: Part 2	41
4	General Equilibrium Theory under Certainty	63
5	Infinite Horizon Economies and Representative Agents	85
6	Infinite Horizon Economies and Overlapping Generations	115
7	Infinite Horizon Economies with Nonconvexities	141
8	Some Recent Developments	171
9	General Equilibrium Theory and Uncertainty	191
10	Sunspots	211
11	Macroeconomic Models of Money	231
12	Applied Monetary Theory	259
	Notes	281
	Bibliography	289
	Index	295

Business and Society or Enterprise Systems Integration

2009-01-22T20:05:00.000-08:00

Business and Society: A Business Approach To Social Responsibility

Author: Debbie Thorne McAlister

A brief alternative to its competitors, Business and Society combines 12 chapters with 12 cases to offer a strategic approach to social responsibility. Streamlined coverage of key topics allows undergraduate students and MBA majors to focus on only what they need to prepare for in the real business world. Concise chapter content allows instructors to introduce outside resources into their course, such as readings, cases, and projects that enhance students' understanding of the material. Students will gain the background knowledge, skills, and insight necessary to analyze how organizations achieve both social and financial performance benefits through social responsibility.

What Would You Do? mini-cases appear at the end of each chapter, presenting students with a scenario that highlights ethics, social responsibility, morals, workplace conduct, and other important themes.
Over 60% of the cases are new. In addition, the collection has been divided into two parts to clearly distinguish between organizations that have succeeded and those that have struggled with corporate citizenship.
Real examples of Social Responsibility Audits appear on the textbook web site. These reports provide students with an insider's look at how companies are actually measuring, assessing, and communicating their social and ethical performance results.
Five expanded Role-Playing Exercises promote teamwork and develop students' group decision-making skills.

1. Social Responsibility Framework
Social Responsibility Defined
Development of Social Responsibility
Global Nature of Social Responsibility
Benefits of Social Responsibility
Framework for Studying Social Responsibility
2. Strategic Management of Stakeholder Relationships
Stakeholders Defined
Stakeholder Identification and Importance
Performance with Stakeholders
Development of Stakeholder Relationships
Link Between Stakeholder Relationships and Social Reponsibility
3. Legal, Regulatory, and Political Issues
Government's Influence on Business
Business's Influence on Government
The Government's Approach for Legal and Ethical Compliance
4. Business Ethics and Ethical Decision Making
The Nature of Business Ethics
Foundations of Business Ethics
Ethical Issues in Business
Understanding the Ethical Decision-Making Process
5. Strategic Approaches to Improving Ethical Behavior
The Need for Organizational Ethics Programs
Codes of Conduct
Ethics Officers
Ethics Training and Communication
Establishing Systems to Monitor and Enforce Ethical Standards
Continuous Improvement of the Ethical Program
Implementing Organizational Ethics Programs
6. Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance Defined
Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
History of Corporate Governance
Issues in Corporate Governance Systems
Corporate Governance Around the World
Future of Corporate Governance
7.Consumer and Community Relations
Consumer Stakeholders
Responsibilities to Consumers
Community Stakeholders
Responsibilities to the Community
Strategic Implementation of Responsibilities to Consumers and the Community
8. Employee Relations
Employee Stakeholders
Responsibilities to Employees
Strategic Implementation of Responsibilities to Employees
9. Environmental Issues
Global Environmental Issues
Environmental Policy and Regulation
Business Response to Environmental Issues
Strategic Implementation of Environmental Responsibility
10. Technology Issues
The Nature of Technology
Technology's Influence on the Economy
Technology's Influence on Society
Strategic Implementation of Responsibility for Technology
11. Strategic Philanthropy
Strategic Philanthropy Defined
Strategic Philanthropy and Social Responsibility
Stakeholders in Strategic Philanthropy
Benefits of Strategic Philanthropy
Implementation of Strategic Philanthropy
12. The Social Audit
The Nature of Social Auditing
The Auditing Process
Strategic Importance of Social Auditing
Cases
Part I. Successful Management of Social Responsibility
Case 1. Coca-Cola Company: Crisis and Reputation Management
Case 2. Wainwright Bank & Trust: Banking on Values
Case 3. Conoco's Decision: The First Annual President's Award for Business Ethics
Case 4. Home Depot: Commitment to Social Responsibility
Case 5. New Belgium Brewing Company: Environmental and Social Concerns
Case 6. Double Click: Privacy on the Internet
Part II. Challenges in Social Responsibility
Case 7. Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse
Case 8. Worldcom: Actions Lead to Corporate Reform
Case 9. Martha Stewart: Insider-Trading Scandal
Case 10. Arthur Andersen: Questionable Accounting Practices
Case 11. Tyco International: Leadership Crisis
Case 12. Global Crossing: Inflated Sales Lead to Bankruptcy
Appendix: Role Play Exercises

Enterprise Systems Integration

Author: John Wyzalek

Fast-moving advances in information technology can easily put youat a competitive disadvantage should you fail to keep up with them. It is a subtle and often costly art to integrate technology with business practices. And today, integrated systems form the backbone of virtually every successful, profitable, high-performance organization
Featuring critical technology tips, strategies and assessments from some of the most highly respected consultants and developers in the field, Enterprise Systems Integration is a one-of-a-kind resource. The result of many thousands of hours of actual hands-on work in the field, it gives you a rich blend of researched knowledge and practical experience. It delivers proven, successful, economical solutions to real-world problems associated with the host of systems integration technologies and methodologies. It brings you coverage of those issues that plague you most: Enabling technologies, such as middleware, CORBA, COM, and Enterprise Java Integrated databases of all types-legacy, relational, and object Data warehousing, including Web-enabled data warehouses Enterprise resource packages Networking Electronic messaging The Internet and the Web, including e-commerce Save your organization hundreds of hours in expensive trial-and-error by taking lessons from the experience of others as recounted in the thorough, no-nonsense chapters of Enterprise Systems Integration. The expert contributors give you detailed accounts of: Symptoms of a terminally ill systems integration project Integrating package processes over multiple application platforms Making the transition from legacy systems to strategic architectures Integrating information systems methodologies into the horizontal organization and much more Enterprise Systems Integration brings together crucial information and insight for making the best possible decisions about today's most important information technologies.

Total Quality Management or Agricultural Economics

2009-01-21T18:24:00.000-08:00

Total Quality Management: Text, Cases and Readings

Author: Joel E Ross

Acclaimed and used in over 200 colleges and universities around the country, Total Quality Management: Text, Cases and Readings has been completely revised and expanded to meet the growing demands and awareness for quality products and services in the competing domestic and global marketplaces. This celebrated text enhances the original seven chapters in the first edition with additional material, new case studies, and valuable new readings.

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A greatly revised and expanded text covering the key principles of TQM. Five new chapters discuss structure and teams; benchmarking; productivity, quality, and reengineering; the cost of quality; and the ISO 9000. Discussion questions, exercises, cases, and readings support the text and an extensive study of the Varifilm case illustrates good and not-so-good practices. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Agricultural Economics

Author: H Evan Drummond

Decisions. Each of us makes hundreds of them every day. Economics is the science of decision making. Economics is the study of how we make decisions, why we make the decisions we make, and how the conditions under which decisions are made affect those decisions. Nearly a quarter of the economic activity in the United States is associated with the agricultural sector. Therefore, Agricultural Economics deals with decision making within the unique context of the broadly defined food and fiber sector.

This text takes a thorough look at agricultural economics from a broad perspective that emphasizes the linkages between and among financial institutions, the macro economy, world markets, government programs, farms, agribusinesses, food marketing, farm services, and the environment. The key concepts forming the foundation of how economists approach decision making—supply and demand, opportunity cost, diminishing returns, marginality, costs and returns, and externalities—are woven throughout the book in a style that is both clear and engaging, with real-world examples that are easily understood by any reader interested in learning about the economics of the food system.

Featuring:

A new chapter on the food system introducing readers to the fundamentals of food production from the farm to the consumer
Information on the 2002 Farm Bill, new to this edition
Substantial revision of chapters on farm policy and market failure/environmental economics

Agricultural Economics is designed for flexible use in a one-semester (or two-quarter) undergraduate course, including Introduction to AgriculturalEconomics.

1. The Food Industry.
2. Introduction to Agricultural Economics.
3. Introduction to Market Price Determination.
4. Financial Markets.
5. Money and Financial Intermediaries.
6. Monetary Policy.
7. The Circular Flow of Income.
8. Fiscal Policy.
9. International Trade.
10. Agricultural Policy.
11. The Firm as a Production Unit.
12. Costs and Optimal Output Levels.
13. Firm Supply and the Market.
14. Imperfect Competition and Government Regulation.
15. The Theory of Consumer Behavior.
16. The Concept of Elasticity.
17. Food Marketing: From Stable to Table.
18. Futures Markets.
19. Farm Service Sector.
20. Investment Analysis.
21. Environmental Policy and Market Failure.
22. The Malthusian Dilemma.
23. Economic Development and Food.
Glossary.
Index.

Reinterpreting Property or The Neurotic Organization

2009-01-20T16:43:00.000-08:00

Reinterpreting Property

Author: Margaret Jane Radin

This collection of essays by one of the country's leading property theorists revitalizes the liberal personality theory of property.
Departing from traditional libertarian and economic theories of property, Margaret Jane Radin argues that the law should take into account nonmonetary personal value attached to property—and that some things, such as bodily integrity, are so personal they should not be considered property at all. Gathered here are pieces ranging from Radin's classic early essay on property and personhood to her recent works on governmental "taking" of private property.
Margaret Jane Radin is professor of law at Stanford University. She is the author of over twenty-five articles on legal and political theory.

Book about: Information Systems for Managers or Reading and Understanding Research

The Neurotic Organization: Diagnosing & Changing Counterproductive Styles of Management

Author: Manfred F Kets de Vries

Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive? Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic types and arrives at some genuine insights into why some companies are healthier than others.

Introduction: Tracing Problems from Organizational to Individual Levels.
ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS.
Neurotic Styles and Organizational Dysfunctioning.
Shared Fantasies and Group Processes.
Confused Interpersonal Relationships.
Destrucive Superior/Subordinate Interactions.
Life-Cycle Crises and Individual Career Satisfaction.
OVERCOMING RESISTANCE TO CHANGE.
Identifying Defense Mechanisms and Sources of Resistance.
Helping Managers Gain Insight to Facilitate Change.
Steps in Diagnosing, Overcoming, and Preventing Problems.
Organizational Therapy in Action: A Case Study.
Conclusion: Working for Change--Cautions and Recommendations.

Financial Modelling with Jump Processes or Wireless Communications and Networking

2009-01-14T17:59:00.000-08:00

Financial Modelling with Jump Processes, Vol. 2

Author: Rama Cont

WINNER of a Riskbook.com Best of 2004 Book Award!

During the last decade, financial models based on jump processes have acquired increasing popularity in risk management and option pricing. Much has been published on the subject, but the technical nature of most papers makes them difficult for nonspecialists to understand, and the mathematical tools required for applications can be intimidating. Potential users often get the impression that jump and Lévy processes are beyond their reach.

Financial Modelling with Jump Processes shows that this is not so. It provides a self-contained overview of the theoretical, numerical, and empirical aspects involved in using jump processes in financial modelling, and it does so in terms within the grasp of nonspecialists. The introduction of new mathematical tools is motivated by their use in the modelling process, and precise mathematical statements of results are accompanied by intuitive explanations.

Topics covered in this book include: jump-diffusion models, Lévy processes, stochastic calculus for jump processes, pricing and hedging in incomplete markets, implied volatility smiles, time-inhomogeneous jump processes and stochastic volatility models with jumps. The authors illustrate the mathematical concepts with many numerical and empirical examples and provide the details of numerical implementation of pricing and calibration algorithms.

This book demonstrates that the concepts and tools necessary for understanding and implementing models with jumps can be more intuitive that those involved in the Black Scholes and diffusion models. If you have even a basic familiarity with quantitative methods in finance,Financial Modelling with Jump Processes will give you a valuable new set of tools for modelling market fluctuations.

Wireless Communications and Networking

Author: Jon W Mark

Wireless Communications and Networking covers a wide range of topics from the physical layer to the networking layers of a hybrid wireless/wireline information transport platform. This book meets the need for a relatively short, yet complete and self-contained text suitable for a single-semester senior undergraduate or first-year graduate course. The coverage of internetworking between wireless and wireline networks is unique to this book. The fundamental aspects of mobile cellular communications and networking (signal design, channel characterization, receiver structure, multiple access technologies, mobile cellular networking, capacity enlargement, mobility management, wireless/wireline interworking) are interweaved into a unified and systematic presentation, with illustrative examples throughout the book.

Salient Features:
• Characterization of the wireless propagation channel
• Bandpass signaling for mobile radio
• Receiver design for fading dispersive channels
• Capacity enlargement of cellular systems
• Multiple access techniques
• Mobility management in mobile cellular networks
• Wireless/internet interworking

1. Overview of Wireless Communications and Networking.
2. Characterization of the Wireless Channel.
3. Bandpass Transmission Techniques for Mobile Radio.
4. Receiver Techniques for Fading Dispersive Channels.
5. Fundamentals of Cellular Communications.
6. Multiple Access Techniques.
7. Mobility Management in Wireless Networks.
8. Wireless/Wireline Interworking.
Appendices.
References.
Answers to Selected Problems.

Hazardous Waste and Solid Waste or The Fair Labor Standards Act in American Schools

2009-01-14T09:19:00.000-08:00

Hazardous Waste and Solid Waste

Author: Paul A Bouis

Hazardous Waste and Solid Waste covers the life of municipal solid waste, bulky (C&D) waste and hazardous waste. It provides in-depth coverage on all aspects of waste characterization, treatment, disposal, and recovery. The book identifies the sources of solid waste, provides general information of the quantities of waste generated and discarded, and examines the potential effects of solid waste on daily life and the environment. It also defines hazardous waste, and provides the criteria environmental engineers must use to determine if material is indeed a waste. The editors give attention to the unique problems of risk assessment, including the Hazard Ranking System and the National Priority List, and transport of hazardous materials. It addresses radioactivity individually, with sections devoted to the principles and sources of radioactivity, safety standards, detection, analysis, recovery, low-level radioactive waste, and high-level radioactive waste. The guide explores municipal waste reduction, material recovery and refuse-derived fuel within a catalog of options for solid waste. Hazardous and Solid Waste is an excellent fundamental resource for those involved in any aspect of waste management.

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Explores municipal waste reduction, material recovery, and refuse- derived fuel within a catalog of options for solid waste. Covers unique problems in risk assessment, including the Hazard Ranking System and the National Priority List, and transport of hazardous materials. Addresses sources of hazardous and solid waste, detection, and recovery, and supplies information on quantities of waste generated and discarded. Accessible to both environmental professionals and those outside the field. Liu was principal scientist at a division of Proctor & Gamble. Lipt<'a>k is a process control and safety consultant. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Hazardous Waste	1
1	Sources and Effects	5
2	Characterization, Sampling, and Analysis	17
3	Risk Management and Waste Management	26
4	Treatment and Disposal	49
5	Storage and Leak Detection	106
6	Radioactive Waste	123
	Solid Waste	159
7	Source and Effect	162
8	Characterization	167
9	Resource Conservation and Recovery	197
10	Treatment and Disposal	212
	Index	267

Look this: Cuba after Castro or The Practical Student

The Fair Labor Standards Act in American Schools: A Guide for School Officials

Author: Mike L L Dishman

The Fair Labor Standards Act in American Schools provides school officials with a clear, concise, jargon-free guide to applying the FLSA in the public school environment. Containing hundreds of school specific examples, cases, and Department of Labor Opinion Letters, this book provides school officials with a valuable tool for meeting school compliance challenges under the FLSA.

Commoditization and Its Impact on Environment and Society or Web Site Design Is Communication Design

2009-01-14T02:38:00.000-08:00

Commoditization and Its Impact on Environment and Society

Author: Jack P P Manno

What are the obstacles in the way of effectively solving the environmental crises of our time? What can we do to overcome them? These may be two of the most important questions heading into the 21st century. Organized human societies have the ability to completely change the world. While we have excelled at building, destroying and rebuilding, we have not succeeded at conserving, preserving, and sustaining. Priviledged Goods: Commoditization and Its Impact on Environment and Society suggests that our propensity toward environmental destruction - a tragic flaw of the modern economy - can be understood as a result of hidden economic forces. These forces drive social and economic development towards increasing mobilization of energy and material beyond what is actually needed to achieve general prosperity and meet basic human needs. The author explains the complex concept of commoditization using examples from key sectors of society. Interdisciplinary in scope, Privileged Goods: Commoditization and Its Impact on Environment and Society will appeal to a wide variety of environmental professionals. It explains the key concepts, discusses the history of public policy, analyzes the "appropriate technology" movement of the 70s and compares it to the sustainable development movement of today.

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Suggests that our propensity toward environmental destruction can be understood as a result of hidden economic forces that drive social and economic development toward increasing mobilization of energy and material beyond what is actually needed to meet basic human needs. Explains the complex concept of commoditization using examples from key sectors of society, such as agriculture, health care, and children's entertainment, and offers policy recommendations for low environmental impact. The author is executive director of the New York Great Lakes Research Consortium, and an adjunct associate professor of environmental studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Go to: Personnel Management in Government Agencies and NonProfit Organizations or Federalist

Web Site Design Is Communication Design

Author: Thea M Van der Geest

"Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design." This book is based on a series of case studies of the web site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and Microsoft. It offers a well-researched, reflective and thorough analysis of the activities undertaken, in combination with practical, real-life experiences of web site designers and producers. It pays attention to the often complicated organizational context that web designers and producers have to work in, while they serve both bosses and target groups to their best intents. The importance of careful evaluation is stressed throughout the book and the in concluding checklists, which guide the practitioner through the design process, from initial idea through site maintenance and re-design.

Executive Guide to Operational Planning or Economics

2009-01-13T16:57:00.000-08:00

Executive Guide to Operational Planning

Author: George L Morrisey

A step-by-step guide for developing an operational plan that identifies specific results to be achieved within a set period of time, and for implementing and assessing every phase of the plan. Offers a simple, logical approach that can be adapted to any size or type of business.

Economics

Author: Stephen L Slavin

Steve Slavin's lively and comprehensive Economics student-friendly, step-by-step approach, coupled with its low price and built-in Workbook/Study Guide is very attractive to adopters. Instructors and students like the author's humorous anecdotes, direct language, and easy conversational style. The text encourages active rather than passive reading.

	Introduction What Is Economics All About, How Do We Use This Book, and Why Is This Book Different from All Other Introductory Economics Textbooks?
1	A Brief Economic History of the United States	3
2	Resource Utilization	25
3	Supply and Demand	49
4	The Mixed Economy	59
5	The Consumption Sector	81
6	The Business-Investment Sector	103
7	The Government Sector	125
8	Gross Domestic Product	153
9	Economic Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Inflation	183
10	Classical and Keynesian Economics	213
11	Fiscal Policy and the National Debt	237
12	Money and Banking	279
13	The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy	313
14	Twentieth-Century Economic Theory	335
15	A Guide to Macropolicy	369
16	Economic Growth and Productivity	377
17	Applications in Supply and Demand	401
18	Demand	425
19	Utility and Consumer Surplus	451
20	Supply	463
21	Cost and Profit	477
22	Supply in the Short Run and the Long Run	499
23	Perfect Competition	515
24	Monopoly	533
25	Monopolistic Competition	555
26	Oligopoly	569
27	The Four Types of Competition: A Review	593
28	Corporate Mergers and Antitrust	605
29	Demand in the Factor Market	623
30	Labor Unions	645
31	Labor Markets and Wage Rates	665
32	Rent, Interest, and Profit	689
33	Income Distribution and Poverty	713
34	International Trade	745
35	International Finance	779
	Glossary	799
	Index	805

Basic Marketing Research or Basic Marketing Research

2009-01-13T10:16:00.000-08:00

Basic Marketing Research

Author: Gilbert A Churchill

This best-selling introductory marketing research text has undergone further transition in the sixth edition to make it even more accessible to students while still retaining its level of coverage. BASIC MARKETING RESEARCH provides a framework for the choices and decisions that must be made by managers?an important aspect of marketing research?because decisions made in one stage of the process have consequences for other stages. Managers and marketing researchers need to appreciate the interactions among the parts of the research process so they can have confidence in a particular research result. This edition provides readers with an overview of the information gathering function from the perspective of the researchers who gather the information and the marketing managers who use it.

Part I. Introduction to Marketing Research and Problem Definition
1.Role of Marketing Research
2.Gathering Marketing Intelligence
3.Process of Marketing Research
4.Problem Formulation. Part II. Research Design
5.Types of Research Design and Exploratory Research
6.Descriptive and Causal Research Designs. Part III. Data-Collection Methods
7.Secondary Data
8.Standardized Marketing Information Services
9.Collecting Primary Data
10.Collecting Information by Questionnaire
11.Collecting Information by Observation. Part IV. Data Collection Forms
12.Designing the Questionnaire or Observation Form
13.Measurement Basics
14.Measuring Attitudes, Perceptions, and Preferences. Part V. Sampling and Data Collection
15.Types of Samples and Simple Random Sampling
16.Stratified and Cluster Sampling
17.Sample Size
18.Collecting the Data: Field Procedures and Nonsampling Errors. Part VI. Data Analysis
19.Data Analysis: Preliminary Steps
20.Data Analysis: Examining Differences
21.Data Analysis: Investigating Associations. Part VII. Research Reports
22.The Written Research Report
23.The Oral Research Report.

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Basic Marketing Research: Application to Contemporary Issues with SPSS-Student Edition

Author: Naresh K Malhotra

Written from the perspective of users of marketing research, this easy to read and understand book presents concepts and principles at a basic level. It is practical, applied, and managerial, and focuses on important contemporary issues—in total quality management, international marketing, technology, ethics, and the Internet. A four-part organization outlines a six-step framework for conducting market research. Part I provides an introduction to marketing research and discusses problem definition; Part II covers research and design; Part III presents field work and data preparation; and Part IV looks at data analysis and communicating the research. For all professionals who are either users or providers of marketing research.

Information Systems Programming with Java or Survey of Accounting

2009-01-13T01:35:00.000-08:00

Information Systems Programming with Java

Author: Andrew Jr C Staugaard

This long awaited revision provides an introductory programming experience in Java for courses offered in IS (CIS, MIS, BIS/, IT, and CS programs at both the undergraduate and graduate (MBA) levels. This book gets students writing object-oriented Java programs early using IS applications, while building the essential problem-solving and programming skills required for today's IS solutions. Using strong pedagogy, including an accessible writing style, the author introduces objects early by developing classes and objects, as well as compiling and running Java programs in Chapter 1.

Information Systems Programming with Java^™ comes with a student CD, including the latest version of the SDK Standard Edition Version 1.4.1 X, Sun^™ ONE Studio 4 Update 1, Community Edition, and text source code. Further, it offers a Companion Website containing extra assessment questions and links to valuable web resources, as well as a full complement of Instructor Resources, including PowerPoint slides and a test bank.

New to this Edition

Completely rewritten to conform to current Java and IS technology
Two new chapters on Object Oriented Programming Chapters 8 and 9
Two new chapters on Graphical User Interfaces Chapters 11 and 12
A new chapter on Applets and Graphics Chapter 13
A new chapter on Multi-Dimensional Arrays Chapter 15
Many valuable appendices, including:

Sun^™ ONE Studio and Borland^® Jbuilder^® to get students up and running with these development environments
Systems Engineering with UMLTutorial
Workshop on GUI
Database Connectivity using JDBC
UML class diagrams used throughout when developing classes

Ch. 1	Computers, Programs, and Java	1
Ch. 2	Problem Solving	31
Ch. 3	Working with Data: Types, Classes, Objects, and I/O	59
Ch. 4	Nuts and Bolts - Basic Stuff in Java	122
Ch. 5	Making Decisions	151
Ch. 6	Repetition	192
Ch. 7	Class Behavior - Methods	233
Ch. 8	Object-Oriented Programming - Part I	275
Ch. 9	Object-Oriented Programming - Part II	318
Ch. 10	One-Dimensional Arrays	347
Ch. 11	Graphical User Interfaces - GUIs Part I	395
Ch. 12	Graphical User Interfaces - GUIs Part II	453
Ch. 13	Applets and Graphics	511
Ch. 14	File I/O and Exception Handling	545
Ch. 15	Multidimensional Arrays	591
App. A	JUMP START: Sun ONE Studio and JBuilder	620
App. B	A Systems Engineering Tutorial with UML	640
App. C	A GUI Workshop with Swing	667
App. D	Database Connectivity Using JDBC	726
App. E	Answers to Quick-Check Questions	739
App. F	ASCII/Unicode Character Table	759
	Glossary	760
	Index	770

Interesting book: Delicias Vegetarianas de Mexico or Art of Aureole

Survey of Accounting

Author: Cecily A Raiborn

This book provides the basics of both financial and managerial accounting. Financial accounting provides primarily monetary information about business activities that result in the financial statements that are published for use by people outside the business. Managerial accounting provides monetary and nonmonetary information about business activities that result in supporting details for the financial statements or that provide information for internal organizational users to plan, control, or make decisions about operations. It is not intended to be a comprehensive volume in either financial or managerial accounting, but an introduction for non-business majors. The book takes a user orientation, steering clear of detailed, technical discussions. Many interesting examples from the travel industry are integrated throughout to catch the reader's interest and to apply concepts to companies they may know.

Reengineering Human Resources or Readings in Microeconomics

2009-01-12T17:54:00.000-08:00

Reengineering Human Resources: Achieving Radical Increases in Service Quality - with 50% to 90% Cost and Head Count Reductions

Author: Lyle M Spencer

A survival guide to the human resources reengineering revolution

Sparked by the new information technologies, a revolution is about to take place in the way human resource services are organized, staffed, and delivered. To prepare HR professionals for these radical changes, Reengineering Human Resources provides a comprehensive guide to the basic concepts, processes, and technologies that are driving this change. In a clear, concise presentation illustrated with numerous real-life examples, this unique book gives the reader:

A detailed primer on the new information technologies, including specific human resource uses of the personal computer, interactive information systems, CD-ROMs, personal digital assistants, networks, and more
An explanation of the basic concepts of reengineering, how it can be implemented, and how to weigh costs and benefits—complete with work flow graphics and spreadsheet templates
Detailed advice on staffing—the competencies HR professionals will need in order to succeed and how employee competencies will change with reengineered work
Specific cases of how human resource functions will be performed after reengineering, including examples of recordkeeping, succession planning, performance management, training and development, employment practices, and more

Human resources management is on the brink of radical transformation and the instrument of that transformation is information technology.

Starting with this provocative premise, Reengineering Human Resources offers human resource professionals an eye-opening introduction to the changes that are about to affect the organization, staffing, and delivery of humanresource services. For those who are prepared to take full advantage of the new technology, it will mean dramatic increases in productivity and impressive decreases in cost, as well as vastly improved services and greater client satisfaction. In a real sense, the field of human resources is undergoing a revolution.

Written by management expert Lyle M. Spencer specifically for human resource professionals, this book shows how new technologies, reengineered work processes, and retrained employees will bring about this revolution. Although it assumes no technical expertise, Reengineering Human Resources brings the reader up to speed on the latest hardware and software applications, including personal computers, interactive voice response systems, personal digital assistants, CD-ROMs, expert systems, information networks, and much more.

Not just a description of these changes, this important book provides complete "how-to" instructions for reengineering, including activity-based costing, value analysis, and work flow charting. It describes the radical new approaches to organizing work made possible by combining traditional work analysis methods with advances in information technology. Specific cases of reengineered human resource functions, including recordkeeping, employee health care benefits, performance management, training, compensation, and labor relations are illustrated with real-life examples. An entire chapter describes the ways employee competencies will change in the reengineered organizations and jobs of the future. Information on implementing these changes explains how to calculate both the costs and benefits of reengineering.

Timely, authoritative, and compelling, Reengineering Human Resources offers human resource professionals the opportunity to shape the future of their workplace and their profession.

Ch. 1	Reengineering Human Resources	3
Ch. 2	Information Technology: A Primer for Human Resource Professionals	37
Ch. 3	Basics: Activity-Based Costing, Value Analysis, and Work Flow Charting	53
Ch. 4	Reengineering Concepts	81
Ch. 5	Reengineering Human Resources: Functions and Processes	99
Ch. 6	Integrated Human Resource Management Information Systems	122
Ch. 7	People	144
Ch. 8	Implementing Reengineering Change: Programs and Projects	163
Ch. 9	Making the Business Case for Human Resources Reengineering	183
Ch. 10	A National Human Resources System for the Future	201
	Appendix A: Reengineering Team Readiness	210
	Bibliography	223
	Index	227

Readings in Microeconomics

Author: Tim Jenkinson

Over the last ten years, the widely acclaimed Oxford Review of Economic Policy has published papers written in a non-technical style by leading policy experts. This Reader draws together a comprehensive selection of the most significant and widely cited OREP papers in microeconomics, many of which have been updated and revised.

Advances in Economics and Econometrics or Ethics in Business

2009-01-12T11:13:00.000-08:00

Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress, Volume I

Author: Richard Blundell

This is the first of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and a commentary presented at invited symposium sessions of the Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in London in August
2005. The papers summarise and interpret key developments, and they discuss future directions for a wide variety of topics in economics and econometrics. The papers cover both theory and applications. Written by leading specialists in their fields, these volumes provide a unique survey of progress in the discipline.

Interesting textbook: A Economia Macro Hoje

Ethics in Business: A Guide for Managers

Author: Robert B B Maddux

Helps readers understand, develop and apply personal and business ethics.

I Series or Marketing Management

2009-01-12T01:33:00.000-08:00

I-Series: MS Office XP- Volume II

Author: Stephen Haag

The I-Series Applications textbooks strongly emphasize that students learn and master applications skills by being actively engaged- by doing. These texts have been written with clear,error-free,and unambiguous steps to accomplish tasks that lead to a finished document,worksheet or database table. The authors made the decision that teaching "how" to accomplish some task is not enough for complete understanding and mastery. Prior to introducing steps,the authors discuss why the steps students are about to experience are important and what role the steps play in the overall plan for creating a document,workbook or database.

Book review: Beyond a Boundary or Lone Wolf

Marketing Management: Strategies and Programs

Author: Joseph P P Guiltinan

Unlike most marketing management texts that are overly descriptive and repetitious of prior coursework, this brief text focuses on the middle management marketing decisions students are most likely to encounter in their careers. The text emphasizes fundamental processes to help students develop the ability to apply marketing theories and concepts to decision-making situations. A talented new coauthor, Thomas Madden of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, has been added to the team. Discussions of such important areas as market segmentation, quality, customer service, brand equity, sales promotion, direct marketing, and database marketing have been substantially strengthened. The majority of minicases, which conclude each chapter are new and involve current, high-interest subjects.

	Preface
Ch. 1	The Scope of Marketing Management and the Marketing Planning Process	5
Ch. 2	Corporate Marketing Planning	22
Ch. 3	Market Analysis	55
Ch. 4	Competitive Analysis	81
Ch. 5	Market Measurement	106
Ch. 6	Profitability and Productivity Analysis	140
Ch. 7	Marketing Strategies	171
Ch. 8	Product Development Programs	197
Ch. 9	Pricing Programs	228
Ch. 10	Advertising Programs	255
Ch. 11	Sales-Promotion Programs	293
Ch. 12	Sales and Distribution Programs: Establishing Objectives and Appeals	321
Ch. 13	Sales and Distribution Programs: Budgets and Performance Evaluation	353
Ch. 14	Organizing and Managing Marketing and Sales Activities	391
Ch. 15	The Annual Marketing Plan	420
	Appendix: Selected Sources of Information for Marketing Managers	446
	Acknowledgments	460
	Index	463

Using Information Technology Complete Edition or Work Careers

2009-01-11T17:51:00.000-08:00

Using Information Technology Complete Edition

Author: Brian K Williams

Using Information Technology, 5/e covers the fundamental computing concepts that are part of the digital age, including software, hardware, data, people, and procedures. The text centers on educating today's technology consumer, using themes of ethics, the Internet, and communications to demonstrate how the changing world of technology influences our lives and the decisions we make.

Interesting textbook: Retail Loss Prevention Officer or Development Economics

Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective

Author: Daniel C C Feldman

Work Careers brings together a stellar panel of experts from the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, counseling and clinical psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, and human resource management. This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of how an individual's career unfolds from early childhood through retirement. Based on the most recent findings and current research, the volume also focuses on changes in the societal and organizational contexts of career development and reveals how context shapes and constrains individual career decisions.

	Foreword
	Preface
	The Contributors
Pt. 1	Foundations of Career Development
1	Stability in the Midst of Change: A Developmental Perspective on the Study of Careers	3
2	More Than the Big Five: Personality and Careers	27
3	Skill Acquisition and Person-Environment Fit	63
Pt. 2	Career Development Across the Life Span
4	When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: Career Indecision and Vocational Choices of Teenagers and Young Adults	93
5	The School-to-Work Transition	126
6	The Establishment Years: A Dependence Perspective	159
7	Career Development in Midcareer	186
8	Career Issues Facing Older Workers	214
Pt. 3	The Changing Context of Career Development
9	Public Policy and the Changing Legal Context of Career Development	245
10	The Changing Organizational Context of Careers	274
11	International Careers as Repositories of Knowledge: A New Look at Expatriation	294
Pt. 4	Directions for Industrial/Organizational Practice and Research
12	Organizational Assistance in Career Development	323
13	Advancing Research on Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective on Theory Building and Empirical Research	346
	Name Index	373
	Subject Index	385

Global Decisions Local Collisions or The World of Customer Service

2009-01-11T09:10:00.000-08:00

Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order

Author: David C Ranney

The politics of the past must be rethought. They were designed for a world where the U.S. manufactured at home, and where portions of U.S.-based labor had traded social stability for high wages. In this thought-provoking work, David Ranney shows how our world has changed and offers a plan for remaking progressive politics to meet the crises brought about by what George H. W. Bush first termed "the new world order." Drawing from his experiences in Chicago politics, first as a factory worker and later as an activist and academic, Ranney shows how the increasing mobility of capital, the easy availability of credit, and changing government policies have reshaped the urban world where U.S. workers live their everyday lives. This is not the story of the interconnectedness of modern business, but rather the need for self-respecting people who bring home a weekly paycheck to see the common, global problems they face, and to work together to bring about meaningful change.

	Acknowledgments	vi
	Timeline	viii
1.	Introduction	1
2.	Philosophical Perspectives	13
3.	The Evolution of a New World Order	34
4.	Manufacturing Collapses in Chicago	71
5.	The New World Order and Local Government: Chicago Politics and Economic Development	91
6.	Where will Poor People Live?	122
7.	Jobs, Wages, and Trade in the New World Order	164
8.	Organizing to Combat the New World Order	198
9.	Implications and Directions	216
	Notes	235
	Index	255

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The World of Customer Service

Author: Pattie Gibson Odgers

With global markets growing more than ever, it is a major challenge for organizations to attract and retain customers. This practical text is designed to teach exemplary customer service tactics that are used in private or public, domestic or international organizations. Reflecting current concepts and tips, this text focuses on strategies for reaching company goals, dealing with problems and complaints, winning back customers, and creating loyal customers.

A Forgotten Offensive or Selling and Sales Management

2009-01-11T02:30:00.000-08:00

A Forgotten Offensive

Author: Christina J M Goulter

The former Muslim republics of the USSR are struggling to strike a balance between the legacy of the Soviet regime and the revival of their own, traditional culture. This volume examines the religion, economy and demography of the areas as well as both internal and external relations.

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RAF Coastal Command is usually known for its anti-submarine campaign, but while engaged in these operations, it was also making an offensive against the enemy's merchant shipping in northwest European waters. Goulter follows the fortunes of Coastal Command's campaigns throughout the war, demonstrating how lessons learned in WWI had to be painfully relearned before the campaign became successful. B&w photos. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	List of Illustrations
	Editor's Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Maps
1	Lessons Learned: The First Maritime Aviation Experience	1
2	The Ebb of Maritime Aviation, 1919-29	34
3	The Nadir of Maritime Aviation, 1930-39	72
4	Lessons Relearned: The Early Anti-Shipping Campaign, 1940	111
5	Survival Against All Odds: The Anti-Shipping Campaign in 1941	132
6	The Mounting Offensive, 1942	161
7	The Apogee of Maritime Aviation, January 1943-September 1944	199
8	Victory: Anti-Shipping Operations, October 1944-May 1945	234
9	The Verdict
	Part I: The Impact on German Shipping	269
	Part II: The Impact on the German Economy	302
	Bibliography	333
	Tables	347
	Index	357

Selling and Sales Management

Author: David Jobber

"This excellent work is mandatory reading for all with academic or practical interests in the world of sales - which is just about the whole marketing and management community. This influential book is an excellent contribution to the literature."
Professor Nigel F. Piercy, Professor of Marketing and Director of the Sales and Account Management Strategy Research Unit, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Looking for the definitive text on selling and sales management? Now in its 7th edition, David Jobber and Geoff Lancaster’s Selling and Sales Management, a long-standing classic, has been revised and updated to take into account recent developments in the theory and practice of selling. It places emphasis on international aspects of selling and sales management.

New to this edition
• Integration of recent cutting-edge research into chapters throughout the book.
• Repositioning of chapters and a clear mapping through each of the five parts, including a brief summary of each part.

• A fuller discussion on the role of selling as part of an integrated marketing communications programme.

• A complete re-write and update of Chapter 12 on Internet and IT Applications.

• Substantially updated coverage of key account management.
• A more detailed explanation of market-based pricing principles.

• A more thorough discussion of the principles of negotiation.

• A fuller discussion of the role of the sales force as gatherers of market intelligence.

• Additional exercises to assist both students and tutors.

Ideal for students on sales management,marketing and business studies courses as well as field salespeople and sales managers, the book is also essential reading for students taking the CIM Certificate in Selling, the Advanced Certificate in Sales Management, and those taking professional studies examinations for CAM, the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management and LCCI.

"Professors Jobber and Lancaster have done it again! In this text, they provide a thorough and sophisticated treatment of sales and sales management. Informed by the most up-to-date research, the authors tackle the critical issues facing modern sales professionals. Their style of writing is straightforward and accessible. This book is essential reading for those whose job it is to sell and to manage those who sell, as well as for those who aspire to a career in the sales profession."
John W. Cadogan, Professor of Marketing, Business School, Loughborough University

David Jobber is Professor of Marketing at Bradford University and serves on the editorial board of numerous marketing and sales management journals. He also served as Special Advisor to the Research Assessment Exercise panel that rated research output from business and management schools throughout the UK.

Geoff Lancaster is Professor of Marketing at Liverpool John Moores University and Chairman of Durham Associates Group Ltd, Castle Eden, County Durham. He was formerly Senior Examiner to the Chartered Institute of Marketing and Chief Examiner to the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.

To access the Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides and additional learning resources visit http:www.pearsoned.co.uk/jobber.

Groups That Work or Demographics

2009-01-10T16:49:00.000-08:00

Groups That Work: Structure and Process

Author: Paul H Ephross

Social workers, planners, health professionals, and human-service administrators spend much of their time in meetings, working in and with groups. What meaning does participation in these groups have for members? Some of the events that are most important for members of the various professions, and those whom they serve, take place within these groups. Health and human services depend upon their working groups for their development and allocation of resources, their standards of quality, and the evaluation of their success or failure. In short, these groups are relied upon to come up with creative solutions to complex problems.

Despite the amount of time spent in meetings, committees, and so on, very little has been written about the skills necessary for effective participation and leadership within working groups. With that in mind, Ephross and Vassil combine innovative group theory and practice in this "how-to" guide for professionals who take a variety of roles within the group. They draw on examples from social agencies, a hospital, a low-income community, and the boardroom, providing practical principles for day-to-day group life based on a democratic model. This revised edition also explores the changes that have taken place in the structure and operation of working groups in recent years and the heightened expectations for groups within large organizations.

Demographics: A Casebook for Business and Government

Author: Hallie J Kintner

This is a collection of 20 case studies prepared by a group of demographers; professors of economics, sociology, population studies, business, and marketing; and research analysts interested in understanding a world of changing demographics. Because the study of demography is becoming increasingly important to a growing number of professionals and decisionmakers in business and government, these case studies were written to address how the science of demography is being applied to real-world problems. Written in nontechnical language and presented in a classroom-tested format, this easy-to-use guidebook covers applications of applied demography in government planning, long-term corporate strategy, forecasting, human resource management, and marketing. The authors show how to tie financial, political, and legal analysis into a consideration of demographic data and trends.

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A collection of case studies demonstrating how demographics can be applied in both the public and private sectors for such tasks as planning, long-term corporate strategy, forecasting, human resource management, and marketing. Written in nontechnical language for use either as a classroom textbook or a self-study tutorial. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
1	Introduction	3
2	Orientation to Case Studies	10
3	Empowered or Disadvantaged? Applications of Demographic Analysis to Political Redistricting	17
4	The Use of Intercensal Population Estimates in Political Redistricting	33
5	The Use of Population Estimates and Projections in the Court-Mandated Reapportionment of Los Angeles County	55
6	Evaluating Boundary Changes for Discriminatory Effect	70
7	Improving Cellular Market Area Valuation with Demographic Data	93
8	Targeting Wealthy Ex-Wisconsinites in Florida: A Close Study in Applied Demography	109
9	Selecting Markets for Corporate Expansion: A Case Study in Applied Demography	129
10	Motel 48: Evaluating the Profitability of a Proposed Business	144
11	Using Demographic Analysis in Health Services Planning: A Case Study in Obstetrical Services	159
12	Population Estimates, Projections, and Expert Testimony in Adversarial Legal Proceedings: A Case Study of Automobile Dealerships	180
13	Locating Fire Station Sites: The Response Time Component	203
14	A Demographic Analysis of the Market for a Long-Term Care Facility: A Case Study in Applied Demography	218
15	Strategic Financial Planning for Hospitals: Demographic Considerations	251
16	Estimating Vital Rates from Corporate Databases: How Long Will GM's Salaried Retirees Live?	265
17	Enrollment Projection in a Multicampus University System	298
18	Predicting College Enrollment Results from a Variant of the Life Table	307
19	Planning for Children's Residential Care	327
20	Documenting State Underemployment Patterns	343
	About the Book	358
	About the Editors and Contributors	359

Strategy Economic Organization and the Knowledge Economy or Texas Real Estate Agency

2009-01-10T10:08:00.000-08:00

Strategy, Economic Organization, and the Knowledge Economy: The Coordination of Firms and Resources

Author: Nicolai J J Foss

The rise of the knowledge economy has far-reaching implications for the nature of economic organization as well as firm strategy. Not surprisingly, thinking in management studies as well as in economies has been profoundly affected by these changes. Thus, management thinking in particular has been increasingly characterized by a schism between those who advocate 'knowledge' or 'capabilities-based' approaches in the strategy and organization fields and those who adopt more economies-influenced approaches, notably the economics of organization. This book is a sustained attempt to overcome this schism. Its basic argument is that knowledge-based and organizational economics approaches are not substitutes but complements. In particular, organizational economics has much to contribute with respect to furthering the understanding of efficient organization and strategy in the emerging knowledge economy. This theme is taken through several theroretical as well as empirical variations. Themes such as the incentive liabilities of flat, 'knowledge-based' organizations, the role of complementary HRM practices for fostering knowledge sharing and creation, and the role of organizational instruments in the knowledge management activities of the multinational corporate are extensively treated. The book thus contains important implications for knowledge management, organizational design and international management. The book encompasses nine chapters which critically examine current thinking on strategy, and organization. The reasoning is non-technical. While primarily aimed at a management studies audience, economists and other social scientists will also benefit from it, including AdvancedStudents, Academics and Researchers.

1	Strategy and economic organization in the knowledge economy	1
2	The 'strategic theory of the firm'	23
3	The resource-based view : aligning strategy and competitive equilibrium	61
4	Knowledge-based views of the firm	81
5	Strategy, resources, and transaction costs	98
6	Economic organization in the knowledge economy	121
7	Internal organization in the knowledge economy : the rise and fall of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization	157
8	Performance and organization in the knowledge economy : innovation and new human resource management practices	187
9	Cognitive leadership and coordination in the knowledge economy	211

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Texas Real Estate Agency

Author: Donna K Peeples

Texas Real Estate Agency, 3rd Edition, is the source for the most up-to-date information on agency law and regulations in Texas. You'll find all the information you need for your real estate agency class, written in clear, straightforward language.

Management of Tourism or All the Rage

2009-01-10T01:27:00.000-08:00

Management of Tourism

Author: Lesley Pender

The Management of Tourism considers and applies management concepts, philosophies and practices to the business of tourism. The book goes beyond a conceptual discussion of tourism to cover management perspectives both in operational and strategic terms. It provides students with an understanding of the fundamental business management aspects of tourism, together with the specific techniques required for successful management of the variety of tourism businesses.

Pt. 1	Managing the tourism system	1
1	Introduction	1
2	The accommodation sector : managing for quality	14
3	Airlines, airports and international aviation	28
4	Tour operations management	47
5	Managing tourism distribution	67
Pt. 2	Managing tourism businesses	85
6	Human resource management in tourism	85
7	Marketing management for tourism	102
8	Strategy for tourism	119
9	Managing finance for tourism	135
10	The law and tourism	150
Pt. 3	Managing tourism in its environment	161
11	Managing urban tourism	161
12	Managing the countryside for tourism : a governance perspective	175
13	Managing tourism for development	188
14	Site and visitor management at natural attractions	202
Pt. 4	Contemporary issues in tourism management	217
15	The role of government in the management of tourism : the public sector and tourism policies	217
16	Information and communication technologies for tourism	232
17	Destination marketing and technology : the case of Web-based data mining	246
18	Tourism and the environment	259
19	International tourism : the management of crisis	275
20	Ethics in tourism management	288
21	Managing the heritage enterprise for liveable host communities	305

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All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America

Author: Suzanna Danuta Walters

From the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres and the success of Will and Grace to the vicious murder of Matthew Shepard, recent years have seen gay lives and images move onto the center stage of American public life. In this incisive and authoritative guide to the new gay visibility, Suzanna Danuta Walters argues that we now live in a time when gays are seen, but not necessarily known. Taking on the common wisdom that equates visibility with full integration, All the Rage maps the terrain on which gays are accepted as witty film accessories and sassy sitcom stars yet denied full citizenship.

Publishers Weekly

The love that once dared not speak its name now dances at Disneyland's annual gay day and sells Bud Lite. Heck, even Bart Simpson questions his sexuality, while nobody questions South Park's Big Gay Al's, and there is no ambiguity about Saturday Night Live's Ambiguously Gay Duo. This comprehensive survey of gay and lesbian visibility in popular culture offers a whirlwind of facts, figures and documentation of gay representations. Acknowledging television's past e.g., Mike Wallace's 1967 CBS report reconfirming many homophobic stereotypes Walters concentrates on post-AIDS entertainment in which gay characters and themes appear everywhere from HBO's Oz to The Drew Carey Show to that bastion of backlash, Ally McBeal. A double edge runs through Walters's countless examples: does this visibility indicate acceptance, or does "gay chic" just characterize a profitable niche market? Moreover, are these trends destructive? An associate professor of sociology and director of women's studies at Georgetown, Walters (Material) quotes activist and writer Sarah Schulman as criticizing "the creation of a false public homosexuality that is palatable and containable and... not authentic." Walters's analyses are often astute the Roseanne gay marriage show was more about Dan and Roseanne confronting their own homophobia than about homosexuality but occasionally reductive, like her assertion that the film Boys in the Band is "filled with... self hatred" mightn't it be commenting on self-hatred? Citing academics Kath Weston, Josh Gamson and responding to mainstream critics, Walters's initial distrust of this visibility gives way to grudging appreciation in a clear, up-to-date map of the basic debate overhomosexuality in the media. (Oct.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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Should gays and lesbians exult in the recent spate of media depictions of their lives or shudder at the homogenized sterilization of their diversity? Against the backdrop of the 1980s and '90s, Walters (Sociology & Women's Studies/Georgetown Univ.; Lives Together/Worlds Apart, 1992) analyzes the promise and the threat of queer portrayals in contemporary media: although the number of these programs and personalities has skyrocketed, the resulting depictions of gay and lesbian life often emerge as disturbingly skewed. In a nutshell, her thesis contends that increased gay representations in the media may entail that America sees the gay and lesbian community more frequently than ever; however, due to the stereotypical visions of queer life-such as psycho dykes, ditzy fashion homos, and lesbian chic-this visibility does not correspond with an increased knowledge about homosexuality. With a sweeping range, Walters probes the cultural repercussions of such characters as Dynasty's tortured bisexual Steven Carrington and the all-too-chaste Matt of Melrose Place, as well as examining specific episodes of programs including Roseanne (when Mariel Hemingway kissed the eponymous heroine) and the coming-out episode of Ellen. Films also come under scrutiny, as Walters considers the differences between queer portrayals in mainstream Hollywood and those in independent films. And there are chapters on gay marriages, coming-out stories, and queer parenting-and an analysis of advertising images of gay and lesbian life, in which Walters dissects the commercialization of the queer community (pointing to a predictable display of gleaming teeth and toned bodies). A frenetic packing of materials that leavesin-depth analysis mostly sacrificed for a panoramic view-but the resulting picture nevertheless emerges as detailed and refined.

Moviesdoortodoorcom or The Dollarization Debate

2009-01-09T17:46:00.000-08:00

Moviesdoortodoor.com: How Accounting Helped Make the Difference

Author: Mark S Beasley

What if you had a great idea for your own business?
What if you also had the manpower and funds to do it?
What if you had no accounting background whatsoever?

Imagine having the tools to build a successful business of your own, but no idea how to use them. You'd likely end up with a lot of headaches, lost revenue, and the nagging thought, "if only I'd known ...." Like many unsuccessful entrepreneurs, most students just don't understand the importance of accounting in their future business lives. Fortunately, Movies DoorToDoor.com; How Accounting Helped Make the Difference can help. This novella presents a situation that any college student can relate to-the desire to be your own boss-while driving home the importance of accounting in starting your own business. An engaging story and an important lesson in one, your students will learn from the ups and downs of three recent college grads starting their own business without a solid background in accounting.

Do you enjoy the convenience of pizza delivered right to your door?
Would you like the same service for video rentals?

MoviesDoorToDoor.com: How Accounting Helped Make the Difference is the fictional story of three recent college grads who sense this unique business opportunity and act on it. Find out how accounting helped them in the early stages of setting up their new business.

1. The Light Goes On.
2. Begging Their Parents.
3. Starting the Business.
4. Buying Videos—Can't Turn Back Now.
5. Rentals at Last.
6. Becoming the Boss.
7. The Search Engine Blossoms.
8. The Crash!
9. Going to the Bank.
10. Getting Smart—Tapping the Market.
11. The Negotiations Begin.
12. What Next?

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The Dollarization Debate

Author: Dominick Salvator

This book takes a global approach, with an emphasis on North and Latin America respectfully, by discussing one of today's most controversial topics in business; Dollarization. With the collapse of the former Soviet Union, and the formation of the Euro in Europe, many countries and debating whether or not a common currency is in their best interest. This intriguing volume brings together the leading participants in the current dollarization debates. Many advocate the notion of a common currency, while others feel that in doing so will create financial costs for all that take part, with the severity varying from country to country.

Professional Selling or Monetary Unions

2009-01-09T11:05:00.000-08:00

Professional Selling: A Trust-Based Approach

Author: Thomas N Ingram

This text provides comprehensive coverage of contemporary professional selling by integrating recent sales research with leading personal selling practices. Professional Selling's chapters can be mixed and matched with sales management chapters from Ingram's Sales Management, Fifth Edition to create an outstanding customized sales course. This highly experienced author team draws on their industry and academic experience to blend the most recent research findings with illustrated best practices in professional selling.

Interesting textbook: World Economic Primacy or Financial Reporting and Analysis

Monetary Unions: Theory, History, Public Choice, Vol. 18

Author: Capie and Woods

The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in which some members of the European Union have joined, has prompted much discussion of monetary union. Most of this discussion has focused on the immediate issues, such as prospects for the Euro and the possibility of expanding the Euro-zone. This book stands back and considers the relevant theory or what lessons might be drawn from other unions that have been formed in the past as well as looking at EMU directly.

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
2	Theoretical issues pertaining to monetary unions	7
	Comments	26
	Comments	36
3	The future of EMU: what does the history of monetary unions tell us?	42
	Comment	70
	Comments	73
4	How long did it take the United States to become an optimal currency area?	76
	Comments	104
	Comments	108
5	The bank, the states, and the market: an Austro-Hungarian tale for Euroland, 1867-1914	111
	Comments	142
6	The future of the euro: a public choice perspective	146
	Comments	182
	Comments	189
	Index	194

Foodservice Facilities Planning or Building Your Network Through Communication

2009-01-09T01:25:00.000-08:00

Foodservice Facilities Planning

Author: Edward A Kazarian

The foodservice industry gets more competitive every day. As a result, initial planning is extremely important and has become a key factor in determining the success or failure of an operation. This fully updated edition of the best-selling text on foodservice facilities planning shows students how to create a facility that blends the most efficient work environment with an ambience that will attract more customers. Students will find all-new information on how to—

• cost-effectively design an operation
• properly select and efficiently maintain equipment
• successfully plan and accurately evaluate foodservice layouts
• plan fast-food facilities and bakeshops
• cut costs through more efficient energy planning.

Equipped with this comprehensive book, students will develop expertise in all aspects of foodservice facilities planning, from prospectus to finished facility. The author provides sample layouts of award-winning floor plans from which effective designs can be modeled. Students will also find practical exercises that help prepare them for common problems that may arise while planning their own operation. They will also learn how to organize data to begin planning, how to develop feasibility studies, how to fully equip and operate their own facility, and most important, how to make their facility achieve maximum productivity and profits. Whether you are a student just learning the business, a foodservice planner, consultant, or decision maker in the industry, this practical reference book can make you an indispensable member of the foodservice facility planning team. An ideal classroom tool for students interested in careers inthe foodservice industry, Foodservice Facilities Planning can also offer firm guidance to veteran foodservice planners, consultants, and decision makers.

Introduction to Foodservice Facilities Planning.
The Planning Process.
The Planning Team.
Preparing the Prospectus.
The Feasibility Study.
Functional Planning.
Planning the Atmosphere.
Workplace Design.
Equipment Requirements.
Equipment Selection and Design.
Equipment and Facility Maintenance.
Space Requirements.
Layout of Facilities.
Evaluating Foodservice Layouts.
Sample Foodservice Layouts.
A Glossary of Foodservice Equipment Terms.
Appendices.
Index.

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Building Your Network Through Communication

Author: Arthur H Bell

This “full service” guide to networking provides explanation and training in the communication and intercultural tools necessary to build a domestic and international web of professional contacts. KEY TOPICS It contains practical techniques and strategies for network relations, and in-depth discussions on gender communication, intercultural communication, nonverbal aspects of networking, and special challenges for women in business. For professionals, jobseekers, and managers in training.

Human Resource Management and E Commerce or The Great Merger Movement in American Business 1895 1904

2009-01-08T17:44:00.000-08:00

Human Resource Management and E-Commerce: The Online Legal Environment

Author: Roger Leroy Miller

This module comes from the exciting new text "Law for E-Commerce" which assists in recognizing the legal issues relevant to maintaining and conducting business on the World Wide Web. This module includes coverage on basic legal environment topics specifically relating to human resources.

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The first section of this introductory text and reference addresses the online legal environment, including basic legal matters, dispute resolution, torts and crimes, and legal protection available for intellectual property off- and online. The remainder of the text examines e-commerce law as it relates to management, marketing, human resources, finance, accounting/taxation, and economics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904

Author: Naomi R Lamoreaux

Between 1895 and 1904 a great wave of mergers swept through the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy. More than 1,800 firms disappeared into horizontal combinations, at least a third of which controlled more than 70 percent of the markets in which they operated. In The Great Merger Movement in American Business, Naomi Lamoreaux explores the causes of the mergers, concluding that there was nothing natural or inevitable about turn-of-the-century combinations. With the aid of a formal model, Lamoureaux demonstrates that the merger wave was the product of a particular historical combination of circumstances: the development if capital-intensive production techniques; a spurt of rapid growth in a number of heavy industries in the late 1880s and early 1890s; and the panic and depression of
1883. Together, this sequence of events produced an episode of abnormally severe price competition that manufacturers finally turned to consolidation to alleviate. Despite her conclusion that the mergers were not inevitable, Lamoreaux does not accept the opposing view that they were necessarily a threat to competition.

1. Introduction;
2. Product differentiation, mass production, and the urge to merge: competitive strategies and collusion in the late nineteenth century;
3. High fixed costs and rapid expansion: a model of price warfare and two examples;
4. Quantitative and qualitative evidence on the great merger movement;
5. What changed? the impact of consolidations on competitive behaviour;
6. The great merger movement and antitrust policy;
7. Conclusion; Bibliographical essay; Index.

Between One and Many or Financing Urban Shelter

2009-01-08T09:03:00.000-08:00

Between One and Many: The Art and Science of Public Speaking with Free Speech Coach Student CD-ROM

Author: Steven R Brydon

While maintaining its reputation for balancing the practice of public speaking with its classical and contemporary foundations, the 4th edition of Between One and Many provides students with the tools necessary to reach their audiences at school, in the workplace, and in the community. In this edition the authors use more accessible language, less jargon, and clear links between skills derived from theory and research and the actual practice of those skills. Based on the idea that the transaction between speakers and audiences determines the meaning of the message, Between One and Many demonstrates that public speaking is a refined and extended version of the conversational skills students put to use daily.

PART I. FOUNDATIONS1. Practical Speaking Personal Reasons for Developing Speaking Skills Professional Reasons for Developing Speaking Skills Public Reasons for Developing Speaking Skills The Public Speaking Transaction Box 1.1 Considering Diversity: A Passion for Speaking: Jonathan Studebaker Box 1.2 Self-Assessment: How Much Experience Do You Have Speaking? 2. Your First Speech First Things First Preparing Your Speech Organizing Your Speech Presenting Your Speech Box 2.1 Speaking Of: Brainstorming for Topics Box 2.2 In Their Own Words: Sample Speech Outline: Go Sun Smart by Shelly Lee Box 2.3 Profile: The Dole Stroll by Nichola D. Gutgold 3. Managing Speech Anxiety Physiological Arousal and Speech Anxiety The Psychology of Arousal and Performance Roots: Why some are more anxious than others Stage One: Managing Anxiety Before You Speak Stage Two: Managing Anxiety During Your Speech Box 3.1 Self-Assessment: How Anxious Are You About Public Speaking? (and more...)

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Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements 2005

Author: United Nations Human Settlements Program

Rapid urbanization and increasing poverty are among the greatest challenges facing humankind in the new millennium. The world's urban population is projected to increase from 48 percent of the total world population in 2001 to 60 percent in 2030.

This global report will assess existing urban and housing finance conditions and trends, including the underlying national and global factors, in all regions of the world. It will also assess policy responses, identifying the lessons learned from both successful and unsuccessful experiences. Finally, the report will identify possible policy directions for the future.

The Best Sons of the Fatherland or Corporate Crime Investigations

2009-01-08T02:21:00.000-08:00

The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization

Author: Lynne Viola

In this ground-breaking study Lynne Viola--the first Western scholar to gain access to the Soviet state archives on collectivization--brilliantly examines a lost chapter in the history of the Stalin revolution. Looking in detail at the backgrounds, motivations, and mentalities of the 25,000ers, Viola embarks on the first Western investigation of the everyday activities of Stalin's rank-and-file shock troops, the "leading cadres" of socialist construction. In the process, Viola sheds new light on how the state mobilized working-class support for collectivization and reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the 25,000ers went into the countryside as willing recruits. This unique social history uses an "on the scene" line of vision to offer a new understanding of the workings, times, and cadres of Stalin's revolution.

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Corporate Crime Investigations

Author: Jack Bologna

Corporate Crime Investigations is a reference tool for internal auditors, in-house counsel and corporate security professionals who handle crimes, torts, and breaches of contract.

The crimes involved may include employee fraud, theft, embezzlement,
forgery, commercial bribery and property destruction. Breaches of ethical codes, fiduciary duties, and company policies incidental to these acts are also included. Corporate Crime Investigations also includes important information on privacy rights of the suspected individuals.

Provides comprehensive information for internal auditors, in-house counselors and corporate security professionals.
Contains valuable information on techniques like forensic accounting, polygraph and arrest.
Presents important discussions on rights to privacy.

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A reference tool for corporate security professionals, in-house counsel, and internal auditors who handle crimes, torts, and breaches of contract, this volume addresses such matters as what proof is necessary to attain conviction for crimes, as well as how to detect and prove employee fraud, theft, and embezzlement. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Preface
1	A Primer on Corporate Fraud Detection	1
2	Lying, Cheating, and Stealing - Is It Still the Same?	7
3	A Taxonomy of Fraud	11
4	Checklist of Fraud Indicators	19
5	Fraud In, Fraud Out	25
6	The Legal Language of Fraud	33
7	On-the-Job Thievery: Common Schemes of the Working Person	43
8	How to Detect Embezzlement	49
9	Corporate and Financial Fraud	71
10	The Evolution of a Corporate Fraud	77
11	Celebrated Cases of Corporate Accounting Improprieties	83
12	Investigating Crimes For and Against the Corporation	93
13	Reporting Fraud	129
14	Internal Corporate Compliance Investigations	137
15	Financial Crimes Law	141
16	Sentencing Guidelines for Individuals	169
17	Compliance Programs	177
18	Internal Controls and Safeguards to Prevent and Detect Fraud	189
19	Information Access and Control Strategies	201
20	An Outline and Checklist of Legal Issues for Corporate Investigations	227
	References	237
	Selected Additional Publications	241
	Index	245

Essentials of Marketing Communications or Marketing Essentials Student Edition

2009-01-07T16:40:00.000-08:00

Essentials of Marketing Communications

Author: Jim Blyth

Back Cover Copy- Blythe Essentials of Marketing Communications, 3e

“Jim Blythe’s text presents a clear, concise and lively mix of theory and practice for anyone approaching the subject for the first time. His writing contextualises the challenges of marketing communications in the twenty first century, and provides a contemporary, entertaining and informative account of the key issues that students need to understand about this field of study.” Dr. Marylyn Carrigan, Senior Lecturer, Marketing, Birmingham Business School

Looking for a concise overview of marketing communications? Designed to provide a brief overview of the techniques, supporting theories, and strategic and tactical decision-making processes involved in marketing communications, Essentials of Marketing Communications, third edition, is ideal for those studying the subject for the first time.

Writing clearly and cogently, Jim Blythe links current theories of marketing communications to consumer behaviour issues and explains how marketing communications works in practice.

With real-life, up-to-date case studies with case study questions, end-of-chapter questions, and annotated suggestions for further reading, the book is a perfect introduction to this lively topic.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

While retaining the core structure of the second edition, this third edition includes:

· a more up-to-date account of communication theory;

· more extensive coverage of exhibitions and trade fairs;

· a comprehensive discussion of the role of personal selling.

Jim Blythe is Senior Lecturer in theBusiness School at University of Glamorgan, UK. He has written numerous articles and publications in the field of marketing, including Essentials of Marketing, second edition, with Prentice Hall/Financial Times.

To access lecturer and student resources, including an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint slides, visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/blythe.

Book review: Beyond Fear or Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

Marketing Essentials, Student Edition

Author: McGraw Hill

Considered the nation’s number one marketing program, Marketing Essentials is the essential text for introducing students to the skills, strategies, and topics that make up the ever-changing world of marketing. It effectively captures the excitement of this fast-paced discipline with engrossing narrative, engaging graphics, and real-life case studies.

Principles of Microeconomics or The Indigenous Voice in World Politics

2009-01-07T09:59:00.000-08:00

Principles of Microeconomics

Author: James D Miller

Miller, Principles of Microeconomics, 1e is written on the premise that Microeconomics should fascinate. The book was written to read more like a non-fiction book than a traditional textbook, and uses engaging and sometimes irreverent examples to capture student interest. Miller 1e aims to introduce concepts clearly with a realistic world view, so students are able to reconcile economic theory with their immediate surroundings.

Uniquely, Miller 1e makes use of many original, fictional stories to explain and complement the material. The stories do not displace analysis of traditional microeconomic theory; they stimulate student interest and provide an intuitive introduction to numerous concepts.

Rather than implicitly assume that politicians always put the common good ahead of their own self-interests as most texts do, Miller 1e uses public choice theory to present a realistic view of politicians and their effect on economics.

In addition, while many texts ignore, or briefly cover, the important topic of Innovation, Miller 1e considers the powerful force of Innovation extensively in the text, addressing it in over half of the chapters, and creating an instant tie-in for today’s digital-age students.

New interesting textbook: New Grilling Book or Complete Bartender

The Indigenous Voice in World Politics: Since Time Immemorial

Author: Franke Wilmer

Indigenous peoples represent the unfinished business of decolonization. In this fascinating volume, Franke Wilmer examines how indigenous activists are cultivating international support for a program of self-determination and legal protection, as well as how "the indigenous voice in world politics" is transforming civic discourse within the international community. With the United Nations designation for 1993 as the "Year of Indigenous Peoples," this book could not be more timely in its subject matter or in its scale of coverage. The Indigenous Voice in World Politics will serve as a benchmark text for students in ethnic studies, political science, development studies, sociology, and international relations. "The topic area that Dr. Wilmer has defined is a vital one that will appeal to a broad and growing audience. It is not only of great importance and interest morally and politically, but (in Wilmer's hands) of great significance intellectually. Indeed, Wilmer's ability to combine the moral/political with the intellectual/theoretical is exceptional, and a great source of this project's originality and power. This book will find readers among human rights activists, ethnologists, sociologists, cultural anthropologists, students of international relations, and laypersons interested in indigenous peoples, especially American Indians. This is an impressive project." --Richard H. Brown, University of Maryland at College Park "This is one of the few times anyone from the political science discipline has taken a very good cross view of what has transpired in indigenous cultures." --Ron LaFrance, American Indian Program, Cornell University "The Indigenous Voice in World Politicsstands as a benchmark text for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses emphasizing or including consideration of the international status of indigenous peoples." --Ward Churchill, American Indian Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder "While Wilmer's analysis of the legal and philosophical debate on the status of indigenous peoples draws heavily on the U. S. experience, specific examples of the fate of these communities are drawn from all around the globe. This book would make an excellent text for courses in American Indian studies, political science, international relations, and international law, as well as a useful supplementary text for courses on ethnic and racial minorities." --Sociological Imagination

Intermediate Public Economics or Resorts

2009-01-07T01:18:00.000-08:00

Intermediate Public Economics

Author: Jean Hindriks

Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy--economic efficiency and the distribution of income and wealth. This comprehensive text in public economics covers the core topics market failure and taxation as well as recent developments in the political economy and public choice literatures. It is unique not only in its broad scope but in its balance between public finance and public choice and its combination of theory and relevant empirical evidence.

After introducing the theory and methodology of public economics and reviewing the efficiency of the competitive equilibrium, the book presents a historical and theoretical overview of the public sector. It then discusses departures from efficiency, including imperfect competition and asymmetric information; issues in political economy, including rent-seeking (a topic often omitted from other texts); equity; taxation issues, including tax evasion and its consequences; fiscal federalism and tax competition among independent jurisdictions; and the intertemporal issues of social security and economic growth.

This text introduces the reader to the theory of public economics and the most significant results of the analysis, providing an overview of the current state of the field. It is accessible to anyone with a background of intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics and can be used in advanced undergraduate as well as graduate courses. Although the mathematics has been kept to a minimum, the book remains analytical rather than discursive. Annotated suggestions for further reading and numerous exercises are included at the end of each chapter.

See also: Amministrazione di risorsa umana

Resorts: Management and Operation

Author: Robert Christie Mill

Effectively Develop and Manage a Resort Property-Revised and Updated

In recent years, the definition of "resort" has expanded to include any facility that provides recreation and entertainment in combination with lodging. Revised and updated for these changes, Resorts: Management and Operation, Second Edition covers both new trends, like the increasing popularity of timeshares and cruise ships, and tried-and-true businesses like ski areas, golf resorts, spas, and casinos. The book provides a comprehensive look at how today's industry classifies, develops, markets, and manages these various properties.

In addition to covering new growth areas in the resort field, this Second Edition also features a wide range of resources for learning, including:
* New chapters on cruise ships, specialty resorts, and casinos, highlighting the newest trends in the industry
* New resort case studies in each chapter
* Expanded coverage on spas, pools, and indoor waterparks
* Quick Getaway sidebars, showing practical examples and applications of theories discussed in the book
* Updated statistics throughout the text that reflect the latest industry information
* Enhanced discussions of the importance of developing facilities from an environmentally conscious and business-smart perspective so that the integrity of the natural base is maintained

Students on their way to a career in resorts, as well as professionals seeking to update or improve their understanding of the business, will find Resorts: Management and Operation, Second Edition the key to success in this exciting industry.

Booknews

This text provides students and professionals with essential information on resort-specific issues, focusing on recreational facilities, lodging/food and beverage, and guest activities. It explains the relationship between the natural resource base and the development of recreational facilities, discusses the operational and logistical challenges that resort managers face, and demonstrates the development of revenue-producing activities based on demographic and psychographic factors. Coverage encompasses ski areas, golf and tennis resorts, spas, theme parks, and gaming. Mill teaches in the School of Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management at the University of Denver. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Sect. 1	Recreational Facilities
Ch. 1	Resorts: An Introduction	3
Ch. 2	The Resort Guest	33
Ch. 3	Recreational Amenities: Development and Management	67
Ch. 4	Design Principles	87
Ch. 5	Mountain-Based Resorts	117
Ch. 6	Water-Based Resorts	159
Ch. 7	Golf- and Tennis-Based Resorts	191
Sect. 2	Operations and Management
Ch. 8	Marketing the Resort Experience	235
Ch. 9	Resort Operations	263
Ch. 10	Resort Economics	295
Sect. 3	Guest Activity Programming
Ch. 11	Guest Activity Programming and Format	325
Ch. 12	Program Management and Evaluation	361
Ch. 13	Spa Development and Operations	395
Ch. 14	The Future of Resorts	419
	Index	439

A Propensity to Self Subversion or The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America

2009-01-06T17:37:00.000-08:00

A Propensity to Self-Subversion

Author: Albert O Hirschman

Albert O. Hirschman is renowned worldwide for theories that have been at the forefront of political economics during the last half century. In these twenty essays he casts his sharp analytical eye on his own ideas, questioning and qualifying some of his major propositions on social change and economic development. Hirschman's self-subversion, as well as the self-affirmation that is also present here, reveal the workings of a distinguished mind. They also bring us fresh perspective on the material in his twelve previous books and countless essays.
In the substantial essays that open this collection, Hirschman reappraises points he made in such books as Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, The Strategy of Economic Development, and The Rhetoric of Reaction. Subsequent essays fruitfully reexplore the themes of Latin American development and market society that have occupied him throughout his career. Hirschman also forays into new puzzles, such as the likely impact, negative or otherwise, of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989 on the Third World, the on-and-off connections between political and economic progress, and the role of conflict in enhancing community spirit in a liberal democracy.

In a rare and particularly welcome section of the book, Hirschman presents autobiographical fragments that reflect his deep involvement in some of the important events of this century. He recollects his flight from Hitler's Germany in 1933, his studies in Paris, his work with the antifascist underground in Italy in 1937-38, and his role in helping Varian Fry in Marseilles, in 1940, to rescue political and intellectual refugees from Vichy France. Such accounts deepen ourunderstanding of how Hirschman's penetrating insights took shape.

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Kapur (clinical psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore) seeks to sensitize people who work with children in India to various aspects of mental health. His focus is the internal or external distress that warp psychosocial development rather than mental disability. He describes and evaluates assessment and therapeutic techniques, discusses several specific disorders, and surveys the social environment in which Indian children grow up. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Introduction	1
1	Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic	9
2	The Rhetoric of Reaction - Two Years Later	45
3	The Case against "One Thing at a Time"	69
4	Opinionated Opinions and Democracy	77
5	A Propensity to Self-Subversion	85
6	Four Reencounters	95
7	My Father and Weltanschauung, circa 1928	111
8	Studies in Paris, 1933-1935	113
9	Doubt and Antifascist Action in Italy, 1936-1938	117
10	With Varian Fry in Marseilles, 1940	120
11	Escaping over the Pyrences, 1940-41	123
12	A Hidden Ambition	127
13	Convergences with Michel Crozier	132
14	How the Keynesian Revolution Was Exported from the United States	139
15	On the Political Economy of Latin American Development	154
16	Is the End of the Cold War a Disaster for the Third World?	189
17	Industrialization and Its Manifold Discontents: West, East, and South	197
18	Does the Market Keep Us Out of Mischief or Out of Happiness?	213
19	The On-and-Off Connection between Political and Economic Progress	221
20	Social Conflicts as Pillars of Democratic Market Societies	231
	Acknowledgments	249
	Index	251

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The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America (Jaguar Books on Latin America Series): Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism

Author: Lynne Phillips

The term "modernization" has been used extensively in Latin America since the post-World War II period to describe the promotion of Western worldviews and consumption patterns. The term is being used in the 1990s in conjunction with the neoliberal pressure placed upon the region to develop "modern" states and markets to be integrated into the world economy. Professor Lynne Phillips offers an anthropological perspective on Latin America's most recent phase of modernization and its costs to social relations and traditional ways of life. Because people's lives are placed at center stage, a human dimension is brought to the study of the modernization process. Written in accessible language, The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America analyzes a wide variety of themes, from rural and urban poverty to environmental and cultural identity issues. Each chapter, authored exclusively for this volume, concentrates on a particular country. Included are case studies of organizations that have been influenced by current neoliberal policies; critical perspectives on restructuring, free trade, and modernization; an overview of Latin America's recent past to explain why neoliberalism has become a predominant policy in the region; and analyses of the environment, women's issues, and native communities in the context of modernization.

Booknews

Addresses a variety of themes from rural and urban poverty to environmental and cultural identity issues. Each of the nine chapters, authored exclusively for this volume, concentrates on a particular country. Coverage includes case studies of organizations that have been influenced by current neoliberal policies; critical perspectives on restructuring free trade; an overview of Latin America's recent past to explain why neoliberalism has become a predominant policy; and analyzes the environment, women's issues, and native communities in the context of modernization. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Domestic Ticketing and Airfare or Thinking about Acting

2009-01-06T10:56:00.000-08:00

Domestic Ticketing and Airfare

Author: Linda R J Hood

Features:
*Step-by-Step instruction highlighting each step of the ticketing process
*Checkpoint exercises facilitating successful skill development
*Abundant hands-on ticketing exercises simulating on-the-job experiences

New interesting book: Globalism or Guide to Electronic Communication

Thinking about Acting: Logical Foundations for Rational Decision Making

Author: John L Pollock

John Pollock aims to construct a theory of rational decision making for real agents--not ideal agents. Real agents have limited cognitive powers, but traditional theories of rationality have applied only to idealized agents that lack such constraints. Pollock argues that theories of ideal rationality are largely irrelevant to the decision making of real agents. Thinking about Acting aims to provide a theory of "real rationality."

Ch. 1	Rational choice and classical decision theory	3
Ch. 2	Evaluative cognition and the evaluative database	23
Ch. 3	Evaluative induction	37
Ch. 4	Some observations about evaluative cognition	55
Ch. 5	The database calculation	67
Ch. 6	Subjective probabilities	81
Ch. 7	Objective probabilities	101
Ch. 8	Causal probabilities	117
Ch. 9	Rational choice and action omnipotence	145
Ch. 10	Plans and decisions	167
Ch. 11	Plans and their expected utilities	193
Ch. 12	Locally global planning	213
App	The theory of nomic probability	225

The Four Asian Tigers or Marketing Strategy

2009-01-06T01:16:00.000-08:00

The Four Asian Tigers

Author: Eun Mee Kim

This book critically examines the geopolitical and economic contexts of the region's export-oriented industrialization. The first part of the book focuses on the global and regional elements of the economic system and recent geopolitics. The second part of the book focuses on the domestic actors and institutions that played critical roles in the miracle economies of East Asia. The third part provides a timely evaluation of the financial crisis in 1997 that swept through Southeast Asia and other Asian countries, with an emphasis on the South Korean case. This collection of original papers describes the economic developments and environment that underlie the East Asian NICs. Through a comparison of the Four Tigers-South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-the contributors deliver a case-oriented study that explains the region's most successful economies.

The Four Asian Tigers also provides an important discussion of the causes of the 1997 financial crisis experienced in many Asian economies and offers a prognosis for the future of the Asian economies. This book is the first region-wide comparative study to provide readers with country-specific information about economic environments and development.

What People Are Saying

Richard P. Appelbaum
This important collection of eight case studies is unified by a central concern to explain the ways in which the export-led industrialization of the four east Asian NICs is tied up with larger questions of political economy. By focusing on such issues as the importance of flexible specialization, the role of authoritarian governments in structuring class relations, and the centrality of global economic and security concerns, this book provides many significant insights regarding the extent to which the Asian miracle is likely to be replicated elsewhere in the world.

Gary Hamilton
A terrific collection of papers written by some of the regions most innovative specialists. A wide range of topics [are] covered in considerable depth. This book will help put East Asian economies into a new perspective.

Interesting book: Global Marketing or Business Management of Telecommunications

Marketing Strategy

Author: Steven P Schnaars

Marketing Strategy has become a classic centrist marketing text. Now, Steven Schnaars has updated and revised this clearly written, classroom-tested, and essential text to accommodate rapid changes in the business world. Combining his centrist approach to basic theory with practical real-world examples, this updated edition includes new and expanded chapters on price as a competitive weapon (with a discussion on "everyday low pricing" versus hi-low promotional pricing"), speed as a strategy (including the strategic uses of computers), globalization (including the customization-standardization debate), and customer satisfaction. Throughout, Schnaars focuses on the three Cs: customers, competition, and changing market trends.

Booknews

Designed for the undergraduate course on marketing strategy or the first course on marketing management in MBA programs, this textbook traces the evolution of strategy from past strategic planning schemes that stressed competition to its present focus on the consumer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ch. 1	Marketing's Influence on Strategic Thinking	1
Ch. 2	A Brief History of Marketing Strategy	18
Ch. 3	Assessing Competitive Intensity	30
Ch. 4	Competing on Costs: The Rise and Fall of Experience Effects and the Growth-Share Matrix	44
Ch. 5	Generic Strategies	60
Ch. 6	Competing on Price	70
Ch. 7	Differentiation Strategies	84
Ch. 8	Segmentation Strategies	100
Ch. 9	Competitive Dynamics	112
Ch. 10	Market-Share Strategies	129
Ch. 11	The Evolution of Products, Markets, and New Technologies	144
Ch. 12	Speed as Strategy	167
Ch. 13	Customer Satisfaction	186
	Name Index	207
	Subject Index	210
	About the Author	217

The Oxfam Poverty Report or Monetary Policy and Investment Opportunities

2009-01-05T17:35:00.000-08:00

The Oxfam Poverty Report

Author: Kevin Watkins

The Oxfam Poverty Report identifies the structural forces which deny people their basic rights, using case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia. It outlines some of the wider policy and institutional reforms needed to create an enabling environment in which people can act as agents of change to reduce poverty.

Geography

Offers clear, readable, hard-hitting analysis of contemporary global society.

Geography

Offers clear, readable, hard-hitting analysis of contemporary global society.

Interesting textbook: Backstage with Julia or Roasting

Monetary Policy and Investment Opportunities

Author: Laura S Nowak

This book combines the institutional approach to understanding monetary policy with the theories and principles involved in applying that knowledge to investing. A review of the origins of the Federal Reserve is followed by an historical progression of the Fed into the powerful arbiter of U.S. economic policy today. The actual conduct and effects of monetary policy are then explained with an eye toward developing the skills necessary to identify changes in policy that can be applied to the investment world. The effects of monetary policies on financial markets and on particular industries are then discussed followed by a description of the investment instruments that will be impacted by different policies. In conclusion, a chapter of suggestions for hedging against changes in monetary policy and another chapter describing the tools that can be used for this purpose are offered.

	Figures and Tables
	Preface
Pt. I	The Central Bank's Effect on the Financial System and the Economy	1
1	The Power and Structure of the Central Bank	3
2	Federal Reserve Open Market Operations and the Government Securities Market	27
3	The Effect of Federal Reserve Open Market Operations on Short-Term and Long-Term Interest Rates	41
4	The Structure of Interest Rates	63
Pt. II	Monetary Policy and Fixed Income, Equity, and Other Investments	85
5	The Effect of Monetary Policy on the Stock and Bond Markets	87
6	Short-Term Fixed Income Securities	109
7	Intermediate- and Long-Term Fixed Income Securities	123
8	The Effect of Monetary Policy on Particular Industries and Companies	147
9	Derivative and Hybrid Instruments	163
10	Hedges Against Monetary Policy	183
	Index	201

Video Coding for Wireless Communication Systems or Global Networks

2009-01-05T08:54:00.000-08:00

Video Coding for Wireless Communication Systems, Vol. 10

Author: King N Ngan

"Explains the transmission of image and video information over wireless channels. Describes MPEG-4, the latest video coding standard. Discusses error resilient combined source channel image and video coders, and multiple access spread spectrum and future generation wireless video communication systems."

Booknews

Addresses the transmission of image and video information over wireless channels, especially mobile radio channels where multipath fading effects pose challenges to researchers in the development of mobile videophone systems. Early chapters provide background on source and channel coding of images and video, with description of the latest video coding standard, MPEG-4, followed by radio channel modeling. Later chapters concentrate on system aspects, with descriptions of error-resilient, combined-source channel image and video coders, multiple access spread spectrum communication systems, and future wireless video communication systems. Ngan is head of the Visual Communications Research Group at the University of Western Australia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Source Coding	1
2	MPEG-4 - Standard for Multimedia Applications	61
3	Channel Coding	147
4	Radio Channel Modelling	177
5	Error Resilient Combined Source Channel Image Coder	235
6	Error Resilient Combined Source Channel Video Coder	259
7	Multiple Access in Spread Spectrum Communications	299
8	Future Generation Wireless Video Communication Systems	421
A	An Introduction to Galois Fields	503
B	Coding Tables for the H.263 Standard	511
	Index	525

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Global Networks

Author: Robert J Holton

Global network research is an exciting new area of social analysis. This book is the first to provide a thorough investigation of global network links across time and space. Robert Holton demonstrates the way in which technological and interpersonal networks organise global society, providing vivid examples from the present and the past. This text gives practical advice on how to research global networks, and brings together leading theory and new evidence on the subject for all students learning about globalisation and contemporary social change.

Module 4 or Mastering Public Speaking with Student CD

2009-01-05T02:13:00.000-08:00

Module 4: Graphics and Visual Communication for Managers

Author: Robert P Sedlack

"Graphics and Visual Communication for Managers" by Robert P. Sedlack, Jr., Barbara L. Shwom, Northwestern University, and Karl P. Keller, Communication Partners University of Notre Dame. This module offers practical and useful advice on how to work with graphics and visuals in reports, briefings, and proposals. It also offers direct instruction on how to integrate graphic aids into spoken presentations and public speeches.

Mastering Public Speaking /with Student CD

Author: George L L Gric

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Building Executive Information Systems and Other Decision Support Applications or Analysis and Control of Production Systems

2009-01-04T16:32:00.000-08:00

Building Executive Information Systems and Other Decision Support Applications

Author: Hugh J Watson

This authoritative book takes a comprehensive look at Executive Information Systems (EIS), covering what EIS is, how it differs from other applications, and how EIS will be used in the future.

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Covers the details needed to understand and develop executive information systems, based on the authors' consulting experience and extensive EIS research. Includes substantial end-of-chapter material and an extended case study of EIS at the World Bank. Intended for undergraduate and graduate courses in EIS and for managers and professionals who want to learn EIS and other decision support related applications. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Look this: Food for Life or Caregiving

Analysis and Control of Production Systems

Author: Elsayed A Elsayed

This book is about the analysis and control of production systems. Each chapter focuses on one of the primary activities that compose the analysis and control function.

1. Introduction.

2. Forecasting and Time-series Analysis.

3. Inventory Systems.

4. Aggregate Poduction Planning.

5. Material Requirements Planning.

6. Project Planning and Scheduling.

7. Job Sequencing and Operations Scheduling.

8. New Directions in Batch and Discrete-parts Production Systems.

Appendix A. Proof of Equation.

Appendix B. Tables of Standard Normal Distribution and t- Distribution.

Appendix C. Table of the Loss Integral for a Standard Normal Distribution.

Index.

Hospitality Management Education or Show Me the Money Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication

2009-01-04T09:50:00.000-08:00

Hospitality Management Education

Author: Clayton W Barrows

Containing research and first-hand accounts, Hospitality Management Education offers you insight into qualities and strategies that make an effective and successful educator or employee in the industry. Hospitality Management Education discusses educational trends as a whole over the past decade to give you insight into future directions of hospitality, such as increased specialization, growing numbers of faculty, more funding, and increased academic focus on research and scholarship. From Hospitality Management Education, you'll find methods and suggestions that will make you a more knowledgeable and effective educator in order to help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field.

	About the Editors
	Contributors
	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction to Hospitality Education	1
Ch. 2	Hospitality As an Occupation	21
Ch. 3	Linking Hospitality Management Programs to Industry	37
Ch. 4	Quality and Its Assurance in Hospitality Education	67
Ch. 5	Professional Preparation	97
Ch. 6	The Academic Life of Hospitality Educators	131
Ch. 7	Curriculum and Instruction	149
Ch. 8	Hospitality Research and Scholarship	173
Ch. 9	The Service Responsibility of Hospitality Educators	193
Ch. 10	International Perspectives: A Comparison of U.S., U.K., and Australian Hospitality Education and Their University Systems	213
Ch. 11	Graduate Programs in Hospitality Management Education	239
Ch. 12	The Current State of Hospitality Education	261
	Index	275

New interesting textbook: Enterprise Information Systems or Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design

Show Me the Money Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication

Author: Chris Roush

Show Me the Money is a business reporting textbook offering hands-on advice and examples on doing the job of a business journalist. Author Chris Roush draws on his own business journalism background to explain how to cover businesses and industries, and where to find sources of information for stories. He includes examples of business stories demonstrating how reporters take financial information and turn it into relevant facts that explain a topic to readers. With numerous examples of documents and stories in the text, it is an essential guide for doing business journalism.

This definitive business journalism text:

*provides real-world examples of business articles;

*presents complex topics in a form easy to read and understand;

*offers examples of where to find news stories in SEC filings ;

*discusses, in full-length chapters, how to write stories on mergers and acquisitions, as well as bankruptcy court filings;

*gives comprehensive explanations and reviews of corporate financial, balance sheet, and cash flow statements, dissected so reporters at all levels of experience can understand them;

*provides tips on finding sources, such as corporate investors and hard-to-find corporate documents; and

*gives a comprehensive listing of Web sites for business journalists to use.

Show Me the Money is essential for graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in business journalism, and will also serve professional reporters and editors new to the field of business journalism or needing a refresher. In addition, it will be of value to public relations students and professionals,particularly those who are in the corporate communications field.

Breaking Through Bureaucracy A New Vision for Managing in Government or History Derailed

2009-01-04T01:10:00.000-08:00

Breaking Through Bureaucracy - A New Vision for Managing in Government

Author: Michael Barzelay

This book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the system can't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poor performance in government to the persistent influence of what they call the bureaucratic paradigm--a theory built on such notions as central control, economy and efficiency, and rigid adherence to rules. Rarely questioned, the bureaucratic paradigm leads competent and faithful public servants--as well as politicians--unwittingly to impair government's ability to serve citizens by weakening, misplacing, and misdirecting accountability.
How can this system be changed? Drawing on research sponsored by the Ford Foundation/Harvard University program on Innovations in State and Local Government, this book tells the story of how public officials in one state, Minnesota, cast off the conceptual blinders of the bureaucratic paradigm and experimented with ideas such as customer service, empowering front-line employees to resolve problems, and selectively introducing market forces within government. The author highlights the arguments government executives made for the changes they proposed, traces the way these changes were implemented, and summarizes the impressive results. This approach provides would-be bureaucracy busters with a powerful method for dramatically improving the way government manages the public's business.
Generalizing from the Minnesota experience and from similar efforts nationwide, the book proposes a new paradigm that will reframe the perennial debate on public management. With its carefully analyzed ideas, real-life examples, and closely reasoned practical advice, Breaking Through Bureaucracy isindispensable to public managers and students of public policy and administration.

Library Journal

Barzelay teaches at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and his study of Minnesota state government reform was funded by the Program on Innovations in State and Local Government. Barzelay's text offers a practical examination of government management, while his extensive notes provide a theoretical critique of political leadership and bureaucratic administration. While similar to David Osborne and Ted Gaebler's Reinventing Government (Addison-Wesley, 1992) in arguing for more attention to outcomes (rather than inputs), empowered employees, and a customer orientation, Barzelay is less antigovernment and more pragmatic in his approach. His ``post-bureaucratic paradigm'' recognizes the importance of government and the problems of market-based operations. In addition, Barzelay's theoretical and less generalized arguments will make his work the more lasting critique of modern bureaucratic government. For academic and special collections.-- William Waugh Jr., Georgia State Univ., Atlanta

New interesting textbook: Esophogeal Cancer or Brown Skin

History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author: Ivan T Berend

There is probably no greater authority on the modern history of central and eastern Europe than Ivan Berend, whose previous work, Decades of Crisis, was hailed by critics as "masterful" and "the broadest synthesis of the modern social, economic, and cultural history of the region that we possess." Now, having brought together and illuminated this region's storm-tossed history in the twentieth century, Berend turns his attention to the equally turbulent period that preceded it. The "long" nineteenth century, extending up to World War I, contained the seeds of developments and crises that continue to haunt the region today.
The book begins with an overview of the main historical trends in the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, during which time the region lost momentum and became the periphery, no longer in step with the rising West. It concludes with an account of the persisting authoritarian political structures and the failed modernization that paved the way for social and political revolts. The origins of twentieth-century extremism and its tragedies are plainly visible in this penetrating account.

Publishers Weekly

UCLA history professor Berend (Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II) succeeds in capturing the common as well as the diverse features of the parts of a notoriously complex region during the period from the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 to the start of WWI. Berend has made the smart decision to organize his book topically: individual chapters cover economics, politics and culture, but he hews closely to the field in which he first made his mark, economic history. The opening chapter provides an effective synthesis on the origins of backwardness in the region, from the "second serfdom" in the Baltic region to Ottoman domination in the Balkans. But Berend also demonstrates that Balkan societies were themselves resistant to the modernizing impulses coming from the West. Perhaps surprisingly for an economic historian, the author is equally good at covering cultural and political developments, especially the grand appeal of romantic nationalism. By showing how modernized, literary languages were reformed and even invented by nationalist intellectuals, Berend sides with those scholars who believe in the "constructed" nature of ethnic and national identities. Yet he is also keenly aware that nationalism developed upon preexisting religious and regional identities. The later chapters depict the belated, and incomplete, industrialization and the conflicts between democratic and authoritarian politics. Berend's prose is always clear if not exactly inspired. For those readers looking for a sober, effective historical synthesis on a very complicated region, this is a good place to start. 97 b&w photos, 2 maps. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Foreign Affairs

For Berend, history is a whole, and when cultural, economic, social, and political trends are taken together, they distinguish central and east Europeans from the rest of Europe, notwithstanding important differences between the Balkans and east-central Europe. The region, he argues, has long lived in the shadow of the European states to the west, sometimes avidly borrowing from them, as with early-nineteenth-century German romanticism, which soon turned into a century-long grounding for eastern Europe's special, embattled nationalisms. More often, however, the influences coming from Europe's other half were warped or stymied by the frustrations and excesses of peoples denied a natural path to freedom, as well as by social and economic forms laggard since the sixteenth century. Berend, a first-rate economic historian, treats the often neglected economic dimension with special skill.

Protectionism or Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy

2009-01-03T17:29:00.000-08:00

Protectionism

Author: Jagdish N Bhagwati

A leading international economist looks at many of the key issues of trade policy now confronting the United States and the world in this timely book. Jagdish Bhagwati provides a clear, informative, and witty analysis of the protection debate and offers a prescription for reform

Jagdish Bhagwati is Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Book review: Foods of Sicily and Sardinia and the Smaller Islands or Diabetes Menu Cookbook

Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy

Author: J Barkley Rosser

This second edition of an innovative undergraduate text offers an approach to understanding different economic systems that reflects both recent transformations in the world economy and recent changes in the field of Comparative Economic Systems. The traditional way of teaching comparative economics, with its reliance on relatively simple dichotomies (private vs. state, planning vs. market) does not take into consideration the many variants and mixtures of economic systems that exist in the real world. The Rossers' introduction in the first edition of the concept of the "new traditional economy" -- the effort by a developing country to embed a modern economic system into a traditional culture, usually religious -- presented a new way to look at developing economies. Their innovative examination of Iran and its effort to develop a "revolutionary Islamic economy" as an alternative to market capitalism illustrates the use of this new tool in comparative economics.

After a four-chapter theoretical and historical overview, the book focuses on fifteen country studies, organized by economic system. The chapters on advanced market capitalism examine the economies of the United States (a chapter new to this edition) Japan, France, Sweden, and Germany. The chapters examining transition in former socialist economies discuss Russia, the former Soviet Republics, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia (including expanded treatment of the most successful transition economy, that of Slovenia), and China. The chapters in the final section of the book discuss "alternative paths" taken by the developing economies of Iran, India (its complex mix of socialism, capitalism, andtradition is examined in a chapter new to this edition), Mexico, and South and North Korea. The book concludes with a look at future trends that will continue to transform the world economy.

	Preface
I	Overview of Comparative Economics	1
1	How Do We Compare Economies?	3
2	The Theory and Practice of Market Capitalism	23
3	The Theory and History of Marxism and Socialism	53
4	Islamic Economics and the Economics of Other Religions	85
II	Varieties of Advanced Market Capitalism	113
5	The United States of America: The Market Capitalist Leader	115
6	Japan: A Planned Market Economy with Traditional Elements	145
7	Whither Indicative Planning? The Case of France	179
8	Sweden: Crisis and Reform of the Social Market Welfare State	203
9	The Unification of Germany and the Unification of Europe	231
III	Variants of Transition Among Former Socialist Economies	262
10	The Former Soviet Union: The Myth and Reality of the Command Economy and Russia's Economic Transition	265
11	Alternative Paths of Transition in the Former Soviet Union	301
12	Poland: The Peril and Promise of Shock Therapy	337
13	Hungary: Gradualism and the First Successful Completed Transition?	363
14	Worker-Managed Market Socialism: The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Success of Slovenia	389
15	China's Socialist Market Economy: The Sleeping Giant Wakes	417
IV	Alternative Paths Among Developing Economies	450
16	India: The Elephant Walks	453
17	Iran: The Struggle for a New Traditional Islamic Economy	487
18	Revolution and Reform in the Mexican Economy	515
19	North and South Korea: The Lingering Shadow of the Cold War	543
20	Evolving Trends of the Transforming World Economy	575
	Glossary	589
	Index	617

Professional Travel Agency Management or Economic Justice

2009-01-03T10:48:00.000-08:00

Professional Travel Agency Management

Author: Chuck Y Ge

Advanced text which emphasizes management aspects of marketing, personnel, financial, legal, impact of automation. Discusses role of travel agency in the industry as a whole, recent industry developments, future issues.

New interesting textbook: 175 Fruit Desserts or Real Fast Curry Cookbook

Economic Justice

Author: Stephen Nathanson

KEY BENEFIT: This book introduces the philosophy of economic justice while presenting a non-dogmatic defense of the welfare state. It presents and describes libertarian capitalism, state socialism, and the welfare state with the purpose of determining which best satisfies the requirements of economic justice. Each system is then evaluated from the perspective of three widely recognized values: promoting human well-being, giving people what they deserve, and promoting human liberty. Though the book defends a particular position, it is also written to encourage readers to think about the issues intelligently and form their own educated views on the subject. Written in a clear and readable style, Economic Justice explains the central ideas on the nature of capitalism, socialism, and the welfare state while providing concise discussions of the major theorists: Marx, Nozick, and Rawls.An important and valuable book for any reader interested in understanding and evaluating the current debates and issues of economic justice as they relate to capitalism and the welfare state.

Global Political Economy or The Adman in the Parlor

2009-01-03T01:07:00.000-08:00

Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice

Author: Cohn

This up-to-date book provides a balanced, in-depth background to main IPE theoretical approaches, examines IPE issues in historical perspective, and discusses domestic-international linkages. Managing the Global Economy Since World War II: The Institutional Framework; The Realist Perspective; The Liberal Perspective; The Historical Structuralist Perspective; International Monetary Relations; Foreign Debt; Global Trade Relations; Regionalism and Global Trade Regime; Multinational Corporations and Global Production; International Development; Current Trends in the Global Political Economy. Anyone interested in international political economy.

Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Managing the global economy since World War II : the institutional framework	23
Ch. 3	The realist perspective	65
Ch. 4	The liberal perspective	89
Ch. 5	The historical structuralist perspective	115
Ch. 6	International monetary relations	143
Ch. 7	Foreign debt and financial crises	181
Ch. 8	Global trade relations	221
Ch. 9	Regionalism and the global trade regime	267
Ch. 10	Multinational corporations and global production	313
Ch. 11	International development	363
Ch. 12	Current trends in the global political economy	411

The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s

Author: Ellen Garvey

How did advertising come to seem ordinary and even natural to turn-of-the-century magazine readers? The Adman in the Parlor explores readers' interactions with advertising during a period when not only consumption but advertising itself became established as a pleasure. Garvey's analysis interweaves such diverse texts and artifacts as advertising scrapbooks, chromolithographed trade cards and paper dolls, contest rules, and the advertising trade press. She argues that the readers' own participation in advertising, not top-down dictation by advertisers, made advertising a central part of American culture. As magazines became dependent on advertising rather than sales for their revenues, women's magazines led the way in turning readers into consumers through an interplay of fiction and advertising. General magazines, too, saw little conflict between editorial interests and advertising. Instead, advertising and fiction came to act on one another in complex, unexpected ways. Magazine stories illustrated the multiple desires and social meanings embodied in the purchase of a product. Advertising formed the national vocabulary. At once invisible, familiar, and intrusive, advertising both shaped fiction of the period and was shaped by it. The Adman in the Parlor unearths the lively conversations among writers and advertisers about the new prevalence of advertising for mass-produced, nationally distributed products.

Publishers Weekly

At the heart of modern American capitalism lies the consumer. But it wasn't always this way; middle-class American shoppers, primarily women, had to first be educated on the benefits and uses of products. Advertisers and editors at the end of the 19th century worked together to seduce magazine readers with then-new promises of a lifestyle of consumption. Author Garvey examines the sophisticated dynamics of the advertiser-consumer relationship during this pivotal period. She focuses primarily on how admen abandoned traditional boastful copy in favor of a more emotional, feminine appeal and thereby insinuated advertisements into Victorian hearts and homes. These ads blurred the lines between advertising, fiction and fine art, utilizing tactics that would raise eyebrows today. For instance, editors frequently published "puffers," advertisements masquerading as short stories, and justified it as part of the natural union between information and commerce. Also included is an exceptional piece on how advertising reversed longstanding taboos against bicycling for womenin order to sell more bicycles. But the exchange worked both ways; women often took what they wanted from advertising and jettisoned the rest. Garvey clearly knows her subject matter; however, her prose is occasionally dry, and the chapters often read as though they were different articles strung together by a few qualifiers. Nevertheless, The Adman in the Parlor is a fascinating investigation of an often overlooked period in American history when the consumer, and not the thrifty-minded, was first celebrated. (May)

Race on the Line or Medical Assisting Made Incredibly Easy Administrative Competencies

2009-01-02T17:26:00.000-08:00

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980

Author: Venus Green

Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green -- a former Bell System employee and current labor historian -- presents a hundred-year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of the telephone in 1876 to the period immediately before the breakup of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984. Green shows how, as technology changed from a manual process to a computerized one, sexual and racial stereotypes enabled management to manipulate both the workers and the workplace.

More than a simple story of the impact of technology, Race on the Line combines oral history, personal experience, and archival research to weave a complicated history of how skill is constructed and how its meanings change within a rapidly expanding industry. Green discusses how women faced an environment where male union leaders displayed economic as well as gender biases and where racism served as a persistent system of division. Separated into chronological sections, the study moves from the early years when the Bell company gave both male and female workers opportunities to advance; to the era of the "white lady" image of the company, when African American women were excluded from the industry and feminist working-class consciousness among white women was consequently inhibited; to the computer era, a time when black women had waged a successful struggle to integrate the telephone operating system but faced technological displacement and unrewarding work.

Book about: The How To Grants Manual or Social Revolutions in the Modern World

Medical Assisting Made Incredibly Easy! Administrative Competencies

Author: Geri Kale Smith

Part of the new Medical Assisting Made Incredibly Easy series, this text presents the core administrative skills needed by medical assistants in a light-hearted, humorous, readable, extremely practical style that makes teaching and learning fun. A host character guides students through all the administrative skills needed to pass certification exams required by CAAHEP and ABHES. Boxes with eye-catching icons provide practical advice about legal concerns, workplace scenarios, professionalism, and study skills. More than 300 full-color illustrations enhance visual learning. A Study Guide and an online course are available as additional purchases. A free Instructor's Resource CD-ROM including PowerPoint slides and lecture notes is available from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins to instructors who adopt the text.

A Town Without Steel or Understanding Globalisation

2009-01-01T08:05:00.000-08:00

A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead

Author: Judith Schachter Modell

In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of household and work and place in this world. The book details the modifications and revisions of domestic strategies in a public crisis. In some ways unique, and in some ways typical of American industrial towns, the plight of Homestead sheds light on social, cultural, and political developments of the late twentieth century.

In this anthropological and photographic account of a town facing the crisis of deindustrialization, A Town Without Steel focuses on families. Reminiscent of Margaret Byington and Lewis Hine’s approach in Homestead, Charlee Brodsky’s photographs document the visual dimension of change in Homestead. The mill that dominated the landscape transformed to a vast, empty lot; a crowded commercial street turns into a ghost town; and an abundance of well-kept homes become an abandoned street of houses for sale. The individual narratives and family snapshots, Modell’s interpretations, and Brodsky’s photographs all evoke the tragedy and the resilience of a town whose primary source of self-identification no longer exists.

New interesting textbook: James K Polk or The Looming Tower

Understanding Globalisation

Author: Tony Schirato

Globalization is a highly debated term, and struggles over its meaning are played out in a variety of ways, from academe and the media to the streets of Seattle, Melbourne and Genoa.

This book provides a welcome introduction to the discourses, practices and technologies that have been grouped together under that term. It outlines the historical contexts of globalization, and addresses the politics of naming that are so central to the reproduction of the narratives and patterns of globalization.

The authors examine specific sites that are being transformed by globalization such as capitalism, state governments, the media and cultural identity, and explore the notion of a post-globalization world.

This will be a valuable book to undergraduate and MA students on communication, media, cultural studies, sociology, politics and development courses.

Airline Operations and Scheduling or Vinyl Leaves

2009-01-01T01:24:00.000-08:00

Airline Operations and Scheduling

Author: Massoud Bazargan

"This book demystifies the operations and scheduling environment, presenting simplified and easy to understand models, applied to straightforward and practical examples. After introducing the key issues confronting operations and scheduling within airlines, it goes on to provide an objective review of the various optimization models adopted in practice. Each model provides airlines with efficient solutions to a range of scenarios, and is accompanied by case studies similar to those experienced by commercial airlines. Using unique source material, and combining interviews with alumni working at operations and scheduling departments of various airlines, this solution orientated approach has been used in courses with outstanding feedback." "The book is structured to maximize its course teaching potential. Used on MBA courses with students grouped into small teams, it requires students to assume the role of operation managers, responsible for creating their own airlines, selecting routes and flight networks, considering fleet diversity, aircraft routings and maintenance locations, and examining hub and spoke systems, air/ground crew scheduling, and gate assignments." The readership includes graduate and undergraduate business, management, transportation, and engineering students; airlines training and acquainting new recruits with operations planning and scheduling processes: general aviation, flight schools, International Air Transport Association (IATA), and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) training course instructors, executive jet, chartered flight, air-cargo and package delivery companies, and airline consultants.

Interesting textbook: Cooking Light Pasta or The Cozy Home Cookbook

Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America

Author: Stephen M Fjellman

Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. It’s a pedestrian’s world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone, with rides, shows, restaurants, scenery, and costumed characters coordinated to tell a consistent set of stories. It is beguiling and exasperating, a place of ambivalence and ambiguity. In Vinyl Leaves Professor Fjellman analyzes each ride and theater show of Walt Disney World and discusses the history, political economy, technical infrastructure, and urban planning of the area as well as its relationship with Metropolitan Orlando and the state of Florida.Vinyl Leaves argues that Disney, in pursuit of its own economic interests, acts as the muse for the allied transnational corporations that sponsor it as well as for the world of late capitalism, where the commodity form has colonized much of human life. With brilliant technological legerdemain, Disney puts visitors into cinematically structured stories in which pieces of American and world culture become ideological tokens in arguments in favor of commodification and techno-corporate control. Culture is construed as spirit, colonialism and entrepreneurial violence as exotic zaniness, and the Other as child.Exhaustion and cognitive overload lead visitors into the bliss of Commodity Zen—the characteristic state of postmodern life. While we were watching for Orwell, Huxley rode into town, bringing soma, cable, and charge cards—and wearing mouse ears. This book is thestory of our commodity fairyland.

Publishers Weekly

Calling Walt Disney World ``the most ideologically important piece of land in the United States,'' anthropologist Fjellman, a respectful cynic, offers a wide-ranging, often jargon-laden analysis of ``this quintessence of the American Way.'' Intrepid readers unwilling to take Disney World at face value may find much that is rewarding here. Fjellman argues that Disney provides a utopian antidote to everyday life, which is fragmented and confused in ``late capitalist society.'' After academic excursions concerning culture and consumerism, Fjellman analyzes Disney's distorted approach to history (``time is defined spatially,'' as in Tomorrowland), the corporate ideology infusing EPCOT Center and the machinations of Disney's Orlando land grab. He tracks the daily details: the transportation system as social control, the psychology of refuse disposal and the five keys to Disney's system of managing people on line. The 10 national pavilions of World Showcase, Fjellman writes, offer the message that other countries ``are essentially theme parks.'' He concludes that Disney World is ``postmodern''--a place where the distinction between real and fake is no longer important. (May)

Booknews

Fellman analyzes each ride and theater show of Walt Disney world and discusses the history, political economy, technical infrastructure, and urban planning of the area as well as its relationship with metropolitan Orlando and the state of Florida. He argues that Disney, in pursuit of its own economic interests, acts as the muse for the allied transnational corporations that sponsor it as well as for the world of late capitalism, where the commodity form has colonized much of human life. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Modern Econometrics or Operations Management

2008-12-31T15:43:00.000-08:00

Modern Econometrics

Author: Marno Verbeek

This highly successful text focuses on exploring alternative techniques, combined with a practical emphasis, A guide to alternative techniques with the emphasis on the intuition behind the approaches and their practical reference, this new edition builds on the strengths of the second edition and brings the text completely up-to-date.

Operations Management

Author: Andrew Greasley

Operations Management is a modern success story that plays an essential role in the success of any organisation. Andrew Greasley provides a clear and accessible introduction to this large area of study, focusing on all the key areas of operations in both manufacturing and service industries.

• Example boxes provide international, real-life details of operations concepts

• Worked Examples - step-by-step guides to the procedure to solve quantitative problems

• End-of-Chapter exercises covering topics for discussion and examples to help develop practical skills

• Further Reading and Web links – an extra resource to assist students in locating further additional materials

• Lecturers who adopt this text will find supporting resources on the companion website, including powerpoint slides for each chapter, suggested solutions for case studies and end of chapter exercises, and a multiple-choice test bank.

Ten Steps to Fundraising Success or Texas Real Estate Contracts

2008-12-31T09:02:00.000-08:00

Ten Steps to Fundraising Success: Choosing the Right Strategy for Your Organization

Author: Mal Warwick

A hands-on workbook to guide you through a revolutionary approach to mission-based strategic planning!

In Ten Steps to Fundraising Success, two of the country's leading fundraising experts Mal Warwick and Stephen Hitchcock show you how to implement a fundraising strategy that goes beyond simply raising money to meet your organization's financial requirements. Step-by-step, Warwick and Hitchcock show you how to develop a mission-driven fundraising strategy that is based on Warwick's highly successful Five Strategies approach. The workbook and CD-ROM -- which can be used independently or in conjunction with The Five Strategies for Fundraising Success -- offer you the additional advantages of electing and crafting your own strategic plans right on the page, and analyzing the results.

Look this: Iron Pots Wooden Spoons or Fried Chicken

Texas Real Estate Contracts

Author: Michelle L Evans

Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Offer 3. The Acceptance 4. Consideration 5. Capacity of Parties 6. Legality of the Contract 7. The Statute of Frauds and Other Writing Requirements 8. Assignment and Delegation 9. Reformation or Avoidance 10. Discharge of Contract 11. Breach of Contract 12. Basic Real Estate Law for Contracts 13. Real Estate Employment Forms 14. Specific Real Estate Forms 15. Standard Residential Sales Contract Provisions 16. Closing and Post Closing Issues Appendix I: Texas Real Estate Commission Promulgated Real Estate Sales Contracts Appendix II: Texas Real Estate Commission Promulgated Real Estate Sales Addenda Index

	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

	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

Ch. 1	From gadget to medium	1
Ch. 2	The web sites	13
Ch. 3	Why using the web?	39
Ch. 4	The design process of web sites	57
Ch. 5	Evaluating effects	109
Ch. 6	Web site design is communication design	131
	References	159
	Index	163

	Introduction : documents as visual communication
Ch. 1	Document design	1
Ch. 2	Creating tables and graphs	21
Ch. 3	Using color	43
Ch. 4	Using photos and illustrations	55
Ch. 5	Integrating graphics and text	65
Ch. 6	Using PowerPoint	69
Ch. 7	Selecting a graphic designer	83

Business History

Careers with Animals or Nonprofit Kit For Dummies

Careers with Animals: Exploring Occupations Involving Dogs, Horses, Cats, Birds, Wildlife, and Exotics

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Nonprofit Kit For Dummies

Words That Sell or How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs

Words That Sell: The Thesaurus to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas

How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs

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How to Wow or The Five Temptations of a CEO

How to Wow: Proven Strategies for Presenting Your Ideas, Persuading Your Audience, and Perfecting Your Image

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The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

Library Journal

Zig Ziglars Secrets of Closing the Sale or Scheisse

Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale

Scheisse!: The Real German You Were Never Taught in School

Monday Morning Mentoring or Cold Calling Techniques

Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder

Cold Calling Techniques: 20th Anniversary Edition

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The Art of Public Speaking with Learning Tools Suite or International Business

The Art of Public Speaking with Learning Tools Suite (Student CD-ROMs 5. 0, Audio Abridgement CD set, PowerWeb, and Topic Finder)

International Business

Booknews

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The Game Changer or The Logic of Life

The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation

The Economist

BusinessWeek

U.S. News & World Report

Fortune magazine

Chief Executive magazine

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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

The New York Times - William Grimes

Publishers Weekly

Kirkus Reviews

Little Red Book of Selling or Learning to See

Little Red Book of Selling: The 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness: How to Make Sales Forever

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

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Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA

Plain Lives in a Golden Age or Travel Perspectives

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

Publishers Weekly

Travel Perspectives: A Guide to Becoming a Travel Professional

Booknews

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Recreation and Parks or European Foreign Policy

Recreation and Parks: The Profession

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

Deconstructing Public Relations or Principles and Types of Public Speaking

Deconstructing Public Relations: Public Relations Criticism

Principles and Types of Public Speaking

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Explaining Long Term Economic Change or SELECT Series

Explaining Long-Term Economic Change

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SELECT Series: Microsoft Office XP Brief Edition

The Select Series Microsoft® 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

Organizational Aspects of Health Communication Campaigns: What Works?

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Managing Software Maniacs or Ilmatars Inspirations

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

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

Income Distribution Inflation and Growth or Career Strategies

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

Career Strategies

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

The Transformation of Corporate Control

Software Project Management for Small to Medium Sized Projects

Booknews

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Envisioning Process as Content or Latin America

Envisioning Process as Content: Toward a Renaissance Curriculum

The Select Series Microsoft^® Office XP

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