Business Life & Careers: December 2008

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

So You Want to Be a Teacher or Cases in Public Relations Management

So You Want to Be a Teacher?

Author: Mary C Clement

So You Want to Be a Teacher? should be read by anyone considering teaching. Its vignettes are insightful and the questions asked will help readers answer the questions "Do I want to be a teacher?" and, if so, "How do I become one?"

	Introduction
1	Why People Choose Teaching	1
2	How Do I Become a Teacher?	9
3	What Do I Have to Learn to Be a Teacher?	23
4	Today's Students and Their Diversity	37
5	What Teachers Do	43
6	The Purpose of Schools, Their Role in the Community, and How They Are Run	53
7	The Professional Life of the Teacher	63
8	Your Job Search	73
9	Succeeding the First Year	83
10	Advice from Other Teachers	93
App	Teacher Certification Offices	99
	Bibliography	109
	Index	113
	About the Author	115

Interesting textbook: Prelude to Political Economy or From Agent to Actor An Unsentimental Education or What the Other Half Knows

Cases in Public Relations Management

Author: Patricia Swann

Intended for a junior/senior level course in Public Relations, this case study textbook takes a different approach to teaching students about the public relations world. Most case study textbooks deconstruct prize-winning campaigns, that show one path to meeting a challenge or an opportunity. Cases in Public Relations Mangement uses recent cases with outcomes that weren't always successful and challenging students to think analytically, strategically and practically. Each case is designed to encourage discussion, debate and exploration of the options available to the strategic public relations manager today.

Essentials of New Jersey Real Estate or Job Challenge Profile

Essentials of New Jersey Real Estate

Author: Edith Lank

Essentials of New Jersey Real Estate, Third Edition, sets the standard for excellence and innovation in real estate education.

These are just a few of the book's features designed to help students be exam-ready when they've completed their class:

Cutting-edge topics keep readers on top of this fast-moving industry.
The complete New Jersey Real Estate License Act, reprinted in its entirety, along with the state commission's rules and regulations.
Numerous agreements, forms and deeds turn real estate principles into real estate practice.
Each chapter wraps up with a key terms review quiz and content review questions that test student comprehension of key concepts.

Books about: Pathophysiology or The Perricone Weight Loss Diet Personal Daily Journal

Job Challenge Profile: Facilitator's Guide and Participant's Workbook

Author: Cynthia D McCauley

Thrive on challenge!
Some professionals, feeling overburdened by challenging job tasks, struggle through projects and avoid additional responsibilities that might prove enriching. They often find their careers unsatisfying, and their job performance may suffer as a result. This field-tested profile shows employees how to seek challenge and to develop valuable skills from their professional lives.

Professionals will use their feedback from the JCP to assist them in:

• Handling unfamiliar tasks
• Driving workplace transformation
• Seeking additional responsibilities
• Dealing with external pressure
• Managing group diversity . . . and much more!

The Facilitator's Guide, which includes a sample copy of the Participant's Workbook, details the essential workshop procedures--including setup, administration, and follow-up--and provides you with reproducible overhead and handout masters. You don't need to be a training professional to use this tool in your organization: this guide gives you all the basics.
Your participants will quickly be able to score and interpret the inventory using the practical Participant's Workbook. With the aid of this action guide, they will determine what and how much they are learning, what parts of their jobs hold key challenges, and what strategies they might adopt to derive maximal learning from these experiences. Every participant will need a copy. Use the world-renowned expertise of CCL to create a learning environment where challenge is welcome!

Helps participants:
• Gauge the challenges in their jobs
• Turnchallenges into prime learning experience

TIMING: 2 to 4 hours
AUDIENCE: Managers, leaders, and executives at all levels

Introduction.
Origins of the Job Challenge Profile.
Job Component Model.
Questionnaire Development.
Application of the Job Challenge Profile in Management Development.
Appendix A. Masters for Overhead Transparencies.
Appendix B. Psychometric Properties of the Job Challenge. Appendix C. Bibliography.
About the Authors.

Statutory Supplement to Corporations or Nonprofit Organizations Law and Policy

Statutory Supplement to Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies

Author: Robert W Hamilton

The Fifth Edition has retained many cases from the previous edition, particularly those that teach well. Recent cases have not been substituted for older ones simply because they are newer. A number of changes, however, have been made to reflect new developments. These changes include the approval by NCCUSL of the Uniform Partnership Act (1993); the development and growth of Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships; developments in the area of piercing the corporate veil: tort liability, reverse piercing, and further amendments to the Texas statute; the SEC's so-called Small Business initiative; the American Law Institute's Corporate Governance Project and developments in the law of close corporations.

New interesting book: Everything I Know I Learned Over Tea or Joie de Vivre

Nonprofit Organizations Law and Policy (American Casebook Series)

Author: Marilyn E Phelan

The casebook, Nonprofit Organizations–Law and Policy, by Marilyn Phelan and Robert Desiderio, is a comprehensive coverage of the laws relating to the nonprofit sector. It describes the possible organizational structures for nonprofit organizations, sets out the rules and procedures to organize and operate a nonprofit organization, discusses the fiduciary obligations of directors and trustees as well as the penalty taxes for failure to follow certain Federal standards of care, and covers all the Federal tax laws relating to the obtaining and maintaining of tax exempt status for nonprofit organizations as well as the taxation of nonprofit organizations. Chapters are devoted to an explanation of the tax laws that determine public charity versus private foundation status for charitable organizations and the laws applicable to charitable giving, including the regulation of charitable solicitations and application of the cy pres doctrine. The casebook includes chapters on the general and specialized laws applicable to several diverse types of nonprofits, such as charitable organizations generally, but also churches and other religious organizations, schools, hospitals, social clubs, trade and professional organizations, political organizations, and homeowners' associations. These chapters address First Amendment constraints applicable to religious organizations, freedom of association, antitrust laws applicable to nonprofit organizations, and problems relating to dissolving nonprofit organizations, including a discussion of legal issues relating to the conversion of nonprofit hospitals to for-profit entities. The casebook will provide law students the expertise needed to represent thegrowing number of nonprofit organizations.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Practical Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals or Financial Documents and Accounting for Legal Professionals

Practical Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals

Author: Pamela Webster

This book is uniquely designed to meet the study needs of paralegal students enrolled in a course on fundamentals of bankruptcy, while also serving as a resource and reference for the paralegal in practice. The book covers the topic in a five-level approach. The overview of the substantive law of bankruptcy and insights into why the law provides what is does is followed by a discussion of the written and unwritten rules of procedure in how the law is implemented. The reader is then guided through the maze of bankruptcy practice using such tools as timelines, checklists and aids for analysis. The book concludes with a test of knowledge through hands-on experience in performing tasks that are common in actual practice. A discussion of ethics within each chapter, the Bankruptcy Code and Rules and references to relevant Web sites and software round out the material.

New interesting book: Competing Globally or Successful Publishing in Scholarly Journals

Financial Documents and Accounting for Legal Professionals

Author: Jeffrey A Helewitz

This comprehensive book provides a concise and clear-cut discussion of the most important accounting and financial documents that a legal professional might encounter. Unlike any other book on the market, it details each element that goes into creating financial documents in a manner that is easily comprehensible and is great to keep as a reference. The book can be used in areas such as litigation, family law, trust and estates, and office management.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Accounting. Chapter 2: Basic Financial Documents. Chapter 3: Assets. Chapter 4: Liabilities. Chapter 5: Equity. Chapter 6: The Income Statement. Chapter 7: Construction, Deconstruction and Comparison of Balance Sheets and Income Statements. Chapter 8: Other Financial Documents and Accounting Technology.

Instant Case Studies or New Food Product Development

Instant Case Studies: How to Design, Adapt, and Use Case Studies in Training

Author: Jean Barbazett

If you want to:

• improve learning retention

• create discovery learning

• make training interactive

• increase participation, and

• make training fun...

..this book is for you! In this easy-to-use resource, author and training expert Jean Barbazette gives you 71 case studies to use instantly or modify to meet your specific learning needs. She defines the five types of case studies and their different purposes, shows the benefits of using case studies, and offers clear-cut suggestions for writing your own original case studies or customizing existing case studies. Barbazette also offers step-by-step instructions for processing each case study to maximizing the potential for learning. In addition, all of the 71 case studies and discussion questions in the second half of this book are contained on the book's companion CD-ROM for your use. Answers to all case study questions are provided in the book.

New Food Product Development

Author: Gordon W Fuller

This new edition of a best-selling text in food product development provides a comprehensive overview of the new food product development process. Stages of development are described in detail, beginning with sources of ideas, then moving through development, final screening, and introduction into the marketplace. With extensive experience in new food product development, the author outlines ways a company can organize for new product development and utilize available resources. He focuses on the roles, functions, and interactions of the members of the food product development team as well as other company departments and outside resources in the food product development process.

Booknews

Based on a lecture course at McGill University's Department of Food Science, which food science majors complained had too much marketing and too little science, and agricultural economics majors complained had too much science and too little marketing. Show how developers of new food products, whether they like it or not, must steer a course through food science and technology, marketing and consumer research, and finance. Among the topics are generating and screening ideas, the food service and food ingredient industries, organizing for new product development, and the history and future of the field. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ch. 1	New food products and new food product development in a nutshell : the mystique and mythology of new product development	1
Ch. 2	The generation of new product ideas	33
Ch. 3	Organizing for new product development	71
Ch. 4	The strategists : their impact on screening for product development	93
Ch. 5	The tacticians : how they influence product development	125
Ch. 6	The legal department : protecting the company, its name, goodwill, and image	173
Ch. 7	Quality control : protecting the consumer, the product, and the company	185
Ch. 8	Going to market : success or failure?	219
Ch. 9	Going outside for new product development	241
Ch. 10	New food product development in the food service industry	261
Ch. 11	Product development for the food ingredient industry	285
Ch. 12	What I have learned so far	319

Managing Six Sigma or Planning for Pki

Managing Six Sigma: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Assessing, and Implementing the Strategy That Yields Bottom-Line Success

Author: Becki Meadows

Advance Praise for Managing Six Sigma "This book is a unique blend of practical knowledge and cultural change, revolution and evolution strategies. I recommend that serious managers buy the book, spend some serious time reading, and then go out and use its lessons to make a name for themselves."-William Baker, Benchmarking/Knowledge Transfer Office, Raytheon Corporation "I believe Managing Six Sigma will be the new reference standard for the quality movement in coming years."-Robert T. Hunter, Executive Vice President, Rehnborg Center for Nutrition and Wellness

"[The authors'] step-by-step process for integrating the tools of Six Sigma takes the mystery out of this methodology and, by itself, makes this book worth having."-Dennis Adsit, PhD, Vice President, Quality, Intuit

"Breyfogle's Six Sigma deployment methodology is explained in detail for four different business processes: manufacturing, service, transactional, and development. . . . His 21-step plan for each business process is explained in a way that allows any type of company to perform a successful implementation."-Mark Feller, Director of Quality, Baker Electronics

"Breyfogle teaches not only the wider application but also the deeper implications and in-depth implementation of Six Sigma deployment in organizations large and small."-Ram Josyula, President, gelrad.com

Managing Six Sigma is the only book that provides both detailed coverage of Six Sigma techniques and effective methods for managing those who implement Six Sigma. With real-world case studies recounting the triumphs and pitfalls encountered during successful implementations at Motorola and General Electric-plus plans,checklists, and metrics to speed up the implementation process-this rich resource helps managers solve problems effectively and ensure a fast, smooth, and successful Six Sigma implementation.

Booknews

Provides both detailed coverage of Six Sigma techniques and effective methods for managing those who implement Six Sigma. Focus is on manufacturing, development, and service/transactional examples that serve as a bridge between Six Sigma techniques and real-world situations. Case studies recount experiences of successful implementations at Motorola, Eastman Kodak, and General Electric. Equations and formulas are presented only when necessary. Includes plans, checklists, and metrics to speed up the implementation process. Breyfogle is founder of a company specializing in training and consulting in Six Sigma methodologies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Advance Praise for Managing Six Sigma

"This book is a unique blend of practical knowledge and cultural change, revolution and evolution strategies. I recommend that serious managers buy the book, spend some serious time reading, and then go out and use its lessons to make a name for themselves." -- William Baker, Benchmarking/Knowledge Transfer Office, Raytheon Corporation

"I believe Managing Six Sigma will be the new reference standard for the quality movement in coming years." -- Robert T. Hunter, Executive Vice President, Rehnborg Center for Nutrition and Wellness

"[The authors'] step-by-step process for integrating the tools of Six Sigma takes the mystery out of this methodology and, by itself, makes this book worth having." -- Dennis Adsit, Ph.D., Vice President, Quality, Intuit

"Breyfogle's Six Sigma deployment methodology is explained in detail for four different business processes: manufacturing, service, transactional, and development. His 21-step plan for each business process is explained in a way that allows any type of company to perform a successful implementation." -- Mark Feller, Director of Quality, Baker Electronics

"Breyfogle teaches not only the wider application but also the deeper implications and in-depth implementation of Six Sigma deployment in organizations large and small." -- Ram Josyula, President, gelrad.com

WHY SIX SIGMA.
How Six Sigma Compares to Other Quality Initiatives.
Six Sigma Background and Fundamentals.
Six Sigma Needs Assessment.
SIX SIGMA METRICS.
Numbers and Information.
Crafting Insightful Metrics.
Performance Measurement.
SIX SIGMA BUSINESS STRATEGY.
Deployment Alternatives.
Creating a Successful Six Sigma Infrastructure.
Training and Implementation.
Project Selection, Sizing, and Other Techniques.
APPLYING SIX SIGMA.
Manufacturing Applications.
Service/Transactional Applications.
Development Applications.
Need for Creativity, Invention, and Innovation.
List of Symbols.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

New interesting textbook: Lower Your Blood Pressure in 8 Weeks or I Cant Chew Cookbook

Planning for Pki: Best Practices Guide for Deploying Public Key Infrastructure

Author: Russ Housley

An in-depth technical guide on the security technology driving Internet e-commerce expansion.
"Planning for PKI" examines the number-one Internet security technology that will be widely adopted in the next two years. Written by two of the architects of the Internet PKI standards, this book provides authoritative technical guidance for network engineers, architects, and managers who need to implement the right PKI architecture for their organization. The authors discuss results and lessons learned from early PKI pilots, helping readers evaluate PKI deployment impact on current network architecture while avoiding the pitfalls of early technical mistakes. Four technical case studies detail the do's and don'ts of PKI implementation, illustrating both successes and failures of different deployments. Readers will also learn how to leverage future PKI-related technologies for additional benefits.

Booknews

Housely, a scientist developing computer security products, and Polk, the technical lead for public key infrastructure at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, explain how to deploy, operate, and maintain a major component of current network security solutions. Citing case studies of pioneering implementations, they illustrate its use in securing electronic business communications and transactions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Monday, December 29, 2008

The American Corporation Today or Managing through Incentives

The American Corporation Today: Examaning the Questions of Power and Efficiency at the Century's end

Author: Carl Kaysen

In The American Corporation Today, Carl Kaysen and other leading students of business and markets from around the country provide a much-needed analysis of American corporate life at the end of the century. Here is the American corporation from every angle - its postwar history, its relation to the law, its financing, its impact on technological innovation, its role as employer and as political force, and much more. The contributors - all of whom are recognized experts in their fields - not only tackle many of the same key areas that the contributors to Mason's classic study looked at, but they also illuminate issues that have only arisen in recent years. For instance, Raymond Vernon describes the increasing globalization of American business, where the net income from operations outside the U.S. is now nearly half of that from domestic operations (as opposed to one-tenth in the 1950s). James Q. Wilson traces how the corporation has become a full-time political actor, showing how it reinvented its political strategy and tactics in the 1960s in the face of a wave of new consumer, environmental, and worker health legislation. Gregory Acs and Eugene Steuerle show how the corporation promotes the commonweal, acting as agent for the employee in purchasing pension, health, and other welfare benefit plans, while Lester Thurow casts a critical eye at the decline of median real wages of American males over the last twenty years (never before have a majority of American workers suffered real wage reductions while the real per capita gross domestic product was increasing). In other pieces, corporate finance experts Charles Calomiris and Carlos Ramirez advocate removing legal constraints on financial institutions that prevent them from providing the full range of business financing from short-term debt to equity, Michael Useem looks at the rise of education and training as a vexing corporate issue, and Barbara Bergmann discusses the increasingly diverse work force, arguing

Booknews

A survey of the American corporation at the end of the 20th century redefining its postwar history, relations to the law, financing , impact on technological innovation, and role as an employer and political force. The 19 contributors make critical assessments of corporate practices, commenting on the decline of median real wages for American males while per capita gross domestic product increased, the diversity challenges that face modern businesses and their need to grapple with unbiased employer practices, as well as a significant difference of opinion in regards to governmental interference in the marketplace. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Foreword
	Contributors
1	Introduction and Overview	3
2	The Rise and Transformation of the American Corporation	28
3	How American Is the American Corporation?	74
4	From Antitrust to Corporation Governance? The Corporation and the Law: 1959-1994	102
5	Financing the American Corporation: The Changing Menu of Financial Relationships	128
6	The U.S. Corporation and Technical Progress	187
7	The American Corporation as an Employer: Past, Present, and Future Possibilities	242
8	The Corporation Faces Issues of Race and Gender	269
9	Corporate Education and Training	292
10	The Modern Corporation as an Efficiency Instrument: The Comparative Contracting Perspective	327
11	The Corporation as a Dispenser of Welfare and Security	360
12	Almost Everywhere: Surging Inequality and Falling Real Wages	383
13	The Corporation as a Political Actor	413
14	Architecture and the Business Corporation	436
	Index	487

Go to: Principles of Advertising or The Law of Corporations and Other Business Organizations

Managing Through Incentives: How to Develop a More Collaborative, Productive, and Profitable Organization

Author: Richard B McKenzi

Richard McKenzie and Dwight Lee show how to select the right incentives and how to use them for the best results. Generously illustrated with examples from business, industry, government, academia, and professional sports, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of incentives, both in theory and in practice, providing a wealth of ideas managers can use to get employees to work harder, smarter, and more cooperatively.

Library Journal

McKenzie is a professor at the Graduate School of Management, University of California at Irvine, and Lee is a professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Georgia. In well-written and detailed prose, they articulate their main concern--"the crucial role incentives play in the control and development of any successful firm." They present the pros and cons of incentives as well as why and how they work and discuss in detail incentives for executives and workers and those used for marketing to consumers (frequent-flyer plans, discounts on new autos, etc.). They also investigate the importance of incentives in the global marketplace and methods for providing them. Many anecdotes and examples from the worlds of industry, academe, and sports (where incentives and bonuses play an increasingly heavy role) demonstrate how management uses incentives for profit and success. A good choice for large public and academic libraries.--Steven J. Mayover, Free Lib. of Philadelphia

Nuer American Passages or Home Care of the High Risk Infant

Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration

Author: Dianna Shandy

Traditionally a community of cattle farmers in Sudan, the Nuer are one of anthropology’s most celebrated peoples. Half a century after social anthropologist Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard introduced the Nuer people to the global consciousness, they began arriving in the United States as refugees. Approximately 25,000 settled in such cities as Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Nashville, Tennessee, and Saint Paul, Minnesota. In this study of their migration from a war-torn society to North America, Shandy asks how the diaspora Nuer, especially Nuer-Americans, deal with changing kin obligations and privileges to maintain their Nuerness. What parts of a people’s culture are left behind when they move to another country? How much of the home culture and coping strategies continue to aid refugees trying to fit into a new society? These questions are not only crucial for understanding how best to view refugees, but all kinds of global migrants.
Assumptions that refugees fleeing to Western countries come from “stone-age” societies do not recognize the ways Africans employ social networks and technology in their quest for better lives for themselves and their families. Shandy argues that flawed representations fail to credit African populations with linkages between “home” and the diaspora, overlooking important realities in how these ties shape the lives of people in both settings. Refugees are not hopeless beneficiaries of the communities who are receiving them, but rather, social actors and active agents in producing culture and shaping their own futures.
Drawing on research fromvarious locales throughout the United States and in Ethiopia, Shandy’s analysis of international social networks captures the sophistication of 21st-century global migrants and the ways they juggle identities while pursuing strategies that simultaneously look forward and preserve tradition. This book contributes significantly to the growing field of migration in general and African refugees in particular, whose movements have been largely undocumented. Written with a diverse readership in mind--including professionals working with migrant populations--it will be a welcome reference for scholars of African studies, globalization theory, cultural anthropology, migration, peace and conflict, and humanitarian studies.

Home Care of the High Risk Infant: A Family-Centered Approach

Author: Elizabeth Ahmann

This revised, expanded edition of the successful 1986 Aspen title addresses the increased interest in and demand for information about the nursing care of premature, technology—dependent infants once they are at home. In addition to clinical practice and research updates, care plans, assessment forms, sample care maps, and other hands—on materials presented in an 8 1/2 x 11 format make this a practical tool as well as a textbook.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments and Reviewers
	List of Contributors
	Contributors to the First Edition
Ch. 1	Profile of the High-risk Premature Infant	1
	Special Issue - Ethical Issues in Home Care	13
	Special Issue - Caring for Substance-Abusing Mothers and Their Infants	15
Ch. 2	The Family and Home Care: Common Challenges and Resources	17
Ch. 3	Siblings of Children with Chronic Conditions	25
Ch. 4	Family-Centered Home Care	29
	Special Issue - Standards of Care	39
	Special Issue - Alternatives to Home Care for Medically Fragile Children	41
	Special Issue - Suspected Abuse and Neglect in Home Care of the Child Who Is Technology Dependent	43
Ch. 5	Discharge Planning for the High-risk Infant	45
Ch. 6	The Nursing Intake Process and the Plan of Care	59
Ch. 7	Community Resources for the Family	77
Ch. 8	Promoting Health Maintenance for the High-risk Premature Infant	97
	Special Issue - Breastfeeding the High-risk Premature Infant: Assessment and Management	113
	Special Issue - Failure To Thrive	115
Ch. 9	Nutrition and Feeding of the Chronically Ill Infant	119
Ch. 10	Home Care of the Infant or Child Requiring Tube Feeding	135
Ch. 11	Home Care of the Infant with Short Bowel Syndrome Requiring Nutritional Support	149
	Special Issue - One Mother's Experience	167
	Special Issue - Cleaning Respiratory Equipment	169
Ch. 12	Home Care of the Infant with Respiratory Compromise	171
Ch. 13	Home Care of the Infant on a Cardiorespiratory Monitor	191
Ch. 14	Home Care of the Infant Requiring Oxygen Therapy	209
Ch. 15	Home Care of the Infant or Child with a Tracheostomy	221
Ch. 16	Home Care of the Infant Requiring Mechanical Ventilation	235
	Special Issue - A Parent's Perspective on Hydrocephalus	253
Ch. 17	Home Care of the Infant with Seizures	255
Ch. 18	Home Care of the Infant and Young Child with Hydrocephalus	269
	Special Issue - Early Intervention Services for the High-risk Infant	279
	Special Issue - Normalization: A Guide for Parents	282
Ch. 19	Overview of Developmental Issues	285
Ch. 20	Developmental Assessment and Intervention in the Home	293
Ch. 21	Hearing Loss in the High-risk Infant	305
Ch. 22	Speech and Language Development in the Chronically Ill Preterm Infant	315
Ch. 23	Visual Impairment in the Preterm Infant	323
	Special Issue - Death in the Home: Nurses' Roles and Responsibilities	331
Ch. 24	Home Care of the Infant or Child with HIV Infection	335
Ch. 25	Assessment and Management of Genetic Problems in the Home Setting	351
	Index	371

Electronic Media Management or Consumer Boycotts

Electronic Media Management

Author: Peter Pringl

This fifth edition of an essential text provides important updates that reflect the enormous changes that have taken place in recent years. This edition features thorough discussions on the Internet and emerging methods of distributing and receiving audio and video content, and reflects the latest information on broadcast and cable regulations and policies. It also includes a fresh batch of case studies and study questions. As in previous editions, this book also covers management theory, audience analysis, and broadcast promotion and marketing.

Booknews

A textbook for electronic media students heading down the management road. Updated from the previous edition (no date noted) to account for the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the mergers of media giants. The authors, communication academics in midwestern universities, have given up trying to predict the future of the industry as a whole and instead suggest possible directions for each topic. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Louis E. Conrad

As a former TV news executive and former radio station owner/manager, I can say this book is complete. Anyone going into broadcasting should read this book.

Book review: Grillin and Chilin or Girlfriends Get Together

Consumer Boycotts: Effecting Change through the Marketplace and the Media

Author: Monroe Friedman

Despite the increasing occurrence of consumer boycotts, little has been written about this form of social and economic protest. This timely volume fills the knowledge gap by examining boycotts both historically and currently. Drawing on both published and unpublished material as well as personal interviews with boycott groups and their targets, Monroe Friedman discusses different types of boycotts-from their historical focus on labor and economic concerns to the more recent inclusion of issues such as minority rights, animal welfare, and environmental protection. He also documents the shift in strategic emphasis from the marketplace (cutting consumer sales) to the media (securing news coverage to air criticism of a targeted firm). In turn, these changes in boycott substance and style offer insights into larger upheavals in the social and economic fabric of 20th century America.

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	Consumer Boycott Basics	1
2	Factors Affecting Boycott Success	21
3	Labor Boycotts	33
4	Consumer Economic Boycotts	63
5	Minority Group Initiatives: African American Boycotts	89
6	Boycott Initiatives of Other Minority Groups	131
7	Boycotts by Religious Groups	159
8	Ecological Boycotts	181
9	Consumer "Buycotts"	201
10	Boycott Issues and Tactics in Historical Perspective	213
App. A	The 1966 Consumer Protest as Seen by Its Leaders	227
App. B	Boycott Observations over Time	247
	Notes	249
	References	263
	Permissions	275
	Index	277

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Globalization Growth and Poverty or The World of Customer Service

Globalization, Growth, and Poverty

Author: Paul Collier

Globalization is a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Although this international integration presents tremendous opportunities for developing countries, it also has raised concerns about rising inequality, shifting power, and cultural uniformity. This report assesses the impact of globalization and addresses the ensuing anxieties. It proposes an agenda for action aimed at mitigating the risks that globalization potentially generates, while maximizing the opportunities for the poor.

	Foreword
	The Report Team
	Overview	1
1	The New Wave of Globalization and Its Economic Effects	23
	Previous waves of globalization and reversals	24
	The new wave of globalization	31
2	Improving the International Architecture for Integration	53
	Trade policy	55
	Policies for capital flows to developing countries	66
	Policies toward migration	76
	Summary and recommendations	82
3	Strengthening Domestic Institutions and Policies	85
	Open economies have more competition and firm turnover	87
	The investment climate affects the benefits of openness	95
	Integration with the world economy affects employment and wages	104
	Social protection in globalizing economies	112
	Summary and recommendations	119
4	Power, Culture, and the Environment	121
	Globalization and power	121
	Globalization and culture	128
	Globalization and the environment	130
	Summary of recommendations	142
5	An Agenda for Action	145
	Anxieties and their foundation	146
	Building an inclusive world economy: An agenda for action	155
	References	161

New interesting textbook: Caught in the Middle or Contemporary Human Behavior Theory

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.

Exploring Marketing Research with WebSurveyor Certificate and InfoTrac or Accounting

Exploring Marketing Research with WebSurveyor Certificate and InfoTrac

Author: William G Zikmund

This comprehensive, practical, and extremely student-friendly market leader offers the most up-to-date coverage of the current marketing research issues available. Intended primarily for undergraduates, this best-seller emphasizes such important issues as total quality management and global marketing research, integrating both topics throughout the text.

Booknews

Focusing on classical marketing research methods as well as highlighting the uses of the Internet, this textbook outlines each step in the research process, and specifically discusses problem definition, research design, primary data collection, measurement, sampling, fieldwork, data analysis, and presentation. Appendices feature statistical tables, a glossary of frequently used symbols, and a glossary of terms. Zikmund teaches at the Oklahoma State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Accounting: Information for Decisions

Author: Billie M Cunningham

This text, written by an experienced author team, is designed to help students understand how to use both managerial and financial accounting information to make decisions. Class-tested for three years across the United States, its student-friendly approach has already earned it rave reviews. The text provides an introduction to business in Chapter 1 and is the only introductory accounting book to have an entire chapter (Chapter 2) devoted to creative and critical thinking. A non-technical approach makes learning accounting accessible for majors and non-majors, focuses students on using accounting information for decision making, and conforms with AECC guidelines for teaching accounting. A full-chapter length appendix on the accounting cycle (debits/credits) allows instructors to implement this portion of the course anywhere they desire.

Nature of the Nonprofit Sector or Cycles of Conflict Centuries of Change

Nature of the Nonprofit Sector: An Overview

Author: J Steven Ott

The Non-Profit Sector: An Overview is a collection of the most insightful and accessible writings about the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and its organizations. The book discusses everything from Andrew Carnegie's turn-of-the-century philosophy of philanthropy, to the most recent writings by current scholars and practitioners. Accordingly, the book contains previously published articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries that present the most influential theories, concepts, and issues associated with the nonprofit sector.Furthermore, each chapter opens with a framing essay that identifies the central themes and issues presented within the chapter and provides an overview of sometimes competing points of view. Each framing essay also briefly summarizes the significance of the contribution of each writing to the development of knowledge in the field.

Booknews

This collection of writings about the American nonprofit sector and its organizations discusses the history of philanthropy and current scholarship and practices. It contains previously published articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries describing the most influential theories, concepts, and issues associated with the nonprofit sector. Topics include values and contributions to society, historical evolution, tax exemption, economic and political theories, social and community theories, organizational theories, giving theories, the blending of the sectors, and challenges facing the nonprofit sector. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Interesting book: Anatomy of Motive or Lion of Jordan

Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico

Author: Elisa Servin

This important collection explores how Mexico's tumultuous past informs its uncertain present and future. Cycles of crisis and reform, of conflict and change, have marked Mexico's modern history. The final decades of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries each brought efforts to integrate Mexico into globalizing economies, pressures on the country's diverse peoples, and attempts at reform. The crises of the late eighteenth century and the late nineteenth led to revolutionary mobilizations and violent regime changes. The wars for independence that began in 1810 triggered conflicts that endured for decades; the national revolution that began in 1910 shaped Mexico for most of the twentieth century. In 2000, the PRI, which had ruled for more than seventy years, was defeated in an election some hailed as "revolution by ballot." Mexico now struggles with the legacies of a late-twentieth-century crisis defined by accelerating globalization and the breakdown of an authoritarian regime that was increasingly unresponsive to historic mandates and popular demands.

Leading Mexicanists-historians and social scientists from Mexico, the United States, and Europe-examine the three fin-de-siecle eras of crisis. They focus on the role of the country's communities in advocating change from the eighteenth century to the present. They compare Mexico's revolutions of 1810 and 1910 and consider whether there might be a twenty-first-century recurrence or whether a globalizing, urbanizing, and democratizing world has so changed Mexico that revolution is improbable. Reflecting on the political changes and social challenges of the late twentieth century, the contributors ask if a democratictransition is possible and, if so, whether it is sufficient to address twenty-first-century demands for participation and justice.

Preface: Debating History to Face the Present and Imagine the Future     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
Abbreviations of Mexican Political Organizations     xiii
Introduction: Crises, Reforms, and Revolutions in Mexico, Past and Present     1
Communities
Of Tempests and Teapots: Imperial Crisis and Local Conflict in Mexico at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century     23
The Two-Faced Janus: The Pueblos and the Origins of Mexican Liberalism     60
Local Elections and Regime Crises: The Political Culture of Indigenous Peoples     91
Revolutions
Mexico from Independence to Revolution: The Mutations of Liberalism     129
Mexico's Three Fin de Siecle Crises     153
International Wars, Mexico, and U.S. Hegemony     184
The Revolutionary Capacity of Rural Communities: Ecological Autonomy and Its Demise     211
Contemporary Crisis
The Second Coming of Mexican Liberalism: A Comparative Perspective     271
Civil Society and Popular Resistance: Mexico at the End of the Twentieth Century     305
The Left in the Neoliberal Era     346
Another Turn of the Screw: Toward a New Political Order     363
Contributors     393
Index     395

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Post Keynesian Price Theory or Social Choice

Post Keynesian Price Theory

Author: Frederic S Le

This book sets out the foundations of Post Keynesian price theory. Frederic Lee examines the administered, normal cost and mark up price doctrines associated with Post Keynesian economics; he then draws upon those doctrines and previous empirical studies to develop the pricing and production foundations of the theory. This is the only book that is solely concerned with Post Keynesian price theory and its foundations, and represents a major contributon to the literature of post-Keynesian economics.

	List of figures and tables
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The doctrine of administered prices
1	The origin of the doctrine of administered prices: from the modern corporation to industrial prices	19
2	Gardiner Means' doctrine of administered prices	44
3	Developments in the doctrine of administered prices	67
Pt. II	The doctrine of normal cost prices
4	The origin of the doctrine of normal cost prices: the Oxford Economists' Research Group and full cost pricing	83
5	Philip Andrews' theory of competitive oligopoly	100
6	Developments in the doctrine of normal cost prices	117
Pt. III	The doctrine of mark up prices
7	The origin of the doctrine of mark up prices: Michal Kalecki's microanalysis	143
8	Kalecki's microanalysis and the war years	153
9	Kalecki and the Cambridge contributions	165
10	Josef Steindl and the stagnation thesis	186
Pt. IV	The grounded pricing foundation of Post Keynesian price theory
11	Pricing and prices	201
12	The pricing model, the grounded pricing foundation, and Post Keynesian price theory	219
App. A	Studies on cost accounting and costing practices	232
App. B	Studies on pricing	235
	Bibliography	241
	Index	275

Go to: Mother of all Pregnancy Books or Knocked up

Social Choice: A Framework for Collective Decisions and Individual Judgements

Author: John Craven

This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgments), with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that center on the revelation of true preferences. The book draws together the work of a great many papers in a common notation, pointing out interrelations that are often missing in specialist papers.

Globalisation Domestic Politics and Regionalism or A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy

Globalisation, Domestic Politics and Regionalism: The ASEAN Free Trade Area, Vol. 5

Author: Helen E Nasadurai

This book examines the relationship between globalisation and regionalism through a detailed analysis of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) project. It analyses how the interaction between globalisation and domestic politics shaped the evolution of AFTA over the past 10 years, arguing that although AFTA was triggered primarily by the pressures of globalisation, it was a tussle between the imperatives of growth and domestic distribution that shaped the way economic cooperation unfolded and the forms it took.

Book review: Anti Inflammation Diet and Recipe Book or Talk With Your Mouth Full

A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies

Author: V Spike Peterson

Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it.

Two features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shapes business decision-making and public policy-making, and the second is dramatic growth in informal and flexible work arrangements that shapes income-generation and family well-being. These developments, though widely recognized, are rarely analyzed as inextricable and interacting dimensions of globalization. Using a new theoretical model Peterson demonstrates the interdependence of reproductive, productive, and virtual economies, and analyzes inequalities of race, gender, class, and nation as structural features of neoliberal globalization.

Presenting a methodologically plural, cross-disciplinary and well-documented account of globalization, the author integrates marginalized and disparatefeatures of globalization to provide an accessible narrative from a postcolonial feminist vantage point.

Software Project Management or Simplified Site Design

Software Project Management: Real-World Guide to Success

Author: Joel Henry

Software project management principles are presented, in a friendly tone, in the same order they appear in actual project progression. This book focuses on applications rather than topics. The culture of a software project team, the leadership technique that will lead to success, and the importance of the process itself are all closely looked at. Multiple sources from both academic and professional situations are integrated into the text to give it a broader feel. Professional Software Engineers; Software Project Management and Project Management courses. Previously announced in the 10/02 catalog.

New interesting book: Not God or Bipolar II

Simplified Site Design

Author: James E Ambros

Examines the general problems of designing and constructing sites for buildings. Coverage includes: site construction and planning, placing buildings on sites, landscape planning, drainage, site traffic for vehicles and pedestrians, parking, lighting, handicap facilities and much more.

Friday, December 26, 2008

The Great Strikes of 1877 or So You Want to Dance on Broadway

The Great Strikes of 1877

Author: David O Stowell

A spectacular example of collective violence, the Great Strikes of 1877 was the first national strike and the first major strikes against the railroad industry. In some places, notably St. Louis, non-railroad workers also abandoned city businesses, creating one of the nation’s first general strikes. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers, the Great Strikes of 1877 transformed the nation’s political landscape, shifting the primary political focus from Reconstruction to labor, capital, and the changing role of the state. Including essays by distinguished historians exploring the social, political, regional, and ethnic landscape of the Great Strikes of 1877, this collection investigates long-term effects on state militias and national guard units; ethnic and class characterization of strikers; pictorial depictions of poor laborers in the press; organizational strategies employed by railroad workers; participation by blacks; violence against Chinese immigrants; and the developing tension between capitalism and racial equality in the United States.

Contributors include Joshua Brown, Steven J. Hoffman, Michael Kazin, David Miller, Richard Schneirov, David O. Stowell, and Shelton Stromquist.

Book review: Consumer Behaviour or Accounting and Finance for Your Small Business

So You Want to Dance on Broadway?: Insight and Advice from the Pros Who Know

Author: Tina Paul

Veteran performer and choreographer Tina Paul dispels myths and delivers the inside dope about achieving your dream of dancing on Broadway.

	Foreword	ix
Chapter 1	What's the Big Deal?	1
Chapter 2	You Want to What?!	7
	Dance 'Til You Drop	7
	Navigating Family, Friends, and Foes	8
	The Whole Gay Question	10
	Body Beautiful or Betrayal	13
Chapter 3	The Never-ending Quest: Teachers and Technique	21
	Dance Teachers and Studios	21
	Dance Technique and Styles	25
Chapter 4	Talent Is a Triple Threat	35
	Singing	36
	Singing Audition Material	39
	Acting	42
	Performance Onstage	46
	Performance Offstage	51
Chapter 5	College or Not: The Toss-up	53
	College	54
	New York--No College	58
	New York--College	61
	Working in LORT Theatres	61
	Dance Companies	62
	Alternate Routes	63
Chapter 6	How Do I Pay For All This? The Cold Hard Facts and Cash	65
	Support Jobs	67
	Apartment	71
	Dance Classes	76
	Voice and Acting Classes	78
	Dance Wear	79
	Transportation	81
	Pictures and Resumes	82
	Laundry	82
	Hair, Makeup, Toiletries	82
	Theatre Admission	83
	Food	86
	Miscellaneous Tips	89
Chapter 7	Wear and When: Dance Clothes for Class and Auditions	93
	What to Wear in a Professional Class	93
	What to Wear to an Audition	99
Chapter 8	Life Shrinks to a Look and a List: Pictures and Resumes	107
	Pictures	108
	Cost of Pictures	111
	Resumes	114
	Cost of Resumes	121
	How to Write a Resume	123
Chapter 9	Before the Jaws of the Beast: Preparing for an Audition	129
	What to Pack in Your Dancebag	132
	Physical and Mental Preparation	136
Chapter 10	Into the Jaws of the Beast: The Audition	139
	Nondance Typecasting	142
	Typing Out With a Simple Step or Short Combination	143
	Varying Combinations	145
	Singing Audition	149
	Callbacks	151
Chapter 11	Working on the Great White Way	155
	Rehearsals	156
	Previews	159
	The Run of the Show	160
	How Long to Stay in a Show	164
Chapter 12	Final Advice and Fare Thee Well	168
	The Cast of Contributors	172

Strategic Marketing for NonProfit Organizations or Microeconomics

Strategic Marketing for NonProfit Organizations

Author: Alan A Andreasen

FROM THE PREFACE...

This sixth edition of Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations marks a major change in the way in which nonprofit marketing is conceived and applied. Much more strongly than in previous editions, this book seeks to position marketing as perhaps the most critical—if not the most critical—discipline needed for nonprofit success. It argues that success ultimately requires the influencing of the behavior in a wide range of key target markets—clients, fenders, polity makers, volunteers, the media as well as the nonprofit's own staff: This is the province of marketing! Marketers are the "behavioral influence business:" The book positions marketing as absolutely central to top management's achievement of the organization's mission. Implicit in this volume is the notion that everyone in nonprofit management—including the CEO—ought to have a thorough grounding in marketing and what it does and can do.
— Alan R. Andreasen and Philip Kotler

12. Managing the Organization's Offerings.
13. Social Marketing.
14. Developing and Launching New Offerings.
15. Managing Perceived Costs.
16. Facilitating Marketing Behaviors.
17. Formulating Communications Strategies.
18. Managing Communications: Advertising and Personal Persuasion.
19. Managing Public Media and Public Advocacy.

V. CONTROLLING MARKETING STRATEGIES.

20. Marketing Evaluation, Monitoring and Control.
Name Index.
Organization Index.
Subject Index.

Interesting textbook:

Microeconomics: Theory and Applications

Author: Dominick Salvator

Fully revised and expanded in this fourth edition, Microeconomics: Theory and Applications presents all the standard topics of traditional microeconomic theory while offering a modern approach that reflects the many recent developments in the field. With its student-friendly writing style and clear presentation of graphs, this is an ideal text for undergraduate courses in intermediate microeconomics and business programs.
Unique Features
* Offers a balance of traditional microeconomic topics while addressing contemporary issues and concerns *
Introduces an important international dimension to microeconomics, reflecting the strong trend toward globalization in tastes, production, and distribution in today's world *
Presents an "At the Frontier" section in each chapter that highlights the most exciting recent examples of advanced theoretical developments in microeconomics
New and Expanded Treatment in the Fourth Edition
* Includes a new chapter, "Choice Under Uncertainty," which examines consumer choices, risk, and uncertainty *
Provides more than 130 new and updated real-world examples of how microeconomic theory can be used to analyze and possibly resolve important present-day economic problems *
Offers expanded treatment of important topics such as game theory, financial microeconomics, the new international economies of scale, economics of information, and market structure, efficiency, and regulation *
Features Internet site addresses for the most important topics in each chapter
Web Site
A companion web site is now available at oup.com/us/salvatore. New to this fourth edition, this practical learning tool offersupdated material, additional examples, and PowerPoint lecture slides for each textbook chapter.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

RFID Handbook or The Art of Decision Making

RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards and Identification

Author: Klaus Finkenzeller

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is used in all areas of automatic data capture allowing contactless identification of objects using RF. With applications ranging from secure internet payment systems to industrial automation and access control, RFID technology solutions are receiving much attention in the research and development departments of large corporations. RFID is a major growth are in auto ID, allowing emergency vehicles to safely trip traffic signals, and providing the technology behind contactless smart cards, "autopiloting" cars, and production automation. Fully revised and updated to include all the latest information on industry standards and applications, this new edition provides a standard reference for people working with RFID technology. Expanded sections explain exactly how RFID systems work, and provide up-to-date information on the development of new tags such as the smart label.

• Updated coverage of RFID technologies, including electron data carrier architecture and common algorithms for anticollision

• Details the latest RFID applications, such as the smartlabel, e-commerce and the electronic purse, document tracking and e-ticketing

• Detailed appendix providing up-to-date information on relevant ISO standards and regulations, including descriptions of ISO 14443 for contactless ticketing and ISO 15693 covering the smartlabel

A leading edge reference for this rapidly evolving technology, this text is of interest to practitioners in auto ID and IT designing RFID products and end-users of RFID technology, computer and electronics engineers in security system development and microchip designers,automation, industrial and transport engineers and materials handling specialists. Also a valuable resource for graduate level students in electronics and industrial engineering design.

	Preface
	List of Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	Differentiation Features of RFID Systems	11
3	Fundamental Operating Principles	29
4	Physical Principles of RFID Systems	61
5	Frequency Ranges and Radio Licensing Regulations	161
6	Coding and Modulation	183
7	Data Integrity	195
8	Data Security	221
9	Standardisation	229
10	The Architecture of Electronic Data Carriers	273
11	Readers	309
12	The Manufacture of Transponders and Contactless Smart Cards	329
13	Example Applications	341
14	Appendix	394
	Index	419

Interesting textbook:

The Art of Decision Making

Author: Helga Drummond

Science reassures, art disturbs (Proverb)
This intriguing exploration of underlying forces in decision making takes as its starting point a wealth of high profile decision disasters. In brilliantly readable analyses, Helga Drummond shows how better awareness of the inherent uncertainties of the decision making process could have made the outcomes very different.
Examples showcased include:
The Hatfield rail crash
The Kursk submarine disaster
The Challenger disaster
The year 2000 fuel crisis
The WWII Dardanelles expedition
The Barings Bank collapse
The Taurus Stock Exchange Project The Hillsborough tragedy
The King's Cross underground fire
The Millennium Dome
This entertaining yet instructive book offers new insight into the realities of decision making, and shows how you can confront them to improve your prospects of success.

Introduction to Online Investment Research or Global Banking

Introduction to Online Investment Research, Vol. 4

Author: Jan Davis

Introduction to Online Investment Research outlines a proven methodology for efficiently researching personal investment choices using the vast array of resources available online. Focusing on the most common investment questions, this book provides you with the research tools and techniques necessary to help you make effective portfolio management decisions on a wide variety of income and equity products. Like all the titles in the Business Research Series, this book is conveniently divided into four sections containing a number of business research applications that can be used for both in-house research training and reference. Internet research can be quick, easy, and abundant ? but also challenging. Research sites sometimes come and go, and sources can be questionable. The Business Research Solutions Series provides comprehensive business and financial research reference guides and online training manuals to bridge a major gap in the field of online research methodology. This resourceful and innovative multi-volume series of reference guides teaches readers how to approach a research problem, how to select the best online sources, and how to effectively use these sources. It also suggests alternate low-cost solutions for many standard questions and problems. A must-have for professionals involved in company research, these invaluable tools provide step-by-step advice on how to analyze, interpret, and present data for informed decision-making.

Book review:

Global Banking

Author: Roy C Smith

Few sectors of the global economy equal banking and financial services in dynamism or structural change. In the mid-1980s, regulatory and technological change were the main catalysts for the transformation of the industry, making entrenched competitive structures obsolete and mandating the development of new products, new processes, new strategies, and new public policies toward the industry.
In Global Banking, authors Roy C. Smith and Ingo Walter assess the transformation that is taking place worldwide in the financial industry--its causes, its course, and its consequences. Beginning with an overview of recent developments, the authors consider the major dimensions of international commercial banking, including the issues of cross-border risk evaluation and exposure management and the creation of a viable regulatory framework in a global competitive context. They link the field of international commercial banking with international investment banking, and identify the factors that distinguish winners from losers in each activity of global banking. The book concludes with a section on the problems of strategic position and execution.

1	The World of Global Banking	3
Pt. I	Competing in Global Debt and Equity Markets
2	International Money and Foreign Exchange Markets	19
3	Global Bond Markets	48
4	Swaps and Derivative Securities Markets	74
5	International Bank Lending	99
6	Asset-Related and Project Financing	118
7	Global Equity Markets	147
Pt. II	Competing in Global Advisory and Asset Management Services
8	Global Mergers, Acquisitions, and Advisory Services	185
9	Privatization	224
10	Institutional Asset Management and Insurance	244
11	Private Banking	271
Pt. III	Competitive Strategies
12	Assessing and Managing Cross-Border Risks	293
13	Global Banking Regulation	335
14	Strategic Positioning and Competitive Performance	356
15	Competitive Implementation, Organization, and Management	396
	Index	413

The Analysis of Structured Securities or Requirements Led Project Management

The Analysis of Structured Securities: Precise Risk Measurement and Capital Allocation

Author: Sylvain Raynes

The Analysis of Structured Securities presents the first intellectually defensible framework for systematic assessment of the credit quality of structured securities.
It begins with a detailed description and critique of methods used to rate asset-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and asset-backed commercial paper. The book then proposes a single replacement paradigm capable of granular, dynamic results. It offers extensive guidance on using numerical methods in cash flow modeling, as well as a groundbreaking section on trigger optimization. Casework on applying the method to automobile ABS, CDOs-of-ABS and aircraft-lease securitizations is also presented.
This book is essential reading for practitioners who seek higher precision, efficiency and control in managing their structured exposures.

Pt. I	The Contemporary Framework
1	Market Basics	3
2	To Rate A Tabula Rasa	17
3	The Actuarial Method	32
4	The Default Method	58
5	The Eclectic Method	69
Pt. II	Analyzing Structured Securities
6	Toward a Science of Ratings	79
7	Dynamic Asset Analysis	93
8	Liabilities Analysis and Structuring	106
9	The Average Life of Assets and Liabilities	124
10	PACs and TACs	138
Pt. III	Applications of Numerical Methods to Structured Finance
11	The Art of Mathematical Modeling	155
12	Statistical Probability Density Functions	163
13	Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors	173
14	Markov Chains	180
15	Regression Analysis	196
16	Lower-Upper Decomposition	201
17	Covariance Matrix Simulation	204
18	The Newton-Raphson Nonlinear Optimization Method	208
19	Tchebychev Polynomials	211
Pt. IV	Case Studies
20	Automobile Receivable Securitizations	223
21	CDOs of ABS	272
22	Aircraft Receivable Securitizations	312
Pt. V	Advanced Structural Features
23	Trigger Theory	357
	Concluding Remarks	377
App. A	Numerical Experiments in Random Number Generation	383
App. B	The Physics of Markov Chains	386
App. C	The Markov Property and the Efficient Market Hypothesis	389
App. D	An Example of Nonlinear Regression	392
App. E	The Symmetry and Nonnegative Definiteness of Two Special Matrices	394
App. F	Convergence Analysis for the Newton-Raphson Optimization Method	397
App. G	Spline Function Interpolations	411
App. H	Correlation Topics	420
	Notes	429
	Index	441

Look this: Office 2008 for Macintosh or Guitar Hero

Requirements-Led Project Management: Discovering David's Slingshot

Author: James Robertson

Requirements are a crucial ingredient of any successful project. This is true for any product--software, hardware, consumer appliance, or large-scale construction. You have to understand its requirements--what is needed and desired--if you are to build the right product. Most developers recognize the truth in this statement, even if they don't always live up to it.

Far less obvious, however, is the contribution that the requirements activity makes to project management. Requirements, along with other outputs from the requirements activity, are potent project management tools.

In Requirements-Led Project Management, Suzanne and James Robertson show how to use requirements to manage the development lifecycle. They show program managers, product and project managers, team leaders, and business analysts specifically how to:

Use requirements as input to project planning and decision-making

Determine whether to invest in a project

Deliver more appropriate products with a quick cycle time

Measure and estimate the requirements effort

Define the most effective requirements process for a project

Manage stakeholder involvement and expectations

Set requirements priorities

Manage requirements across multiple domains and technologies

Use requirements to communicate across business and technological boundaries

In their previous book, Mastering the Requirements Process, the Robertsons defined Volere--their groundbreaking and now widely adopted requirements process. In this second book, they look at the outputs from therequirements process and demonstrate how you can take advantage of the all-important links between requirements and project success.

	Series editors' preface
	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
1	Context and objectives	1
2	Theory matters	21
3	The productive economy	44
4	The reproductive economy	78
5	The virtual economy	113
6	The power of value	147
	Notes	174
	Bibliography	210
	Index	246

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

So You Want to Be a Teacher?

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Cases in Public Relations Management

Essentials of New Jersey Real Estate

Job Challenge Profile: Facilitator's Guide and Participant's Workbook

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Statutory Supplement to Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies

Nonprofit Organizations Law and Policy (American Casebook Series)

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Practical Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals

Financial Documents and Accounting for Legal Professionals

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Instant Case Studies: How to Design, Adapt, and Use Case Studies in Training

New Food Product Development

Booknews

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Managing Six Sigma: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Assessing, and Implementing the Strategy That Yields Bottom-Line Success

Booknews

John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

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Planning for Pki: Best Practices Guide for Deploying Public Key Infrastructure

Booknews

Monday, December 29, 2008

The American Corporation Today: Examaning the Questions of Power and Efficiency at the Century's end

Booknews

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Managing Through Incentives: How to Develop a More Collaborative, Productive, and Profitable Organization

Library Journal

Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration

Home Care of the High Risk Infant: A Family-Centered Approach

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Electronic Media Management

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Louis E. Conrad

Consumer Boycotts: Effecting Change through the Marketplace and the Media

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Globalization, Growth, and Poverty

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The World of Customer Service

Exploring Marketing Research with WebSurveyor Certificate and InfoTrac

Booknews

Accounting: Information for Decisions

Nature of the Nonprofit Sector: An Overview

Booknews

Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Post Keynesian Price Theory

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Social Choice: A Framework for Collective Decisions and Individual Judgements

Globalisation, Domestic Politics and Regionalism: The ASEAN Free Trade Area, Vol. 5

A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies

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Software Project Management: Real-World Guide to Success

Simplified Site Design

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Friday, December 26, 2008

The Great Strikes of 1877

So You Want to Dance on Broadway?: Insight and Advice from the Pros Who Know

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Strategic Marketing for NonProfit Organizations

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Microeconomics: Theory and Applications

Thursday, December 25, 2008

RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards and Identification

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The Art of Decision Making

Introduction to Online Investment Research, Vol. 4

Global Banking

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The Analysis of Structured Securities: Precise Risk Measurement and Capital Allocation

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Requirements-Led Project Management: Discovering David's Slingshot

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