Frontiers of Economics or Principles of Economics

Frontiers of Economics: Nobel Laureates of the Twentieth Century

Author: Abu N M Wahid

Economics Nobel laureates are the pioneers of the science of economics. They are the most brilliant products of the discipline and have made enormous original contributions to the field of economics, and oftentimes history, political science, business, and other subjects. Their works, struggles, successes and failures are fascinating, and readers are given a glimpse into each laureate's life, where and when they were born and raised, what schools they attended, and who influenced their intellectual development. Most importantly, each laureate's often complex corpus of work is described as succinctly as possible without losing the work's original flavor: what it contributed to the field, and how it was received by peers, and how it affected the world. A list of selected further readings concludes each entry, directing the reader to the primary and secondary works essential to understanding the works of these towering figures.

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Wahid (economics, Tennessee State U.) presents profiles of the 45 economists that have won the Nobel Prize between 1969 and 1999. The focus of the profiles is the Laureates' contributions to the field of economics, and authors have made efforts to make their ideas understandable to the layperson. Each profile does contain a brief biographical summary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Editor and Contributors
	The Economics Nobel Prize at a Glance (1969-1999)
1	The Nobel Prize in Economics: A Brief Overview	1
2	Ragnar Frisch (1895-1973): A Founding Father of Econometrics and a Laureate of 1969	9
3	Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994): Who Integrated Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics and Was a Laureate of 1969	19
4	Paul Samuelson (1915- ): An Economist's Economist and the Laureate of 1970	27
5	Simon Kuznets (1901-1985): An Originator of the National Income Accounting Method and the Laureate of 1971	37
6	Kenneth Arrow (1921- ): The Father of the Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and a Laureate of 1972	45
7	John Hicks (1904-1989): An Architect of the Famous IS-LM Framework and a Laureate of 1972	55
8	Wassily Leontief (1906-1999): The Founder of Input-Output Analysis and the Laureate of 1973	63
9	Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992): Who Combined Psychology, Physiology, Philosophy, and Economics and Was a Laureate of 1974	75
10	Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987): An Economist, a Social Thinker, a Politician, and a Laureate of 1974	83
11	Leonid Kantorovich (1912-1986): A Pioneer of the Theory of Optimum Resource Allocation and a Laureate of 1975	93
12	Tjalling Koopmans (1910-1985): The Originator of Activity Analysis and a Laureate of 1975	99
13	Milton Friedman (1912- ): The Leader of the Monetarist School of Thought and the Laureate of 1976	109
14	James Meade (1907-1995): A Pioneer of the Theory of the Second Best and a Laureate of 1977	117
15	Bertil Ohlin (1899-1979): A Co-founder of the Celebrated Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem of Factor Endowment and a Laureate of 1977	123
16	Herbert Simon (1916-2001): One of the Most Versatile Talents of the Twentieth Century and the Laureate of 1978	129
17	Arthur Lewis (1915-1991): The Founder of the Theory of Unlimited Supplies of Labor and a Laureate of 1979	137
18	Theodore Schultz (1902-1998): An Expert on Agricultural Economics and Human Capital Theories and a Laureate of 1979	147
19	Lawrence Klein (1920- ): A Giant of Econometric Modeling and the Laureate of 1980	157
20	James Tobin (1918- ): An Architect of the Portfolio Selection Theory and the Laureate of 1981	165
21	George Stigler (1911-1991): An Authority on the Economics of Regulations and Industrial Organization and the Laureate of 1982	171
22	Gerard Debreu (1921- ): A Brilliant Mathematician and a Frontiersman of the Theory of the Existence of Equilibrium and the Laureate of 1983	181
23	Richard Stone (1913-1991): A Specialist of the Consumer Demand Theories and Empirical Modeling and the Laureate of 1984	189
24	Franco Modigliani (1918- ): A Founder of the Life Cycle Hypothesis and the Laureate of 1985	199
25	James Buchanan (1919- ): A Pioneer of Public Economics and the Laureate of 1986	207
26	Robert Solow (1924- ): A Founder of the Modern Growth Theories and the Laureate of 1987	213
27	Maurice Allais (1911- ): An Applied Microtheorist and the Laureate of 1988	221
28	Trygve Haavelmo (1911-1999): A Founder of the Simultaneous Equations System and the Laureate of 1989	227
29	Harry Markowitz (1927- ): A Founding Father of the Modern Portfolio Theory and a Laureate of 1990	237
30	Merton Miller (1923-2000): A Guru of Corporate Finance and a Laureate of 1990	243
31	William Sharpe (1934- ): A Founder of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and a Laureate of 1990	253
32	Ronald Coase (1910- ): A Pioneer of the Economics of Property Rights and the Economics of Law and the Laureate of 1991	257
33	Gary Becker (1930- ): A Champion of the Economics of Household, Marriage, and Divorce and the Laureate of 1992	265
34	Robert Fogel (1926- ): An Originator of "Cliometrics" and a Laureate of 1993	273
35	Douglass North (1920- ): A Pioneer of the Economics of Institutions and a Laureate of 1993	283
36	John Harsanyi (1920-2000): A Master of Rational Behavior and Bargaining in Games and a Laureate of 1994	291
37	John Nash (1928- ): A Discoverer of the Nash Equilibrium and a Laureate of 1994	299
38	Reinhard Selten (1930- ): Who Refines the Concept of Equilibrium and Is a Laureate of 1994	309
39	Robert Lucas, Jr. (1937- ): A Pioneer of the New Classical School of Thought and the Laureate of 1995	319
40	James Mirrlees (1936- ): An Authority on Information Economics and a Laureate of 1996	333
41	William Vickrey (1914-1996): An Expert on Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection and a Laureate of 1996	339
42	Robert Merton (1944- ): A Solver of the Option Pricing Model and a Laureate of 1997	351
43	Myron Scholes (1941- ): An Applied Financial Economist and a Laureate of 1997	359
44	Amartya Sen (1933- ): A Champion of Welfare Economics and Poverty Studies and the Laureate of 1998	367
45	Robert Mundell (1932- ): Who Offers Consensual Frameworks for Continuing Controversies and Is the Laureate of 1999	381
	Index	389

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Principles of Economics

Author: Fred Gottheil

Bring the study of economics to life with Principles of Economics, 5th edition. Award-winning educator and author Fred Gottheil speaks directly to student experience through a conversational writing style and narrative that uses stories, familiar examples, engaging scenarios, and relevant examples from literature emphasizing that economic principles can be found in all aspects of modern life. The text focuses on the key questions and presents the basic concepts-developing economic analysis step-by-step. The result is a more interactive and enjoyable learning experience when compared to the pedantic approaches often found in texts. Each chapter in the fifth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the most relevant data and also emerging and critical issues such as the issues of Iraq, terrorism, Katrina, China, and more. We invite you to see for yourself how Fred Gottheil's approach will help to shorten the distance between students and the exciting study of economics.

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An introductory text/CD-ROM with explanatory narrative based on questions and detailed answers. Chapters are in section on basics of economic analysis, microeconomics and its applications to product and factor markets, employment and fiscal policy, banking and monetary policy, government and the macroeconomy, and the world economy. Learning aids include objectives, self-check questions, Internet exercises, graph-reading and interpretation exercises, activities placing students in the role of consultants, and boxes on how economic principles apply to real events. This third edition strengthens an interdisciplinary focus. The CD-ROM contains video clips, self-tests, and a graphing tutorial. The author teaches economics at the University of Illinois. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Implementation of Total Quality Management or Plazas and Barrios

Implementation of Total Quality Management

Author: Rolf E Rogers

Here is a comprehensive guide for training a workforce in Total Quality Management (TQM). An ideal resource for trainers, Total Quality Management Implementation contains a complete presentation of all relevant aspects of TQM. It provides a ready-made training format that can be used in all operational seminar/workshop contexts and includes a full set of charts for use by trainers in their presentations of TQM. The book assumes the trainer has a basic understanding of quality management, and it does not repeat the numerous discussions of TQM concepts readily available in other works.

Total Quality Management Implementation begins with an overview of the current status of TQM in the United States. It then presents W. Edward Deming's 14 point TQM philosophy, the core of his recommendations for achieving quality excellence through continuous improvement, along with a discussion of each point. The presentation charts have been designed to allow the trainer to adapt them to a particular organization's unique characteristics and to supplement or add to them as necessary to fully explain each point to a particular audience. The charts are arranged in sequential order and follow the approach used by the author in training seminars around the world. Trainers can easily manipulate the length of the presentation for different audiences and purposes. A reference section lists many books on TQM principles which provide a helpful refresher.

Total Quality Management Implementation is a unique and helpful guide for trainers with a basic knowledge of TQM, college or university faculty teaching TQM seminars or courses, and consultants and quality professionals who could use a referenceand checklist of TQM principles.

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Provides a brief background and the visual materials necessary for an employee training session in TQM. An introduction to TQM in the US and a chapter on Deming's 14 points is followed by seven chapters of visual display aids presenting TQM's basic theory and principles. The entire volume is designed to enable adaptation to different organizations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin American Centro Histуrico

Author: Joseph L Scarpaci

In recent years the travel industry has promoted trips to cultural landscapes that contain great historical and symbolic landmarks, and Latin American towns and cities are anything but isolated from this trend. Many historic city centers in Latin America have been preserved intact from the colonial era and today may serve institutional, commercial, or residential needs. Now economic forces from outside the region have created a demand for the preservation of historically "authentic" districts. This book explores how heritage tourism and globalization are reshaping the Latin American centro histórico, analyzing the transformation of the urban core from town plaza to historic center in nine cities: Bogotá, Colombia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cartagena, Colombia; Cuenca, Ecuador; Havana, Cuba; Montevideo, Uruguay; Puebla, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Trinidad, Cuba. It tells how these pressures, combined with the advantage of a downtown location, have raised the potential of redeveloping these inner city areas but have also created the dilemma of how to restore and conserve them while responding to new economic imperatives. In an eclectic and interdisciplinary study, Joseph Scarpaci documents changes in far-flung corners of the Latin American metropolis using a broad palette of tools: urban morphology profiles, an original land-use survey of 30,000 doorways in nine historic districts, numerous photographs, and a review of the political, economic, and globalizing forces at work in historic districts. He examines urban change as reflected in architectural styles, neighborhood growth and decline, real estate markets, and local politics in order to show the longreach of globalization and modernity. Plazas and Barrios spans all of Spanish-speaking America to address the socio-political dimensions of urban change. It offers a means for understanding the tensions between the modern and traditional aspects of the built environment in each city and provides a key resource for geographers, urban planners, architectural historians, and all concerned with the implications of the emerging global economy.

Table of Contents:

1	Approaching Latin America's built heritage	3
2	The historical geography of the Spanish American centro historico	38
3	Land use, building quality, and skylines in the centro historico	97
4	The social construction of Latin American historic districts	120
5	Heritage and land valuation in Cartagena de Indias	148
6	Heritage tourism in Habana Vieja : restructuring in a post-Soviet age	184
7	Tourism planning and heritage preservation in Trinidad, Cuba	206
8	Globalization's pressures in the new millennium	220

Substitutes for Hazardous Chemicals in the WorkPlace or A Long Deep Furrow

Substitutes for Hazardous Chemicals in the WorkPlace

Author: Per Filskov

The only way to completely eliminate the health effects associatedwith hazardous materials is to eliminate the material. How and when should dangerous chemical products be replaced with safer products? Substitutes for Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace answers this question and others, including:

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A set of guidelines and a survey of experiences compiled by the Danish Occupational Health Services in 1989, and published in German in 1992. Explains the process of substituting less for more hazardous chemicals in a variety of workplaces, and tools for assessing the toxicity of both the current and the proposed substitute chemicals, then details 162 examples of successful and unsuccessful substitutions. The conditions and regulations described are Danish, and many advances have been made since 1989, but the principles and at least some of the specific information could still be useful to managers and workers. Indexed only by occupation discussed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England

Author: Howard S S Russell

A highly readable history and almost encyclopedic reference work, with information on every pertinent aspect of farming and country life.

Administrative Office Management or Business Statistics

Administrative Office Management

Author: B Lewis Keeling

Administrative Office Management continues to provide students with the most up-to-date information reflecting contemporary management thinking, issues, and trends that every office employee needs to know. The text provides a strong management-based background while utilizing a humanistic approach for managing and supervising staff in an office environment.

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Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making

Author: Ken Black

Help your students see the light.

With its myriad of techniques, concepts and formulas, business statistics can be overwhelming for many students. They can have trouble recognizing the importance of studying statistics, and making connections between concepts.

Ken Black's fifth edition of Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making helps students see the big picture of the business statistics course by giving clearer paths to learn and choose the right techniques.

Here's how Ken Black helps students see the big picture:
* Video Tutorials-In these video clips, Ken Black provides students with extra learning assistance on key difficult topics. Available in WileyPLUS.
* Tree Taxonomy Diagram-Tree Taxonomy Diagram for Unit 3 further illustrates the connection between topics and helps students pick the correct technique to use to solve problems.
* New Organization-The Fifth Edition is reorganized into four units, which will help professor teach and students see the connection between topics.
* WileyPLUS-WilePLUS provides everything needed to create an environment where students can reach their full potential and experience the exhilaration of academic success. In addition to a complete online text, online homework, and instant feedback, WileyPLUS offers additional Practice Problems that give students the opportunity to apply their knowledge, and Decision Dilemma Interactive Cases that provide real-world decision-making scenarios.
Learn more at wiley.co,/college/wileyplus.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Author
1	Introduction to Statistics
2	Charts and Graphs
3	Descriptive Statistics
4	Probability
5	Discrete Distributions
6	Continuous Distributions
7	Sampling and Sampling Distributions
8	Statistical Inference: Estimation for Single Populations
9	Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing for Single Populations
10	Statistical Inferences about Two Populations
11	Analysis of Variance and Design of Experiments
12	Analysis of Categorical Data
13	Simple Regression Analysis
14	Multiple Regression Analysis
15	Building Multiple Regression Models
16	Time-Series Forecasting and Index Numbers
17	Nonparametric Statistics
18	Statistical Quality Control
App. A	Tables
App. B	Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Quantitative Problems
	Glossary
	Index

International Economics in a Globalization or Achieving Excellence in the Fire Service

International Economics in a Globalization

Author: Wilson B Brown

Provides approaches to: what produces and affects color; the description of color in words and numbers; arrangement of color in ordered systems; measurement of color with instruments; calculation of color differences and setting of color tolerances; colorants (dyes and pigments); color mixing and matching (visually and by computer); and recent advances and problem areas. Includes equations, tabulated data, and references updated through mid 1980.

Hellish hymns from Amphetamine Heaven...These people are witty and they are grand, they do terrible things and make awful remarks. Ombine is an East Village prima donna, a hoarder of gossip. He is filthy, but he is funny....The characters of "a" represent the bizarre new class, untermenschen's prefigurations of the technological millenium. -- The New York Review of Books

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Achieving Excellence in the Fire Service

Author: Judy Janing

To remain a viable public organization, fire departments must maintain a constant focus on quality. Chief Fire Officers must continually strive to improve their department's service and cost effectiveness, while maintaining a level of excellence. Unique to this market, Achieving Excellence in the Fire Service is the only quality improvement resource developed specifically for fire service professionals. Integrating quality improvement principles into overall s management and administrative strategies, it provides comprehensive coverage from a history of system evaluation in the fire service, to quality management to strategic quality planning and much more.

Features Include:

• Chapter-beginning introduction and objectives highlight key concepts
• Reinforcing chapter-end activities that allow theories to be applied to actual situations
• Self-assessment tools that outline objective assessment of department achievements

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction.
2. Overview of Quality Management.
3. The Chief Fire Officer's Role in Quality Management.
4. Strategic Quality Planning.
5. Human Resource Development and Management.
6. Data versus Information.
7. Basic Methods of Data Analysis.
8. Process Management and System Results.
Appendix A. Self-Assessment of Progress.
Appendix B. Data Elements.
Appendix C. Accreditation Programs Related to the Fire Service.

Introduction to Business Statistics or Business Ethics

Introduction to Business Statistics

Author: Ronald M M Weiers

This manual contains worked out solutions to the odd-numbered problems in the text.

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Business Ethics: A Stakeholder and Issues Management Approach

Author: Joseph W Weiss

This text examines the role of ethics in the business world and ethical dilemmas encountered by managers. Ethical decisions do not take place in a vacuum. Many people, all with their own interests and standards, are involved in business encounters every day. "Stakeholder and Issues Management" is this text's unique approach to teaching business ethics. It pays special attention to the relationships among the many and varied stakeholders that have roles in business situations. These stakeholders include the market and non-market entities that affect a business. Ethical issues must be addressed by individuals, groups, corporations, and even nations in very different ways, and the consequences differ with each person or group involved. This text gives students practical tools to handle moral dilemmas in the workplace and the world. Topics include risk management, preferential hiring, corporate legitimacy, and moral accountability.

Table of Contents:

1. Business Ethics, the Changing Environment, and Stakeholder Management. 2. Stakeholder and Issues Management Approaches. 3. Ethical Principles, Quick Tests, and Decision-Making Guidelines. 4. The Corporation and Internal Stakeholders: Value-Based Moral Dimensions of Leadership, Strategy, Structure, Culture, and Self-Regulation. 5. The Corporation and External Stakeholders: Managing Moral Responsibility in the Marketplace. 6. Employee Stakeholders and the Corporation. 7. The Global Environment, Stakeholder Management, and Multinational Corporations
8.Business Ethics in the Twenty-First Century. Case 1. Microsoft: Industry Predator or Fierce Competitor? Case 2. Dow Corning Corporation and Silicone Breast Implants. Case 3. The Almost Crisis: Intel's Pentium Chip Problem. Case 4. What's Written versus What's Reality: Ethical Dilemmas in a Hi-Tech Public Relations Firm. Case 5. Merrill Lynch's Entry into On-Line Trading. Case 6. Fleet Bank/BankBoston Merger: Culture Clash: Back to the Future. Case 7. In the Beginning, Napster: Killer App or Illegal Weapon? Case 8. Trouble in Paris: EuroDisney's Experiment. Case 9. General Motors versus the Media, Dateline NBC. Case 10. Stella Liebeck versus The McDonald's Corporation: Product Liability? Case 11. Colt and the Gun control Controversy. Case 12. Women in Public Accounting: Gender and Workplace Obstacles.

Caring for Economics or International Advertising

Caring for Economics: An Aristotelian Perspective

Author: Irene Van Staveren

With an aim to bring caring back into economic theory, this work draws upon the work of Aristotle and Amartya Sen's notions of capability and commitment, to propose an alternative methodology to utilitarianism that is not normative.

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International Advertising: Realities and Myths

Author: John Philip Jones

In this comprehensive handbook of theory and practice of international advertising, the subjects are not treated in isolation, but rather linked to overall trends in business globalization.

The contributors, representing academics and professionals from ten different countries, examine all aspects of international advertisng, from broad concepts and issues, developments in specific countries, and cutting-edge techniques developed outside of the United States. The result is a single `knowledge-bank' of theory and practice for advertising students and professionals.

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The fourth of five volumes that together cover all aspects of advertising. Six academics and 20 practitioners consider such general aspects as developments in international advertising, its potentials, creative dimensions, brand and consumer values, mapping cultural values, women as targets, and media and youth. Then they focus on a sampling of countries with studies on the emergence of advertising in Russia, the advertising agency scene in Japan, India as an Asian tiger, new empirical evidence from Norway on the strength of short-term advertising, test marketing in Iceland, and other topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1.	Introduction: The Vicissitudes of International Advertising	1
Part I	The Realities of International Advertising
2.	International Advertising Developments	13
3.	International Advertising: How Far Can It Fly?	29
4.	Alice in Disneyland: A Creative View of International Advertising	41
5.	Brand and Consumer Values in Global Marketing	57
6.	Mapping Cultural Values for Global Marketing and Advertising	77
7.	Women as an Advertising Target: An International Overview	103
8.	Media May Be Global, but Is Youth?	117
Part II	An International Circumnavigation
9.	Rational Arguments and Emotional Envelopes: American and British Advertising Compared	141
10.	The Power of Advertising, Myths and Realities: Evidence From Norway	153
11.	Print Advertising--and How an American Creative Man Learned to Operate in an International Environment	169
12.	The Emergence of Advertising in Russia	181
13.	Australia: A Western or Eastern Advertising Market?	197
14.	The Emperor's New Clothes: A View From Australia on the Creative Process	207
15.	Japan: The Advertising Agency Scene	219
16.	The Asia Pacific Tigers	225
17.	Is India an Asian Tiger?	249
18.	China: Advertising Yesterday and Today	255
Part III	An International Perspective on Measurement and Evaluation
19.	How Single-Source Research First Developed	287
20.	Short-Term Advertising Strength: New Empirical Evidence From Norway	299
21.	The Effectiveness of Television Advertising in France	311
22.	Test Marketing--and Some Notes on Iceland, a Totally Isolated Marketing Environment	319
23.	Modeling the Marketing Process: Innovation From Japan	333
24.	Media Synergy: Evidence From Germany	355
25.	What Do We Know of Mixed Media Effects? More Evidence From Germany	365
26.	Advertising Likability: A View From South Africa	377
27.	Pioneer Work on Advertising Evaluation: The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising's Advertising Effectiveness Awards	385
	Index	391
	About the Contributors	403

Organization Development at Work or Technology Acquisition

Organization Development at Work (Practicing Organizational Development Series): Conversations on the Values, Applications, and Future of OD

Author: National OD Network

Organization Development at Work—a title in The Practicing OD Series—is a collection of conversations among leaders, practitioners, and educators in the organization development (OD) field. Throughout the book experienced professionals share their best thinking about principles, practices, values, and the future of OD. In this valuable resource, nearly 100 contributors share their operating principles, successful models, tools, application tips, and important insights from their years of practice. Written for organization development practitioners, consultants, and anyone who is considering a career in OD, Organization Development at Work will highlight the points of view that define the "values controversy" so you will be better able to clarify your own position on values-based work. As you read contributors stories, you will be able to compare your career path with others in the field. In addition, this book offers perspective on the debate about global work, with advice for practitioners seeking to do work on foreign soil. You will feel as if you are in a conversation with friends, mentors, and colleagues who are freely sharing their experiences, questions, and concerns.

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Technology Acquisition

Author: Allen Eskelin

With proven, step-by-step solutions, this unique and practical book shows information technology (IT) project managers how to acquire the right technology from the right vendor at the right price for their business. There are numerous project management books on how to build technology, but the increase in project failure, limited resources, and accelerated change in systems and platforms has forced IT managers to move from building to buying technology, thereby shifting substantial risks to third parties. Allen Eskelin, drawing on his own experience managing acquisition projects, thoroughly explains each task required to buy technology successfully from outside vendors.

Technology Acquisition covers all facets of technology acquisition management, including the "people dynamics" that can make or break a project. The book offers useful templates, example documents, checklists, and schedules that guide you through the entire procedure, as well as case studies to illustrate the processes described. These processes include:

• Initiation--creating and chartering a project to address your business needs
• Planning--organizing teams; defining and prioritizing requirements; identifying vendors
• Research--gathering information on vendors and their technologies
• Evaluation--interpreting the results of research; selecting a vendor
• Negotiation--defining a negotiating strategy; planning the negotiation; negotiating successfully
• Implementation--developing, testing, and deploying vendor solutions
• Operations--managing an ongoing process to extend the life of the product

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This guide for information technology (IT) project managers describes best practices for business technology acquisition from outside vendors. Eskelin, an IT manager at Starbucks, presents suggestions for each stage of the acquisition process, from planning and research through evaluation, negotiations, implementation and operations. The text is accompanied by templates, sample documents, checklists, schedules, and illustrative case studies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Reference Map
	Introduction
1	Initiation	1
2	Planning	23
3	Research	61
4	Evaluation	123
5	Negotiations	133
6	Implementation	147
7	Operations	157
	Resources	167
	Index	169

Career Counseling Models for Diverse Populations or Users and Abusers of Psychiatry

Career Counseling Models for Diverse Populations: Hands-On Applications for

Author: Nadene Peterson

This casebook is an excellent resource for counselors working with clients from diverse populations who have career concerns. It contains practical, up-to-date material which counselors will find useful in working with selected clients.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION.
1. Experiential Model for Career Guidance in Early Childhood Education, Marjorie T. Kyle, Melanie Hennis.
2. FOCUS: Finding Out the Child"s Underlying Self: A Career Awareness Model for Children, Tammy L. Smith.
3. Multicultural Career Exploration With Adolescent Females, Marie Pascoe Craig, Mary Contreras, Nadene Peterson.
4. At-Risk Students: Working to RAISE Students" Expectations and Motivations Using Career Goal Setting, Cheryl Baker.
5. High School Students in Transition: Meaningful Vocational Counseling for the 21st Century, Belinda McCharen.
6. Students With Severe Disabilities: Functional Vocational Assessment, Barry Dewlen, Harriette Spires.
7. Low-Income Populations in Community College: Occupational Development, Mary Contreras.
8. The Student-Athlete Life-Career Portfolio: The Personal Organization of Change, H. Ray Wooten, Jr.
9. The Résumé as a Career Development Resource, Howard Meyers.
10. DISCOVER-Its Uses With College Students, Johnnie Walker-Staggs.
11. A Group Approach to Career Decision Making, K. Richard Pyle.
12. The Genogram Technique: A Therapeutic Tool for the Career Counselor, Nell Penick.
13. Spirituality and Career Development: Using the Enneagram, Margaret Pinder.
14. Single-Parent Families: Issues in The World of Work, Bonnie L. Ferguson.
15. Prisons: A Vocational Counseling Model, Dom Garrison, Greg Dewarld, Donna Metcalf.
16. Impaired Workers: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Work Hardening, Felipe Martinez.
17. Chronic Mental Illness and Work: An Integrated Vocational Life-Planning Model,Marjorie T. Kyle, Scott Persinger.
18. Battered Women: A Vocational Counseling Model, Nadene Peterson, Georgia Priour.
19. Military Personnel: A Vocational Counseling Model for Those Leaving Active Duty, Susan Knobloch Prengel.
20. Career Development in Business and Industry, Wyn Baumgardner.
21. Unemployment Issues and Outplacement Interventions, Carla Campbell.
22. There is Life After Work: Re-Creating Oneself in the Later Years, Bonnie Genevay.

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Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice

Author: Lucy Johnston

Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a radically different, critical account of the day-to-day practice of psychiatry. Using real-life examples and her own experience as a clinical psychologist, Lucy Johnstone argues that the traditional way of treating mental illness can often exacerbate people's original difficulties leaving them powerless, disabled and distressed.
In this completely revised and updated second edition, she draws on a range of evidence to present a very different understanding of psychiatric breakdown than that found in standard medical textbooks.
Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a challenging but ultimately inspiring read for all who are involved in mental health - whether as professionals, students, service users, relatives or interested lay people.

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Reviewer: Diana Marta, BSN, RN (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: As mental healthcare was ballyhooed by politicians in this past election year, this second edition text (first edition 1989) argues that the real crisis in the practice of psychiatry is its failure to go beyond the medical model in the treatment of patients.
Purpose: The book contends that in the rush to get people in and out of the hospital (aka managed care), too often the backgrounds and contributing factors to mental illness are overlooked in the interest of social control. From treating symptoms and ignoring cause to relinquishing control to the pharmaceutical industry, Lucy Johnstone presents a thorough and credible argument against medicalization in the age-old controversy between psychology and psychiatry.
Audience: Anyone who purports to be an advocate of the mentally ill, including practitioners, students, researchers, family members, and patients, should read this book. It also would be a good addition to any legislator's or hospital administrator's reading list before allocating funds for mental health treatment. The author is both a lecturer and therapist and draws on many of her own clinical experiences to illustrate how "the system" fails to address the needs of most patients.
Features: The use of case studies enlivens the text and helps to illustrate her theories. The author does a good job of examining many aspects of the practice:from the power wielded by pharmaceutical companies to failures in training practitioners to philosophical biases that don't always serve the patient population. In this second edition, she points out that although there have been many physical advancements since her first book, it is clear to her that the "more things change, the more they stay the same."
Assessment: This book makes an important contribution to the study of psychiatric practice by attempting to keep practitioners honest about who they are really serving and reminding us all that the patient, not the system, should always be the primary focus.

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Using real-life examples and her own experience as a practitioner, Johnstone (clinical psychology and counselling, U. of the West of England, Bristol) argues that the traditional way of treating mental breakdown can often exacerbate people's original difficulties, leaving them powerless, disabled, and even more distressed. She has substantially revised and updated the 1989 first edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Copyrighting Culture or The Equity Risk Premium

Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property

Author: Ronald V Bettig

Launching into a complete analysis of copyright law in our capitalistic and hegemonistic political system, Ronald Bettig uncovers the power of the wealthy few to expand their fortunes through the ownership and manipulation of intellectual property. Beginning with a critical interpretation of copyright history in the United States, Bettig goes on to explore such crucial issues as the videocassette recorder and the control of copyrights, the invention of cable television and the first challenge to the filmed entertainment copyright system, the politics and economics of intellectual property as seen from both the neoclassical economists’ and the radical political economists’ points of view, and methods of resisting existing laws.Beautifully written and well argued, this book provides a long, clear look at how capitalism and capitalists seize and control culture through the ownership of copyrights, thus perpetuating their own ideologies and economic superiority.

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The Equity Risk Premium: Essays and Explorations

Author: William N Goetzmann

What is the return to investing in the stock market? Can we predict future stock market returns? How have equities performed over the last two centuries? The authors in this volume are among the leading researchers in the study of these questions. This book draws upon their research on the stock market over the past two dozen years. It contains their major research articles on the equity risk premium and new contributions on measuring, forecasting, and timing stock market returns, together with new interpretive essays that explore critical issues and new research on the topic of stock market investing.
This book is aimed at all readers interested in understanding the empirical basis for the equity risk premium. Through the analysis and interpretation of two scholars whose research contributions have been key factors in the modern debate over stock market perfomance, this volume engages the reader in many of the key issues of importance to investors. How large is the premium? Is history a reliable guide to predict future equity returns? Does the equity and cash flows of the market? Are global equity markets different from those in the United States? Do emerging markets offer higher or lower equity risk premia? The authors use the historical performance of the world's stock markets to address these issues.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : opening remarks and motivation	3
1	History and the equity risk premium	25
2	Stocks, bonds, bills, and inflation : year-by-year historical returns (1926-1974)	41
3	A new historical database for the NYSE 1815 to 1925 : performance and predictability	73
4	The United States market wealth portfolio	107
5	World wealth : U.S. and foreign market values and returns	138
6	How to forecast long-run asset returns	175
7	The demand for capital market returns : a new equilibrium theory	184
8	The supply of capital market returns	201
9	Building the future from the past	212
10	Long-run stock returns : participating in the real economy	214
11	Stocks, bonds, bills, and inflation : simulations of the future (1976-2000)	237
12	Predictions of the past and forecasts for the future : 1976-2025	266
13	Short-horizon inputs and long-horizon portfolio choice	270
14	Survival	283
15	Survivorship bias in performance studies	307
16	Global stock markets in the 20th century	335
17	Re-emerging markets	365
18	The Dow theory : William Peter Hamilton's track record reconsidered	407
19	Patterns in three centuries of stock market prices	431
20	Bootstrapping tests of long-term stock market efficiency	454
21	Testing the predictive power of dividend yields	473
22	A longer look at dividend yields	494
23	Does asset allocation policy explain 40, 90, or 100 percent of performance?	521

Managerial Accounting Study Guide or Procedures for the Office Professional

Managerial Accounting, Study Guide: Tools for Business Decision-Making

Author: Jerry J Weygandt

Work more effectively and gauge your progress as you go along! This Study Guide is designed to accompany Weygandt’s Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 3^rd Edition. Each chapter of the study guide includes a chapter overview, review of study objectives, problems, true/false questions, multiple choice questions, and solutions. Each question is identified by a corresponding text study objective.

Weygandt’s Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 3^rd Edition gives students the tools they need to succeed, whether as accountants or in other career paths. With a framework in decision-making, it covers all the necessary techniques and concepts for a one semester, undergraduate managerial accounting course. Many students in this course are not accounting majors and will need to understand the big picture of accounting. Therefore, this text provides them with a pedagogy that helps to build their decision-making skills and to understand how to use accounting information to make quality business decisions in whatever major or career they choose.

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Procedures for the Office Professional

Author: Patsy J Fulton

Today's office professional enters a workplace that is changing daily. Procedures for the Office Professional will equip users to better handle these changes by providing instruction and activities directed toward technology, communication, human relations, time and organization mangement, decision making, creative thinking, and lifelone learning.

Automated Information Retrieval or International Financial Market Investment

Automated Information Retrieval

Author: Valery I Frants

Automated Information Retrieval describes a fully automated Boolean System and gives special attention to theoretical problems in automatic retrieval of textual information. The book details algorithms in eachprocess in the system, including those that are radically new in the retrieval process and those that are adaptable to the individual. New approaches to evaluating information retrieval systems and studying their performance are included.

Key Features
* Reviews the general principles of constructing any system, such as an information retrieval system
* Provides a detailed analysis of basic concepts such as information need, information, information crisis, and the notation of information retrieval
* Examines the goal, function, structure, and language of an information retrieval system
* Describes the construction of an information retrieval system (methods, algorithms, and approaches)
* Details different approaches to evaluating the results of information retrieval
* Features new directions in the development of information retrieval systems

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Introduces a fully automated Boolean system and pays special attention to theoretical problems in the automatic retrieval of textual information. Details the algorithms for each process in the system, and describes new approaches for evaluating information retrieval systems and their performance. Suitable for a senior or graduate course in information or library science, and as a reference for professionals familiar who are with information retrieval systems in general. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	The System and the Systems Approach
2	Vital Activities and Needs
3	Information Crisis
4	Concept of an Information Retrieval System
5	Information Retrieval Language
6	Automatic Indexing of Documents
7	Automatic Indexing of Search Requests
8	Storage and Access to Information
9	Control and Feedback in IR Systems
10	Evaluation of Search Results
11	Evaluation of Macroevaluated Objects
12	Some Directions in the Development of IR Systems
	Index

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International Financial Market Investment: A Swiss Banker's Guide

Author: Erwin W Heri

Explains the basics of pricing along with risk analysis for bonds, shares and exchange rates, illustrating the use of these fundamentals for portfolio management.

Japanese Economy or Between the Fields and the City

Japanese Economy

Author: David Flath

Despite recent upheavals, Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers at the end of the twentieth century. Yet the Japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Aimed at graduate courses on Japan, this book will be indispensable both for students and instructors alike. Lucid explanations and comprehensive and rigorous analysis make it a natural choice for any interested in comprehending the rise of the Japanese economy.

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Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914

Author: Barbara A Engel

This book charts the personal dimensions of economic and social change by examining the significance and consequences of Russian peasant women's migration from the village to the factory and/or city in the years between the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the outbreak of World War I. The author uses case studies to explore the effects of urbanization and industrialization on the relationship of the migrant to the peasant household, and on family life and personal relations. It differs from other studies in looking at both village and city; in treating personal life, and in drawing on a wealth of archival data, most of it for the first time. The focus on women and the family provides a fresh perspective on the social history of late Imperial Russia.

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University of Colorado historian Engel uses previously unavailable primary sources to provide a detailed account of Russian rural migration to the city. She gives special emphasis to the plight of women, noting that they are often overlooked in studies of Russian urbanization. Her picture of peasant life is grim: suffocatingly patriarchal families, abuse, poverty, and restrictive laws. Few women found utopia in the cities, however, where they faced double workdays, squalid quarters, alcoholism, increased infant mortality, and sexual harassment. Protections provided by the extended family were lost, leaving women powerless, impoverished, and exploited. Engel's thematic approach uses vivid case studies to buttress her statistics. She concludes that urbanization and industrialization were more advantageous to men. This absorbing, well-written study is highly recommended for academic and public libraries collecting Russian history and women's studies.-- Donna L. Cole, Leeds P.L., Ala.

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction;

1. Patriarchy and its discontents;
2. The woman's side;
3. Out to work;
4. Between the fields and the factory;
5. On their own in the city;
6. Women in the margins/marginalising women;
7. Making a home in the city; Conclusion; A note on sources; Index.

Citizen Worker or Investments

Citizen Worker: The Experience of Free Workers in the United States and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century

Author: David Montgomery

In the 1990s, democracy and market freedom are often discussed as though they were synonymous or interchangeable. What the experience of workers in the United States actually reveals is that as government became more democratic, what it could do to shape daily life became more restricted. This original and significant work examines the relationship between workers and government by focusing not on the legal regulations of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizens' rights. The extent and failures of workers' efforts to exercise power through political parties provide insights from the nineteenth century to guide our thinking about the twenty-first.

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Investments: Analysis and Management

Author: Charles Parker Jones

This latest edition of Investment: Analysis and Management contains all the recent updates and information needed in understanding investment opportunities, making the right investment decisions and recognizing investment problems. New chapters have been added on investment companies and the portfolio management process. Other changes regarding NASAQ, EVA analysis, the new tax laws on IRA's and more are also included.

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A text for a first course in investments at the junior or senior level. Seven sections are organized around background, portfolio and capital market theory, the analysis of different types of securities, and portfolio management. Includes chapter summaries, key terms, and review questions and problem sets, many taken from the CFA examinations. Boxed readings illustrate concepts with material from the popular press. This sixth edition is streamlined, and contains new chapters on investment companies and portfolio management. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Understanding Investments	1
Ch. 2	Investment Alternatives	25
Ch. 3	Investment Companies	53
Ch. 4	Securities Markets	81
Ch. 5	How Securities Are Traded	111
Ch. 6	The Returns and Risks From Investing	137
Ch. 7	Expected Return and Risk	171
Ch. 8	Portfolio Selection	203
Ch. 9	Capital Market Theory	225
Ch. 10	Market Efficiency	253
Ch. 11	Bond Yields and Prices	281
Ch. 12	Bonds: Analysis and Strategy	317
Ch. 13	Common Stock Valuation	347
Ch. 14	Common Stocks: Analysis And Strategy	383
Ch. 15	Economy/Market Analysis	407
Ch. 16	Industry Analysis	437
Ch. 17	Company Analysis	459
Ch. 18	Technical Analysis	503
Ch. 19	Options	525
Ch. 20	Futures	567
Ch. 21	Portfolio Management	597
Ch. 22	Evaluation of Investment Performance	619

Product Design or Managerial Economics

Product Design: A Practical Guide to Systematic Methods of New Product Development

Author: Mike Baxter

The discovery of market needs and the manufacture of a product to meet those needs are integral parts of the same process. Since most textbooks on new product development are written from either a marketing or an engineering perspective, it is important for students to encounter these two aspects of product development together in a single text. Product Design: Practical Methods for the Systematic Development of New Products covers the entire new product development process, from market research through concept design, embodiment design, design for manufacture, and product launch. Systematic and practical in its approach, the text offers both a structured management framework for product development and an extensive range of specific design methods. Chapters feature "Design Toolkits" that provide detailed guidance on systematic design methods, present examples with familiar products, and conclude with reviews of key concepts. This major text aims to turn the often haphazard and unstructured product design process into a quality-controlled, streamlined, and manageable procedure. It is ideal for students of engineering, design, and technology on their path to designing new products.

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Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategy and Tactics

Author: JamesR McGuigan

This text seeks to train students to think analytically in a business context. Specifically, it uses over 250 real-world, managerially-oriented applications to show students how managers apply theories and techniques to solve real-world business problems. This approach motivates student learning and extends student thinking well beyond the final exam. The book includes extensive coverage of the latest analytical tools in managerial economics: game-theoretic tactics, best-practices mechanism design, information economics, and organizational architecture, as well as a thorough integration of international issues.

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Organized around twin themes of product-line rivalry and shareholder wealth maximization, this book provides the analytic tools and managerial insights essential to the analysis and solution of those problems that have significant economic consequences, both for the firm and society at large. Chapters focus on basic economic concepts, demand, forecasting, production, cost, pricing, output decisions, investment, and risk management. Specific attention is given to issues like demand analysis and estimation, managing exports, cost theory, pure and monopolistic competition, competitive markets, oligopoly, and government regulation. The authors include academics and consultants with private firms. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Landscape Operations or Survival Writing for Business

Landscape Operations: Management, Methods, and Materials

Author: Leroy G Hannebaum

An ideal guide for those just entering the landscaping field, or for those already in the business who wish to develop and strengthen their management skills, this functional book ties together the myriad facets of a landscape nursery operation by focusing on the management, methods, and materials necessary to establish and maintain a successful business. Giving readers practical advice and key information, Hannenbaum shares insight gleaned from 31 years experience in nursery and landscape industries, landscape design, installation, and management. Covers a broad range of topics, i.e., technical information about lawn establishment; landscape design and installation; landscape construction; irrigation systems; and landscape maintenance. Also discusses important business topics as they apply to landscaping. New features include a section on construction methods for water features, and new appendices with weights and measures, conversion tables, and more.

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Highlighted by photographs (mostly b&w), tables, and figures, this edition (previous: 1993, 1980) by a master landscaper addresses all aspects of the nursery and landscape industries. As being a horticulturist is still necessary but no longer sufficient, topics covered include: an overview of the nursery business, the mechanics of landscaping, landscaping construction, installation of automatic irrigation systems, use and handling of plant materials, lawn establishment and maintenance, selling the products and services, employee hiring and training (and retention), work scheduling, planning for profit, labor analysis, and starting a landscape operation. Appends professional organizations, suggested reading, and measurements and weights. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	The Nursery Business	1
Ch. 2	The Mechanics of Lawn Establishment	12
Ch. 3	Landscaping Construction	38
Ch. 4	The Mechanics of Landscaping	89
Ch. 5	Installation of Automatic Irrigation Systems	110
Ch. 6	Plant Materials: Use and Handling	125
Ch. 7	Lawn and Landscape Maintenance	144
Ch. 8	Selling the Products and Services	160
Ch. 9	Hiring, Training, and Retaining Employees	181
Ch. 10	Supervising Employees	197
Ch. 11	Work Scheduling	210
Ch. 12	Planning for Profit	222
Ch. 13	Labor Analysis and Pricing	240
Ch. 14	Labor Analysis/Problem Solving	270
Ch. 15	Pricing Materials	295
Ch. 16	Bidding and Estimating	316
Ch. 17	Starting a Landscape Operation	330
	Appendix A	343
	Appendix B	345
	Index	347

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Survival Writing for Business

Author: Steve Gladis

To write well, you need to keep it clear and concise. But for many who struggle with writing reports, memos, e-mails, and other necessary correspondence on the job, that's easier said than done.

This no-nonsense book is a virtual lifeline to writing success. Author Steve Gladis has been a writer all his life. He has published numerous magazine and journal articles as well as 11 books.

Survival Writing for Business presents, in an easy-to-follow format, his top tips for writing clearly and briefly. The book answers your most pressing questions about writing, shows you what works and what doesn't, and reveals dozens of shortcuts you can apply today for instant results. The chapters also contain numerous examples that illustrate the content and make the lessons learned memorable.

An entire chapter is devoted to e-mail-the new backbone of business correspondence. Learn cutting-edge strategies that will help you keep e-mail brief, leave emotions out, stick to the point, avoid flaming, and much more.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Writing clearly and concisely is vital to business communication. To help readers improve their writing, Dr. Steve Gladis has compiled his vast experience as a writer into Survival Writing for Business. By describing how reports, memos, e-mails and other business correspondence can be improved with basic techniques, Gladis illustrates the lessons that every person in business should know with straightforward rules for success. Gladis' tips include making sentences short, avoiding abstractions, using direct verbs, and keeping writing visual and organized. Copyright © 2006 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Global Collective Action or Modern Transport Geography

Global Collective Action

Author: Todd Sandler

Although the global community has achieved some success in endeavors such as eradicating smallpox, efforts to coordinate nations' actions in others--such as the reduction of drug trafficking--have not been sufficient. Identifying the factors that promote, or inhibit, successful collective action for an ever-growing set of challenges associated with globalization, Todd Sandler applies them to promoting global health, providing foreign assistance, controlling rogue nations, limiting transnational terrorism, and intervening in civil wars.

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Modern Transport Geography

Author: Brian Hoyl

This book should be in the library of every transportation researcher. Ronald Sheck Intermodal and guideway research program director, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of Florida There is no escape from transport. By sea, air, road or rail, we rely on transport to connect individuals, businesses and cities. At a time when deregulation and privatization are becoming global trends and concerns grow about sustainability, what is the future of transport for the 21st Century? The best-selling first edition of Moderñ Transport Geography provided a topical transport textbook, based on geographical theory and focused on contemporary issues. This new, expanded, updated and revised edition builds on the strengths of the earlier text by taking a more international and global perspective. The book brings together an unparalleled range of contributors, reflecting the international expertise of the Transport Research Groups of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Association of American Geographers. Modern Transport Geography takes a principles and practice approach which enables students to develop their own ideas on the basis of the contextual, analytical and case material provided. from reviews of Edition I This book has all the ingredients of a successful textbook... The presentation is both stimulating and thought provoking. There is a lot of up to date information on current and case studies from all parts of the world. And, finally, there are plenty of references for further reading. What more could one ask? Journal of Environment and Planning A Geography / Transport Studies / Planning / Social Science Contents
* Transport Geography: anIntroduction
* Transport and Development: Conceptual Frameworks
* The Role of Transport in the Development Process: Case Studies from Québec, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and China
* Transport Deregulation and Privatization
* Transport and the Environment
* Urban Travel Patterns
* Urban Transport Problems and Solution
* Inter-Urban Transport
* Rural Areas: the Accessibility Problem
* Transport for Recreation and Tourism
* Ships, Ports and Bulk Freight Transport
* Intermodal Transportation
* International Surface Passenger Transport
* International Air Transport
* Sustainability of Transport

Table of Contents:

	Preface and Acknowledgements
1	Transport Geography: An Introduction	1
2	Transport and Development: Conceptual Frameworks	13
3	The Role of Transport in the Development Process: Case Studies from Quebec, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and China	41
4	Transport Deregulation and Privatization	75
5	Transport and the Environment	97
6	Urban Travel Patterns	115
7	Urban Transport Problems and Solutions	135
8	Inter-Urban Transport	159
9	Rural Areas: The Accessibility Problem	185
10	Transport for Recreation and Tourism	217
11	Ships, Ports and Bulk Freight Transport	241
12	Intermodal Transportation	263
13	International Surface Passenger Transport	291
14	International Air Transport	311
15	Sustainability of Transport	337
	List of Figures	353
	List of Photographs	355
	List of Tables	356
	Notes on Contributors	358
	Index	363

Re Made in Japan or The First American Frontier

Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society

Author: Joseph J Jay Tobin

Colonel Sanders, Elvis, Mickey Mouse, and Jack Daniels have been enthusiastically embraced by Japanese consumers in recent decades. But rather than simply imitate or borrow from the West, the Japanese reinterpret and transform Western products and practices to suit their culture. This entertaining and enlightening book shows how in the process of domesticating foreign goods and customs, the Japanese have created a culture in which once-exotic practices (such as ballroom dancing) have become familiar, and once-familiar practices (such as public bathing) have become exotic. Written by scholars in anthropology, sociology, and the humanities, the book ranges from analyses of Tokyo Disneyland and the Japanese passion for the Argentinean tango to discussions of the Japanese haute couture and the search for an authentic nouvelle cuisine japonaise. These topics are approached from a variety of perspectives, with explorations of the interrelations of culture, ideology, and national identity and analyses of the roles that gender, class, generational, and regional differences play in the patterning of Japanese consumption. The result is a fascinating look at a dynamic society that is at once like and unlike our own.

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The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860

Author: Wilma A Dunaway

Outsiders have had a long-running love affair with Southern Appalachia. Setting forth at the Gulf of Mexico, the Spaniards undertook three sixteenth-century expeditions into the inland mountains to search for silver and the 'fountain of youth' among the vast indigenous chiefdoms of northern Georgia.

Electrical Power and Controls or The Real World Entrepreneur Field Guide

Electrical Power and Controls

Author: Timothy L Skvarenina

This broadly-based book covers both motors and power transmission, and starts with the fundamentals of energy and power systems. It progresses though power quality transformers, motors/generators, power electronics, control devices/circuits, building electrical systems, and programmable logic controllers.

The second edition includes:

• Extensive use of figures and photos to reinforce concepts discussed in the text
• Additional review questions and problems at the end of most chapters
• New case studies on societal and global issues relating to engineering and technology
• Additional material to reflect changes in the industry

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The Real World Entrepreneur Field Guide

Author: David H Bangs

Here is your map for an exciting voyage. This Field Guide is the tool to help you navigate through the mysterious and unknown regions to where you want to be - starting and running your own successful business. Learn how to determine if your business idea is feasible; write a bankable business plan; target customers - and keep them coming back; manage cash; develop a strategy that beats the competition; create a Web presence; avoid legal hassles; find top employees; plan for growth; and much more. Intensify learning using the LEAP Learning Process. You'll first Learn, then Explore, next Apply, and finally Produce results for your own business. It's ideal for independent or group study. Locate the information you need, when you need it, with the flexible Field Guide design. Identify with and learn from First Person accounts - real-life war stories! Test your skills in more than 50 Personal Workshops. Avoid potential legal pitfalls with Liability Alerts. Get connected via URLinks to a virtually limitless network of current Web information. Explore real-world problems and solutions using in-depth Case Studies.

Intercultural Communication in Global Workplace or The Economic Effects of Aging in the United States and Japan

Intercultural Communication in Global Workplace

Author: Iris Varner

Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace continues to be a vital reference for global business professionals. This new edition features updated discussions on the impact of globalization and technology in business communication, expanded treatment of ethics issues, increased discussion of world religions (particularly the role of Islam), and more short cases for improved ease of reading and comprehension.

Iris Varner (Normal, IL) is a professor at Illinois State University.

Linda Beamer (San Gabriel, CA) is a professor at California State University at Los Angeles.

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The Economic Effects of Aging in the United States and Japan

Author: Michael D D Hurd

Due to falling fertility rates, the aging of the baby-boom cohort, and increases in life expectancy, the percentage of the population that is elderly is expected to increase rapidly in the United States and Japan over the next two decades. These fourteen essays show that, despite differences in culture and social and government structure, population aging will have many similar macro and micro effects on the economic status and behavior of the elderly in both countries.
The most obvious effects will be on social programs such as public pension systems and the provision for medical needs of the elderly. But, the contributors demonstrate, aging will also affect markets for labor, capital, housing, and health care services. It will affect firms through their participation in the demand side of the labor market and through their provisions for pensions. And aging will influence saving rates, the rate of return on assets, the balance of payments, and, most likely, economic growth.
This volume will interest scholars and policy makers concerned with the economics of aging.

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Presents papers from a conference held in Hakone, Japan, in September 1993, analyzing the macro- and microeconomic effects of an increase in the elderly population in both countries. Examines how population aging will affect social programs and markets for labor, capital, housing, and health care services, and how it will influence saving rates, the rate of return on assets, the balance of payments, and economic growth. Of interest to scholars and policymakers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Projection of Japanese Public Pension Costs in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century and the Effects of Three Possible Reforms	11
2	The Effects of Demographic Trends on Consumption, Saving, and Government Expenditures in the United States	39
3	Population Aging and the Savings-Investment Balance in Japan	59
4	The Economic Position of the Elderly in Japan	89
5	The Consequences of Population Aging for Private Pension Fund Saving and Asset Markets	111
6	The Effects of Aging on National Saving and Asset Accumulation in Japan	131
7	The Impact of Demographics on Housing and Nonhousing Wealth in the United States	153
8	Improvement of After-Retirement Income by Home Equity Conversion Mortgages: Possibility and Problems in Japan	195
9	The Effects of Special Saving Programs on Saving and Wealth	217
10	The Economic Status of the Elderly in Japan: Microdata Findings	241
11	Retirement Incentives: The Interaction between Employer-Provided Pensions, Social Security, and Retiree Health Benefits	261
12	Labor Market Implications of Social Security: Company Pension Plans, Public Pensions, and Retirement Behavior of the Elderly in Japan	295
13	Changing Social Security Survivorship Benefits and the Poverty of Widows	319
14	The Net Pension Debt of the Japanese Government	333
	Contributors	353
	Author Index	355
	Subject Index	357

Fishing for Heritage or The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions

Fishing for Heritage: Modernity and Loss Along the Scottish Coast

Author: Jane Nadel Klein

Castles, lochs, seascapes. Coastal Scotland is one of the world's most romanticized tourist destinations, yet it is in the midst of severe economic decline. The North Atlantic fisheries crisis has hit Scottish communities hard and local fisherfolk are faced with chronic insecurity, anxiety over the decline of fishing and doubts about their cultural survival. The decline of this traditional industry has been accompanied by growing tourism along Scottish shores. Fishing villages are marketed for tourist consumption and culture has become a commodity.Drawing upon fieldwork, novels, folk music and travel literature, Nadel-Klein explores how these influences have affected locals' sense of identity and presence within a modern European nation. How is identity linked to power? What role do memory and authenticity play in the creation of Scottish heritage? How do locals feel about the onslaught of tourists? The topical nature of these issues and their relevance to other regions facing similar tensions make this book an important contribution to contemporary anthropology.

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The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions

Author: Pranab K Bardhan

These specially commissioned essays apply new analytical methods to study the origins, maintenance, and adaptation of agrarian institutions in a variety of regions and cultures. The contributors, including J.E. Stiglitz, T.N. Srinivasan, Clive Bell, Louis Putterman, H. Binswanger, D. Newbery, and Alain de Janvry, focus on agrarian relations and rural development.

"May well become a standard reference in institutional economics, especially in the context of LDCs."--Review of World Economics

"Bardhan brings together eighteen excellent essays on the theory of agrarian institutions...every essay is high in quality and contains something worth learning....This book constitutes a major and lasting contribution to the economic analysis of agrarian institutions."--Journal of Economic Literature

For Social Peace in Brazil or Business Law

For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sao Paulo, 1920-1964

Author: Barbara Weinstein

This book is the first major study of industrialists and social policy in Latin America. Barbara Weinstein examines the vast array of programs sponsored by a new generation of Brazilian industrialists who sought to impose on the nation their vision of a rational, hierarchical, and efficient society She explores in detail two national agencies founded in the 1940s (SENAI and SESI) that placed vocational training and social welfare programs directly in the hands of industrialist associations. Assessing the industrialists' motives, Weinstein also discusses how both men and women in Brazil's working class received the agencies' activities.

Inspired by the concepts of scientific management, rational organization, and applied psychology, Sao Paulo's industrialists initiated wide-ranging programs to raise the standard of living, increase productivity, and at the same time secure lasting social peace. According to Weinstein, workers initially embraced many of their efforts but were nonetheless suspicious of employers' motives and questioned their commitment to progressivism. By the 1950s, industrial leaders' notion of the working class as morally defective and their insistence on stemming civil unrest at all costs increasingly diverged from populist politics and led to the industrialists' active support of the 1964 military coup.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Rationalization and Industry in the 1920s	13
2	Rational Organization and Social Reform	51
3	Industrialists in the Nation's Service	79
4	Inventing SENAI and SESI	114
5	Employers and Workers Respond	166
6	Remaking the Worker at Home and at Play	219
7	Remaking the Worker at Work	251
8	The Politics of Social Peace	280
	Epilogue and Conclusion	324
	Appendix	345
	Notes	349
	Bibliography	407
	Index	423

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Business Law: Principles for Today's Commercial Environment

Author: David P Twomey

Not only helping you to ace your business law course, BUSINESS LAW: PRINCIPLES FOR TODAY'S COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT, Second Edition, also provides the information and resources to assist you in studying for the CPA exam. Based on the #1 business law summarized case text on the market today, this excerpted case version helps you grasp key legal concepts and principles, reinforcing your understanding with applications and examples of real-world dilemmas, issues, and problems. Current, comprehensive, easy-to-understand and fascinating to read, BUSINESS LAW will help you prepare you for every class lecture and gives you all the resources you need to do your best on exams.

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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach

Author: David F F Groebner

This comprehensive, user-friendly reference explores many descriptive and inferential statistical topics integral to business problem solving and decision making. Chapter topics include data collection; graphs, charts, and tables; probability distributions; sampling distributions; estimating population values; hypothesis testing; quality management and statistical process control; linear regression and correlation analysis; model building and multiple regression analysis; and nonparametric statistics. For business professionals involved in data presentations and descriptive analyses.

Table of Contents:

(*Note: Each chapter concludes with Summary and Conclusions, Key Terms, Chapter Exercises and General References sections.)
1. The Where, Why, and How of Data Collection.
What Is Business Statistics? Tools and Techniques for Collecting Data. Populations, Samples and Sampling Techniques. Data Types and Data Measurement Levels. Using Your Computer.

2. Graphs, Charts, and Tables—Describing Your Data.
Frequency Distributions and Histograms. Joint Frequency Distributions. Bar Charts and Pie Charts. Line Charts and Scatter Diagrams. Case 2-A: AJ's Fitness Center. Case 2-B: Westbrook Graphic Arts.

3. Describing Data Using Numerical Measures.
Measures of Central Tendency. Measures of Variation. Using the Mean and Standard Deviation Together. Case 3-A: Wilson Corporation. Case 3-B: Holcome Financial Planners. Case 3-C: AJ's Fitness Center.

4. Using Probability and Discrete Probability Distributions.
The Basics of Probability. The Rules of Probability. Discrete Probability Distributions. The Binomial Probability Distribution. The Poisson Probability Distribution. Case 4-A: Great Air Commuter Service. Case 4-B: Rutledg Collections. Case 4-C: Let's Make a Deal. Case 4-D: Belko Equipment Company.

5. Continuous Probability Distributions.
The Normal Probability Distribution. Other Continuous Probability Distributions. Case 5-A: East Mercy

6. Introduction to Sampling Distributions.
Sampling Error—What It Is and Why It Happens. The Basics of Sampling Distributions. Sampling Distribution of a Proportion. Case 6-A: Carpita Bottling Company. Case 6-B: Truck Safety Inspection. Case 6-C: Houston Nut and Candy Company. Case 6-C: High Country.

7. Estimating Population Values.
Point and Confidence Interval Estimates. Determining the Appropriate Sample Size. Estimating a Population Proportion. Case 7-A: Duro Industries, Inc. Case 7-B: Management Solutions, Inc.

8. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing.
Hypotheses Tests for Means. Type II Errors. Hypotheses Tests for Proportions. Hypotheses Tests for the Variances. Case 8-A: Campbell Brewery, Inc., Part 1.

9. Hypothesis Testing and Estimation For Two Population Parameters.
Hypothesis Tests for Two Population Variances. Hypotheses Tests and Estimation for Two Population Means. Estimation and Hypothesis Tests for Two Population Proportions. Case 9-A: Green Valley Assembly Company. Case 9-B: U-Need-It Rental Agency. Case 9-C: Wilson Bearing Company.

10. Analysis of Variance.
One-Way Analysis of Variance. Randomized Complete Block Analysis of Variance. Two Factor Analysis with Replication. Case 10-A: Consumer Information Association. Case 10-B: West Coast Bell System.

11. Introduction to Linear Regression and Correlation Analysis.
Correlation. Simple Linear Regression Analysis. Uses for Regression Analysis. Case 11-A: Alamar Industries. Case 11-B: Continental Trucking.

12. Multiple Regression Analysis and Model Building.
Introduction to Multiple Regression Analysis. Using Qualitative Independent Variables. Working With Nonlinear Relationships. Stepwise Regression. Determining the Aptness of the Model. Case 12-A: Dynamic Scales, Inc.

13. Introduction to Quality and Statistical Process Control.
Quality Management and Tools for Process Improvement. Introduction to Statistical Process Control Charts. Case 13-A: Izbar Precision Casters, Inc.

14. Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Contingency Analysis.
Introduction to Goodness-of-Fit Tests. Introduction to Contingency Analysis. Case 14-A: American Oil Company. Case 14-B: Bentford Electronics, Part 1.

15. Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics.
Testing for Randomness Using the Runs Test. Nonparametric Tests for Two Population Centers. Kruskal-Wallis One-Way Analysis of Variance. Case 15-A: Bentford Electronics, Part 2.

16. Analyzing and Forecasting Time-Series Data.
Introduction to Forecasting and Time-Series Analysis. Trend-Based Forecasting Techniques. Forecasting Using Smoothing Methods. Case 16-A: Park Falls Chamber of Commerce. Case 16-B: The St. Louis Companies. Case 16-C: Wagner Machine Works.

17. Introduction to Decision Analysis.
Decision Making Environments. Decision Criteria. Cost of Uncertainty. Decision Tree Analysis. Risk Preference Attitudes and Functions. Case 17-A: Rockstone International. Case 17-B: Hadden Materials and Supplies, Inc., Part 1. Hadden Materials and Supplies, Inc., Part 2.

Answers to Select Problems.
Appendixes.
Appendix A: Random Numbers Table. Appendix B: Binomial Distribution Table. Appendix C: Poisson Probability Distribution Table. Appendix D: Standard Normal Distribution Table. Appendix E: Exponential Distribution Table. Appendix F: Values of t for Selected Probabilities. Appendix G: Values of X for Selected Probabilities. Appendix H: F-Distribution Table. Appendix I: Critical Values of Hartley's Fmax Test. Appendix J: Distribution of the Studentized Range. Appendix K: Critical Values of r in the Runs Table. Appendix L: Mann-Whitney U Test Probabilities. Appendix M: Mann-Whitney U Test Critical Values. Appendix N: Critical Values of T in the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test.

Glossary.
Index.

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Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization

Author: Miles Kahler

Predictions that globalization would undermine territorial attachments and weaken the sources of territorial conflict have not been realized in recent decades. Globalization may have produced changes in territoriality and the functions of borders, but it has not eliminated them. The contributors to this volume examine this relationship, arguing that much of the change can be attributed to sources other than economic globalization. Bringing the perspectives of law, political science, anthropology, and geography to bear on the complex causal relations among territoriality, conflict, and globalization, leading contributors examine how territorial attachments are constructed, why they have remained so powerful in the face of an increasingly globalized world, and what effect continuing strong attachments may have on conflict. They argue that territorial attachments and people's willingness to fight for territory depends upon the symbolic role it plays in constituting people's identities, and producing a sense of belonging in an increasingly globalized world.