Business Life & Careers

Type Talk at Work or Quiet Leadership

2009-12-06T02:33:00.000-08:00

Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job

Author: Otto Kroeger

Determine your personality using a scientifically validated method based on the work of C.G. Jung and gain insight into why others behave the way they do, and why you are the person you are.

Library Journal

Written by noted consultant Kroeger and his colleagues, this entertaining and informative volume is aimed at anyone trying to navigate the challenging social setting of the workplace. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) on which it is based was originally developed by Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers Briggs, who drew on the work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. This method has been widely used as a tool in both education and business. Originally published in 1988 and now fully revised and updated, the book is designed to help readers identify their own type and gain insight into the learning and operating styles of their colleagues. Its three sections are an introduction to typewatching (determining types), putting typewatching to work (leadership, team building, and conflict resolution), and understanding the 16 type profiles. A self-help book sure to be popular with readers, it will appeal to those who want to go a step beyond horoscopes to succeed in their careers. Recommended for self-help and popular business collections in public libraries and for academic libraries that collect in management consulting. Rona Ostrow, Lehman Coll. Lib., CUNY, Bronx Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

The authors have followed up their Type Talk (Delacorte, 1988), an introduction to the study of personality types, with this handy explanation of how we can better understand personalities in the workplace. Based on C.G. Jung's classic 1923 Psychological Types and the famous Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), this useful work makes common sense out of a complex idea, and the pragmatic workplace meaning of ``typewatching'' should strongly appeal to managers and human resource professionals. The 16 types are explained and are then related to real workplace issues such as problem solving, managing time, setting goals, managing stress, and other understandable applications in business. Millions of people have completed Myers-Briggs, and now we have a very accessible application in business of this fascinating field of study. Recommended for all libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/91.-- Dale Farris, Groves, Tex.

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Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work

Author: David Rock

Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. "If people are being paid to think," he writes, "isn't it time the business world found out what the thing doing the work, the brain, is all about?" Supported by the latest groundbreaking research, Quiet Leadership provides a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Rock offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.

Publishers Weekly

A leader's job "should be to help people make their own connections," Rock asserts-a commonsense message he overcomplicates in this guide for executives and managers who want to improve employee performance. Rock, CEO of Results Coaching System, strives to legitimize his methodology with neuroscience, acronyms and catchphrases and gratuitous, Powerpointesque illustrations. But his writing style conflicts with his advice-keep it succinct and focused. Promising that his approach "saves time and creates energy," he details his six steps: "Think About Thinking" (let people think things through without telling them what to do, while remaining "solutions-focused"); "Listen for Potential" (be a sounding board for employees); "Speak with Intent" (clarify and streamline conversation); "Dance Toward Insight" (communicate in ways that promote other people's insights); "CREATE New Thinking" (which stands for Current Reality, Explore Alternatives and Tap Their Energy, an acronym about "helping people turn their insights into habits"); and, finally, "Follow Up" to ensure ongoing improved performance. Rock also explains how to apply the steps to problem solving, decision making and giving feedback. Perhaps Rock conveys his strategies more effectively in a seminar setting, but for busy executives, this guide (after Personal Best) is more likely to generate frustration than an " `aha' moment." (Apr.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

From the title, this work sounds subdued. But Rock (CEO, Results Coaching Systems; Personal Best) actually grounds his ideas in dynamic discoveries about how the human brain works. Typical management approaches to changing behavior fail to account for the surprising differences in how each person processes information and solves problems. Rock suggests that it's far more effective to build new neural pathways to learn new habits than to deconstruct old ones. Transforming performance involves listening and communicating in more positive and effective ways. The ultimate goal of quiet leadership is to empower employees to think and solve problems for themselves. This highly practical guide includes exercises for each major concept introduced, giving readers a chance to practice what they've learned. A brief bibliography highlights research for further reading. Recommended for public library business collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Advanced Guide to Real Estate Investing or Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

2009-12-05T00:52:00.000-08:00

Advanced Guide to Real Estate Investing: How to Identify the Hottest Markets and Secure the Best Deals

Author: Ken McElroy

If you're interested in real estate investing, you may have noticed notice the lack of coverage it gets in mainstream financial media, while stocks, bonds, and mutual funds are consistently touted as the safest and most profitable ways to invest. According to real estate guru Ken McElroy, that's because financial publications, tv and radio programs make the bulk of their money from advertising paid for by the very companies who provide such mainstream financial services. On the other hand, real estate investment is something you can do on your own--without a large amount of money up front! Picking up where left off in the bestselling The ABC's of Real Estate Investing, McElroy reveals the next essential lessons and information that no serious investor can afford to miss. Building on the foundation of real estate investment 101, McElroy tells readers:

How to think--and operate--like a real estate mogul
"The Top Ten Real Estate Markets to Watch"
How to identify and close expert deals
Why multifamily housing is the best real estate investment out there
How to surround yourself with a team that will help maximize your money
How to avoid paying thousands in taxes by structuring property sales wisely
Important projections about the future of real estate investment

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Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History

Author: Jan R Van Meter

“By necessity, by proclivity, by delight,” Ralph Waldo Emerson said in 1876, “we all quote.” But often the phrases that fall most readily from our collective lips—like “fire when ready,” “speak softly and carry a big stick,” or “nice guys finish last”—are those whose origins and true meanings we have ceased to consider. Restoring three-dimensionality to more than fifty of these American sayings, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too turns clichés back into history by telling the life stories of the words that have served as our most powerful battle cries, rallying points, laments, and inspirations.
In individual entries on slogans and catchphrases from the early seventeenth to the late twentieth century, Jan Van Meter reveals that each one is a living, malleable entity that has profoundly shaped and continues to influence our public culture. From John Winthrop’s “We shall be as a city upon a hill” and the 1840 Log Cabin Campaign’s “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” and Ronald Reagan’s “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” each of Van Meter’s selections emerges as a memory device for a larger political or cultural story. So the next time we hear or see one of these verbal symbols used to sell a product, illustrate a point, make a joke, reshape a current cause, or resuscitate a forgotten ideal, we will finally be equipped to understand its broader role as a key source of the values we continue to share and fight about. Taken together in Van Meter’s able hands, these famous slogansand catchphrases give voice to our common history even as we argue about where it should lead us.

Michael O. Eshleman - Library Journal

That the LC subject headings use miscellanea six times in this book's CIP data shows its neither-fish-nor-fowl nature. Van Meter, a retired public relations executive, examines five dozen phrases, most historical ("fifty-four forty or fight!") but some from sports and pop culture ("say it ain't so, Joe!"). Yet the book isn't about the slogans themselves, their origins or their legacy; they are an excuse to walk through American history. "The buck stops here" provides the life of Harry Truman, and "old soldiers never die" gives the story of the Korean War. It is as if Van Meter is writing for an audience completely ignorant of history. He also ignores how some phrases, such as "Give me liberty or give me death," first appeared decades after they were supposed to have been uttered, akin to Parson Weems's story about Washington and the cherry tree. Librarians should instead be sure to have Ralph Keye's scholarly and broader The Quote Verifier, which is focused on the words and their origins.

Agile Project Management with Scrum or Investment Biker

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

Agile Project Management with Scrum

Author: Ken Schwaber

Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management-and focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum, brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and software development process more effectively and efficiently. Help eliminate the ambiguity into which so many software projects are borne, where vision and planning documents are essentially thrown over the wall to developers. This high-level reference describes how to use Scrum to manage complex technology projects in detail, combining expert insights with examples and case studies based on Scrum. Emphasizing practice over theory, this book explores every aspect of using Scrum, focusing on driving projects for maximum return on investment.

	Foreword
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Backdrop: The Science of Scrum	1
2	New Management Responsibilities	15
3	The ScrumMaster	25
4	Bringing Order from Chaos	37
5	The Product Owner	53
6	Planning a Scrum Project	67
7	Project Reporting - Keeping Everything Visible	83
8	The Team	101
9	Scaling Projects Using Scrum	119
	A: Rules	133
	B: Definitions	141
	C: Resources	145
	D: Fixed-Price, Fixed-Date Contracts	147
	E: Capability Maturity Model (CMM)	151
	Index	155

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Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers

Author: Jim Rogers

Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling business/adventure book, Investment Biker, which has already sold more than 200,000 copies.
Before you invest another dollar anywhere in the world (including the United States), read this book by the man Time magazine calls “the Indiana Jones of finance.”
Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded the Quantum Fund. Investment Biker is the fascinating story of Rogers’s global motorcycle journey/investing trip, with hardheaded advice on the current state and future direction of international economies that will guide and inspire investors interested in foreign markets.

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The E Myth Revisited or The Little Book That Builds Wealth

2009-12-02T21:31:00.000-08:00

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do about It

Author: Michael E Gerber

In this first new and totally revised edition of the over two million copy bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. Next, he walks you through the steps in the life of a business -- from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed -- and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether it is a franchise or not. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. After you have read The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.

Library Journal

Indicating that 40 percent of small businesses fail within their first year, Gerber, a small business expert, talks about how to be successful. In this revision of his 1986 book, he describes the "E-Myth," which basically states that a person with technical but few management skills can do well in business. Gerber describes developing a precise business system that produces consistent results because it has been tested and refined. He says that businesses thrive because of innovation, quantification, and orchestration. Visualize what is true success to you as a person, Gerber advises, and work from the ideal to the specific. While the author is a consumate salesman who reads his material in soothing tones, he offers too many abstract ideas and too few concrete plans. There is little useful content here.
-- Mark Guyer, Stark City District Library, Canton, Ohio

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The E-Myth and American Small Business	7
Ch. 1	The Entrepreneurial Myth	9
Ch. 2	The Entrepreneur, the Manager, and the Technician	19
Ch. 3	Infancy: The Technician's Phase	34
Ch. 4	Adolescence: Getting Some Help	43
Ch. 5	Beyond the Comfort Zone	51
Ch. 6	Maturity and the Entrepreneurial Perspective	68
Pt. II	The Turn-Key Revolution: A New View of Business	77
Ch. 7	The Turn-Key Revolution	79
Ch. 8	The Franchise Prototype	91
Ch. 9	Working On Your Business, Not In It	97
Pt. III	Building a Small Business That Works!	115
Ch. 10	The Business Development Process	117
Ch. 11	Your Business Development Program	134
Ch. 12	Your Primary Aim	136
Ch. 13	Your Strategic Objective	149
Ch. 14	Your Organizational Strategy	166
Ch. 15	Your Management Strategy	187
Ch. 16	Your People Strategy	197
Ch. 17	Your Marketing Strategy	218
Ch. 18	Your Systems Strategy	234
Ch. 19	A Letter to Sarah	253
	Epilogue: Bringing the Dream Back to American Small Business	259
	Afterword: Taking the First Step	267

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The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments

Author: Pat Dorsey

To make money in today's dynamic market environment, you need to invest in companies that will perform in the face of sustained competitive pressure. But how can you accurately identify companies that are great today and likely to remain great for many years to come?

The answer to this question lies in competitive advantages, or economic moats. Just as moats were dug around medieval castles to keep the opposition at bay, economic moats protect the high returns on capital enjoyed by the world’s best companies. If you can identify companies that have moats, and you can purchase their shares at reasonable prices, you’ll begin to build a portfolio of solid businesses that will improve your odds of doing well in the stock market.

In The Little Book That Builds Wealth, author Pat Dorsey—the Director of Equity Research for leading independent investment research provider Morningstar, Inc.—outlines this proven approach and reveals how you can effectively apply it to your own investments. Step by step, Dorsey discusses why economic moats are such strong indicators of great long-term investments and examines four of their most common sources: intangible assets, cost advantages, customer-switching costs, and network economics. After establishing a firm understanding of moats, Dorsey shows you how to recognize moats that are eroding, the key role that industry structure plays in creating competitive advantage, and how management can create (as well as destroy) moats.

Along the way, Dorsey provides an informative overview of valuation—because even a wide-moat company will be a poor investment if you pay too much forits shares—and illustrates the issues addressed through case studies that apply competitive analysis to some well-known companies.

Although the moat concept is not a new one—it was made famous by Warren Buffett—the modern-day investor can benefit from what it has to offer. With The Little Book That Builds Wealth as your guide, you’ll quickly discover why moats should be an integral part of your analytical investment toolkit and learn how to leverage this approach to build a portfolio of high-performance stocks.

Pat Dorsey, CFA (Chicago, IL) is Director of Equity Research at Morningstar, Inc. He played an integral part in the development of the Morningstar Rating™ for stocks, as well as Morningstar’s economic moat ratings. Dorsey is also the author of The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: Morningstar's Guide to Building Wealth and Winning in the Market (Wiley). He holds a master’s degree in political science from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in government from Wesleyan University. Please visit findingmoats.com.

Six Disciplines Execution Revolution or Legend of Colton H Bryant

2009-12-01T19:50:00.000-08:00

Six Disciplines Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem that Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier

Author: Gary Harpst

With all of the pressures successful business leaders have today, none is more urgent or challenging than learning to execute strategy.

While larger businesses have always had the luxury of budgets and resources to meet this challenge, small and midsized businesses now have a tremendous opportunity to level the playing field and leapfrog past the expensive, outdated approaches of the past. Today, they can attack the challenge of execution in a revolutionary way.

Based on breakthrough research, field testing, and proven best-practices, the vision described by Gary Harpst in Six Disciplines Execution Revolution sets a new course for how small and midsized businesses can finally confront the never-ending challenge of planning and executing strategy.

About the Author:
Gary Harpst, a highly successful entrepreneur and CEO, spent twenty years as the leader of Solomon Software, which implemented more than 60,000 business management systems in small and midsized businesses, across almost every industry imaginable, before it was sold to Great Plains and eventually Microsoft

Introduction     1
Business Excellence     5
The Biggest Problem in Business     23
Why Is It So Difficult?     33
The Leapfrog Opportunity     43
Requirements for a Next-Generation Program     63
The First Complete Strategy Execution Program     77
A Repeatable Methodology     91
Accountability Coaching     103
An Execution System     121
Community Learning     141
Make Solving All Other Problems Easier     157
An Enduring Pursuit     165
Final Thoughts     179
Notes     181
Resources     185
Index     189
Acknowledgements     192
About the Author     193
Ready to Join The Revolution?     196

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Legend of Colton H. Bryant

Author: Alexandra Fuller

From the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil-fields and open plains of Wyoming; a heartrending story of the human spirit that lays bare where it is that wisdom truly resides

Colton H. Bryant was one of Wyoming's native sons and grown by that high, dry place, he never once wanted to leave it. "Wyoming loves me," he said, and it was true. Wyoming—roughneck, wild, open, and searingly beautiful— loved him, and Colton loved it back. As a child in school, Colton never could force himself to focus on his lessons. Instead, he'd plan where he'd go fishing later, or he'd wonder how many jackrabbits he might find on his favorite hunting patch, or he'd dream about the rides he would take on the wild mare he was breaking. "At my funeral, you'll all feel sorry for making me waste so much time in school," he said to his best friend Jake—and it was true.

Two things got Colton through the boredom of school and the neighborhood "K-mart cowboys" who bullied him: His best friend Jake and his favorite mantra, a snatch of a saying he heard on TV: Mind over matter—which meant to him: If you don't mind, it don't matter. Colton and Jake grew up wanting nothing more than the freedom to sleep out under the great Wyoming night sky, to hunt and fish and chase the horizon and to be just like Colton's dad, a strong and gentle man of few words. When it was time for Colton to marry and make money on his own, he took up as a hand on an oil rig. It was dangerous work, but Colton was the third generation in his family to work on the oil patch and heclaimed it was in his blood. And anyway, he joked, he always knew he'd die young.

Colton did die young, and he died on the rig—falling to his death because the drilling company had neglected to spend two thousand dollars on the mandated safety rails that would have saved his life. His family received no compensation. But they didn't expect to—they knew the company's ways, and after all as Colton would have said: Mind over matter.

In Scribbling the Cat, Alexandra Fuller brought us the examined life of a Rhodesian soldier; now—in her inimitable poetic voice and with her pitch-perfect ear for dialogue— she brings before us the life of someone much closer to home, as unexpected as he is iconic. The moving, tough, and in many ways quintessentially American story of Colton H. Bryant's life could not be told without also telling the story of the land that grew him—the beautiful and somehow tragic Wyoming; the land where there are still such things as cowboys roaming the plains, where it's relationships that get you through, and where a just, soulful, passionate man named Colton H. Bryant lived and died.

The Washington Post - Carolyn See

At first it would seem that The Legend of Colton H. Bryant marks an extraordinary change of pace for accomplished writer Alexandra Fuller, whose earlier books, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, are detailed, realistic narratives, both set in Africa, in some of its most inhospitable climes and dire circumstances. The Legend of Colton H. Bryant is set in Wyoming (where Fuller now resides with her husband and children). It is short, incantatory and, although true, cast as a fable, a story of why-things-are-the-way-they-are, a little like Rudyard Kipling's "How the Leopard Got His Spots." But this short "legend" has a great deal in common with the African books. They all concern men who fall helplessly in love with impossible landscapes and hopeless situations. Something within them connects to the hard times outside them, and that connection increases in strength until it snaps.

Publishers Weekly

Fuller, author of the bestselling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, narrates the tragically short life of Colton H. Bryant, a Wyoming roughneck in his mid-20s who in 2006 fell to his death on an oil rig owned by Patterson-UTI Energy. A Wyoming resident herself since 1994, Fuller is expert in evoking the stark landscape and recreating the speech and mentality of her adopted state's native sons. Along the way, she sheds light on the tough, unpredictable lives of Wyoming's oilmen and the toll exacted on their families. Though the book is wonderfully poignant and poetic and reads more like a novel than biography, Fuller acknowledges that she has taken narrative liberties, composed dialogue, disregarded certain aspects of Colton's life and occasionally juggled chronology "to create a smoother story line," leading readers to wonder what is true and what invented for dramatic purposes. As such, it is difficult to assess Fuller's simplistic conclusion that the company's drive to cut costs killed the young man, though she is right to highlight the strikingly high number of fatalities in the industry. As a touching portrait of a life cut short and a perceptive immersion in the environment that nurtures such men, Fuller's volume excels, but in terms of absolute veracity it should be read with caution. (May 6)

Kirkus Reviews

A lyrical paean to an unsung . . . well, not exactly hero, but one of life's unsung people. If this book were a country song, it would be by Merle Haggard. Whether British-born Fuller (Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier, 2004, etc.) knows from Haggard is a matter of speculation, but what is clear is that she has an unfailing eye for common people caught up in uncommon events. This story of a young Wyomingite named Colton H. Bryant is also that of the oil and gas boom wrought by deregulation in these rapacious years of Bush, "a tragedy before it even starts because there was never a way for anyone to win against all the odds out here." Alternately bullied and ignored-"Retard" is a slur-cum-nickname that figures often in these pages-Colton did most of the things a young man in the heavily Mormon southwestern corner of the state is supposed to do: ride and rope, fish and hunt, cruise around in pickup trucks. Moreover, like young men in Evanston, Colton "was born with horses and oil in his blood like his father before him and his grandfather before that and maybe his grandfather's father before that." Having endured adolescence thanks to a good friend named Jake and a slightly misquoted creed borrowed from television ("Mind over matter"), Colton followed the second birthright to the oil patch, where he quickly found work as a roughneck, an unforgiving job. "They have to keep drilling hour after hour--storm, heat, sleet, ice, sun--no matter what," writes Fuller. "They'll slap another beating heart on the rig to take your place if you're so much as five minutes late." Diligent and aware of the dangers, but needing to support a wife and baby, he fell into the well, as so manyothers have, just one of 35 Wyomingites to die on the rigs between 2000 and 2006. The petroleum company, in the meanwhile, boasted record profits-while Colton's family "received no compensation for his loss."A latter-day Silkwood, quiet and understated, beautifully written, speaking volumes about the priorities of the age.

The Power of Focus or The Heart of Change

2009-11-30T18:10:00.000-08:00

The Power of Focus

Author: Jack L Canfield

Whether they are corporate professionals, budding entrepreneurs, or own a home business, most people are looking to achieve more in less time, while earning enough money to live comfortably. This book reveals the proven techniques thousands of people have used to attain all of the money they wanted while living healthy, happy and balanced lives. The Power of Focus is a practical, no-nonsense guide that shows readers how to reach their business, personal and financial goals without getting burned out in the process.

Canfield, Hansen, and Hewitt have taken the best ideas from their own successful careers (seventy-nine years of combined business expertise), and distilled them into ten powerful focusing principles. The result is a treasury of insights that is enjoyable to read and easy to understand. At the outset, the book identifies the three most important fundamentals for consistent success: developing unusual clarity; understanding that habits determine your future; and using a "no exceptions policy" approach to focus on what you want. Numerous anecdotes and inspiring stories help to reinforce each principle.

The Heart of Change: Real Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

Author: John P Kotter

John Kotter's international bestseller Leading Change struck a powerful chord with legions of managers everywhere. It acknowledged the cynicism, pain, and fear they faced in implementing large-scale change-but also armed them with an eight-step plan of action for leaping boldly forward in a turbulent world.

Now, Kotter and coauthor Dan S. Cohen delve deeper into the subject of change to get to the heart of how change actually happens. Through compelling, real-life stories from people in the trenches, in all kinds of organizations, the authors attack the fundamental problem that underlies every major transformation: How do you go beyond simply getting your message across to truly changing people's behavior?

Based on interviews within over 100 organizations in the midst of large-scale change, The Heart of Change delivers the simple yet provocative answer to this question, forever altering the way organizations and individuals approach change. While most companies believe change happens by making people think differently, Kotter and Cohen say the key lies in making them feel differently. They introduce a new dynamic-"see-feel-change"-that fuels action by showing people potent reasons for change that spark their emotions.

Organized around the revolutionary eight-step change process introduced in Leading Change, this story-driven book shows how the best change leaders use not just reports or analysis, but gloves, video cameras, airplanes, office design, and other concrete elements to impel people toward positive action. The authors reveal how this appeal to the heart-over the mind-motivates people to overcome even daunting obstacles to change and produce breathtaking results.

For individuals in every walk of life and companies in every stage of change, this compact, no-nonsense book captures the heart-and the how-of successful change.

Author Biography: John P. Kotter, world-renowned expert on leadership at the Harvard Business School, is the author of many books, including the award-winning, best-selling Leading Change. Dan S. Cohen is a Principal with Deloitte Consulting LLC.

Publishers Weekly

"Never underestimate the power of a good story," Kotter and Cohen testify in this highly readable sequel to Kotter's groundbreaking Leading Change. Practicing what they preach, they have culled, from hundreds of interviews conducted by Deloitte Consulting, the 34 most instructive and vivid accounts of companies undergoing large-scale change. With chapters organized by each of the eight stages of change Kotter identified in his 1996 bestseller, the authors deftly contrast success stories with fumbles, then utilize the compare-and-contrast format for lively "how-to/how-not-to" discussion. Throughout, they pepper their discussion with arresting (and quotable) aphorisms, such as "Dying will not help" and "Honesty always trumps propaganda," to ensure that readers remain on task, engaged and awake. Viewed in stages with concrete examples and convenient end-of-chapter summaries, the challenges and opportunities of the change process emerge in sharp relief. Kotter and Cohen demonstrate the critical difference that focus, faith, leadership, commitment and creativity make in winning employees' hearts, offering good stories that truly apply to each topic. "The single biggest challenge in the process is changing people's behavior," they insist, while providing convincing evidence (as well as examples of the effectiveness of videos and creative visual displays) that their method of "see-feel-change" will enable a company to overcome resistance lurking in its midst. (Aug. 1) Forecast: Author appearances and a national marketing and advertising campaign will alert Leading Change's huge audience (it is HBS Press's all-time bestseller) to this practical no-nonsense guide that pumps up, orients and keeps on track companies struggling with change. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Prolific author and change management expert Kotter (emeritus, Harvard Business Sch.) and consultant Cohen join forces in this timely update to Kotter's successful Leading Change (1996), which set the standard for books on the subject. This earlier work revealed why efforts at change so often end in failure and outlined the eight critical steps needed to turn things around. Having researched more than 100 organizations in the midst of major changes, Kotter and Cohen now reveal the core problems people face at each of these eight stages and provide straightforward solutions. Their main finding is that the central issue concerns not structure or systems but changing the behavior of people. An overview of how people see and meet change is followed by chapters on the steps to successful, large-scale change, including increasing urgency, building a guiding team, getting the vision right, communicating for buy-in, empowering action, creating short-term wins, and persistence. The inclusion of many firsthand, personal stories from people involved in change efforts makes this a useful book for any organization. Highly recommended for all academic libraries supporting business curricula. Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

Based on interviews within some 100 business organizations, this work explores how business leaders implement large scale change within their businesses. The book is organized around the eight stop process introduced in the author's earlier work, and contains case studies of leaders making change. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

If you have ever tried to change anything, you know how hard it is. How do you go about getting your message across to truly change people's behavior? While most companies believe change happens by making people think differently, according to John Kotter and Dan Cohen, this is not the case. Instead, the authors write that change happens when you make people feel differently.

They write that those who want to promote change must appeal more to the heart than the mind.

The authors write that people change what they do because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings. This is especially so in large-scale organizational change, where you are dealing with new technologies, cultural transformation, globalization and e-business. In an age of turbulence, when you handle this reality well, the authors explain, you win.

To understand why some organizations are leaping into the future more successfully than others, the authors write that companies first need to see the flow of effective large-scale change efforts. Change is an eight-step process that few handle well. These steps are:

Create a sense of urgency so that people start telling each other, "Let's go, we need to change things!" In successful change efforts, the first step is making sure sufficient people act with sufficient urgency - with on-your-toes behavior that looks for opportunities and problems and energizes colleagues, that beams a sense of "let's go." Without urgency, large-scale change will not happen.
Pull together a guiding team powerful enough to guide a big change. The team you put together to guide change needs a sense of urgency. When there is urgency, more people want to lead, even if there is personal risk and few short-term rewards. But urgency isn't enough. Large-scale change does not happen without a powerful guiding force. A fragmented management team cannot do the job, and a hero CEO does not work either. There are not enough hours in the day for even the strongest executive to accomplish change single-handedly. Your challenge is to put together an effective guiding team.
Create clear, simple, uplifting visions and sets of strategies. In successful large-scale change, a well-functioning guiding team answers the questions required to produce a clear sense of direction. What change is necessary? What is our vision for the new organization? What should not be altered? What is the best way to make the vision a reality? What change strategies are unacceptably dangerous? Good answers to these questions position an organization to leap into a better future.
Communicate the vision through simple, heartfelt messages sent through multiple channels so that people begin to buy into the change. In successful change efforts, the visions and change strategies can't stay locked in a room with your team. They must be communicated with as many people as possible, who in turn must buy in. The goal: to get as many people as possible acting to make the vision a reality.
Empower people by removing obstacles to the vision. When people begin to understand and act on a change vision, you need to remove barriers in their paths. One example: Take away a pessimistic skipper and give the crew an optimistic boss. Often the biggest obstacle to change efforts is a boss - an immediate manager or someone higher in the hierarchy. Subordinates see the vision and want to help, but are effectively shut down.
Create short-term wins that provide momentum. Empowered people create short-term wins -- victories that nourish faith in the change effort, emotionally reward the hard workers, keep the critics at bay, and build momentum. Without early wins that are visible, timely, unambiguous and meaningful, change efforts invariably run into serious problems.
Maintain momentum so that wave after wave of change is possible. After the first set of short-term wins, a change effort will have direction and momentum. In successful situations, people build on this momentum to make a vision a reality by keeping urgency up and a feeling of false pride down; by eliminating unnecessary, exhausting and demoralizing work; and by not declaring victory prematurely.
Make change stick by nurturing a new culture. Tradition is a powerful force. Leaps into the future can slide back into the past. Change sticks only if you create a new, supportive and strong organizational culture. A supportive culture provides roots for new ways of working. Making it stick is difficult. If this challenge isn't met at the end of the change-process, enormous effort can be wasted.

Why Soundview Likes This Book
The Heart of Change reveals a new dynamic - the "see-feel-change" dynamic that fuels action by showing people potent reasons for change that spark their emotions. Built around the eight steps of change first introduced in Kotter's bestseller, Leading Change, The Heart of Change gives straight advice on successful change - and true stories of companies making change happen. Copyright (c) 2002 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Suze Ormans Financial Guidebook or Judgment of Paris

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

Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Putting the 9 Steps to Work

Author: Suze Orman

A One-on-One Financial Planning Session with Suze Orman

With her New York Times bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, America’s leading financial expert Suze Orman transformed the concept of money forever by teaching us to recognize the emotional aspects of our relationship with it. Now, this fully revised edition of Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook translates Suze’s own brand of motivation and inspiration into a user-friendly, hands-on workbook that will empower you to work through the nuts and bolts of personal finance, with Suze as your trusted adviser.

Updated to keep you abreast of our quickly shifting economy, you’ll find:

• Insightful exercises, quizzes, and worksheets to help you understand how your parents’ relationship with money affects yours, and what money means to you

• Up-to-the-minute information on tax codes, IRA rules and regulations, and long-term-care insurance

• Useful strategies for coping with the ever-changing landscape of educational costs, social security, and the stock market

• An outline of key questions that every financial adviser should ask you upon your initial meeting

• An in-depth analysis of all your monthly expenses, providing a realistic picture of just how much money you have to work with and how you may not be respecting your money as much as you should

Regardless of your age and income, it is never too early or too late to take control of your money. Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook is the perfect companion to The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, the personal finance classic thatchanged the way millions of Americans viewed money. Full of self-tests, thought-provoking questions, and Suze’s easy-to-understand personal finance advice, here is your empowering approach to achieving financial freedom forever, with the best guide possible.

Interesting textbook: Feel Good or Is it Just a Phase

Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine

Author: George M Taber

The Paris Tasting of 1976 will forever be remembered as the landmark event that transformed the wine industry. At this legendary contest -- a blind tasting -- a panel of top French wine experts shocked the industry by choosing unknown California wines over France's best.

George M. Taber, the only reporter present, recounts this seminal contest and its far-reaching effects, focusing on three gifted unknowns behind the winning wines: a college lecturer, a real estate lawyer, and a Yugoslavian immigrant. With unique access to the main players and a contagious passion for his subject, Taber renders this historic event and its tremendous aftershocks -- repositioning the industry and sparking a golden age for viticulture across the globe. With an eclectic cast of characters and magnificent settings, Judgment of Paris is an illuminating tale and a story of the entrepreneurial spirit of the new world conquering the old.

Publishers Weekly

In 1976, a Paris wine shop arranged a tasting as a gimmick to introduce some California wines; the judges, of course, were all French and militantly chauvinistic. Only one journalist bothered to attend, a Time correspondent, looking for a possible American angle. The story he got turned out to be a sensation. In both red and white blind tastings, an American wine won handily: a 1973 Stag's Leap cabernet and a 1973 Chateau Montelena chardonnay. When the story was published the following week, it stunned both the complacent French and fledgling American wine industries-and things have never been the same since. Taber, the Time man, has fashioned an entertaining, informative book around this event. Following a brisk history of the French-dominated European wine trade with a more detailed look at the less familiar American effort, he focuses on the two winning wineries, both of which provide him with lively tales of colorful amateurs and immigrants making good, partly through willingness to experiment with new techniques. While the outrage of some of the judges is funny, this is a serious business book, too, sure to be required reading for American vintners and oenophiles. Photos. Agent, Wendy Silbert. (Sept. 27) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

More has happened in the wine field in the past four decades than in the previous four centuries. The turning point in the growing, producing, and drinking of wine in California was an obscure blind tasting that took place in Paris on May 24, 1976. As the only journalist who bothered to cover the event, Taber has a distinctive take on the phenomenal growth of the wine industry. He covers much more than just the Paris tasting that judged California wines superior to France's best, chronicling the history of California wine production from its low-quality beginnings to today's huge industry. He also follows the life paths of the two California winemakers-Mike Grgich and Warren Winiarski-whose wines placed first in the 1976 Paris tasting, and he recounts the histories of the industry's chief personalities and their wineries. Elin McCoy's more engaging The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr. and the Reign of American Taste deals with a similar time period in the wine industry; however, Taber's fact-laden book will appeal to California wine enthusiasts and others interested in the details of the 1976 Paris wine tasting. Recommended. (Index, illustrations, and maps not seen.)-Ann Weber, Bellarmine Coll. Prep. Lib., San Jose, CA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A vigorous account of the dare that made connoisseurs think differently about California wines-and that brought great wealth to Golden State vintners. There are doubtless those who still think that French wine means Montrachet, while California wine means Thunderbird. Steven Spurrier, an English wine merchant transplanted to Paris, shared some of that prejudice, but he allowed himself to be pleasantly surprised when journalists and winemakers cajoled him to try some of the new breed of California varietals, which went far beyond what screw-top Paul Masson wines offer. Spurrier organized a blind tasting with a panel made up of France's best-known wine experts, among them the inspector general of the Appellation d'Origine Controlee Board and the editor of the Revue du Vin de France. A superb Chateau Montalena 1973 Chardonnay took top prize, grown in the rich soil of Calistoga, at great remove from the prized terroir of Burgundy or Bordeaux. Still, as Taber notes in his superb disquisition on how wines are made and who has been making them, French and American wines have been sharing tables for generations: It was American rootstock that saved the French wine industry in the 19th century, French grapes that elevated California wines above bathtub plonk. And Taber's cast of characters is a fascinatingly mixed lot, too: a Chicago classicist who took up winemaking, a Croatian refugee who helped prove that Zinfandel originated in his homeland and the children and grandchildren of Italian immigrants who insisted, against the suspicions of their Protestant neighbors, that drinking wine was a good thing. The upshot: a magnificent California wine industry, and a scene much different from that of1976. Writes Taber: "The dynamic part of the world wine business today is not in Europe, but in the New World-Argentina, Australia, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States."An intoxicating indulgence for Sideways fans, and an education for would-be wine sophisticates.

	Foreword
Ch. 1	The little wine shop in Cite Berryer	7
Ch. 2	France ruled the world	17
Ch. 3	The new Eden	29
Ch. 4	California dreamer	45
Ch. 5	Starting over in America	57
Ch. 6	A revolution begins	68
Ch. 7	The swashbuckling wine years	73
Ch. 8	In search of a simpler life	83
Ch. 9	An apprentice winemaker	91
Ch. 10	The rise of Robert Mondavi	100
Ch. 11	Launching a new winery	106
Ch. 12	A case of industrial-strength burnout	115
Ch. 13	The rebirth of a ghost winery	123
Ch. 14	Making the 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars cabernet sauvignon	131
Ch. 15	Making the 1973 Chateau Montelena chardonnay	142
Ch. 16	Voyages of discovery	155
Ch. 17	California wines at the tasting	165
Ch. 18	French wines at the tasting	185
Ch. 19	A stunning upset	197
Ch. 20	The buzz heard round the world	213
Ch. 21	A dream fulfilled	225
Ch. 22	The globalization of wine	230
Ch. 23	Dispatches from the international wine trade	243
Ch. 24	France revisited	275
Ch. 25	Napa Valley revisited	289
App	Scorecards for the judgment of Paris

The Millionaire Next Door or Let My People Go Surfing

2009-11-28T14:48:00.000-08:00

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

Author: Thomas J Stanley

The incredible national bestseller that is changing people's lives -- and increasing their net worth!

CAN YOU SPOT THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR?

Who are the rich in this country?
What do they do?
Where do they shop?
What do they drive?
How do they invest?
Where did their ancestors come from?
How did they get rich?
Can I ever become one of them?

Get the answers in The Millionaire Next Door, the never-before-told story about wealth in America. You'll be surprised at what you find out....

Forbes

The implication of The Millionaire Next Door is that nearly anybody with a steady job can amass a tidy fortune.

Library Journal

In The Millionaire Next Door, read by Cotter Smith, Stanley (Marketing to the Affluent) and Danko (marketing, SUNY at Albany) summarize findings from their research into the key characteristics that explain how the elite club of millionaires have become "wealthy." Focusing on those with a net worth of at least $1 million, their surprising results reveal fundamental qualities of this group that are diametrically opposed to today's earn-and-consume culture, including living below their means, allocating funds efficiently in ways that build wealth, ignoring conspicuous consumption, being proficient in targeting marketing opportunities, and choosing the "right" occupation. It's evident that anyone can accumulate wealth, if they are disciplined enough, determined to persevere, and have the merest of luck. In The Millionaire Mind, an excellent follow-up to the highly successful first analysis of how ordinary folks can accumulate wealth, Stanley interviews many more participants in a much more comprehensive study of the characteristics of those in this economic situation. The author structures these deeper details into categories that include the key success factors that define this group, the relationship of education to their success, their approach to balancing risk, how they located themselves in their work, their choice of spouse, how they live their daily lives, and the significant differences in the truth about this group vs. the misplaced image of high spenders. Narrator Smith's solid, dead-on reading never fails to heighten the importance of these principles that most twentysomethings should be forced to listen to in toto. Highly recommended for all public libraries. Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

New York Post

A lively account of who the richest people in the U.S. really are.

Book about: The World Is Curved or Outrage

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Author: Yvon Chouinard

and/or stickers showing their discounted price. More about bargain books

Contemporary Labor Economics or Understanding the Digital Economy

2009-02-17T12:53:00.000-08:00

Contemporary Labor Economics

Author: Campbell R McConnell

Contemporary Labor Economics, 7e presents the "new" labor economics. In the past, study of labor was highly descriptive, emphasizing historical developments, facts, institutions, and legal considerations. Labor markets and unemployment was accorded some attention, but the analysis was typically minimal. This state of affairs has changed significantly in recent decades. Economists have achieved important breakthroughs in studying labor markets and problems. Labor economics is increasingly an applied field of micro and macro theory and has become a critical part of the core of analytical economics. As a result, the focus of the text is on the "new" labor economics. However, it also presents traditional topics such as labor law, structure of unions, and collective bargaining since these issues also play an important role in labor markets.

	Preface
Ch. 1	Labor Economics: Introduction and Overview	1
Ch. 2	The Theory of Individual Labor Supply	14
Ch. 3	Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work	51
Ch. 4	Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital	84
Ch. 5	The Demand for Labor	126
Ch. 6	Wage Determination and the Allocation of Labor	167
Ch. 7	Alternative Pay Schemes and Labor Efficiency	207
Ch. 8	The Wage Structure	241
Ch. 9	Mobility, Migration, and Efficiency	275
Ch. 10	Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining	306
Ch. 11	The Economic Impact of Unions	343
Ch. 12	Government and the Labor Market: Employment, Expenditures, and Taxation	376
Ch. 13	Government and the Labor Market: Legislation and Regulation?	403
Ch. 14	Labor Market Discrimination	438
Ch. 15	Job Search: External and Internal	479
Ch. 16	The Distribution of Personal Earnings	499
Ch. 17	Labor Productivity: Wages, Prices, and Unemployment	524
Ch. 18	Employment and Unemployment	553
App	Information Sources in Labor Economics	582
	Glossary	598
	Answers to "Your Turn" Questions	613
	Index	617

New interesting textbook: Preventative Law for Business Professionals or Career Development and Systems Theory

Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Author: Erik Brynjolfsson

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the economic implications of the Internet and electronic commerce domestically and internationally, and to consider new types of data collection and research that could be undertaken by public and private organizations.

This book contains work presented at a conference held by executive branch agencies in May 1999 at the Department of Commerce. The goals of the conference were to assess current research on the digital economy, to engage the private sector in developing the research that informs investment and policy decisions, and to promote better understanding of the growth and socioeconomic implications of information technology and electronic commerce. Aspects of the digital economy addressed include macroeconomic assessment, organizational change, small business, access, market structure and competition, and employment and the workforce.

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles or Nine Questions

2009-02-16T11:12:00.000-08:00

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

Author: Dean Cocking

Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, the authors develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics, contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories and showing that it offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles. They provide insights into the central notions of professional detachment, professional integrity, and moral character in professional life, and demonstrate how a virtue-based approach can help us better understand what ethical professional-client relationships would be like.

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The nature of virtue ethics	7
2	The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship	39
3	A virtue ethics approach to professional roles	74
4	Ethical models of the good general practitioner	95
5	Professional virtues, ordinary vices	116
6	Professional detachment in health care and legal practice	137
	Bibliography	172
	Index	184

Go to: Power without Responsibility or Macroeconomics

Nine Questions: Secured Debt Deals in the 21st Century

Author: David G Epstein

Nine Questions is about secured debt deals: whether to do a secured debt deal, documenting the deal, dealing with deal problems. The book is organized around the "life cycle" of deals, which helps students understand why Article 9 concepts matter and how Article 9 works. The book covers principles and principal problem areas rather than all particulars of perfection and priority rules. Nine Questions is the first secured credit casebook to include edited, relevant Article 9 provisions throughout the book, right next to the problems and cases and original text.

The Work Family Challenge or Engines of Enterprise

2009-02-15T09:31:00.000-08:00

The Work-Family Challenge: Rethinking Employment

Author: Suzan Lewis

The Context for Change / II. Policy and Practice / III. Barriers to the Effectiveness of Current Policies and Strategies for Moving Beyond Policies to Culture Change / IV. Conclusion CONTRIBUTORS: S. Lewis, P. Moss, J. Lewis, L. Harker, J. Gonyea, B. Googins, H. Holt, I. Thaulow, C. L. Cooper, A. Watts, C. Camp, K. Taylor, P. H. Raabe, J. K. Fletcher, R. Rapoport

	List of Contributors
	Foreword
1	Rethinking Employment: An Organizational Culture Change Framework	1
2	Reconciling Employment and Family Responsibilities: A European Perspective	20
3	Work-Family Reconciliation and the Law: Intrusion or Empowerment?	34
4	The Family-Friendly Employer in Europe	48
5	The Restructuring of Work and Family in the United States: A New Challenge for American Corporations	63
6	Formal and Informal Flexibility in the Workplace	79
7	Corporate Relocation Policies	93
8	Developing and Implementing Policies: Midland Bank's Experience	103
9	Evaluating the Impact of Family-Friendly Employer Policies: A Case Study	112
10	Constructing Pluralistic Work and Career Arrangements	128
11	Work-Family Issues as a Catalyst for Organizational Change	142
12	Rethinking Employment: A Partnership Approach	159
	Index	169

Look this: Tasty and Exotic Foods or The World of Soy

Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England

Author: Peter Temin

New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any in the world. From an inauspicious beginning—as immigration ground to a halt in the eighteenth century—New England went on to lead the United States in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the rest of the country caught up in the mid-twentieth century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society.

Engines of Enterprise tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays written by preeminent historians and economists. These essays chart the changing fortunes of entrepreneurs and venturers, businessmen and inventors, and common folk toiling in fields, in factories, and in air-conditioned offices. The authors describe how, short of staple crops, colonial New Englanders turned to the sea and built an empire; and how the region became the earliest home of the textile industry as commercial fortunes underwrote new industries in the nineteenth century. They show us the region as it grew ahead of the rest of the country and as the rest of the United States caught up. And they trace the transformation of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine tools to such intangible goods as education and software. Concluding short essays also put forward surprising but persuasive arguments—for instance, that slavery, while not prominent in colonial New England, was a critical part of the economy; and that the federal government played a crucial role in the development of the region's industrial skills.

Library Journal

The economy of New England experienced far-reaching changes over the centuries and led the way in the transformation of an American agrarian economy to a manufacturing powerhouse. This process of change is the subject of this well-knit collection of essays by economists and historians, edited by Temin (economics, MIT). The essays trace the fortunes of venture capitalists and investors in 18th-century New England, which, lacking staple crops to trade, made overseas ventures the foundation of the region's economy. In the early 19th century, Yankee ingenuity made New England the nation's leader in manufacturing, beginning with cotton textiles and machine tools. Eventually, other sections of the country forged ahead of New England in terms of factory output. Showing great ingenuity, however, New England reinvented itself as an important producer of less tangible but still valuable products and services, such as higher education and, in our own time, computer software. A scholarly work that effectively synthesizes much available information, this is recommended for the economic history collections of academic libraries.--Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., NY Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Resource Management for Individuals and Families or Black Unionism in the Industrial South

2009-02-14T07:50:00.000-08:00

Resource Management for Individuals and Families

Author: Elizabeth B B Goldsmith

The text applies the modern management theory and evaluation to the decision making and problem solving within the family unit. The text applies principles of planning, implementing and evaluating needs in household settings. The position that sees management as a process approach sets the text apart from earlier texts on family management.

Interesting book: Thawed or Amish Table

Black Unionism in the Industrial South

Author: Ernest Obadele Starks

In the early twentieth century, the Upper Texas Gulf Coast was one of the fastest growing industrial areas in the country. The cotton trade had attracted railroad and ship labor to the banks of the Gulf of Mexico, numerous oil refineries sprouted up in response to the Spindletop gusher of 1901, and the ship-building and steel trades were also prospering as a result of the oil boom. Such economic promise attracted thousands of black laborers from across the South who hoped to find a good job and a better life. They were instead kept in low-wage jobs, refused union memberships, and restricted in their mobility.

Black Unionism in the Industrial South presents the struggles of black workers who fought for equality and unionization in the heyday of Gulf Coast industry. Ernest Obadele-Starks examines the unionists' responses to racial and class domination and their creative strategies to reach their goals. Facing public and corporate policy that typically deferred to white workers, blacks banded together to achieve representation in the workplace, form union auxiliaries, charter their own local unions, seal alliances with members of the black middle class, and manipulate the media to benefit their cause. Personal accounts highlight the unionists' passion, even when their requests and demands resulted in little more than "gradual participation, sporadic inclusion, and minimal interracial cooperation."

Obadele-Starks eloquently captures the unionists' fight and discusses the implications of their struggle for the industrial society of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast. Students and scholars of American labor history, race relations, and Texas history will find Black Unionism in the Industrial South a valuable and compelling scholarly work.

The Predatory Society or Just Another Car Factory

2009-02-13T06:09:00.000-08:00

The Predatory Society: Deception in the American Marketplace

Author: Paul Blumberg

Who knows more about a business's shady practices than the people who work there? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg examines a wide variety of evidence, including over 600 accounts written by workers who disclose in elaborate detail the deceptions their employers practiced on the public.
Employed in a wide variety of business enterprises--supermarkets, restaurants, fish markets, department stores, gas stations, drug stores, pet stores, and many more--these workers pull back the curtain and reveal the hidden recesses of the American marketplace.
Blumberg documents these deceptions in numerous vivid stories, providing readers with a trenchant handbook on survival in America. He tells of stores that routinely mark prices up before a sale; gas stations that sell regular gas as high test; auto mechanics who spray-paint customers' old car parts and then charge them for new parts (in one gas stations, the workers claimed that the mechanic's best tool was his paint can); and pharmacists who sell generic drugs and charge name-brand prices.
But equally important, he provides an insightful analysis of why deception pervades the American marketplace. Though at times amusing, The Predatory Society is also frequently disturbing for what it says about private capitalism: how dishonesty is all but built into the American marketplace, and how this dishonesty has potentially disastrous effects on trust and community in our society.

Book review: CDMA Internetworking or Advertising

Just Another Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents

Author: James Rinehart

This Study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology, labor studies, and a human resource management.

	Author Recognition
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Strike That Was Not Supposed to Happen	3
Ch. 2	Touring the Plant	11
Ch. 3	Lean Production: The Essentials and CAMI's Version	25
Ch. 4	Recruitment and Training	33
Ch. 5	Working at CAMI: Multiskilling or Multitasking?	44
Ch. 6	Working Lean	65
Ch. 7	Team Concept and Working in Teams	85
Ch. 8	Gender on the Line	108
Ch. 9	The Kaizen Agenda	124
Ch. 10	Kaizen: Shop Floor Responses and Outcomes	137
Ch. 11	Commitment	157
Ch. 12	The Union	180
Ch. 13	Is CAMI Exceptional?	194
Ch. 14	Just Another Car Factory?	201
	App. I: Methodology	207
	App. II: Questionnaire Items Referred to in the Text	221
	References	231
	Index	243

Additional Calculus Topics or Introduction to Econometrics

2009-02-12T04:28:00.000-08:00

Additional Calculus Topics: To Accompany Calculus, 10/E and College Mathematics, 10/E

Author: Raymond A Barnett

This three-chapter supplement to the tenth editions of Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences and College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences provides additional coverage of differential equations, Taylor polynomials, infinite series, and the role of probability in calculus. Includes coverage of separable differential equations, first-order linear differential equations, and related applications. Provides increased emphasis on recognition of the relevant growth laws. Discusses the operations that can be performed on Taylor series and the effects of these operations on the interval of convergence. Presents comprehensive discussion of improper integrals and properties of continuous probability density functions, including the uniform, exponential, and normal probability distributions, that requires no previous experience with probability. Includes additional information on increments and differentials, L'Hopital's Rule, double integrals over more general regions, and interpolating polynomials. For anyone interested in learning more about calculus.

Introduction to Econometrics

Author: James H Stock

Designed for a first course in introductory econometrics, Introduction to Econometrics, reflects modern theory and practice, with interesting applications that motivate and match up with the theory to ensure students grasp the relevance of econometrics. Authors James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson integrate real-world questions and data into the development of the theory, with serious treatment of the substantive findings of the resulting empirical analysis.

Communication Technologies or Entrepreneurial Economics

2009-02-11T02:48:00.000-08:00

Communication Technologies (NetEffects Series)

Author: Dennis O Gehris

Not all end-users. are technicians.
In fact, most aren't ....

This book is intended for the individual who. uses technology in daily work activities and desires a technical overview of electronic communication systems. It was written to the Organisational and End-user Information Systems (OEIS) model curriculum developed by the Organizational Systems Research Association (OSRA).

Discover:

The vocabulary of telecommunications
Emerging communication technologies, including e-mail, voice processing, teleconferencing, and wireless communication
The Internet
Solutions to telecommunication problems
Network fundamentals

Readers can assess their knowledge on-line by using the Companion Web Site at
.

Booknews

A textbook for an college course on end-user communications technologies and telecommunications applications within such disciplines as office information systems and computer information systems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from Dismal Science

Author: Alexander Tabarrok

This intriguing collection is designed to show how economists can play a more active role in designing and directing the nation's social institutions. By taking the task of political economy seriously, the contributors (including some of today's most distinguished economists) reveal the power of economic thought to offer innovative solutions to some of the most difficult problems facing society today. By creating markets where none existed before, the authors propose efficient, reliable, and profitable improvements to current systems of health insurance, financial markets, human organ distribution, judicial practice, bankruptcy and securities regulation, patenting, and transportation. Written in the entrepreneurial spirit, these essays show economics to be an ambitious, dynamic, and far-from-dismal science.

Finance and Investments using the Wall Street Journal or City of Gold

2009-02-10T01:07:00.000-08:00

Finance and Investments using the Wall Street Journal

Author: Peter R Crabb

Peter Crabb's The Wall Street Journal Workbook for Investments and Finance will help students evaluate and apply information from the Wall Street Journal. It consists of three main parts: 1. An overview of the finance/investments topic, 2. A group of exercises based on data or an article that is printed in the workbook, 3. A group of exercises based on data or an article that is in a current edition of the Wall Street Journal. This workbook establishes a firm link between our textbooks and the discounted Wall Street Journal subscription program ($20 for 15 weeks of the WSJ, both printed and online versions).

PART I – INTRODUCTIONFinance and Investments Using the Wall Street Journal PART II – MARKET ANALYSIS Economic Analysis Industry Analysis International Economics and Markets PART III – SECURITIES MARKETS AND ANALYSIS Time Value of Money Bond Valuations Stock Valuations Foreign Exchange PART IV – INVESTMENT ANALYSIS Financial Statement Analysis Technical Analysis PART V – DERIVATIVE SECURITIES Options Futures Index Futures and Options PART VI- PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Risk Measurement Asset Allocation Benchmarking PART VII - CORPORATE FINANCING Cost of Capital Public Offering of Securities Dividend Policy Mergers and Acquisitions

Go to: Green Cuisine or Globalization Women and Health in the 21st Century

City of Gold: An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent

Author: David Westbrook

David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life. In this wide-ranging, multi-tiered exploration of our contemporary global political economy, he touches on four major themes: the historical foundation of the city of gold, an assessment of its political scope, its current discontents, and ways to make a better--albeit imperfect--world from within it.

Journal of World Trade

a powerful demonstration of the limits within which global ...organiz[es] economic interaction in our cosmopolitan society.

Europe at the Crossroads or Successful Proposal Strategies for Small Businesses

2009-02-08T23:26:00.000-08:00

Europe at the Crossroads

Author: Guillermo de la Dehesa

From the beginning, the European Union had a clear objective: to permanently consolidate peace in Europe after two of the bloodiest wars in history. This was supplemented after the fall of communism with a second priority: to become an economic power capable of counterbalancing America's growing dominance. The current state of Europe, however, has sparked a fierce debate on just how well the economy is really doing in comparison to the U.S.--and whether Europe can continue to compete and maintain its generous welfare state.

Written by one of Europe's most well-known and respected economists, Europe at the Crossroads analyzes whether the EU is fulfilling its economic and social targets, outlining in a simple and understandable way the main issues facing the EU today and in the future. Drawing upon the recent official data and literature, Guillermo de la Dehesa seeks solutions for Europe by comparing its situation to that of the U.S. and revealing how much more can be achieved in the areas of efficiency, productivity, and innovation.

De la Dehesa documents the EU's persistent economic underperformance in recent decades and examines the cause of its slower growth. He then presents a comprehensive blueprint of reforms for increased prosperity and deeper social cohesion, which addresses:

The main economic challenge facing both the U.S. and the EU: the impact of aging on public expenditures
How to enrich the EU's policy and institutional environments to enhance business conditions for existing firms and new entrepreneurial activities
Necessary structural reforms--welfare state, labor and product markets
Fostering a knowledgesociety though increased investments in R&D and higher education
The difficulties in implementing the Lisbon Strategy (major strategic goals for improving the EU's economic efficiency) and methods for meeting those challenges

Thought-provoking, expertly researched, and brilliantly evaluated, Europe at the Crossroads presents the most informed discussion on the current and future state of Europe's economy.

Guillermo de la Dehesa is Chairman of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Member of The Group of Thirty, and Chairman of the Instituto Empresa. He is also Director of Banco Santander and Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs Europe, independent director of four European firms, and a member of the European advisory board of U.S.-based corporations Eli Lilly and Coca-Cola. De la Dehesa is the author and coauthor of numerous books on economics, and the author of over two hundred articles and papers.

Publishers Weekly

With its extensive annotated tables, graphs, summaries of EU studies and a wrapup of the most recent Lisbon Summit, this volume is a treasure trove of data for Europolicy wonks. And it doesn't neglect the technical details behind the numbers, which cover leisure, income, productivity, education and technology research and development. Topics include European demographic trends, the economic and fiscal effects of pension plans, the relative productivity of labor and capital and comparisons of the EU to the United States and the separate countries against each other. A key focus is the two labor markets within Europe: the protected insiders, usually older European men, and the unprotected outsiders, usually immigrants, women and youth. Discussion is mostly limited to the pan-European level so the book can touch only superficially on major issues such as immigration policy and intraunion regulation and trade policy. One serious defect is the book's rambling structure; it has neither clear questions nor strong conclusions. The author is deeply attached to the European social model, but seems vaguely gloomy about its ability to support vibrant economic growth or to extend its coverage to all European residents. Few of the statistics cover periods since 2002 and the many tables list countries in differing and apparently random order making table to table comparisons laborious. (Feb.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Successful Proposal Strategies for Small Businesses: Using Knowledge Management to Win Government, Private-Sector, and International Contracts

Author: Robert S Frey

Newly expanded and thoroughly revised to reflect and meet the demands of a high-velocity global business environment, the fourth edition of this popular book and its companion CD-ROM help small and midsized businesses as well as nonprofit organizations and public-sector agencies to achieve effective, efficient, and disciplined business development, proposal development, and knowledge management (KM) processes.

Ch. 1	Competitive proposals and small business	1
Ch. 2	Strategic partnering and subcontracting opportunities	43
Ch. 3	Marketing to and with your clients	59
Ch. 4	Requests for proposals	97
Ch. 5	Private-sector solicitation requests	111
Ch. 6	The federal acquisition process : emerging directions	121
Ch. 7	The proposal life cycle	145
Ch. 8	Major proposal components	189
Ch. 9	Acquisition/capture and proposal team activities	213
Ch. 10	The role of the proposal manager	225
Ch. 11	Pursuing international business and structuring international proposals	255
Ch. 12	Proposal production and publication	291
Ch. 13	Human and organizational dynamics of the proposal process	315
Ch. 14	Controlling bid and proposal costs	331
Ch. 15	Tried-and-true proposal writing and editing techniques	339
Ch. 16	Packaging and managing proposal information and knowledge effectively	353
Ch. 17	Leveraging business complexity in a knowledge-based economy	381
Ch. 18	Planning and producing SF330 responses for architect-engineer services	395
	Epilogue : thinking to win small-business competitive proposals	411
App. A	Sample proposal kickoff package	415
App. B	Template to capture important resume information	419
App. C	Marketing information and intelligence sources : federal, international, and private sector	435

Breakthrough Technology Project Management or Principles of Economic Growth

2009-02-07T21:46:00.000-08:00

Breakthrough Technology Project Management

Author: Bennet P Lientz

Although there are many books of methods and tools in different areas, few books actually give detailed tips and lessons on how to effectively set up and manage projects. Most books on project management devote all their space to specific methods. Breakthrough Technology Project Management, Second Edition provides tangible guidelines through examples and suggestions to help people participate in and manage projects more effectively. The authors' techniques and guidelines have been proven over the past 15 years in courses and counseling. This book will prove a valuable tool for those working in information systems, engineering, computer science, operations and production, and other environments involving project management.
The Purpose of this Book is to Answer:
* How can the overall technology project management process be improved?
* Which systems projects should be given resources and approved for action?
* How can all systems and technology projects be better managed together?
* How can individual projects be better managed and more successful?
* What are specific guidelines for managing different types of projects?
The Scope of the Book Answers:
* What projects should be approved?
* How do you formulate and start projects effectively?
* How do you manage single and multiple projects?
* How do you identify, analyze, and address specific project issues?
* How do you obtain results through communicating effectively with management, team members, staff, and vendors?

Booknews

Describes an approach to the management of information technology projects which emphasizes the management of multiple projects, modern software tools, collaborative teamwork, risk management, and project templates. Lientz (information systems, UCLA) and Rea (a private consultant) cover technology project management from development through implementation. A sampling of topics includes finding the right project leader, building the project team, project tracking and coordination, and operations, maintenance, and enhancement. The final section covers business, human resource, management, technical, vendor and consultant issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
Pt. I	Improving the Project Management Process
Ch. 1	Introduction
Ch. 2	Developing Your Project Management Process and Strategy
Ch. 3	Managing Multiple Projects and the Project Slate
Pt. II	Developing Your Project Plans
Ch. 4	The Project Concept
Ch. 5	The Right Project Leader
Ch. 6	Building the Project Team
Ch. 7	Developing the Project Plan
Pt. III	Managing Projects
Ch. 8	Effective Project Tracking and Coordination
Ch. 9	Software Development
Ch. 10	Operations, Maintenance, and Enhancement
Ch. 11	Software Packages
Ch. 12	Technology Projects
Pt. IV	How to Successfully Address Project Issues
Ch. 13	Business Issues
Ch. 14	Human Resource Issues
Ch. 15	Technical Issues
Ch. 16	Vendor and Consultant Issues
	Bibliography
	Index

New interesting textbook: Way of the World or For Marx

Principles of Economic Growth

Author: Thorvaldur Gylfason

This is a concise and reader-friendly introduction to the principles of economic growth for students of economics and business. Thorvaldur Gylfason examines theoretical and empirical models of economic growth through case studies drawn from around the world and gives a trenchant analysis of classic thought in this area. The influence of public policy on economic efficiency and growth is a key theme.

Cost Benefit Analysis or Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond Integrating Your Entire Organization

2009-02-06T20:05:00.000-08:00

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Author: Richard Layard

This second edition covers all the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise. It is entirely up to date, reflecting the most recent research in the area.

Part One covers the main theoretical issues affecting cost-benefit analysis.

Part Two considers the problem of ascribing a monetary value to things. The third part covers six separate case studies drawn from real-life examples. The book begins with an extended elementary introduction written by the editors.

	Introduction	1
1	Shadow prices and markets: Policy reform, shadow prices and market prices	59
2	Shadow prices and markets: Feasibility constraints: foreign exchange and shadow wages	100
3	Discount rates: The rate of discount for benefit-cost analysis and the theory of the second best	116
4	Risk and uncertainty: Uncertainty and the evaluation of public investment decisions	160
5	Income distribution: Allowing for income distribution	179
6	The costs and benefits of analysis: Project appraisal and planning twenty years on	199
7	Time savings: Research into the value of time	235
8	Safety and the saving of life: The theory of equalizing differences	272
9	Safety and the saving of life: The economics of safety and physical risk	290
10	The environment: The environment and emerging development issues	319
11	Exhaustible resources: Resource depletion, research and development and the social rate of discount	349
12	Regulation and deregulation: Enhancing the performance of the deregulated air transportation system	375
13	Pricing: Pricing and congestion: economic principles relevant to pricing roads	396
14	Public transport: The allocation of urban public transport subsidy	418
15	Health care: QALYs and the equity-efficiency tradeoff	428
16	Infrastructure: Water vending activities in developing countries	448
17	The environment: Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry	464
	Index	491

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Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond Integrating Your Entire Organization

Author: Gary A Langenwalter

To achieve success in today's business climate you must do more than provide high quality low cost products to customers when and how they want them. Customers and suppliers require fully integrated information - throughout the supply chain or value chain. You must integrate your organization so completely that executive decisions are implemented effortlessly. Competitive pressures often cause a reduction in prices, in spite of continually rising costs. A decrease in prices paired with increased costs quickly eliminates any profitability and threatens your company's ability to survive. This book shows you how you can reduce costs through the elimination of waste caused by poor communication and coordination throughout a company as well as between the company, its suppliers, and its customers. The author explains Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in non-technical terms, describing how an ERP system can fully integrate all functions in your manufacturing organization. He demonstrates the system's capability to increase efficiency and profitability - and to delight the customer - as well as its current deficiencies. In addition to his thorough coverage of ERP, the author introduces Total Enterprise Integration (TEI), the process of integrating all the information required to fully support a manufacturing company. TEI represents a logical extension of complete information integration throughout a manufacturing enterprise and into the supply chain. This new concept shows you how the intelligent use of work flow allows responsibility to go to the most appropriate front-line decision makers while maintaining proper budgetary and operational controls. The power of TEI is in the integrationof communication across the entire manufacturing company, and out through the supply chain to customers and suppliers. Enterprise Resource Planning and Beyond: Integrating Your Entire Organization focuses on what a fully integrated system can do for you.

Macroeconomics or The Interactive Computing Series

2009-02-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

Macroeconomics

Author: Richard G G Lipsey

This thoroughly revised edition provides a complete, balanced introduction to economics and to the most important issues facing the world's economies at the turn of the millennium. In addition to fine-tuning and streamlining the prose and the overall presentation, the authors have comprehensively updated the text and the applications to reflect recent economic developments and topics of current interest. Students in particular will find the Study Guide, with its practice questions, exercises, and problems, to be an excellent source of study support and extra review material. It is available in both a one- and a two-volume edition.

Library Journal

Why are there no taxes in Kathmandu? Why is rent in Manhattan so high? And who really pays taxes? These and many other questions about economics of interest to a lay audience form the basis of this excellent set, which is tailor-made for public and high school libraries. The staff editors do not provide an academic treatise on the complex, technical details of economic theory or principles. Instead, they focus on translating economics into an easily understood language, making this work highly useful for students--especially at the high school level. The six volumes cover money, banking, and finance; the citizen and the economy; business operations; the U.S. economy and the world; economic theory; and economic history. With the exception of Volume 5 (on economic theory), the volumes contain numerous well-organized chapters that adequately cover the topic. Volume 5 is arranged as an A-Z encyclopedia of shorter articles about fundamental concepts in economics and can be used as both a reference to the other volumes and a stand-alone reference. Numerous charts, diagrams, figures, and glossy photos are used to clarify concepts, and the set's glossary, reading list, and index are re-produced in each of the six volumes, making for easier cross-referencing. With the ever-changing nature of finance law and regulations, this well-prepared reference set will need regular updates, but it remains the resource of choice on economics for its targeted audience.--Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

An introduction to issues, methods, and policy problems in economics. Part I discusses comparative economic systems. Part II deals with demand and supply, and applies the tools of price determination and elasticity to case studies. Part III presents foundations of supply and demand and consumer behavior, and includes material on the derivation of demand curves using indifference curves. Features highlighted key concepts, chapter summaries, questions, and applications boxes. This 11th edition focuses on globalization, and addresses transitional economies in Eastern Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Interactive Computing Series: PowerPoint 2002 - Introductory

Author: Kenneth Laudon

The Interactive Computing Series is the Visual, Interactive way to develop and apply software skills. This Skills based approach coupled with its highly illustrated, 2 page-spread design is ideal for the intro CIS course, the self-paced course or students in non-traditional education settings.

Introduction to PowerPoint

Designing Your Presentation

Developing Your Presentation

Strengthening Your Presentation

Creating a Custom Presentation

Working with Visual Elements and Effects

Working with External Objects

Using PowerPoint in Collaborative Situations

Poverty Vulnerability and Agricultural Extension or The Most Typical Avant Garde

2009-02-04T16:43:00.000-08:00

Poverty, Vulnerability, and Agricultural Extension: Policy Reforms in a Globalizing World

Author: Ian Christoplos

The study draws on evidence from India and a range of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to argue that agricultural extension has an essential role in helping farmers to reach into new, often global, markets. There should be a comprehensive strategy within agricultural extension to address low-income agricultural households in the context of their wider livelihoods and not merely as commodity producers.

1	The issues	1
2	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in India	44
3	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in Vietnam	90
4	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in Uganda	124
5	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in Nicaragua	171
6	Extension, poverty, and vulnerability in Bolivia	210
7	Conclusions : extension and the scope for pro-poor policy reform	224

The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles

Author: David E James

Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of independent cinemas: avant-garde and art cinema, ethnic and industrial films, pornography, documentaries, and many other far-flung corners of film culture. This glorious panoramic history of film production outside the commercial studio system reconfigures Los Angeles, rather than New York, as the true center of avant-garde cinema in the United States. As he brilliantly delineates the cultural perimeter of the film business from the earliest days of cinema to the contemporary scene, David James argues that avant-garde and minority filmmaking in Los Angeles has in fact been the prototypical attempt to create emancipatory and progressive culture.
Drawing from urban history and geography, local news reporting, and a wide range of film criticism, James gives astute analyzes of scores of films--many of which are to found only in archives. He also looks at some of the most innovative moments in Hollywood, revealing the full extent of the cross-fertilization the occurred between the studio system and films created outside it. Throughout, he demonstrates that Los Angeles has been in the aesthetic and social vanguard in all cinematic periods--from the Socialist cinemas of the early teens and 1930s; to the personal cinemas of psychic self-investigation in the 1940s; to attempts in the 1960s to revitalize the industry with the counterculture's utopian visions; and to the 1970s, when African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, women, gays, and lesbians worked to create cinemas of their own. James takes us up to the 1990s and beyond to explore new forms of art cinema that are now transforming the representation of Southern California'sgeography.

Inside the Boardroom or Central Bank Autonomy

2009-02-03T15:03:00.000-08:00

Inside the Boardroom: How Boards Really Work and the Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance

Author: James Gillies

Distinguished governance experts offer cures for what ails our boards of directors

In light of corporate malfeasance in recent years, the governance of corporations has been receiving great attention from regulators, researchers, shareholders, and directors themselves. Based on Richard Leblanc's in-depth five-year study of 39 boards of directors of both for- and not-for-profit organizations, Building a Better Board goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of boards of directors, including how they make decisions.

Recently chosen as one of Canada's "Top 40 Under 40"(TM), Dr Richard Leblanc is an award-winning teacher and researcher, certified management consultant, professional speaker, professor, lawyer and specialist on boards of directors. He can be reached at . James Gillies, PhD (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), is Professor Emeritus at the Schulich School of Business, York University, where he serves as Chair of the Canada-Russia Corporate Governance Program.

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Central Bank Autonomy: The Federal Reserve System in American Politics

Author: J Kevin Corder

Why is the Federal Reserve System so powerful and autonomous? The autonomy of the central bank in the United States is the joint product of strategic choices made by decision makers in the Fed and choices made by members of Congress. Fed decision makers update administrative procedure in ways that frustrate representative control of monetary policy. Members of Congress tolerate experimentation with procedures and rules because Fed independence creates an obstacle for presidents interested in controlling macroeconomic outcomes for electoral or partisan gain. Central bank autonomy is not a serious threat for members of Congress, as they independently develop a number of federal credit programs to counteract the consequences of monetary policy choices for particular sectors of the economy (notably, home construction and small business enterprise).

The transformation of the Federal Reserve System reveals how gradual and incremental institutional changes can affect the strategies of political actors and policy outcomes. This finding challenges the dominant description of institutional change that has informed applied work on political institutions in both international relations and American politics. Conventional descriptions emphasize long periods of institutional stability punctuated by short periods of rapid change. Institutional change at the Fed is a gradual and continuous process. Incremental changes in monetary policy institutions (reserve requirements, open market rules, selective credit regulations) reveal the rich variety of strategic options for bureaucrats who desire autonomy from elected officials and the real effects of changing policy institutions on macroeconomic andcapital market outcomes.

	Tables and Figures
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
1	The Puzzle of Central Bank Autonomy	3
2	Central Bank Autonomy and the Preferences of Central Bankers	23
3	Reserve Requirements and the Distribution of Monetary Restraint	45
4	Open Market Transactions: the Scope and Frequency of Capital Market Intervention	71
5	Selective Credit Controls and Credit Allocation	99
6	Macroeconomic Outcomes and Monetary Policy Institutions	125
7	Capital Market Flows and Federal Credit Institutions	157
8	Representative Control of Monetary Policy	171
	References	187
	Index	197

Meetings Expositions Events and Conventions or In the Mirror of the Third World

2009-02-02T13:22:00.000-08:00

Meetings, Expositions, Events and Conventions: An Introduction to the Industry

Author: George Fenich

Meetings, Expositions, Events, and Conventions (MEEC) is one of the fastest growing segments of the United States economy, and embraces multiple aspects of the hospitality and tourism industry. Communities are increasingly trying to attract conventions and special events, and are spending huge sums of money to build convention centers, stadiums, and arenas. No city is considered "world class" without them. Thus, there is a tremendous need for this book. A panel of industry experts determined the topics covered in this book, such as venues, sponsors, organizers, exhibitions, special events, food R beverage, program planning, convention and visitor bureaus, legal issues, technology, and international issues. This book provides a thorough understanding of the MEEC industry. As such, it is a "must read" for anyone thinking of becoming involved in MEEC, or even those with a passing interest in the subject.

1	Introduction to the meetings, expositions, events, and conventions industry	1
2	Planning, organizing, directing, and control in MEEC	32
3	Meeting, exhibition, event, and convention sponsors	75
4	Meeting and convention venues	102
5	Exhibitions	144
6	Special events management	177
7	Food and beverage	204
8	Destination management companies	234
9	Service contractors	277
10	Program planning	305
11	Convention and visitor bureaus	338
12	Legal issues in the MEEC industry	363
13	Directing the future of convention and meeting technology	403
14	International issues in MEEC	438
15	Putting it all together	467

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In the Mirror of the Third World: Capitalist Development in Modern Europe

Author: Sandra Halperin

In Marx's familiar dictum, the more-developed country shows the less-developed an image of its own future. Turning this idea upside down, In the Mirror of the 'Third W' looks to the contemporary Third World for a reflection of European history.

Political Economy of Public Administration or International Travel and Tourism

2009-02-01T11:41:00.000-08:00

Political Economy of Public Administration: Institutional Choice in the Public Sector

Author: Murray J Horn

This book uses a transactions cost approach to explain the key institutional characteristics across the public sector. It defines the distinctive governance, financing and employment arrangements that characterize the common forms of public sector organization: the regulatory commission, the executive tax-financed bureau and the state-owned enterprise. It suggests why these forms are used to perform different administrative functions, and why legislators often leave very important decisions to be resolved at the administrative level.

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International Travel and Tourism

Author: Helle Sorensen

This book is bound to become the industry's top introductory reference on international travel and tourism by offering travel professionals a single source of information on traveling abroad.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	About the Author
Ch. 1	Introduction to International Travel and Tourism	1
Ch. 2	Air Travel Geography	33
Ch. 3	Travel Requirements	67
Ch. 4	International Airfares	91
Ch. 5	International Ticketing	119
Ch. 6	The New Europe	149
Ch. 7	The New Russia	185
Ch. 8	Asia and the Pacific	207
Ch. 9	Developing Nations	233
Ch. 10	A Sustainable Future	261
	Appendices	287
	Glossary	343
	Index	351

Frontiers of Economics or Principles of Economics

2009-01-31T10:00:00.000-08:00

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.

Booknews

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)

	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.

Booknews

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

2009-01-30T08:10:00.000-08:00

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)

Look this: High Tech Ventures or NiGHTS

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.

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

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

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)

New interesting book: Contemporary Advertising or Managing Wine and Wine Sales

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

2009-01-28T04:48:00.000-08:00

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.

Interesting textbook: Quality Tourism Experiences or Introduction to Health Care Delivery

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.

	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

2009-01-27T03:07:00.000-08:00

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

Go to: Muffins and More or If You Cant Stand the Heat Get Out of the Kitchen

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

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

2009-01-26T01:17:00.000-08:00

Introduction to Business Statistics

Author: Ronald M M Weiers

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

Interesting textbook: Food Lovers Guide to Massachusetts or Soup Suppers

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.

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

2009-01-24T23:36:00.000-08:00

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.

New interesting book: Journey into Islam or Christmas in Plains

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)

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

2009-01-23T21:56:00.000-08:00

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.

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)

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

2009-01-22T20:15:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

Book review: American Legend or James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights

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)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Copyrighting Culture or The Equity Risk Premium

2009-01-21T18:34:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-01-20T16:53:00.000-08:00

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.

Book about: Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants or The Healing Journey

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

2009-01-14T18:10:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

Book review: NutriBase Guide to Carbohydrates Calories and Fat in Your Food or Indian Herbalogy of North America

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

2009-01-14T09:29:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

Library Journal

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.

Citizen Worker or Investments

2009-01-14T02:48:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

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

2009-01-13T17:07:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-13T10:27:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-01-13T01:45:00.000-08:00

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

	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

2009-01-12T18:04:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-12T11:23:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-12T01:43:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

	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

2009-01-11T18:01:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-11T09:21:00.000-08:00

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.

	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.

Business Statistics or Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization

2009-01-11T02:40:00.000-08:00

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.

(*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.

Economy Society or Finance

2009-01-10T16:59:00.000-08:00

Economy/Society: Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure

Author: Bruce G Carruthers

"The core topics in this engaging book--markets, networks, the workplace, social stratification, economic development, and globalization--are approached with a keen sociological lens, revealing how these diverse economic phenomena are embedded in society in a myriad of ways. ... This book displays the authors' vivid sociological imagination--it tackles big issues and real problems with analytical power and lively ideas. Students, scholars, and, yes, even economists will both enjoy and be rewarded for their time spent with Economy/Society." --Walter W. Powell, Stanford University This book offers an accessible introduction to the various institutional arrangements that govern economic activity, and shows that economic exchanges are deeply embedded in social relationships. It demonstrates that an understanding of how the economy is socially constructed offers rich and novel insights into such topics as advertising, consumer behavior, the diffusion of innovations, conflicts at the workplace, social inequality, and the economic development of nations.

Finance: Investments, Institutions, and Management

Author: Stanley G Eakins

This book includes coverage of the three main topic areas of finance: markets and institutions, investments, and managerial finance. While the greatest emphasis is on corporate topics, the amount of detail has been limited to facilitate coverage of areas that are of interest to a greater number of readers. Reviewers are impressed with the quantity and quality of practical examples included to help readers understand the material.

Booknews

An introductory survey of the field, presenting a broad overview of the key areas of investments, institutions, and managerial finance. Provides the foundation necessary for finance majors, but is accessible and useful to non-majors who want to better understand financial information for making business and personal finance decisions. Assumes a basic understanding of accounting and a limited understanding of statistics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Ironies in Organizational Development or Human Resources Management for Hospitality

2009-01-10T10:18:00.000-08:00

Ironies in Organizational Development, Vol. 100

Author: Robert T Golembiewski

Offering effective tools and strategies, this book covers how to encourage and strengthen skills in process analysis and investigation, align OD principles with transforming societal values, clarify communication processes and decision-making procedures, and isolate and resolve roadblock issues. Constructing a platform to assess large-system agendas, Ironies in Organizational Development, Second Edition is an outstanding text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking organizational development courses in the departments of public administration, psychology, management, and sociology, as well as for in-service and professional workshops.

Interesting book: Reinventare il vostro bordo: Una guida graduale a realizzare controllo di politica

Human Resources Management for Hospitality

Author: Linda Jerris

Approaching Hospitality Human Resources Management from the perspective of the global economy, this book reaches beyond the individual hospitality manager's day-to-day operations to examine the hospitality industry in the context of increased competition. It considers both the "soft skills" involved in counseling and interpersonal relations, as well as the "hard skills" involved in the legislative and technical aspects of managing people.ÿ

1. The Human Resources Department.

2. Human Resources Management Challenges.

3. The Legislative Environment.

4. Staffing and the Strategic Human Resources Plan.

5. Recruitment.

6. Selection.

7. Wage and Salary.

8. Benefits.

9. Motivation.

10. Coaching, Counseling, and Discipline.

11. Labor Relations.

12. Orientation.

13. Training.

14. Career Development.

15. Performance Appraisal and Performance Management.

16. Safety and Health.

17. Human Resource Audits.

18. The Human Resources Department's Contribution to Cost Control.

19. Computers and the Human Resources Management Function.

20. Human Resources Management in Transitional Situations.

21. Human Resources Management in a Global Environment.

Index.

Managing Software Quality and Business Risk or Macroeconomy

2009-01-10T01:37:00.000-08:00

Managing Software Quality and Business Risk

Author: Martyn A Ould

How to manage quality up, and risk down. This invaluable guide to project planning and strategic decision making for software developers presents practical and realistic planning techniques to increase chances of a project delivering to time and budget. Offering clear explanations and real-world experiences, the key components of technical management are laid out as templates and checklists to assist managers with their project development. With thirty years of experience in software development, Martyn Ould provides:

* Proven strategies for a disciplined approach to project planning

* Steps to take in risks and uncertainties in the project

* Reliable methods for reducing risks to an acceptable level

* A quality planning process that is rooted in the technical requirements of the system

* Insight into monitoring and measuring project progress

* Real-world experience through case studies and examples

INTRODUCTION
BUILDING THE BOAT
ICEBERGS AHEAD! BUSINESS RISK
PLANNING FOR RISK MANAGEMENT
SOFTWARE QUALITY
RIVETS OR WELDING? PLANNING FOR QUALITY ACHIEVEMENT
IS IT WATERTIGHT? PLANNING FOR QUALITY CONTROL
STOPPING THE RUST: PLANNING FOR QUALITY PRESERVATION
PUSHING THE BOAT OUT: CREWING AND PROVISIONING
THE HAND ON THE TILLER AND THE CAPTAIN'S LOG
BLOCKS ON THE SLIPWAY
DIARY OF A VOYAGE
RESUME OF THE PLANNING PROCESS
GLOSSARY
INDEX

Macroeconomy

Author: Michael B McElroy

Most of our information about macroeconomic events and policies comes from the news media. Radio and TV news programs, magazines, and newspapers can be informative and entertaining, but they do not and cannot provide a reliable foundation for understanding complex relationships and events.

Booknews

An intermediate textbook for a course in macroeconomic analysis, presenting a basic understanding of macroeconomic issues as addressed particularly to the economic sophistication of students who will not become professional economists. The volume is divided into five parts: mapping the territory; basic macroeconomic analysis; smoothing business cycles and controlling inflation; long-run dynamics--saving, investment, and growth; and models, measurement, and performance. An appendix provides national and international macroeconomic data. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Chicana Leadership or Labor Markets and Employment Relationships

2009-01-09T17:56:00.000-08:00

Chicana Leadership: The Frontiers Reader

Author: Yolanda Flores Ed Flores Niemann

Chicana Leadership: The "Frontiers" Reader breaks the stereotypes of Mexican American women and shows how these women shape their lives and communities. This collection looks beyond the frequently held perception of Chicanas as passive and submissive and instead examines their roles as dynamic community leaders, activists, and scholars.

Chicana Leadership features fifteen essays from the notable women's journal Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies that demonstrate the strength and diversity of Chicanas as well as their continuing struggle to have their voices heard. Noted scholars discuss issues ranging from the feminist prototype La Malinche to Chicana writers and national ideology, from gender and identity to ideas of culture and romance, and from tokenism to the diversity within the Chicana community. The essays provide an introduction to an evolving understanding of this diverse community of women and how they interact among themselves, with their community, and with the world around them.

Book about: Labor Relations or The Faith of George W Bush

Labor Markets and Employment Relationships: A Comprehensive Approach

Author: Joyce Jacobsen

This innovative text grounds the economic analysis of labor markets and employment relationships in a unified theoretical treatment of labor exchange conditions. In addition to providing thorough coverage of standard topics including labor supply and demand, human capital theory, and compensating wage differentials, the text draws on game theory and the economics of information to study the implications of key departures from perfectly competitive labor market conditions. Analytical results are consistently applied to contemporary policy issues and empirical debates.

• Provides a coherent theoretical framework for the analysis of labor market phenomena.

• Features graphical in-chapter analysis supplemented by technical material in appendices.

• Incorporates numerous end-of-chapter questions that engage the analysis and anticipate subsequent results.

• Includes innovative chapters on employee compensation methods, market segmentation, income inequality and labor market dynamics.

• Balances theoretical, empirical and policy analysis.

	List of Figures
	List of Boxes
	List of Tables
	Preface
	Introduction: Labor Economics and the Political Economy of Labor	1
Pt. I	Labor Supply and Demand	23
Ch. 1	Labor Supply	25
Ch. 2	Labor Demand	56
Ch. 3	Perfectly Competitive Labor Markets	89
Ch. 4	Imperfectly Competitive Labor Markets	115
Pt. II	The Labor Exchange	145
Ch. 5	The Structure of Labor Exchange	147
Ch. 6	Strategic Labor Exchange	169
Ch. 7	Bargaining in Labor Exchange	199
Ch. 8	Imperfect Contracting in Labor Exchange	221
Pt. III	The Employment Relationship	247
Ch. 9	The Nature of the Employment Relationship	249
Ch. 10	Employee Compensation and Incentive Provision	273
Ch. 11	Employment Continuity and Internal Labor Markets	297
Ch. 12	Employee Representation in the Workplace	324
Pt. IV	Labor Market Divisions	347
Ch. 13	Wages and Working Conditions	349
Ch. 14	Education and Ability	374
Ch. 15	Employee Characteristics and Discrimination	398
Ch. 16	Employer Characteristics and Market Segmentation	434
Pt. V	Labor in the Market System	457
Ch. 17	Earnings Inequality	459
Ch. 18	Unemployment	489
Ch. 19	Labor Market Dynamics	518
	Index	543

Global Telecommunications Revolution or Introduction to Economic Geography

2009-01-09T11:15:00.000-08:00

Global Telecommunications Revolution: The Business Perspective

Author: Tom Housel

Global Telecommunications addresses the evolution of the telecommunications industry and the impact it has had on reshaping the business world. This text consists of three distinct parts including:

1) fundamental components of telecommunications technology in business.

2) the telecommunications infrastructure including government regulations, globalization, the Internet, and virtual organizations.

3) and the analysis of the trends and strategies organizations have implemented.

Go to: World Economic Primacy or Financial Reporting and Analysis

Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place

Author: Danny Mackinnon

Today’s rapidly flowing global economy means the geographical economic perspective has never been more important. An Introduction to Economic Geography comprehensively guides students through the core issues and debates of this vibrant and exciting area, whilst simultaneously exploring the range of approaches and paradigms currently invigorating the wider discipline. Rigorous in approach, yet accessible in style, the authors demystify and enliven a crucial subject for study in the 21st century.

Underpinned by the themes of globalisation, uneven development and place, the text conveys the diversity and vitality of contemporary economic geography. It balances coverage of “traditional” areas such as regional development and labour markets with insight into new and evolving topics like neoliberalism, consumption, information and communications technologies and tourist geographies.

Main features

• A global and balanced view is afforded through research, case studies and examples drawn from a diverse range of countries, a chapter on the “global South” and coverage throughout of both developed and developing countries
• A political economy approach is supported by cultural and institutional insights that offer students a variety of perspectives on each topic and a culturally sensitive overview
• In-text

features, including chapter maps, reflective questions andexercises, encourage the reader to engage with the material, test knowledge and understanding, and reflect. Dedicated boxes provide a range of lively and topical case studies and examples to illustrate wider points.
•A wide range of maps, tables and photographs illustrate and help clarify the key concepts and examples

An Introduction to Economic Geography is an essential textbook for undergraduate students taking courses in Economic Geography, Globalisation Studies and more broadly in Human Geography. It will also be of key interest to those in Planning, Business and Management Studies and Economics.

Dr Danny MacKinnon is lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Aberdeen

Dr Andrew Cumbers is senior lecturer in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow

"This is an excellent and comprehensive introduction to the diverse field of economic geography. It should be essential reading for students at all levels"

Andrew Jones, Birkbeck College, University of London and member of the RGS-IBG economic geography research group committee

"A thoughtful, stimulating, accessible introduction to the range of approaches used by economic geographers to understand and explain the patterns and processes of contemporary globalization and uneven development"

Peter Daniels, University of Birmingham

"A stimulating and accessible introduction to a core area of the discipline. It conveys a clear sense of the diversity and vitality of contemporary economic geography"

Neil Wrigley, University of Southampton and Editor, Journal of Economic Geography

Employing Qualitative Methods in the Private Sector or Managing Information Systems in Is

2009-01-09T01:35:00.000-08:00

Employing Qualitative Methods in the Private Sector, Vol. 45

Author: Marilyn L Mitchell

Each year, academic institutions produce thousands of social science graduates skilled in applied social researchùmany more than can be absorbed in the teaching profession. In one of the latest volumes in the Qualitative Research Methods series, author Marilyn Mitchell provides information often left out of the social science curriculumùhow and where can social scientists put their skills to use in the private sector? Employing Qualitative Methods in the Private Sector outlines some of the basic private sector research settings and provides clear and sensible advice on how one can rename one's skills and market oneself most effectively to the business community. Mitchell, herself employed in the private sector, also examines project and business management. Straightforward and pragmatic, Employing Qualitative Methods in the Private Sector is an essential tool for the researcher looking for new avenues in which to apply their research.

Booknews

Written to give social science graduates better information on how to find and succeed at research jobs at think tanks and corporations. Designed for those who conduct ethnographic research, it outlines where private sector opportunities exist and what skills those jobs require. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Series Editor's Introduction
1	Private-Sector Research Settings	1
2	Renaming Your Skills	14
3	Business Activities That Require Research	24
4	Marketing Yourself to the Private Sector	35
5	Project Management	45
6	Business Management	51
7	Conclusion	59
App. A	Example of a Request for Proposal (RFP)	62
App. B	Example of a Press Release	64
App. C	Where to Learn About an Industry	64
App. D	Response to an RFP Using Ethnographic Interviewing and Semiotic Analysis: Proposed Process for Analyzing Nontraditional Qualitative Data Such as Stories and Metaphors	67
App. E	Example of a Response to a Request for Proposal	69
	References	72
	Additional Resources	72
	About the Author	73

Interesting book: Political Economy of Polands Transition or Making the World Safe for Tourism

Managing Information Systems in Is: Successful Strategies and Appropriate Action

Author: J D McKeen

The person who runs the company sees IS as being the provider of solutions. "Dont tell me about function point productivity. What we want is faster turnaround time for systems and were not getting it!" The person who runs the IS division recognizes that it has a strategic role. "The management is locked into a 1980s timewarp how do I persuade them that IS has more to offer than in the past?" The aim of the book is to step into the middle ground. It emphasizes the important role an IS manager plays in the development of the company strategy. It will show how the everyday problems need to be seen in a fresh perspective that of balancing the competing pressures of business and technology. Get too far from the technology and too close to the business, and technology will pull you back. Get focused on technology and lose sight of the business, and the business will make sure you know about it. The goal of this book is to provide IS managers with balanced information to guide them. Why does it matter? Because, in many ways, the future of our organizations is in the hands of todays IS managers. Management Challenges in IS will help them make wise and thoughtful choices.

Beyond the Law or The New Economy in East Asia and the Pacific

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

Beyond the Law: Crime and Justice, Vol. 18

Author: Michael Ed H Tonry

This collection explores structural incentives and disincentives to anti-social and unlawful behaviors and the roles of self- regulation, administrative agencies, and civil and criminal sanctions in shaping organizational behavior. Included are articles on organizational crime, the savings and loan industry, insider trading, industrial water pollution, garbage collection, and the nursing home industry.

John E. Conklin

This eighteenth volume in the distinguished Crime and Justice series is the sixth to be organized around a central theme. Six informative essays of uniformly high quality on crime in complex organizations are introduced by a ten-page essay by Albert J. Reiss, Jr., and Michael Tonry. John Braithwaite draws on his cross-cultural study of the nursing home industry to look at the way that state regulation in the United States has produced ritualistic compliance with the rules but frequent neglect of residents. Nancy Reichman explores the changes in the world of finance, especially in the exchange and use of information, that led to insider trading. Peter Cleary Yeager looks at the competing values involved in controlling industrial water pollution, and makes the important point that "regulatory law and compliance are so systematically intertwined that neither can be understood without understanding both" (p. 99). Peter Reuter shows how the reputations of racketeers have limited competition and driven up costs in the waste disposal industry in New York and New Jersey, largely through customer allocation agreements that have been ineffectively controlled by state regulators. Two papers, one by Henry N. Pontell and Kitty Calavita and another by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins, explore the crisis in the savings and loan industry. What is commonly called "white-collar crime" is in fact misnamed, because many discussions of such crime include offenses by individuals who are neither of high social standing nor respectable, two traits central to Edwin Sutherland's definition of white-collar crime. His definition also emphasized the "punishability" of white-collar crime, but many studies focus on behavior that is not criminally punishable and, in some cases, is not even the target of regulatory activity. Although Reiss and Tonry correctly observe that much of the literature on white- collar crime fails to distinguish violations of the criminal law from violations of administrative law, the essays in this volume also tend to blur this distinction, perhaps because the distinction is blurred in the real world of enforcement and regulation. Work on white-collar crime often has an ideological slant, both in the definition of what constitutes white-collar crime and in the way that the actions of individuals and organizations are studied. For example, as Reiss and Tonry point out, there is little work on the way that organizations are victimized by white-collar crime, and much work on the way that such organizations victimize others. Little in this volume corrects that imbalance; even the essays on the savings and loan scandal persuade the reader that the real victims of that crisis were depositors and taxpayers rather than the institutions themselves. Reiss and Tonry avoid using the term "white-collar crime," which they call "a plastic phrase that means many things in many contexts" (p., vii). They favor "an organizational and social system analysis" of the behavior of organizations over "the traditional criminological analysis of white-collar and organized crimes and criminals" (p. 10). The essays here do not examine the behavior of individuals but concentrate instead on business corporations and the markets and regulatory environments in which they operate; such white-collar crimes as Medicaid fraud by an individual physician and embezzlement by a solo attorney fall outside the purview of this volume. These essays pay little attention to the way that corporations are structured, focusing instead on the way that networks of corporations or markets are organized. The way that market structure and the legal and regulatory environment of a market are organized is then linked to what might be called organizational misbehavior, some of which is crime and some of which is not. The editors' disinclination to use traditional criminological concepts and theories risks segregating these essays from mainstream criminology. However, some of the authors do place their Page 72 follows: findings in the broader context of criminology. Yeager's paper ends with some insightful comments on the implications of Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi's general theory of crime for understanding the motivations and opportunities involved in environmental crime. Zimring and Hawkins' paper on the savings and loan crisis draws on traditional criminological concerns with the costs of crime, the role of ideology in interpreting the meaning of crime, and the way the individual and structural approaches compete to explain criminal behavior. Pontell and Calavita's paper on the savings and loan crisis points out that most of the institutions that failed did so because of criminal violations. Despite these efforts, most of the essays do not draw on mainstream criminology, probably because it has been primarily concerned with individuals rather than organizations and markets. Ideally, criminology would incorporate the kind of market analysis common to these essays, and those writing on organizational crime would link their work to the more general concerns of criminology. There is little effort to generalize beyond the individual case studies presented in this volume. Reiss and Tonry might have helped us here with a longer introductory essay or a postscript that offered some ideas about what general market conditions are conducive to organizational offenses. If there is something criminogenic shared by the world of finance, the cartage industry, the nursing home industry, and the savings and loan industry, it is not directly addressed in this book. A general analysis of the market conditions conducive to organizational crime might increase the chance that mainstream criminology would incorporate work such as that presented here. A starting point for bringing studies of crime in complex organizations into mainstream criminology is to focus on actual crimes by organizations, i.e., to return to Sutherland's emphasis on the punishability of the behavior under analysis. Some of the essays here are concerned with admittedly important behavior that is probably not criminally punishable, such as the unwarranted physical restraint of residents by nursing home administrators. The essays here offer something important in examining in detail the regulatory environments in which the various industries exist, and in showing how regulation affects the behavior of organizations and markets. Several essays add a time dimension, showing how changes in an industry and its regulation gave rise to criminal behavior; for instance, Pontell and Calavita show how the collapse of savings and loan institutions was the product of deregulation and the subsequent transformation of that industry during the Reagan administration. The explanation of how and why criminal behavior changes over time is often ignored by mainstream criminology, and it would gain much from incorporating the findings presented in these papers. In looking at the way that organizational misbehavior is redefined and changes over time, these essays make it clear that what is called crime or a regulatory violation is socially constructed rather than fixed, a point especially well made in Yeager's essay. One problem in defining crime in complex organizations that is not explicitly dealt with in these essays is the precise meaning of the term "organization." This volume focuses on crime and regulatory violations by businesses, formal organizations that have been deliberately designed to achieve legal goals, but which sometimes violate laws and regulations. Research on formal organizations, especially corporations, is rarely linked to work on criminal organizations in the sense of syndicated or organized crime, even though the federal RICO law has been applied to both corporate crime and Mafia-style crime in recent years. Yet a third meaning of organization is the social structure that sometimes emerges among offenders engaged in a criminal enterprise such as bank robbery or drug dealing. This broader meaning of organization treats some crime as an organized activity, whether it takes the form of a youth gang that has moved into the crack trade, the Mafia, or a group of investors who form a savings and loan institution. This way of conceiving of organization more broadly has the potential to bring together analyses of several types of crime that have long been of interest to criminologists: youth gang behavior, professional theft, syndicated crime, and crime in complex organizations. Page 73 follows: This valuable collection of essays adopts a narrower focus but admirably achieves its stated goals of obtaining "a better understanding of the motives and sanctions, the incentives and disincentives, and the structural influences that shape organizational crime," and illuminating "the diverse effects of self-regulation, industry regulation, administrative regulation, and criminal law approaches to eliciting compliance with applicable laws and regulations, discouraging illegality, and discovering wrongdoing" (p. viii).

Preface
Organizational Crime
Albert J. Reiss, Jr., and Michael Tonry
The Nursing Home Industry
John Braithwaite
Insider Trading
Nancy Reichman
Industrial Water Pollution
Peter Cleary Yeager
The Cartage Industry in New York
Peter Reuter
The Savings and Loan Industry
Henry N. Pontell and Kitty Calavita
Crime, Justice, and the Savings and Loan Crisis
Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins
Index

New interesting textbook: Fagioli or Farmers Market Cookbook

The New Economy in East Asia and the Pacific

Author: Peter Drysdal

Has the new economy permanently changed the way leading economies work? How can its beneficial effects be transmitted to countries in the early stages of economic development? Why is Japan continuing to stagnate in a potentially prosperous age and Australia, with a smaller industrial and information technology base, is doing well?
This book sets out the problems of measuring the effects of technological change on economic progress by using the internet in the Asia-Pacific region as a case study. Corporate and industry experience, including changing business organization and new regulatory issues are explored as well as policy issues such as the digital divide and the approach to e-commerce in the WTO. Using several industry case studies the contributors compare the IT experience in North America with a number of countries in Asia and the Pacific.
With contributions by a number of distinguished authors, The New Economy in East Asia and the Pacific is an essential volume for policy-makers,corporate strategists and scholars concerned with understanding the effects of the new economy and its impact in Asia and the Pacific.

Narrating the Organization or Marketing Management

2009-01-08T09:13:00.000-08:00

Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity

Author: Barbara Czarniawska

The most common social phenomenon of Western societies is the organization, yet those
involved in real-world managing are not always willing to reveal the intricacies of their
everyday muddles. Barbara Czarniawska argues that in order to understand these uncharted
territories, we need to gather local and concrete stories about organizational life and subject
them to abstract and metaphorical interpretation.
Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary
devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She applies cultural metaphors to
public administration in Sweden to demonstrate, for example, how the dynamics of a
screenplay can illuminate the budget disputes of an organization. She shows how the
interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis,
and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow
routines in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such
paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change.

New interesting textbook: Der Dienende Führer (Der Ken Blanchard Series): Fünf Starke Handlungen, Die Ihre Mannschaft, Ihr Geschäft, und Ihre Gemeinschaft Umgestalten Werden

Marketing Management

Author: Russell S Winer

This volume reflects the dynamic environment inhabited by today's marketers, helping readers understand the marketplace and the impact of technology on making strategic marketing decisions. Its modern, integrated presentation and strategy-based approach covers critical, fundamental topics required to succeed in professional work. Subjects include marketing philosophy and strategy such as market research, customer behavior and market structure, and marketing decision-making and analysis, including product decisions, advertising strategy, pricing and customer relationship management. For marketing professionals, product and brand managers.

1	Marketing and the job of the marketing manager	3
2	A strategic marketing framework	35
3	Marketing research	61
4	Analyzing consumer behavior	87
5	Organizational buying behavior	123
6	Market structure and competitor analysis	147
7	Product decisions	173
8	New product development	203
9	Pricing	237
10	Communications and advertising strategy	267
11	Sales promotion	301
12	Channels of distribution	327
13	Direct channels of distribution : personal selling and direct marketing	359
14	Customer relationship management	389
15	Special topic : strategies for service markets	421

Marketing Essentials Student Edition or Effective Teamwork

2009-01-08T02:31:00.000-08:00

Marketing Essentials, Student Edition

Author: McGraw Hill

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

Interesting book: Undergraduate Econometrics or Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain

Effective Teamwork: Ten Steps for Technical Professions

Author: David Goetsch

Approaching teamwork from the technical professional's perspective, this comprehensive, hands-on manual provides a ten-step model for effective teamwork and covers the essential teamwork principles with simulation cases in every chapter. The volume addresses the three types of team—work teams, improvement teams and standing committees—as well as the factors that work against effective teamwork, the character traits that promote effective teamwork and team leadership principles. The volume outlines a ten-step model to effective teamwork, establishing direction and goals, clear roles and ground-rules for teams and accountability, as well as developing team-leadership skills, communication skills and conflict-management skills. The volume also teaches how to establish a well-defined decision-making process and empower team members, positive team behaviors, recognize and reward team performance and make teamwork part of the culture. For engineers, architects, manufacturing personnel, construction managers, computer professionals and other technical professionals.

Career Planning or Toward a New International Financial Architecture

2009-01-07T16:50:00.000-08:00

Career Planning: A Developmental Approach

Author: John Barker

This book's aim is to help readers understand how to choose, plan, and prepare for a career and how to find and land a job in that career. The book guides readers through (1) self-assessment and career choice, (2) development of employability and job readiness, and (3) the job search (e.g., resume writing, interviewing, etc.). Rather than merely reading about career planning, readers actively undergo an individualized career guidance program as they work through the book. Appropriate for anyone interested in career counseling, job search, and career development.

(Note: Each chapter begins with an Introduction and ends with Exercises and Discussion Questions.)
1. Introduction to Career Planning.
Model of Career Development.

2. Demographics and Workplace Trends: A Legacy of Change.
Changes in Work and Workers. Labor Force Growth. Shortage of Workers. Workplace Skills. Education and Employment. Future Occupational Demand. Women's Issues. Minority Issues. Summary.

3. Self-Assessment.
The Need for Self-Assessment in Career Planning. Interests. Abilities. Values. Traits. Computers as an Assessment Tool. Summary.

4. Career Information.
Sources of Career Information. Summary.

5. Career Decision Making and Goal Setting.
Influences on Career Decision Making. The Decision-Making Process. Evaluative Criteria in Decision Making. Integrated Careers. Impediments to the Career Choice Process. Goal Setting. Summary.

6. Functional Qualities.
Introduction to Stage 2: Employability and Job Readiness. Functional Qualities. Where to Begin the Process of Developing Employability. Summary.

7. Resume Writing.
Characteristics of a Well-Developed Resume. Resume Formats. Summary.

8. Employment Correspondence.
Cover Letter.Requirements/Credentials Comparison. Letter of Inquiry. Thank You Letter. Summary.

9. Interviewing.
The Interview. Interview Preparation. The Face-to-Face Interview. Employer's Decision Factors. Evaluating Job Offers. Summary.

10. Developing Job Search Strategies.
Job Search Strategies. Summary.

11. Maintaining Productivity and Employability.
Job Success Factors. Developing a Success Mentality. Fourteen Ways to Nurture Your Career. Continual Evaluation: Key to Career Success and Satisfaction. Keeping a Balance. Summary.

References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Toward a New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda

Author: Barry Eichengreen

The Asian financial crisis and the global economic turmoil that followed it have highlighted the need to avert financial crises and resolve them quickly if they do occur. With that need in mind, this book provides a practical guide to reforming the international financial architecture. In contrast to ambitious schemes of dubious practicability that may appear elsewhere, it suggests a number of limited reforms that could realistically be implemented in the short and medium run. The recommendations are based on the belief that financial markets can malfunction, creating a compelling case for a financial safety net (and therefore a role for the IMF), but also creating problems of moral hazard that must be addressed.

Economist

It offers a concise analysis of the main problems ailing today's international financial system and a host of modest, but useful, suggestions for reform.

National Journal - Clive Crook

The details of the straightforward approach (to reforming the international financial architecture) are laid out with admirable clarity...

Booknews

Addresses current concerns that existing institutional arrangements, including Bretton Woods institutions, can no longer adequately cope with today's world of high capital mobility. Provides a critical assessment of competing proposals to better predict, forestall, and resolve international financial crises, and outlines a practical and pragmatic agenda for reform. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

What People Are Saying

Jeffrey A. Frankel
The definitive outside source on the G7/G22 initiatives, including a rapid-response evaluation of them and further proposals.
— (Jeffrey A. Frankel, Council of Economics Advisers)

John Lipsky
The book is excellent, thorough, sensible, well-written, with a point of view...(It) will become a standard reference in the subject.
— (John Lipsky, Chief Economist and Managing Director, Chase Manhattan Bank)

Introduction to the Pan Caribbean or Money and Capital Markets

2009-01-07T10:09:00.000-08:00

Introduction to the Pan-Caribbean

Author: Tracey Skelton

With its diverse histories of slavery, plantations, colonialism and independence, the Caribbean is richly layered, highly complex and a wonderful example of people's resistance. The pan-Caribbean region also provides an excellent geography through which to understand and analyze the complex processes of globalization, development, migration, tourism, and social and cultural relations. This book is an excellent introduction and is your map through one of the most extraordinary and remarkable parts of the world.

Look this: Building Responsive Web Applications with Ajax and Php or Total Digital Photography

Money and Capital Markets

Author: Peter S Ros

This highly successful text continues to gain market share in addition to holding to a very loyal base of business. This text, while highly descriptive is also very comprehensive. It analyzes the entire financial system and its component parts with an expanded discussion in nearly every chapter of the trend toward globalization of financial markets and institutions. It also discusses all major types of financial instruments and provides a thorough grounding in interest rate and security price determination.

Booknews

An introductory textbook on how money and capital markets around the globe work to fulfill the varied roles of facilitating savings and investment, making payments, supplying credit, accumulating wealth, supplying liquidity, protecting against risk, and supporting public policy. The 4th edition (3rd was 1989) contains an expanded discussion of the techniques of risk management, particularly futures and options contracts and swaps. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Pt. 1	The Financial System in Perspective
Ch. 1	The Role of the Financial System in the Global Economy	3
Ch. 2	Financial Assets, Money, and Financial Transactions	28
Ch. 3	Sources of Information for Financial Decision Making in the Money and Capital Markets	53
Pt. 2	Financial Institutions in the Financial System
Ch. 4	Commercial Banks and Money Creation	85
Ch. 5	Nonbank Thrift Institutions: Credit Unions, Savings and Loan Associations, Savings Banks, and Money Market Mutual Funds	122
Ch. 6	Insurance Companies, Pension Funds, and Other Financial Institutions	146
Pt. 3	Interest Rates and Security Prices
Ch. 7	Interest Rates in the Financial System	181
Ch. 8	Relationships between Interest Rates and Security Prices	213
Ch. 9	Inflation, Yield Curves, and Duration: Their Relationship to Interest Rates and Security Prices	237
Ch. 10	Marketability, Default Risk, Call Privileges, Taxes, and Other Factors Affecting Interest Rates	275
Ch. 11	Interest Rate Forecasting and Hedging against Interest Rate Risk	301
Ch. 12	Financial Futures Contracts and Options on Futures	331
Pt. 4	The Money Market
Ch. 13	Characteristics of the Money Market	371
Ch. 14	Treasury Bills, Dealer Loans, and Repurchase Agreements	386
Ch. 15	Federal Funds, Negotiable CDs, and Loans from the Discount Window	407
Ch. 16	Commercial Paper and Federal Agency Securities	428
Ch. 17	International Money Market Instruments: Bankers' Acceptances, and Eurodollars	448
Pt. 5	The Consumer in the Financial Markets
Ch. 18	Consumer Lending and Borrowing	471
Ch. 19	The Residential Mortgage Market	499
Pt. 6	Businesses in the Financial Markets
Ch. 20	Business Borrowing in the Money and Capital Markets	527
Ch. 21	Corporate Stock	557
Pt. 7	Government in the Financial Markets
Ch. 22	Central Banking and the Role of the Federal Reserve	539
Ch. 23	The Tools of Monetary Policy	616
Ch. 24	Indicators and Goals of Monetary Policy	643
Ch. 25	The Treasury in the Financial Markets	675
Ch. 26	State and Local Governments in the Financial Markets	708
Pt. 8	The International Financial System and the Future
Ch. 27	The Balance of Payments and International Transactions	735
Ch. 28	The Markets for Foreign Exchange	756
Ch. 29	International Banking	788
Ch. 30	The Future of the Financial Systems	806
	Appendix A: Security Credit Ratings
	Appendix B: Present Value, Annuity, Compound Interest, and Annual Percentage Rate (APR) Tables
	Money and Capital Markets Dictionary
	Index

The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann or Crime Control as Industry

2009-01-07T01:28:00.000-08:00

The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann

Author: Herman H H Goldstin

In 1942, Lt. Herman H. Goldstine, a former mathematics professor, was stationed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. It was there that he assisted in the creation of the ENIAC, the first electronic digital computer. The ENIAC was operational in 1945, but plans for a new computer were already underway. The principal source of ideas for the new computer was John von Neumann, who became Goldstine's chief collaborator. Together they developed EDVAC, successor to ENIAC. After World War II, at the Institute for Advanced Study, they built what was to become the prototype of the present-day computer. Herman Goldstine writes as both historian and scientist in this first examination of the development of computing machinery, from the seventeenth century through the early 1950s. His personal involvement lends a special authenticity to his narrative, as he sprinkles anecdotes and stories liberally through his text.

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Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style

Author: Nils Christi

This classic book argues that crime control, rather than crime itself, is the real danger for our future. Since the second edition prison populations, especially in the US and Russian have grown rapidly.

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Not crime itself, but crime control is the real danger for society, argues Christie (criminology, U. of Oslo). He documents the enormous growth in the number of prisoners in recent years, particularly in Russia and the US. But the fundamental problems, he says, are the unequal distribution of wealth and the lack of access to paid work. The 1993 first edition was published in English and as by Universitetsforlaget, Oslo; the second edition appeared in 1994. The third is radially revised to account for the accelerating proportion of people in prison, and contains new chapters on penal geography and the Russian case. It is not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Business Valuation Body of Knowledge or Organizational Behavior and Change

2009-01-06T17:47:00.000-08:00

Business Valuation Body of Knowledge: Exam Review and Professional Reference

Author: Shannon P Pratt

Written by Shannon Pratt, one of the leading gurus in the business valuation field.
Case study approach includes problems, solutions, and over 100-multiple-choice test questions.
A reference and review of the core body of knowledge for those who need a grasp on business valuation even though they might not be seeking a professional designation.

	Preface	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Basic Formulas	xvii
Section 1	Questions	1
Part I.	Business Valuation Engagement Environment	1
1.	Business Valuation Legal and Regulatory Environment	3
2.	Business Valuation Professional Environment	5
3.	Business Valuation Engagement	8
4.	Litigation Service Engagements	11
Part II.	Terminology and Notation	13
5.	International Glossary of Business Valuation Terms	15
6.	Notation System Used in This Book	17
Part III.	Valuation Approaches and Methods	19
7.	Overview of Valuation Approaches and Methods	21
8.	Income Approach: Cost of Capital	23
9.	Income Approach: Discounting Method	30
10.	Income Approach: Capitalization Method	34
11.	Market Approach: Guideline Public Company Method	38
12.	Market Approach: Guideline Merger and Acquisition Method	41
13.	Prior Transactions, Offers, and Buy-Sell Agreements	45
14.	Adjusted Net Asset Method	47
15.	Excess Earnings Method	49
16.	Discounts and Premiums	51
17.	Reconciliation and Value Conclusion	55
Part IV.	Analysis of the Company	57
18.	Financial Statement Analysis	59
19.	Using Economic and Industry Data	64
20.	Site Visits and Interviews	67
Part V.	Supporting Data	69
21.	Sources of Supporting Data	71
Part VI.	Valuations for Specific Purposes	75
22.	Tax-Related Valuations	77
23.	Employee Stock Ownership Plans	79
24.	Shareholder Buyouts and Disputes	82
25.	Marital Dissolutions	85
Section 2	Answers	87
Part I.	Business Valuation Engagement Environment	87
1.	Business Valuation Legal and Regulatory Environment	89
2.	Business Valuation Professional Environment	90
3.	Business Valuation Engagement	91
4.	Litigation Service Engagements	93
Part II.	Terminology and Notation	95
5.	International Glossary of Business Valuation Terms	97
6.	Notation System Used in This Book	98
Part III.	Valuation Approaches and Methods	99
7.	Overview of Valuation Approaches and Methods	101
8.	Income Approach: Cost of Capital	102
9.	Income Approach: Discounting Method	105
10.	Income Approach: Capitalization Method	108
11.	Market Approach: Guideline Public Company Method	111
12.	Market Approach: Guideline Merger and Acquisition Method	112
13.	Prior Transactions, Offers, and Buy-Sell Agreements	113
14.	Adjusted Net Asset Method	114
15.	Excess Earnings Method	115
16.	Discounts and Premiums	117
17.	Reconciliation and Value Conclusion	119
Part IV.	Analysis of the Company	121
18.	Financial Statement Analysis	123
19.	Using Economic and Industry Data	125
20.	Site Visits and Interviews	126
Part V.	Supporting Data	127
21.	Sources of Supporting Data	129
Part VI.	Valuations for Specific Purposes	131
22.	Tax-related Valuations	133
23.	Employee Stock Ownership Plans	134
24.	Shareholder Buyouts and Disputes	135
25.	Marital Dissolutions	136
	CPE Self-Study Examination	137
	Index	153

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Organizational Behavior and Change: Managing Diversity, Cross-Cultural Dynamics, and Ethics

Author: Joseph W Weiss

Organizational Behavior and Change, 2e provides the reader with a contemporary, real-time, and conceptual approach to understanding organizational change through a concise presentation of current organizational behavior and models. The theme of planned change is integrated with classical organizational behavior topics throughout the text. A major premise of the book is that organizations and individuals must understand and use consultative perspectives on change in order to meet their goals.

When Sacred and Secular Mix or Cost Reduction 2e

2009-01-06T11:07:00.000-08:00

When Sacred and Secular Mix: Religious Nonprofit Organizations and Public Money

Author: Stephen V V Monsma

Crucial reading for anyone interested in constitutional issues.

	List of Tables	ix
	Preface	xi
Chapters 1.	Nonprofit Organizations in a Pluralistic Society	1
Chapters 2.	The Setting: Legal Principles and Public Attitudes	29
Chapters 3.	Religious Nonprofit Organizations and Public Money: Patterns	63
Chapters 4.	Mixing Sacred and Secular: Tensions and Problems	109
Chapters 5.	When Legal Principles Confuse	147
Chapters 6.	Positive Neutrality	173
	Appendices
A.	The Questionnaires	201
B.	The Study	217
C.	The Religious Practices Scale	225
	Selected Bibliography	229
	Index	235
	About the Author	239

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Cost Reduction 2e

Author: Ioma

The official IOMA source for tips, techniques, strategies, and best practices in corporate cost-cutting

This book is an authoritative and comprehensive collection of the best strategies and techniques being used to control costs across virtually every business function. Each chapter focuses on a different department or function and is built around original research, the latest strategies currently being used, and dozens of practical tips and tactics from managers around the country. Case studies and real examples illustrate this expert guide from the only truly definitive source-the Institute of Management and Administration.

The book offers specific techniques and proven best practices on cutting costs in the following areas:

• Human resources

• Benefits

• Compensation

• 401(k) plans

• HRIS

• Training and development

• Accounting

• Accounts payable

• Credit and collections

• Accounting systems

• Logistics

• Purchasing

• Inventory

• Mail center

• Export

Ideal for managers facing a crunch, financial officers trimming budgets, and small business owners who need fresh ideas for cutting costs, Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices is the ultimate resource for controlling costs simply and effectively.

Capitalism and Development or Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry

2009-01-06T01:26:00.000-08:00

Capitalism and Development: Immanuel Wallerstein and Development Studies

Author: Leslie Sklair

This collection draws together a distinguished group of authors to explore how capitalism contributes to the development and underdevelopment of the Third World. It provides a superb overview of key concepts such as "capitalism", "development","modernization" and "dependency".

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Preface
1	Development: Lodestar or Illusion?	3
2	Democracy and Development: Deconstruction and Debates	21
3	Agrarian Classes in Capitalist Development	40
4	Capitalist Development in the NICs	72
5	Confucianism and Capitalist Development in East Asia	87
6	'Gender' and Global Capitalism	107
7	Development and the Environment: Managing the Contradictions?	123
8	Capitalism, Global Humane Development and the Other Underdevelopment	140
9	Capitalism and Development in Global Perspective	165
10	Uneven Development and the Textiles and Clothing Industry	189
11	Capitalism, Development and Global Commodity Chains	211
12	Tourism, Capitalism and Development in Less Developed Countries	232
13	Electronics Industries and the Developing World: Uneven Contributions and Uncertain Prospects	258
14	Japanese Multinationals and East Asian Development: The Case of the Automobile Industry	289
15	Capitalism, Agriculture and World Economy	316
16	Gender Relations, Capitalism and Third World Industrialization	339
	Author index	359
	Subject index	366

Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalization

Author: David J Hess

In Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry, David Hess examines how social movements and other forms of activism affect innovation in science, technology, and industry. Synthesizing and extending work in social studies of science and technology, social movements, and globalization, Hess explores the interaction of grassroots environmental action and mainstream industry and offers a conceptual framework for understanding it.

Hess proposes a theory of scientific and technological change that considers the roles of both industry and grassroots consumers in setting the research agenda in science and technology and he identifies alternative pathways by which social movements can influence scientific and technological innovation. He analyzes four of these pathways: industrial opposition movements organized against targeted technologies (as in the campaign against nuclear energy); technology- and product-oriented movements, which press for alternatives (as does the organic food movement); localism, which promotes local ownership (as in "buy local" campaigns); and access pathways, which support a more equitable distribution of resources. Within each pathway, Hess examines reforms in five areas: agriculture, energy, waste and manufacturing, infrastructure, and finance. Hess's theoretical argument and the empirical evidence he presents demonstrate the complex pattern of incorporation (of grassroots innovations) and transformation (of alternative ownership structures and alternative products) that has characterized the relationship of industry and activism. Hess's analysis of alternative pathways to change suggests how economic organizations could shift toa more just and sustainable course.

Accounting and Tax Principles for Legal Professionals or Knowledge Information and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics

2009-01-05T17:45:00.000-08:00

Accounting and Tax Principles for Legal Professionals

Author: Beth Walston Dunham

As the private practice law firm enters an increasingly competitive environment, firms must provide a wide variety of collateral services to clients to retain current business and to attract new clients. Because the law firm frequently has more knowledge than anyone else with respect to a client's financial status, tax assistance is a logical choice in terms of revenue generating services that can be offered to clients at a cost effective rate. Either an attorney or a paralegal can often provide tax assistance service. Additionally, because smaller firms often require support staff to function in dual roles, it is a perfect fit for the qualified paralegal to assist in basic accounting functions for the firm. This can be a much more cost-effective use of the paralegal's time and salary than to use the paralegal in a strictly clerical role. Accounting and Tax Principles for Legal Professionals will provide paralegal and law students with marketable skills to help assist in the financial management of the firm they join and to market these services to current and prospective clients.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Accounting

Chapter 2: Accounting Foundations

Chapter 3: Concluding the Financial Reporting Period

Chapter 4: Business Organizations

Chapter 5: Accounting in the Law Office

Chapter 6: Basic Principles and Terminology of Tax

Chapter 7: Commonly Encountered Information Documents

Chapter 8: Common Federal Income Tax Individual Forms

Chapter 9: The Individual Income Tax Return

Chapter 10: Preparation of the Small Business Return

Chapter 11: Preparation of the Fiduciary Return

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Knowledge, Information, and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: In Honor of Edmund S. Phelps

Author: Philippe Aghion

Macroeconomics would not be what it is today without Edmund Phelps. This book assembles the field's leading figures to highlight the continuing influence of his ideas from the past four decades. Addressing the most important current debates in macroeconomic theory, it focuses on the rates at which new technologies arise and information about markets is dispersed, information imperfections, and the heterogeneity of beliefs as determinants of an economy's performance. The contributions, which represent a breadth of contemporary theoretical approaches, cover topics including the real effects of monetary disturbances, difficulties in expectations formation, structural factors in unemployment, and sources of technical progress. Based on an October 2001 conference honoring Phelps, this incomparable volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account in years of the present state of macroeconomics while also pointing to its future.

The fifteen chapters are by the editors and by Daron Acemoglu, Jess Benhabib, Guillermo A. Calvo, Oya Celasun, Michael D. Goldberg, Bruce Greenwald, James J. Heckman, Bart Hobijn, Peter Howitt, Hehui Jin, Charles I. Jones, Michael Kumhof, Mordecai Kurz, David Laibson, Lars Ljungqvist, N. Gregory Mankiw, Dale T. Mortensen, Maurizio Motolese, Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, Wolfgang Ochel, Christopher A. Pissarides, Glenda Quintini, Ricardo Reis, Andrea Repetto, Thomas J. Sargent, Jeremy Tobacman, and Gianluca Violante. Commenting are Olivier J. Blanchard, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Mark Gertler, Robert E. Hall, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., David H. Papell, Robert A. Pollak, Robert M. Solow, Nancy L. Stokey, and Lars E. O. Svensson. Also included are reflectionsby Phelps, a preface by Paul A. Samuelson, and the editors' introduction.

Business Communication Today or Advertising and Integrated Brand Promotion

2009-01-05T09:04:00.000-08:00

Business Communication Today

Author: John V Thill

A book that addresses the need for skills-building in today's competitive business environment, Business Communication Today has been completely revised and reworked to provide the most cutting-edge information available on the market. Combining a solid foundation of communication fundamentals with practical advice and insights, readers will be effectively prepared for the challenges they'll face when entering the job market. Thorough coverage and thoughtful integration of business communication technology sets this book apart from the competition. Every essential technology is covered, successfully demonstrating the importance of business etiquette, teamwork, proper short communication (memos, email, instant messaging, etc.), and effective business reports and proposals. An especially useful tool for those entering the job market, this book is also a must-read for corporate trainers, office managers, and others that need to utilize effective communications on a day-to-day basis.

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For this seventh edition of a text for undergraduates, material has been reorganized to incorporate a three-step process for solving communication problems. Coverage of communication issues in teams has been expanded, and there are new chapters on writing for the Web, communicating through the Internet and other technologies, and enhancing presentations with electronic visual aids. Learning features include boxes on technology applications, ethics, and communication across cultures, documents for students to critique, cases, margin notes, and test questions. The author teaches business communication at Grossmont College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Advertising and Integrated Brand Promotion

Author: Thomas OGuinn

Like other aspects of business, good advertising is the result of hard work and careful planning. Creating good advertising is an enormous challenge. Imaginative and refreshingly honest, Advertising 3e continues the tradition of providing readers with a solid understanding of advertising strategy. The table of contents is designed to follow the same process that advertising agencies follow.

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This introductory textbook looks at the role of advertising in business and society, focuses on the various components of an advertising effort, and offers a framework for integrating them into a brand promotion campaign. Major sections discuss the analysis of the advertising environment, preparing the message, and placing ads in conventional and new media. Case studies illustrate the varies stages of campaign development. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface	vi
	Acknowledgments	xxii
Part 1	The Process: Advertising in Business and Society	2
1	Advertising as a Process	4
2	The Structure of the Advertising Industry: Advertisers, Advertising Agencies, and Support Organizations	42
3	The Evolution of Advertising	74
4	Social, Ethical, and Regulatory Aspects of Advertising	114
Integrated Brand Promotion Part I	From Principles to Practice: An Integrated Brand Promotion Case	148
Part 2	Planning: Analyzing the Advertising Environment	158
5	Advertising and Consumer Behavior	160
6	Market Segmentation, Positioning, and the Value Proposition	208
7	Advertising and Promotion Research	240
8	The Advertising Plan	270
9	Advertising Planning: An International Perspective	298
Integrated Brand Promotion Part 2	From Principles to Practice: Planning Advertising and IBP	326
Part 3	Preparing the Message	336
10	Creativity and Advertising	338
11	Message Strategy	362
12	Copywriting	400
13	Art Direction and Production	434
Integrated Brand Promotion Part 3	From Principles to Practice: Preparing Advertising and IBP	476
Part 4	Placing the Message in Conventional and "New" Media	484
14	Media Planning, Objectives, and Strategy for Advertising and Promoting the Brand	486
15	Media Planning: Print, Television, and Radio	522
16	Media Planning: Advertising and the Internet	558
Integrated Brand Promotion Part 4	From Principles to Practice: Cincinnati Bell Wireless: The Launch Campaign	596
Part 5	Integrated Brand Promotion	604
17	Support Media, P-O-P Advertising, and Event Sponsorship	606
18	Sales Promotion	634
19	Direct Marketing	668
20	Public Relations and Corporate Advertising	694
Integrated Brand Promotion Part 5	From Principles to Practice: Sustaining and Growing the Brand after Launch	718
	Glossary	727
	Name/Brand/Company Index	741
	Subject Index	750
	Credits	766

Strategic Human Resource Management or Applying Public Administration in Development

2009-01-05T02:23:00.000-08:00

Strategic Human Resource Management

Author: Jeffrey A Mello

This strategic HR text is organized into two sections. The first section, Chapters 1-7, examines the context of strategic HR and develops a framework and conceptual model for the practice of strategic HR. The second section, Chapters 8-14, examines the actual practice and implementation of strategic HR through a discussion of strategic issues that need to be addressed while developing specific programs and policies related to the traditional functional areas of HR (staffing, training, performance management, etc.). The integrative framework that requires linkage between, consistency among these functional HR activities, and the approach toward writing about these traditional functional areas from a strategic perspective distinguish the text from what is currently on the market.

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Frustrated at not being able to find a MBA course text truly stressing the strategic aspect of human resource management, Mello (management, Towson U., Baltimore, MD) developed this reader of articles from the 1990s by the author and other HR experts reprinted from such journals as , , and . The 14 selections appear under the headings of the context of strategic HR management, its implementation, and case studies. Timely topics include the impact of technology, workforce demographic trends, Federal anti- discrimination laws, international assignments, and unions today. Includes critical thinking, experiential, and Internet-based exercises; and a supporting Web site. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Applying Public Administration in Development: Guideposts to the Future

Author: Collins

Made to fill the major gap in the literature on public administration applied in development. This title provides a review of the state-of-the-art which is both historically-grounded and forward-looking, and which will appeal to a broad readership: policy-makers, managers, advisers, scholars and others operating at all levels of government from local community through international levels. The studies offer a practical approach, consistently linking theory with practice and experience, providing a forum for new and exciting ideas.

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Addresses key governance issues in the management of development, looking at past and present challenges, contemporary forces shaping public administration and development, and themes for the future. Specific topics include securing the public interest under pluralistic institutional design, decentralized governance and poverty reduction in Africa and Asia, public-private partnerships in Latin America, and the emerging development-security complex. Material originated at an April 1999 conference held by the journal . Collins is editor of that journal, and visiting professor at the Institute of International Policy Analysis, University of Bath. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

PERSPECTIVES: THE DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE AGENDA.
The Last Fifty Years and the Next Fifty Years: A Century of Public Administration and Development (P. Collins).
Combining Good Fortune and Careful Planning in Botswana: Lessons of Success in Presidential Leadership (K. Masire).
Challenges before Policy-Makers and Service Providers (P. Sundaram).
Globalisation: Threat or Opportunity? (P. Streeten).
STATE, MARKET AND CIVIL SOCIETY.
State, Market and Civil Society: Towards Partnership? (P. Collins).
Securing the Public Interest under Pluralistic Institutional Design (N. Girishankar).
Decentralised Governance and Poverty Reduction: Relevant Experience in Africa and Asia (D. Belshaw).
Local Government Reform and Community-Driven Development: Asia-Pacific Experiences (M. Turner).
Public Ownership and the Community (P. McKinlay).
Subsidiarity in Public Governance: Issues and Implications for Stakeholders (D. Wright).
Public-Private Partnerships as a Strategy for Local Capacity-Building: Some Suggestive Evidence from Latin America (A. Fiszbein).
Considerations on Governance from a Local Perspective: Towards a Framework for Addressing Critical Disjunctures in Urban Policy (P. McCarney).
Networking and Collaboration Among Voluntary Organisations, Local Bodies and Government Functionaries in India: Experiences in Strengthening Local Self-Governance (B. Acharya).
Public Interest Partnerships (PIPs): Is a New Governance Paradigm Emerging in ASEAN? (J. Gonzalez & J. Mayfield).
Is the Role Played by Donors in Supporting Uganda's NGO Sector Enabling it to Develop Effectively? (T. Wallace).
The ChangingRole of International Technical Co-operation (L. Joy).
ISSUES IN GOVERNANCE.
Governance and Development: New Frontiers (P. Collins).
Local Government Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Form and Substance (K. Davey).
Subnational Government in South Africa Since the Transition to Democracy from Apartheid (T. Mokgoro).
Democracy, Development and the Institutionalised Participation of the Poor for Poverty Reduction (N. Webster).
Small but Smart, or Small and Out-Smarted? Micro States, Offshore Finance and Economic Vulnerability (M. Hampton).
Natural Disasters, Complex Political Emergencies and Public Services: Re-Juxtaposing the Narratives after Hurricane Mitch (I. Christoplos).
The Emerging Development-Security Complex (M. Duffield).
Selected Further Reading.
Index.

Common Sense in Project Management or A Treatise on Political Economy

2009-01-04T16:42:00.000-08:00

Common Sense in Project Management

Author: Paul Tedesco

Common Sense in Project Management offers project managers a new way to add value, eliminate useless tasks, and empower developers. It enables you to maintain your current project management tools and processes while guiding you through the application of new steps designed to mitigate risks and raise new issues that better support your company and create competitive advantages. Learn how to bring creative problem solving to your projects, divide responsibility among team members, and solve critical problems early in a project-before they become more costly to correct. Discover the types of information gathered throughout the project and learn how that information is used to reach goals.

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A Treatise on Political Economy

Author: Jean Baptiste Say

"Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successful entrepreneur - a remarkable Renaissance man. He is best known as author of the law of markets, known as Say's Law, and as the first to coin the term "entrepreneur." Say's concern with the average interested citizen and his zeal for economic education for the masses is most apparent in his classic work, A Treatise on Political Economy." "Readers will see that Say is without doubt a luminary of classical economics. He single-handedly revived the study of political economy from its decline and kept it alive during a difficult period of opposition to liberal ideas. Say had a missionary belief that society will be best served if the principles of political economy are widely disseminated and understood by the citizenry. His organization of the Treatise's subject matter - production, distribution, and consumption of wealth - continues to guide authors of economic textbooks to this day. His treatment of the role of the entrepreneur as a contributor to production different from that of either the manager or the capitalist was the most advanced of his times." In their new introduction, Quddus and Rashid note that present-day readers of this volume will benefit from the remarkable freshness of Say's ideas. The longevity of this volume proves that good ideas can successfully withstand the test of time. The role played by the Treatise in spreading liberal economic ideas and especially laissez-faire and free trade in France, the rest of Europe, and in the newly independent United States must also be appreciated. One suspects Say would have liked nothing better than to have his Treatise attract entrepreneurs, managers, and other non-specialist readers to economics. Given the emphasis on capitalism, free markets and unrestricted global trade republication of this great classic could not be more timely. Political economists,

	Introduction to the Transaction Edition	vii
	Preface to the Sixth Edition	5
	Preface to the Fifth Edition	8
	Introduction	15
Book I.	Of the Production of Wealth
Chap. I.	Of what is to be understood by the term production	61
Chap. II.	Of the different kinds of industry, and the mode in which they concur in production	63
Chap. III.	Of the nature of capital, and the mode in which it concurs in the business of production	71
Chap. IV.	Of natural agents, that assist in the production of wealth, and specially of land	74
Chap. V.	On the mode in which industry, capital, and natural agents unite in production	77
Chap. VI.	Of operations alike common to all branches of industry	79
Chap. VII.	Of the labour of mankind, of nature, and of machinery respectively	85
Chap. VIII.	Of the advantages and disadvantages resulting from division of labour; and of the extent to which it may be carried	90
Chap. IX.	Of the different methods of employing commercial industry, and the mode in which they concur in production	99
Chap. X.	Of the transformations undergone by capital, in the progress of production	105
Chap. XI.	Of the formation and multiplication of capital	109
Chap. XII.	Of unproductive capital	118
Chap. XIII.	Of immaterial products, or values consumed at the moment of production	119
Chap. XIV.	Of the right of property	127
Chap. XV.	Of the demand or market for products	132
Chap. XVI.	Of the benefits resulting from the quick circulation of money and commodities	140
Chap. XVII.	Of the effect of governments, intended to influence production	143
Sect. 1.	Effect of regulations prescribing the nature of products	143
	Digression--Upon what is called the balance of trade	148
Sect. 2.	Of the effect of regulations, fixing the manner of production	175
Sect. 3.	Of privileged trading companies	183
Sect. 4.	Of regulations affecting the corn trade	189
Chap. XVIII.	Of the effect upon national wealth, resulting from the productive efforts of public authority	199
Chap. XIX.	Of colonies and their products	203
Chap. XX.	Of temporary and permanent emigration, considered in reference to national wealth	213
Chap. XXI.	Of the nature and uses of money
Sect. 1.	General remarks	217
Sect. 2.	Of the material of money	220
Sect. 3.	Of the accession of value a commodity receives, by being vested with the character of money	224
Sect. 4.	Of the utility of coinage; and of the charge of its execution	228
Sect. 5.	Of alterations of the standard-money	234
Sect. 6.	Of the reason why money is neither a sign nor a measure	240
Sect. 7.	Of a peculiarity, that should be attended to, in estimating the sums mentioned in history	248
Sect. 8.	Of the absence of any fixed ratio of value between one metal and another	254
Sect. 9.	Of money as it ought to be	256
Sect. 10.	Of a copper and brass metal coinage	261
Sect. 11.	Of the preferable form of coined money	262
Sect. 12.	Of the party on whom the loss of coin by wear should properly fall	263
Chap. XXII.	Of signs or representatives of money
Sect. 1.	Of bills of exchange and letters of credit	265
Sect. 2.	Of banks of deposite	268
Sect. 3.	Of banks of circulation or discount, and of bank notes, or convertible paper	270
Sect. 4.	Of paper-money	280
Book II.	Of the Distribution of Wealth
Chap. I.	Of the basis of value, and of supply and demand	284
Chap. II.	Of the sources of revenue	292
Chap. III.	Of real and relative variation of price	297
Chap. IV.	Of nominal variation of price, and of the peculiar value of bullion and of coin	306
Chap. V.	Of the manner in which revenue is distributed amongst society	314
Chap. VI.	Of what branches of production yield the most liberal recompense to productive agency	321
Chap. VII.	Of the revenue of industry
Sect. 1.	Of the profits of industry in general	324
Sect. 2.	Of the profits of the man of science	228
Sect. 3.	Of the profits of the master-agent or adventurer in industry	229
Sect. 4.	Of the profits of the operative labourer	332
Sect. 5.	Of the independence accruing to the moderns from the advancement of industry	340
Chap. VIII.	Of the revenue of capital
Sect. 1.	Of loans at interest	343
Sect. 2.	Of the profit of capital	354
Sect. 3.	Of the employments of capital most beneficial to society	357
Chap. IX.	Of the revenue of land:
Sect. 1.	Of the profit of landed property	359
Sect. 2.	Of rent	365
Chap. X.	Of the effect of revenue derived by one nation from another	368
Chap. XI.	Of the mode in which the quantity of the product affects population
Sect. 1.	Of population, as connected with political economy	371
Sect. 2.	Of the influence of the quality of a national product upon the local distribution of the population	381
Book III.	Of the Consumption of Wealth
Chap. I.	Of the different kinds of consumption	387
Chap. II.	Of the effect of consumption in general	391
Chap. III.	Of the effect of productive consumption	393
Chap. IV.	Of the effect of unproductive consumption in general	396
Chap. V.	Of individual consumption, its motives and its effects	401
Chap. VI.	On public consumption
	Of the nature and general effect of public consumption	412
	Of the principal objects of national expenditure	421
	Of the charge of civil and judicious administration	425
	Of charges, military and naval	429
	Of the charges of public instruction	432
	Of the charges of public benevolent institutions	438
	Of the charges of public edifices and works	441
Chap. VII.	Of the actual contributors to public consumption	444
Chap. VIII.	Of taxation
Sect. 1.	Of the effect of all kinds of taxation in general	446
Sect. 2.	Of the different modes of assessment, and the classes they press upon respectively	468
Sect. 3.	Of taxation in kind	473
Sect. 4.	Of the territorial or land-tax of England	476
Chap. IX.	Of national debt
Sect. 1.	Of the contracting debt by national authority, and of its general effect	477
Sect. 2.	Of public credit, its basis, and the circumstances that endanger its solidity	482
	Appendix	488

	History	5
	Philosophies	81
	Product design philosophy	85
	Production philosophy	117
	Distribution philosophy	126
	Image philosophy	147
	Financial philosophy	159
	Human resource philosophy	165
	Management philosophy	177
	Environmental philosophy	187
	1% for the planet alliance	247

	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

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