The Planning and Drafting of Wills and Trusts or Sarbanes Oxley and NonProfit Management

The Planning and Drafting of Wills and Trusts

Author: Thomas L Shaffer

Planning Together; Rebuilding Together; Will Interview with Dr. and Mrs. Kennedy; Wills; Trusts; Death Taxes and "Estate Planning; " Rule Against Perpetuities; Language; Justified Simplicity; Non-Estate Planning; Planning for Disability.

Interesting book: Beyond Transfer of Training or Dining Room and Banquet Management

Sarbanes-Oxley and Nonprofit Management: Skills, Techniques, Methods

Author: Peggy M Jackson

Is your nonprofit organization ready for increased scrutiny, reporting requirements, regulations, and increased expectations from donors? This combination reference/workbook prepares you and shows you how Sarbanes-Oxley best practices can benefit your organization. It includes:

• A structured description of Sarbanes-Oxley and its implications for nonprofits

• Detailed discussions on governance, including financial literacy for board members, new standards of accountability for boards, and best practices for nonprofit management

• Sample documents, procedures, and frameworks to help you implement best practices

• Worksheets, forms, and resource materials in each chapter

• A "walk-through" of typical financial statements and sample documents such as a Conflict of Interest policy, board orientation curriculum, a Whistleblower Protection policy, a Document Preservation policy, and a fundraising plan.

Implementing proven best practices stemming from Sarbanes-Oxley can diminish organizational dysfunction, promote a solid infrastructure, and propel your organization to the platinum standard of operations and governance, giving your organization the competitive advantage in today's demanding nonprofit environment.

Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment or A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century

Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

Author: Charles L Griswold

Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including moral philosophy, political economy, rhetorical theory, aesthetics, and jurisprudence. Charles Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the continuing debate about the nature and survival of the Enlightenment, and relates it to current discussions in moral and political philosophy. Smith's appropriation as well as criticism of ancient philosophy, and his carefully balanced defense of a liberal and humane moral and political outlook, are also explored. This is a major reassessment of a key figure in modernity that will be of particular interest to philosophers and political and legal theorists, as well as historians of ideas, rhetoric, and political economy.

Jerry Z. Muller

[Griswold's] book is written for an audience of professional philosophers. But it is also exemplary in spelling out many of Smith's arguments and subjecting them to analytic scrutiny. If reading it requires effort, the reward is substantial. -- The Wall Street Journal

What People Are Saying

Stephen Darwall
With one eye on the 18th century and the other on our current predicament, Charles Griswold's Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment is wonderfullyinteresting and informative, philosophically stimulating and acute, and beautifully written. -- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Table of Contents:

	Texts and Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Rhetoric, Method, and System in The Theory of Moral Sentiments	40
2	Sympathy and Selfishness, Imagination and Self	76
3	The Passions, Pleasure, and the Impartial Spectator	113
4	Philosophy and Skepticism	147
5	The Theory of Virtue	179
6	Justice	228
7	The Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations	259
8	Philosophy, Imagination, and the Fragility of Beauty: On Reconciliation with Nature	311
	Epilogue	355
	Bibliography	377
	Index	401

Interesting textbook: If Democrats Had Any Brains Theyd Be Republicans or Human Factor

A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century

Author: Roger Owen

This important book on economic development in the modern Middle East examines, for the first time, the separate national economies of the Arab states, including the Gulf, Israel, and Turkey, from 1918 to the present. It describes the main trends within each economy based on the best available statistical data, and answers larger questions concerning the long-term growth of the countries, first in the colonial period, then in the periods characterized by planning and development, followed by the first steps toward liberalization and structural adjustment. It evaluates government policy in promoting the protection of imports and in advancing market economies. Policies employed by the oil-producing states to build new institutional structures based on near unlimited supplies of capital and labor are also examined. The Middle East economies are placed in their proper international context, and questions of colonialism and labor migration are discussed. The authors evaluate where the Middle Eastern economies are now, and speculate about how they may develop in the future.

Corporate Information Strategy and Management or Measuring Health Care

Corporate Information Strategy and Management: The Challenges of Managing in a Network Economy (Paperback Version)

Author: Lynda M Applegat

Corporate Information Strategy and Management: The Challenges of Managing in the Internet Age, 6/E is written for students and managers who desire an overview of contemporary information systems technology (IT) management. It explains the relevant issues of effective management of information services activities and highlights the areas of greatest potential application of the technology. No assumptions are made concerning the reader's experience with IT, but it is assumed that the reader has some course work or work experience in administration or management. It is a paperback derivative product that contains the same text portion found in Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases, 6/e, but without the Harvard cases.

Look this: Geodemographics GIS and Neighbourhood Targeting or Nothing But the Truth

Measuring Health Care: Using Quality Data for Operational, Financial, and Clinical Improvement

Author: Yosef Dlugacz PhD

This invaluable guide shows students and professionals how measurements and data can be used to balance quality services and financial viability and how measures can help to evaluate and improve organizational, clinical, and financial processes. The book explains the various performance measurement methods used in health care and shows their practical impact on clinical patient outcomes.

Table of Contents:

1	Overview : what measures measure	1
2	Fundamentals of data	14
3	Using data to improve organizational processes	41
4	What to measure - and why	65
5	Promoting accountability through measurements	94
6	The rationale for external drivers of quality	115
7	Integrating data for operational success	135
8	Internal drivers of quality	157
9	Using data for performance improvement	176

The Basics of Investing or Modern Accident Investigation and Analysis

The Basics of Investing

Author: Benton E Gup

Written for students and business neophytes alike, it provides a thorough grounding in the art of investing. Defines the basic types of securities and the concepts of risk and return; explains how the securities market operates; shows how to analyze securities step-by-step; explores the issues of administering investments in stocks, tax shelters, real estate and other investments; and deals with the special situations that might arise in convertibles, commodities and derivative securities. Financial analysis from a global perspective is included.

Interesting book: Chile or Customer Relations and Rapport

Modern Accident Investigation and Analysis

Author: Ted S Ferry

This new edition of a standard in the field is the most complete treatment available on modern methods of accident investigation. The investigation process is divided into three phases: preparation and planning, analytical methods and reporting, and corrective actions designed to prevent recurrence. Techniques discussed are general and can be applied to a wide range of industrial accidents. Topics covered include investigation concepts, the pitfalls of government intervention, legal aspects, multilinear events sequencing, and management oversight and risk tree (MORT). There is new material on the electronic and computer industries and on S-T-E-P accident investigation. A new chapter, "A Generic Approach to Mishap Investigation," puts the entire process in perspective.

Table of Contents:

The Need for Investigation.
Preparing for Mishaps.
Getting Underway with the Investigation.
Human Aspects.
The Environment.
Materials.
Systems Investigation.
Basic Analytical Technique.
System Safety/Faulty Tree.
Change Analysis.
Multilinear Events Sequencing.
Management Oversight and Risk Tree (MORT).
S-T-E-P Accident Investigation.
Technique of Operations Review.
Where Did Management Fail?
Fire Investigation.
The Mishap Report.
12 Steps to Mishap Investigation.
A Generic Approach to Mishap Investigation.
Legal Aspects of Investigation.
What is Ahead for Investigation?
Appendices.

Farm Animal Welfare or The Construction Foremans Safety Handbook

Farm Animal Welfare: Social, Bioethical, and Research Issues

Author: Bernard E Rollin

Animals born with bones and muscles are meant to move. In modern systems of intensive agriculture, however, many animals -- notably, swine, veal calves, and poultry -- are rigorously confined. In this book Professor Bernard E. Rollin describes problems of animal welfare in today's agriculture, discusses the research that exists for improving these systems, and proposes topics for further study.

Rollin urges animal producers and agricultural scientists to begin now to address welfare problems. He cites the biomedical research community, which ignored issues of pain control and animal welfare until public concern led to federal legislation. Promising work has already been done in Europe, where the public has demanded that livestock not suffer. A new social ethic in the United States calls for humane agricultural systems that meet the needs and natures of the animals we use. Striking a balanced and rational approach, Rollin's thoughtful text is valuable reading for animal producers, agricultural scientists, veterinarians, animal advocates, and the general public.

Randall S. Ott

This book addresses welfare issues surrounding the use of farm animals in the various animal industries, e.g., beef, swine, dairy, veal, and poultry. This book is an attempt to find the middle ground in the area of farm animal well-being. The author attempts, unsuccessfully, to reconcile the dichotomy of animal rights and animal welfare in part 1. However, he effectively builds a case that animal welfare-friendly agriculture is a viable area of research. In part 2, he articulates specific areas of concern and opportunities for the improvement of farm animal welfare. This book will be of value to producers, practitioners, and students. It brings to light many of the industry-associated welfare issues for the various farm animal species. The author has educated himself and taught about these issues. His insights are useful for those inside of the agricultural community as well as for those outside of it. His broad-based coverage across the various animal industries is commendable. Some of the references are anecdotal and based on personal exchanges. However, the author often uses these to enhance the reader's understanding of the various attitudes and reactions of people to the issues under discussion. The division of welfare, first by industry and then by issues, makes this book a quick and easy reference for the subject of farm animal welfare. This book provides an interesting and broadly based discussion of animal welfare problems in the beef, dairy, swine, veal, and poultry industries. More importantly, the opportunities for proactive improvement of farm animal welfare are repeatedly emphasized.

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Reviewer: Randall S. Ott, DVM, MS (University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine)
Description: This book addresses welfare issues surrounding the use of farm animals in the various animal industries, e.g., beef, swine, dairy, veal, and poultry.
Purpose: This book is an attempt to find the middle ground in the area of farm animal well-being. The author attempts, unsuccessfully, to reconcile the dichotomy of animal rights and animal welfare in part 1. However, he effectively builds a case that ^^animal welfare-friendly agriculture is a viable area of research. In part 2, he articulates specific areas of concern and opportunities for the improvement of farm animal welfare.
Audience: This book will be of value to producers, practitioners, and students. It brings to light many of the industry-associated welfare issues for the various farm animal species. The author has educated himself and taught about these issues. His insights are useful for those inside of the agricultural community as well as for those outside of it. His broad-based coverage across the various animal industries is commendable.
Features: Some of the references are anecdotal and based on personal exchanges. However, the author often uses these to enhance the reader's understanding of the various attitudes and reactions of people to the issues under discussion. The division of welfare, first by industry and then by issues, makes this book a quick and easy reference for the subject of farm animal welfare.
Assessment: This book provides an interesting and broadly based discussion of animal welfare problems in the beef, dairy, swine, veal, and poultry industries. More importantly, the opportunities for proactive improvement of farm animal welfare are repeatedly emphasized.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Preface	viii
	Acknowledgments	xi
Part 1	The Social and Bioethical Background	1
1.	The New Social Ethic for Animals	3
	Personal Ethics and Social Ethics	3
	Traditional Social Ethics and the Treatment of Animals	4
	The Inadequacy of the Traditional Ethic	8
	The Rise of the New Ethic	12
	The Nature of the Emerging Ethic: Beyond Cruelty	15
	Evidence for the Presence of the New Ethic	19
	The Relevance of the New Social Ethic to Agriculture	23
2.	Welfare Research and Scientific Ideology	27
	Scientific and Producer Attitudes toward Animal Welfare	27
	Can Animal Suffering Be Assessed Scientifically?	40
	What Sorts of Research Should Be Undertaken?	43
	How, Morally, Ought Welfare Research Be Conducted?	45
	Animal Welfare and Genetic Engineering	48
Part 2	Research Issues in Farm Animal Welfare	51
3.	The Beef Industry	55
	Welfare Issues in Ranching	56
	Branding	58
	Castration	60
	Dehorning	64
	Cancer Eye	65
	Cattle Handling	66
	Transportation	67
	Downer Cattle	69
	Slaughter	69
	Gomer Bulls	71
	Feedlot Problems	71
4.	The Swine Industry	73
	Swine Behavior	74
	Confinement of Sows	75
	Modification of Existing Systems	78
	Development of New Systems	80
	Looking at Traditional Systems	90
	Farrowing Crates	91
	Other Sow Welfare Problems	93
	Piglet Welfare	94
	Grower-Finishers	96
	Handling and Transport	97
	Other Issues	98
5.	The Dairy Industry	99
	Ethograms for Cattle	100
	Calf Welfare	101
	Welfare Issues of Cows	103
	Future Technology	107
6.	The Veal Industry	109
	Welfare Problems in Current Systems	111
	Research Issues	114
7.	The Poultry Industry	117
	Welfare Issues in Battery-Cage Egg Production	118
	Improving Hen Welfare	126
	Changing the Animal	126
	Cage Modification	127
	Alternative Systems	128
	Problems in Broiler Welfare	133
	Handling, Transportation, and Slaughter of Poultry	134
8.	Reflections	137
	Notes	143
	Index	155

Book review: The Last True Story Ill Ever Tell or In Our Defense

The Construction Foreman's Safety Handbook

Author: George Kennedy

Construction Foreman's Safety Handbook is a invaluable reference source for individuals who want to ensure job site safety, OSHA compliance, promote lower operational costs, greater productivity, and improved employee moral.

A History of Banking in Antebellum America or The Moral Ecology of Markets

A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building

Author: Howard Bodenhorn

This history focuses on the credit generating function of American banks. It demonstrates that banks aggressively promoted economic development rather than passively following its course. Using previously unexploited data, Professor Bodenhorn shows that banks helped to advance the development of industrialization. Additionally, he shows that banks formed long-distance relationships that promoted geographic capital mobility, thereby assuring that short-term capital was directed in socially desirable directions. He then traces those institutional and legal developments that allowed for this capital mobility.

New interesting textbook: Marketing Planning for the Pharmaceutical Industry or Mastering Public Speaking

The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice

Author: Daniel K Finn

Disagreements about the morality of markets, and about self-interested behavior within markets, run deep. They arise from perspectives within economics and political philosophy that appear to have nothing in common. In this book, Daniel Finn provides a framework for understanding these conflicting points of view. Recounting the arguments for and against markets and self-interest, he argues that every economy must address four fundamental problems: allocation, distribution, scale, and the quality of relations. In addition, every perspective on the morality of markets addresses explicitly or implicitly the economic, political, and cultural contexts of markets, or what Finn terms 'the moral ecology of markets'. His book enables a dialogue among the various participants in the debate over justice in markets. In this process, Finn engages with major figures in political philosophy, including John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and Michael Walzer, as well as in economics, notably Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and James Buchannan.

Table of Contents:

1	Thinking ethically about economic life	1
2	De-moralized economic discourse about markets	11
3	The moral defense of self-interest and markets	34
4	The moral critique of self-interest and markets	54
5	The four problems of economic life	76
6	The market as an arena of freedom	103
7	The market's moral ecology	126
8	Implications	146

Principles of Antitrust Law 1993 or Family Time

Principles of Antitrust Law, 1993

Author: Stephen S F Ross

Goals of Antitrust; Development of the Law of Contracts in the Restraint of Trade; Market Structure and Monopoly Power; Agreements Among Competitors; Vertical Restraints; Resale Price Maintenance: Non-Price Restraints; Refusals to Deal: Exclusive Dealing: Mergers; Price Discrimination: Primary Line Injury; Secondary Line Injury: Buyer Liability; Anti-Competitive Harm Through Governmental Action; Influencing Governmental Restraints on Trade.

New interesting book: Bush Tragedy or The Conscience of a Conservative

Family Time: The Social Organisation of Care

Author: Nancy Folbr

Time is not money! If anything, it is MORE important than money. The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time.

In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy. They show how social institutions limit the choices that individuals can make about how to divide their time between paid and unpaid work. They challenge conventional surveys that offer simplistic measure of time spent in childcare or elder care. They summarize empirical evidence concerning trends in time devoted to the care of family members and debate ways of assigning a monetary value to this time.

This important book is well researched, well thought through, and well written. It will be highly regarded amongst those interested in the sociology and economics of the family, as well asthose with a general interest in gender studies.

Changing the Atmosphere or Public Private Policy Partnerships

Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance

Author: Clark Miller

In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly, helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and environmental governance. In so doing, it illustrates how the emerging field of science and technology studies can inform our understanding of the human dimensions of global environmental change.

Incorporating historical, sociological, and philosophical approaches, Changing the Atmosphere presents detailed empirical studies of climate science and its uptake into public policy. Topics include the scientific, political, and social processes involved in the creation of scientific knowledge about climate change; the historical and contemporary role of expert knowledge in creating and perpetuating policy concern about climate change; and the place of science in institutions of global environmental governance such as the World Meteorological Organization, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Together, the essays demonstrate fundamental connections between the science and politics of planet Earth. In the struggle to create sustainable forms of environmental governance, they indicate, a necessary first step is to understand how communities achieve credible, authoritative representations of nature.

Contributors:

Paul N. Edwards, Dale Jamieson, Sheila Jasanoff, Chunglin Kwa, Clark Miller, Stephen D. Norton, Stephen H. Schneider, Simon Shackley, Frederick Suppe.

Table of Contents:

	Series Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
1	Introduction: The Globalization of Climate Science and Climate Politics	1
2	Representing the Global Atmosphere: Computer Models, Data, and Knowledge about Climate Change	31
3	Why Atmospheric Modeling Is Good Science	67
4	Epistemic Lifestyles in Climate Change Modeling	107
5	The Rise and Fall of Weather Modification: Changes in American Attitudes Toward Technology, Nature, and Society	135
6	Scientific Internationalism in American Foreign Policy: The Case of Meteorology, 1947-1958	167
7	Self-Governance and Peer Review in Science-for-Policy: The Case of the IPCC Second Assessment Report	219
8	Challenges in the Application of Science to Global Affairs: Contingency, Trust, and Moral Order	247
9	Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice	287
10	Image and Imagination: The Formation of Global Environmental Consciousness	309
	References	339
	Index	371

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Public-Private Policy Partnerships

Author: Pauline Rosenau Rosenau Vaillancourt

Partnerships between the public and private sectors to fulfill public functions are on the increase at every level of government. In the United States and Canada they currently operate in most policy areas, and in the U.S. trial programs are planned by the Internal Revenue Service, the Census Bureau, and the Social Security Administration.

Partnerships represent the second generation of efforts to bring competitive market discipline to bear on government operations. Unlike the first generation of privatizing efforts, partnering involves sharing both responsibility and financial risk. In the best situations, the strengths of each sector maximize overall performance. In these cases, partnering institutionalizes collaborative arrangements in which the differences between the sectors become blurred.

This is the first book to evaluate public-private partnerships in a broad range of policy areas. The chapters focus on education, health care and health policy, welfare, prisons, the criminal justice system, environmental policy, energy policy, technology research and development, and transportation. The contributors come from a number of fields, including political science, education, law, economics, and public health. They merge experiential and social-scientific findings to examine how partnerships perform, to identify the conditions in which they work best, and to determine when they might be expected to fail.

Contributors:

Ronald J. Daniels, James A. Dunn, Jr., Sheldon Kamieniecki, Harry M. Levin, Stephen H. Linder, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Jr., Mark Carl Rom, Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, Walter A. Rosenbaum, Anne Larason Schneider, David Shafie,Julie Silvers, Michael S. Sparer, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Michael J. Trebilcock, Scott J. Wallsten.

East Asian Economic Regionalism or Conscience of the World

East Asian Economic Regionalism

Author: Edward J Lincoln

Something new is happening across East Asia. A region notable for its lack of internal economic links is discussing regional cooperation on trade, investment, and exchange rates. Because of negotiations elsewhere around the globe on regional trade—such as those that led to the consolidation of the European Union, the formation of the North American Free Trade Area, and the rapid proliferation of bilateral free trade areas—the talk is not surprising. Nevertheless, East Asia's past inertia with regard to forming a regional partnership raises many questions about its emerging regionalism. Why has the region suddenly shifted from taking a global approach to economic issues to discussing a regional bloc? How fast and how far will the new regionalism progress? Will the region become a version of the European Union, or something far less? What is the probable impact on American economic and strategic interests—are the likely developments something that the U.S. government should encourage or discourage? Edward Lincoln takes up these questions, exploring what is happening to regional trade and investment flows and what sort of regional arrangements are the most sensible.

Lincoln argues that an exclusive grouping is unlikely. Free trade negotiations have brought some economies in the region together, but they also have led to links with nations outside the region. Some regional governments most notably Japan, continue to have difficulty embracing the concept of free trade, even with favored regional partners. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, governments also have looked at cooperating on exchange rates, but they have done little to move forward.

The U.S. government must decide how to respond to these developments in East Asia. An exclusively Asian form of regionalism could run counter to American economic interests, and the U.S. government has reacted negatively to some of these proposals in the past. Because trade and investment links between the countries of the Asia Pacific region and the United States remain very strong, Lincoln argues that the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum remains the appropriate institution for pursuing regional trade and investment issues.

About the Author:
Edward J. Lincoln is a senior fellow in Asia and Economic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His previous Brookings books include Arthritic Japan (2001), Troubled Times: U.S.-Japan Trade Relations in the 1990s (1999), Japan's New Global Role (1995), and Japan's Unequal Trade (1990). In the mid-1990s, Lincoln served as special economic advisor to Walter Mondale, former U.S. ambassador to Japan.

Books about: Learning WCF or Beyond HR

Conscience of the World: The Influence of Non-Governmental Organizations in the U. N. System

Author: Peter Willetts

NGO activity in the 1990s is often claimed to be unprecedented, yet it is not so new. The first victory by NGOs in the UN was fifty years ago, when they obtained provision in the UN Charter for their own participation with 'consultative status'. Since then their influence has grown steadily, to cover all the work of the Economic and Social Council, along with the operational programmes in developing countries, the specialised agencies and UN conferences. They have also been important in the fields of human rights, disaster relief, development and the environment. But what is an NGO? What are the historical roots? How do NGOs gain recognition at the UN and at conferences? What rights of participation do NGOs have and how do they gain influence? All these questions are answered in this book, which should banish any idea that the UN system is simply a centre for professional diplomats. Global civil society, expressed through the NGOs, is as much a part of UN politics as pressure group activity is a part of the domestic politics of a democracy.

Booknews

A series of studies that were shared among participants in a series of meetings and carved to comprise a unified treatment of how non-governmental organizations have served the United Nations by criticizing the imperfections of international society, stimulating progress, promoting new ideas, raising voluntary funds for development, and publicizing the United Nations and its agencies. Overall perspectives are augmented by chapters focusing on the World Bank, the environment, women, and children. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Abbreviations
	The Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	The Early History: From the Congress of Vienna to the San Francisco Conference	15
2	Consultative Status for NGOs at the United Nations	31
3	The World Bank and NGOs	63
4	UNESCO and NGOs: A Memoir	98
5	NGOs and the Environment	116
6	NGOs and the Human Rights of Women at the United Nations	147
7	Amnesty International at the United Nations	181
8	NGOs and the Rights of the Child	214
9	The Save the Children Fund and Nutrition for Refugees	241
10	Conclusions	270
	App. A. NGOs and the Structure of the United Nations System	277
	App. B. Documents on the Formal Arrangements for Consultative Status	290
	App. C. Statement by the Secretary-General at the UN Department of Public Information 47th Conference of Non-Governmental Organisations	310
	Index	319

Business or Money the Financial System and the Economy

Business

Author: William M Prid

Business Bonus pack Includes:

• Audio Review CDs
• HM eStudy CD
• Self-study worksheets
• Practice tests

Read also Negotiation Analysis or Lean Enterprise Systems

Money, the Financial System, and the Economy

Author: R Glenn Glenn Hubbard

Hubbard demonstrates how we use economic tools to understand financial markets and institutions. In doing so, he helps students learn to interpret current events, predict future developments, and make better economic decisions.

Introduction: Introducing Money and the Financial System; Money and the Payments System; Overview and the Financial System. Interest Rates: Interest Rates and Rates of Return; The Theory of Portfolio Allocation; Determining Market Interest Rates; Risk Structure and Term Structure of Interest Rates. Financial Markets: The Foreign Exchange Market and Exchange Rates; Derivative Securities and Derivative Markets; Information and Financial Market Efficiency; Reducing Transactions Costs and Information Costs.Financial Institutions: What Financial Institutions Do; The Business of Banking; The Banking Industry; Banking Regulation: Crisis and Response; Banking in the International Economy.The Money Supply Process and Monetary Policy: The Money Supply Process; Changes in the Monetary Base; Organization of Central Banks; Monetary Policy Tools; The Conduct of Monetary Policy; The International Financial System and Monetary Policy. The Financial System and the Macroeconomy: The Demand for Money; Linking the Financial System and the Economy: The IS-LM-FE Model; Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply; Money and Output in the Short Run; Information Problems and Channels for Monetary Policy; Inflation: Causes and Consequences.

For all readers interested in money and banking.

Soft Coal Hard Choices or Estimation and Inference in Econometrics

Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930

Author: Price V Fishback

Did miners really owe their souls to the company store? Did they receive lower pay than in other jobs, despite the constant danger they faced? Was the quality of life in mining towns uniformly dismal? Soft Coal, Hard Choices answers these and other questions. The book contradicts many myths using evidence ranging from company records to oral histories to statistics collected by state and federal governments. While most studies of labor in the coal industry focus on union struggles, Fishback discloses the beneficial impact of competition among employers for labor. He further examines the impact of legal environment and the development of institutions like company towns. Careful analysis using economic theory and statistics reveals numerous insights about the welfare of coal miners in the early 1900s. Unions helped miners obtain higher wages, but so did competition among employers. Employers were unable to exploit local and housing monopolies because the miners had the option of moving from town to town. Workers choosing between mining and other jobs faced a hard choice between similar alternatives. High hourly earnings and freedom from close supervision in mining helped compensate miners for accepting more risk of accidents and layoffs. The combination of narrative and analysis in Soft Coal, Hard Choices will interest historians, economists, and the general reader alike.

Table of Contents:

1.	The Miners' Choices: Voice or Exit	3
2.	The Analytical Framework	11
	The Implications of Competition	11
	The Impact of Collective Action and Unions	14
	Summary of Implications	16
3.	The Coal Labor Market, 1890-1930	19
	Long-term Trends in the Coal Product Market	19
	Exercising Voice Through the Union	23
	Competition Among Employers for Labor	25
	The Miners' Mobility	27
	The Miners' Information	31
	Summary	35
4.	Working in a Coal Mine	42
	Tonnage Men	42
	Daymen	45
	Management	47
	Rewards in the Occupational Hierarchy	49
5.	Methods of Wage Payment	60
	Piece Rates, Time Rates, and Transactions Costs	60
	Piece Rates and Quality Control	65
	Piece Rates and Variation in Mine Conditions	68
	Summary	73
6.	Dig Sixteen Tons and What Did You Get? Earnings	79
	Why Become a Miner? High Hourly Earnings	80
	Annual Earnings	83
	The Worker's Choice	84
	Trends in Real Earnings	88
	Regional Comparisons Within Coal Mining	91
	Summary	97
7.	Death's Taken a Mighty Toll for Coal, Coal, Coal	102
	The Extent and Nature of Coal Accidents	102
	Wages and Accident Rates	108
	Unions and Safety	111
	Government Regulation of Safety	112
	Changes in Liability Laws	118
	Compensation and Accident Prevention	120
	Summary	125
8.	Did Coal Miners "Owe Their Souls to the Company Store"?	133
	The Limits on Store Monopoly	134
	Why Did Companies Own Stores?	135
	Store Prices	136
	Were Miners Forced to Buy at the Store?	141
	Conclusions	147
9.	The Company Town	152
	The Nature of Company Housing	152
	Why Did Companies Own Housing?	155
	Monopoly Ownership?	155
	The "Necessity" of Company Ownership	157
	A Device to Prevent Collective Action	159
	Model Towns	161
	Sanitation in Coal Towns During the 1920s	161
	Sanitation in Company Towns	163
	Sanitation in Company versus Independent Towns	164
	Conclusions	165
10.	Coal Mines as Melting Pots	171
	The Geographic Location of Blacks and Immigrants	172
	The Limited Nature of Discrimination in West Virginia	176
	Wage Rates and Earnings	176
	Differences in Workplace Safety	178
	Positioning in the Job Hierarchy	179
	The Impact of Competition on Segregated Schools	184
	Housing Segregation	186
	Segregation Across Mines	188
	Black Workers in Alabama	190
	Black Workers and the UMWA	190
	Summary	191
11.	What Did Miners Gain from Strikes?	198
	Strike Activity in Bituminous Coal Mining	199
	Differences in Strike Activity Within the Coal Industry	203
	The Pecuniary Gains and Losses from Strikes	205
	Violence During Strikes	212
	Conclusions	215
12.	Conclusions	221
Appendix A	Calculating Earnings for Workers in Coal Mining and Manufacturing	225
	Annual Earnings	225
	Hourly Earnings	226
Appendix B	Sources of Data for Panel of Twenty-three Coal States from 1901 to 1930	234
	Accident Rates	234
	Coal Prices, Technological Variables, Strikes, Union Strength, and Mine Size	235
	Wage Rates	236
	Workers' Compensation Legislation	237
	State Mining Legislation and Enforcement	238
Appendix C	Estimating the Relationship Between Wages and Accident Rates	242
Appendix D	A Theoretical Model of Accident Prevention by Miners and Employers	250
	The Representative Miner	251
	The Operator	253
	Combining the Results	254
Appendix E	Measuring Segregation in Job Hierarchies	256
Appendix F	An Empirical Test of the Influence of Coal Companies on Equalizing Black and White Schools in West Virginia	262
Appendix G	Piece Rate Regressions for West Virginia Counties	266
	Index	271

Books about: Perfect Mix or Art of American Indian Cooking

Estimation and Inference in Econometrics

Author: Russell Davidson

Offering a unifying theoretical perspective not readily available in any other text, this innovative book uses simple geometrical arguments to develop students' intuitive understanding of basic and advanced topics in econometrics, emphasizing throughout the practical applications of modern theory and nonlinear techniques of estimation.

Big Business Strong State or Rethinking Commodification

Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990

Author: Eun M Kim

This book debunks the rosy success story about South Korean economic development by analyzing how the state and businesses formed an alliance, while excluding labor, in order to attain economic development, and how these three entities were transformed in the process.

Interesting book: Starting out or Wine Report 2008

Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture

Author: Martha M Ertmann

"A superb collection of classic and contemporary readings on commodification theory, including the latest, most advanced theorizing on this subject. It is a must-read."
—Elizabeth Anderson, Philosophy, University of Michigan

"As someone who helped to draw attention to the subject of commodification more than two decades ago, I believe that commodification is, if anything, more important today than it has ever been. We must ask ourselves: Are there some things that money can't buy? Who is advantaged and who disadvantaged by desperate market exchanges? This indispensable collection of old and new thoughts on commodification will help us as we struggle towards answering these questions."
—Margaret Jane Radin, Stanford Law School

"Rethinking Commodification includes several classic texts of commodification theory that familiarize readers with the traditional debate. The work then offers new insights into the issue, with two dozen articles, appellate court opinions, and essays. Taken together, this book comprises an intellecutal mosaic that moves the discussion beyond the early, on-off question of whether or not to commodify."
—Metapsychology Online

"A magnificent collection. The subject is profound and complex, the text gripping, lively, and thoroughly enjoyable to read."
—Sylvia A. Law, NYU Law School

"Commodification is on net a great source for good in the world. But the seminal essays in Rethinking Commodification show that the serious questions about alienability are much more than concerns about hypothetical contracts for babies or self-indenture."
—Ian Ayres, author of InsincerePromises

What is the price of a limb? A child? Ethnicity? Love? In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit. Ranging from black market babies to exploitative sex trade operations to the marketing of race and culture, Rethinking Commodification presents an interdisciplinary collection of writings, including legal theory, case law, and original essays to reexamine the traditional legal question: "To commodify or not to commodify?"

In this pathbreaking course reader, Martha M. Ertman and Joan C. Williams present the legal cases and theories that laid the groundwork for traditional critiques of commodification, which tend to view the process as dehumanizing because it reduces all human interactions to economic transactions. This "canonical" section is followed by a selection of original essays that present alternative views of commodification based on the concept that commodification can have diverse meanings in a variety of social contexts. When viewed in this way, the commodification debate moves beyond whether or not commodification is good or bad, and is assessed instead on the quality of the social relationships and wider context that is involved in the transaction. Rethinking Commodification contains an excellent array of contemporary issues, including intellectual property, reparations for slavery, organ transplants, and sex work; and an equally stellar array of contributors, including Richard Posner, Margaret Jane Radin, Regina Austin, and many others.

Table of Contents:

	Preface : freedom, equality, and the many futures of commodification	1
	Introduction : the subject and object of commodification	8
Pt. I	Classic texts of commodification theory
A	Definitions : commodity and commodification
	Commodities and the politics of value	34
B	Contested commodities : babies/parental rights and obligations
	The economics of the baby shortage	46
	In the matter of baby M	58
	In search of Pharaoh's daughter	68
	Johnson v. Calvert	71
C	Defaulting to freedom or to equality : treating some things as inalienable
	Property rules, liability rules, and inalienability : one view of the cathedral	78
	Contested commodities	81
	Moore v. the regents of the University of California	96
D	Distinguishing between exchanges and gifts
	The gift relationship : from human blood to social policy	108
	Giving, trading, thieving, and trusting : how and why gifts become exchanges, and (more importantly) vice versa	114
E	Commodification and community
	What money can't buy : the moral limits of markets	122
	Community and conscription	128
Pt. II	New voices on commodification theory
A	Commodifying intellectual and cultural property
	Culture, commodification, and native American cultural patrimony	137
	U.S. v. Corrow	156
	Property in personhood	164
B	Commodifying identities
	Kwanzaa and the commodification of black culture	178
	Eating the other : desire and resistance	191
	Cities and queer space : staking a claim to global cosmopolitanism	199
	Selling out : the gay and lesbian movement goes to market	213
C	Commodifying intimacies
1	Commodifying sex
	"Sex in the [foreign] city" : commodification and the female sex tourist	222
	Taking money for bodily services	243
	The currency of sex : prostitution, law, and commodification	248
2	Commodifying care
	Fore love nor money : the commodification of care	271
	Unbending gender : why family and work conflict and what to do about it	291
	Minnesota v. Bachmann	293
	Commodification and women's household labor	297
3	Commodifying family relations
	What's wrong with a parenthood market? : a new and improved theory of commodification	303
	Home economics : what is the difference between a family and a corporation?	324
	Hard bargains : the politics of sex	345
4	Commodifying bodies and body parts
	A framework for reparations claims	348
	National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA)	354
	Increasing the supply of transplant organs : the virtues of an options market	355
	Future markets in everything	357
D	Retheorizing commodification
	To commodify or not to commodity : that is not the question	362
	The multivalent commodity : on the supplementarity of value and values	383
	Afterword : whither commodification?	402

Supervision and Training or Corporate Compliance in Home Health

Supervision and Training

Author: Florence Whiteman Kaslow

Challenging methods of training, consultation, and supervision--predicated on different ideas about how people learn most effectively--are highlighted in this exceptional volume. Distinguished educator Florence W. Kaslow has compiled new concepts and state-of-the-art approaches that greatly enhance our understanding of the process whereby good professionals become better professionals. Both direct and indirect training methodologies are discussed, and a variety of dynamic, behavioral, and eclectic approaches to the supervision of individual, group, and family therapies are described.

Book review: Pasteles or Italian Food

Corporate Compliance in Home Health: Establishing a Plan, Managing the Risks

Author: Fay Rozovsky

Litigation is rampant in the home health field — and it's not just about billing and coding. It's also about other practices that could lead to compliance problems, such as substandard employment practices or failing to run background checks. A lawsuit against your agency could come completely out of left field. But you can avoid getting blind—sided and protect your agency. Corporate Compliance in Home Health: Establishing a Plan, Managing the Risks gives home health care providers practical, down—to—earth standards for controlling and preventing losses growing out of corporate compliance. With this new resource from Aspen, get an up—to—date and easy—to—understand review of the law of corporate compliance, find out how the new OIG (Office of the Inspector General of HCFA) model compliance guidance for hospitals impacts home health, and uncover where your agency is at risk. You'll find out what to do if and when your agency comes under investigation, and get important, timely federal reference material from the GAO to HHS, and key parts of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

Kathie E. Yonkers

This comprehensive text on corporate compliance for home care draws on expertise gained in the banking and industry fields. It provides the history behind the need for corporate compliance, a relatively new process in healthcare, as well as the driving state and federal guidelines of regulatory compliance. Providing direction for a new process in home care, the author identifies key concepts in the regulatory environment with a focus on elimination of fraud, abuse, and financial waste. The quality of care costs to achieve these anticipated outcomes are fully explored. With no prior experience in corporate compliance techniques, the author relies heavily on industry experience involving banking, savings and loan, and defense industries. Caregivers, managers, senior personnel, and administrative employees will find useful information in this text. Highly qualified authorities guide the student in healthcare as well as the seasoned administrator through the legal context for corporate compliance programs with particular focus on the clinical healthcare arena. A thorough explanation of federal guidelines and antitrust law and how they fit with voluntary or involuntary compliance explains the critical nature of preparation with a corporate compliance plan. A straightforward approach to liability risk exposure, strategies that can be employed, and healthcare risk management processes along with appropriate [Federal] Register publications are featured in this text. With healthcare guidelines and federal law already moving to new levels, this text can be a foundation of explanation to the uninitiated. A careful selection of tools, forms, and sample programs provides a sense of somestability in the uncertain climate of healthcare. This book provides direction for compliance in home care, including dealers of durable medical equipment, and hospice services. Traditional home care workers will find examples of situations that trigger compliance exposure. The legal context for a corporate compliance plan, the risk management challenges, and strategies provide definition in strategic planning. To properly insulate home health agencies and healthcare entities from risk exposure, this first time look at issues involving compliance provides guidance and direction. Supportive historical background, legal scenarios, and legislative laws and requirements provide a path through the essential conditions for continuous improvement as well as follow the agenda for change.

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Reviewer: Kathie E. Yonkers, MS, RN-C, ANP (Visiting Nurse Association of Utica and Oneida City, Inc.)
Description: This comprehensive text on corporate compliance for home care draws on expertise gained in the banking and industry fields. It provides the history behind the need for corporate compliance, a relatively new process in healthcare, as well as the driving state and federal guidelines of regulatory compliance.
Purpose: Providing direction for a new process in home care, the author identifies key concepts in the regulatory environment with a focus on elimination of fraud, abuse, and financial waste. The quality of care costs to achieve these anticipated outcomes are fully explored. With no prior experience in corporate compliance techniques, the author relies heavily on industry experience involving banking, savings and loan, and defense industries.
Audience: Caregivers, managers, senior personnel, and administrative employees will find useful information in this text. Highly qualified authorities guide the student in healthcare as well as the seasoned administrator through the legal context for corporate compliance programs with particular focus on the clinical healthcare arena.
Features: A thorough explanation of federal guidelines and antitrust law and how they fit with voluntary or involuntary compliance explains the critical nature of preparation with a corporate compliance plan. A straightforward approach to liability risk exposure, strategies that can be employed, and healthcare risk management processes along with appropriate [Federal] Register publications are featured in this text. With healthcare guidelines and federal law already moving to new levels, this text can be a foundation of explanation to the uninitiated. A careful selection of tools, forms, and sample programs provides a sense of some stability in the uncertain climate of healthcare.
Assessment: This book provides direction for compliance in home care, including dealers of durable medical equipment, and hospice services. Traditional home care workers will find examples of situations that trigger compliance exposure. The legal context for a corporate compliance plan, the risk management challenges, and strategies provide definition in strategic planning. To properly insulate home health agencies and healthcare entities from risk exposure, this first time look at issues involving compliance provides guidance and direction. Supportive historical background, legal scenarios, and legislative laws and requirements provide a path through the essential conditions for continuous improvement as well as follow the agenda for change.

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A guide for home health care providers which offers practical standards for controlling and preventing losses growing out of corporate compliance. Rozosky (legal medicine, Medical College of Virginia and health administration, Virginia Commonwealth U.) offers a review of the law of corporate compliance, using risk management techniques, the seven basic elements of an acceptable compliance plan, and federal reference material and parts of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Intended for home health agency employees and home health care providers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Table of Contents:

Contents: The Forces Driving Home Care to Corporate Compliance Plans * Situations that Trigger Compliance Exposure in Home Health Care * The Legal Context for Corporate Compliance Plans * Voluntary Corporate Compliance Plans * The Involuntary Approach to Compliance * Corporate Compliance: Risk Management Challenges and Strategies * Appendix A: Federal Reg. 61: HCFA - Medicare and State Health Care Programs; Fraud and Abuse; Safe Harbors for Protecting Health Plans * Appendix B: Federal Reg. 63: HCFA - Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Physical Referrals to Health Care Entities with which They have Financial Relationships * Appendix C: Federal Reg. 63: HCFA - Medicare and State Health Care Programs; Surety Bond and Capitalization Requirements for Home Health Agencies * Index

Clinical Delegation Skills or Mobilizing the Modern War

Clinical Delegation Skills: A Handbook for Professional Practice

Author: Ruth Hansten

Practical, easy to read, and full of checkpoints and exercises, this renowned text will teach you about the world of professional healthcare roles and accountability, as well as how to communicate effectively, provide feedback, handle conflict and address your own strengths and weeknesses.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 The Overall Process of Delegation 1

The Definition 2

The Model: The Key to Delegation 3

The Skill 8

Delegation as Integral to Professional Practice 9

References 12

Ch. 2 Know Your World 15

Influence of Nurse Shortages 17

Evolution of Healthcare Payment Systems 20

Demographic Trends 23

Healthcare Delivery Trends 26

Changing Nature of Work 27

Safety and Balanced Assessments 28

Evolution of the Art and Science of Nursing Practice 29

Continual Planning for Transfer and Discharge 33

Implementation of Clinical Pathways 33

Technology Evaluation 38

Client Accountability for Care: Health Education 39

Growth of Home Care 42

Redesign of Care Delivery Systems 42

Where Do We Go from Here? 54

An Invitation 55

References 58

Ch. 3 Know Your Practice: Is My license on the line? 63

The State Board of Nursing 65

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing 72

The Nurse Practice Act 74

Rules and Regulations 76

The Test 77

The LPN Role 89

Delegation and the Nursing Process 91

Conclusion 97

References 99

Ch. 4 Know Your Organization: What About Where I Work? 101

In the Beginning 103

The Nonunion Environment 111

The Mission Statement 111

The Organizational Structure 116

The Impact of Redesign 116

The Quality Program 122

Safety in Practice Models 124

Educational Resources 127

Your Role in Organizational Success 129

References 131

Ch. 5 Know Yourself 135

Level of Clinical Experience: From Novice to Expert 138

Exploring Barriers 142

Other Barriers 156

Determining the Potential Benefits 166

Conclusion 171

Appendix 5-A Nursing Expertise Self-Report Scale 175

Instructions for Completingthe Nursing Self-Report Scale 177

References 178

Ch. 6 Know What Needs to Be Done 181

Defining the Role 183

The PTA Model 185

Getting the Job Done 192

Additional Samples for Planning Care 216

Conclusion 221

References 224

Ch. 7 Know Your Delegate 227

Who Are the Delegates? 228

Assessing the Role Played by Each Delegate 230

Official Expectations of Each Role 231

Practice Acts and Regulations 231

The Question of Competency: Evaluating and Maintaining from a Regulatory Perspective 232

Accountability for Competence 240

Job Descriptions 240

Validated Competencies: The Organizational Perspective 242

The Impact of the Mission on Job Roles 245

Unofficial Expectations of Each Role 246

Assessing the Delegate's Strengths 250

Assessing the Delegate's Weaknesses 253

Assessing the Delegate's Motivation 259

Your Responsibility for the "General Climate" of Motivation 263

Assessing the Delegate's Preferences 264

Assessing Cultural Differences 266

Conclusion 268

References 270

Ch. 8 Know How to Communicate 273

Communication as a Part of the Plan for the Day, Shift, or Case 274

Delegate Responses 275

Communication Styles: Passive, Aggressive, Assertive 278

Effective Assigning 283

Assertive Follow-Up 289

Nonverbal Behaviors 292

Conclusion 293

References 297

Ch. 9 Know How to Resolve Conflict: Getting Coworkers to Work Together as a Team 299

Conflict as a Concept 299

Sources of Conflict 300

Cost of Conflict 304

Strategies for Conflict Resolution 306

Innovative Issue Resolution Process: A Collaborative Method 317

Case Study Analysis of Collaborative Resolution 322

Conclusion 326

References 329

Ch. 10 Know How to Give Feedback 331

Benefits of Giving and Receiving Feedback 334

The Power of Feedback 335

The Process 337

Giving Feedback to the Delegate 339

Application to the Delegation Process 341

Requesting and Receiving Feedback 348

Upward Feedback 349

Conclusion 352

References 353

Ch. 11 Know How to Evaluate: How Well Has the Delegation Process Produced the Outcomes I Want to Achieve? 355

Evaluation: Continuous, Problem-Related, and Periodic 357

Continuous Evaluation 359

Specific Incident or Problem-Related Evaluation: Critical Thinking 368

Periodic Evaluation 384

Case Study Analysis of Evaluation 386

Documentation and the Delegation Process 389

Conclusion 395

Celebrate me Success of the Team! 396

References 399

Appendix 11-A Nurse Delegation Forms 402

Index 419

New interesting textbook: Introduction to Globalization and Business or Leadership and Power

Mobilizing the Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919

Author: Paul A Koistinen

"With this volume, Koistinen hits his stride in conveying his mastery of the history of the political economy of American warfare and military institutions. His work will long remain the principal authoritative study of American economic mobilization for World War I and its long-run impact and implications."—Russell F. Weigley, author of The American Way of War

"A real tour de force. Based on prodigious research, this book provides a thorough and insightful account of the material basis for the United States military in one of the most important periods in American history."—John Whiteclay Chambers II, author of To Raise an Army

"This fascinating analysis of the political economy of warfare in the United States during the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and World War I is a major contribution to our understanding of the forces that have shaped American society. It is part of a monumental study of the origins and development of the military-industrial complex. For military historians, economic historians, and scholars of United States history, the notes alone are worth the price of the book."—Ronald Schaffer, author of America in the Great War

"A most impressive book. I am awed by Koistinen's grand design and outstanding research. When completed, this series will be one of the most distinguished feats of scholarship of our time."—Edward M. Coffman, author of The War to End All Wars

Author Bio: Paul A. C. Koistinen is professor of history at California State University-Northridge. His other books include Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606-1865; Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920-1939; and The Military-Industrial Complex.

Booknews

The second volume of a proposed five-volume work that is intended to offer a comprehensive, schematic, and interdisciplinary study of the economics of America's wars from the colonial period to the present. Discussion of the period from 1865 through the Progressive Era elucidates the major systems involved in the economic, political, and military developments of the time. The focus in the remainder of the book shifts to the preparation and economic mobilization for war. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Marketing Theory or Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation

Marketing Theory: Evolution and Evaluation

Author: Jagdish N Sheth

This thought-provoking book chronicles the evolution of marketing theories and the rationales behind them. The authors present a typology for the twelve schools of marketing thought, and describe a comprehensive metatheoretical framework based on six basic criteria. They also develop a list of concepts and axioms useful in generating a practical theory of marketing. References are extensive and include many pioneering, seldom-cited works. Graduate students and marketing professionals will find this a stimulating and practical work.

Table of Contents:

Resurgence of Interest in Marketing Theory.
The Era of Turbulent Transition.
Framework for the Book.
Metatheory Criteria for the Evaluation of Theories.
NONINTERACTIVE-ECONOMIC SCHOOLS OF MARKETING.
The Commodity School of Thought.
The Functional School of Thought.
The Regional School of Thought.
INTERACTIVE-ECONOMIC SCHOOLS OF MARKETING.
The Institutional School of Thought.
The Functionalist School of Thought.
The Managerial School of Thought.
NONINTERACTIVE-NONECONOMIC SCHOOLS OF MARKETING.
The Buyer Behavior School of Thought.
The Activist School of Thought.
The Macromarketing School of Thought.
INTERACTIVE-NONECONOMIC SCHOOLS OF MARKETING.
The Organizational Dynamics School of Thought.
The Systems School of Thought.
The Social Exchange School of Thought.
WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED.
Is Marketing a Science or, at Best, a Standardized Art?
What Is, or Should Be, the Relationship between Marketing and Society?
Is It Really Possible to Create a General Theory of Marketing?
REFERENCES.

New interesting textbook: American Sphinx or How to Talk to a Liberal

Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation: Process Fundamentals and Mathematical Models

Author: Pedro J Alvarez

A groundbreaking text and professional resource on natural attenuation technology

Natural attenuation is rapidly becoming a widely used approach to manage groundwater and soil contamination by hazardous substances in petroleum-product releases and leachate from hazardous waste sites and landfills. This book provides, under one cover, the current methodologies needed by groundwater scientists and engineers in their efforts to evaluate subsurface contamination problems, to estimate risk to human health and ecosystems through mathematical models, and to design and formulate appropriate remediation strategies.

Incorporating the authors' extensive backgrounds as educators, researchers, and consultants in environmental biotechnology and hydrogeology, the text emphasizes new concepts and recent advances in the science, including:

• Quantification of the role of microbes in natural attenuation

• Biodegradation and chemical transformation principles

• Immobilization and phase change

• Biotransformation mechanisms

• Groundwater flow and contaminant transport

• Analytical models for contaminant transport and reaction processes

• Numerical modeling of contaminant transport, transformation, and degradation

Detailed descriptions of fundamental processes, characterization approaches, and analytical and numerical methods tied to relevant real-world applications make Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation: Process Fundamentals and Mathematical Models both a timely course text in hydrogeology and environmental engineering and a valuable referencefor anyone in the groundwater or risk assessment professions.

Governing in Europe or Development Microeconomics

Governing in Europe: Effective and Democratic?

Author: Fritz Wilhelm Scharpf

Governing in Europe explores strategies at the national level that could succeed in maintaining welfare state goals even under conditions of international economic competition. It also discusses the conditions under which European policy could play a protective and enabling role with regard to these national solutions. The author suggests that if these opportunities should be used, multi-level governance in Europe could indeed regain both effectiveness and legitimacy.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	Introduction	1
1	Political Democracy in a Capitalist Economy	6
2	Negative and Positive Integration	43
3	Regulatory Competition and Re-Regulation	84
4	National Solutions without Boundary Control	121
5	The European Contribution	156
	Conclusion: Multi-Level Problem-Solving in Europe	187
	References	205
	Index	231

Interesting textbook: Everyday Strength or Anatomy of the Spirit

Development Microeconomics

Author: Pranab K Bardhan

Development Microeconomics is the first in a series of books which looks at the entire spectrum of development economics issues and combines the strengths of conventional developmental thought with the insights of contemporary mainstream economics. The main new conceptual tool used is the application of the theory of imperfect information and the effects this has on the behavior of economic agents. This book is designed specifically for graduate students.

Competition Policy or Management and Information Systems

Competition Policy: Theory and Practice

Author: Massimo Motta

Offering a complete analysis of antitrust (or competition policy) issues, this study is enhanced by frequent references to antitrust cases and a few fully developed case studies. Although it can be used as an economics textbook in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses, the book is equally accessible to lawyers, practitioners, and readers interested in antitrust issues, but unfamiliar with modern economics. Technical explanations of material are relegated to separate "technical" sections that can be skipped without losing continuity.

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Management and Information Systems: For the Information Age

Author: Stephen Haag

This text offers chapters that cover what instructors want students to know about MIS. The Extended Learning Modules (XLMs) show students what they can do with MIS. The instructor controls the mix by picking the chapters and XLMs to include in the course. A contemporary writing style and a wealth of examples engage students like no other MIS text.

Table of Contents:

Chapter One:

The Information Age in Which you Live: Changing the Face of Business

Extended Learning Module A:

Computer Hardware and Software

Chapter Two:

Major Business Initiatives: Gaining Competitive Advantage with IT

Extended Learning Module B:

The World Wide Web and the Internet

Chapter Three:

Database and Data Warehouses: Building Business Intelligence

Extended Learning Module C:

Designing Databases and Entity-Relationship Diagramming

Chapter Four:

Decision Support and Artificial Intelligence: Brainpower for Your Business

Extended Learning Module D:

Decision Analysis with Spreadsheet Software

Chapter Five:

Electronic Commerce: Strategies for the New Economy

Extended Learning Module E:

Network Basics

Chapter Six:

Systems Development: Phases, Tools, and Techniques

Extended Learning Module F:

Building a Web Page with HTML

Chapter Seven:

IT Infrastructures: Business-Driven Technology

Extended Learning Module G:

Object-Oriented Technologies

Chapter Eight:

Protecting People and Information: Threats and Safeguards

Extended Learning Module H:

Computer Crime and Forensics

Chapter Nine:

Emerging Trends and Technologies: Business, People, and Technology Tomorrow

Extended Learning Module I:

Building anE-Portfolio

Extended Learning Module J:

Implementing a Database with Microsoft Access

Extended Learning Module K:

Careers in Business

Glossary

Notes

Photo Credits

Index

Wastewater Microbiology or Health Care Economics

Wastewater Microbiology

Author: Gabriel Bitton

The new edition of a classic reference incorporating the latest findings and discoveries

The Third Edition of this classic reference provides readers with concise, up-to-the-moment coverage of the role of microorganisms in water and wastewater treatment. By providing a solid foundation in microbiology, microbial growth, metabolism, and nutrient cycling, the text gives readers the tools they need to make critical decisions that affect public health, as well as the practical aspects of treatment, disinfection, water distribution, bioremediation, and water and wastewater reuse.

The publication begins a discussion of microbiology principles, followed by a discussion of public health issues and concerns. Next, the core of the text is dedicated to a thorough examination of wastewater and drinking water treatment, biosolids, pollution-control biotechnology, and drinking water distribution. The remainder of the text discusses toxicity testing in wastewater treatment plants, and the public health aspects of wastewater disposal and reuse.

The many advances in wastewater and drinking water microbiology have all been thoroughly integrated into the publication, including:

* A new chapter on bioterrorism and drinking water safety
* The latest developments in biofilm microbial ecology and biofilm impact on drinking water quality
* New, state-of-the-art detection techniques
* Expanded and revised treatment of toxicity testing, including new testing methods and studies on endocrine disrupters in wastewater
* Alternatives to conventional wastewater treatment

New problem sets, which test readers' knowledge, as well as a list of Internet resourceshave been added to each chapter. In addition, the publication's extensive references have been thoroughly revised for readers who would like to learn more about the latest findings and discoveries on specialized topics. Finally, the color plate section has been expanded and contains many new illustrations and tables.

An authoritative guide for all researchers, administrators, and engineers in the field of microbiology, Wastewater Microbiology, Third Edition is also a valuable reference for civil and environmental engineers, public health officials, and students involved in environmental engineering and science.

Booknews

A text-reference that presents a comprehensive exploration of the interface between engineering and microbiology, for both students and professionals. It provides an assessment of the biotic aspects of wastewater and the various treatment methods available. It proceeds from the fundamentals of microbial biology, metabolism, and ecology, through discussions of process microbiology and biotransformations, to a detailed analysis of the epidemiological factors and public health risks associated with wastewater. The emphasis is on the practical issues of treatment, disinfection, and remediation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Preface to the First Edition
Pt. A	Fundamentals of Microbiology	1
1	The Microbial World	3
2	Microbial Metabolism and Growth	35
3	Role of Microorganisms in Biogeochemical Cycles	61
Pt. B	Public Health Microbiology	89
4	Pathogens and Parasites in Domestic Wastewater	91
5	Microbial Indicators of Fecal Contamination	121
6	Water and Wastewater Disinfection	137
Pt. C	Wastewater and Water Treatment Microbiology	169
7	Introduction to Wastewater Treatment	171
8	Activated Sludge Process	181
9	Bulking and Foaming in Activated Sludge Plants	207
10	Processes Based on Attached Microbial Growth	233
11	Waste Stabilization Ponds	247
12	Sludge Microbiology	259
13	Anaerobic Digestion of Wastewater and Biosolids	281
14	Biological Aerosols and Bioodors from Wastewater Treatment Plants	303
15	Microbiological Aspects of Drinking Water Treatment	323
16	Microbiological Aspects of Drinking Water Distribution	341
17	Pollution Control Biotechnology	365
Pt. D	Transformations and Toxic Effects of Chemicals in Wastewater Treatment Plants	387
18	Fate of Xenobiotics and Toxic Metals in Wastewater Treatment Plants	389
19	Toxicity Testing in Wastewater Treatment Plants Using Microorganisms	413
Pt. E	Microbiology and Public Health Aspects of Wastewater Disposal and Reuse	427
20	Public Health Aspects of Wastewater and Biosolids Disposal on Land	429
21	Public Health Aspects of Wastewater and Biosolids Disposal in the Marine and Other Aquatic Environments	449
22	Wastewater Reuse	461
	References	475
	Index	561

New interesting textbook:

Health Care Economics

Author: Jennifer Moor

Becoming a manager of a health care organization requires a broad understanding of the field. This includes a strong grasp of the economics involved in the daily operation of the organization. Providing an accessible introduction to important economic concepts in the field, this book will help readers gain the knowledge to run an organization. Getzen breaks down difficult topics while explaining the importance of economics in the function of the health care system.