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Why Popcorn Costs so Much at the Movies or Unlimited Power

2009-12-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles

Author: Richard B McKenzi

Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies, And Other Pricing Puzzles unravels the pricing mysteries we encounter every day.

Have you ever wondered why all movies, whether blockbusters or duds, have the same ticket prices?
Why sometimes there are free lunches?
Why so many prices end with "9"?
Why ink cartridges can cost as much as printers?
Why merchants offer sales, coupons, and rebates?
Why long lines are good for shoppers?
Why men earn more than women, around the globe - and why they always will?

Richard McKenzie goes on to show how the 9/11 terrorists still kill Americans every day, because their attack distorted the perceived risks and relative prices of air vs. automobile travel, and jacked up both security costs and flight delays. Professor McKenzie also explores the unintended consequences of well-meaning efforts to spur the use of environmentally friendly fuels: starvation among millions of people around the world, and the destruction of rainforests in Malaysia and Indonesia.

How can these things be? If you think you know the answers, think again. Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies, And Other Pricing Puzzles shows you that the real reasons are sophisticated and surprising - and in Professor McKenzie's hands, both informative and entertaining.

You won't need a degree in economics to enjoy this fascinating book, just an armchair and an inquiring mind.

Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

Author: Anthony Robbins

IT'S NOT ABOUT POWER OVER OTHER PEOPLE. IT'S ABOUT POWER OVER YOURSELF!

Yes, you can do, have, achieve, and create anything you want out of life. Anthony Robbins has proved it. Robbins, the undisputed master of the magic of mind power shows you in this audio program how to harness yours. He demonstrates—passionately and eloquently—that whatever you think will be, that your state of mind determines what you can and can't do, and that all successful results can be modeled and duplicated. His enthusiasm is contagious as he shows you how to:

Reprogram your mind in minutes to eliminate fears and phobias
Fuel your body with spectacular health and energy
Dramatically improve your interpersonal relationships
Become a persuasive communicator and create instant rapport with anyone you meet
Use the success of others to remodel yourself
Discover the five keys to wealth and happiness
Master the ultimate success formula

Robbins calls Unlimited Power the new science of personal achievement. You'll call it the best thing that ever happened to you.

Publishers Weekly

This is a comprehensive and intelligent success achievement program for setting and following through with personal and professional goals by the California behaviorist who popularized the method of "neurolinguistic programming'' (NLP), or control of mind over body, culminating in his trainees' barefoot jaunt over hot coals. Essential to Robbins's "Ultimate Success Formula'' are clarity of desired goals, energy, passion, persistence of action, effective communication skills and altruistic motives. His is a success prescription based on realistic and sophisticated ideology, best suited for those who have already "got what it takes'' and simply have yet to make it happen. (July 31)

Library Journal

Robbins argues that by using a new technique called neurolinguistic programming (NLP) anyone can become successful at almost anything. NLP teaches us how to communicate success to ourselves. One of the best ways to do this is to model ourselves on people who are successful: Think, act, and speak like a success and you are on the way to being one. Despite much helpful material (even regarding nutrition), this book scarcely acknowledges the limitations that exist in people's lives. Of course, the whole thrust of NLP is to learn to focus on one's power and not on one's limits. But the text is too wordyit reads like a transcript of a series of talksand it also needs more structure and organization. Though it strives to be upbeat and encouraging, Unlimited Power still leaves mixed feelings. John Moryl, Yeshiva Univ. Lib., New York

The Powell Principles or The Art of War

2009-12-05T10:34:00.000-08:00

The Powell Principles: 24 Lessons from Colin Powell, Battle-Proven Leader

Author: Oren Harari

The key to success in any setting lies in knowing how to be an effective leader. The Powell Principles outlines the decision-making habits, success strategies, and leadership philosophies of Secretary of State Colin Powell, and provides fascinating examples of how Powell has used them to overcome numerous obstacles in his climb to the top. Filled with insights that are refreshingly honest, this concise, powerful book reveals how you can dramatically improve your leadership skills and achieve unmatched levels of professional success, while inspiring others to extraordinary performance.

Oren Harari is a professor of management at the McLaren Graduate School of Business, University of San Francisco, and author of the national bestseller Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell.

Book review: NIA Guide for Black Women or Todays Herbal Health for Women

The Art of War

Author: Sun Tzu

Complexities of meaning and historical interpretations illustrate the timelessness of Sun Tzu's treatise on war.

Library Journal

This year's crop of Penguin "Great Ideas" volumes offers another eclectic dozen works that shaped society from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century. The books are fairly no frills, but the price isn't bad. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Tony Soprano
Been reading that-- that book you told me about. You know, The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I mean here's this guy, a Chinese general, wrote this thing 2400 years ago, and most of it still applies today! Balk the enemy's power. Force him to reveal himself. You know most of the guys that I know, they read Prince Machiabelli, and I had Carmela go and get the Cliff Notes once and -- he's okay. But this book is much better about strategy.

Samuel B. Griffith
"As a reflection of the Chinese mind, this little work is as relevant as any Confucian classic." -- Brigadier General, ret. U.S. Marine Corps, is the author of The Battle for Guadalcanal, Peking and People and People's Wars, The Chinese People's Liberation Army, and editor and translator of Mao Tse-tung: On Guerilla War.

	Preface	11
	A Note on the Translation and Pronunciation	21
	Chronology of Approximate Dynastic Periods	25
	General Introduction and Historical Background	29
	Introduction	77
	The Art of War in Translation	163
1	Initial Estimations	165
2	Waging War	171
3	Planning Offensives	175
4	Military Disposition	181
5	Strategic Military Power	185
6	Vacuity and Substance	189
7	Military Combat	195
8	Nine Changes	201
9	Maneuvering the Army	205
10	Configurations of Terrain	211
11	Nine Terrains	217
12	Incendiary Attacks	225
13	Employing Spies	229
	Tomb Texts and Lost Writings	235
	Notes to the General Introduction and Historical Background	249
	Selected Notes to the Introduction	275
	Notes to the Translation	301
	Notes to the Tomb Texts and Lost Writings	331
	Selected Bibliography	337
	Glossary	351
	Index	363

Globalization and Its Discontents or Leadership Without Easy Answers

2009-12-04T08:43:00.000-08:00

Globalization and Its Discontents

Author: Joseph E Stiglitz

This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. Renowned academic economist Joseph E. Stiglitz served seven years in Washington, as chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economist at the World Bank. In this book, Stiglitz recounts his experiences in such places as Ethiopia, Thailand, and Russia. He finds repeatedly that the International Monetary Fund puts the interests of its "largest shareholder," the United States, above those of the poorer nations it was designed to serve. This insider's account of global economic policy will be hailed for its courage and honesty. Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come.

Author Biography: Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia University.

George Soros

A fascinating [and]... profound critique of global financial systems. Eminently readable. I could hardly put it down.

Juan Somavia

Whatever your opinions, you will be engaged by Stiglitz's sharp insights. A must read.

Nicholas Stern

He is one of the most important economists of modern times.

James K. Galbraith

This book is everyone's guide to the misgovernment of globalization. Stiglitz explains it here in plain and compelling language.

Publishers Weekly

Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winner and Columbia University economics professor, sees globalization's unrealized potential to eradicate poverty and promote economic growth. In recent years, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization have promoted world financial stability, prosperity and free trade, yet Stiglitz wonders why so many revile these organizations' programs to the point of rioting in the streets. Casting a dispassionately analytical eye at East Asia's and Russia's financial turmoil, he argues that the IMF imposed austere policies that only exacerbated each area's problems. When he finds a similar policy pattern for other countries in crisis, Stiglitz asks how a public institution can ignore growing evidence of a flawed policy and not take action or be held accountable. In answering his own question, Stiglitz blames the "market fundamentalism" that endorses the view that a "free" market solves all problems flawlessly. As Stiglitz authoritatively indicates, one-size-fits-all economic policies can damage rather than help countries with unique financial, governmental and social institutions. He calls for public institutions to reform and become more transparent and responsive to their constituents. Stiglitz shares inside information from cabinet meetings when he served on Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and from his years as chief economist at the World Bank, divulging debates in Washington's conference rooms, naming names and raising his eyebrows at those who refuse to question certain IMF policies' repeated shortcomings. This smart, provocative study contributes significantly to the ongoing globalization debate and provides a model of analytical rigor concerning the process of assisting countries facing the challenges of economic development and transformation. (June 10) Forecast: Stiglitz's impassioned, balanced and informed book is a must-read for all interested in understanding globalization. Professors, economists and students should respond to his author tour and national media interviews, making this a strong business seller. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

An insider's account of the ill-considered effort to make a free market of the Third World, an effort that, described here, favors the rich and robs the poor. The title's echo of Sigmund Freud is shrewd, if a little misleading, for whereas Freud's great Civilization and Its Discontents was an encompassing look at the neurosis-making qualities of Western life, Stiglitz's confines itself to the workings of but two policy-making and -effecting organizations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. This he does very well. Intimately acquainted with their work-he served as an economic advisor to the Clinton administration and as the World Bank's chief economist and senior vice president-Stiglitz charges that both organizations have abandoned their original missions. "The IMF was supposed to limit itself to matters of macro-economics in dealing with a country . . . and the World Bank was supposed to be in charge of structural issues," he writes, but, with the advent of the free-market-worshipping Reagan administration, both took an activist, even imperial view that demanded that developing countries throw open their doors to capitalism. The results were often disastrous as wealth and resources flowed out of such countries and into the hands of the First World, Stiglitz writes, particularly in the case of newly democratic Russia, which, he notes sadly, "must treat what has happened as pillage of national assets, a theft for which the nation can never be recompensed." Stiglitz's prescriptions for the establishment of a truly global but more equitable economy are unabashedly Keynesian and generally convincing. They include slowing the pace of capitalist expansion until developingcountries can adjust politically and socially to new financial systems, giving more and better aid to those countries, forgiving debt-and thoroughly overhauling the World Bank, IMF, and other instruments of development. Provocative, readable, and sure to earn Stiglitz persona non grata status in certain corridors of power.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Promise of Global Institutions	3
2	Broken Promises	23
3	Freedom to Choose?	53
4	The East Asia Crisis: How IMF Policies Brought the World to the verge of a Global Meltdown	89
5	Who Lost Russia?	133
6	Unfair Trade Laws and Other Mischief	166
7	Better Roads to the Market	180
8	The IMF's Other Agenda	195
9	The Way Ahead	214
	Notes	253
	Index	269

Interesting book: Macroeconomics or Understanding Wall Street

Leadership Without Easy Answers

Author: Ronald A Heifetz

The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes. In doing do, we do them and ourselves a grave disservice. We are indeed facing an unprecedented crisis of leadership, Ronald Heifetz avows, but it stems as much from our demands and expectations as from any leader's inability to meet them. His book gets at both of these problems, offering a practical approach to leadership for those who lead as well as those who look to them for answers. Fitting the theory and practice of leadership to our extraordinary times, the book promotes a new social contract, a revitalization of our civic life just when we most need it.

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers, and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the nonprofits, and in teaching, Heifetz presents clear, concrete prescriptions for anyone who needs to take the lead in almost any situation, under almost any organizational conditions, no matter who is in charge, His strategy applies not only to people at the top but also to those who must lead without authority—activists as well as presidents, managers as well as workers on the front line.

Library Journal

Heifetz (Kennedy Sch. of Government, Harvard Univ.) presents a new theory of leadership for both public and private leaders in tackling complex contemporary problems. Central to his theory is the distinction between routine technical problems, which can be solved through expertise, and adaptive problems, such as crime, poverty, and educational reform, which require innovative approaches, including consideration of values. Four major strategies of leadership are identified: to approach problems as adaptive challenges by diagnosing the situation in light of the values involved and avoiding authoritative solutions, to regulate the level of stress caused by confronting issues, to focus on relevant issues, and to shift responsibility for problems from the leader to all the primary stakeholders. The theory is applied to an analysis of historical accounts of local, national, and international events. An innovative and thoroughgoing work; highly recommmended for graduate and undergraduate collections.-Jane M. Kathman, Coll. of St. Benedict Lib., St. Joseph, Minn.

Booknews

Heifetz (Harvard U.) offers a practical approach to leadership for those who lead as well as those who look to them for answers, drawing on research among managers, offices, and politicians in the public and private sectors. He discusses leading with and without authority, values in leadership, the roots of authority, and leaders such as Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, and Mahatma Gandhi. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

No More Mondays or Fashion Design

2009-12-03T06:52:00.000-08:00

No More Mondays: Fire Yourself - And Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work

Author: Dan Miller

Is Your Job Making You “Stupid”?

Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, once wrote that a person who spends his life performing the same repetitive tasks “generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” Wow! Now that’s not a pretty picture. Unfortunately, much of our work today consists of those boring, repetitive tasks.

But maybe you’re one of the many who have gotten caught up in thinking work is just something you do to support your weekends. Work is that necessary evil, a means to an end, or just a curse from God. You probably take your role of providing for yourself and those depending on you seriously. But you don’t expect to enjoy your work—you just do what has to be done.

Only now you’re seeing that even loyalty and dependability bring no guarantees. Lately you’ve seen coworkers who have been let go after years of faithful service. Perhaps your entire industryhas been shaken by outsourcing or changing technology. Maybe you’re tired of the long commute and being tied to your desk when you know you could make your own hours and still be productive. You may have ideas stirring that you think could create new income and time freedom.

But here comes another Monday. Maybe feeling trapped is just the reality of the way things are. Doesn’t everyone dread Mondays? Doesn’t every responsible person just bury their dreams and passions in exchange for getting a paycheck?

Absolutely not! All of us, no matter how old we are or what kind of work we’re doing, can learn to bring the sameexcitement to our jobs that we bring to whatever we love to do on our days off. I believe that each one of us can pursue work that is a reflection of our best selves—a true fulfillment of our callings.

No More Mondays will show you that meaningful work really is within your grasp. And once you’ve opened the door and seen all the exciting career opportunities that await you—whether you decide to revolutionize your current job or launch a new career altogether—you’ll find you can’t go back to the old way of working.”

From No More Mondays

For everyone who dreads going to work on Monday mornings, inspiring advice on how to find fulfilling work in an uncertain age.

Do you hate Mondays?

If so, what's keeping you at your current job?

If you said a steady paycheck and the promise of a secure retirement, then you're in for a big disappointment. In today's volatile economy, there is nothing safe about punching the clock for a job you hate.

As beloved talk-show host and bestselling author Dan Miller reveals, the only way to find true security is by following your calling and then finding or creating work that matches that calling and passion.

No More Mondays’s practical, inspirational advice speaks to people looking for guidance on how to launch a new career or business, those who want to stay in their current jobs and give the old 9-to-5 model a twenty-first-century makeover, and managers desperate to understand the way people want to work today. For all of them, Dan Miller's message is loud and clear: If you're one of those people who dread going to work on Mondays, do something about it!

Fashion Design

Author: Sue Jenkyn Jones

Fashion Design is the first book to offer readers a thorough grounding in the principles of fashion design. It describes the qualities and skills needed to become a fashion designer, examines the varied career opportunities available, and gives a balanced inside view of the fashion business today.

	Introduction
	Who this book is for	6
	How to use the book	7
	Have you got what it takes?	8
	The first steps	10
	The college syllabus	12
I	Context
	The uses of clothing	17
	The language of fashion	22
	The geography of fashion	24
	Two kinds of fashion	25
	Time and timing	28
	The fashion calendar	30
	The fashion cycle	31
	Fashion and culture	34
	Media	35
	Fashion time line	36
II	From manufacture to market
	Historical background	40
	Manufacture today	40
	Types of producer	44
	Market segmentation	47
	Types of retailer	50
	Price points	54
III	The body
	Inspiring bodies	58
	Drawing and illustration	64
	Using computers	73
	The elements of design	76
	The principles of design	80
IV	Colour and fabric
	Colour basics	88
	Fabrics	96
	Range building	106
	Fabric suppliers	108
	Fabric fairs	110
V	In the studio
	The college studio	112
	Measuring and mapping	113
	Pattern drafting	115
	Developing the pattern	118
	The toile	119
	Making the toile	120
	Markings and notches	122
	Draping on the stand	123
	Cutting the sample	125
	Sewing	126
	Fitting	127
VI	The brief
	What is a brief?	138
	Types of brief	138
	What the brief asks of you	139
	Aims and objectives	139
	Inspiration	146
	Personal creativity and style	147
	Presentation	150
	The crit	157
	Assessment	157
VII	The final collection--and beyond
	The final collection	161
	The college fashion show	161
	Student exhibitions	169
	Your portfolio	172
	Your first job	174
	Careers in fashion	177
	Writing a CV or resume	180
	The interview--some dos and don'ts	181
	Glossary	184
	Further reading & useful addresses	186
	Index	188
	Picture credits & acknowledgements	192

How to Say It at Work or The Compassionate Samurai

2009-12-02T05:02:00.000-08:00

How to Say It at Work: Putting Yourself Across With Power Words, Phrases, Body Language, and Communication Secrets

Author: Jack Griffin

A comprehensive guide to the do's and don'ts of good communication, this book gives total training for personal success at work.

Interesting book: Kitchen Gardens or Michigan Cooking and Other Things

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

Author: Brian Klemmer

Become an extraordinary results-producing champion for humanity and yourself!

In life there are two types of people. The first are those who are nice, good-hearted, and compassionate but can’t make much happen. The other kind can make everything happen—they’re the creators, the go-getters, and the aggressive producers in society—however, they’re often self-centered, greedy, and unethical.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could make things happen in a really big way but not lose your integrity? The Compassionate Samurai will show you the way to produce extraordinary results in a dog-eat-dog world and still maintain the highest levels of ethics.

You’ll learn:

· How to always be satisfied and motivated regardless of your circumstances

· Why all people have freedom but very few have liberty

· What competing commitments are and how they prevent you from having what you want in life

· The secret to operating optimally in an untrustworthy environment

· How to make the shift from scarcity to abundance even if you’re knee deep in debt . . .

and much, much more!

The Works or Critical Chain

2009-12-01T03:11:00.000-08:00

The Works: Anatomy of a City

Author: Kate Ascher

How much do you really know about the systems that keep a city alive? The Works: Anatomy of a City contains everything you ever wanted to know about what makes New York City run. When you flick on your light switch the light goes on--how? When you put out your garbage, where does it go? When you flush your toilet, what happens to the waste? How does water get from a reservoir in the mountains to your city faucet? How do flowers get to your corner store from Holland, or bananas get there from Ecuador? Who is operating the traffic lights all over the city? And what in the world is that steam coming out from underneath the potholes on the street? Across the city lies a series of extraordinarily complex and interconnected systems. Often invisible, and wholly taken for granted, these are the systems that make urban life possible.

The Works: Anatomy of a City offers a cross section of this hidden infrastructure, using beautiful, innovative graphic images combined with short, clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the way things work in a modern city. It describes the technologies that keep the city functioning, as well as the people who support them-the pilots that bring the ships in over the Narrows sandbar, the sandhogs who are currently digging the third water tunnel under Manhattan, the television engineer who scales the Empire State Building's antenna for routine maintenance, the electrical wizards who maintain the century-old system that delivers power to subways.

Did you know that the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is so long, and its towers are so high, that the builders had to take the curvature of the earth's surface into account when designing it? Did you know that the George Washington Bridge takes in approximately $1 million per day in tolls? Did you know that retired subway cars travel by barge to the mid-Atlantic, where they are dumped overboard to form natural reefs for fish? Or that if the telecom cables under New York were strung end to end, they would reach from the earth to the sun? While the book uses New York as its example, it has relevance well beyond that city's boundaries as the systems that make New York a functioning metropolis are similar to those that keep the bright lights burning in big cities everywhere.

The Works is for anyone who has ever stopped midcrosswalk, looked at the rapidly moving metropolis around them, and wondered, how does this all work?

Book review: Phosphatidylserine or Choosing a Path

Critical Chain

Author: Eliyahu M Goldratt

Powerful yet simple techniques to solve project management's toughest problems. This book teaches companies to drastically cut project development times resulting in early completion within budget and without compromising quality or specifications.

Project managers and your teams will benefit from Goldratt's techniques of how to remain focused on the few critical areas and how to prevent your attention from being divided among all of the how to prevent your attention from being divided among all of the projects' tasks and resources.

Especially useful for dealing with one of the most difficult and pressing management challenges: developing highly innovative new products.

About the Author:

One of the world's most sought after business leaders – author and educator, Dr. Eli Goldratt. Eli Goldratt had been described by Fortune Magazine as a "guru to industry" and by Business Week as a "genius." His charismatic, stimulating, yet sometimes unconventional style has captured the attention of audiences throughout the world. Eli is a true thinker who provokes others to think.

Eli Goldratt is the creator of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and is the author of 8 books, including the business best sellers The Goal, It's Not Luck, and Critical Chain. Goldratt's Theory of Constraints is used by thousands of companies, and is taught in hundreds of colleges, universities, and business schools. His books have sold over 3 million copies and have been translated into 23 languages. Goldratt's fascinating work as an author, educator and business pioneer had resulted in the promulgation of TOC into many facets of society and has transformed management thinking throughout the world.

Harvard Business Review

This book...is valuable to two main audiences: project managers and senior managers…useful for dealing with one of the most difficult and pressing management challenges: developing highly innovative new products.

Assembly

Anyone who doesn't snap up a copy is missing a wonderful opportunity for professional and personal development.

World Aero-Engine Review

Critical Chain will revolutionize project management.

What People Are Saying

James R. Holt
Critical Chain's powerful yet simple techniques…solve project management's toughest problems.
— (James R. Holt, Professor of Engineering Management, Washington State University)

The Prize or The Ultimate Question

2009-11-30T01:20:00.000-08:00

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Author: Daniel Yergin

Pulitzer Prize Winner -- and Now an Epic PBS Series

The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm.

The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.

Publishers Weekly

Yergin ( Shattered Peace ), a much-quoted energy consultant, here offers a timely, information-packed, authoritative history of the petroleum industry, tracing its ramifications, national and geopolitical, to the present day. Oil, ``the world's biggest and most pervasive business,'' he shows, has played a central role in most of the major wars and many of the critical international situations of the 20th century, has changed the lives of virtually everyone on the planet and is currently at the heart of the first post-Cold War crisis of the 1990s. Yergin describes how, after an oil glut replaced the panic at the pump of the early 1980s, ``Hydrocarbon Man'' once again took petroleum for granted--only to be shattered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait this past August. Whatever the evolution of the international order, oil will remain the ultimate strategic prize, predicts the author in a book that will be widely discussed. He points out, however, that the environmental movement is gaining significant strength as more and more citizens of the world express a willingness to trade off energy production for environmental protection. Photos. Major ad/promo. (Jan.)

Library Journal

This book does not require recent events in the Persian Gulf to make it an essential addition for most public libraries as well as all college libraries. Written by one of the foremost U.S. authorities on energy, it is a major work in the field, replete with enough insight to satisfy the scholar and sufficient concern with the drama and colorful personalities in the history of oil to capture the interest of the general public. Though lengthy, the book never drags in developing its themes: the relationship of oil to the rise of modern capitalism; the intertwining relations between oil, politics, and international power; and the relationship between oil and society in what Yergin calls today's age of ``Hydrocarbon Man.'' Parts of the story have been told as authoritatively before, e.g., in Irvine Anderson's Aramco: The United States and Saudi Arabia ( LJ 7/81), but never in as comprehensive a fashion as here.-- Joseph R. Rudolph Jr., Towson State Univ., Md.

The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth

Author: Fred Reichheld

One Question Can Determine Your Business's Future. Do You Know the Answer?

CEOs regularly announce ambitious growth targets, then fail to achieve them. The reason? Their growing addiction to bad profits. These corporate steroids boost short-term earnings but alienate customers. They undermine growth by creating legions of detractors—customers who complain loudly about the company and switch to competitors at the earliest opportunity.

Now loyalty expert Fred Reichheld shows how to reverse the equation, turning customers into promoters who generate good profits and true, sustainable growth. The key: one simple question—Would you recommend us to a friend?—that allows companies to track promoters and detractors and produces a clear measure of an organization's performance through its customers' eyes. In industry after industry, this "Net Promoter Score" is the single most reliable indicator of a company's ability to grow.

Based on extensive research, The Ultimate Question shows how companies can rigorously measure Net Promoter statistics, help managers improve them, and create communities of passionate advocates that stimulate innovation. Vivid stories from leading-edge organizations illustrate the ideas in practice.

Practical and compelling, this is the one book—and the one tool—no growth-minded leader can afford to miss.

The Washington Post

Among management books, this one's a keeper.

Publishers Weekly

Almost everyone appreciates the importance of customer satisfaction in business, but this book takes that idea to two extremes. First, it claims that customer satisfaction is more important than any business criterion except profits. Second, it argues that customer satisfaction is best measured by one simple question, "Would you recommend this business to a friend?" Pressure for financial performance tempts executives to seek "bad profits," that is, profits obtained at the expense of frustrating or disappointing customers. Such profits inflate short-term financial results, Reichheld writes, but kill longer-term growth. Only relentless focus on customer satisfaction can generate "good profits." One unambiguous question, with answers delivered promptly, can force organizational change, he claims. Reichheld makes a strong rhetorical case for his ideas, but is weaker on supporting evidence. The negative examples he gives are either well-known failures or generic entities like "monopolies," "cell phone service providers" and "cable companies." When presenting statistics on poor performers, the names are omitted "for obvious reasons." On the other hand, the positive examples are named, but described in unrealistically perfect terms. Believable comparisons of companies with both virtues and flaws would have been more instructive. (Mar.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

1	Bad profits, good profits, and the ultimate question	3
2	The measure of success	23
3	How the net promoter score (NPS) can drive growth	39
4	The enterprise story - measuring what matters	59
5	Why satisfaction surveys fail	77
6	The rules of measurement	95
7	Design winning customer strategies	117
8	Deliver - building an organization that creates promoters	137
9	Develop a community of promoters - by listening	155
10	One goal, one number	175
App. A	The linkage between NPS and growth	191
App. B	Winners and sinners for selected U.S. and U.K. industries	195

Will Work from Home or Yes

2009-11-28T23:30:00.000-08:00

Will Work from Home: Earn the Cash - Without the Commute

Author: Tory Johnson

Escape the cube. Ditch the commute. It's not just a dream anymore.

Many people already spend 12 hours a day getting to work, working, getting home from work. Here's some good news: thanks to advances in technology, acceptance of outsourcing, the trend towards corporate flextime, and other factors, working from home is easier than ever.

Good Morning America's Workplace Contributor Tory Johnson and consumer advocate Robyn Freedman Spizman tell readers exactly how to turn today's cultural change to their advantage without giving up an income. Specific business plans will teach them how to:
• Take their current position home
• Find a new company whose policies will allow them to work from home
• Reseach a product they believe in, and sell it from home
• Start their own business, doing something they love, for a minimal initial investment

With real-life stories, a step-by-step plan, resource guides, and lists of scams to avoid, this is the book that will help readers finally make the leap--and show them that they don't have to give up their family, creativity, or peace of mind to earn a decent salary.

Go to: Foundation Flex for Developers or Mastering Dojo

Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

Author: Noah J Goldstein

Small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion

What one word can you start using today to increase your persuasiveness by more than fifty percent?

Which item of stationery can dramatically increase people's responses to your requests?

How can you win over your rivals by inconveniencing them?

Why does knowing that so many dentists are named Dennis improve your persuasive prowess?

Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say yes to our requests? Persuasion is not only an art, it is also a science, and researchers who study it have uncovered a series of hidden rules for moving people in your direction. Based on more than sixty years of research into the psychology of persuasion, Yes! reveals fifty simple but remarkably effective strategies that will make you much more persuasive at work and in your personal life, too.

Cowritten by the world's most quoted expert on influence, Professor Robert Cialdini, Yes! presents dozens of surprising discoveries from the science of persuasion in short, enjoyable, and insightful chapters that you can apply immediately to become a more effective persuader. Why did a sign pointing out the problem of vandalism in the Petrified Forest National Park actually increase the theft of pieces of petrified wood? Why did sales of jam multiply tenfold when consumers were offered many fewer flavors? Why did people prefer a Mercedes immediately after giving reasons why they prefer a BMW? What simple message on cards left in hotel rooms greatly increased the number of people who behaved in environmentally friendly ways?

Often counterintuitive,the findings presented in Yes! will steer you away from common pitfalls while empowering you with little known but proven wisdom.

Whether you are in advertising, marketing, management, on sales, or just curious about how to be more influential in everyday life, Yes! shows how making small, scientifically proven changes to your approach can have a dramatic effect on your persuasive powers.

Publishers Weekly

Goldstein, Martin and Cialdini meld social psychology, pop culture and field research to demonstrate how the subtle addition, subtraction or substitution of a word, phrase, symbol or gesture can significantly influence consumer behavior. Interspersing references to Britney Spears, the Smurfs and Sex and the City with more academic concepts such as "loss aversion" and the "scarcity principle," the authors illustrate the simple and surprising approaches that can hone a company's marketing strategies. Witty chapters detail the allure of the yellow Post-it, the tip-garnering capabilities of an after-dinner mint, how highlighting a product's weaknesses can increase its appeal, the powerful role of third-party testimonials, how doctors can convince patients to adopt healthier choices by prominently displaying academic credentials in their offices, and how mirroring another person's gestures can elicit a more generous response by strengthening a perceived bond. While written primarily for a marketing audience, this amusing book has equal value and appeal for executives, salespeople-even parents trying to persuade their kids to do homework. (June)

Group Discussion or Content Rights for Creative Professionals

2009-02-17T12:37:00.000-08:00

Group Discussion: A Practical Guide to Participation and Leadership

Author: Kathryn Sue Young

This highly respected and widely cited text takes an applied, problem-solving approach that recognizes the creative potential of the individual. It serves as a handbook on a variety of small-group communication activities, including conducting meetings (using the standard agenda) and handling conflict.

Content Rights for Creative Professionals: Copyrights & Trademarks in a Digital Age

Author: Arnold Lutzker

Content Rights for Creative Professionals is for professionals and students working in all areas of media (film/video, photography, multimedia, web, graphics, and broadcast) who need to know what the law requires and how they should properly utilize copyrights and trademarks. This book outlines critical concepts and applies them with explanations in real-life applications, including many cases from the author's own practice as well as those of various media professionals.

This 256 page text is a practical guide designed to provide its reader with a firm understanding of the principles underlying the ownership and use of content, so that when questions arise, they will be able to make correct, well-informed decisions—whether concerning their personal works, or works of others that a company wishes to copyright or trademark. In addition, the reader will be more capable of exercising sound judgment in structuring employment and contract relationships and of acquiring and/or licensing works, which are at the core of the business of communicating.

*Access to the most up-to-date copyright and trademark information
*Provides a firm understanding of the priciniples underlying the ownership and use of content
*Suits the perspective of the freelance artist as well as the in-house media professional

	Preface to Second Edition
	Preface to First Edition
	About the Author
Pt. 1	Copyright	1
1	Overview of Copyright: The Big Picture	3
2	What Is Copyright?	9
3	The Copyright Rights: The Coin of Copyright	21
4	Limitations on Copyrights: The Chili Pepper of Copyright	29
5	Compulsory Licensing: Government's Helping Hand	43
6	Penalties for Infringement: Paying the Price	53
7	Ownership of Copyright: Keeping What Is Yours	57
8	Online Service Providers: Gateway or Traffic Cop?	65
9	Right to Control Access: The Trump Card	73
Pt. 2	Trademarks	81
10	What Is a Trademark?	83
11	The Trademark Systems: How to Protect Your Mark	97
12	Strategy for Acquiring Trademark Rights: A "How-to" for Branding	107
13	Likelihood of Confusion: The Acid Test	113
14	Trademarks and Licensing: Follow the Money Trail	119
15	Trademarks in a Digital World: Domain Name Games and Other Fun	127
Pt. 3	Collateral Concerns: Things You Cannot Ignore	137
16	Unfair Competition, Publicity, and Privacy: Filling in the Holes	139
17	Antitrust Laws: Keeping Competition Alive	145
18	Patents and Trade Secrets: Powerful Partners	151
19	The International View: It's a Small World After All	157
Pt. 4	Content Rights: The Media and Film	163
20	News and Talk Programming: Competition for Content	165
21	Content Rights: The Realm of Music	175
22	Advertising: Being Content with Commercial Content	185
23	Sports Content: The Olympic Law of the Rings and Other Games	191
24	Call Signs, Slogans, Jingles, and Characters: The Bits and Pieces of Broadcasting	197
25	Colorization and Artists' Rights: Whose Work Is It?	203
26	Licensing and Distributing: The Business of Programming	209
27	Cable TV: A Pipe Dream	221
28	Media Consolidation: Content Synergy	227
Pt. 5	Content and New Media: The Internet Has Arrived	233
29	Cyberspace: Napster and the Code of the Wild West Revisited	235
30	Digital Doctrines: Defining Rights in an Electronic World	241
31	Teachers and a Digital World: How the Classroom Has Changed	251
32	Webcasting: A Primer for Digital Communication	261
33	Afterword: A Closing Thought	269
	App.: Useful Websites	271
	Glossary	273
	Index	291

Explicit Cost Dynamics or Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press

2009-02-16T10:46:00.000-08:00

Explicit Cost Dynamics: An Alternative to Activity-Based Costing

Author: Reginald Tomas Yu Le

GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTOM LINE

Traditional cost management systems typically defeat their own purpose by leading corporations to make decisions that ultimately do not optimize performance. These systems are the foundation for decisions that are made throughout the corporation. In order for organizations to increase performance beyond current capabilities, a new approach is needed that addresses issues such as understanding the true impact of various actions on the bottom line-and eliminating methods that distort numbers and narrow options. Explicit Cost Dynamics (ECD) offers such an alternative, and this expertly written, revolutionary book provides an indispensable introduction to the subject.

Informative and easy-to-read, Explicit Cost Dynamics:

• Provides an alternative view and understanding of the impact of costs, actions, and time on the bottom line of a corporation

• Explains how this new theory can lead to an overall profit maximization

• Shows that costs can be considered as either a function of activities performed, as a function of resources expended, or of time

• Shows that the difference between explicit dollars flowing into and out of a company is equal to the rate of change of cash

• . . . and much more to help CEOs, CFOs, controllers, cost managers, financial managers, and others involved in the decision-making process improve their organizations' overall bottom lines.

Booknews

Introduces the development and implementation of explicit cost dynamics (ECD), a nonallocation-based cost management system that offers an alternative to traditional cost accounting methods as well as activity-based costing. Contains chapters on limitation accounting, basic ECD measures, operational inconsistencies, resource and program management, practical use, and implementing ECD. Of interest to CEOs, CFOs, controllers, cost managers, and financial managers. Yu-Lee is a consultant in strategy, supply chain, information systems, and manufacturing operations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ch. 1	Limitations of Cost Accounting	1
Ch. 2	What is Explicit Cost Dynamics?	23
Ch. 3	Understanding Explicit Cost Dynamics Costs	45
Ch. 4	Profit Dynamics	69
Ch. 5	Basic Explicit Cost Dynamics Measures	91
Ch. 6	Degree of Freedom Management	107
Ch. 7	Operational Inconsistencies	123
Ch. 8	Resource and Program Management	143
Ch. 9	Practical Use	169
Ch. 10	Implementing Explicit Cost Dynamics	191
	Index	215

New interesting book: Health Communication or The Jewish Enemy

Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press

Author: Graham Law

Drawing on extensive archival research in both Britain and the United States, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press represents the first comprehensive study of the publication of installment fiction in Victorian newspapers. Often overlooked, this phenomenon is shown to have exerted a crucial influence on the development of the fiction market in the last decades of the 19th century. A detailed description of the practice of syndication is followed by a wide-ranging discussion of its implications for readership, authorship, and fictional form.

Booknews

Law (English studies, Waseda U., Tokyo) shows how serial publication in syndicates of weekly news miscellanies throughout the British Empire was important in cultural and economic terms. A descriptive history of the rise and decline of the practice of syndication is followed by chapters that discuss its implications for readership, authorship, and the fictional form. Coverage includes well-known novelists, such as Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens as well as "newspaper novelists" such as David Pae and Mary Elizabeth Braddon who published mostly through the weeklies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis or Rebuilding Germany

2009-02-15T08:55:00.000-08:00

Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis

Author: Grant Ian Thrall

This work focuses on integrating land-use location science with the technology of geographic information systems (GIS). The text describes the basic principles of location decision and the means for applying them in order to improve the real estate decision.

Pt. I	Overview, Theory, and Methods
1	Introduction	3
2	Understanding Real Estate Markets and Submarkets	19
3	Unifying Urban Land Use and Land Value Theories	60
4	Conducting Real Estate Market Analysis	78
Pt. II	Applications to Real Estate Product Types
5	Housing and Residential Communities	107
6	Office and Industrial	131
7	Retail	165
8	Hotel and Motel	199
9	Mixed Use	216
10	Getting Started	225
	Notes	233
	References	241
	Index	257

New interesting textbook: Neue Finanzkapitalisten: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts und die Entwicklung des Korporativen Werts

Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957

Author: James C Van Hook

In a nuanced and fresh account, James Van Hook evaluates the American role in West German recovery and the debates about economic policy within West Germany. He examines the 1948 West German economic reforms that dismantled the Nazi command economy and ushered in the fabled "economic miracle" of the 1950s. By abandoning Nazi era economic controls, the West Germans discarded a pre-1945 economic and industrial culture.

From the Ballfield to the Boardroom or The Political Economy of International Trade

2009-02-14T07:04:00.000-08:00

From the Ballfield to the Boardroom: Management Lessons from Sports

Author: Brian Goff

No one can deny that sports and business are two of the most potent forces in our culture today. Sport, play, and the terms and phrases that define them, are engrained in our collective psyche, influencing the ways in which we conduct business-as a "game," with rules of engagement, tournaments of competition, the shame that accompanies defeat, and the bragging rights that accrue to the victor. From the Ballfield to the Boardroom draws from Brian Goff's expertise as a managerial economist to shed new light on the sports-business connection. Using dozens of examples from across the spectrum of professional and college sports, he analyzes the ways in which key decisions are made on the playing fields and locker rooms and applies these lessons to the corporate context. From the distinctive leadership styles of legendary coaches Tom Landry, Vince Lombardi, John Wooden, and Bobby Knight, among others, to such culturally significant developments as the racial integration of Major League Baseball and the meteoric rise of NASCAR, Goff draws from the world of sports to provide a solid foundation in the managerial arts, including: assessing risk and uncertainty, conducting market and competitive analysis, wooing customers, fostering an innovative culture, managing information and communication flows, and resolving labor disputes. The result is an incisive look at the sport of business, with practical insights for successful management at all levels of your organization.

1	Sports and business : is sport business or is business sport?	1
2	Managing fundamentals : benching a hall of fame pitcher	19
3	Managing markets : NASCAR and Southwest Airlines?	45
4	Managing people : the men behind Dean Smith and Bobby Knight	77
5	Managing information : Mike Krzyzewski as CIO	109
6	Managing games within games : do baseball managers have beautiful minds?	135
7	Managing innovation and change : Branch Rickey meets Machiavelli	157
8	Managing versus meddling : Andy North learned not to be too perfect	181
9	Managing and leading : Parcells to Gibbs and in-between	201

Book review: Straight Scoop about Dieting or Raising a Child with Diabetes

The Political Economy of International Trade: U. S. Trade Laws, Policy, and Social Cost

Author: Jae Wan Chung

American trade policy is a crucial subject not only to the United States, but also to foreign countries. Free trade has been a long-standing U.S. policy position. The United States has played the lead role in the international free trade framework and contributed to this framework through multilateral trade negotiations. As both trade and fiscal deficits steadily increased during the 1980s in the United States, free trade has not stood without its share of suffering. Chung investigates American trade policy from the perspectives of U.S. trade laws and international trade agreements by outlining the primary trade laws of the past, considering the trade laws of the present, and delving into various trade agreements, disputes, and reforms. Looking to the future, Chung offers a unique argument for the enforcement of trade remedy laws and the reform of the international trade framework. The Political Economy of International Trade is certain to be of interest to academics, policymakers, trade industry practitioners, and politicians in the United States as well as around the world.

The Cultures of Caregiving or The Global Resistance Reader

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

The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals, and Policy Makers

Author: Carol Levin

As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term and chronic care. Patient care at home falls mainly on untrained and unprepared family members, who struggle to adjust to the new roles, responsibilities, and expenses. Because the culture of family caregivers -- their values, priorities, and relationships to the patient -- often differs markedly from that of professionals, the result can be conflict and misunderstanding.

In The Cultures of Caregiving, Carol Levine and Thomas Murray bring together accomplished physicians, nurses, social workers, and policy experts to examine the differences and conflicts (and sometimes common ground) between family caregivers and health care professionals -- and to suggest ways to improve the situation. Topics addressed include family caregivers and the health care system; cultural diversity and family caregiving; the changing relationship between nurses, home care aides, and families; long-term health care policy; images of family caregivers in film; and the ethical dimensions of professional and family responsibilities. The Cultures of Caregiving provides needed answers in the contemporary crisis of family caregiving for a readership of professionals and students in medical ethics, health policy, and such fields as primary care, geriatrics, oncology, nursing, and social work.

Contributors: Donna Jean Appell, R.N., Project DOCC: Delivery of Chronic Care; Jeffrey Blustein, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Barnard College; Judith Feder, Ph.D., Georgetown University; Gladys Gonzalaz-Ramos, M.S.W., Ph.D., New YorkUniversity School of Social Work and NYU Medical School; David A. Gould, Ph.D., United Hospital Fund in New York City; Eileen Hanley, R.N., M.B.A., St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan / Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, New York City; Maggie Hoffman, Project DOCC: Delivery of Chronic Care; Alexis Kuerbis, C.S.W., Mount Sinai Medical Center; Carol Levine, M.A., United Hospital Fund, in New York City; Jerome K. Lowenstein, M.D., New York University Medical Center; Mathy Mezey, R.N., Ed.D., New York University; Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D., The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York; Judah L. Ronch, Ph.D., LifeSpan DevelopMental Systems; Sheila M. Rothman, Ph.D., Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Rick Surpin, Independence Care System.

	List of Contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction : Caregiving as family affair : a new perspective on cultural diversity	1
1	Family caregivers and the health care system : findings from a national survey	15
2	On loving care and the persistence of memories : reflections of a grieving daughter	35
3	The weight of shared lives : truth telling and family caregiving	47
4	Family caregiving in New England : nineteenth-century community care gives way to twentieth-century institutions	57
5	Nurses and their changing relationships to family caregivers	70
6	The culture of home care : whose values prevail?	87
7	Explaining the paradox of long-term care policy : an example of dissonant cultures	103
8	Family caregivers in popular culture : ideals and reality in the movies	113
9	Integrating medicine and the family : toward a coherent ethic of care	127
10	Project DOCC : a parent-directed model for educating pediatric residents	147
11	Changing institutional culture : turning adversaries into partners	155
	Conclusion : Building on common ground	171
	Index	183

Go to: American Lung Associations 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life or Salon Dialogue

The Global Resistance Reader

Author: Louise Amoor

In Genoa, riot police sent in to quell demonstrations against a summit of the G8 end up killing a young Italian activist; the Zapatistas organize resistance to the exploitation of their communities in Mexico; in Seattle thousands take to the streets against the WTO and provide a huge shock to our global rulers; worldwide activism ensures that Third World debt becomes a key issue on the international stage; a former World Bank economist writes a best-selling critique of globalization; riots break out in the sleepy Swiss town of Geneva; an anti-corporate analysis by a Canadian journalist becomes a surprise worldwide bestseller called No Logo. Something is happening.

The Global Resistance Reader provides the first comprehensive account of the phenomenal rise of transnational social movements which have opposed the financial, economic and political hegemony of large international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The conceptualdebates, substantive themes and case studies have been selected to open up the idea of global resistance to interrogation and discussion by students and to provide a one-stop orientation for researchers, journalists, policymakers and activists.

From Family to Market or Latinos in a Changing US Economy

2009-02-12T03:22:00.000-08:00

From Family to Market: Labor Allocation in Contemporary China

Author: Fei Ling Wang

This book analyzes Chinese history, politics, and economic development through the lens of labor allocation within the world's largest workforce. Capturing the peculiarities, continuities, and changes in the PRC's institutional structure, Fei-Ling Wang examines the segmented nature of China's labor force today. He points to the rare coexistence of four "labor allocation patterns:" the traditional family-based system, authoritarian state allocation, community-based labor markets, and the emerging national labor market. China's enduringly stable yet backward institutional structure was based firmly on a mix of family and state institutions; now the addition of market forces highlights the PRC's transitional state. Bolstered with rich case-study detail and Chinese source material, this study argues that the development of labor allocation patterns will profoundly influence China's political and economic development in the coming century.

Author Biography: Fei-Ling Wang is assistant professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Booknews

Explores and explains institutional structures and changes in contemporary China through an investigation of the history, current forms, and new developments of Chinese labor allocation patterns (LAPs). The bulk of the study constitutes historical and statistical analyses supported by information collected from field studies carried out from 1989 to 1996. The main finding of the study is that, since the mid-1980s, the centuries old family-based traditional LAP is slowly being replaced by an authoritarian state LAP, community-based labor markets, and a national labor market. The developments of each of the above four LAPs are explored in separate chapters and future trends are discussed. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Interesting book: Vegan Cooking or Japanese Tea Culture

Latinos in a Changing US Economy: Comparative Perspectives on Growing Inequality, Vol. 7

Author: Rebecca Morales

The 1980s were not good economic times for Latinos in the United States. The contributors to Latinos in a Changing U.S. Economy examine the cause of this phenomenon and the long-term consequences for the Hispanic population. How much, they wonder, can be attributed to racism, to structural barriers, to the demographics of the Latino population, or to the structure of the new global economy? Is there evidence of a persistent and growing inequality in the socioeconomic position of Latinos? Using both national data and a series of case studies from cities with significant Latino populations such as New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Chicago, and Miami, the editors identify the widening gap in income and social status between rich and poor, Anglos and Latinos, men and women, and immigrants and native born. These celebrated scholars also document the importance of including Latino populations in the study of--and policies for--improving urban areas. They suggest policy options that will reverse the growing social inequality. As an overview of the current socioeconomic status of Latinos in the United States, this book will be useful for scholars and students in urban studies, Latino studies, economics and society, stratification, and ethnic relations. "This is the most useful volume available on Latinos in the 1980's. . . . Individual articles are, in fact, so well blended that they could easily have been written by a single author. This collection is highly recommended to the general public, policy makers, students, and academics. Excellent references and footnotes." --Choice "The book makes three major contributions. First, it gives us the historical background. . . . Second, theessays provide the reader with a thorough understanding of the different experiences of various Latino subpopulations. . . . Third, they underscore the critical role of immigration and policies toward immigrants in the restructuring process." --Contemporary Sociology "At last! Latinos in a Changing U.S. Economy offers the most comprehensive appraisal of the challenges faced by the second largest minority in the United States. The collection of lucidly written articles, mostly by Latino scholars, reexamines the past in light of present transformations and pinpoints trends likely to characterize the future. A must for scholars and policy thinkers who would like to enrich their understanding for the highly diverse Latino population." --M. Patricia Fernández Kelly, The Johns Hopkins University "Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans; migrants and immigrants; Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Antonio, Miami: these diverse ethnicities, statuses, and urban bases reflect the changing faces of Latinos in the U.S. in the last decade of the 20th century. In this volume, Frank Bonilla, the dean of Latino Studies in the U.S., leads a corp of distinguished, mostly Latino, scholars to explore the effect of recent structural changes on Latinos, soon to be America's largest minority group. Of particular concern to the authors are patterns of persistent and growing poverty and inequality among most Latinos. Familiar issues, such as market forces, racial and ethnic barriers, education and other 'human capital' factors, are re-examined from new angles, with new data, and most importantly, from regional (urban) perspectives, while new issues, such as Latinos and environmental justice, are also introduced. "The new Clinton Administration would do well to study these essays to gain a better understanding of Latinos, as it formulates new policies to address America's most urgent domestic problems, such as the stagnant economy, urban decay, deteriorating race relations, and growing inequality between whites and peoples of color." --Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor and Director, Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, University of Colorado at Boulder "This book is a landmark contribution. It fills a void in our understanding of the place of Latinos in U.S. society. . . . The combining of historical narrative, dynamic conceptualization of measured wage discrimination, studies of Latino communities of place by resident scholars--Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, San Antonio--provides a breadth and wealth of comparative insight which sets the standard for future researchers." --William K. Tabb, CUNY Graduate Center "College-level collections specializing in Latino issues will want to add this to their collections: It provides a strong social and political overview of Latinos and how they are affected by economic change in this country, considering national data and urban case histories to examine gaps in income and status between whites and Latinos." --The Bookwatch

	Foreword
1	Restructuring and the New Inequality	1
2	The Changing Economic Position of Latinos in the U.S. Labor Market Since 1939	28
3	The Illusion of Progress: Latinos in Los Angeles	55
4	Decline Within Decline: The New York Perspective	85
5	Economic Restructuring and the Process of Incorporation of Latinos Into the Chicago Economy	109
6	Cubans and the Changing Economy of Miami	133
7	The Changing Economic Position of Mexican Americans in San Antonio	160
8	Urban Transformation and Employment	184
9	An Unnatural Trade-Off: Latinos and Environmental Justice	207
10	Critical Theory and Policy in an Era of Ethnic Diversity: Economic Interdependence and Growing Inequality	226
	References	241
	Author Index	258
	Subject Index	263
	About the Authors	268

Managed Care Services or Resource Assessment in Forested Landscapes

2009-02-11T01:32:00.000-08:00

Managed Care Services: Policy, Programs, and Research

Author: Nancy W W Veeder

Managed Care Services explores the complexities of managed health and behavioral health care systems in relation to policy, program, and research issues. It focuses on the dramatic consequences of the transformation of health care delivery from an essential social good to a commodity totally dependent on the marketplace. The book begins with a foreword by James J. Callahan Jr., a leading authority in the field, and includes an interdisciplinary group of authors who address multiple fields of practice. A common theme throughout the book is the inadequacy of service for such high-risk groups as children, the elderly, the mentally ill, the disabled, the chronically ill, substance abusers, and minorities of color. These at-risk groups include, but are not limited to, the vast numbers of un- and underinsured people in the United States. Specific topics covered in the book include cost of access to care; parity of behavioral health care services reimbursement; health services utilization patterns; education of health care professionals and professional autonomy; care management; and ethical issues arising from the structure of managed care administrative and organizational systems. The importance of research, especially program outcome assessments, is also emphasized. Managed Care Services provide a broad overview of "macro" managed care issues and is an invaluable resource for students and professionals interested in the intersection of social work and health care.

	Foreword
	Contributors
	Introduction: Managed Health and Behavioral Health Care Services Delivery: A Complex, Interrelated System of Policies, Programs, and Research	1
Pt. 1	The Context of Human Service Practice in Managed Care Environments	11
1	The Macroeconomic Impact of Managed Care	15
2	Biotechnology and Managed Care: Effects on Health Care Cost, Clinical Practice, and Education of Health Care Professionals	31
3	The Intersection of Free-for-Service, Managed Health Care, and Cultural Competence: Implications for National Health Care Policy and Services to People of Color	50
4	Ethics and Managed Care Policy	74
5	System Care Management: Purpose, Structure, and Function	97
Pt. 2	Managed Care: Services Delivery Domains for Special Needs and At-Risk Populations	117
6	Managed Care and Child Welfare Practitioner Training Needs	121
7	Managed Care and Care Management for Older Adults	150
8	Managed Care and the Ecological Perspective: Meeting the Needs of Older Adults in the Twenty-First Century	163
9	Outcomes Research for Children and Adolescents: Implications for Children's Mental Health and Managed Care	187
10	Facilitating the Enrollment of Elderly and Disabled Persons into Medicaid Managed Care	213
11	Managed Care and the Severely Mentally Ill: Current Issues and Future Challenges	230
12	Research Needs in the Managed Care of Substance-Abusing Patients	243
	Conclusion: Managing the Change in Health and Behavioral Health Care	267
	Managed Care Glossary	272
	Index	275

Resource Assessment in Forested Landscapes

Author: David D Reed

This book covers forest mensuration—the process of counting, measuring, and estimating the economic value of a stand of trees. This process also involves measuring non-timber, landscape values such as soils, wildlife habitat, and hydrology.

Booknews

A text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course that integrates knowledge gained in specialized courses in different disciplines. Expects students to be participating in field exercises, developing an integrated resource for a specific areas, or working through case studies of environmental assessment. The examples come from Reed and Mroz's own experience in the Upper Great Lakes Region, and demonstrate the degree to which information about resource assessment is region-specific and at least somewhat internally consistent. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Globalizing Political Economy or Survey of Accounting

2009-02-09T23:41:00.000-08:00

Globalizing Political Economy

Author: Nicola Phillips

Despite its claims to global scope and relevance, International Political Economy as a field of study remains entrenched in a narrow set of theoretical, conceptual and empirical foundations derived from the experiences of the advanced industrialized democracies. Bringing together specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities in each key area of debate, Globalizing Political Economy provides a systematic examination and critique of contemporary IPE, and puts forward a new agenda for a truly "global" political economy.

Look this: La Condition de Post-modernité

Survey of Accounting: Study Guide and Working Papers

Author: James D Stic

Most accounting books are difficult for business professionals to learn from, due to too much depth and breadth of coverage. This text makes it easy to train yourself or your employees, since it covers only the financial and managerial accounting concepts they really need to know. Managers and other professionals will get a good working knowledge of both how and why accounting is used in business, and in making informed decisions. Plus, financial and managerial topics are both included, and can be covered independently of each other.

PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING. 1. Accounting Information: Users and Uses. 2. Financial Statements: An Overview. PART II ACCOUNTING FOR EXTERNAL USERS: BUSINESS ACTIVITIES. 3. The Mechanics of Accounting. 4. Operating Activities: Buying and Selling a Product or Service. 5. Financing Activities: Debt and Equity. 6. Investing Activities: Operating Assets and Investments. 7. Financial Reporting and Analysis. PART IIII ACCOUNTING FOR INTERNAL USERS: BUSINESS DECISIONS. 8. Cost Terms and Cost Behavior Patterns. 9. Analyzing Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships. 10. The Budgeting Process (Will We Be Profitable?). 11. Performance Evaluation (Were We Profitable?). 12. Nonroutine Decisions. 13. Capital Investment Decisions.

The Learning Alliance or The Legal Environment of Business

2009-02-08T21:50:00.000-08:00

The Learning Alliance: Systems Thinking in Human Resource Development

Author: Stephen J Gill

Through numerous examples, this guide illustrates how you and your managers can work together to combine and implement systems technology with just-in-time and just-enough-learning strategies.

Step-by-step guidance and hands-on tools help you to:

Implement each stage of the training process?from goal setting to follow-up and maintenance
Produce and sustain measurable, consistently effective results

Plus, you'll get a comprehensive checklist for conducting an organizational training audit and getting started. Use this guide to get your organization's systems on track today!

	Preface
	The Authors
1	Beyond the Classroom: A Systems Approach to Organizational Learning	1
2	Facilitating the Learning Process: New Roles for Trainers	21
3	Barriers to Learning: Training Myths That Get in the Way	39
4	Impact Mapping: Creating a Shared Vision Among Stakeholders	59
5	Getting to the Heart of the Business: Principles for Highly Effective Training	77
6	Linking Training to Business Goals	91
7	Maintaining Customer Focus	109
8	Using Systems Thinking to Integrate Work and Learning	125
9	Using Measurement and Feedback for Continuous Improvement	151
10	Making the Paradigm Shift	168
	References	181
	Index	185

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The Legal Environment of Business

Author: Michael B Bixby

Our new text, The Legal Environment of Business, emphasizes students acquiring practical knowledge, not just memorizing concepts never to be used again. Our goal is to provide a book that students and professors will enjoy reading — a book that shows the relevancy of the law to current and future businesspeople.

In Consultation

The book contains ten scenarios based on contemporary legal issues in business, featuring detailed conversations between a manager and the firm's lawyer about the legal problem the business is facing.
A Memo From Your Lawyer

Several times in each chapter the authors give practical advice directly to the students concerning a legal issue examined in the chapter.
Practical Exercises

Each chapter concludes with a situation that calls for students to prepare a written memo in response, using legal terms and concepts explained in the chapter.
Social/Ethical Issues

Every chapter contains boxes asking the students to critically analyze the ethical, social, and public policy implications of certain legal principles and issues discussed in the chapter.
Excerpted Cases

Three or four court cases are excerpted in each chapter that deal with relevant legal issues. These cases have been carefully edited to remove previously undefined legal terminology.

Booknews

In the 22 chapters, the authors discuss the global, legal, regulatory, political, and social environment of business; legal issues in business organizations; common law subjects and their contemporary dimensions; legal issues involving consumers, competitors, and suppliers; legal rights of consumers, debtors, and creditors; and employer/employee legal issues. Each chapter contains three or four court cases that deal with relevant issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ethics of the International Monetary Systems or International Business History

2009-02-07T19:59:00.000-08:00

Ethics of the International Monetary Systems

Author: Samuel Sarri

Ethics of the International Monetary Systems follows the attempts to establish a form of control over international monetary systems from the Gold Standard system to the floating exchange rates of today. Since the inception of these systems, economists have criticized them as fundamentally unfair to countries that have not adopted the strict market rigors of Western-style capitalism. Samuel Sarri presents an ethical approach to evaluating the history of economic theory. Then he puts forth a new approach to international monetary systems that involves grouping similar countries and cultures in trading blocs called "regional competitive cooperatives" that fairly compete with one another, while boosting global development and respecting heterogeneous, regional value-systems and axiologies. He uses the successes of International Free Trade Agreements and the monetary union of Europe as a guide. Sarri's system aspires to achieve the classical ideals of global financial and monetary harmony. It takes into account the idea of multipolar power sharing, the economic outlooks, the diverse ethical views, the metaphysical and religious systems, histories, and cultures of the parts that compose the economic and political planetary whole.

Author Biography: Samuel Sarri is Professor of Philosophy and Economics at the Community College of Southern Nevada.

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At once an examination of and a recommendation for moral considerations in such international systems as the gold standard and its descendants. After examining the moral components of the economic philosophies of Ricardo, Adam Smith, Marx, and others and exploring the workings of various global systems, the author puts forth an approach that involves grouping similar countries and cultures in trading blocs with a single currency. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Figures
	Tables
Ch. 1	The Gold Standard System, GESS	1
Ch. 2	Moral Assessment of the GESS	11
Ch. 3	The Gold Exchange Standard System, GESS	31
Ch. 4	Moral Assessment of the GESS	53
Ch. 5	The International System of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)	81
Ch. 6	The Morality of the Actual Floating Exchange Rates Regime	125
Ch. 7	Towards an Ethically Multidimensional, Global Monetary and Financial Scene	171
Ch. 8	An Abyss of Financial and Monetary Reform Proposals	239
Ch. 9	The Eco-Ethical Synergism of Global Financial and Monetary Affairs	263
Ch. 10	Theory and Normative Plan of Eco-Ethical Synergism and World Financial and Monetary Relations	310
	Endnotes	313
	Footnotes	343
	Index	351

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International Business History: A Contextual and Case Approach

Author: Dennis M MP McCarthy

This text presents for the first time the history of international business, using both a case and contextual approach. Case studies from around the world are analyzed in both their internal and external contexts. Divided into five geographical sections--Europe, the United States, Central America/South America/the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia/ Western Pacific--the text features case studies of particular businesses of various periods, as well as essays on international business and economic integration in the particular regions. Introductions to each section define main themes and relate the case studies to those themes; commentaries introduce each case study and summarize key issues.

The Economics of Defense or MBA Economics

2009-02-06T18:09:00.000-08:00

The Economics of Defense

Author: Todd Sandler

Defense economics examines both peace and defense issues, using such macroeconomic and microeconomic tools as growth theory, static optimization, dynamic optimization, comparative statics, game theory and econometrics. This book provides an up-to-date survey of the field of defense economics, synthesizing and unifying the vast literature in this area. Many aspects of defense, disarmament, conversion and peace are examined; both demand and supply issues of defense spending are analyzed.

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MBA Economics

Author: Mark Jackson

This 12-chapter text presents a concise first course in microeconomics which is suitable for both MBA and upper level undergraduate programmes. No previous knowledge of economics is assumed.
MBA Economics covers the key areas of microeconomics - how the interactions of producers and consumers in product markets produce powerful tendencies towards efficiency and equality when self-interest is harnessed within purely competitive markets, as well as how rent-seeking activity can alter this conclusion and how human-capital investments can increase the productivity and wages of workers.

As economics is presented to students as an element in arguments, only the economics necessary to support the arguments need to be presented. This feature makes MBA Economics substantially leaner than the standard text in microeconomics, thereby making it far more accessible.

Written by an experienced textbook author.
No previous knowledge of economics is assumed.
Step by step analysis of key modules.
Concise introduction to microeconomics for MBA and undergraduate students.

	To Instructors
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Pure Competition and Efficiency: Product Markets	7
2	Product Demand: A Conclusion of the Theory of Consumer Choice	9
3	Product Supply: A Conclusion of the Theory of Producer Choice	27
4	A Model of Equilibrium Price Determination	45
5	Long-Run Tendencies in Purely Competitive Product Markets	61
6	Monopoly and Rent-Seeking Activity in Product Markets	73
Pt. II	Pure Competition and Equality: Factor Markets	85
7	Labor Demand: A Conclusion of the Theory of Producer Choice	87
8	Labor Supply: A Conclusion of the Theory of Consumer Choice	103
9	A Model of Equilibrium Wage Determination	119
10	Long-Run Tendencies in Purely Competitive Labor Markets	133
11	Monopsony and Rent-Seeking Activity in Labor Markets	143
12	Human Capital	155
	Index	163

Cases in Hospitality Management or Managed Care Contracting

2009-02-05T16:18:00.000-08:00

Cases in Hospitality Management: A Critical Incident Approach

Author: Timothy R Hinkin

Your guide to becoming an effective hospitality manager

The hospitality industry is a "people" business. Whether dealing with guests or customers, managers or coworkers, those who work in this industry interact with other people perhaps more than in any other. And unlike many other industries, graduates entering the hospitality industry will quickly be assuming managerial roles. One of the only casebooks available that focuses specifically on hospitality management, Cases in Hospitality Management prepares readers to be successful managers by providing an effective connection between hospitality management theory and real-world workplace scenarios.

Whether managing a kitchen, dining room, front desk, travel agency, fast-food restaurant, or an entire hotel, employees seek cues and reinforcement from managers to guide their behavior. Cases in Hospitality Management provides readers with the opportunity to apply their knowledge, experience, and management skills, allowing them to think quickly on their feet and react appropriately in a wide variety of settings. By analyzing and understanding the causes and effects of a number of real, critical incidents, readers will be better prepared to effectively deal with similar situations when they face them on the job.

This new, updated Second Edition features:

• Fifteen all-new cases dealing with a variety of managerial topics including technology, human resource management, customer service, and ethics

• A broad array of real industry cases, including airlines, railroads, private clubs, conference centers, travel agents, auto rental, hotels, and restaurants

• Anew Technology section that explores data warehousing, the Internet, and electronic banking

• A new Service Exemplars section that presents incidents involving truly exceptional service in a variety of contexts—from trains to resorts

• A new Service Recovery section presents examples of companies failing to salvage service encounters that have gone awry

Managed Care Contracting: A Guide for Health Care Professionals

Author: Wendy Knight

This book provides physician executives and medical group managers with a "next generation" reference on the managed care contracting process. This handbook will educate health care providers about managed care contracting: how the contracting process works, what a standard practice contract looks like and why certain provisions are included, what questions to ask and how to evaluate a capitation rate. Provides pertinent information from professionals in the field.

Booknews

This reference guide for health care professionals involved in developing and negotiating managed care contracts presents eleven articles on the processes involved in developing a provider network, strategic considerations for contract negotiations, and tools for evaluating contracts and their financial and operational impact. The authors also address regulatory, antitrust, and legal considerations. Assumes a basic knowledge of managed care. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Long Term Care or Information and Management Systems for Product Customization

2009-02-04T14:26:00.000-08:00

Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Long-Term Care: Challenges and Solutions

Author: Dennis A Robbins

Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Long—Term Care gives home health care providers practical approaches to the ethical and legal issues unique to home health care. The authors provide a sophisticated yet practical framework for developing and applying an ethics action plan. From establishing an ethics committee to integrating legal, clinical, and organizational concerns, to providing key medical—ethical decision making criteria for end—of—life decisions, the book offers home health and other community—based providers a comprehensive resource to guide staff and to avoid liability.

William K. Cody

This book provides information on legal and ethical issues in home health and long-term care, describes ethical analysis and decision-making in these settings, and provides models to guide caregivers in these processes. The book fulfills a need in the related literature by providing a resource to guide the reader through ethical questions in a way that is sufficiently comprehensive to deal with their complexity, along with tools and techniques to address ethical questions in practice. The book, targeting caregivers and administrators in home health care, long-term care, hospice, and community health care, may be used as a textbook for healthcare professionals. Robbins, with a PhD in philosophy, a Harvard MPH, and 10 years' experience in the ethics of postacute care, is a credible authority. The book is organized into 12 chapters that provide an overview of the issues, explore the forces influencing ethical problems, present some key ethical concepts and principles, offer a model for decision making, and describe how to implement policies and procedures based on ethical reasoning. Chapters conclude with open-ended case studies and questions for discussion. The book ends with a bibliography on healthcare ethics, fulfilling the claim that the book is a comprehensive resource. This book features a well-balanced array of facts, theory, analysis, illustration, and guidance, and it will be a useful addition to any healthcare library. Robbins writes with a minimum of jargon and differentiates well between legal and ethical problems. A possible weakness of the text is the sparseness of the explanations of ethical principles. Robbins captures the profundity and urgency of the ethical issueshe describes and frankly delineates which side of an issue he is on. The book leaves the reader better prepared to grapple with the inevitable ethical dilemmas of home health and long-term care.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: William K. Cody, RN, PhD (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Description: This book provides information on legal and ethical issues in home health and long-term care, describes ethical analysis and decision-making in these settings, and provides models to guide caregivers in these processes.
Purpose: The book fulfills a need in the related literature by providing a resource to guide the reader through ethical questions in a way that is sufficiently comprehensive to deal with their complexity, along with tools and techniques to address ethical questions in practice.
Audience: The book, targeting caregivers and administrators in home health care, long-term care, hospice, and community health care, may be used as a textbook for healthcare professionals. Robbins, with a PhD in philosophy, a Harvard MPH, and 10 years' experience in the ethics of postacute care, is a credible authority.
Features: The book is organized into 12 chapters that provide an overview of the issues, explore the forces influencing ethical problems, present some key ethical concepts and principles, offer a model for decision making, and describe how to implement policies and procedures based on ethical reasoning. Chapters conclude with open-ended case studies and questions for discussion. The book ends with a bibliography on healthcare ethics, fulfilling the claim that the book is a comprehensive resource.
Assessment: This book features a well-balanced array of facts, theory, analysis, illustration, and guidance, and it will be a useful addition to any healthcare library. Robbins writes with a minimum of jargon and differentiates well between legal and ethical problems. A possible weakness of the text is the sparseness of the explanations of ethical principles. Robbins captures the profundity and urgency of the ethical issues he describes and frankly delineates which side of an issue he is on. The book leaves the reader better prepared to grapple with the inevitable ethical dilemmas of home health and long-term care.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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Information and Management Systems for Product Customization

Author: Thorsten Blecker

In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing individualized products and services, without introducing high costs. Therefore, companies must address both customization and cost factors to gain a competitive advantage. While product customization is the manufacturing of products according to individual customer needs, it does not involve any focus on the cost perspective. INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION will concentrate on both product customization and costs' efficiency, which is termed as mass customization. Moreover, mass customization with its multi-dimensions is the new business paradigm challenging today's manufacturing companies.

Understanding the needs and desires of the customer are central to the strategy of mass customization. However, introducing customer needs into the realm of product development dramatically increases the level of complexity of creating and delivering the product both internally and externally. This book introduces an innovative model that assesses and distinguishes subjective and objective customer needs. This model along with other software tools and AI agents address the complexity issues that are both external and internal in a mass customization strategy. Fundamentally, the book— with its technical analysis, models, conceptual frameworks, and managerial tools—closes the gap between the complexity and the difficulty of mass customization with its potential payoffs and implementation.

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Product customization : theoretical basics	9
Ch. 3	Mass customization and complexity	45
Ch. 4	A customers' needs model for mass customization	63
Ch. 5	Customer oriented interaction systems	79
Ch. 6	A multi-agent system for coping with variety induced complexity	115
Ch. 7	Implementation scenarios of the information systems	149
Ch. 8	Product modularity in mass customization	163
Ch. 9	Key metrics system based management tool for variety steering and complexity evaluation	181
Ch. 10	Conclusions	243

A Guide to Federal Taxation or Business English

2009-02-03T12:36:00.000-08:00

A Guide to Federal Taxation

Author: Jeffrey A Helewitz

A Guide to Federal Income Tax superbly integrates law and tax policy, providing readers with a basic theoretical understanding of federal taxation in the major areas that would be addressed in most small law firms. It also gives the reader an overview of the workings of the Internal Revenue Service, and guides them, line by through, through all of the federal tax forms a law office would encounter. Through numerous examples, practical tips, summaries of judicial decisions, chapter summaries, and exercise problems, the author does an exceptional job of helping current and future legal professionals absorb this wealth of information. Readers are taken from basic tax law and policy at the start of the book to chapters on individual taxation, the taxation of the various business formats, and the taxation of trusts and estates.

Business English: Writing in the Global Workplace

Author: Dona Young

Business English: Writing for the Global Workplace takes the approach that local language has value in informal environments with Business English being the best choice in formal environments. With this text, students will use their local language (or dialect) to become more proficient with Business English. The text achieves this by comparing and contrasting the two language systems, “building a wall” between Business English and local language. Because technology has made the world smaller, the ability to speak and write Business English has never been more important. Just about every job in the marketplace now includes writing e-mail and speaking to people from diverse cultures. This book provides the tools needed for the global workplace. A student who has mastered the principles presented here will have a solid foundation in speaking and writing Business English to people from around the world.

Fundamentals of Taxation with TaxACT 2006 Deluxe or Check It out

2009-02-02T10:45:00.000-08:00

Fundamentals of Taxation with TaxACT 2006 Deluxe

Author: Ana M Cruz

This book is designed to not only expose beginning tax students to tax law, but to also teach the practical intricacies involved in preparation of a tax return. Emphasizing a hands-on approach to tax education, every concept introduced in the text includes meaningful exercises that allow students to reinforce what they are learning. Actual tax forms are included within the text—from the simplest 1040EZ to the numerous 1040 schedule forms—with real-world data inserted into actual tax forms to demonstrate applied skills. Tax software is also a part of the text package, providing yet another tool to bridge the gap between understanding and practical application of tax law.

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Check it Out!: Great Reporters on What It Takes to Tell the Story

Author: Art Athens

Stories with no substance. Talking heads without a clue. "Team" coveragethat still misses the big picture. Overheated hype. Cute chatter. Film at eleven. Is it any wonder more and more of us count less and less on the news? "It used to be that a news story told you who, what, where, when, how, and why," Art Athens writes. "Now the story might tell you who, or it might tell you when, but there's a good chance that when it's over (which won't take long), you'll be the one saying What?" Here's a legendary journalist's back to the basics guide to the craft of broadcast news. Combining insights from his own award-winning career with in-depth conversations with leading newspeople, Art Athens offers a primer on the best practices in reporting, writing, and delivering the news. And he lets some of the best in the business talk frankly and passionately about what it takes to do the job right: Dan Rather, Charles Osgood, Mike Wallace, Brian Williams, Andy Rooney, Charles Kuralt, Linda Ellerbee, and Don Hewitt. What kind of skills—and spirit—does it take to be a successful, serious broadcast journalist? How are the good stories conceived and written? And in today's cynical age of news as entertainment, what should reporters and editors do to restore confidence in the media? In this funny, sharp, honest book, anyone who cares about the news will find answers on every page.

Author Bio:Art Athens spent 40 years as a print and broadcast journalist, including 25 years at WCBS, New York City's all-news station. The winner of Pew and Columbia/Peabody awards for excellence, he died in 2000.

Ch. 1	All I ever wanted to be	1
Ch. 2	"It" : what ya gotta have	18
Ch. 3	Hankering to be anchoring	29
Ch. 4	Tell me a story	34
Ch. 5	So what's news?	49
Ch. 6	Coochy, coochy, coo	71
Ch. 7	Is that fair?	78
Ch. 8	Wireitis (y-er-eye'-tis)	96
Ch. 9	To act or not to act : that is the debate	105
Ch 10	How can they ask that?	122
Ch. 11	Get your news from us	134
Ch. 12	It's the writing, stupid!	150
Ch. 13	If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out!	158

Censorship Inc or Management Economics

2009-02-01T08:53:00.000-08:00

Censorship, Inc.: The Corporate Threat to Free Speech in the United States

Author: Lawrence Soley

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a landmark in the defense of free speech against government interference and suppression. In this book we come to see how it also acts as a smokescreen behind which a more dangerous and insidious threat to free speech can operate.

Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, so new strategies have developed to restrict free speech on issues in which corporations and property-owners have an interest.

Censorship, Inc. is a comprehensive examination of the vast array of corporate practices which restrict free speech in the United States today in fields as diverse as advertsing and the media, the workplace, community life, and the environment. Soley also shows how these threats to free speech have been resisted by activism, legal argument, and through legislation. Grounded in extensive research into actual cases, this book is at the same time a challenge to conventional thinking about the nature of censorship and free speech.

	Preface
1	Private Censorship, Corporate Power	1
Pt. I	Speaking of Labor	21
2	Company Towns and Labor Camps	25
3	Dirty Work: Blacklisting and Silencing Employees	55
Pt. II	Uncivil Actions	81
4	SLAPPing Citizens	85
5	"Hog Tying" Critics: Agricultural Disparagement Statutes	111
Pt. III	Private Property, Public Silence	135
6	Freedom to Buy, Not Speak	139
7	Private Communities: Real Properties, Real Restrictions	167
Pt. IV	The Muted Media	191
8	Advertisers: Muscling the Media	195
9	Muzzling David: Corporate Media Goliaths	219
10	Freeing Speech	249
	Endnotes	265
	Index	297

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Management Economics

Author: Edwin Mansfield

The Fifth Edition of Managerial Economics heralds a new era for this classic text. Carrying on the tradition established by Edwin Mansfield in the book's earlier editions, Bruce Allen, Neil Doherty, and Keith Weigelt—all of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School—have prepared an exciting revision that capitalizes on proven strengths while embracing new developments in the field. Retaining a hallmark of Managerial Economics, the authors include a wealth of cases and applications that consistently anchor the exposition in the real world of business decision making. New to the Fifth Edition is a greater focus on applied microeconomics, with two new chapters, one on auctions and another on the principal-agent problems of firms. These new chapters, numerous new cases and applications throughout the book, and an exciting new package of electronic ancillaries promise to make the Fifth Edition of Managerial Economics the best yet.

Author Biography: W. Bruce Allenis professor of business and public policy, regional science, and transportation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Neil A. Doherty is Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor and professor of insurance and risk management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Keith Weigelt is professor of strategy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Edwin Mansfield was a longtime professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His textbooks have been a staple in economics courses at thousands of colleges and universities around the world.

Being A Health Unit Coordinator or Marketing Convergence

2009-01-31T07:02:00.000-08:00

Being A Health Unit Coordinator

Author: Kay Cox Stevens

Kay Cox-Stevens

Retaining an emphasis on the patient-centered approach, Kay Cox-Stevens' Being A Health Unit Coordinator continues to provide the information health unit coordinators must comprehend. This up-to-date text is appropriate for students enrolled in unit coordinating programs or as a reference for those that are practicing. It moves from the simple to the complex, laying a foundation of skills necessary for all medical-clerical workers, then follows with more specific health unit coordinating procedures. New medication information, review questions, learning activities, and updated chapter information, make the new Fifth Edition an even more current and complete reference for success. Features

The newest information on diagnostic and therapeutic orders.
More information on the impact of managed care on the heath care facility.
New information on medical records management.
An update on medical laws and ethics.
An update on new medications.
Learning activities with critical thinking questions.

Other Titles of Interest
Marshall, Being a Medical Clerical Worker, 2/e
0-8359-5147-2
McMiller, Being a Medical Records Clerk, 2/e
0-13-086493-5
Struck, Medical Office Pharmacology
0-8359-5290-8
Dodson, Being a Medical Information Coder, 2/e
0-8359-5333-5
Makely, The Health Care Workers Primer on Professionalism
0-8359-5483-8

Booknews

Retaining an emphasis on the patient-centered approach, this text and workbook is appropriate for students enrolled in unit coordinating programs. Material progresses from skills necessary for all medical- clerical workers to specific health unit coordinating procedures. This fifth edition contains new medication information, review questions, learning activities, and updated information on the impact of managed care on the health care facility, medical records management, and medical laws and ethics. The author is a health careers specialist and professor at Saddleback College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

1. Introduction to Being a Health Unit Coordinator.
2. The Working Environment.
3. The Hospital Departments.
4. Medical Terminology.
5. Introduction to Body Structure and Function.
6. Diseases and Diagnoses.
7. Medical Law and Ethics.
8. Communications.
9. Hospital Safety and Emergencies.
10. Introduction to Management at the Nurses Station.
11. The Patient's Chart.
12. The Health Unit Coordinator and Computers.
13. Introduction to Order Transcription.
14. Understanding Medication Orders.
15. Nursing Procedure Orders.
16. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Department Orders.
17. Health Unit Coordinator Procedures.
18. Review.
19. Order Transcription Practice.
Bibliography.
Index.

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Marketing Convergence: How the Leading Companies Are Profiting from Integrating Online and Offline Marketing Strategies

Author: Susan K Jones

With the exponential growth of the Internet in the past few years, this tool has become a powerful venue for marketing products to consumers. This book is engineered for professionals looking to gain a better understanding of the integration of technologies and marketing strategies. By understanding the key elements of converging various marketing channels and strategies, professionals will be well on the way to marketing success beating the competition.

Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia or Mexico

2009-01-30T05:11:00.000-08:00

Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia

Author: Shahid Yusuf

In the coming decades, East Asian economies must face the challenges of an increasingly globalized marketplace. This book explores the changing parameters of competition in East Asia, and argues that success ultimately will depend on the ability of the regions firms to harness the potential of global production networks and to build their own innovative capability. Presenting the latest findings on global production networks and the evolution of technological capabilities, it provides researchers, students, and policymakers with in-depth information and analysis on key issues related to growth and development in East Asia.

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Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy

Author: Nora Lustig

Today Mexico is viewed as a success story in the management of economic adjustment and structural reform. Inflation is under control, capital and foreign investment are returning, and output growth has increased. Mexico's recovery, however, has been neither fast nor smooth, and the social costs the country has borne for the past several years have been very large. In 1982, Mexico faced a severe balance-of-payments crisis. Rampant inflation, capital flight, and a collapse of economic activity were the consequences of an overexpansionist fiscal policy and adverse external conditions. For the next five years, the Mexican government struggled to restore stability and growth without success. Falling oil prices and lack of adequate external financing made these goals extremely difficult to achieve. With the implementation of the Economic Solidarity Pact, inflation was finally brought down in 1988. However, fiscal discipline and far-reaching reforms notwithstanding, growth did not follow. To convince investors to put their capital in Mexico required something more. Initiatives such as the reprivatization of the banking system and the pursuit of a free trade agreement with the United States finally produced the observed turnaround starting in 1990. In this book, Nora Lustig tells the story of adjustment and reform in Mexico from the onset of the debt crisis in 1982 through the early 1990s when the sweeping reforms began to bear fruit. The author looks closely at the social costs of adjustment and who bore the greatest share. In addition, she explores the characteristics of the new development strategy and analyzes the motivations and potential consequences of Mexico's search for greater economic integration with the United States.

	Abbreviations and Acronyms
	Introduction	1
	Mexico's Adjustment and Recovery: A Summary	2
	A Note on Method	12
1	The Genesis of the 1982 Crisis	14
	The Golden Years of "Stabilizing Development"	14
	Macroeconomic Imbalances and the 1976 Balance-of-Payments Crisis	17
	The Oil Boom and the Onset of the 1982 Crisis	20
	Concluding Remarks	26
2	From Crisis to Recovery	28
	The First Attempt at Stabilization, 1983-85	29
	The Failure of the First Stabilization Program	34
	From the 1986 Oil Shock to the 1987 Run on the Peso	39
	The Implementation of the Economic Solidarity Pact	50
	The Pursuit of Economic Recovery	55
	Concluding Remarks	59
3	The Social Costs of Adjustment	61
	Adjustment, Living Standards, and Income Distribution	61
	Living Conditions before the Crisis	65
	Trends in Earned Real Incomes since 1982	66
	Unemployment and Employment Patterns	75
	Social Income: The Evolution of Public Spending on Social Sectors	78
	Resource Availability in Education and Health	83
	Food Subsidies: From General to Targeted	86
	Social Indicators: Nutrition and Health, Education, and Incidence of Crime	87
	Household Survival Strategies	89
	Who Bore the Costs and to What Extent?	92
	Concluding Remarks	94
4	Public Sector Reforms	96
	Fiscal Policy Reform	98
	Divestiture of Public Enterprises	103
	Deregulation	107
	Concluding Remarks	112
5	Looking Outward: Reforms in the Foreign Trade and Investment Regimes	114
	Trade Liberalization	117
	Impact of Trade Liberalization on Economic Performance	120
	Industrial Programs	122
	The Changing Foreign Investment Regime	125
	Intellectual Property Rights	129
	Joining the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade	130
	Seeking Closer Ties with the United States	132
	Concluding Remarks	137
	Epilogue	140
	Appendix: Agreement Signed by Mexico and Its Commercial Banks on Debt and Debt Service Reduction	141
	Notes	145
	Index	181

Talking about Machines or Monetary Politics

2009-01-29T03:20:00.000-08:00

Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job

Author: Julian E E Orr

This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives. He characterizes their work as a continuous highly skilled improvisation within a triangular relationship of technician, customer, and machine.

Monetary Politics: The Federal Reserve and the Politics of Monetary Policy

Author: John T T Woolley

This is the first book to describe and analyze the relationships between the Federal Reserve and the president, Congress, bankers, and economists. Far from being politically independent, the Federal Reserve is shown to be sensitive to a wide range of political influences.

	Preface	ix
1.	The Federal Reserve and the Politics of Monetary Policy: Introduction and Overview	1
	What is at stake?	3
	Relationships with external actors	10
	A framework for examining issues and relationships in monetary politics	15
	The political position of the Federal Reserve	22
	Conclusion and overview	27
2.	A Capsule History of the Federal Reserve System	30
	Defining the role of government in financial matters	31
	The Federal Reserve: proximate sources	35
	The conception of the role of the Federal Reserve	39
	Resolving the question of the location of power over monetary policy	41
	Conclusion	46
3.	Recruitment and Selection of Federal Reserve Personnel	48
	Recruitment processes	49
	Occupational backgrounds of successful candidates	55
	Background and behavior	61
	Movement out of the System	64
	Conclusion	67
4.	Bankers and the Federal Reserve	69
	The question of capture	69
	Bankers' interests	71
	Bankers' political resources	74
	What have the bankers received?	80
	Conclusion	85
5.	Economists and the Federal Reserve	88
	Non-issues	88
	Monetarists and the issues in monetary politics	90
	Mainstream economists and control of the Federal Reserve	96
	The monetarist counterthrust	99
	Economists' conflicts and Federal Reserve behavior	101
	Conclusion	105
6.	The President and the Federal Reserve	108
	Presidential relations with the Federal Reserve	109
	Conflicts	119
	Elections	125
	Conclusion	129
7.	Congress and the Federal Reserve	131
	Congress: capabilities and incentives	132
	The banking committees	133
	Patterns of interaction with the Federal Reserve	138
	The congressional challenge of 1975	144
	Conclusion	152
8.	Making Monetary Policy in a Political Environment: The Election of 1972	154
	The plausibility of the charge of election-year misbehavior	155
	Discordant notes: Burns versus the White House, 1970-1971	157
	The alternative view: the pressure of controls	158
	Inside the FOMC in 1972	161
	1972 in retrospect	168
	Conclusion	179
9.	Monetary Politics: A Summary	181
	Political economy approaches	185
	Patterns of mobilization and monetary politics	190
Appendix A	A Note on Data Sources	195
Appendix B	Legislation Included in Table 7.1	203
Appendix C	Academic Backgrounds and Career Experiences of Notable Monetarists	208
	Notes	211
	Bibliographic Note	271
	Index	275

Religion in a Global Society or The Technology Leaders

2009-01-28T01:29:00.000-08:00

Religion in a Global Society

Author: Peter Beyer

Saying the word "religion" in today's world evokes a bewildering and often contradictory variety of images and attitudes. From the Dalai Lama to Falun Gong, from mosque to temple, "religion" covers a multitude of practices, worldviews and cosmologies. This book, by a distinguished sociologist of religion, offers a way of understanding religion in contemporary global society, by analyzing it as a dimension of the historical process of globalization. Written with exceptional clarity, it introduces theories of globalization, show how they can be applied to world religions, and illustrates the discussion with examples ranging from Islam and Hinduism to African traditional religions and new age spirituality.

1	Globalization and global society	18
2	The religious system of global society	62
3	Formation and re-formation of Abrahamic religions : Christianity and Islam	117
4	The realization of Hinduism	188
5	Refusal and appropriation in East Asia : Confucianism and Shinto	225
6	New religions, non-institutionalized religiosity and the control of a contested category	254

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The Technology Leaders: How America's Most Profitable High-Tech Companies Innovate Their Way to Success

Author: Peter S Cohan

Follow America's High-Tech Leaders to Sustained Growth and Profitability
?With forceful and engaging style, Cohan describes what makes technology companies like Hewlett-Packard so successful....Any executive aspiring to market leadership should read The Technology Leaders.?
-- Dean O. Morton, retired executive vice president, COO and director, Hewlett-Packard Company As organizations emerge from an era of epochal downsizing, managers are beginning to realize that repeated cost-cutting is no longer the path to sustained profitable growth. Clearly, a new strategy is called for. In this landmark work, Peter Cohan details the practices of today's most vital, prosperous companies -- America's high-tech leaders -- and demonstrates how other companies can follow their remarkable example and thrive in a hypercompetitive marketplace driven by rapid product innovation.

Entrepreneurship or Selected Readings in Business

2009-01-26T23:37:00.000-08:00

Entrepreneurship: Process Perspective

Author: Robert A Baron

Entrepreneurship books may, understandably, be viewed with some suspicion, as being nothing more than common sense dressed-up, and nothing unique or innovative. But Baron and Shane have attempted something new. Baron and Shane focus on the entrepreneurial process as it moves through several distinct phases: (1) generating ideas and recognizing opportunities, (2) assembling resources, (3) launching the new venture, (4) building success, and (5) harvesting the rewards. At each stage, they analyze these processes along three dimensions, examining individual, group, and societal contexts. Accessible and rich in examples, Baron and Shane gain the upper hand by fusing concepts, theory, and research with the supporting pedagogy.

Interesting book: Contabilidad Avanzada

Selected Readings in Business: Millennium Edition

Author: Myra Ann Shulman

The revised edition of Selected Readings in Business addresses the new developments in the business world since 1991--e-commerce, information technology, women's status as professionals, application of science to business, and the increasing globalization of our world. Each unit has Internet activities to accompany it. Still the perfect text for international students embarking on an MBA program or a business career.

	To the Student
Ch. 1	The Future	1
	The New Atlantic Century
	The Next Society
Ch. 2	Globalization	24
	Sizing Up Global Integration
	Nationality Matters More than Ever: That's No Joke
Ch.3	Mergers and Acquisitions	35
	Buying into Japan Inc
	Japanese Mergers: Marriage in Name Only
Ch. 4	Language	45
	Beyond Babel: Why the Babble Below Will Matter Less
	The Triumph of English: A World Empire By Other Means
Ch. 5	Brand Names	59
	Developing a Name to Work Worldwide
	Luxury Goods Firms Target the Middle East
Ch. 6	The Internet	70
	A Net Not Made in America
	Turkey Logs On
Ch. 7	Information Technology	81
	Go Mobile - Now!
	Key Shift for IT
	A Truly Global Web
	Bit Player
Ch. 8	Science	100
	The Biology Century Dawns
	DNA: Handle With Care
Ch. 9	Health	112
	For Developing Countries, Health Is Wealth
	Can We Learn to Beat the Reaper?
Ch. 10	Working Women	126
	All It Takes Is a Dream
	Cracks in Mexico's Glass Ceiling
	Rio Co-op Raises Worker Standards, Fashionably
Ch. 11	Expatriate Employees	142
	Expat Training
	An American Expat's View
	Women Working Overseas
Ch. 12	Contract Negotiation	158
	Good Negotiation Equals Good Contracts
	You Say Tomato
Ch. 13	Management	171
	How We Went Digital Without a Strategy
	Separating Sheep from Goats as Start-ups Fall to Earth
Ch. 14	Entrepreneurship	187
	Dream Deferred: The Story of a High-Tech Entrepreneur in a Low-Tech World
	Smart and Smarter
	Appendixes	207
A	Definitions of Writing Terms and Examples of Writing Styles	209
B	Strategies for Communication	215
C	"Globalization's Last Hurrah?"	245
	Index	259

Presentation Success or Cassette Culture

2009-01-25T21:47:00.000-08:00

Presentation Success: A Step-by-Step Approach

Author: Jackie L Jankovich Hartman

Presentation Success: A Step-by-Step Approach is divided into four phases. Each phase consists of building blocks that lead readers to success when making presentations. By using the checklists provided throughout the book, readers will avoid common mistakes made by others as well as eliminate frantic moments and memorable disasters. The guidelines in this book are tried and true.

Interesting book: Oh Boy I Cant Believe Its Soy or The Bountiful Arbor

Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India

Author: Peter Lamarche Manuel

In Cassette Culture, Peter Manuel tells how a new mass medium—the portable cassette player—caused a major upheaval in popular culture in the world's second-largest country. The advent of cassette technology in the 1980s transformed India's popular music industry from the virtual monopoly of a single multinational LP manufacturer to a free-for-all among hundreds of local cassette producers. The result was a revolution in the quantity, quality, and variety of Indian popular music and its patterns of dissemination and consumption.

Manuel shows that the cassette revolution, however, has brought new contradictions and problems to Indian culture. While inexpensive cassettes revitalized local subcultures and community values throughout the subcontinent, they were also a vehicle for regional and political factionalism, new forms of commercial vulgarity, and, disturbingly, the most provocative sorts of hate-mongering and religious chauvinism.

Cassette Culture is the first scholarly account of Indian popular music and the first case study of a technological revolution now occurring throughout the world. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in modern India, communications theory, world popular music, or contemporary global culture.

Preface
Motivations and Predispositions
Scope and Orientation
Methodology
Transliteration
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Theoretical Perspectives
Cassettes and the New Media Technologies
Cassette Technology and the "Democratic-Participant" Media
Theoretical Approaches: Ethnomusicology and Media Theory
Control of the Media
Media Content
Reception Theory: Effects and Audience Interpretations of Media Content
Base and Superstructure in an Integrated Cultural Materialism
Conclusions
2. The Impact of Cassettes on the International Recording Industry
Contrasting Patterns of Development
The International Impact of Cassette Technology
Cassette Piracy
The Emergence of Legitimate Cassette Industries
3. The Music Industry and Film Culture up to 1975
The Growth of the Indian Record Industry
Radio
Film Music and Film Culture
Film Music: Context and Content
The Impact of Film Music on Folk Music
Conclusions
4. The Advent of Cassettes: New Alternatives to His Master's Voice
Cassettes come to India
Cassette Producers
Financial and Technological Aspects of the Cassette Industry
Promotion and Publicity
Music-Industry Organizations
Piracy
Compact Discs
5. Cassettes and the Modern Ghazal
The Traditional Ghazal
The Rise and Fall of the Film Ghazal
The Modern Ghazal
"Pop" Goes the Ghazal
Conclusions
6. Devotional Music
Music and Bhakti in Hindu Culture
Devotional Music and the Mass Media
Ghazal, Cassettes, and the Emergence of the PopBhajan
The Mainstream Pop Bhajan: Aesthetics, Ethos, and Commercialism
"Great" and "Little Traditions" in Commercial Devotional Music
Production and Marketing of Devotional Music
Muslim Devotional Music
Cassettes and Live Performance
Conclusions
7. The Politics of Parody: Tune-Borrowing in Popular and Folk Music
Parody in Hindustani Music
Parody in Folk Music

"Versions": Recycling the Classics
Copyright
Conclusions
8. Regional Musics
Social Identity and Regional Syncretic Musics
Cassettes and Diversification: Region, Language, and Genre
Cassettes and Class Expression
Gender
The Impact of Commodification
Song Texts in Regional Cassette-Based Music
Cassettes and Lewd Regional Songs
Cassettes and Live Performance
Regional Cassette Musics
Conclusions
9. Rasiya: A Case Study in Commercialization
Braj Culture and Rasiya
Song Texts in Secular Folk Rasiya
Gender Representation in Rasiya
Rasiya and Socioeconomic Modernization
Rasiya and Mass Culture
Film Parodies and Hathrasi Rasiya
The Advent of Cassettes
Cassettes and the "Little Tradition" of Rasiya Bhakti
Secular Rasiya Cassettes
Song Texts in Commercial Rasiya
Disparaging Perspectives
M. H. Zaidi, Rasiya Producer
Singer-Poet Sevaram "Tanatan" Sharma
Conclusions
10. Cassettes and Sociopolitical Movements
Jagori: Cassettes and Women's Liberation
Regional Movements in Eastern Bihar
Cassettes and the 1989 Elections
Regional and Sectarian Movements
Cassettes and the Contemporary Hindu-Muslim Conflict
11. Conclusions: A Micro-Medium in Macro-Perspective
Notes
Glossary of Indian-Language Terms
Bibliography
Some Recent Parodies in Film Music
Index

Stress and Job Performance or OLeary Series

2009-01-24T19:56:00.000-08:00

Stress and Job Performance: Theory, Research, and Implications for Managerial Practice

Author: Steve M Jex

What is the relationship between occupational stress and job performance? The amount of money workplace stress is extracting from the economy is estimated to be in the billions of dollars. Such estimates are based on the assumption that workplace stress leads to increased healthcare costs, higher rates of absenteeism and turnover, accidents, and lower levels of performance and organizational productivity. In Stress and Job Performance, author Steve M. Jex provides a comprehensive, research-based examination of the relationship between occupational stress and job performance. He presents a concise overview of the field, a clear explanation of terms and concepts, and a summary of relevant theoretical models of the stress process. He examines the relationship between major job-related stressors (such as workload, interpersonal conflict, and lack of control) and a variety of performance indices. In addition, he explores a number of other factors that may affect the relationship between occupational stress and job performance, including gender differences, age, personality, and job experience. The book concludes with a look at issues that need to be considered in future research investigations. Written in a non-technical, accessible style, Stress and Job Performance is recommended for students, scholars, and readers who do not have an extensive background in the behavioral sciences.

Booknews

A research based assessment of the relationship between stress and performance. After an overview of the field, the author summarizes relevant theoretical models of the stress process and explores the relationship between major job-related stressors and a variety of performance indexes. Other factors that may affect the relationship are discussed, including age, gender, personality, and job experience. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Introduction
	Acknowledgments
1	An Introduction to Occupational Stress	1
2	Stressors in the Workplace	9
3	Job Performance as an Outcome Variable	25
4	The Evidence: Empirical Research on Stressors and Job Performance	43
5	Individual Differences Impacting Stressor-Performance Relationships	69
6	Future Issues in the Study of Occupational Stress and Job Performance	91
	References	107
	Index	121
	About the Author	129

Books about: Net Compact Framework Programming with C or The Functional Approach to Programming

O'Leary Series: MS Office 2000 Enhanced Edition

Author: Timothy J OLeary

The O’Leary Series is the true step-by step way to develop computer application skills.Its design emphasizes the step-by step visual approach with screen captures for every concept.

The Study of Organizations or Terrorism and Business

2009-01-23T18:05:00.000-08:00

The Study of Organizations: Positions, Persons, and Patterns

Author: Larry C Ingram

Readers are introduced to basic terms and principles used in the study of organizations as an invitation to further learning. The approach blends classical writing on organizations with current research and examples illustrating key elements of positions, patterns, and persons. A discussion of role analysis shows how these elements enter into the actual behavior of participants. Discussions of such topics as interaction and bureaucracy and a unique chapter on paperwork and record-keeping are presented.

Booknews

Introduces some basic concepts and principles related to organizations and some typical organizational phenomena. Intended as a course text for undergraduate students who will continue in the field, and as a guide for other students and non-academic readers to understanding and dealing with organizations they encounter in their lives. A lively rather than rigorous treatment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Look this: EEO Law and Personnel Practices or From Union to Commonwealth

Terrorism and Business: The Impact of September 11, 2001

Author: Yonah Alexander

About the Authors

Dean C. Alexander is a lawyer and writer based in the Washington, D.C., area. He served in executive, legal, and business development roles with companies in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Mexico, and Chile. He taught international business law at several universities. He has published 6 books and numerous articles on international business, investment, law, and terrorism.

Professor Yonah Alexander is founder and Co-Director of the Inter-University Center for Legal Studies at the International Law Institute (Washington, D.C.). He has advised U.S. and international companies on corporate security, terrorism, and political risk issues. Dr. Alexander founded and edited Terrorism: An International Journal and Political Communication and Persuasion: An International Journal. He has published over 80 books on the subjects of terrorism, international affairs, and business. Dr. Alexander has appeared on television and radio programs in over 40 countries.

Booknews

Yonah Alexander (International Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies) and Dean Alexander (a lawyer) assess the human and financial costs of terrorism, and place recent attacks in their historical context. Emphasizing business concerns, they examine the targeting of American financial interests by terrorists at home and abroad. They also consider the responses of the business community, workers, and the federal government. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

If It Bleeds It Leads or Fundamentals of Marketing Research

2009-01-22T16:14:00.000-08:00

If It Bleeds It Leads

Author: Matthew R Kerbel

You’ve been watching television news forever. You’re intimately familiar with the friendly faces and soothing voices that nightly tell you what’s wrong with the world. You think you know everything there is to know about them. You’re wrong.If It Bleeds, It Leads takes us minute-by-minute through two-and-one-half real hours of syndicated, local, and network information programming to uncover the truth behind what passes as news. Why is the only real difference between Jerry Springer and Dan Rather that Dan’s guests usually don’t need medical attention? How did a load of baking powder spark two minutes of high-strung local news coverage? It’s all here: the personal revelations of talk show guests; the dangers lurking in your neighborhood; sports; sex; celebrity; power; and weather updates every ten minutes--all real material taken from real broadcasts designed to keep viewers glued to the screen.

Publishers Weekly

In a scathing critique of local and national television news, Kerbel slyly argues that talk show hosts like Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones and Montel Williams have much more in common with "hard" news anchors like Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings than the anchors would like to admit. Oozing compassion, facilitating the instant resolution of disputes and quickly moving on to new faces and problems, the "talkers" are, in Kerbel's formulation, the close counterparts of prime-time news anchors, who manipulate audiences by emphasizing sound bites and visuals over substance, decontextualizing events, kowtowing to the powerful, famous and wealthy and playing upon viewers' fears or outrage. Drawing on his experience as a former radio news reporter and PBS newswriter and as a political science professor at Villanova University, he alternates italicized excerpts from actual broadcasts with his own fast-paced, acerbic commentary, which is structured like an amorphous chunk of TV talk and news programming, complete with teasers, weather reports and ad breaks. Although Kerbel's critique would have a lot more bite if he had delved into corporate ownership and control of the news media, he uncannily re-creates and simultaneously exposes superficial reporting, titillation and trivial distraction in television news. (Feb.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

School Library Journal

Adult/High School-From his first words, "WARNING: Everything you are about to read is true," readers know that they are in for a scathing look at television news. Kerbel deconstructs two-and-one-half hours of syndicated, local, and network information programming by analyzing an amalgam of news scripts from four of the largest U.S. media markets on a minute-by-minute basis. His tone is made clear in his Fundamental Rule of televison: "It is a pretend medium." Headlines for each news segment grab readers' attention. Kerbel gives readers a chance to put what they have read into practice by playing a game to create their own lead local story from a list of standard phrases. The author loves stock phrases, often referring to the "newswriter's bible, The Thesaurus of Clich s and Aphorisms." One of his favorites, "Please, use good judgment," allows weathercasters to make only slightly annoying weather conditions look dangerous, if not life threatening, to please their news directors and build their ratings. Kerbel drives home his points with a biting sense of humor. Students will look at the news with a new sophistication after reading this book.-Jane S. Drabkin, Chinn Park Regional Library, Prince William, VA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

In a real-time look at television news, this book takes readers minute-by-minute through three-hours of syndicated, local, and network information programming to debunk what passes for news. The format is that of a "composite" of various broadcasts, followed by a brief concluding essay. Kerbel (political science, Villanova University) uses a breezy, ironic voice to play up the silliness and predictability of the television news media. Comparisons are drawn between "tabloid" and respected news shows. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

Susan Tolchin
A tour de force…lively, lucid.

	Disclaimer: Everything you are about to read is true	xi
Hour 1	Syndicated Talk (The Actual Program You See Will Vary Depending on Where You Live)	1
	Station Identification
	Opening Montage (Roll Tape)
	Meet the Hosts
	Meet the Guests
	Supply Medical Treatment for the Guests
	Begin First Protracted Shoving, Punching, and Deleted Dialogue Segment Between Best Friends Who Care About Each Other a Lot
	Add Fuel to Fire; Cue Second Bouncer
	Begin 2-Minute 45-Second Sibling Shoving, Punching, and Deleted Dialogue Segment
	Add More Fuel to Fire; Alert Hospital to Prepare for Injuries
	Everyone Realizes This Is the Show
	Prepare to Pay Bouncers Overtime
Hour 2	Live at Five (Dead by Six)	12
	Tease
	Inventing a Riot
	A Reassuring Segue
	Only Popular Restaurants Are Dangerous
	Tease
	Ad Time-Out: You Will Be on Television
	Feeling the Barometric Pressure
	What Ever Happened to the Story About the Breast Implants?
	Movie--or Reality?
	The Great Baking Powder Incident
	Tease
	Promo
	Ad Time-Out: You Can Be a Newswriter
	First Feature: It Could Happen Any Time Without Warning
	Segue into Terrifying Weather
	Air Quality
	Weather Time-Out: You Can Be a Weathercaster
	Dessert
	How Many Times Can One Car Smash into a House?
	Minor Injuries, Major Pictures
	Wicked Winds
	Tease
	Ad Time-Out: May Is the Cruelest Month. February's Not So Great, Either
	Second Feature: Extreme Sex
	What's Really Important in Philadelphia
	Exactly Why Do They Need Weather Reports in San Diego?
	Ad Time-Out: You Can Be a News Director
	Score!
	Now, an Ad for an Ad
	Third Feature: Implants
	After the Surgery
	Ad Time-Out: You Can Be a Star
	More Sex, Please
	Dave Loves Cheesesteaks
	Lock Those Doors--and Come Back at Eleven
Hour 3	Network	77
	Tease
	War Stories
	Excuse Me?
	But Enough About You
	Up Next
	Promo
	Ad Time-Out: Let's Have an Impeachment!
	Al Gore Gets a Surprise Makeover
	Down to Size
	Tease
	Promo
	Ad Time-Out: Fear at 6:16, Outrage at 6:20
	Scary Cars
	Scary Phones
	Feeling Fleeced
	Tease
	Promo
	Ad Time-Out: Take the Fear and Outrage Challenge!
	Freaky, Roof-Busting Great Balls of Hail
	Promo
	Promo
	Promo
	Promo
	Promo
	Promo
	Promo
	Promo
	Promo
	Fade Out
	Postscript: The Sky Keeps Falling	127
	News
	TV Show
	Mini-Series
	News
	News
	News
	Mini-Series
	News
	Closing Comments	130
	About the Author	135
	Notes	137
	Index	145

New interesting book: 222 Geheimnisse der Einstellung, des Handhabens, und des Behaltens Großer Angestellter in Gesundheitsfürsorge-Praxen

Fundamentals of Marketing Research

Author: Scott M Smith

Fundamentals of Marketing Research covers all facets of marketing research including method, technique, and analysis at all levels. The methodological scope regarding research design, data collection techniques, and measurement is broad with three chapters devoted to the critical area of measurement and scaling. The presentation is from primarily a pragmatic and user-oriented perspective which aides the student to evaluate the research presented to them. This text explores cutting-edge technologies and new horizons while ensuring students have a thorough grasp of research fundamentals.

Key Features

• Contains a wealth of modern methods and techniques not found in competing texts
• Provides numerous illustrative cases at the end of each section
• Integrates international marketing research throughout instead of placing it in a separate chapter
• Has a full chapter devoted to the essential topic of online research
• An Instructor's Manual on CD-ROM provides instructors with examination questions, additional background material on discussion questions in the text, and other helpful aids

Fundamentals of Marketing Research has been bundled at no additional cost to the students, with a license to use SurveyZ.com to prepare and distribute an online survey.

Commodities and Globalization or Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

2009-01-21T14:23:00.000-08:00

Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives

Author: Angelique Haugerud

Today's growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are of particular interest to economic anthropology. This collection considers how conceptions and roles of commodities may change in response to widening spheres of economic interaction and exchange. The essays in this volume are ordered under two themes. Those included in the first section, "Commodities in a Globalizing Marketplace," address historically and culturally defined variations in meanings and practices associated with commodities in globalizing markets. In Part Two, "The Circulation and Revaluation of Commodities", contributors analyze how commodity producers' experiences are informed by colonial and post-colonial history, state directives in the marketplace, and locations in dependent or marginalized regions. The chapters all focus on the production process as it responds to, is distorted by and increasingly is controlled by the determination of the value of those commodities outside a "locality".

Author Biography: Angelique Haugerud is an associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in New Bruswick, New Jersey. M. Priscilla Stone is Director of International Studies, Cooridinator of African Studies, and an adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Peter D. Little lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where he is a professor ofanthropology at the University of Kentucky.

Book about: Absolute Gerechtigkeit: Das Bauen einer Korporativen Kultur, Die Gerades Gespräch Schätzt und Integrität Belohnt

Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Why Giants Fall

Author: Ronald R Sims

Ethical failures are rooted in leadership failure, the lack of a corporate culture in which ethical concerns have been integrated, and unresponsiveness to key organizational stakeholders. This book seeks to enhance our understanding of the causes of ethical debacles in an era when ethical missteps can often lead to corporate bankruptcies or worse.

The Future of Business or Competing Devotions

2009-01-20T12:33:00.000-08:00

The Future of Business: The Essentials

Author: Lawrence J Gitman

THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS: THE ESSENTIALS, 3e prepares students for a successful career in business by equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to prepare for tomorrow's competitive workplace. Each chapter offers a thorough presentation of business principles and also highlights emerging business trends in fields such as management, leadership, production, marketing and finance. Trends include shifts in economic policies in Europe, the global marketplace, the boom in the service sector, managing workforce diversity, new technology, and more. The text also helps students envision themselves in a business career, revealing possibilities that exist when they select business as a major through new "Exploring Business Careers" opening vignettes and videos. Advanced learning tools such as online learning resources (ThomsonNOW) and the Integrated Learning System help build business competencies. To help students develop high-performance workplace skills, the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) recommends students develop five workplace competencies: using and allocating resources, working with others, acquiring and using information, understanding systems, and working with technology. The "Preparing for Tomorrow's Workplace" activities are designed to develop these workplace skills in students. SCANS competencies and workplace skill-building are key features included in the homework section of each chapter.

PART One: THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT. 1. Understanding Economic Systems and Business. 2. Making Ethical Decisions and Managing a Socially Responsible Business. Appendix: Understanding the Legal and Tax Environment. 3. Competing in the Global Marketplace. PART Two: BUSINESS OWNERSHIP. 4. Forms of Business Ownership. 5. Entrepreneurship: Starting and Managing Your Own Business. PART Three: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. 6. Management and Leadership in Today's Organizations. 7. Designing Organizational Structures. 8. Managing Human Resources and Labor-Management Issues. 9. Motivating Employees and Creating Self-Managed Teams. 10. Achieving World-class Operations Management. PART Four: MARKETING MANAGEMENT. 11. Creating Products and Developing Pricing Strategies. 12. Distributing and Promoting New Products and Services. PART Five: TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION. 13. Using Technology to Manage Information. 14. Using Financial Information and Accounting. PART Six: FINANCE. 15. Understanding Money and Financial Institutions. 16. Financial Management and Securities Markets. Appendix: Managing Risk and Insurance. Enrichment Chapter: Managing Your Personal Finances. Enrichment Chapter: Using the Internet for Business Success.

Interesting book: The Prince or Hackers

Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives

Author: Mary Blair Loy

The wrenching decision facing successful women choosing between demanding careers and intensive family lives has been the subject of many articles and books, most of which propose strategies for resolving the dilemma. Competing Devotions focuses on broader social and cultural forces that create women's identities and shape their understanding of what makes life worth living.

Mary Blair-Loy examines the career paths of women financial executives who have tried various approaches to balancing career and family. The professional level these women have attained requires a huge commitment of time, energy, and emotion that seems natural to employers and clients, who assume that a career deserves single-minded allegiance. Meanwhile, these women must confront the cultural model of family that defines marriage and motherhood as a woman's primary vocation. This ideal promises women creativity, intimacy, and financial stability in caring for a family. It defines children as fragile and assumes that men lack the selflessness and patience that children's primary caregivers need. This ideal is taken for granted in much of contemporary society.

The power of these assumptions is enormous but not absolute. Competing Devotions identifies women executives who try to reshape these ideas. These mavericks, who face great resistance but are aided by new ideological and material resources that come with historical change, may eventually redefine both the nuclear family and the capitalist firm in ways that reduce work-family conflict.

The Employment Interview Handbook or Materials and Process Selection for Engineering Design Second Edition

2009-01-15T15:53:00.000-08:00

The Employment Interview Handbook

Author: Robert W Eder

Research from 26 new authors has been integrated into the revision of The Employment Interview Handbook, a successful volume previously published in 1989 by SAGE Publications.

This new Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of the research in the area of the employment interview. The editors provide an integrated examination of various streams of research. Leading scholars author the individual chapters and discuss the future of their particular line of research, raising issues in need of further investigation. The book concludes with a summary of the volume implications for theory building, research methods, and effective practice.

This Handbook is particularly appropriate for faculty and students in Industrial/Organization Psychology and Human Resource Management as well as researchers and practitioners in employee selection and employment interview procedures and policies.

Employment Interview Research - Robert W Eder and Michael M Harris
Historical Update and Introduction PART ONE: INTERVIEW OUTCOMES: VALIDITY, FAIRNESS AND APPLICANT REACTIONS AND ATTRACTION Validity Evidence - M Ronald Buckley and Craig J Russell Unfair Discrimination Issues - Mark V Roehling, James E Campion and Richard D Arvey Applicant Reactions - Stephen W Gilliland and Dirk D Steiner Enhancing Organizational Reputation to Attract Applicants - Howard M Berkson, Michael M Harris and Gerald R Ferris PART TWO: CONSTRUCTS ASSESSED Expanded Notions of 'Fit'
Assessing Personality - John F Binning, James M LeBreton and Anthony J Adorno Establishing Person-Organization Fit - Charles K Parsons, Daniel M Cable and Robert C Liden Toward More Structured Interviews What Is Being Measured? - Michael M Harris The Situational Interview - Steven D Maurer, Christina Sue-Chan and Gary P Latham Asking About Past Behavior Versus Hypothetical Behavior - Stephan J Motowidlo PART THREE: THE INTERVIEWER'S DECISION MAKING PROCESS Contextual Effects - Robert W Eder Behavioral Confirmation of Interviewer Expectations - Thomas W Dougherty and Daniel B Turban How Indirect Unfavorable Information is Evaluated - K Michele Kacmar and Angela M Young Are Some Interviewers Better Than Others? - Laura M Graves and Ronald J Karren Interviewer Experience and Expertise Effects - Robert L Dipboye and Stacy L Jackson Using Technology - William L Tullar and Paula R Kaiser
The Group Support System PART FOUR: INTERVIEWER - APPLICANT DYNAMICS Communication and Interaction Processes - Fredric M Jablin, Vernon D Miller and Patricia M Sias Impression Management Tactics - David C Gilmore et alInterviewing Training for Both Applicant and Interviewer - David K Palmer, Michael A Campion and Paul C Green PART FIVE: COMMENTARY ON THEORY, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE The Current and Future Status of Research on the Employment Interview - Neal Schmitt The State of Employment Interview Practice - Michael M Harris and Robert W Eder
Commentary and Extension

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Materials and Process Selection for Engineering Design, Second Edition

Author: Mahmoud M Farag

This student-friendly text illustrates how to balance design, materials, process selection, and economic and environmental analysis to optimize manufacturing processes for a given component. Following an overview of product design and development, the three-part book first discusses types of failure and ways to minimize it. Then it examines how material selection and manufacturing processes influence engineering design. The third part integrates technical and economic aspects of material selection. New and revised topics in this edition include new design considerations, environmental impact assessments, life cycle and recycling economics, and materials substitution.

Developing the Public Relations Campaign or The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in East Asian Economic Development

2009-01-15T07:02:00.000-08:00

Developing the Public Relations Campaign: A Team-Based Approach

Author: Randy Bobbitt

Developing the Public Relations Campaign takes a simple, easy-to-follow approach that helps students develop a public relations campaign in a service-learning environment.

This text is designed for courses that use a team project approach rather than a traditional lecture/note-taking model. It introduces a three-step process—the PIE chart—that more accurately describes the campaign development process used in the real world than the traditional RACE formula. Its practical approach, with exercises and case studies in every chapter, will guide students through the development of their own public relations campaigns.

Features

Uses a service-learning approach that exposes students to worthy community causes and fits into most schools' existing service-learning programs.

Emphasizes the team project approach (compatible with the competitive agency model as well as other forms of team projects) helping students learn how to work in teams in class as well as in the real-world.

Offers one or more case studies per chapter, helping students learn from real-world examples.

About the Authors

Randy Bobbitt is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, where he directs the public relations program within the Department of Communication Studies. Prior to going to UNCW, he taught at Marshall University and the University of South Florida. He holds a PhD from Bowling Green State University.

Ruth Sullivan is an assistant professor at the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Marshall University, where she teaches courses in printjournalism and public relations. Professor Sullivan has received several awards for her work, including two First Place National Federation of Press Women National Awards and a Public Relations Society of America Crystal Award for internal communications in 2000.

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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in East Asian Economic Development

Author: Takatoshi Ito

The international flow of long-term private capital has increased dramatically in the 1990s. In fact, many policymakers now consider private foreign capital to be an essential resource for the acceleration of economic growth. This volume focuses attention on the microeconomic determinants and effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the East Asian region, allowing researchers to explore the overall structure of FDI, to offer case studies of individual countries, and to consider their insights, both general and particular, within the context of current economic theory.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Local Content of Japanese Electronics Manufacturing Operations in Asia	9
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2	Intrafirm Technology Transfer by Japanese Manufacturing Firms in Asia	49
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3	Location and Internalization Decisions: Sector Switching in Japanese Outward Foreign Direct Investment	79
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4	Foreign Direct Investment and R&D Spillovers: Is There a Connection?	113
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5	Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade	147
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6	International Joint Ventures, Economic Integration, and Government Policy	191
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7	The Location of Foreign Direct Investment in Chinese Regions: Further Analysis of Labor Quality	213
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8	Why Does China Attract So Little Foreign Direct Investment?	239
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9	The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Korea's Economic Development: Productivity Effects and Implications for the Currency Crisis	267
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10	Effects of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Home Country Performance: Evidence from Korea	295
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11	Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Restructuring: The Case of Taiwan's Textile Industry	319
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12	Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Taiwan's Manufacturing Industries	349
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	Contributors	367
	Author Index	371
	Subject Index	375

The Delmars Medical Office Reference Manual or Central Eurasia in Global Politics

2009-01-14T20:11:00.000-08:00

The Delmar's Medical Office Reference Manual

Author: Doris Humphrey

This revised reference manual provides students with up-to-date procedures and methods for organizing and managing the administrative responsibilities of today's computerized medical office. It can serve as a supplement for any medical office procedures course as well as a handy reference for those already employed in a medical office. Chapters are broken down into primary office tasks performed by a medical assistant, including coverage of communications, managing information, scheduling, third party billing, grammar, style, and terminology. Within each chapter, topics are numbered and divided into easy-to-follow subtopics. This manual includes coverage of medical ethics and law, the changing health care environment, and finding medical employment. (medical assisting, reference, administration) ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Guide
ISBN: 0-8273-8171-9 Workbook:
ISBN: 0-8273-8170-0

1	The Medical Office	1
2	Finding Medical Employment	7
3	Medical Ethics and Medical law	21
4	Patient Relations	41
5	Telephone Skills	59
6	Working in a Team	79
7	Scheduling Appointments	87
8	Travel Arrangements	105
9	Medical Forms and Medical Reports	119
10	Medical Correspondence	139
11	Word Processing in the Medical Office	175
12	Medical Office Files	195
13	Accessing On-line Medical Information	219
14	Health Insurance Claims	227
15	Pegboard and Computerized Accounting Procedures	255
16	Medical Billing and Collections	277
17	Parts of Speech	293
18	Punctuation	315
19	Capitalization	337
20	Spelling and Word Division	349
App. A	Medical Terminology and Abbreviations	357
App. B	Medical References	367
App. C	Chapter Review Exercises	371
	Index	393

Interesting book: Migraines or Sound Medicine

Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security, and Development, Second Edition

Author: Mehdi Parvizi Amineh

This anthology brings together studies of post-colonial, post-Cold War, Central Eurasia. This part of the world is in transition to independent statehood, nation building and the release of market forces. The objective of the work is to better comprehend the process of state-nation building

Farmers of the Golden Bean or Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting

2009-01-14T10:20:00.000-08:00

Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households and the Global Coffee Economy

Author: Deborah Sick

Many of us depend on a morning cup of coffee, but we don't often think about where that coffee comes from and about the people who produced it. Farmers of the Golden Bean explores the network of local economies that connects coffee farmers with distant consumers in industrialized societies.

In Costa Rica coffee is grown primarily by small household producers who form the country's large, middle-class peasantry. In Farmers of the Golden Bean, Sick examines how these coffee-producing households in Costa Rica cope with the complexities of a globalizing world economy. The analysis of individual and collective responses to the challenges of coffee production addresses issues of gender, family cycles, formal and informal economic activities, and the world coffee market.

Sick has created a multilayered ethnography, linking relatively isolated, distant, and exotic places with major markets and metropolitan centers. Her unique, integrated analysis of household, regional, and global processes challenges previous assumptions about the nature of economic change and the sustainability of household producers in the global economy.

Illustrating her anthropological research with poignant narratives, she invites the reader into the lives of Costa Rican farmers and their families. Viewing coffee as part of people's larger efforts to build better lives, she reveals how farming families, acting together and alone, cope with their realities and their dreams in a rapidly changing, unpredictable, and often hostile world. Her ethnographic portrait of Costa Rican coffee farmers will appeal to anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and those interested in Latin American development.

New interesting book: Mercenaries 2 or Applying Domain Driven Design and Patterns

Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting

Author: Sarah E Bonner

This unique first edition is the only book on the market that delivers a contemporary synthesis of both psychology and accounting literature related to judgment and decision making.

Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting is structured around an innovative framework that provides a unique way of thinking about JDM projects and organizing JDM research. Developed based on many years of teaching and research on accounting JDM, this unique framework succinctly describes the key issues in accounting JDM research, enabling readers to more quickly assimilate the vast material related to those issues. The framework also provides a basis to help readers evaluate their own current JDM research ideas, as well as generate further research questions.

CHAPTER 1   Introduction to Judgment and Decision-Making Research

CHAPTER 2   JDM “Quality”

CHAPTER 3   Knowledge and Personal Involvement

CHAPTER 4   Abilities, Intrinsic Motivation, and Other Person Variables

CHAPTER 5   Cognitive Processes

CHAPTER 6   Task Variables

CHAPTER 7   Environmental Variables

CHAPTER 8   Understanding the Factors that Affect JDM Quality

CHAPTER 9   Methods for Improving JDM

CHAPTER 10   Conclusion

Index

Regions and the World Economy or Accounting Principles

2009-01-14T03:30:00.000-08:00

Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order

Author: Allen J Scott

The steady globalization of economic activity over the last few decades has intensified the assertion of the region as a critical locus of economic order and as a potent foundation of competitive advantage. This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the economic logic and political meaning of such developments. It presents the economic geography of the modern world as an emerging global mosaic of regional systems of production and exchange.

1. Regions and the World Economy

2. The National Economy and the Sovereign State

3. The Coming Break-Up of National Economies?

4. The Global Mosaic of Regional Economies

5. The Regional Foundations of Economic Performance

6. Collective Order and Regional Development: Social and Cultural Regulation of Local Economic Systems

7. Prospects for Poor Regions

8. A World of Regions

9. The Changing Geopolitics of Production, Competition, and Regional Interdependence

New interesting book: James Madison or Selected Political Writings

Accounting Principles: Problem-Solving Survival Guide, Vol. 2

Author: Jerry J Weygandt

Accounting Principles, Seventh Edition addresses the issues that our customers-- instructors and students-- have said are important. These include student success, student motivation, student problem-solving skills, student decision-making skills, and technology to assist learning and technology to assist teaching. Click on wiley.com/college/wkk for details on how we address each of these issues.

Chemical Management or May the Best Team Win

2009-01-13T18:38:00.000-08:00

Chemical Management: Reducing Waste and Cost Through Innovative Supply Strategies

Author: Thomas J Bierma

The only step-by-step guide to an exciting new chemical management and waste minimization methodology

Over the past decade, a revolutionary new approach to chemical supply has emerged that dramatically reduces chemical waste and chemical costs while improving company performance. Known as Shared Savings Chemical Management, it has already yielded astonishing results for several major North American manufacturing firms and numerous other companies. The first complete guide to this innovative chemical management methodology, Chemical Management acquaints you with Shared Savings principles and shows you how to put them to work in your company.

Thomas Bierma and Francis Waterstraat Jr. explore the environmental, health and safety, purchasing, inventory, tracking, waste disposal, and other major problems inherent to traditional chemical supply programs, and clearly explain how and why a Shared Savings Chemical Management program helps minimize or completely eliminate those problems. With the help of fascinating case studies, they demonstrate how Shared Savings techniques are currently being applied in five extremely successful plants belonging to GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Navistar International. What's more, they provide you with a complete, step-by-step blueprint for designing and implementing a Shared Savings program tailored to your company.

Chemical Management is an indispensable resource for manufacturing managers, purchasing managers, environmental managers, health and safety managers, and others charged with developing more effective chemical waste minimization strategies for their companies.

Chemistry and Industry

This is a genuinely exciting book.

It's Time to Change Your Chemical Management Strategy.
THE CHEMICAL BEAST.
The Chemical Beast: The Hidden Cost of Chemicals.
Causes of the Chemical Beast.
Inherently Wasteful Relationships.
Total Cost of Chemical Ownership.
Chemicals Affect Product Costs.
Chemicals and Business Value.
SHARED SAVINGS CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT.
Alternative Chemical Supply Strategies.
Elements of Shared Savings Chemical Management.
Why Shared Savings Works.
Purchasing and Chemical Management.
EHS and Chemical Management.
Concerns and Misconceptions about Shared Savings.
SHARED SAVINGS IN ACTION.
Chemical Management Case Histories.
Navistar Engine Plant.
General Motors Truck and Bus Plant.
Ford Chicago Assembly Plant.
Chrysler Belvidere Assembly Plant.
General Motors Electro-Motive Division.
PUTTING SHARED SAVINGS TO WORK.
Benefits for the Chemical User.
Benefits for the Chemical Supplier.
Implementing Shared Savings.
Shared Savings Contracts.
Pricing.
The Future of Shared Savings.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.

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May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy

Author: Andrew S Zimbalist

"Since 1922 MLB has benefited from a presumed exemption from the nation's antitrust laws. It is the only top-level professional baseball league in the country, and each of its teams is assigned an exclusive territory. Monopolies have market power, which they use to derive higher returns, misallocate resources, and take advantage of consumers. Major league baseball is no exception." "In May the Best Team Win, Andrew Zimbalist provides a critical analysis of the baseball industry, focusing on the abuses and inefficiencies that have plagued the game since the 1990s, when franchise owners appointed their colleague Bud Selig as MLB's "independent" commissioner." Run by a shrinking and self-selecting group of owners subject to no oversight, MLB suffers from a lack of competitive pressure. Several large franchises are owned by media companies that have shackled their teams to lucrative broadcast and cable contracts - often making it impossible for fans to see games on television. Others own entities that do business with the teams, charging inflated prices for facility management, concessions, and catering. Complex intracompany transactions can reduce franchise revenues substantially, causing operating losses for teams while the owners still make millions.

The New York Times

Zimbalist offers a medley of free-market remedies designed to enhance competitive equity. — Lawrence S. Ritter

The Washington Post

In his dense but readable book May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy, economics professor Andrew Zimbalist concerns himself with fixing a different problem in baseball: the competitive advantages of wealthier, big-market teams. He argues that eliminating Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption would eradicate many of the game's problems. If MLB were modeled after European soccer leagues, which often have several teams in a city, the financial advantages held by big-market teams such as the Yankees could be blunted. — Sean Callahan

Publishers Weekly

Zimbalist, professor of economics at Smith College, is arguably the leading authority on sports economics in the country. His Baseball and Billions (1992) was one of the first books to take an educated look at the business of baseball, and since the release of that book, Zimbalist has spent thousands of hours researching and writing about the industry. His conclusion in his latest work, that baseball is in trouble, is not a new idea, but the reasons behind baseball's problems and Zimbalist's solutions combine to create an absorbing, provocative discussion. Zimbalist is no friend of baseball owners or baseball commissioner Bud Selig, and he devotes much space to tearing down arguments about the poor financial health of most teams and the need for cities to subsidize teams by paying for new stadiums. Expansion, not contraction, for example, would help spread out talent. The root cause of baseball's problems, Zimbalist argues, is its monopoly, and his most radical idea is for Congress to lift baseball's antitrust exemption and to force divestiture into two competitive leagues. But failing that, Zimbalist has a number of suggestions to improve the status of the game, including attracting younger fans by starting some World Series games at an earlier time; lowering ticket prices; and creating an owner/player partnership to study baseball's problems. At the very least, this volume provides baseball fans with enough material to allow them to engage in one of their favorite pursuits-arguing over what should be done to save the national pastime. (Apr.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Fans who take the health of their game very seriously will profit from reading this original if somewhat wonkish study of major league baseball and its structural economic ills. Zimbalist (economics, Smith Coll.; Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime) argues that baseball is not always the boon to local economies that it is advertised to be. Major league baseball has put a stranglehold on real competitive balance, and Zimbalist claims that the near-monopoly status is a detriment to any impulse for improvement. His prescriptions offer harsh but needed medicine.

Germany since Unification or Organizational Behavior

2009-01-13T10:47:00.000-08:00

Germany since Unification: The Development of the Berlin Republic

Author: Klaus Larres

A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the GDR, and the end of the Cold War, Germany has begun to cope with the political, economic, social, and nationalistic challenges unification has posed to its institutions and way of life in both the western and eastern part of the once divided nation. The books' 11 authors, all experts in their field, analyze the way united Germany has tackled the many unforeseen problems and highlighted the gradually emerging short and long-term patterns in Germany's slow adjustment to the new realities.

Booknews

German unification has lasted long enough for a second edition about it to appear. The 1998 edition is here updated and expanded to account for the government's change of party<-->to Gerhard Schr<:o>der's Red-Green coalition<-->and location<-->to Berlin. Historians and political scientists cover the German question and the revolution of 1989-90, and the domestic and external consequences of Germany unification. Among specific topics are the German party system since unification, racial exclusionism in the new Germany, and Germany's security policy dilemmas. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Organizational Behavior

Author: John A Wagner

Organizational Behavior, 4th edition is a comprehensive and research based examination of modern organizational behavior. The authors present organizational behavior as a way to develop and extend a competitive advantage over the competition. The text has been fully updated and revised to include the latest thinking in organizational behavior research, include interesting and engaging cases and exercises, and a wide range of topics that are important to organizations today.

PART I. INTRODUCTION. 1. Organizational Behavior. 2. Management and Managers.
PART II. MICRO ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR. 3. Diversity and Individual Differences. 4. Perception, Decision Making, and Creativity. 5. Motivation and High Performance Work Systems. 6. Satisfaction and Stress in the Workplace.
PART III. MESO ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR. 7. Efficiency, Motivation, and Quality in Work Design. 8. Roles, Socialization, and Communication. 9. Group Dynamics and Team Effectiveness. 10. Leadership in Groups and Organizations.
PART IV. MACRO ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR. 11. Power, Politics, and Conflict. 12. Structuring the Organization. 13. Technology, Environment, and Organization Design. 14. Culture, Change, and Organization Development.
PART V. CONCLUSION. 15. The International Context. 16. Critical Thinking and Research Methods.

Exploring Microsoft Office 2003 or International Media Studies

2009-01-13T03:56:00.000-08:00

Exploring Microsoft Office 2003, Vol. 2

Author: Robert T Grauer

For Introductory Computer courses in Microsoft Office 2003 or courses in Computer Concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2003 applications.

Master the How and Why of Office 2003! Students master the "How and Why" of performing tasks in Office and gain a greater understanding of how to use the individual applications together to solve business problems.

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International Media Studies

Author: Divya McMillin

International Media Studies is a bold introduction to the field that focuses on a de-centering of media epistemology to represent a more thorough world-view.

• A comprehensive textbook exploring the current state of media studies as it is being practised across the world

• Takes discussions about media studies beyond other textbooks, by situating the subject firmly in an international context appropriate to the globalized, 21st century

• Surveys our reception of a wide variety of media content and formats including television, magazines, fiction, newspapers, and popular music

• Considers both theoretical and much-needed ethnographic perspectives on media studies

• Showcases global and local media patterns in a variety of countries around the world, including examples from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xii
Introduction     1
From International Communication to Media Globalization     8
Mapping the Book     14
The Fixity of Nation in International Media Studies     18
The Modern Nation in All its Glory     19
The Legacy of the Modern Nation     26
Early Research in International Communication     28
The Critical Turn     34
Connecting Structure and Culture in International Media Studies     47
The Culturalist and Structuralist Paradigms of Cultural Studies     49
Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies     51
The Postcolonial Approach to International Media Studies     54
Reviving the Pure Nation: Media as Postcolonial Savior     66
Defining the Third World     69
Mass Media as Extensions of Colonial Administrative Power     71
Mass Media as Nation Builders and Postcolonial Saviors     77
The Telenovela for National Development     89
Restoring the Female Nation     91
Rescuing the Brown Woman     93
Disciplining the Peasant and the Prostitute     95
Competing Networks, Hybrid Identities     101
Star TV and TransnationalMedia Networks     104
Policing the Skies     108
Hybridity and the Globalization of Television Formats     111
Grounding Theory: Audiences and Subjective Agency     134
International Audience Studies     135
Contributions of Anthropology to International Media Studies     143
Postcolonial Interventions in Audience Research     147
Differences between Western and Non-Western Viewing Experiences     150
Agency, Subjectivity, and Subjective Agency     157
Audience Agency and Resistance     158
Limited Agency and Subjectivity     169
Theorizing Audience Agency and Limited Subjectivity     176
Reconfiguring the Global in International Media Studies     179
Expanding International Media Studies to Non-"Hot Spots"     185
Interrogating Notions of Fluidity of Audiences and Media     186
Moving Away from the Nation as a Unit of Analysis     190
Moving Away from the Centrality of Media within Society     191
Extending Analyses beyond a Critique of Cultural Imperialism     193
Historicizing International Media Studies     194
Engaging in Comparative Research     195
Relating Research to Activism     195
The Politics of International Media Research     202
Negotiating the Complexities of Fieldwork within Academia     204
Negotiating Power in the Field     207
The Politics of Representing Ethnographic Research     209
Challenges to Activist Research     210
Criticisms of Critical Research     212
International Media and the Viability of the Nation-State     215
Notes     222
References     231
Index     262

Psychology in Organizations or Cities Change and Conflict

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

Psychology in Organizations: The Social-Identity Approach

Author: S Alexander Haslam

"Every so often, a book comes along that pulls together the knowledge in an area into a coherent perspective that is rich with either new research ideas or practical implications. Haslam's analysis of organizations through the lens of social identity theory has both and it is well written. He has reanalyzed the big issues from management and organizational psychology, including their historical roots. His critical analyses of leadership, motivation, groups, negotiations, power and conflict are full of insights and implications that researchers and practitioners alike will enjoy."

--Robert Wood, The Australian Graduate School of Management

"This is a truly outstanding book that will undoubtedly revolutionize the way organizational behavior is thought about. It provides a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the central issues in the field, clearly explains how social identity processes affect organizational behaviour, and points to the critical research issues that need to be addressed in the future."

--Nyla Branscombe, The University of Kansas

"Alex Haslam has done a marvellous job of integrating social identity principles into a thoroughly scholarly and complete review of the whole field of organizational psychology. He has written not only a textbook but also a critical and constructive examination of the contemporary field and at the same time a superb summary of and introduction to social identity ideas. A 'must read' for any organizational or social psychologist who wants to know what the social identity approach has to offer."

John C. Turner, Australian National University

"With this volume, Alex Haslam shows off his extraordinary skills as both an educator and a researcher. He illuminates how scientific thinking about organizational psychology has developed over time, and provides a state-of-the art overview of research highlighting the social identity perspective (including an appendix comparing different measures that have been developed to examine organizational identification). As a result, I think this makes an excellent course text for beginning as well as advanced students of organizational psychology, but at the same time, this book is a 'must read' for researchers interested in the social identity approach to organizational psychology."

--Naomi Ellemers, Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University

The study and practice of organizational psychology is having a growing impact on all our lives and it raises a multitude of fascinating and substantial questions. How does human psychology make organizational behavior possible? How does belonging to organizations affect the way we think, feel and behave? And how is an organization's purpose, performance and culture affected by the individuals and groups within it? Psychology in Organizations addresses these questions by presenting an approach to organizational psychology that draws upon the large body of research that has been informed by social identity and self-categorization theories. In contrast to the individualism that has come to dominate the study of organizations, this approach identifies and explains the distinctive forms of organizational behavior associated with people's membership in-groups and teams. The importance and practical implications of the social identity approach are underlined in a text which provides a review and integrated theoretical treatment of core organization topics - including leadership, motivation, communication, decision-making, negotiation, power, productivity, and industrial protest.

Organizations and Their Psychology The Social Identity Approach Leadership Motivation and Commitment Communication and Information Management Group Decision-Making Intergroup Negotiation and Conflict Management Power Group Productivity and Performance Collective Action and Industrial Protest The Theory, Practice and Politics of Organizational Psychology
A Case for Organic Pluralism

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Cities, Change and Conflict: A Political Economy of Urban Life

Author: Nancy Kleniewski

Kleniewski s text discusses the importance of cities for the economic, cultural, and political life of modern societies. The author consistently uses the political economy perspective to introduce students to the basic concepts and research in urban sociology, while also acknowledging the contributions of the human ecology perspective. Through the use of case studies, the presentation remains accessible and down-to-earth.

The Couple and Family in Managed Care or E Business Technologies

2009-01-12T10:13:00.000-08:00

The Couple and Family in Managed Care: Assessment, Evaluation and Treatment

Author: Dennis A A Bagarozzi

This new book provides both the details and the "big picture" of assessing marital and family systems within the modern context of managed care and the changing parameters of intervention that go along with it. The text represents a short-term, problem-focused approach. Dr. Bagarozzi begins his presentation with a specific outline for conducting an initial interview designed to pinpoint the problem and assess the need for collateral contacts - that is, the conditions under which therapists working within the managed care framework may treat the identified patient's spouse and/or other family members. Subsequent chapters focus on the complementary processes of individual diagnosis and systems-centered evaluation along with issues of instrument construction, reliability, validity, and utility, including marital and family assessment instruments and their use in facilitating the therapeutic process. Examples of actual tools, in addition to a marital assessment questionnaire and case study material that demonstrates particular methods in action, enhance and expand the discussion. The final chapter examines the key topic of accountability, providing practical suggestions on how to conduct outcomes research.

Booknews

A managed care therapeutic treatment approach for couples and families, illustrating the brief, short-term, and problem oriented strategies employed in managed settings. Psychologist Bagarozzi outlines initial, behaviorally based interviews, individual and systems focused diagnosis and evaluation, and assessment questionnaires that are used in the case studies demonstrating various communication styles and patterns. The conclusion offers advice on how to conduct outcome research for accountability, including a sample questionnaire. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book review: The Performance Zone or Your Drug May Be Your Problem

E-Business Technologies: Supporting the Net-Enhanced Organization

Author: Craig Van Slyk

Allows the reader to be an active participant in the planning, analysis, development, and implementation of e-business environments as they enter the job market.

	Foreword
	Preface
	About the Authors
Ch. 1	Introduction to Electronic Business	1
Ch. 2	Impacts of Electronic Business	17
Ch. 3	Barriers to Electronic Business	57
Ch. 4	The Internet and World Wide Web For E-Business	97
Ch. 5	Electronic Business Applications Development	139
Ch. 6	Telecommunication Technologies for E-Business	179
Ch. 7	Client/Server Technologies for E-Business	219
Ch. 8	Integrating Back-Office Operations	257
Ch. 9	Providing Content for Electronic Business	299
Ch. 10	Privacy and Security in E-Business	359
Ch. 11	Electronic Payment Systems in E-Business	411
Ch. 12	Electronic Business Architecture	441
	Glossary	471
	Index	482

Valuing Environmental Preferences or Readings in Development Economics Vol 1

2009-01-12T01:22:00.000-08:00

Valuing Environmental Preferences: Theory and Practice of Contingent Valuation Method in the U. S., E. U., and Developing Countries

Author: Ian J Bateman

Just as individuals have preferences regarding the various goods and services they purchase every day, so they also hold preferences regarding public goods such as those provided by the natural environment. However, unlike private goods, environmental goods often cannot be valued by direct reference to any market price. This makes economic analysis of the costs and benefits of environmental change problematic. Over the past few decades a number of methods have developed to address this problem by attempting to value environmental preferences. Principal amongst these has been the contingent valuation (CV) method which uses surveys to ask individuals how much they would be willing to pay or willing to accept in compensation for gains or losses of environmental goods.. "This volume, has been written at a time of heated debate over the CV method. It contains specially written papers from both sides of that debate, as well as from commentators who see it as an interesting experimental tool regardless of the question of absolute validity of estimates. The book embraces the theoretical, methodological, empirical, and institutional aspects of the current debate. It covers US, European, and developing country applications, and the institutional frameworks within which CV studies are applied.

	List of Contributors
1	Introduction and Overview	1
2	The Place of Economic Values in Environmental Valuation	17
3	Neo-Classical Economic Theory and Contingent Valuation	42
4	The Theory and Measurement of Passive-use Value	97
5	Public Goods and Contingent Valuation	131
6	Alternatives to the Neo-Classical Theory of Choice	152
7	Doubt, Doubts, and Doubters: The Genesis of a New Research Agenda?	183
8	A Psychological Perspective	207
9	Information, Uncertainty, and Contingent Valuation	258
10	A Monte Carlo Comparison of Ols Estimation Errors and Design Efficiencies in a Two-Stage Stratified Random Sampling Procedure for a Contingent Valuation Study	280
11	The Statistical Analysis of Discrete-Response CV Data	302
12	Multi-Level Modelling and Contingent Valuation	442
13	Stated-Preference Methods for Valuing Environmental Amenities	460
14	Option and Anticipatory Values of us Wilderness	483
15	Elicitation Effects in Contingent Valuation Studies	511
16	Household Demand for Improved Sanitation Services: A Case Study of Calamba, the Philippines	540
17	Contingent Valuation Methodology and the EU Institutional Framework	585
18	Contingent Valuation Methodology and the Us Institutional Framework	613
	Index of Authors	629
	Index of Subjects	636

Interesting textbook: The Reasoned Schemer or Adsense Code

Readings in Development Economics - Vol. 1: Micro-Theory

Author: Pranab K K Bardhan

These two volumes of readings attempt to bring some degree of structure to a relatively diffuse field. Because of the sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier of the field, rather than as a comprehensive overview.

Volume I: Micro-Theory focuses on theoretical work. Topics covered include sharecropping as a principle-agent problem, fragmented duopolies, credit market imperfections, poverty traps, peer monitoring in credit cooperatives, coordination failures, human capital accumulation as an engine of growth, and environmental issues in development.

Managerial Guide for Handling Cyber Terrorism and Information Warfare or The Value of Marx

2009-01-11T14:31:00.000-08:00

Managerial Guide for Handling Cyber-Terrorism and Information Warfare

Author: Janczewski

"This book presents IT managers with what cyberterrorism and information warfare is and how to handle the problems associated with them"--Provided by publisher.

The Value of Marx (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series)

Author: Alfredo S Filho

The author critically reviews the methodological principles of Marx's value analysis and the best-known interpretation of his value theory. He develops an interpretation of Marx focusing primarily upon the processes and relations that regulate social and economic reproduction under capitalism. When analyzed from this angle, value theory is a theory of class and exploitation. The concept of value is useful, among other reasons, because it explains capitalist exploitation in spite of the predominance of voluntary market exchanges. The most important controversies in Marxian political economy are reviewed exhaustively, and new light is thrown on the meaning and significance of Marx's analysis and its relevance for contemporary capitalism.

The American WestVisions and Revisions or Understanding Emotion at Work

2009-01-11T04:41:00.000-08:00

The American West.Visions and Revisions

Author: Margaret Walsh

Over the past twenty-five years historians have created a 'New Western History', which has aimed to rewrite the 'Old Western History' created around the famous Turner thesis on the significance of the American Frontier. Focusing on five main themes, this study examines the dynamics and progress of recent scholarship in the issues of land use, the environment, race, ethnicity, gender, business and the development of communities. Synthesizing prolific research, it offers a clear and up-to-date review of American history and includes a complete bibliography.

Understanding Emotion at Work

Author: Stephen Fineman

'Most folks in organizations dichotomize reason and emotion, often treating emotion as an uncommon or marginal occurrence. Written in a clear and lively style, Steve Fineman's book, Understanding Emotion at Work, dispels this notion as he demonstrates how emotions infuse most practices in organizational life, including leading, decision making, organizational change, gender relations, stress, and downsizing. Sprinkled with vivid examples, Fineman captures the positive benefits of emotions at work as well as the darker side of feelings and despair. Scholars, students and practitioners alike will glean important insights from the lens of emotion that Fineman brings to the subtleties of organizational life' - Linda L Putnam, Texas A&M University

'Stephen Fineman has written a wise and engaging text about emotions and how they play out in and around organizations. He underscores, with a range of fine examples, thoughtful commentary and careful scholarship, the essential role of emotions in organizational life. He applies his lens to such issues as recruitment, leadership, decision making and change. He extends the reach of emotions into the virtual world of work and he makes apparent the heavy costs to people and their organizations of toxic emotions that stem from bullying,harassment and downsizing. A must-read in any curriculum dealing with the study of organization' - Peter Frost, Edgar F. Kaiser Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia, Canada Author of Toxic Emotions at Work HBS Press 2003

'Going to work can be a great joy, a great pain, or a mixture of thetwo. This clearly written, engaging and authoritative book demonstrates the vital necessity of understanding how emotions permeate work organisations at every level and in every situation. No student of work and its organisation can afford to neglect this important area of study. And no writer on work and organisation is better placed to go to the heart of these matters than Stephen Fineman' - Professor Tony J Watson, Professor of Organisational and Managerial Behaviour, Nottingham Business School

'In this book, Professor Stephen Fineman has done more of what he does best writing eloquently and perceptively about emotions in organizations. In this case, he is writing directly for students, both undergraduates and postgraduates, and uses a wide range of disciplinary insights to show how emotions are inextricably embedded in organizational life. His book helps to launch students on a voyage of self-discovery to learn for themselves how emotions impact upon them and their colleagues. As someone who has long challenged the "emotion-less" view of emotion that characterizes much of the research on this phenomenon, he uses his considerable skills to convey the importance, richness and nuance of emotion. Nor does he shrink away from tackling the darker side of organizational emotional life challenging students to reflect on the agony, as well as the ecstasy, that passionate emotions can cause. This book is a valuable resource for teachers wanting to introduce students to organizations, and a fascinating and astute aid for students interested in learning about them - Professor Cynthia Hardy, Department of Management, University of Melbourne

'Organizational life is shot through with emotions, spawning a growing interest in topics ranging from emotional intelligence to violence at work. Stephen Fineman provides a much-needed survey of these topics, capturing their sprawling breadth without sacrificing depth. Moreover, he succeeds in conveying the everyday feel of emotions in organizational life in a way that is both engaging and informative' - Blake Ashforth, Jerry and Mary Ann Chapman Professor of Business, W P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

Understanding Emotion at Work gets to the heart of what binds and breaks organizations: emotion. It explores beyond the surface of work to the rich emotional life bubbling underneath, showing what employees and managers constantly deal with but are often ill-equipped to do so.

This is the first introductory book on emotions and it's aimed specifically at students of management and organization studies. Written accessibly, it avoids pat prescriptions, but leaves the reader with challenging questions about the intrisic nature of emotions to the design and management of organizations.

Drawing on a rich discipline-field, including psychology, sociology and organizational theory, Stephen Fineman explores a number of familiar and not so familiar work arenas. He examines the way emotion penetrates leadership, decision-making and organizational change as well as newer topics like the virtual side of organizations. Finally, he addresses the darker side of emotion in the context of bullying, violence, sexual harassment and downsizing.

Understanding Emotion at Work will shed light on this growing subject for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying organizational behaviour, HRM or organizational psychology.

Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services or Brief Principles of Macroeconomics

2009-01-10T21:50:00.000-08:00

Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services

Author: Leslie P Willcocks

This book is a reality check on the trends in global sourcing of information technology and business services. While the vision of global sourcing networks that are agile, effective and cost efficient is available it requires an immense amount of trial and error and detailed management. Written by two internationally recognized academics in the field, with expert contributions, it covers IT outsourcing, offshoring, business process outsourcing and netsourcing and includes cases and commentaries on best practices.

Brief Principles of Macroeconomics

Author: N Gregory Mankiw

Brief Principles Of Macroeconomics continues to be the most popular and widely used text in the Economics classroom. The 4th edition features a strong revision of content in all 18 chapters while maintaining the clear and accessible writing style that is the hallmark of the highly respected author. The 4th edition also features an expanded instructor's resource package designed to assist instructors in course planning and classroom presentation and full integration of content with Aplia, the leading online Economics education program.

A Concise History of European Monetary Integration or Media Now

2009-01-10T12:59:00.000-08:00

A Concise History of European Monetary Integration: From EPU to EMU

Author: Horst Ungerer

Ungerer provides a comprehensive, yet concise and accessible history of European monetary integration over the past half century, from the European Payments Union (EPU) to the realization of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) as mapped out by the Maastricht Treaty. Monetary integration is essential to the completion of a single market and the realization of and closer political cooperation in Europe. Ungerer demonstrates this point while giving readers the only up-to-date account and analysis of European monetary integration currently available. The book will be an important resource not only for scholars and students of European economic and political integration, but also for professionals in a wide range of fields within international business and finance.

Booknews

Developed from lectures by a retired International Monetary Fund and Deutsche Bundesbank senior official. Chronicles the complexities of policy and institutional developments in European monetary integration over the past 50 years, including intellectual foundations, key economic-analytical issues, and the international context. Discusses various plans aimed at promoting monetary integration in Europe as well as developments in the "snake" exchange rate arrangement and the European Monetary System. Particular attention is given to the Maastricht Treaty on European economic and monetary union and its implementation. A glossary of acronyms, a chronology, and an extensive bibliography promote the user-friendly reference that the author intended for the press, government officials, business people, and scholars of European integration. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Preface
	Acronyms
	Introduction	1
1	The Background: Gold Standard and Interwar Period	7
2	The Establishment of a New International Economic Order after World War II	15
3	The Reconstruction of Europe	23
4	The Creation of the European Communities and Their Institutions	33
5	Economic and Monetary Policies in the Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community	45
6	Important Monetary Events in the European Community in the 1960s	57
7	International Monetary Developments in the 1960s	67
8	Striving for Better Policy Coordination in the European Community in the 1960s	83
9	The 1969 Conference in The Hague and the Objective of Economic and Monetary Union	97
10	The Werner Report	107
11	The Breakdown of the Bretton Woods System and the "Snake"	119
12	The Quest for More Policy Cooperation and a Unified Exchange Rate System in the 1970s	133
13	The Creation of the European Monetary System	147
14	The Objectives and Main Features of the European Monetary System	157
15	Developments in the European Monetary System, 1979-90	169
16	The Political Debate about the European Monetary System	187
17	The Delors Report	199
18	Stage One of Economic and Monetary Union and Preparations for the Intergovernmental Conference on Economic and Monetary Union	209
19	Proposals for a Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union and the Negotiations of the Intergovernmental Conference	219
20	The Maastricht Treaty	229
21	The Debate about the Maastricht Treaty - Benefits and Costs of Economic and Monetary Union	243
22	The Crises of the European Monetary System in 1992 and 1993	257
23	Stage Two of Economic and Monetary Union, the European Monetary Intitute, and the Preparation of Stage Three	273
24	Outlook	293
	Chronology	301
	Bibliography	307
	Name Index	325
	Subject Index	329

Interesting textbook: Social Work or Sales Management

Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology

Author: Joseph Straubhaar

Do your students understand how they are affected by the media they use? Do they understand how technology works, develops and changes over time? MEDIA NOW is the first mass communication text to encourage students to think critically about the media and its effects on culture and also provide them with a thorough understanding of how the media technologies develop, operate, converge and affect our greater society. Unlike other introductory mass communication books, MEDIA NOW prepares students for their careers in the expanded field of telecommunications, interactive media, and traditional media industries, by providing them with a book that will not only excite them but teach them the foundational theories, concepts and technical knowledge to help them thrive.

Survey of Economics with Xtra Access Card and InfoTrac or Future of North American Integration

2009-01-10T05:08:00.000-08:00

Survey of Economics with Xtra! Access Card and InfoTrac

Author: Irvin B Tucker

This highly successful text makes basic economics readable, sensible, and interesting by placing an emphasis on application and student learning. This book provides the most comprehensive and pedagogically-rich treatment of introductory economics available for the non-majors course. It focuses on the most basic tools in economics and applies them clearly to explain real-world economic issues. Better than any other text, Tucker implements teaching tools and methodologies that drive the student learning process and development of critical analysis skills. It is known for its: lively and informative writing style; emphasis on critical thinking; applications; active learning environment; use of unique, highly motivational, student-oriented pedagogy; unparalleled visual learning support; and numerous in-chapter review and application opportunities.

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Teaches basic operations of the US economy to students in a one-term economics course, using supply and demand analysis to explain real- world economic issues. Material is designed to be student-friendly. Early chapters introduce the logic of economic analysis and develop the core of microeconomic analysis, while later chapters cover macroeconomics, and two final chapters cover international issues. Includes a review of graphical analysis, a graphing primer, and a study guide on interpreting graphs. This third edition contains new practice quizes, online quizes, web sites, and visual chapter summaries. The author teaches economics at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Future of North American Integration: Beyond NAFTA

Author: Peter Hakim

"When it came into force in 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) joined the economic futures of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, with rules governing trade and investment, dispute resolution, and economic relations." "However, economic integration among the three countries extends considerably beyond trade and investment. The NAFTA agreement takes a very narrow view of integration, barely addressing such vital issues as immigration policy and labor markets, the energy sector, environmental protection, and law enforcement." "The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States now must confront the question of whether NAFTA is enough. Do they want to keep their trilateral relationship focused on economic matters or are they interested in integrating more deeply - perhaps initiating a process to build a North American community similar to the European Union?" "This volume contains discussions about the future of North America by knowledgeable experts from each of the three countries. Robert Pastor has written one of the more comprehensive books on the subject, Toward a North American Community (Institute for International Economics, 2001). Andres Rozental is an ambassador at large for Mexico and president of Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales, the country's leading foreign policy association. Perrin Beatty is a former foreign minister of Canada and currently the president and CEO of the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters." The governments of Canada, the United States, and Mexico face thorny challenges as they decide whether and how to accelerate, smooth, and institutionalize the integration process. Pastor, Rozental, and Beatty encourage greater dialogue among the three governments and their citizens, as well as more systematic thinking among policymakers and citizens about the promise and challenges of further North American integration.

Cyberlaw and E Commerce Regulation or Effective Change Management

2009-01-09T22:17:00.000-08:00

Cyberlaw and E-Commerce Regulation: An Entrepreneurial Approach

Author: Sean P Melvin

The Cyberlaw course is taken primarily by business majors, but there are also programs that cater to computer science or MIS majors.

Book review: Communication de Leadership

Effective Change Management: Ten Steps for Technical Professions

Author: David L Goetsch

To be competitive in today's marketplace, companies and their employees need to be able to change in response to market demands. Effective Change Management: Ten Steps for Technical Professions helps the reader understand that the underlying issue organizations face is improvement.

This step-by-step guide:

helps the reader understand change and his or her role in it
provides a ten-step model for achieving change
explains how to incorporate change into an organization's culture

International Business and IT or Kenya

2009-01-09T12:26:00.000-08:00

International Business and IT

Author: Masood Samii

Until relatively recently, it was the domestic perspective of business which was the driving force behind information technology applications. But in the age of globalization, there is an increasing need for IT to be more 'global friendly'.

International Business & IT is a breakthrough text that analyses the relationship between international business operations and information technology. Firstly, it assesses the impact of current developments in IT on the operation of multinational corporations on both a practical and theoretical level and explores how it can improve competitive advantage. Secondly, it investigates how doing business in an international environment affects the design, implementation and management of information systems for global enterprises.

The text offers a much-needed overview of the key trends in IT and global business management, with contributors from the fields of IT, international business, business development and marketing. Taking a multi-disciplinaryapproach, the text includes unique case studies of global companies to complement and illuminate the theoretical grounding of each chapter and raise the issues that are of real relevance to managers working internationally.

International Business & IT is essential reading for academics, students and practitioners working in the fields of IT, International Business and Strategy.

1	International business and IT	1
2	Globalization and IT	9
3	Factors influencing the internationalization of e-commerce : toward a systems dynamics approach	21
4	Incorporating IT into global business negotiations	33
	IT and transformation of finance	53
6	IT infrastructure and global operations	67
7	Web design for international business	83
8	Designing and managing data warehouses in a global environment	111
9	IT and globalization at Reebok	137
10	Electronic commerce in low-income countries	147
11	The role of e-commerce in scaling up small businesses in developing economies : a B2B information architecture model and IT infrastructure	161
12	Internal and external environments factors affecting access to technology in Southeast Asian institutions of higher learning	179

Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity, Vol. 2

Author: Norman N Miller

Kenya is one of Africa’s most important and controversial nations. It has simultaneously been heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation. Kenya remains a close ally of the West and a symbol of capitalism in Africa, and it occupies a position of strategic importance to the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Yet all of these distinctions are now coming under question in the fourth decade of independence.Kenya’s exquisite natural beauty and renowned wildlife refuges hide a more mundane reality. The country is vast, rural, poor, and without oil or other mineral wealth. It is dependent on smallholder agriculture and export earnings from international tourism, tea, and coffee. Although the population is only 28 million, less than 20 percent of Kenya’s land area is readily available for dense human settlement. Population growth has slowed, but demographic pressures still pose very serious socioeconomic, ecological, and environmental challenges.In this second edition of a critically acclaimed profile, Miller and Yeager address these and other social issues while tracing political and economic developments from early precolonial times to the contemporary period and the recent fourth-term reelection of President Daniel arap Moi. The book captures the aggressive, self-confident spirit that characterizes Kenya and provides unique insights into how this nation of contemporary Africa is faring in its continuing quest for prosperity.

Hotel Motel Operations or Integrated Advertising Promotion and Marketing Communications

2009-01-09T04:35:00.000-08:00

Hotel/Motel Operations: An Overview

Author: Suzanne Weissinger

Hotel-Motel Operations-An Overview helps readers in the travel and tourism industries understand the organizational and operational aspects of lodgings. It covers each department of a property and its organization and responsibilities, the methods of marketing a property, and legal requirements faced by properties. Emphasis has been placed on amenities, providing service to business travelers, and security issues. The book covers both small and large property operations so the skills and knowledge gained through reading can be applied anywhere. The final chapter gives up-to-date references used in the industry and by individual travelers, and listed are Web sites that feature hotel choices and e-mail addresses for major chains.

Booknews

Helps readers in the travel and tourism industries understand the organizational and operational aspects of lodging. Covers the organization and responsibilities for each department of a property along with marketing methods and legal requirements faced by properties. Emphasis is on amenities, providing service to business travelers, and security issues in both large and small operations. Includes chapter summaries and learning objectives, chapter activities and questions with space for answers, plus chapter projects. Author credentials are not stated. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Integrated Advertising, Promotion, and Marketing Communications

Author: Kenneth E Clow

This volume takes a broader approach than Advertising or Promotions surveys and gives readers an integrated learning experience by incorporating Internet exercises and a Building an IMC Campaign project, with free Advertising Plan Pro software in every copy.

The volume addresses integrated marketing communications, corporate image and brand management, consumer buyer behavior, business-to-business buyer behavior, promotions opportunity analysis, advertising management, advertising design, both theoretical and executional frameworks, IMC promotional tools and integration tools.

For marketing professionals and ad agency account executives.

Pt. 1	The IMC foundation	2
1	Integrated marketing communications	2
2	Corporate image and brand management	28
3	Buyer behaviors	60
4	Promotions opportunity analysis	94
Pt. 2	IMC advertising tools	130
5	Advertising management	130
6	Advertising design : theoretical frameworks and types of appeals	162
7	Advertising design : message strategies and executional frameworks	196
8	Advertising media selection	230
Pt. 3	IMC promotional tools	274
9	Trade promotions	274
10	Consumer promotions	306
11	Personal selling, database marketing, and customer relationship management	336
12	Public relations, sponsorship programs, and regulations	370
Pt. 4	IMC integration tools	406
13	Internet marketing	406
14	IMC for small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures	436
15	Evaluating an integrated marketing program	458

Quality Middle School Leadership or Introducing Marketing Research

2009-01-08T19:44:00.000-08:00

Quality Middle School Leadership: Eleven Central Skills Areas

Author: L David Weller

"This updated second edition of Quality Middle School Leadership: Eleven Central Skills Areas is designed to assist middle school principals in their efforts to reform education by using the effective schools research and quality management principles of W. Edwards Deming. The idea for the book came from both the author's students and his colleagues, who called for a work that was practical in scope and research-based in nature, yet addressed the contemporary demands for school reform and quality outcomes." Arranged to provide readers with theory and research first, Quality Middle School Leadership also provides specific examples of how this research can be applied - providing real meaning to the knowledge and skills that are presented. It is designed to prepare those aspiring to become effective and quality-oriented middle school principals and also to assist practitioners seeking to improve middle school education.

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Introducing Marketing Research

Author: Bal Chansarkar

The primary purpose of marketing research is to gather information which will allow your company or organisation to make better, more informed decisions. Many textbooks have been published on marketing research but most are very quantitative and are also too detailed for students taking a one-semester course, they do not focus on important qualitative issues such as depth interviews and focus groups - Baines and Chansarkar redress this imbalance. Written as an introduction to marketing research for students taking a one-semester module Introducing Market Research includes chapters on business to business marketing research and Internet marketing research. The authors adopt a practical focus and include numerous practical examples as well as coursework assignments.

	Foreword
	Foreword
	Preface
	About the Authors
	About the Contributors
Pt. I	Research Design and Methods
Ch. 1	Introduction to Marketing Research	3
Ch. 2	Marketing Research: Process and Design	15
Ch. 3	Desk Research and Secondary Data Collection	43
Ch. 4	Qualitative Research Methods: Data Collection and Analysis	61
Ch. 5	Survey and Questionnaire Design	85
Pt. II	Statistical Considerations
Ch. 6	Basic Statistics and Data Analysis	127
Ch. 7	An Introduction to Sampling	149
Ch. 8	Hypothesis Testing and Tests of Association	167
Ch. 9	Hypothesis Testing and Tests of Difference	189
Pt. III	Contexts in Marketing Research
Ch. 10	International Marketing Research	209
Ch. 11	Internet Marketing Research	225
Ch. 12	Business-to-business Markets and Marketing Research	245
	Answers to Work Assignment Questions	259
	App. I: Selected Sources of Secondary Data	315
	App. II: Statistical Tables	325
	Glossary	329
	Index	344

Group Process Group Decision Group Action or Tinkering

2009-01-08T08:53:00.000-08:00

Group Process, Group Decision, Group Action

Author: Robert S Baron

The authors have written a book that successfully blends the older and newer research traditions in the field. The text presents topics, such as social facilitation, that first attracted the attention of social psychologists and concludes with topics such as crowding, group aggression, and social support.

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Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile

Author: Kathleen Franz

In the first decades of motor travel, between 1900 and 1940, Americans were buying automobiles in record numbers. Cars were becoming more easily affordable, not only for high-income families but for middle-class families as well. As they bought, they redesigned. By examining the ways Americans creatively adapted their automobiles, Tinkering takes a fresh look at automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, designers, advice experts, and consumers, from savvy buyers to grass-roots inventors.

Downsizing in America or Financial Optimization

2009-01-07T23:03:00.000-08:00

Downsizing in America

Author: Julian N May

"Downsizing in America offers a range of compelling hypotheses to account for adoption of downsizing as an accepted business practice. In the short run, many companies experiencing difficulties due to decreased sales, cash flow problems, or declining securities prices reduced their workforces temporarily, expanding them again when business conditions improved. The most significant trigger leading to long-term downsizing was the rapid change in technology. Companies rid themselves of their least skilled workers and subsequently hired employees who were better prepared to work with new technology, which in some sectors reduced the size of firms at which production is most efficient." "Baumol, Blinder, and Wolff also reveal what they call the dirty little secret of downsizing: it is profitable in part because it holds down wages. Downsizing in America shows that reducing employee rolls increased profits, since downsizing firms spent less money on wages relative to output but it did not increase productivity. Nor did unions impede downsizing. The authors show that unionized industries were actually more likely to downsize in order to eliminate expensive union labor. In sum, downsizing transferred income from labor to capital - from workers to owners." Downsizing in America combines an investigation of the underlying realities and causes of workforce reduction with an insightful analysis of the consequent shift in the balance of power between management and labor, to provide us with a deeper understanding of one of the major economic shifts of recent times - one with far-reaching implications for all American workers.

New interesting textbook: Dictators or Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

Financial Optimization

Author: Stavros Andrea Zenios

The use of mathematical models in financial management is today common business practice. The state of the art is constantly being advanced by academia and refined by industry. This book achieves two objectives. First, it brings together the (apparently) diverse fields of finance and management science/operations research. It presents a variety of techniques used in complex problems for financial management: optimization, simulation, stochastic programming and supercomputing. Second, it links current industrial practices with academic research to a degree unparalleled by any previous publication in the field.

	List of contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	General overview
1	Some financial optimization models: I Risk management	3
2	Some financial optimization models: II Financial engineering	37
3	New "financial market equilibrium" results: implications for practical financial optimization	72
4	Empirical tests of biases in equity portfolio optimization	80
Pt. II	Models
5	An economic approach to valuation of single premium deferred annuities	101
	Commentary	132
6	The optimal portfolio system: targeting horizon total returns under varying interest-rate scenarios	136
7	Optimization tools for the financial manager's desk	176
8	A flexible approach to interest-rate risk management	189
9	Currency hedging strategies for US investment in Japan and Japanese investment in the US	210
	Commentary	236
Pt. III	Methodologies
10	Incorporating transaction costs in models for asset allocation	243
11	Bond portfolio analysis using integer programming	260
12	Scenario immunization	290
13	Mortgages and Markov chains: a simplified evaluation model	309
14	Parallel Monte Carlo simulation of mortgage-backed securities	325
	Index	344

Comparative Statistical Inference or Unmaking Goliath

2009-01-07T16:12:00.000-08:00

Comparative Statistical Inference

Author: Vic Barnett

This fully updated and revised third edition, presents a wide ranging, balanced account of the fundamental issues across the full spectrum of inference and decision-making. Much has happened in this field since the second edition was published: for example, Bayesian inferential procedures have not only gained acceptance but are often the preferred methodology. This book will be welcomed by both the student and practising statistician wishing to study at a fairly elementary level, the basic conceptual and interpretative distinctions between the different approaches, how they interrelate, what assumptions they are based on, and the practical implications of such distinctions.

As in earlier editions, the material is set in a historical context to more powerfully illustrate the ideas and concepts.

* Includes fully updated and revised material from the successful second edition

* Recent changes in emphasis, principle and methodology are carefully explained and evaluated

* Discusses all recent major developments

* Particular attention is given to the nature and importance of basic concepts (probability, utility, likelihood etc)

* Includes extensive references and bibliography

Written by a well-known and respected author, the essence of this successful book remains unchanged providing the reader with a thorough explanation of the many approaches to inference and decision making.

	Preface
	Preface to Second Edition
	Preface to Third Edition
	Acknowledgements
Ch. 1	Introduction: Statistical Inference and Decision-making	1
Ch. 2	An Illustration of the Different Approaches	29
Ch. 3	Probability	65
Ch. 4	Utility and Decision-making	99
Ch. 5	Classical Inference	123
Ch. 6	Bayesian Inference	201
Ch. 7	Decision Theory	251
Ch. 8	Other Approaches	297
Ch. 9	Perspective	331
	References	337
	Index	365

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Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital

Author: James DeFilippis

James DeFilippis offers a fresh approach to understanding the impact of economic globalization on cities and communities in the US. Arguing against those who say that our communities are powerless in the face of footloose corporations, DeFilippis considers what localities can do in the face of heightened capital mobility in order to retain an autonomy that furthers egalitarian social justice. Unmaking Goliath explores how we go about accomplishing this in practical, political terms. The book investigates these issues by analyzing contemporary collectivist organizations in housing, banking and industry and tracing their fortunes in the era of globalization.

New Public or Technological Change and Economic Performance

2009-01-07T07:21:00.000-08:00

New Public: Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence

Author: Leon H Mayhew

Professional specialists have come to dominate public communication, and the modern public of the Enlightenment has been replaced by a "New Public", subject to mass persuasion through systematic advertising, lobbying, and other forms of media manipulation. Leon Mayhew examines this sociological development in terms of discourse and social influence, offering an original theory that bridges Talcott Parsons and JÜrgen Habermas. He concludes that the present social order is unstable because good-faith, two-way discourse has been undermined.

Interesting book: Homes and Libraries of the Presidents Third Edition or Chosen Soldier

Technological Change and Economic Performance, Vol. 17

Author: Albert N Link

One doesn't have to listen to business or political leaders for long before it becomes obvious how important productivity growth is to any economy. A leading factor that spurs productivity growth is technological change or progress.
This useful new book reviews the literature on technology and economic growth covering historical and theoretical developments such as: new models for measuring productivity; sources of technological knowledge and technological spillovers, and stock market reactions to investment in technology
Such a comprehensive survey is likely to be welcomed by students and academics involved in business economics, strategy and technology, as well as being extremely useful for public sector employees concerned with science and technology policy and planning and private sector employees in research and development.

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Some preliminary concepts	5
3	Early theoretical and empirical studies of economic growth	13
4	The production function concept of technological change	20
5	Alternative frameworks for measuring technical progress and productivity	34
6	Trends in productivity growth	42
7	The productivity slowdown	49
8	Sources of technical knowledge	60
9	The technology-productivity growth relationship	70
10	Effects of information technology on workers and economic performance	79
11	Research partnerships and economic performance	98
12	Concluding statement	120
App. A	Definition of symbols	121
App. B	Stochastic frontier estimation	124
	Bibliography	126
	Index	149

Electronics or 4th Generation R and D

2009-01-06T23:29:00.000-08:00

Electronics: Project Management and Design

Author: D Joseph Stadtmiller

The primary goal of this text is to better prepare electronics students for their first job, supplying them with the practical tools that will enhance their ability to perform. The text was developed using the author's industry and teaching experience.

Key Features and Benefits:

The text covers a six-step process for solving engineering problems that provides a logical sequence for students to follow while completing electronics projects.
Design requirements and methods of printed circuit board design and component selection are presented.
Concurrent engineering and good project management techniques are emphasized throughout the text.
Electrical noise and ambient temperature effects on electronic circuits are explored in detail.
All of these topics are discussed as an actual design project is completed as an ongoing example throughout the text.

1. The Project Environment.

2. Managing Electronic Development Projects.

3. Approval Agencies.

4. The Six Steps.

5. Step One: Research and Gathering Information.

6. Step Two: Define the Problem (Develop Design Specifications).

7. Step Three: Develop a Solution Plan (Project Scheduling).

8. Step Four: Execution (The Preliminary Design).

9. Step Four: Execution (Component Selection).

10. Step Four: Execution (The Design Breadboard).

11. Step Four: Execution (Prototype Development).

12. Step Five: Verify the Solution (The Design Verification).

13. Step Six: Conclusion (Design Improvements and Project Performance Monitoring).

Appendix A. Component Reference Information.

Appendix B. Test Equipment.

Appendix C. Miscellaneous Contact Information.

Interesting book: Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar or Overcoming Anxiety and Depression

4th Generation R and D: Managing Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation

Author: William L Miller

Praise for Fourth Generation R&D "A sweeping and insightful analysis of an architecture for innovation in the knowledge economy. Technologists, strategists, and organizational architects will all find this book worth reading, as will students of the modern organization." —John Seely Brown Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation "The new realities of competition beg a new approach to innovation and R&D; Fourth Generation R&D answers that challenge. With lucid arguments and detailed case studies, Fourth Generation R&D sketches a powerful new paradigm for planning and managing innovation. Every manager concerned with innovation and its role as a strategic resource—that’s to say, every manager—will profit from this new understanding." Lawrence Wilkinson President, Global Business Network "Fourth Generation R&D is a tour de force. Its sweep, depth, and use of graphics are all truly remarkable (not to mention its command of the literature on innovation). The distinctions it draws between continuous and discontinuous innovation—and between tacit and explicit knowledge—are fundamental." —John Yochelson President, The Council on Competitiveness

Performance of Financial Institutions or Macrojustice

2009-01-06T16:38:00.000-08:00

Performance of Financial Institutions: Efficiency, Innovation, Regulation

Author: Patrick T Harker

The efficient operation of financial intermediaries--banks, insurance and pension fund firms, government agencies and so on--is instrumental for the efficient functioning of the financial system and the fueling of the economies of the twenty-first century. But what drives the performance of these institutions in today's global environment? In this volume, world-renowned scholars bring their expertise to bear on the issues. Primary among them are the definition and measurement of efficiency of a financial institution, benchmarks of efficiency, identification of the drivers of performance and measurement of their effects on efficiency, the impact of financial innovation and information technologies on performance, the effects of process design, human resource management policies, as well as others.

	Foreword
	Preface
1	What Drives the Performance of Financial Institutions?	3
2	Efficiency of Financial Institutions: International Survey and Directions for Future Research (Reprinted with permission from European Journal of Operational Research.)	32
3	Inside the Black Box: What Explains Differences in the Efficiencies of Financial Institutions? (Reprinted with permission from Journal of Banking & Finance.)	93
4	Diversification, Organization, and Efficiency: Evidence from Bank Holding Companies	153
5	Product Focus Versus Diversification: Estimates of X-Efficiency for the U.S. Life Insurance Industry	175
6	REIT Performance: Does Managerial Specialization Pay?	199
7	Bank Relationships: A Review	221
8	Inside the Black Box: What Makes a Bank Efficient?	259
9	An Optimisation Framework of the Triad: Source Capabilities, Customer Satisfaction, and Performance	312
10	Disentangling Within- and Between-Country Efficiency Differences of Bank Branches	336
11	The Challenges of the New Electronic Technologies in Banking: Private Strategies and Public Policies	367
12	Technological Change, Financial Innovation, and Financial Regulation in the U.S.: The Challenges for Public Policy	388
13	The Effects of Entry Restrictions on Bank Performance in the United States	416
14	Risks and Returns in Relationship and Transactional Banks: Evidence from Banks' Returns in Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.	443
15	Acceptable Risk: A Study of Global Currency Trading Rooms in the U.S. and Japan	462
	Index	496

Macrojustice: The Political Economy of Fairness

Author: Serge Christoph Kolm

The main features of the just society, as they would be chosen by the unanimous, impartial, and fully informed judgment of its members, present a remarkable and simple meaningful structure. In this society, individuals' freedom is full respected, and redistribution amounts to an equal sharing of individuals' different earnings obtained by the same limited "equalization labour." This also amounts to general balanced reciprocity, where each individual yields to each other the proceeds of the same labour. The concept of equalization labour is a measure of the degree of community, solidarity, reciprocity, redistribution, and equalization of the under consideration. It is determined by a number of methods presented in this study, which also emphasizes the rationality, meanings, properties, and ways of practical implementation of this optimum distribution. This result is compared with various distributive principles found in practice and in political, philosophical, and economic thinking, with the conclusion that most can have their proper specific scope of application. The analytical presentation of the social ethics of economics is particularly enlightening. Serge-Christophe Kolm is the author of more than thirty books and several hundred professional articles concerning, notably, normative economics, public economics, macroeconomics, social change, and political psychological philosophy. He is Professor and Director at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Global Manifest Destiny or Interactive Services Marketing

2009-01-06T06:46:00.000-08:00

Global Manifest Destiny: Growing Your Business in a Borderless Economy

Author: John A Caslion

Just ten years ago, the chance to become a major player on the world stage was reserved almost exclusively for the most powerful companies in any given industry. Most smaller companies found it too costly and time-consuming to conduct any kind of global business besides exporting. But in today's economy, "going global" is a matter of survival.
In this indispensable road map to becoming a global enterprise, two of the world's leading experts on global business, the international economy, and globalization, John A. Caslione and Andrew R. Thomas, provide the knowledge and expertise companies need to establish a successful worldwide presence.
Global Manifest Destiny shows business leaders how to:
*Integrate a global culture.
*Build worldwide brands compatible with cultural differences.
*Create a global accounts management program.
*Take full advantage of swings in the world's financial markets.
*Optimize potential sources of raw materials, goods, and services worldwide.

Book review: A First Course in Statistical Programming with R or Microsoft Office 2003

Interactive Services Marketing

Author: Raymond P Fisk

Interactive Services Marketing covers the essentials of services marketing—with particular emphasis on the theater model and the impact of technology. The text features a dynamic approach to human interactions—both in face-to-face communication as well as connecting through technology.Pedagogical tools help students synthesize the material: each part opens with an overview, a new model illustrating the text's organization, brief chapter outlines, and a vignette highlighting real-world companies such as Noggintoppers (an online hat retailer). Each chapter also features a short paragraph revisiting the vignette, marginal notes defining key terms, a Summary and Conclusion section, and practice exercises.

I. Foundations of Services Marketing
1. Grasping the Uniqueness of Services Marketing
Definition and Characteristics of Services
Classifications of Services
How Does Service Marketing Differ from Physical Goods Marketing?
How Do Services as Products Differ from Facilitating Services?
Overview of Book
2. Frameworks for Managing the Customer's Experience
Components of the Service Experience
Framing the Service Experience
Comparing Service Experience Frameworks
Raising the Curtain on Services Theater
3. Plugging into the Information Age
Services and the Information Age
Empowering Employees Through Technology
Empowering the Customer
Enabling the Interactive Experience
Capturing Customer Information
Coping with Negative Impacts of Services Technology
Challenges of Using Technology to Manage Customer Interfaces
II. Creating the Interactive Experience
4. Planning and Producing the Service Performance
The Service Performance
Supplementing the Basic Service Performance
Differentiating the Service Performance
Customizing the Service Performance
Scripting the Service Performance
Blueprinting the Service Performance
The Internet and Service Performances
5. Designing the Service Setting
What Is a Service Setting?
Key Considerations in Designing the Service Setting
The Services Setting as a Marketing Tool
Cyberspace as a Service Setting
6. Leveraging the People Factor
Service Employees and Their Behavior
Empowering Service Employees
Costuming ServiceEmployees
Maximizing Service Employee Productivity
7. Managing the Customer Mix
Service Customers and Their Behavior
Customer-to-Customer Interactions
Customer-to-Employee Interactions
Selecting and Training Customers
Managing Customer Rage
III. Promising the Interactive Service Experience
8. Setting a Price for the Service Rendered
Why Do Services Prices Vary?
Yield Management in Services
Pricing Objectives and Approaches
The Relationship Between Service Price and Value
Calculating Service Costs
Price Bundling
Additional Pricing Considerations
9. Promoting the Interactive Service Experience
Services and Integrated Marketing Communications
Marketing Communications and Services
The Promotional Mix
Advertising the Service
Sales Promotions and Services
Personal Selling and Services
Publicity and Services
Promoting Services on the Internet
IV. Delivering and Ensuring a Successful Customer Experience
10. Delivering Service Quality and Guaranteeing Services
What Is Service Quality?
How Customers Evaluate Service Quality
Why and When to Guarantee a Service
How to Design a Service Guarantee
What Makes an Extraordinary Service Guarantee?
11. Regaining Customer Confidence Through Customer Service and Service Recovery
Customer Service
Customer Service as a Strategic Function
Developing a Customer Service Culture
The Need for Service Recovery
Steps to Service Recovery
Hidden Benefits of Service Recovery
12. Researching Service Success and Failure
Why Is Researching Service Success and Failure Necessary?
Why Is Service Success So Difficult to Achieve?
Research Methods for Services
Creating a Service Quality Information System
V. Management Issues in Services Marketing
13. Developing Marketing Strategies for Services
Overview of Marketing Strategy in Service Organizations
Scanning the Environment
Planning the Services Marketing Strategy
Positioning and Segmentation
Marketing Mix Strategies
Strategic Challenges for Services
Service Strategies for Competitive Advantage
14. Coping with Fluctuating Demand for Services
Why Is Services Demand a Problem?
The Nature of Service Demand
Chasing Demand with Service Capacity
Smoothing Demand to Fill Service Capacity
15. Thinking Globally: "It's a Small World After All"
Services and Culture
Global Trade in Services
Export Patterns of Services
Entry Strategies for Global Service Markets
Standardization versus Adaptation of Global Services
Multilingual Service Systems
Technology and Global Services
Appendix: Careers in Services
Glossary
Name Index
Organization Index
Subject Index

Borders in Cyberspace or Concepts in Federal Taxation 2006 Professional Version

2009-01-05T22:55:00.000-08:00

Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure

Author: Brian Kahin

Today millions of technologically empowered individuals are able to participate freely in international transactions and enterprises, social and economic. These activities are governed by national and local laws designed for simpler times and now challenged by a new technological and market environment as well as by the practicalities and politics of enforcement across national boundaries.

Borders in Cyberspace investigates issues arising from national differences in law, public policy, and social and cultural values as these differences are reformulated in the emerging global information infrastructure. The contributions include detailed analyses of some of the most visible issues, including intellectual property, security, privacy, and censorship.

Electronic Review of Computer Books - Danny Yee

That the Internet is global is a truism, but it is one that many -- and among them, unfortunately, most legislators -- still completely fail to comprehend. Borders in Cyberspace, edited by Brian Kahin and Charles Neeson, is a study of some of the legal and policy issues raised by a "global information infrastructure" (or GII, though most of the contributors write simply about "cyberspace" or "the Internet").

The opening chapter argues that cyberspace has clear boundaries and should therefore constitute a jurisdiction of its own, albeit an unusual one, where genuine competition between alternative rule sets is possible. The second chapter sets the Internet in the context of global communication more broadly, stressing the continuities provided by traditional media organizations. (There's some excellent material in this chapter, particularly about Africa and Eastern Europe, but there are also signs of cluelessness: Among other things, it calls Yahoo a browser and claims that the .com domain is for transnational corporations!) The next chapter reinforces the first, arguing that networks should be recognized as "semi-sovereign entities," capable of regulating themselves. The other chapters are a statistical analysis of correlations between democracy and e-mail connectivity (suggesting that the latter is a better predictor of democracy than other indicators); a look at the consequences of anonymity and regulatory arbitrage for attempts at censorship of the Internet; and a survey of the jurisdictional issues which the Internet creates for existing courts and arbitration systems (this is legally the most technical of the chapters and the one most reliant on details of United States law).

Part Two deals with particular issues in the context of the GII. A highly theoretical chapter on digital piracy applies theories of public goods (from Lösch, Samuelson, and Tiebout) to the Internet, considered as a marketplace for competition between different intellectual property regimes. A chapter on "Free Speech and the GII" calls for an international ius cogens based law to regulate "speech that advocates the following irrevocably reprehensible behavior…: piracy, slavery, genocide, apartheid, aggressive warfare, terrorism, and torture." You don't have to be a "free speech absolutist" like me to wonder if there might not be some disagreement about what belongs in this list, given that the English-speaking nations are more concerned about obscenity than anything else (it is worth noting that one of the authors of this chapter is German). Other chapters address privacy (advocating cooperative privacy codes, though a little pessimistic about their likely success), cryptography (a comparison of the policies of the United States, France, Russia, China, and Japan), international information policy (with the sharing of meteorological data as an example), and consumer protection laws (from an Australian perspective!). One of the few features common to all of these issues is the discordance between the positions of the United States and those of other countries within the developed world.

There is nothing radically new in Borders in Cyberspace, but it wastes surprisingly little space rehashing common knowledge or providing basic background information. One consequence is that it is not entirely suitable for those without online experience (or at least previous involvement with network policy issues). It is, nevertheless, the best introduction to the legal and policy consequences of a global Internet that I have seen anywhere: It really should be mandatory reading for anyone involved with developing law or policy for the Internet.

New interesting textbook: Governing from Below or Self Directed Learning

Concepts in Federal Taxation 2006, Professional Version

Author: Kevin E Murphy

CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION is designed for a more conceptual, less detailed approach to federal taxation of individuals and corporations in an introductory taxation course. This conceptual approach presents taxation as a small number of unifying concepts, stressing the overriding principles that apply to all specific tax rules and regulations. Concepts in Federal Taxation offers an excellent balance between tax concepts and the Internal Revenue Code and regulations, preparing users for a future in the business environment.

Booknews

This text for an introductory tax course offers a conceptual, less detailed approach to federal taxation of individuals and corporations, presenting taxation as a set of unifying concepts and stressing the overriding principles that apply to all specific tax rules and regulations. Special features of the text include meaningful examples that students can understand presented in a question-and-discussion format, and primary tax law sources with explanatory notations placed at the end of each chapter. Homework includes issue identification and mathematical problems, Internet assignments, and tax planning cases. This edition has been revised to reflect changes wrought by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Murphy is affiliated with Oklahoma State University. Higgins is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. I	Conceptual Foundations of the Tax Law	1
Ch. 1	Federal Income Taxation - An Overview	2
Ch. 2	Income Tax Concepts	45
Pt. II	Gross Income	81
Ch. 3	Income Sources	82
Ch. 4	Income Exclusions	129
Pt. III	Deductions	165
Ch. 5	Introduction to Business Expenses	166
Ch. 6	Business Expenses	219
Ch. 7	Losses - Deductions and Limitations	267
Ch. 8	Taxation of Individuals	309
Pt. IV	Property Transactions	363
Ch. 9	Acquisitions of Property	364
Ch. 10	Cost Recovery on Property: Depreciation, Depletion, and Amortization	404
Ch. 11	Property Dispositions	460
Ch. 12	Nonrecognition Transactions	502
Pt. V	Income Tax Entities	541
Ch. 13	Choice of Business Entity - Part I	542
Ch. 14	Choice of Business Entity - Part II	605
Pt. VI	Tax Research	683
Ch. 15	Tax Research	684
App. A	Tax Rate Schedules and Tax Tables	A-1
App. B	Tax Return Problem	B-1
App. C	Tax Forms	C-1
App. D	Statements on Responsibilities in Tax Practice	D-1
	Glossary	G-1
	Index	I-1

Development or Theories of the Information Society

2009-01-05T14:04:00.000-08:00

Development: A Cultural Studies Reader

Author: Schech

This book of readings gathers together some of the most influential contributions that reflect on the relationship between culture and development.

Book about: Investment or Management and Information Systems for the Information Age3e

Theories of the Information Society

Author: Frank Webster

In this new and thoroughly revised edition the author brings his work right up to date both with new theoretical work and with social and technological changes - such as the rapid growth of the internet and accelerated globalization - and re-assesses the work of key theorists in light of these changes. This book will be essential reading for students of contemporary social theory and anybody interested in social and technological change in the post-war era.

	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
2	The idea of an information society	8
3	The information society as post-industrialism: Daniel Bell	30
4	Information, restructuring and globalisation	59
5	Informational capitalism: Manuel Castells	97
6	Information and advanced capitalism: Herbert Schiller	124
7	Information management and manipulation: Jurgen Habermas and the concept of the public sphere	161
8	Information, reflexivity and surveillance: Anthony Giddens	202
9	Information, postmodernism and postmodernity	227
10	Conclusion: is there an information society?	263
	Bibliography	274
	Index	299

International Marketing or Safety Engineering

2009-01-05T03:12:00.000-08:00

International Marketing

Author: Michael R Czinkota

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING is an innovative up-to-date text ideal for anyone seeking success in this fast-paced field. You will discover topics ranging from beginning start-up operations to confronting giant global marketers. With this in-depth text, you will be prepared to conquer the international business world!

Book review: Creating and Capturing Value or Introduction to Latin America

Safety Engineering: Principles and Practices

Author: Frank R Spellman

The new Safety Engineering provides an overview of the fundamentals with expanded coverage of practical information for protecting workers and complying with federal regulations. This new edition features eight new chapters--including Thermal Stress, Security and Vulnerability Assessment, Computer and Data Security, Contemporary Problems Affecting Workers, and Preventing Workplace Violence--and it examines the safety industrys new homeland security responsibilities and needs. Written for a wide variety of readers, including safety directors, supervisors, government officials, and students, this handy yet comprehensive reference book looks at the paperwork side of safety from identifying regulatory requirements and conducting accident investigations to preparing an emergency response plan and complying with recordkeeping requirements. It also examines specific OSHA standards and their requirements from the Title Code of Federal Regulations.

Booknews

A textbook for engineering, safety engineering, and science courses on ways to eliminate or reduce job hazards by preventative planning through engineering and management. Spellman, an environmental health and safety manager for a large wastewater treatment district, and Whiting, a technical writer specializing in the same field, review the history and terminology of safety before examining such aspects as regulations, industrial hygiene, programs to prevent back injury, confined space entry, hot work permit procedure, electrical safety, fall protection, hazard communication, ergonomics, a hearing conservation program, training, keeping records, and inspections. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

1	Introduction	1
2	Safety : a historical perspective	17
3	Safety terminology	25
4	Safety : regulatory requirements	35
5	Safety engineering : recognize, evaluate, and control	59
6	Fundamental engineering concepts	69
7	Management aspects	109
8	Industrial hygiene	119
9	Accident investigations	143
10	Back injury prevention programs	169
11	Personal protective equipment (PPE)	179
12	Confined space entry	191
13	Respiratory protection	235
14	Lockout/tagout	249
15	Hot work permit procedure	259
16	Construction safety and contractors	267
17	Electrical safety	277
18	Emergency response	285
19	Fall protection	293
20	Fire safety	305
21	Hazard communication	311
22	Office safety	325
23	Hazardous waste handling	333
24	Welding safety program	345
25	Pressure vessels	355
26	Rigging safety program	363
27	Noise hazards and hearing conservation	371
28	Radiation safety	383
29	Indoor air quality	389
30	Ergonomics	399
31	Process safety management and risk management planning	413
32	Machine guarding safety program	433
33	Security and vulnerability assessment	449
34	Computer and data security	461
35	Contemporary problems affecting modern workers	483
36	Thermal stress	491
37	Workplace violence	499
38	Motor vehicle safety	515
39	Engineering design and controls for safety	531
40	Safety and health training	537
41	Recordkeeping requirements	545
42	Safety inspections	555

	Introduction : automobiles in the machine age	1
1	What consumers wanted	14
2	Women's ingenuity	43
3	Consumers become inventors	74
4	A tinkerer's story	103
5	The automotive industry takes the stage	130
	Epilogue : tinkering from customizing to Car talk	161

Pt. 1	Ethics	1
Pt. 2	Training and development	19
Pt. 3	Reward systems	35
Pt. 4	Communication	51
Pt. 5	Policies	63
Pt. 6	Group dynamics	79
Pt. 7	Technology	97
Pt. 8	Process analysis	113
Pt. 9	Service exemplars	129
Pt. 10	Service recovery	141

Ch. 1	Sources of tax law	1
Ch. 2	Individual income taxation	30
Ch. 3	Income taxation of the sole proprietorship	96
Ch. 4	Income taxation of partnerships	150
Ch. 5	Income taxation of corporations	189
Ch. 6	Estate and gift taxation	253
Ch. 7	Fiduciary income taxes	322

1	Introduction	1
2	Canada in North America: Isolation or Integration?	31
3	Integrating North America: A Mexican Perspective	73
4	NAFTA Is Not Enough: Steps toward a North American Community	87
	Contributors	119
	Index	121

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