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Saving the World at Work or 1897 Sears Roebuck Co Catalogue

2009-12-06T03:43:00.000-08:00

Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference

Author: Tim Sanders

Even the actions of a single person can help to change the world. How? Through simple acts of leadership and compassion. Open up this book, and discover the true stories of people whose actions have caused a chain reaction at work and in their communities. Among them:
A manager who gives an employee some supportive praise, and as a result literally saves his life (page 231).

A small group of bank tellers who spearhead a movement to raise millions of dollars for breast cancer, making it the biggest fundraiser in North America, and enhancing their company’s reputation (page 213).

A sales manager who gets a copy of a groundbreaking book that leads to a transformation of the company’s operations. As a result, hundreds of millions of pounds of carpet waste avoid the landfill, and the company sparks a revolution in its industry (page 12).

A “responsibility revolution” is shaking up corporate America. In this provocative and insightful book, bestselling author Tim Sanders reveals why companies must to go beyond making a profit and start making a difference.

Every one of us, regardless of title or position, can inspire our companies to change the way they do business, helping them to become a positive force for enriching people, communities, and the environment. When this happens, not only do we help save the world, we help save our companies from becoming irrelevant. We also become part of what Sanders calls the Responsibility Revolution.

Companies that don’t participate in this revolution risk becoming obsolete. Today customers, employees, and investors are demanding that companies focus on their socialresponsibilities—not just their bottom lines. Sixty-five percent of American consumers say they would change to brands associated with a good cause if price and quality were equal; 66 percent of recent college graduates will not work for companies with poor social values. And more than sixty million people are willing to pay a premium for socially and environmentally responsible products.

In SAVING THE WORLD AT WORK, Tim Sanders offers concrete suggestions on how all of us can help our companies join the Responsibility Revolution. Drawing on extensive interviews with hundreds of employees and CEOs, and illuminated by countless stories of people who are making a difference in the workplace and in the world, Sanders offers practical advice every individual and company can use to make the world a better place--now and in the future.

Publishers Weekly

The "Responsibility Revolution" is underway, and it's challenging the importance of the bottom line, argues Sanders (Love Is the Killer App), former CSO of Yahoo. Both consumers and employers have turned away from price consciousness to demand that companies make a difference to society through their products, manufacturing methods, environmental efforts and community outreach. According to the author, casual consumers now represent the minority; mindful consumers have brought in a new value system, paying as much attention to a company's environmental and social policies as to its pricing structures. Companies that do not clean up their acts will be left in the dust, losing customers who want their money to go toward good causes and employees who place more importance on green factors and job satisfaction than pay scale. Through success stories like Horst Rechelbacher, the brains behind the ecologically sound cosmetics company Aveda, and Lee Scott's greening of Wal-Mart in 2004, Sanders makes a compelling argument for the necessity for businesses to appeal to their customers' hearts as well as their wallets. (Sept.)

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1897 Sears Roebuck & Co. Catalogue

Author: Skyhorse Publishing

Imagine it’s the end of the nineteenth century, and, with one catalog, you can buy everything from beds and tools to clothing and opium. (Yes, opium.) Not to mention ear trumpets, horse buggies, and Bibles. The 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue is both a wonderfully fascinating collector’s item and a valuable piece of American history. For every recognizable item included, there are plenty of others guaranteed to confuse or interest 21st century readers—like Bust Cream or Food and Sweet Spirits of Nitre. What was once standard household fare is today a sometimes strange, often funny look at what life was once like for the average American family. It’s amazing to see that a Princely Shirt for Princely Men cost $0.95 or three for $2.75 or that a Complete Violin Outfit (with bow and case) cost only $2.00.

Ordering Instructions     1
Groceries     8
Drug Department     26
Hardware Department     52
Builder's and Hardware Material     100
Refrigerators     118
Bells     120
Cutlery     121
Stoves and Household Utensils     133
Agricultural Implements     162
Tailor Made Men's Clothing     181
Boys' Clothing Department     193
Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers     204
Men's Clothing     228
Hat and Cap Department     250
Trunks     268
Dry Goods Department     272
Ladies' and Girls' Clothing     285
Carpets, Curtains, and Linens     302
Women's Accessories     319
Books and Stationery     348
Watches and Jewelry     374
Silverware     444
Clocks     463
Optical Goods     468
Surveyors' Instruments     473
Thermometers and Electrical Goods     475
Cameras and Equipment     479
Musical Goods Department     497
Sporting Goods     524
Furniture     582
Baby Carriages     628
Sewing Machines     633
Vehicle, Harness, and Saddlery Department     642
What the People Say     694
Index     697

The Dip or How to Read a Financial Report

2009-12-05T02:03:00.000-08:00

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Author: Seth Godin

NOTE: The CD edition of this title is a Barnes & Noble Exclusive read by the author.

The old saying is wrong—winners do quit, and quitters do win.

Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point—really hard, and not much fun at all.

And then you find yourself asking if the goal is even worth the hassle. Maybe you're in a Dip—a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it's really a Cul-de-Sac, which will never get better, no matter how hard you try.

According to bestselling author Seth Godin, what really sets superstars apart from everyone else is the ability to escape dead ends quickly, while staying focused and motivated when it really counts.

Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip for the right reasons. In fact, winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. If you can become number one in your niche, you'll get more than your fair share of profits, glory, and long-term security.

Losers, on the other hand, fall into two basic traps. Either they fail to stick out the Dip—they get to the moment of truth and then give up—or they never even find the right Dip to conquer.

Whether you're a graphic designer, a sales rep, an athlete, or an aspiring CEO, this fun little book will help you figure out if you're in a Dip that's worthy of your time, effort, and talents. If you are, The Dip will inspire you to hang tough. If not, it will help you find the courage to quit—so you can be number one at something else.

Seth Godin doesn't claim to have all the answers. But he will teach you how to ask the right questions.

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How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

Author: John A Tracy CPA

Hidden somewhere among all the numbers in a financial report is vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is going. This is especially relevant in light of the current corporate scandals.
The sixth edition of this bestselling book is designed to help anyone who works with financial reports--but has neither the time nor the need for an in-depth knowledge of accounting--cut through the maze of accounting information to find out what those numbers really mean.

Money Doesnt Grow on Trees or Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat

2009-12-04T00:22:00.000-08:00

Money Doesn't Grow on Trees: A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible Children

Author: Neale S Godfrey

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Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More

Author: Peter Walsh

Diets don't work. Why not? Because they focus on what foods we should and shouldn't eat but completely ignore everything else that makes us fat. Look at your own situation: You say you want to lose weight, but you just can't stop indulging. You say you'd exercise more if only you had the time, yet you spend precious hours every night in front of the TV doing what? Munching nutrition-free snacks and drinking supersized beverages.

Peter Walsh, the bestselling author of It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, believes that the secret to successfully losing weight is to forget about calorie counting and weekly weigh-ins. Instead you need to focus on how, why, and where you eat. When it comes to clearing clutter (the fat in our homes) it isn't about the stuff itself, it's about the life you want to live. The same is true for losing weight: It's not about the pounds, it's about living the life you deserve in the body you want.

Using his expert techniques honed from years as a clutter expert and organizational consultant on TLC's Clean Sweep, Peter helps you address how the clutter in your kitchen, your pantry, and your home is directly related to the clutter on your body and negatively affects your ability to lead a full and healthy life. This book shows you how to clean up not just the spaces where you eat, but the routines around them: from planning meals and shopping to dinnertime rituals.

Peter knows all the pitfalls and all the excuses. In Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? he gives you the tools (and courage) you need to get over all your excuses, face the issues, and make the change to a betterlife.

This is not a diet book. This is a book about your life -- about creating the healthy life and body you have always imagined for yourself. Peter helps you kick the food-clutter habit forever. You have only one life. Start living it today.

While America Aged or Bringing out the Best in People

2009-12-02T22:41:00.000-08:00

While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis

Author: Roger Lowenstein

From the bestselling author of Buffett, When Genius Failed, and Origins of the Crash, a wake-up call to the pension and retirement crisis facing America and the road map for a way out

In While America Aged, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein explains how corporations and governments ran up ruinous pension and health-care promises to workers—promises that are now coming due and that will hit America like a tsunami if nothing is done.

Negotiating high benefits means gambling with future finances—and when the farm gets sold out from underneath major corporations or public institutions, it affects all of us, and in ways we might not imagine. With his trademark narrative panache, Lowenstein unravels the truth about how pensions work in America and illuminates the impending crisis. While America Aged is comprised of three fascinating case studies— each an object lesson and a compelling historical saga. The first goes back to the early days of the United Auto Workers and its crusading leader, Walter Reuther, to tell the story of how pensions and health-care obligations destroyed the American auto industry, in particular General Motors.

Lowenstein then shifts the scene to New York City to tell the story of the rise of public pensions and public sector unions through the vehicle of the Communist-led Transport Workers Union. Once again, justifiable benefits were followed by outrageous ones, such as the right to retire at age fifty. The saga reached a dramatic climax in 2005, when workers responded to proposed pension cutbacks with a massive strike that brought New York's subways and buses to a screeching halt days beforeChristmas.

In the concluding episode, Lowenstein visits a metropolis even more reckless in doling out benefits—San Diego. Desperate not to impose higher taxes, city officials in this highly conservative enclave cut a series of deals with unions to short-change the retirement system and use pension funds to run the city. A massive scandal ensued—two mayors resigned, officials were indicted, and San Diego lost its bond rating. Lowenstein warns that the pension wars that erupted in Detroit, New York City, and San Diego are only the first. But he also recognizes that workers are entitled to decent security in their retirement—a critical problem as the country ages. While America Aged explains how we came to this crisis, and it also proposes a way out. Arming readers with knowledge of the consequences of doing nothing, While America Aged, first and foremost, a call to action.

The Washington Post - Phillip Longman

Having struggled for years to make my own writing on pension issues interesting enough for anyone to want to read, I particularly appreciate Lowenstein's use of real people to illustrate the deeper financial issues involved. Even if they sometimes contain too much detail, there is a kind of gripping, slow-motion train wreck quality to the long, sad stories Lowenstein tells about people and institutions in deep denial. And those stories certainly have a clear moral. Boiling it down to its essence on the book's final page, he concludes, "The most effective remedy—in pensions, health care, and even in Social Security—is to banish the credit card. Benefits should not be charged to a future generation; they should be paid for now." Sadly, though, even if we can refrain from borrowing more from our children, we will still bear the dead weight of past borrowing that now falls to us.

The New York Times - Jeff Madrick

as Roger Lowenstein nicely illustrates in While America Aged, the country "is sitting on a retirement time bomb." He is not talking about Social Security, which, he writes, is among the more manageable of future concerns. He is addressing the large-scale failure of America's once-enviable private pension system. Lowenstein is one of the nation's most talented business writers, with a particular ability to make obscure financial issues clear as the morning light.

Publishers Weekly

America's impending pension problem is brutally simple: private companies and governments have pledged to provide retirement income and health care for workers, but have not set aside the money to make good on their promises. Typical accounts of the crisis tend to obfuscate the issue and fixate on laying blame, but Lowenstein (Origins of the Crash) has a refreshing perspective-he tells three fascinating stories in American economic history and situates the current pension problems in the struggle for dignity for workers. Lowenstein regards fixing pensions as a worthy culmination to a century's struggle for justice rather than a painful chore unfairly foisted on the present by the past. Unfortunately, after this incisive and inspiring history lesson, the 10 pages at the end devoted to solutions are too abstract and unoriginal. The book gives the reader lively stories and historical insight, but may disappoint those looking for policy recommendations. (May 5)

Kirkus Reviews

Lowenstein (Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing, 2004, etc.) probes a dangerous miscalculation made by American private and public enterprise: laying off responsibility for workers' pensions and retirement health benefits on some unspecified future. As baby boomers move into the retirement mainstream, the former Wall Street Journal columnist warns, the worst is yet to come. Examining how such situations evolved at General Motors, one of capitalism's former crown jewels, and in two of the nation's largest cities, he argues that confrontation-averse executives and pension trustees allowed hardball labor unions threatening crippling strikes to leverage benefit packages that were unsustainable from the beginning. Competitive pressures on the GM side and electoral politics in New York and San Diego also played their part in getting the unions attractive early retirement deals that, when workers began opting for them, brought crushing "future costs" closer than anyone had imagined. The GM story is perhaps the most tragic. In the late '90s, the company found itself with some 180,000 hourly employees on its payroll-and 400,000 retirees. Unable competitively to raise prices, GM cuts its dividend; stockholders, the company's nominal owners, begin to pick up the bill for retirees. In the cases of New York's Transit System workers and San Diego city employees, the same syndrome was made more sordid by political infighting and backroom deals. Others simply buried their heads in the sand. Former New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, for example, bet that pension-fund investments in a booming stock market would cover unfunded liabilities-then the market went down. Some form of paidnational healthcare is inevitable for the future, says Lowenstein: "Business is global, and U.S. companies compete against foreign-based firms whose home-countries do pick up the tab." Fixing pensions, he notes, will be even tougher, but at minimum Congress needs to regulate 401(k)s, which were "essentially developed in a social and legislative vacuum."A chilling anatomy of one bad decision followed by another-and another. Agent: Melanie Jackson/Melanie Jackson Agency

Book review: Presentations and Public Speaking or The Great Depression

Bringing out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement

Author: Aubrey C Daniels

The classic bestseller on performance management is updated to reflect changes in today's working environment. When an employer needs to know how to gain maximum performance from employees, renowned behavioral psychologist--Aubrey Daniels is the man to consult. What has made Daniels the man with the answers? His ability to apply scientifically based behavioral stimuli to the workplace while making it fun at the same time.

Now Daniels updates his ground-breaking book with the latest and best motivational methods, perfected at such companies as Xerox, 3M, and Kodak. All-new material shows how to: create effective recognition and rewards systems in line with today's employees want; Stimulate innovations and creativity in new and exciting ways;overcome problems associated with poorly educated workers; motivate young employees from the minute they join the workforce.

Aubrey C. Daniels, Ph.D., is the president of Aubrey Daniels & Associates, Inc. (Atlanta, GA), a management consulting firm that helps companies solve problems in productivity, quality, cost, and morale. One of the foremost speakers and writers in the human resources field, he has instituted his performance management system at more than two hundred organizations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, France, and Italy, and has worked closely with such noted clients as 3M, GTE, Rubbermaid, and Honeywell. Dr. Daniels is also the founder and PUblisher of Performance Management magazine.

Preface to the Second Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

Acknowledgments to the Second Edition.

Acknowledgments to the First Edition.

Part 1. The Perils of Traditional Management.

Fads, Fantasies, and Fixes.

Management by Common Sense Is Not Management at All.

Louder, Longer, Meaner.

Part 2. The Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement.

Behavior Is a Function of Its Consequences.

The ABCs of Performance Management.

The High Price of Negative Reinforcement.

Capturing Discretionary Effort Through Positive Reinforcement.

Decreasing Behavior - Intentionally or Otherwise.

Effective Delivery of Reinforcement.

Part 3. The Scientific Approach to Leadership.

Pinpoint Precision.

The Effective Use of Measurement.

Performance Feedback.

A Model for Problem Solving.

Part 4. Turning Good Intentions into High Performance.

Goal Setting to Shape Behavior.

The Missing Link in Quality.

Teams and Empowerment.

Turning Downsizing into Rightsizing.

Compensation and Performance Appraisal.

Part 5: Revitalizing the Workplace.

Performance Management: The Executive Function.

Accelerated Learning: Teaching More with Less.

Increasing Creativity and Managing Change.

Managing the Nintendo Generation and Beyond.

Thank God It's Monday - Celebrating Work.

Epilogue.

References.

Index.

Jim Cramers Real Money or Egonomics

2009-12-01T21:01:00.000-08:00

Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World

Author: James J Cramer

How do we find hot stocks without getting burned? How do we fatten our portfolios and stay financially healthy? Former hedge-fund manager and longtime Wall Street commentator Jim Cramer explains how to invest wisely in chaotic times, and he does so in plain English in a style that is as much fun as investing is -- or should be, when it's done right.

For starters, Cramer recommends devoting a portion of your assets to speculation. Everyone wants to find the big winners that can bring outsized gains, and Cramer explains how to allocate your portfolio so that you can afford to take this kind of risk wisely. He explains why "buy and hold" is a losing philosophy: For Cramer, it's "buy and homework." If you can't spend an hour a week researching each of your stocks, then you should hand off your portfolio to a mutual fund -- and Cramer identifies the very few mutual funds that he'd recommend.

Cramer reveals his Ten Commandments of Trading (Commandment #5: Tips are for waiters). He explains why he's not afraid to compare investing to gambling (and tells you which book on gambling you should read to become a better investor). He discloses his Twenty-Five Rules of Investing (Rule #4: Look for broken stocks, not broken companies).

Cramer shows how to compare stock prices in a way that you can understand, how to spot market tops and bottoms, how to know when to sell, how to rotate among cyclical stocks to catch the big moves, and much more. Jim Cramer's Real Money is filled with insider advice that really works, information that Cramer himself used to make millions during his fourteen-year career on Wall Street.

Written in Cramer's distinctive turbocharged style,this is every investor's guide to what you really must know to make big money in the stock market.

Publishers Weekly

After telling the story of his own trading days in Confessions of a Street Addict, Cramer appeases fans hoping for advice on how to duplicate his success with their own investment portfolios. But not without some strong caveats: his approach requires devoting at least an hour a week to educating yourself about each stock you own. But since most pros are "rank amateurs themselves," anyone willing to do the work should consider getting in. Cramer breaks down the fundamentals of his investment approach, built on the twin principles of diversification and speculation: while most of your portfolio should contain reliables like oil, financials and blue-chip companies, 20% percent of your money should go toward a slightly riskier bet on a company's future ("owning a stock is a bet on the future, not the past"). He also explains techniques for figuring out when to buy rock bottom stocks and sell the ones that have hit their peaks. Cramer drills his main points over and over, which can get repetitive on the anecdotal level but reinforces the simplicity of his message: investing is for anybody willing to put the time into learning how to do it right. His enthusiasm should prove inspiring, and even investors on the wrong side of Wall Street's recent shakeups may find the courage to get back in the game. Either way, Cramer's radio, TV and print platforms are sure to make this one another hit. Agent, Suzanne Gluck at William Morris. (Apr. 5) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Dale Farris - Library Journal

Cramer, author of Confessions of a Street Addictand Jim Cramer's Mad Money, among other books, and cohost of CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer, made hundreds of millions of dollars for investors while managing money for 38 of the world's wealthiest families. He applied his investment skills to his currently successful CNBC Mad Moneyprogram, which features Cramer's now familiar antics, unusual sound effects, and savvy investment advice. While Confessionstold the story of his early trading days, Cramer now helps listeners learn how to duplicate his success with their own portfolios, how to become really rich, not just make ends meet. He explains commonsense principles that enabled him to establish his financial success and makes it clear that investing is for anyone willing to devote at least one hour a week to learning how to do it right. Explaining his two fundamental principles of diversification and speculation while focusing a portfolio on tested reliables such as oil, financials, and blue-chip companies, he suggests allowing 20 percent of investment funds for riskier bets on the future of companies ("owning a stock is a bet on the future"). He also covers techniques for figuring out when to buy rock-bottom stocks and when to sell the ones that have hit their peak. He divulges how to make money in speculation, reveals his Ten Commandments of Trading, and discloses his Twenty-Five Rules of Investing. Cramer's infectious enthusiasm, his plain-speaking approach, his personal success story, and his always entertaining and thoroughly committed narration will inspire listeners as much as his television persona. While this solid material covers similarfinancial investment advice already on the shelves, Cramer's extensive TV, radio, and print notoriety will make this a certainty for all public libraries. Note that the CD contains additional text and graphic files that can be printed for reference. Highly recommended for larger public libraries and university libraries supporting a business curriculum.

Library Journal

Egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability)

Author: Dave Marcum

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Ego and the bottom line: why managing the power of ego is the first priority of business     1
The ego balance sheet: the four early warning signs that ego is costing your company, and the three principles of egonomics that turn it around     21
Early warning sign 1-being comparative: how being too competitive can make us less competitive     38
Early warning sign 2-being defensive: the difference between defending ideas and being defensive     55
Early warning sign 3-showcasing brilliance: how intelligence and talent can keep the best ideas from winning     74
Early warning sign 4-seeking acceptance: how our desire for respect and recognition gets in our way     89
Humility: opening minds and creating opportunity for change     100
Humility, part II: intensity and intent: using humility as a bridge to turn silence or argument into vigorous debate     137
Curiosity: how different types of curiosity unlock our minds and conversations     168
Veracity: how to make the undiscussables discussable, and closing the gap between what we think is going on and what's really going on     199
Appendix     229
Notes     235
Acknowledgments     249
Index     251

Unconventional Success or Creating a World without Poverty

2009-11-30T19:20:00.000-08:00

Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment

Author: David F Swensen

The bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management, the definitive template for institutional fund management, returns with a book that shows individual investors how to manage their financial assets.

In Unconventional Success, investment legend David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual-fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent "churning" of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual-fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of all are the hidden schemes that limit investor choice and reduce returns, including "pay-to-play" product-placement fees, stale-price trading scams, soft-dollar kickbacks, and 12b-1 distribution charges.

Even if investors manage to emerge unscathed from an encounter with the profit-seeking mutual-fund industry, individuals face the likelihood of self-inflicted pain. The common practice of selling losers and buying winners (and doing both too often) damages portfolio returns and increases tax liabilities, delivering a one-two punch to investor aspirations.

In short: Nearly insurmountable hurdles confront ordinary investors.

Swensen's solution? A contrarian investment alternative that promotes well-diversified, equity-oriented, "market-mimicking" portfolios that reward investors who exhibit the courage to stay the course. Swensen suggests implementing his nonconformist proposal with investor-friendly, not-for-profit investment companies such as Vanguard and TIAA-CREF. By avoiding actively managed funds and employing client-oriented mutual-fund managers, investors create the preconditionsfor investment success.

Bottom line? Unconventional Success provides the guidance and financial know-how for improving the personal investor's financial future.

1	Sources of return	9
Pt. 1	Asset allocation
2	Core asset classes	35
3	Portfolio construction	81
4	Non-core asset classes	92
Pt. 2	Market timing
5	Chasing performance	153
6	Rebalancing	183
Pt. 3	Security selection
7	The performance deficit of mutual funds	208
8	Obvious sources of mutual-fund failure	220
9	Hidden causes of poor mutual-fund performance	270
10	Winning the active-management game	295
11	The exchange-traded fund alternative	313
12	Failure of for-profit mutual funds	341
App. 1	Measuring investment gains and losses	367
App. 2	The Arnott, Berkin, and Ye study of mutual-fund returns	369

Book about: Earth or The Real Price of Everything

Creating a World without Poverty

Author: Muhammad Yunus

In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.

In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including the spiritual, the social, and the altruistic. Welcome to the world of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet.

Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus's own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already under way—and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of every human being.

Scotland on Sunday

(I)n Creating A World Without Poverty, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus argues convincingly that social business is an achievable way of exploiting capitalism to help the poor. Yunus moves the debate beyond the tired argument that the rich should simply donate to those less privileged, and demonstrates that the free market can in fact be used to the advantage of the less well off…This book is a must-read for policymakers or philanthropists, and its conversational style and straightforward logic also make it appealing to the layperson.

BusinessWeek

an inspiring volume, full of practical information for people who are motivated to try out his ideas.

Winnipeg Free Press

In this excellent work of popular economics, he tells the story of how he came to the idea and the impressive results it has generated.

Bookseller

The influential economist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of of free markets with the quest for a more humane world. Includes stories of companies that are already doing social business.

Publishers Weekly

Economics professor Yunus claims he "originally became involved in the poverty issue not as a policy-maker, scholar, or researcher, but because poverty was all around me." With these words he stopped teaching "elegant theories" and began lending small amounts of money, $40 or less, without collateral, to the poorest women in the world. Thirty-three years later, the Grameen Bank has helped seven million people live better lives building businesses to serve the poor. The bank is solidly profitable, with a 98.6% repayment rate. It inspired the micro-credit movement, which has helped 100 million of the poorest people in the world escape poverty and earned Yunus (Banker to the Poor) a Nobel Peace prize. This volume efficiently recounts the story of microcredit, then discusses "Social Business," organizations designed to help people while turning profits. French food giant Danone's partnership to market yogurt in Bangladesh is described in detail, along with 25 other businesses that operate under the Grameen banner. Infused with entrepreneurial spirit and the excitement of a worthy challenge, this book is the opposite of pessimistic recitals of intractable poverty's horrors. (Jan.)

Leading and Managing in Nursing or Andrew Carnegie

2009-11-29T17:39:00.000-08:00

Leading and Managing in Nursing

Author: Patricia S Yoder Wis

Elsevier's #1 nursing management text, Leading and Managing in Nursing, 4th Edition, offers an innovative approach by merging theory, research, and practical application in key leadership and management areas. It is organized around issues that are central to the success of professional nurses in today's constantly changing healthcare environment including consumer relationships, cultural diversity, and communication. This 4th edition is thoroughly updated and revised to better prepare students for the nursing leadership and management issues of today and tomorrow.

Each chapter opens with The Challenge, a contemporary nurse's real-world concern related to the chapter's focus that encourages readers to think about what they would do in a similar situation. Possible answers are discussed in The Solution at the end of each chapter.

Every chapter contains numbered exercises that provide experiential reinforcement of key leading and managing skills and challenge students to think critically about concepts in the text to apply them to real-life situations.

Research and Literature Perspective boxes summarize articles of interest and point out their relevance and applicability to practice.

Theory Boxes highlight and summarize pertinent theoretical concepts reinforcing key points of chapter content as a quick reference for students.

Objectives articulate the chapter's learning goals, which are typically at the application level or higher.

Questions to Consider stimulate learners to think about their personal viewpoint or experience with the topics and issues discussed in the chapter.

The Application Activity section is a built-in,perforated tool to help students self-assess and evaluate their learning and understanding of the content in the text.

The vivid full-color chapter opener photographs and other photographs throughout the text help convey each chapter's key message while providing a glimpse into the real world of nursing.

New chapters on Translating Research into Practice and Thriving for the Future emphasize the importance of research in nursing, as well as the potential for growth into leadership roles as a nurse.

The table of contents has been reorganized to consolidate core concepts, resources, change, and interpersonal and personal skills.

Connie J. Rowles

This book contains content usually covered in leadership and management texts. The prior edition of the text was published in 1995. The purpose of the text from the editorr's point of view is to " . . .fill a need for a text that focuses on the nursing leadership and management issues of today and tomorrow in a totally new way." This book is definitely needed and most certainly meets the authors' objectives. The main audience, as stated by the editor, is the baccalaureate level nursing student. The editor is well-credentialed. In addition to content areas usually incorporated into leadership and management texts, this book also includes chapters on consumer relations and cultural diversity in the workplace. It includes many items to assist in student learning, including an extensive glossary, research and literature perspectives, theory boxes, manager's challenges, highlighted areas for important content, chapter objectives, and checklists. Color is used throughout to identify many of these areas. Inclusion of a student workbook with this text is a major positive addition to the prior edition. The workbook contains individual and group exercises that should help encourage student interaction. Videotapes and an instructor's resource manual are also available. No obvious shortcomings were noted. This is an excellent text, which is vastly improved over the prior edition. There are many strong graphic and organizational techniques that should stimulate student interest and learning. This text should definitely facilitate student learning more than other texts available that cover much the same material.

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Reviewer: Connie J. Rowles, RN, DSN (Indiana University School of Nursing)
Description: This book contains content usually covered in leadership and management texts. The prior edition of the text was published in 1995.
Purpose: The purpose of the text from the editorr's point of view is to " . . .fill a need for a text that focuses on the nursing leadership and management issues of today and tomorrow in a totally new way." This book is definitely needed and most certainly meets the authors' objectives.
Audience: The main audience, as stated by the editor, is the baccalaureate level nursing student. The editor is well-credentialed.
Features: In addition to content areas usually incorporated into leadership and management texts, this book also includes chapters on consumer relations and cultural diversity in the workplace. It includes many items to assist in student learning, including an extensive glossary, research and literature perspectives, theory boxes, manager's challenges, highlighted areas for important content, chapter objectives, and checklists. Color is used throughout to identify many of these areas. Inclusion of a student workbook with this text is a major positive addition to the prior edition. The workbook contains individual and group exercises that should help encourage student interaction. Videotapes and an instructor's resource manual are also available. No obvious shortcomings were noted.
Assessment: This is an excellent text, which is vastly improved over the prior edition. There are many strong graphic and organizational techniques that should stimulate student interest and learning. This text should definitely facilitate student learning more than other texts available that cover much the same material.

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Economic Facts and Fallacies or Seven Spiritual Laws Success

2009-11-28T15:59:00.000-08:00

Economic Facts and Fallacies

Author: Thomas Sowell

From one of America's most distinguished economists, a short, brilliant and revelatory book: the fundamental ideas people most commonly get wrong about economics, and how to think about the subject better.

Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the readers. These fallacies include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as fallacies about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, as well as economics fallacies about academia, about race, and about Third World countries.

One of the themes of Economic Facts and Fallacies is that fallacies are not simply crazy ideas but in fact have a certain plausibility that gives them their staying power-and makes careful examination of their flaws both necessary and important, as well as sometimes humorous.

Written in the easy to follow style of the author's Basic Economics, this latest book is able to go into greater depth, with real world examples, on specific issues.

Publishers Weekly

The heart of the matter for Thomas Sowell (Basic Economics) is to ask, "What are the facts?" In his latest book, economist Sowell examines numerous misconceptions about life and economics. Sowell writes like an exacting scholar, but his arguments, which rely on economic analyses primarily, may suffer from oversimplification. Sowell argues that zoning restrictions and rent-control policies hurt those whom they're meant to help; intones that women earn less than men because they are far less likely than men to choose occupations that require very long hours; believes tenure helps neither students nor professors; demonstrates that even the poor have successfully moved up economically; tackles fallacies about race in America; and aims to convince that "there is nothing baffling or morally wrong about the fact that different nations have different per capita incomes." He falters in his chapter on the academy, when he becomes an advocate rather than an observer, and oddly neglects the individual choice available to students. Sowell's purpose is to teach readers to "examine [their] beliefs more closely and more analytically," and the conclusions he draws are certain to inspire rigorous debate. This readable volume is a useful primer exposing how economics relates to the social issues that affect our country. (Jan.)

Seven Spiritual Laws Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Author: Deepak Chopra

Based on natural laws which govern all of creation, this book shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra offers a life-altering perspective on the attainment of success: Once we understand our true nature and learn to live in harmony with natural law, a sense of well-being, good health, fulfilling relationships, energy and enthusiasm for life, and material abundance will spring forth easily and effortlessly. Filled with timeless wisdom and practical steps you can apply right away, this is a book you will want to read and refer to again and again.

Objective Based Safety Training or Capitalism and Modernity

2009-02-17T14:04:00.000-08:00

Objective-Based Safety Training

Author: Kenneth L Miller

What are the four major areas always in the safety practitioner's mind? Preventing injuries - preventing catastrophic losses - protecting the organization from regulatory problems - and showing value to the organization. This book prepares the safety management practitioner for training in a diverse workforce while creating a program that meets the specific needs of a client or corporation. It evaluates the barriers that a trainer may encounter and offers techniques to overcome them. This book will assist the trainer to create a training program which is geared towards adult learning. Showing that training is hitting the mark through behavioral change supports the overall organization's goals.

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For safety training programs to be perceived as value-added assets, professionals must mesh safe workplace objectives with bottom-line organizational culture (Part one). In Part two, training expert Miller details how to assess the company's needs; match training methods with these needs, learning theory, and regulatory requirements; and empower employees through self- directed work teams. Part three focuses on evaluation, risk assessment, and "the good, bad, and the ugly" of the field. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Capitalism and Modernity: An Excursus on Marx and Weber

Author: Derek Sayer

The nature of modernity, and its connection with capitalism, are questions at the heart of contemporary sociological debate. In Capitalism and Modernity, Derek Sayer critically re-examines the answers given by two of the greatest social theorists of capitalism, Karl Marx and Max Weber. He provides a fresh reading of both men's work, and breaks new ground in showing the remarkable relevance of their thought to the modern condition. From behind the well-worn stereotypes of "the Marx-Weber debate" emerges a disturbing critique of modern sociality, subjectivity, and power which has lost none of its intellectual force or moral relevance.

Clearly and compellingly written, Capitalism and Modernity is a major work of original scholarship. As an authoritative yet accessible commentary on a debate central to modern sociology and politics, this work is likely to become a seminal text in social theory.

Preventing Corporate Embezzlement or Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

2009-02-16T12:23:00.000-08:00

Preventing Corporate Embezzlement

Author: Paul Shaw

Internal loss is one of the most costly forms of loss. Embezzlement is one of the least detected and prosecuted forms of internal theft. Preventing Corporate Embezzlement is a professional reference that offers solutions. Managers, auditors and others charged with protecting assets must achieve a heightened awareness of embezzlement. They need to recognize and understand the opportunities, methods, and varieties of embezzlement, as well as establish internal controls that will prevent and detect embezzlement.

Practical tool for detecting and combatting embezzlement: checklists, forms and evaluations Offers how-to advice on avoiding lawsuits by practicing preventive law Lists further resources, publications and directories on embezzlement, internal controls and security, risk management, insurance, auditors, and security services and equipment

Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisons and Contrasts

Author: Richard Bessel

Can Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany be compared? This collaborative volume explores the parallels and contrasts between the two regimes. Its ten essays examine the rise of the Fascist and Nazi movements; the relation of the regimes to workers, women, and war; and how the regimes may be viewed in a long-term perspective. The essays take stock of recent research, advance fresh theories about the histories of Nazism and Fascism, and provide a basis for informed comparison of two regimes central to twentieth-century history.

Integral Logistics Management or Operations Research Models and Methods

2009-02-15T10:42:00.000-08:00

Integral Logistics Management: Planning and Control of Comprehensive Business Processes

Author: Paul Schonsleben

In today's global economy, small to medium-sized companies increasingly depend on computer-aided planning and control. And rightly so, for the large amounts of data these tasks involve cannot be handled quickly - and accurately - enough by other methods. The success of magic formulas, catchwords, and simplifying theories in logistics management depends upon the people using them.

An exhaustive understanding of logistics forms the basis of this book. It emphasizes integral analysis and design covering logistics networks through the entire production process to the end user and back again. The author examines business objectives and methods in detail. Along with the familiar concepts of production planning and control systems, he discusses the integration of planning and control in research and development.

Integral Logistics Management: Planning and Control of Comprehensive Business Processes provides a comprehensive understanding of logistics. The book handles both classical and novel approaches to nonrepetitive (one-of-a-kind) production.

You will find not only the most recent trends in supply chain management, virtual organizations, and agile companies, but also the concepts of Just-In-Time (JIT) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Materials Resource Planning II (MRP II).

Operations Research Models and Methods

Author: Paul A Jensen

In a rapidly developing field like Operations Research, its easy to get overwhelmed by the variety of topics and analytic techniques. Paul Jensen and Jonathan Bard help you master the expensive field by focusing on the fundamental models and methodologies underlying the practice of Operations Research.

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, the authors presents the quantitative tools and models most important to understanding modern operations research. You'll come to appreciate the power of OR techniques in solving real-world problems and applications in your own field. You'll learn how to translate complex situations into mathematical models, solve models and turn models into solutions. A CD (included free, inside the cover) contains advanced topics, as well as robust, yet easy-to-use, Excel add-ins that support the methods discussed in the text.

Features*Divide each subject into methods and models, giving you greater flexibility in how you approach the material.
*Concise and focused presentation highlights central ideas. The first CD includes advanced topics and applications.
*Excel add-ins on the accompanying CD will help you solve almost all of the problems and exercises in the book.
*Many examples throughout the text will help you better understand mathematical material.
*Trial versions of software on the CD allow you to use some of the commercial tools available to OR practitioners. These include Premium Solver for Education from Frontline Systems, Inc., MPL Modeling System from Maximal Software, Inc., and the Extended Simulation System from Imagine That, Inc.
*A comprehensive website for the book offers step-by-step procedures for manyof the methods discussed in the book.

1	Problem Solving with Operations Research	1
2	Linear Programming Models	17
3	Linear Programming Methods	56
4	Sensitivity Analysis, Duality, and Interior Point Methods	111
5	Network Flow Programming Models	146
6	Network Flow Programming Methods	182
7	Integer Programming Models	223
8	Integer Programming Methods	266
9	Nonlinear Programming Models	315
10	Nonlinear Programming Methods	359
11	Models for Stochastic Processes	409
12	Discrete-Time Markov Chains	427
13	Mathematics of Discrete-Time Markov Chains	466
14	Continuous-Time Markov Chains	493
15	Mathematics of Continuous-Time Markov Chains	526
16	Queuing Models	550
17	Queuing Networks and Decision Models	586
18	Simulation	614
	Index	669

Mexican Politics or Economics of Buiness Policy

2009-02-14T09:01:00.000-08:00

Mexican Politics: The Dynamics of Change

Author: Howard Handelman

MEXICAN POLITICS traces the historical development of Mexico's political system and analyzes U.S./Mexico relations, highlighting Mexico's importance to the U.S. Current events such as the NAFTA accord, the Chiapas uprising, the economic crisis of 1994, and the downfall of a former president are explored in context.

Preface. Map. 1. Mexico: The Ongoing Crisis. 2. The Origins of Modern Mexico. 3. The Structure of Government. 4. Elections and the Party System. 5. Interest Groups and Popular Protest. 6. Mexico's Changing Political Economy. 7. Mexico and the United States. 8. Prospects for the Future. Acronyms. Bibliography. Index.

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Economics of Buiness Policy

Author: Anindya Sen

This book using tools of industrial organization and business policy comprehensively examines how a firm can maximize short and long term gains for its stakeholders. This volume may be described as a book on industrial organization with a business policy perspective.

An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media or Crisis of Argentine Capitalism

2009-02-13T07:20:00.000-08:00

An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media: Scriptwriting Essentials Across the Genres

Author: Robert B Musburger

"Wonderfully practical....just what every media writer needs."
Christopher H. Sterling George Washington University

* Learn what it takes to write for commercials, news, documentaries, corporate, educational, animation, games, the internet, and dramatic film & video productions

* Outlines the key skills needed for a successful media writing career

The demand for quality and knowledgeable multi-platform writing is always in high demand. An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media presents a survey of the many types of electronic media you can write for, and explains how to do it.

Musburger focuses on the skills you need to write for animation versus radio or television news versus corporate training. Sample scripts help you learn by example while modeling your own scripts. Production files illustrate the integral role writers' play in the production process, and individual movie frames allow you compare these to the real scripts.

Armed with the skills developed in this book, a media writer can apply for a variety of positions in newsrooms, advertising firms, motion pictures or animation studios, as well as local and national cable operations.

Robert B. Musburger, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the School of Communication, University of Houston, USA. He has worked for 20 years in professional broadcasting, serving as camera operator, director, producer, and writer. Musburger has received numerous awards for his video work and teaching and he continues to work in electronic media with his Seattle, WA,. consulting firm, Musburger Media Services.

"[An] authoritative and clearly written description of theprocesses involved in writing for film, radio and television production."
Raymond Fielding, Dean Emeritus Florida State University

*Provides you with an overview of the different types of media they might write for
*Sample scripts illustrate the various approaches to conveying information
*Outlines the key skills needed for a successful media writing career

Preface     xiii
Acknowledgments     xv
Getting Started: Loading the Application and Sharpening the Pencil     1
Introduction     1
Background     1
Script Variations     11
Media Differences     11
Basic Writing Skills     13
Language of Discrimination     25
The Law and Censorship     27
The Audience and Distribution     30
Summary     32
Be Sure To...     32
Exercises     32
Additional Sources     33
Media Production for Writers     35
Introduction     35
Writer's Relationship with Production     36
What Is Production?     37
Why Production for Writers?     38
The Language of Production     39
Video Production Techniques     45
Audio Production Techniques     48
Digital and Web Production Techniques     49
Summary     50
Be Sure To...     50
Exercises     51
Additional Sources     51
Spots: Public Service Announcements, Program Promotions, and Commercials     53
Introduction     53
Background     54
Public Service Announcements     56
Promotional Announcements     57
Commercial Announcements     58
Audience Analysis     60
Ethics     64
The Law     66
Writing Spot Copy     74
Copywriting     77
Copy Formatting     81
Instructions for Dual-Column Format Using Microsoft Word     82
Instructions for Single-Column Format Using Microsoft Word     85
Production Values     89
Summary     90
Be Sure To...     91
Exercises     91
Additional Sources     92
News     93
Introduction     93
The Fourth Estate     94
Print Newswriting Basics     94
Electronic Newswriting Basics     98
Newswriting Guidelines     99
Interviewing     105
Know Your Stylebook-Objectivity and Fairness     106
Radio Newswriting     108
Television Newswriting     117
Internet Newswriting     130
Summary     134
Be Sure To...     136
Exercises     136
Additional Sources     137
Documentaries     139
Introduction     139
Background     140
Types of Documentaries     143
Script and Production Patterns     144
Sponsored Documentaries, Biographies, and Docudramas     146
Docudramas     147
Documentary Preproduction Process     148
Documentary Formats     149
Writing a Documentary     151
Summary     153
Be Sure To...     153
Exercises     154
Additional Sources     154
Informational Productions     157
Introduction     157
Background     158
Writing Corporate Media Scripts     161
Writing Educational Media Scripts     175
Summary     176
Be Sure To...     177
Exercises     177
Additional Sources     178
Animation     181
Introduction     181
Background     182
The Production Process     184
The Writing Process     187
Writing Techniques     194
Summary     199
Be Sure To...      200
Exercises     200
Additional Sources     201
Games     203
Introduction     203
Background     204
Types of Games     206
Writing Game Scripts     208
Script Formats     212
Developing Plot and Action Lines     213
Summary     215
Be Sure To...     216
Exercises     216
Additional Sources     216
Drama     219
Introduction     219
Background     220
Stages of Scriptwriting     223
Dramatic Script Formats     240
Summary     248
Be Sure To...     249
Exercises     249
Additional Sources     249
The Internet     251
Introduction     251
Background     251
Types of Internet Messages     254
E-Mail     254
World Wide Web     256
Types of Web Sites     257
E-Commerce     260
Streaming Media     260
Audio Streaming     261
Video Streaming     263
Writing for the Internet     264
E-Mail, Chat Lines, and Instant Messaging     265
Newsgroups and Blogs     266
Interactive Producing     268
Interactive Writing     270
Electronic Commerce     272
Internet Problems     274
Summary     275
Be Sure To...     276
Exercises     276
Additional Sources     277
Future     279
Introduction     279
The Search     280
Networking     281
Internship     283
Resume     284
Cover Letter     289
Portfolio     290
Interviewing     293
Freelancing     296
Representation     297
Summary     298
Be Sure To...     300
Exercises     300
Additional Sources     301
Appendix A     303
Appendix B     305
Appendix C     308
Glossary     313
Index     329

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Crisis of Argentine Capitalism

Author: Paul H Lewis

At the end of World War II, Argentina was the most industrialized nation in Latin America, with a highly urbanized, literate, and pluralistic society. But over the last four decades, Argentina has suffered both political and economic crises of increasing intensity that have stalled industrial growth, sharpened class conflict, and led to long periods of military rule. Paul Lewis explains how that shift happened.

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By focusing on the organization, development, and political activities of pressure groups rather than on parties or governmental institutions, Lewis (political science, Tulane U.) gets to the root causes of Argentina's instability and decline. His study is of the industrialist bourgeoisie and their relation to labor, government, the military, and foreign capital. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Introduction to Wireless Technology or Death Of The Guilds

2009-02-12T05:39:00.000-08:00

Introduction to Wireless Technology

Author: Gary S Rogers

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of wireless technology and networking. It covers the history of wireless communications, Wireless Application Protocol, Bluetooth, cellular telephony, public services, wireless LANs, satellite communications, and the Global Positioning System. Case studies are presented throughout to enhance the learning experience.

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Death Of The Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present

Author: Elliott A Kraus

In a uniquely wide-ranging analysis of modern professional group power, Elliott A. Krause looks at four traditional professions: medicine, law, university teaching, and engineering. His richly detailed comparison of the autonomy and leverage these professions wield in five countries - the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and Germany - reveals many differences among the countries and the professions. Yet in the past three decades each professional group in each country has experienced a marked decline in its powers in relation to the state and to capitalist institutions. With a shift toward capitalist control, Krause contends, the professions operate more on a for-profit basis, and increased rationing of services becomes more likely. For these professional groups, such powers as control over association and training for the profession, over the workplace, over the market for services, and over the group's relation to the state peaked by the late 1950s and early 1960s. After that, Krause's nation-by-nation social historical comparison shows, the actions of states, of capitalist employers of professionals, or of the two together have eroded professional group power. This loss of power, Krause cautions, will lead to fewer benefits for consumers of professional services as providers respond less to consumer needs and more to the priorities of capitalists who arrange the services and determine who will receive them. And, as the professions surrender noncapitalist values, they become no different from any other occupations.

	Preface
1	Guild Power and the Theory of Professions	1
2	The United States: Capitalism Dominant, Professions Pressured	29
3	Britain: Class-Divided Professions and an Amateur State	79
4	France: Strong State, Cliental Professions	123
5	Italy: Partitocrazia and Politicized Professions	172
6	Germany: Corporatist System, Professions Included	214
7	Comparative and International Perspectives	252
8	Conclusions: Guild Power and Social Change	280
	References	287
	Index	303

Post Industrial Capitalism or Strategic Management in Tourism

2009-02-11T03:58:00.000-08:00

Post-Industrial Capitalism: Exploring Economic Inequality in America

Author: Joel I Nelson

"The work is provocative and ambitious and the writing is clear." --Choice "It is a topic in need of systematic analysis. . . . Joel I. Nelson understands and, in fact, has mastered the issues. . . . It will undoubtedly be a major contribution. . . . His approach is fresh and refreshing. . . . He has the appropriate conceptual tools to complete his synthesis. . . . I believe not only scholars--sociologists, economists, political scientists, and historians, would find Post-Industrial Capitalism useful but policymakers might also find it of interest. . . . The book can also be used as a text in an advanced undergraduate class and in a graduate seminar. . . . Nelson's thesis is coherent and logically developed. . . . I imagine this book as a college text or on a desk in Washington, DC. . . . Nelson's last book Economic Inequality was a huge success. . . . Certainly the many who relied on it in their teaching and research will welcome and use Post-Industrial Capitalism." --Lionel L. Lewis, State University of New York at Buffalo "Too often authors focus only on the positive aspects or on the downside of postindustrialism. Joel I. Nelson is proposing something that fits neatly between the two camps. . . . Nelson's strategy of building a new explanation based on a synthesis of these older approaches is very attractive. . . . There are no other books that attempt this. . . . Post-Industrial Capitalism might also be used in an advanced undergraduate course on economic sociology or social change. . . . [It] will be also acquired by professionals in sociology, social work, political science, and economics. . . . The sequence of the topics are clear and concise. . . . Each chapter pullstogether arguments that--heretofore--have been scattered across numerous books and articles (and across disciplines for that matter)." --Charles M. Tolbert II, Professor of Sociology and Rural Sociology, Louisiana State University The social and economic well-being of many Americans is increasingly at risk. Disparities in earnings and wealth are escalating, reversing a century of declining inequality. Excesses of the free market are growing-and growing more difficult to contain. Politics are increasingly conservative across the ideological spectrum, with economic competitiveness considered more important than equality and humanitarian aid. Post-Industrial Capitalism offers an alternative to the dominant and unsuccessful Marxist and industrialist views by providing a framework for explaining the widening polarization within American society. This work demonstrates a more comprehensive explanation of inequality and locates its source in the transformation of American business. It provides a fresh illustration of Schumpeter's insistence on the ability of capitalism to develop by creatively destroying its past. It not only describes the shifts in corporate resources, illustrates their use by the corporate sector, and traces their implications for inequality across the institutional spectrum, but also demonstrates how these strategies have been used by companies to intensify competition, effect greater political control, and widen the economic gap in America. Scholars interested in the question of modernity and post-industrialization, theorists of multiple theoretical persuasions, and students interested in social stratification, inequality, and social change will find Postindustrial Capitalism to be extremely valuable.

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Nelson (sociology, U. of Minnesota) locates the source of inequality and polarization within American society in the transformation of American business, describing the shifts in corporate resources and their use by the corporate sector, and the implications for inequality across the institutional spectrum. He demonstrates how corporate strategies have been used to intensify competition, effect greater political control, and widen the economic gap in America. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Strategic Management in Tourism

Author: Luiz Moutinho

This book contains coverage and analytical discussion of the three key areas of contemporary tourism management: evaluation of the most important global trends in tourism; analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications; the major factors affecting international tourism management. The aim of this advanced textbook is to provide a vision of integrated management which will benefit students in their future careers.

	Contributors
	Preface
Pt. 1	The Tourism Environment	1
1	Trends in Tourism	3
2	The Marketing Environment for Travel and Tourism	17
Pt. 2	Tourism Marketing Management	39
3	Consumer Behaviour	41
4	Tourism Marketing Research	79
5	Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning and Strategic Marketing	121
Pt. 3	Functional Management in Tourism	167
6	Human Resource Issues in Travel and Tourism	169
7	Financial Management in Tourism	187
8	Operations Management	211
9	Strategic Quality Management	239
Pt. 4	Strategic Planning in Tourism	257
10	Strategic Planning	259
11	The Marketing Planning Index: A Tool for Measuring Strategic Marketing Effectiveness in the Hospitality Sector	283
12	Demand Modelling and Forecasting	293
13	International Tourism Management	315
	Index	337

Sacred Trust or Marketing by Menu Creating Your Most Powerful Marketing Tool

2009-02-10T02:17:00.000-08:00

Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church As an Economic Firm

Author: Robert B Ekelund

Without meaning to be irreverent, it is fair to say that in the Middle Ages, at the height of its political and economic power, the Roman Catholic Church functioned in part as a powerful and sophisticated corporation. The Church dealt in a "product" many consumers felt they had to have: the salvation of their immortal souls. The Pope served as its CEO, the College of Cardinals as its board of directors, bishoprics and monasteries as its franchises. And while the Church certainly had moral and social goals, this early antecedent to AT&T and General Motors had economic motives and methods as well, seeking to maximize profits by eliminating competitors and extending its markets.
In Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm, five highly respected economists advance the controversial argument that the story of the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages is in large part a story of supply and demand. Without denying the centrality--or sincerity--of religious motives, the authors employ the tools of modern economics to analyze how the Church's objectives went well beyond the realm of the spiritual. They explore the myriad sources of the Church's wealth, including tithes and land rents, donations and bequests, judicial services and monastic agricultural production. And they present an in-depth look at the ways in which Church principles on marriage, usury, and crusade were revised as necessary to meet--and in many ways to create--the needs of a vast body of consumers. Along the way, the book raises and answers many intriguing questions. The authors explore the reasons behind the great crusades against the Moslems, probing beyond motives of pure idealism to highlightthe Church's concern with revenues from tourism and the sale of relics threatened by Moslem encroachment in the holy lands. They examine the Church's involvement in the marriage market, revealing how the clergy filled their coffers by extracting fees for blessing or dissolving marital unions, for hearing marital disputes, and even for granting permission for blood relatives to wed. And they shed light on the concept of purgatory, showing how this
"product innovation" developed by the Church in the twelfth century--a form of "deferred payment"--opened the floodgates for a fresh market in post-mortem atonement through payments on behalf of the deceased. Finally, the authors show how the cumulative costs that the faithful were asked to bear eventually priced the Roman Catholic church out of the market, paving the way for Protestant reformers like Martin Luther.
A ground-breaking look at the growth and decline of the medieval Church, Sacred Trust demonstrates how economic reasoning can be used to cast light on the behavior of any complex historical institution. It offers rare insight into one of the great historical powers of Western civilization, in a analysis that will intrigue anyone interested in life in the Middle Ages, in church history, or in the influence of economic motives on historical events.

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Marketing by Menu: Creating Your Most Powerful Marketing Tool

Author: Nancy Loman Scanlon

Your most powerful marketing and management tool is a well-designed menu. Here is how to create one. A menu can make or break a restaurant. To be effective, it must be tailored to your business, help you make profit, and meet the expectations of your customers. This book tells you everything you need to develop a menu program that will ensure the profitability of your restaurant or other foodservice operation. Now in its third edition, Marketing by Menu takes you well into the twenty-first century, covering emerging new markets and the latest trends in home-food replacement services. Fully revised and updated, this edition shows you how to create daily and seasonal menus, catering menus, "healthy eating" programs, and other specialty menus directed at today’s widely diverse clientele. You will get precise, step-by-step guidelines to menu layout and design, content development, and profit considerations—including marketing surveys, food costing and pricing, and menu item selection. Complete with work pages to practice the concepts involved, as well as a wealth of real-world examples from restaurants, hotels, and other foodservice operations across the United States and abroad, Marketing by Menu is a one-of-a-kind resource for managers and professionals in the foodservice industry.

	Preface
	Introduction
Ch. 1	The Commercial Menu	3
Ch. 2	Planning for Profit	29
Ch. 3	Costing for Profit	41
Ch. 4	Pricing for Profit	51
Ch. 5	Menu Item Selection	81
Ch. 6	Setting Quality Standards	99
Ch. 7	Marketing with Menu Design	111
Ch. 8	Marketing with Copy	189
Ch. 9	Restaurant Concept and Cuisine Trends	217
Ch. 10	Specialty Menus	227
Ch. 11	The Changing Customer	241
	Glossary	245
	Bibliography	251
	Index	253

Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms or Econometric Modelling of Financial Time Series

2009-02-09T00:37:00.000-08:00

Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms: With Laboratory Experiments for the Tms320c30

Author: Steven A Tretter

Designed for senior electrical engineering students, this textbook explores the theoretical concepts of digital signal processing and communication systems by presenting laboratory experiments using real-time DSP hardware. Each experiment begins with a presentation of the required theory and concludes with instructions for performing them. Engineering students gain experience in working with equipment commonly used in industry. This text features DSP-based algorithms for transmitter and receiver functions.

Booknews

A wire-bound laboratory text that explores the digital signal processing and communication systems theoretical concepts presented in typical senior elective courses by implementing them on actual hardware in real time. The primary focus is on communication systems. Approaches that are particularly useful for DSP implementations are presented. While the experiments, particularly the earlier ones, are described for the TMS320C30 Evaluation Module, they can be modified for any PC DSP board with an A/D and D/A converter. Disk included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Go to: Terrorism or Products Liability

Econometric Modelling of Financial Time Series

Author: Terence C Mills

Terence Mills' best-selling graduate textbook provides detailed coverage of the latest research techniques and findings relating to the empirical analysis of financial markets. In its previous editions it has become required reading for many graduate courses on the econometrics of financial modelling. The third edition, co-authored with Raphael Markellos, contains a wealth of new material reflecting the developments of the last decade. Particular attention is paid to the wide range of nonlinear models that are used to analyse financial data observed at high frequencies and to the long memory characteristics found in financial time series. The central material on unit root processes and the modelling of trends and structural breaks has been substantially expanded into a chapter of its own. There is also an extended discussion of the treatment of volatility, accompanied by a new chapter on nonlinearity and its testing.

Training Design Guide for the Hospitality Industry or Computer Literacy for Health Care Professionals

2009-02-07T22:56:00.000-08:00

Training Design Guide for the Hospitality Industry

Author: Christine Jaszay

This is an extremely practical ?how to design training? guide that hospitality managers can apply to your own property?s or facility?s training needs. From determining what the training needs actually are to determining the style and content of the program, you will learn by modeling a training design consultant step-by-step what you need to do to provide effective training for your staff. Many examples of training for various positions are highlighted throughout and may be easily modified for any line position in the hospitality industry.

New interesting book: Windows Home Server Bible or Beginning PERL

Computer Literacy for Health Care Professionals

Author: Sandra Anderson

ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALLCUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Manual ISBN: 0-8273-4172-5

	Preface
Ch. 1	An Introduction to Computer Literacy	1
Ch. 2	Fundamental Components of Computers and Computer Systems	12
Ch. 3	Data Processing	25
Ch. 4	Word Processing	37
Ch. 5	Spreadsheets	50
Ch. 6	Database Software and Information Management	60
Ch. 7	Communications and Networking	75
Ch. 8	Administrative Applications in Health Care	84
Ch. 9	Specialized Information Management Systems in Health Care	97
Ch. 10	Direct Patient Care and Treatment Applications	109
Ch. 11	Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems	122
Ch. 12	Diagnostics	134
Ch. 13	Confidentiality and Patient Rights	143
Ch. 14	Current Status and Future Directions	153
	Glossary	162
	Appendix A: Introduction to Disk Operating Systems	179
	Appendix B: Word Processing Exercises	191
	Appendix C: Spreadsheet and Database Exercises	207
	Appendix D: Programming Languages	213
	Index	215

The Move to Community Policing or The Business Case for Enterprise Class Wireless LANs

2009-02-06T21:15:00.000-08:00

The Move to Community Policing: Making Change Happen

Author: Merry Morash

Community policing continues to be of great interest to policy makers, scholars and, of course, local police agencies. Successfully achieving the transformation from a traditional policing model to community policing can be difficult. This book aims to illuminate the path to make that change as easy as possible. Morash and Ford have produced a contributed anthology with original articles from a variety of well-known researchers, police trainers and leaders.

They focus on:

Recent research for developing data systems to shape police reform
Changing the police culture to implement community policing
Creating partnership strategies within police organizations and between police and community groups for successful community policing
Anticipating future challenges

New interesting textbook: Liderança Clara

The Business Case for Enterprise-Class Wireless LANs

Author: Oisin Mac Alasdair

Understand wireless LAN business-case development, solutions, architecture, design, and deployment with this comprehensive guide

Explains the business rationale behind deployment of wireless LANs, including ROI and TCO considerations
Includes a clearly written technical overview of wireless LANs for managers, decision makers, business professionals
Addresses WLAN deployment best practices with analysis of the business benefits
Extensive case studies illustrate real-world implementations

The evolution of wireless LANs and the subsequent penetration into the enterprise market has moved at a faster rate than expected and is projected to accelerate further in the next couple years. IT executives need reference material that can help them establish a solid business case and form a financially sound implementation plan while appreciating the benefits, as well as the risks, of this technology. The Business Case for Enterprise-Class Wireless LANs takes a business approach to wireless networking. It focuses on the strategic and business justifications associated with WLAN deployment and less on the intricacies of the underlying technology. However, a baseline analysis of wireless LAN technologies is included, empowering the reader to understand complex decisions concerning the technology. Most books written on wireless LANs go into great technical detail and do not target the business audience; this book does not cover the technology to that degree and is written for a senior technical or management-level reader. The book provides advice to decision makers on issues they should consider; recommends strategies for dealing with importantissues; and provides specific advice, including templates, checklists and flowcharts covering how they should proceed. Throughout the book, reader friendly descriptions, quick reference sheets, diagrams and visual layouts aid to further explain all topics, and sidebar interviews provide authoritative business perspectives.

Diplomas and Thatch Houses or Role of Policymakers in Business Cycle Fluctuations

2009-02-05T19:35:00.000-08:00

Diplomas and Thatch Houses: Asserting Tradition in a Changing Micronesia

Author: Juliana Flinn

Diplomas and Thatch Houses examines the people of Pulap, a tiny atoll just north of the Equator in the western Pacific. Pulapese consider themselves and are known to their neighbors as the most traditional islanders, a situation they regard as an asset and not as a sign of backwardness. Pulapese deliberately wear their lavalavas and loincloths and practice traditional dances and rituals. Rather than being just a remnant of the past, tradition for the Pulapese is created and displayed as a means of asserting cultural identity. Like other Micronesians, the Pulapese view a person less as an isolated, independent individual and more as a link in a network of relationships. Behavior, more than biology or descent, shapes identity. The Pulapese manipulate their "traditional" identity as a political tool--as an adaptive strategy to contend with the rapid changes wrought by a foreign administration. To the Pulapese, tradition is politically valuable; they fiercely contend that their customs and patterns of behavior entitle them to prestige and power in modern Micronesia. Diplomas and Thatch Houses is an important contribution to the literature on ethnicity, nationality, and cultural identity, as well as to Micronesian/Pacific studies.

Go to: Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration or The Language Police

Role of Policymakers in Business Cycle Fluctuations

Author: Jim Granato

The book's central theme is that a policymaker's role is to enhance the public's ability to co-ordinate their price information, price expectations, and economic activities. This role is fulfilled when policymakers maintain inflation stability. Inflation persists less when an implicit or explicit inflation target is met. Granato and Wong argue that inflation persistence is reduced when the public substitutes the prespecified inflation target for past inflation. A by-product of this co-ordination process is greater economic stability. In particular, inflation stability contributes to greater economic output stability, including the potential for the simultaneous reduction of both inflation and output variability - inflation-output co-stabilization (IOCS). Granato and Wong use historical, formal, and applied statistical analysis of business-cycle performance in the United States for the 1960 to 2000 period. They find that during periods when policymakers emphasise inflation stability, inflation uncertainty and persistence were reduced.

Everyday Public Speaking or Principles of Macroeconomics

2009-02-04T17:54:00.000-08:00

Everyday Public Speaking (with MySpeechLab)

Author: Mark V Redmond

Public Speaking, 1^st Edition
Mark V. Redmond, Iowa State University
Denise Vrchota, Iowa State University

The authors’ unique approach to public speaking as an everyday communication event helps students learn to speak effectively to positive (supportive), neutral (indifferent or apathetic), and negative (hostile) audiences.

This unique approach to public speaking helps students learn to evaluate the speaking situation and then apply strategies for devising and delivering effective presentations. The focus is on learning to speak effectively in the various types of situations that students will face every day in their college, personal, and professional lives. Strategies are taught that will help students tailor their presentations to their audience based on the different needs of three audience types. Speaking examples, many illustrated by video clips, illustrate the concepts.

Features

Strong focus on everyday speaking situations. The text includes examples from a variety of formal and informal speaking occasions, demonstrating the importance of public speaking skills in college life and beyond. Students will be equipped to apply their public speaking skills to the presentations that are likely to occur in their lives.

Unique applied approach to audience analysis. Since successful presentations depend on a strong connection between speaker and audience, the authors have made this an overarching focus in the text. In Chapter 6 students learn how to analyze an audience. In the remaining chapters they learn how to apply the information they’ve learned about the audience to every aspect of the speechmaking process.

Unique strategic approach to speaking. Because audience disposition toward the speaker is a key factor for determining the strategic plan, the authors provide different speaking strategies for the three major variations in audience disposition: positive (supportive), neutral (indifferent or apathetic), and negative (hostile) audiences.

Early coverage of delivery. Because of the importance of developing good delivery skills early on in the semester, the text presents a full chapter of delivery techniques in Chapter 4.

Sample everyday speeches model the speaking concepts taught. A range of types of sample speeches and speech excerpts illustrate the concepts including many in video format on MySpeechLab. An application exercise at the end of each chapter, “Video Experience,” offers the opportunity for students to examine and analyze some of the speeches.

Praise for Public Speaking

Yes. Bravo! This is what being a competent communicator is all about.

~ Melinda S. Womack, Santiago Canyon College

I applaud the authors’ thinking. Basing organization on critical and analytical thinking is the most novel and valuable idea they have… . Even if this were the only novel concept the authors brought to the field of speech communication, this textbook would still be worthwhile.

~ Esin C. Turk, Mississippi Valley State University

1. Understanding the Fundamentals of Everyday Presentations

I. Everyday Presentations Defined

III. Presentations as Communication

            A. Understanding Communication

            B. Presentations as Influence

            C. Presentations as Spoken Communication

IV. Four Guiding Presentational Principles

            A. Understand and Adapt to the Audience and the Situation/Context

            B. Think Strong to Speak Strong: Speaking Reflect Thinking

            C. Balance both Style and Content: Speak with Eloquence and Sincerity

            D. Maintain or Establish a Positive Relationship with the Audience.

V. An Introduction to Positive, Neutral, and Negative Audiences

            A. Positive Audiences

            B. Neutral Audiences

            C. Negative Audiences

            B. The Mixed Audience

VI. Getting to Work: The Process of Becoming a Presenter

VII. Summary

2. Planning Your First Presentation

I. Your First Presentation

II. Identify a Topic

            A. Expertise

            B. Experience

            C. Commitment

III. Know Your Audience

            A. Cultural Composition

            B. Demographic Characteristics

            C. Knowledge and Interests

IV. Formulate Your Speaking Goal

V. Identify Major Points

VI. Select Support Material

           A. Personal Experiences

            B. Other Sources

            C. Supporting Major Points with the Brain in Mind

VII. Organize Your Presentation

            A. From Most to Least Important Point

            B. From Least to Most Important Point

            C. In Chronological Order

            D. In Topical Order

VIII. Create an Ear-Catching Introduction

            A. Motivate Your Audience

            B. Introduce Your Thesis

            C. Preview Your Major Points

IX. Construct a Memorable Conclusion

            A. Reinforce a Point

            B. Establish Closure

X. Insert Transitions

XI. Practice and Prepare Notes

            A. Achieve “Prepared Conversation” Delivery

            B. Prepare Helpful Notes

            C. Practice Your Presentation

XII. Manage Speech Anxiety

            A. Be Yourself

            B. Breathe Smart

            C. Be Picky (PCCI)!

XIII. Getting to Work - Additional Tips for Speech Preparation

            A. As You Prepare Your Presentation

            B. On the Day of Your Presentation

            C. As You Give Your Presentation

            D. After Your Presentation

XIV. Chapter Summary

3. Speaking Ethically

I. Defining Ethics

II. Ethics and the First Amendment

III. The Role of Ethics in Presentations

IV. Presenting Yourself as an Ethical Speaker

            A. Preserve Your Initial Credibility

            B. Advocate Truthfulness

            C. Consider Intentionality

V. Preparing Your Speech Using Ethical Principles

            A. Present Information Clearly

            B. Choose Accurate Language

            C. Avoid Plagiarism

VI. Interacting With Your Audience Ethically

            A. Promote Freewill

            B. Eliminate Control

            C. Cultivate Inclusiveness

VII. Ethical Considerations in a Diverse Environment

VIII. Ethical Considerations for Audience Members

IX. Getting to Work

X. Chapter Summary

4. Connecting with Your Audience: Delivering Your Message

I. The Importance of Delivery

            A. Making Connections

            B. Creating Immediacy

            C. Establishing Credibility

II. The Relationship of Culture and Delivery

III. Elements of Delivery

            A. Proxemics: The Way You Manage Space

                        1. Managing Space in the Environment

                        2. Managing Space with the Your Listeners

            B. Kinesics: The Language of Your Body

                        1. Your Posture

                         2. Your Facial Expression

                        3. Your Gestures

                        4. Your Eye Contact

            C. Physical Appearance: The Way You Look

            D. Vocalics: The Sound of Your Voice

                        1. Fluency

                        2. Hesitations

                        3. Pitch

                        4. Volume

                        5. Clarity

                         6. Rate

                        7. Pronunciation

                        8. Pauses

IV. Ways to Present Your Message

            A. Impromptu Presentations

            B. Memorized Presentations

            C. Manuscript Presentations

            D. Extemporaneous Presentations

V. Getting to Work

VI. Chapter Summary

5. Listening: Being an Effective Audience Member

I. The Listening Process

            A. Perceiving

            B. Interpreting

            C. Evaluating

            D. Retaining and recalling

            E. Responding

II. Reasons for Listening

III. Improving Comprehensive Listening

            A. Prepare

            B. Take Notes

            C. Use the Difference between Thought Rate and Speech Rate

            D. Maintain Attention and Minimize Noise

            E. Become and Engaged, Connected, and Active Listener

III. Understanding Critical Listening

            A. Improving Critical Listening

            B. Major Logical Fallacies that Undermine Critical Listening

IV. Getting to Work

V. Summary

VI. Thinking Back and Thinking Ahead

II. BUILDING A PRESENTATION

6. Getting to Know Your Audience

I. Achieving Immediacy through Audience Analysis

II. Gathering Information about Your Listeners Before Your Speech

            A. Observing

            B. Asking

            C. Surveying

            D. Drawing Conclusions

III. How Listeners are Similar

            A. Attract the Attention of the Audience

            B. Personally Involve the Audience

            C. Provide Opportunities for the Audience to Process Your Information

            D. Show Your Audience the Relevance of Your Information

III. How Listeners Differ

            A. Demographic Characteristics of Your Listeners

            B. Motivational Characteristics

            C. Listeners’ Knowledge and Interests

           D. Listeners’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values

            E. Cultural Composition

            F. Relating the Differences

IV. Gathering Information From Your Listeners During and After Your Speech

V. Getting to Work

VI. Summary

7. Researching and Outlining

I. Researching the Issue

            A. The Research Process and Refining the Topic

            B. Synonym Topic List

            C. Convergence and Divergence

            D. Targeted Searches

            E. Snowballing

            F. Boolean Logic

II. Using the Library

            A. Books

            B. Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

            C. Librarians

III. The Internet as a Source of Information

IV. Interviewing

V. Outlining

            A. Preparing Full-Sentence and Key-Word Outlines

            B. Converting the Outline to Speaking Notes

            C. Conveying the Presentational Structure to the Audience

VI. Chapter Summary

8. Supporting Your Presentation: Language and Evidence

I. Support Materials Defined

II. Consider the Audience to Determine the Type of Support Material

III. Language Forms of Support

            A. Telling a Good Story

            B. Figurative Language: Imagery

            C. Figurative Language: Comparisons

            D. Figurative Language: Illustrations and Examples

IV. Derivation Forms of Support: Reasoning and Arguments

            A. Elaboration Likelihood Model

            B. Reasoning

            C. Arguments

V. Getting To Work

VI. Summary

VII. Thinking Back and Thinking Ahead

9. Supporting Your Presentation: Reasoning, Argument, and Strategies

I. Providing Evidence: Testimony and Statistics

            A. Making Evidence Effective

            B. The Use of Referenced Materials

            C. The Use of Numbers and Statistics

            D. Source Credibility

            F. Simplify and Limit Support Material

            G. Select Relevant Information

II. Using Support and Evidence Strategically

            A. Use Support and Evidence to Increase Your Credibility

            B. Select Evidence that is Appealing

            C. Connect Support to Audience Needs

            D. Appeal to the Audience’s Values and Motives

            E. Show the Impact through Visualization

III. Getting To Work

IV. Summary

V. Thinking Back and Thinking Ahead

10. Supporting Your Presentation: Visual Support

I. Defining Visual Support

II. Improving Your Presentation by Using Visual Support

            A. Positive Perceptions of the Presenter

            B. Increased Attention

            C. Improved Comprehension

            D. Greater Agreement

           E. Better Retention

III. Advantages to the Presenter of Incorporating Visual Support

            A. Reduced Nervousness

            B. Increased Clarity of Explanations

            C. Reduced Dependence on Notes

            D. Greater Confidence

III. Types of Visual Support

            A. “Viewing” Visuals

            B. “Hands On” Visuals

            C. People as Visuals

IV. Design Basics for Visual Support

V. Do’s and Don’ts of Visual Support

VI. Getting to Work

VII. Summary

11. Organizing Presentations

I. Formulating Your Speech Purpose and Thesis

            A. Your Speech Purpose Statement

           B. Your Thesis Statement

II. Organizing Presentations for Positive Audiences

            A. Organizing to Inform: Presenting to the Open Audience

            B. Organizing to Inspire: Presenting to the Supportive Audience

III. Organizing Presentations for Neutral Audiences

            A. Organizing To Interest: Presenting to the Apathetic Audience

            B. Organizing To Interest and Inform: Presenting to the Detached Audience

            C. Organizing to Influence: Presenting to the Ambivalent Audience

IV. Organizing Presentations for Negative Audiences

            A. Organizing To Rekindle Interest: Presenting to the Passive Audience

            B. Organizing To Redirect Interest: Presenting to the Active Audience

V. Getting to Work

VI. Chapter Summary

12. Managing the Organization: Introductions, Conclusions, and Transitions

I. Introductions

            A. Why Does Your Presentation Need an Introduction?

            B. Components of the Introduction

            C. Developing Introductions for Positive, Negative, and Neutral Audiences

II. Conclusions

            A. Why Does Your Presentation Need a Conclusion?

            B. Components of the Conclusion

            C. Developing Conclusions for Positive, Negative, and Neutral Audiences

III. Transitions

            A. Why Does Your Presentation Need Transitions?

            B. Types of Transitions

            C. Developing Transitions for Positive, Negative, and Neutral Audiences

IV. Getting to Work

V. Summary

13. Responding to Audiences

I. Guidelines for Responding to Questions

II. Responding During the Presentation

            A. Taking Points Out of Order

            B. Discussing Unintended Issues

            C. Losing Listeners’ Attention

            D. Operating Within a Timeframe

III. Responding After the Presentation

            A. When You Know the Answer

            B. When You Don’t Know the Answer

            C. When No One Asks

IV. Responding to Challenges

            A. Challenging Questions

            B. Challenging Questioners

V. Getting to Work

VI. Chapter Summary

III. PRESENTING TO SPECIFIC AUDIENCES

14. Making Presentations to Positive Audiences: To Inspire and Inform

I. Positive Audiences: Supportive and Open

II. Goal Setting for Positive Audiences

III. Identifying Supportive and Open Audiences

IV. Strategies for Presenting to Positive Audiences

            A. Speaking to Inspire and Enhance Interest: Speaking to Supportive Audiences

            B. Speaking to Inform: Speaking to Open Audiences

            C. Speaking to Evoke a Positive Attitude

V. Getting to Work

15. Making Presentations to Neutral Audiences: To Interest and Inform

I. Neutral Audiences: Apathetic, Detached, and Ambivalent.

II. Goal Setting for Neutral Audiences

III. Identifying Apathetic, Detached, and Ambivalent Audiences

IV. Strategies for Dealing with Neutral Audiences

            A. Addressing the Lack of Interest (Detached and Apathetic Audiences)

            B. Adapting to the Lack of Knowledge (Detached Audiences)

             C. Addressing the Knowledgeable Neutral Audiences: Apathetic and Ambivalent

V. Getting To Work

VI. Chapter Summary

16. Making Presentations to Negative Audiences: To Placate and Persuade

I. Negative Audiences: Passive and Active

            A. Reasons Negative Audiences Attend Presentations

            B. Moving the Audience Along the Continuum of Resistance

II. Goal Setting for Negative Audiences

III. Strategies for Addressing Negative Audiences

            A. Foothold Strategies

            B. Psychological Strategies

            C. Support Strategies

            D. Organizational Strategies

IV. Getting to Work

V. Chapter Summary

VI. Thinking Back and Thinking Ahead

17. Making Presentations on Special Occasions: To Recognize and Remember

I. Principles of Special Occasion Speeches (Epideictic Rhetoric)

            A. Principle 1: Demonstrate Praise or Blame

            B. Principle 2: Amplification

            C. Principle 3: Celebrating the Present

            D. Principle 4: Role of the Audience

            E. Principle 5: Ceremony

II. Special Occasions

            A. Speeches of Welcome and Introduction

            B. Speaking to Honor and to Remember

            C. Speeches of Farewell

            D. Toasts

            E. Award Ceremonies

            F. Nominations

            G. Dinner Speeches

III. Getting to Work

IV. Summary

APPENDIXES

Appendix A: Working with Colleagues to Organize a Team Presentation

I. The Nature of Teams and Groups

            A. Issues of Structure

            B. Issues of Climate

            C. Issues of Product

            D. Issues of Process

II. Why Give a Team Presentation?

III. A Problem Solving Approach to Constructing Team Presentations

IV. Preparing a Team Presentation

IV. Other Formats for Team Presentations

            A. The Panel Discussion

            B. The Symposium

            C. The Forum

            D. The Colloquy

V. General Tips for Constructing and Presenting Team Presentations

VII. Getting to Work

VIII. Chapter Summary

Appendix B: Working with PowerPoint

Appendix C: The Classical Tradition to Rhetoric

Appendix D: Sample Speeches

Principles of Macroeconomics

Author: N Gregory Mankiw

With its clear and engaging writing style, PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS, 5E, continues to be one of the most popular books on economics available today. Mankiw emphasizes material that you're likely to find interesting about the economy (particularly if you're studying economics for the first time), including real-life scenarios, useful facts, and the many ways economic concepts play a role in the decisions you make every day.

Power and Organization Development or Introduction to Private Security

2009-02-03T16:13:00.000-08:00

Power and Organization Development: Mobilizing Power to Implement Change

Author: Larry E E Greiner

For too long, power and organization development has been juxtaposed as two opposing and contradictory approaches to management. Power and Organization Development argues that OD and power can and should be reconciled and integrated in the implementation of change.

Look this: Vegetarian Guide to Diet and Salad or Food That Really Schmecks

Introduction to Private Security

Author: Karen M Hess

INTRODUCTION TO PRIVATE SECURITY, Fifth Edition, provides a comprehensive, accessible, state-of-the-art overview of private security, its principles, its legal authority, its growing role in the criminal justice system, and its impact on society. Newly updated with expanded coverage of important current issues such as IT security, terrorism, homeland security, and security management, this best-selling text has also been streamlined and redesigned with a more manageable, appealing, and flexible format. Hess's thoroughly engaging writing style and the clear, compelling organization of the text help make even complex course material interesting and accessible, while preparing you for success as a professional in a dynamic and exciting field.

SECTION 1: AN OVERVIEW. 1. The Evolution of Private Security. 2. The Profession. 3. The Public/Private Interface. 4. Legal and Ethical Considerations. SECTION 2: BASIC GOALS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. 5. Risk Management—The Core of Private Security. 6. Enhancing Security through Physical Controls. 7. Enhancing Security through Procedural Controls. 8. Preventing Losses from Accidents and Emergencies. 9. Preventing Losses from Criminal Actions. 10. When Prevention Fails: Investigating, Reporting and Testifying. SECTION 3: CHALLENGES FACING SECURITY. 11. Information Technology (IT) Security. 12. Drugs and Violence in the Workplace. 13. Homeland Security Responsibilities. SECTION 4: SECURITY SYSTEMS AT WORK. 14. Securing the Infrastructure. 15. Institutional Security. 16. Commercial Security. Appendixes. Glossary.

Economics or Communicating in Business and Professional Settings

2009-02-02T14:32:00.000-08:00

Economics: Private and Public Choice with Xtra! CD-ROM and InfoTrac

Author: James D Gwartney

A cornerstone of Harcourt¦s publishing program for 25 years, Economics: Private and Public Choice is considered the best existing principles of economics textbook emphasizing free markets. The strengths of this text are its clarity, emphasis on the economic way of thinking, and its application to the world around us. Economics: Private and Public Choice has an amazing approach to introducing students to a moderate amount of economic data analysis while applying the concept to a real-world story.

Booknews

This book/CD-ROM text seeks to make economics understandable to freshman and sophomore undergraduates and to illustrate the relevance of economics in daily life. Core chapters cover material usually taught in economics principles courses, and include short units (designed for one class period) on topics such as the future of social security, and readings which highlight the organizational and institutional factors that underlie economic prosperity. The CD-ROM contains a graphing workshop and animated tutorials, interactive graphing exercises, video lectures on difficult topics, and video news segments. Gwartney teaches economics at Florida State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book review: Pot Luck or Rodeos and Recipies

Communicating in Business and Professional Settings

Author: Michael S Hanna

Designed for the business communication course, this lively text offers a blend of current theory and research within the context of actual organizations. The text focuses on communication in differing contexts, teaching students how to communicate in a variety of situations. Real life examples from a broad range of business and professional settings abound, reflecting the authors belief that theory and practice go hand in hand. The fourth edition includes new chapters on diversity, technology in the workplace, and conflict management, plus several new pedagogical features.

Michael S. Hanna is Professor of Communication at the University of South Alabama. He has co-authored six books and has been a frequent consultant to business and industry, having worked most recently with corporations as Courtaulds Fibers, DuPont, Degussa, Olin Corporation and Ciba-Geigy.

	Preface
Pt. I	Preliminary Considerations: Communication and Organizations	1
Ch. 1	A Communication Perspective	3
Ch. 2	The Organization - Theoretical Perspectives	24
Ch. 3	Leadership and Communication in Organizations	47
Ch. 4	Diversity in the Workplace	70
Pt. II	Basic Considerations: Foundations for Communication in Organizations	95
Ch. 5	Perception and Listening	97
Ch. 6	Language and Nonverbal Communication	123
Ch. 7	Technology in the Workplace	152
Pt. III	Organizational Contexts: Interpersonal	179
Ch. 8	Interpersonal Communication	181
Ch. 9	Conflict Management	204
Ch. 10	Interviewing and Interviews: On the Job	232
Ch. 11	The Selection Interview: Hiring and Being Hired for the Job	260
Pt. IV	Organizational Contexts: The Group Context	305
Ch. 12	Small Group Communication Processes	307
Ch. 13	Communicating with a Group or Staff	333
Pt. V	Organizational Contexts: The One-to-Many Context	371
Ch. 14	Thinking about the Ideas and Arguments	373
Ch. 15	Organizing the Presentation	394
Ch. 16	Delivering the Presentation	411
	Epilogue	426
	Troubleshooting the Organization	427
App	Writing in Business and Professional Settings	443
	Index	453

Reinventing Marxism or Urban Economics

2009-02-01T12:51:00.000-08:00

Reinventing Marxism

Author: Howard J Sherman

The collapse of the Soviet Union provides economist Howard Sherman the opportunity to re-evaluate Marxism as an alternative to conventional pro-capitalist perspectives. Arguing that Soviet Marxism distorted Marxian thought, Sherman acknowledges that Marxism must move beyond its traditional Soviet formulation. What is needed, he writes, is a new, critical Marxism that is integral to a radical political economy--a Marxism that sees society as an organic whole, dependent upon an integrated set of relationships.

"There is no other book that shows the relevance and importance of dialectics to so many major debates now going on in the Academy, and it does all this with a thorough grasp of the relevant scholarship and a clear and crisp writing style that shouldn't be possible on such a complex topic (but obviously is)."--Bertell Ollman, Department of Politics, New York University.

"A major contributor for many years to the tradition of political economy, Sherman offers a persuasive argument for a new kind of Marxism. The timing is right, partly because it ties into current postmodern/modern debates, and partly because it offers a difference to that heretofore reigning orthodoxy produced above all within the former USSR. This is an extraordinarily ambitious book. It deserves to be read."--Stephen Resnick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

"Reinventing Marxism is the product of three decades of intense scholarly work. It will be exciting to institutional economists because it is high-quality Marxism utilizing an evolutionary andholistic approach."--William M. Dugger, University of Tulsa

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Eschewing the obscurantist jargon of technical economics, Sherman presents a basic framework for the entire field of Marxism which is critical of conventional social science, but also critical of the old, Stalinist, Soviet Marxism. He effectively synthesizes the numerous specialized contributions to a new critical Marxism into a coherent paradigm, stating the new Marxism as a unity of all the social sciences. The volume is divided into four parts: the political economy of history; political economy--a relational-historical approach; the critical method; and a radical program for the 21st century. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	The Political Economy of History	1
Ch. 1	Why Reinvent Marxism?	3
Ch. 2	A Critique of Reductionism	13
Ch. 3	The Relational Approach	29
Ch. 4	The Historical Approach	56
Ch. 5	A Critique of Individualism and Extreme Collectivism	85
Ch. 6	Class Analysis	109
Pt. II	Political Economy: A Relational-Historical Approach
Ch. 7	Poverty, Inequality, and Exploitation	129
Ch. 8	Unemployment and Business Cycles	152
Ch. 9	Democracy and Capitalism	177
Ch. 10	The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union	193
Pt. III	The Critical Method
Ch. 11	Dialectics as a Critical Method	215
Ch. 12	The Conflict of Paradigms	243
Ch. 13	Determinism and Predeterminism	270
Ch. 14	Marxian Humanism and Liberal Humanism	286
Pt. IV	A Radical Program for the Twenty-first Century
Ch. 15	Reinventing Socialism	317
	References	339
	Name Index	359
	Subject Index	364

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Urban Economics

Author: Arthur OSullivan

Arthur O’Sullivan’s Urban Economics is the leading text for this small, but exciting market. This book covers urban economics as the discipline that lies at the intersection of geography and economics. The sixth edition is a thorough revision of previous incarnations—the author has reorganized and rewritten every chapter to produce a sleek and up-to-date text that will bring renewed attention to the Urban Economics course.

This sixth edition offers an extreme makeover from previous editions while also incorporating the remarkable progress in the field of urban economics in the last ten to fifteen years. Part I of the book explains why cities exist and what causes them to grow or shrink. Part II examines the market forces that shape cities and the role of government in determining land-use patterns. Part III looks at the urban transportation system, exploring the pricing and design of public transit systems and the externalities associated with automobile use (congestion, environmental damage, collisions). Part IV uses a model of the rational criminal to explore the causes of urban crime and the spatial consequences. Part V explains the unique features of the housing market and examines the effects of government housing policies. The final part of the book explains the rationale for our fragmented system of local government and explores the responses of local governments to intergovernmental grants and the responses of taxpayers to local taxes.

All of the economic concepts used in the book are covered in the typical intermediate microeconomics course, but a Tools of Microeconomics appendix isincluded that covers the key concepts for students whose exposure to microeconomics is limited to an introductory course or who could benefit from a review of intermediate concepts.

Women in Medieval English Society or Innovation New Technologies

2009-01-31T11:10:00.000-08:00

Women in Medieval English Society

Author: Mavis E Mat

This book presents a concise and accessible introduction to the various issues and debates surrounding women and their position in medieval society. Professor Mate examines the role women played in the economy, clarifies legal provisions for women and highlights the importance of class, as well as gender, in determining marriage and opportunities.

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Mate (medieval history, U. of Oregon) begins her introduction: "More has been written about medieval women in the last fifteen years than in the previous one hundred and fifty." Here she looks at the ways in which historians have seen the position of women in medieval society from the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the 15th century. She focuses on legal rights, women's contribution to the economy, and political and religious power, as well as changes over time, and the existence or non-existence of a "golden age." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Innovation, New Technologies: Financial Crisis, Corporate Reform and Institutional Transition, Vol. 14

Author: Cristiano Antonelli

This authoritative book from Cristiano Antonelli provides a systematic account of recent advances in the economics of innovation. By integrating this account with the economics of technological change, the book elaborates an understanding of the effects of the introduction of new technologies.
The innovation economics community will appreciate this excellent, comprehensive account, provided by a respected expert, and it is also a book that must be read by all those with an interest in Economic Theory.

	List of figures
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction
Pt. I	The building blocks	1
2	Shifting heuristics in the economics of innovation	3
3	The retrieval of the economics of technological change	38
Pt. II	Innovation and structural change	47
4	Composition effects: the direction of technological change and the context of its introduction	49
5	New technologies and structural change: constraints and inducements to innovation	64
6	Industrial dynamics and technological change	81
7	The dynamics of factors markets and technological change	94
8	Product innovation and barriers to entry	107
9	Relative prices and international competition in the global economy	118
10	Feedbacks, path-dependence and evolution	127
Pt. III	Applications and implications	131
11	Understanding the economics of new information and communication technology in the global economy	133
12	Policy implications: a European perspective	145
13	Conclusions	151
	Notes	167
	Bibliography	172
	Index	185

Strategic Management of Teams or Communications Network Test and Measurement Handbook

2009-01-30T09:30:00.000-08:00

Strategic Management of Teams

Author: David I Cleland

STRATEGIC Management of TEAMS

"Those companies that learn the secrets of creating cross-functional teams are winning the battle for global market share and profits. Those that don't are losing out."—BusinessWeek

It's no secret that alternative teams are increasingly recognized as a highly effective means to improve quality and operational efficiency, decentralize authority, and motivate workers at every level of an organization. Less well understood, and rarely touched upon in the literature, is the fact that cross-functional teams are highly versatile strategic resources and key elements in the design and execution of strategic management initiatives.

In this book, noted author, scholar, and authority on team management, David Cleland, demonstrates that alternative, cross-functional teams are both critical to the management of change within an organization and building blocks in the design and execution of product/service and process strategy. He explores specific aspects of strategic team management and provides clear, concise recommendations on the design and implementation of team-based strategy.

Topics of particular interest include:

Identification and discussion of alternative uses for teams in dealing with product/service and process changes within the organizations
Using teams to encourage cross-functional and cross-organizational focus in the use of enterprise resources
How teams can enable everyone in the enterprise to participate in the design, development, and implementation of strategies that will make the organization more competitive
How the strategic use of teams changes organizational culture
Coping with the negativeaspects of teams
How the use of teams has created "Teamocracy"—an organizational design driven by operational and strategic teams

Strategic Management of Teams is must reading for managers in industry, government service, or any large organization that must adapt continually to technological, economic, and social change. It is also an indispensable resource for students in industrial engineering, technology management, and business administration who wish to enter the job market armed with the very latest in management skills.

This eye-opening book reveals the enormous potential of alternative, cross-functional teams as forces for change within an organization and as building blocks in the design and execution of competitive strategy. It gives managers the tools, techniques, and information they need to integrate teams into the overall strategic plan of the organization.

Author David Cleland looks at teams from the point of view of a manager who envisions using teams as strategic devices in dealing with change. He explains how to determine whether and which teams should be put in place and how to make the most of them. He explains:

How to prepare the enterprise for the creation of teams and prepare team players for their new roles in facilitating change within the organization
How teams can sharpen the enterprise's competitive edge—and how managerial roles must change to allow this to happen
Specific team functions: reengineering through teams; self-managed production teams; benchmarking; concurrent engineering teams; sundry teams; and more
The positive and negative impact of teams on corporate culture
Results that teams have achieved for organizations that have implemented them

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Communications Network Test and Measurement Handbook

Author: Clyde F Coombs

As digital communications networks grow in use and size throughout the world, the need for accurate, reliable test and measurement procedures has increased tremendously. This unique handbook provides the only comprehensive coverage of all the methodologies, data, and reference material necessary to master network instrumentation. In this single encyclopedic resource, engineers will discover how to apply all the test, measurement, and monitoring tools critical to network performance. The success of this richly illustrated handbook is further assured by its authorship—Clyde Coombs is the preeminent editor of electronics handbooks, with a 30 year track record of best sellers.

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A handbook on the measurements and testing tools required in all phases of the life cycle of a communications network. The editors combine the work of 26 contributors to look at topics such as digital and analog performance testing, PDH networks, testing to verify T1 or CEPT-E1 circuits, ISDN architecture and operation, deployment of ATM-based services, synchronous byte-interleaved multiplexing, cellular measurement strategies, fiber optic network elements, network test instrumentation, and LAN management and performance monitoring. The book also includes background information on the technologies and applications of communications networks so that the information on testing and measurement is properly contextualized. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Development Studies or Mergers and Acquisitions

2009-01-29T07:39:00.000-08:00

Development Studies: A Reader

Author: Stuart Corbridg

Contains approximately 30 representative and exciting articles by leading academics in the field on the nature of contemporary developmental issues. Using the 'development debate' as its organizing theme, this accessible work discusses such topics as theories and models of development, survival strategies and the weapons of the weak and new directions including democratization, environmental sustainability and citizenship.

	Acknowledgements
	Preface and Prospectus
	World Map
Sect. 1	Thinking about Development
	Editor's Introduction	1
1	Non-Economic Barriers to Economic Development	17
2	The Development of Underdevelopment	27
3	Marxism and Development of Sociology: Interpreting the Impasse	37
4	The Misconceptions of "Development Economics"	56
5	Development Planning	64
Sect. 2	Agrarian Change and Rural Development
	Editor's Introduction	78
6	Food and Freedom	90
7	"Unimodal" and "Bimodal" Strategies of Agrarian Change	109
8	Does the "Depressor" Still Work? Agrarian Structure and Development in India	121
9	Governments and Agricultural Markets in Africa	147
10	Rural Poverty Unobserved: The Six Biases	164
Sect. 3	How Poor People Survive: The Weapons of the Weak
	Editor's Introduction	174
11	The Consequences of Reproductive Failure	185
12	The Woodfuel Problem	200
13	The Creation of a Labour Surplus in Surat District, Gujarat, India	216
14	Manufacturing Dissent: Work, Gender and the Politics of Meaning in a Peasant Society	224
15	Radical Opposition Parties and Squatters Movements in Pinochet's Chile	239
Sect. 4	Urbanization and Industrialization
	Editor's Introduction	256
16	Urban Bias and the Myths of Urbanisation	269
17	Latin America's Urban Poor: Shanty Dwellers or Renters of Rooms?	279
18	Foreword to 'The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World' by Hernando de Soto	288
19	Transnational Corporations: Dominance and Dependency in the World Economy	296
20	Lessons from East Asia	309
Sect. 5	The Global Political Economy
	Editor's Introduction	328
21	Of Coconuts and Kings: The Political Economy of an Export Crop	339
22	Foreign Aid: Central Component of World Development?	359
23	Structural Adjustment: A Survey of the Issues and Options	368
Sect. 6	New Directions in Development Studies
	Editor's Introduction	383
24	Infrastructure for Development	393
25	Environment, Development and Politics: Capital Accumulation and the Livestock Sector in Eastern Amazonia	400
26	Governance, Democracy and Development in the Third World	427
27	Everyday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence	438
	Index	448

Mergers and Acquisitions

Author: Thomas Lee Hazen

This law school casebook focuses on the corporate and securities laws relating to corporate combinations. Coverage also extends to tax, antitrust, and financial issues. Cases and other materials are followed by informative notes and questions. It is organized to make it easy for you to omit or rearrange material to adapt the book to your particular teaching approach. Designed for use in either as a stand-alone text or as the basic source material for projects, problems, or writing assignments to supplement the traditional case method. The book is suitable for use for either a two or three credit hour course.

Designing Managing and Improving Operations or Running NonProfit Organizations

2009-01-28T05:58:00.000-08:00

Designing, Managing and Improving Operations

Author: David M Upton

A collection of action and implementation-oriented cases focused on improving the operations of a business unit. Focuses on the individual operating unit in both manufacturing and services. Addresses the design, management and improvement of the fundamental building blocks of operations— operations processes. Looks at the systems used to coordinate processes, focusing on the use and management of information technology as part of such systems. For those in production and/or operations management.

	Preface
	Introduction
1	Designing, Managing and Improving Operations Processes	1
1	The Cummins Engine Company: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft: Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant	23
2	Display Technologies Incorporated	34
3	Corning Glass Works: The Z-Glass Project	50
4	Deutsche Allgemeinversicherung	63
	A Note on Constructing and Using Process Control Charts	71
5	Massachusetts General Hospital: CABG Surgery	83
6	Solagen: Process Improvement in the Manufacture of Gelatin at Kodak	100
7	McDonald's Corporation	114
	What Really Makes Factories Flexible?	131
8	Stermon Mills Incorporated	142
2	Operations Systems and Information Technology	155
9	John Crane UK Limited: The CAD-CAM Link	171
10	The Cybertech Project (A)	189
11	Motorola, Inc.: Bandit Pager Project (Abridged)	207
12	FASTech Integration Inc.	220
	Must CIM Be Justified by Faith Alone?	232
13	EG&G Rotron Division	242
	Getting Control of Just-in-Time	253
14	Digital Equipment Corporation: The Endpoint Model (A)	262
	A Note on Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPH)	273
15	Vandelay Industries, Inc.	278
16	Kanebo Ltd.	289
17	Deere & Company (A): The Computer-Aided Manufacturing Services Division (Abridged)	299
18	AeroTech Service Group, Inc.	310
	The Real Virtual Factory	320
	The Coordination of Global Manufacturing	332
3	Designing and Implementing Operations Improvement Strategies	341
19	Integron Incorporated: The Integrated Components Division (ICD)	363
20	A Measure of Delight: The Pursuit of Quality at AT&T Universal Card Services (A)	377
21	Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery	394
22	Samsung Heavy Industries: The Koje Shipyard	410
	Why (and How) to Take a Plant Tour	422
23	HMS Thetis and Apollo XIII	432
24	PPG: Developing a Self-Directed Work Force (A)	450
	A Note on High-Commitment Work Systems	464
25	Vickers Incorporated: Omaha Plant	472
26	Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group	488
27	Pacific Dunlop China (A): Beijing	498
28	Micom Caribe (A)	512

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Running NonProfit Organizations: Fifteen Essential Steps and Concepts for Board Members and Management

Author: Herbert Heaton

Today there are over one and a half million nonprofit organizations. What are their missions? How can they rigorously assure their productivity and performance quality? What should board members and managers do? This book helps board members and managers of nonprofit organizations sketch their roles and fill them effectively. It puts practical ideas, drawn from experience and observation, into a conceptual framework. Fifteen essential steps and concepts are presented as priority projects to be taken in order--like steps in a stairway.

Economics for the Twenty First Century or Domesday Book and beyond

2009-01-27T04:18:00.000-08:00

Economics for the Twenty-First Century: The Economics of the Economist-Fox

Author: Andrew M M Kamarck

"Isaiah Berlin, in his famous essay, identified the chasm that exists between those thinkers or 'hedgehogs', who relate everything to a single system, and 'foxes' who see the world as too complex to be captured by any single universal absolute. The emphasis in twentieth-century economics on technical virtuosity in manipulating mathematics tended to turn students into such 'hedgehogs'. To be effective, economics must take into consideration the complexity of human beings and the contextual, institutional, social and historical factors at play in the economy. Like the fox, today's economist must be resourceful and intuitive." This book greatly increases the range of tools at the economist's disposal. It draws extensively on the knowledge and experience of other disciplines, providing the current generation with unprecedented flexibility in the practical application of their study.

Charles Kindleberger

Economics for the Twenty-first Century is an eloquent call for moving beyond self-interest based on markets and producing equilibrium to a more complex analysis. This would include sociology with cultural differences and regard for others, government that included not only bureaucrats (also found in corporations), but people devoted to the public interest, geography explaining how the tropics and especially sub-Sahara Africa suffer from lack of winter with its creative destruction of disease-bearing parasites, and much more. Kamarck brings to the analysis experience in World War II, the Marshall Plan, World Bank (twenty-eight years), the Harvard Institute for International Development, and wide scholarship. It is strongly recommended for those who think economics is a science like physics, the outcomes of which are predictable.

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Domesday Book and Beyond

Author: FW William Maitland

In an extended foreword, specially prepared for this new impression, J.C. Holt asserts categorically "that Domesday Book and Beyond remains the greatest single book on English medieval history." Its lucidity, subtlety, compass, and (remarkably) statistical facility stand quite unsurpassed and, as Professor Holt demonstrates, many of the arguments that have dominated English medieval scholarship during the ensuing ninety years stem directly from Maitland's own hypotheses and conclusions.

1. Plan of the survey;
2. The Serfs;
3. The Villeins;
4. The Sokemen;
5. Sake and Soke;
6. The manor;
7. Manor and vill;
8. The feudal superstructure;
9. The boroughs; Essay II. England Before the Conquest:
10. Book-land and the land-book;
11. Book-land and folk-land;
12. Sake and Soke;
13. Book-land and loan-land;
14. The growth of seignorial power;
15. The village community; Essay III. The Hide:
16. Measures and fields;
17. Domesday statistics;
18. Beyond domesday.

More or The Global Economy and International Financing

2009-01-26T02:37:00.000-08:00

More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America

Author: Robert M Collins

James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on cultural, social, and political themes, from the birth of modern feminism to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now a scholar has stepped forward to place the economy back in its rightful place, at the center of his historical narrative.
In More, Robert M. Collins reexamines the history of the United States from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, focusing on the federal government's determined pursuit of economic growth. After tracing the emergence of growth as a priority during FDR's presidency, Collins explores the record of successive administrations, highlighting both their success in fostering growth and its partisan uses. Collins reveals that the obsession with growth appears not only as a matter of policy, but as an expression of Cold War ideology--both a means to pay for the arms build-up and proof of the superiority of the United States' market economy. But under Johnson, this enthusiasm sparked a crisis: spending on Vietnam unleashed runaway inflation, while the nation struggled with the moral consequences of its prosperity, reflected in books such as John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. More continues up to the end of the 1990s, as Collins explains the real impact of Reagan's policies and astutely assesses Clinton's "disciplined growthmanship," which combined deficit reduction and a relaxed but watchful monetary policy by the Federal Reserve.
Writing with eloquence and analytical clarity, Robert M. Collins offers a startlinglynew framework for understanding the history of postwar America.

Publishers Weekly

Americans have not always embraced economic growth, nor has the U.S. economy grown consistently through the 20th century. But overall, Collins's wonderfully illuminating, engrossing analysis illustrates, through the century there was a move toward endorsing increasingly exuberant expansion. Looking at history through the lens of economic growth, Collins puts postwar American society in a whole new perspective. A professor of history at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Collins tells the story of American economic growth as it waxed and waned and waxed again from the New Deal through the Clinton administration. Early on, he argues, many Americans questioned whether growth was possible or even desirable in a mature capitalist economy. WWII, however, set the country's economic engine in motion, and after WWII, "growthmanship" gained speed, reaching an apex in Kennedy and Johnson's "growth liberalism." Economic expansion backslid between 1973 and 1985, as heavy government investment in Vietnam and the Great Society programs led to rapid inflation; price stability took priority. Nixon's "progressive conservativism" unsuccessfully tried to rekindle enthusiasm for robust economic growth by linking it to streamlined government and the moral rejuvenation of America. In the mid-1980s, Reagan's supply-side tactics succeeded in stealing the growth issue from the Democrats, repackaging it and recasting the GOP as the party of economic growth. Only then did Americans seemingly overcome their ambivalence about abundance. More recently, Clinton's eclectic and pragmatic approach to sustaining growth has put limits on it. Brilliantly original, this study demonstrates how different groups--from liberals to Cold Warriors--used economic growth to further their own ends, sometimes with disastrous or unforeseen consequences. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

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The Global Economy and International Financing

Author: Henri L L Beenhakker

Interactions between global corporations and global governance demand that today's corporate executives and policymakers have clear understanding of macroeconomic issues and their effects on international finance and corporate management. Beenhakker bridges the gap between macroeconomics and international finance and shows how strategic management, national government policies, and the international public sector are all related, often in subtle ways. With numerous examples and illustrations, plus a clearly defined and usable conceptual framework, he provides executives in multinational corporations with the techniques and procedures they need for effective decision making in this newly configured international business environment.

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Beenhakker (New York Institute of Finance) presents and analyzes current information on such topics as foreign exchange markets, international trade, international capital flows, balance-of-payments policy, determinants of interest rates, financial crises, managing foreign exchange exposure, and financing from a global perspective. Appendixes feature case studies, interest tables for discrete compounding, credit rating agencies, probability tables, and second- generation risk management products. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Foreign Exchange Markets
International trade
International Capital Flows
Balance-of-Payments Policy
Determinants of Interest Rates
Financial Crises: Insights from East Asia
Managing Foreign Exchange Exposure
Financing from a Global Perspective
Appendix 1: Water Supply Project (Case Study)
Appendix 2: Interest Tables for Discrete Compounding
Appendix 3: Arcadian Telecom (Case Study)
Appendix 4: Credit Rating Agencies
Appendix 5: Cash Flow Analysis (Case Study)
Appendix 6: Probability of a Value of Z=[P -E(P)]/ (sigma) Being Smaller than the Values Tabulated in the Margins
Appendix 7: Development of a New Subsidiary (Case Study)
Appendix 8: Second-Generation Currency Risk Management Products
Index

Chocolate on Trial or The Econometric Analysis of Transition Data

2009-01-25T00:47:00.000-08:00

Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business

Author: Lowell J Satr

At the turn of the twentieth century Cadbury Bros. Ltd. was a successful Quaker-owned chocolate manufacturer in Birmingham, England, celebrated for its model village, modern factory, and concern for employees. In 1901, Cadbury learned that its cocoa beans purchased from Portuguese-owned plantations on the island of Sao Tome off West Africa were produced by slave labor. Chocolate on Trial: Cadbury, Slavery and the Economics of Virtue in Imperial Britain gives a lively and highly readable account of the events surrounding the libel trial in which Cadbury sued the London Standard, following the newspaper's accusation that the firm was hypocritical in its use of slave-grown cocoa. As compelling now as at the turn of the previous century, the issues probed by Lowell J. Satre give invaluable historical background to contemporary issues of business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and globalization. The story Satre tells illuminates what a stubbornly persistent institution slavery was and shows how Cadbury, a company with a well-regarded brand name and logo, endured ethical dilemmas and challenges to its record for social responsibility. Chocolate on Trial brings to life the age-old conflict between economic interests and the value of human life.

1	Henry W. Nevinson and modern slavery	1
2	The firm of Cadbury and the world of slave labor	13
3	Portugal and West Africa	33
4	Evidence amassed	53
5	Joseph Burtt's report	73
6	Careful steps and concern - or dragging feet and hypocrisy?	100
7	Defending reputations	124
8	Cadbury Bros., Ltd. v. The Standard Newspaper, Ltd.	149
9	The verdict	175
10	Humanitarians, the foreign office, and Portugal, 1910-1914	183
11	The aftermath	208

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The Econometric Analysis of Transition Data

Author: Tony Lancaster

This book presents statistical methods for analysis of the duration of events. The primary focus is on models for single-spell data, events in which individual agents are observed for a single duration. Some attention is also given to multiple-spell data. The first part of the book covers model specification, including both structural and reduced form models and models with and without neglected heterogeneity. The book next deals with likelihood based inference about such models, with sections on full and semiparametric specification. A final section treats graphical and numerical methods of specification testing. This is the first published exposition of current econometric methods for the study of duration data.

Transformations of Capitalism or Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics

2009-01-23T23:06:00.000-08:00

Transformations of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and the State in the Modern Times

Author: Harry F Ed F Dahms

A diverse, complex, and stable, yet volatile system, capitalism has undergone fundamental transformations over the past century. Entrepreneurial capitalism has become increasingly managerial and corporate in nature. No longer dominated by industrial production, capitalist economies are now geared toward supplying services and toward integrating the working class into capitalist society. Individual companies have given rise to complex relationships between state, economy, and multinational corporations.

Focusing on the structural shifts in advanced political economies, this volume brings to light trends that occur "below" the surface of economic activity. The essays identify the basic patterns of those transformations and their implications--social, political, and economic--for contemporary and future capitalisms.

Contributors: Walter Adams, Raymond Aron, Joseph Bensman, Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Fred L. Block, Barry Bluestone, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Neil Fligstein, John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Gilpin, Bennett Harrison, Gerald K. Helleiner, Bill Jordon, John Maynard Keynes, Charles P. Kindleberger, Joyce Kolko, Gardiner C. Means, Claus Offe, Karl Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter, Barbara Stallings, Wolfgang Streeck, Thorstein Veblen, Arthur J. Vidich, John Zysman.

	Series Preface
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Rise of "Big Business": Industrial Society between Economic Concentration and Finance Capitalism
1	The Role of Business in the United States: A Historical Survey (1972)	33
2	The Industrial System of the New Order: Business vs. Manufacturing (1923)	51
3	The Concentration of Economic Power (1932)	66
4	Industrial Society: On the Convergence of Capitalism and Socialism (1961)	86
Pt. II	Laissez-faire in Decline: from the Great Depression into the Post-war Era
5	The End of Laissez-faire (1926)	101
6	An Explanation of the 1929 Depression (1973)	121
7	Our Obsolete Market Mentality (1947)	137
8	Capitalism in the Postwar World (1943)	151
Pt. III	The Golden Age of Capitalism: Large Corporations and the Regulatory State
9	The Technostructure, the Industrial System and the State (1967)	167
10	The Military-industrial Complex and the New Industrial State (1968)	184
11	Planning, Corporatism, and the Capitalist State (1985)	201
12	Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State (1981)	222
Pt. IV	Restructuring Business, Labor, and Government: Deindustrialization, Entrepreneurialism, and the Decline of Labor
13	Closed Plants, Lost Jobs: Consequences of Deindustrialization (1982)	239
14	Toward a Policy Agenda for Competitiveness (1987)	257
15	Restructuring and the Working Class (1988)	274
16	The Social Construction of Efficiency (1990)	296
Pt. V	Multinational Corporations Prepare the Global Economy: The Integration of Markets and the Erosion of the Nation-State
17	The International Monetary Order in Crisis (1977)	317
18	American Society Since the Golden Age of Capitalism (1987)	342
19	The Multinational Corporations and International Production (1987)	364
20	The New Global Economy: Problems and Prospects (1990)	385
21	Capitalisms in Conflict? The United States, Europe, and Japan in the Post-Cold War World (1995)	398
	Epilog	416
	Acknowledgments	433
	Notes on the Contributors	436
	Index of Names	443
	Index of Subjects	449

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Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics: Rationality, Games, and Strategic Behaviour, Vol. 2

Author: Kaushik Basu

The rise of game theory around the middle of the twentieth century has profoundly affected the way economic theory is practiced. The present book is a collection of Kaushik Basu's papers on game theory and, more generally, strategic analysis. It includes papers in both pure and applied theory.

Evaluation with Power or Natural Attenuation of Fuels and Chlorinated Solvents in the Subsurface

2009-01-22T21:25:00.000-08:00

Evaluation with Power: A New Approach to Organizational Effectiveness, Empowerment, and Excellence

Author: Sandra Trice Gray

Evaluation with Power becomes more important in the social sector every day. Donors no longer reward good intentions, they reward results. This book can help social sector leaders manage for the mission and measure results.
— Frances Hesselbein, president and CEO, Peter F. Drucker Foundation
Evaluation with Power transforms evaluation into a powerful tool nonprofits can use to help their organizations progress and change in ways that lead to greater achievement of mission. Building on THE INDEPENDENT SECTOR'S ongoing research on evaluation, it is a practical, comprehensive handbook for turning program, process, and organizational evaluation into a positive learning experience that connects performance to mission. The book focuses on the needs of the nonprofit and reveals the sort of evaluation that is most appropriate to and helpful for nonprofits.
Leading experts from a wide range of show how to use evaluation in key organizational areas, including program design, human resource management, information systems, volunteers, and more.

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A practical handbook on evaluation for nonprofit professionals, showing how to connect performance to mission with organizational programs and process evaluation. Part I covers aspects of making evaluation a useful management tool, such as empowering staff for evaluation, the board's role in evaluation, volunteer contributions to evaluation, and using client feedback. Part II contains information on using ongoing evaluation to strengthen key areas such as program outcomes, human resource management, resource development, and information management. Other subjects include adapting evaluation to the organizational culture, and using outside evaluators. Includes sample forms. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Natural Attenuation of Fuels and Chlorinated Solvents in the Subsurface

Author: Todd H Wiedemeier

The first comprehensive guide to one of today's most innovative approaches to environmental contamination Natural attenuation is gaining increasing attention as a nonintrusive, cost-effective alternative to standard remediation techniques for environmental contamination. This landmark work presents the first in-depth examination of the theory, mechanisms, and application of natural attenuation. Written by four internationally recognized leaders in this approach, the book describes both biotic and abiotic natural attenuation processes, focusing on two of the environmental contaminants most frequently encountered in groundwater—fuels and chlorinated solvents. The authors draw on a wealth of combined experience to detail successful techniques for simulating natural attenuation processes and predicting their effectiveness in the field. They also show how natural attenuation works in the real world, using numerous examples and case studies from a wide range of leading-edge projects nationwide involving fuel hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents. Finally, they discuss the evaluation and assessment of natural attenuation and explore the design of long-term monitoring programs.

An indispensable reference for anyone working in environmental remediation, Natural Attenuation of Fuels and Chlorinated Solvents in the Subsurface is essential reading for scientists and engineers in a range of industries, as well as state and federal environmental regulators, and professors and graduate students in environmental or chemical engineering.

	Preface
1	Overview of Natural Attenuation	1
2	Attenuation of Source Zones and Formation of Plumes	27
3	Abiotic Processes of Natural Attenuation	118
4	Overview of Intrinsic Bioremediation	162
5	Intrinsic Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons	189
6	Intrinsic Bioremediation of Chlorinated Solvents	241
7	Evaluating Natural Attenuation	298
8	Modeling Natural Attenuation	361
9	Case Studies: Fuel Hydrocarbons	446
10	Case Studies: Chlorinated Solvents	516
11	Design of Long-Term Monitoring Programs	564
App. A	Geochemical and Physical Data	581
App. B	RBCA Chemical Database	593
	Index	605

The Philosophic Consultant or Leisure Travel

2009-01-21T19:45:00.000-08:00

The Philosophic Consultant: Revolutionizing Organizations with Ideas

Author: Peter Koestenbaum

In The Philosophic Consultant, acclaimed business consultant, philosopher, and author Peter Koestenbaum links deep insights of philosophy with practical business issues. Throughout this one-of-a-kind resource, Koestenbaum shows consultants and human resource practitioners how they can foster philosophical leadership within their organizations to positively affect the business environment. The book promises tangible results— credibility, trust, and thoughtful attention— and demonstrates how to apply philosophy, share knowledge with others, and use this newfound thoughtfulness to achieve bottom-line results.

	List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
Pt. 1	Context
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Your Heroic Journey	13
Pt. 2	The Diamond at a Glance
Ch. 3	The Change Agent's Diamond	41
Ch. 4	The Diamond at Work	63
Ch. 5	Secrets of Implementation	83
Pt. 3	The Main Body of the Leadership Mind: Four Intelligence Tools
Ch. 6	Ethics	107
Ch. 7	Empathy	121
Ch. 8	Principle and Duty in Business	137
Ch. 9	What Is Courage?	157
Ch. 10	Freedom: The Structure of the Experience	171
Ch. 11	The Resistance to Courage	187
Ch. 12	A Bad Decision? A Case Study in Leadership Coaching	195
Ch. 13	Courage as My-Body	207
Ch. 14	Pain and the Tragic Sense of Life: The Phoenix Factor	223
Ch. 15	Reality: The Zone that Gives No Quarter	237
Ch. 16	Image: Multiple Perspectives	257
Ch. 17	Vision	277
Ch. 18	Genius: Ways to Expand Visioning	299
Pt. 4	The Main Body of the Leadership Mind: Two Mastery Tools
Ch. 19	Polarity	335
Ch. 20	Greatness	365
Pt. 5	Appendices: Using the Total Diamond
App. A	The Magic Matrix	371
	App. B: Mastery Resources	387
	Bibliography	425
	About the Author	427
	Index	429

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Leisure Travel: Making It a Growth Market...Again!

Author: Stanley C Plog

The author, a leading travel industry expert, has spent 25 years compiling data for this book. Beginning with an overview of the leisure travel market, he then presents a psychologically based allocentrism-psychocentrism framework that explains why people do or do not travel, their various types of vacations, expectations and sources of dissatisfaction. Also included are numerous ways in which hotels, tour operators, airlines, travel agencies, car rentals, food services and other businesses can protect themselves during down swings and even prosper.

Managerial Accounting or Intersubjectivity in Economics

2009-01-20T18:04:00.000-08:00

Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment

Author: Ronald W Hilton

Known for its balance of managerial accounting topics in a variety of business segments-manufacturing,retail,nonprofit and service-industry settings-and noted by for its lively presentation,this highly successful text provides thorough coverage of all major topics found in the managerial accounting course. Traditional managerial accounting material along with up-to-date and emerging topics are covered throughout using a step-by-step presentation punctuated with numerous graphs,tables,exhibits,and photographs. Each chapter of the text is built around a major,chapter-length illustration based on real-world companies are utilized throughout the text to demonstrate key points and highlight important concepts. Using these elements-a modern,interesting and clear presentation along with major chapter-length illustrations-author Ronald Hilton has also designed a modular text,one that allows instructors great flexibility in the ordering of topics and coverage.

	Preface
Pt. 1	Fundamentals and Cost Accumulation Systems	1
Ch. 1	Managerial Accounting: An Overview	3
Ch. 2	Basic Cost Terms and Concepts	29
Ch. 3	Job-Order Costing Systems	71
Ch. 4	Process Costing and Hybrid Product-Costing Systems	133
Ch. 5	Cost Management Systems for the New Manufacturing Environment	191
Pt. 2	Planning and Control Systems	261
Ch. 6	Cost Behavior and Estimation	263
Ch. 7	Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis	317
Ch. 8	Budgeting: Profit Planning and Control Systems	373
Ch. 9	Standard Costing and Performance Measures for the New Manufacturing Environment	445
Ch. 10	Flexible Budgets and Control of Overhead Costs	501
Ch. 11	Responsibility Accounting and Income Reporting	553
Ch. 12	Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing	603
Pt. 3	Using Accounting Information in Making Decisions	649
Ch. 13	Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits	651
Ch. 14	Cost Analysis and Pricing Decisions	717
Ch. 15	Capital Expenditure Decisions: An Introduction	765
Ch. 16	Further Aspects of Capital Expenditure Decisions	811
Pt. 4	Selected Topics for Further Study	861
Ch. 17	Cost Allocation: A Closer Look	863
Ch. 18	Analyzing Financial Statements	895
Ch. 19	Preparing the Statement of Cash Flows	939
	Glossary	G-1
	Indexes	I-1

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Intersubjectivity in Economics: Agents and Structures

Author: E Fullbrook

Traditional economics treats the defining subjective properties of economic agents (tastes, preferences, demands, goals and perceptions) as if they are determined independently of individual and collective relations with other agents. This collection of essays reflects the increasingly common view that economics cannot continue to disregard all economic phenomena inconsistent with this conception.
The volume is especially concerned with the idea of intersubjective influences on market outcomes. A team of expert international contributors have been brought together to address the question of intersubjectivity from a variety of perspectives. Using methods of description and analysis they explore the structures and effects of concrete interdependencies between individual subjectivities engaged in economic activity, and develop conceptual and analytical tools for this task. Many of the essays are interdisciplinary in scope and in addition to economics the book should provide valuable lessons in psychology,sociology, social theory, philosophy, political science and history.

Corporate Governance or Transnational Civil Society

2009-01-14T19:20:00.000-08:00

Corporate Governance: Law, Theory and Policy

Author: Thomas W Joo

This volume collects recent scholarship on the law of corporate governance. It explores the application of legal doctrine and theory to policy issues such as corporate social responsibility, executive compensation, corporate criminality, federalism, and ethics. Corporate Governance: Law, Theory and Policy puts these issues in the context of recent developments such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the wave of corporate scandals and failures exemplified by the failure of Enron Corporation.

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Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction

Author: L David Brown

Due to the past decade's increasing impact of civil society networks and campaigns on global policy, the transnational civil society has become a continually emerging phenomenon. Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction provides a clear and accessible introduction to the history, characteristics, and achievements of influential transnational civil society networks, coalitions, and movements.

Providing perspectives from both developing and industrialized countries, editors Srilatha Batliwala and L. David Brown create the impetus for an in-depth analysis of the forces that have shaped social movements such as globalism, economic and political power structures, and organization by non-state actors. The contributors are globally experienced activist-scholars and reflective practitioners presently engaged in these issues. Together these sources form a comprehensive introduction to civil transnationalism through the synthesis of diverse positions as the contributors raise ideas and discussion on social transformation.

For students, practitioners, and activist alike, Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction offers comprehensible descriptions of transnational initiatives working toward effective and sustainable solutions to problems involving the environment, human rights, women's rights, and economic justice.

The Politics of Labor in a Global Age or Ethical Issues in Business

2009-01-14T10:39:00.000-08:00

The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late-Industrializing and Post-Socialist Economies

Author: Rudra Sil

One of the first works to analyze and compare recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations across late-industrializing and post-socialist economies, this volume features original, timely essays on distinct responses to common economic pressures associated with "globalization." The authors reveal that globalization has weakened organized labor, yet they explain that distinct labor institutions persist despite similar economic adjustment measures.

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Ethical Issues in Business

Author: Michael Boylan

This collection provides students in Business Ethics courses a comprehensive overview of the major areas of ethical theories and issues, including employer-employee relations, consumer affairs, business and government, and international affairs.

PART I: ETHICAL THEORY. 1. Virtue Ethics. 2. Intuitionism. 3. Utilitarianism. 4. Deontology. PART II: EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS. 5. Privacy. 6. Affirmative Action. 7. Whistle Blowing. 8. Working Conditions. PART III: CONSUMER ISSUES. 9. Health Care. 10. Advertising. 11. The Consumer. 12. The Environment. PART IV: GOVERNMENT ISSUES. 13. Regulation. 14. The Government's Role in Economic Justice. PART V: INTERNATIONAL ISSUES. 15. Bribery. 16. Multi-National Corporations.

Making a Market or Control and Security of E Commerce

2009-01-14T03:59:00.000-08:00

Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society

Author: Jean Ensminger

In Making a Market, Jean Ensminger analyzes the process by which the market was introduced into the economy of a group of Kenyan pastoralists. Professor Ensminger employs new institutional economic analysis to assess the impact of new market institutions on production and distribution, with particular emphasis on the effect of institutions on decreasing transaction costs over time. This study traces the effects of increasing commercialization on the economic well-being of individual households, rich and poor alike, over considerable time and analyzes the process by which institutions themselves are transformed as a market economy develops. This case study points out the importance of understanding the roles of ideology and bargaining power--in addition to pure economic forces, such as changing relative prices--in shaping market institutions.

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Control and Security of E-Commerce

Author: Gordon Edward Smith

Explores the components of e-commerce (including EDI).
Shows the risks involved when using an e-commerce system.
Provides controls for protecting an e-commerce site (e.g., securing financial transactions and confidential transactions).
Provides COSO compliant audit approach.
Provides risk/control tables and checklists.
Technical topics are discussed in simple user-friendly language.

Dr. James B. Hansen

The essence of information security is all about people, processes, and controls. The heart of successful security is not pure technology. The key is a team of well-trained employees who are prepared to use technology as a tool to implement and manage effective IT controls. Gordon Smith’s important book is a quality follow-up to his first book dealing with a control assessment approach to network auditing. It is an outstanding presentation of what is important in implementing and managing IT controls. It simply belongs in the library of every IT manager, internal auditor, and security specialist. (Vice President of Security Services, DynTek, Inc.)

Professor Michael Davis

Gordon Smith’s latest book leads the field again. Based upon understandable theory and loads of real-world audit experience, Control and Security of E-Commerce will help you identify, isolate, and inoculate your company from today’s ever-present e-commerce perils. Don’t just ‘trust’ that your security is OK—use this book to make sure! (Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University)

Dr. Jagdish S. Gangolly

Control and Security of E-Commerce is an invaluable book for practicing information systems professionals. Its unique informal and conversational style of writing is a pleasure to read. The war stories make the reading exciting for an area that is technical and often considered rather dry. The end-of-chapter guidelines for action are a treasure-trove of information. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in e-commerce security. (Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Accounting Programs, University at Albany, State University of New York)

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
	E-Commerce Results in Business Globalization	4
Ch. 2	Legal Issues Related to E-Commerce	11
	E-Commerce in the Courtroom	14
	Legal Agreements in Support of E-Commerce	19
	Risk/Control Table	24
	Audit Checklist	27
Ch. 3	Information Security: Overview	31
	Specific Threats to E-Commerce	35
	Cryptography and Encryption	39
	Symmetric Cryptosystems	39
	Asymmetric Cryptosystems	43
	Key Management and Transfer Techniques	43
	Digital Signatures and Other Authentication Techniques	46
	Risk/Control Table	48
	Audit and Security Checklist	52
Ch. 4	Certificates and Nonrepudiation	57
	Certificates	57
	Nonrepudiation: Requirement for Internet Business	63
	Risk/Control Table	67
	Audit and Security Checklist	71
Ch. 5	Protecting the E-Commerce Environment	73
	Protecting the Internet Zone	73
	Protecting the Extranet Zone	82
	Protecting the Intranet	88
	Business Continuance: Keeping the Web Site Accessible	89
	Risk/Control Summary	93
	Audit and Security Checklist	106
Ch. 6	Protecting E-Commerce Data	111
	Securing Confidential Data	113
	Securing the UNIX Environment	115
	Securing the Windows Server Environment	118
	Data-Related Risk/Control Table	124
	Checklists for Protecting the Data	137
	Checklists for UNIX Systems	138
	Checklists for Windows Systems	140
	Checklists for Network Issues	141
Ch. 7	Auditing an E-Commerce Application	143
	Sales and Invoicing Function Audit Guide	145
	Index	225

The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property or Assembly Automation

2009-01-13T18:18:00.000-08:00

The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property

Author: Gopal Sreenivasan

This book discusses Locke's theory of property from both a critical and an interpretative standpoint. The author first develops a comprehensive interpretation of Locke's argument for the legitimacy of private property, and then examines the extent to which the argument is really serviceable in defense of that institution. He contends that a purified version of Locke's argument--one that adheres consistently to the logic of Locke's text while excluding considerations extraneous to his logic--actually does establish the legitimacy of a form of private property. This version, which is both defensible in contemporary, secular terms and is, essentially, egalitarian, should provoke a reassessment of the nature of Locke's relevance to contemporary discussions of distributive justice.

"The book is clear and focused; the argument is compact; relevant secondary literature is respectfully treated."--Political Theory

"...an excellent text for an upper level or graduate seminar on Lockean political philosophy, or on the philosophical foundations of property rights. It has the virtue of being short and readable. It is creative in the theory of property developed out of key elements of Locke's work, and scholarly in its careful examination of Lockean texts."--Teaching Philosophy

"...this work provides a meticulous account of Locke's theory in such a way that it becomes more relevant to the ideals of secular modernity."--The Review of Metaphysics

"The book is clearly written and tightly argued."--Ethics

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Assembly Automation: A Management Handbook

Author: Frank J Riley

Success in automatic assembly design and operation comes from an awareness and sensitivity to a multitude of small design details, and only Frank Riley could pack so much knowledge and experience into a practical and authoritative guide to the selection and application of automatic assembly machinery. A vast amount of practical information about all aspects of automated assembly can be found in this important revised edition. 320 pp. Pub: 3/96.

Ch. 1	Why Automatic Assembly
Ch. 2	Product Design for Automatic Assembly
Ch. 3	Selecting the Assembly Machine System
Ch. 4	The Role of the Control System
Ch. 5	Feeding and Transfer of Parts
Ch. 6	Integrating Fabrication and Packaging Operations with Assembly
Ch. 7	Joining and Fastening
Ch. 8	Inspection, Gauging, and Functional Testing
Ch. 9	Meeting Government Regulations
Ch. 10	Systems Procurement
Ch. 11	Machine Acceptance and Installation
Ch. 12	The Production Audit
Ch. 13	Automated Assembly in the 21st Century

The Cultures of Work Organizations or I Series

2009-01-13T11:37:00.000-08:00

The Cultures of Work Organizations

Author: Harrison M Tric

This is the first, most comprehensive integration and synthesis of the growing literature on the cultures of work organizations. It offers a cultural perspective that is compatible with mainstream theories of organizations, while drawing upon the literatures in sociology, anthropology, organizations, communications, education, public administration, management, and business to illustrate the major components of work-related cultures. It will benefit professionals who are consultants, trainers, organizational development agents, and literate managers.

I-Series: MS Office XP -- Volume I

Author: Stephen Haag

The I-Series Applications textbooks strongly emphasize that students learn and master applications skills by being actively engaged- by doing. These texts have been written with clear,error-free,and unambiguous steps to accomplish tasks that lead to a finished document,worksheet or database table. The authors made the decision that teaching "how" to accomplish some task is not enough for complete understanding and mastery. Prior to introducing steps,the authors discuss why the steps students are about to experience are important and what role the steps play in the overall plan for creating a document,workbook or database.

Industrial Ecology and the Automobile or Securities Regulation Cases and Analysis 2005

2009-01-13T02:56:00.000-08:00

Industrial Ecology and the Automobile

Author: Thomas E E Graedel

FEATURES:

Shows that an industrial system must be viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems, but in concert with them.
Outlines a systems view in which one seeks to optimize the total materials cycle — from materials to components and whole products, through obsolescence and disposal.

Focuses on resources, energy, and capital as factors to be optimized.

Explores various experiences encountered by the automobile industry in designing an automobile with the environment in mind. Considers:

What choices are desirable?
Which decisions work?
Which are difficult to implement?
Where is more research needed?

Places automobiles in the context of broad societal structures — economics, psychology, culture.
Provides historical perspectives on the evolution of the automobile and the evolution of the automotive infrastructure. (Chs. 4, 5) Considers:

Road network development, maintenance and repair.

Petroleum exploration, recovery, and delivery network.

The automobile as a facilitator of urban sprawl.

Discusses the many steps and factors to be considered in designing for environment:

Choosing materials. (Ch. 6)

Energy consumption. (Ch. 7)

Environmental impacts during manufacture. (Ch. 8)

Environmental interactions during product use. (Ch. 9)

Design for recycling. (Ch. 10)

Surveys global trends affecting the automobile, the transportationinfrastructure, and the society of the next quarter-century.

Contains Matrix Evaluation Guidelines and Checklists. (Appendix A)

Table of Contents:
Preface
Pt. I Automobiles and Societal Structures
1 Humanity on the Move 1
2 Industrial Ecology 8
3 Culture, Psychology, and the Automobile 26
4 Automotive Technology as a System 37
Pt. II Historical Perspectives
5 The Evolution of the Automobile 47
6 The Evolution of the Automotive Infrastructure 62
Pt. III Design for Environment
7 Choosing Materials 77
8 Environmental Interactions During Manufacture 93
9 Energy Consumption 109
10 Environmental Interactions During Product Use 125
11 Design for Recycling 147
12 How Green is the Automobile and Its Infrastructure? 162
Pt. IV Future Prospects
13 The Future of the Automobile and Its Infrastructure 193
14 Epilogue 217
App. A Environmentally-Responsible Product Matrix 219
App. B Conversion Factors and Units of Measurement 236
Index 238

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Securities Regulation, Cases and Analysis 2005 (University Casebook Series)

Author: Stephen J Choi
Securities Regulation: Cases and Analysis includes detailed coverage of the SEC's 2005 Public Offering Reforms and seeks to make both securities markets and securities regulation accessible and manageable, helping students to master the basic principles and structure of securities regulation and enabling them to begin their careers as corporate lawyers with confidence. Each chapter begins with a brief essay laying out the economics of the subject of the chapter. Securities markets are all about money, so an understanding of the economic incentives of the various actors is essential to an understanding of the effects of the regulatory regime.

Understanding and Implementing ISO 9000 and Other ISO Standards or Working Papers for Use with Managerial Accounting

2009-01-12T19:15:00.000-08:00

Understanding and Implementing ISO 9000 and Other ISO Standards

Author: David Goetsch
Understanding and Implementing ISO 9000:2000, Second Edition, presents information on the newly updated ISO 9000:2000 standards. The text serves as a practical teaching resource and a how-to guide, appropriate for both traditional classroom and workshop environments. It provides a step-by-step model for understanding the year 2000 version of the ISO 9000 standard and its supporting documents, and for implementation and registration to the standard.
Features of this text include:

Clear, easy-to-follow explanations of the standards and related concepts

Case studies that apply the concepts to real-world situations

End-of-chapter summaries, lists of key terms, and review questions that support the user's comprehension of the material

Appendices of information that relate to the study and application of the standard, including a comprehensive checklist that will assist organizations in assessing their readiness for registration

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Working Papers for Use with Managerial Accounting

Author: Ray H H Garrison
This study aid contains forms that help students organize their solutions to homework problems.

Financial Accounting and Reporting or Making Strategy Happen

2009-01-12T12:34:00.000-08:00

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Author: Nathan M Bisk
Study with the same materials used by these gold medal winners who achieved the highest scores in the nation on recent CPA exams.
Pass the CPA exam with our famous Solutions Approach
Four volumes with complete, current and extensive coverage of all topics to match the four sections of the CPA examination
Comprehensive coverage of the new exam content specifications
How to take the exam, answer questions, and write effective essays for maximum points
Diagnostic Exam to test your knowledge and strategies to prepare for the exam
Getting Started worksheets to help you develop your training plan
Detailed summaries, plus correct and incorrect answer explanations not available from the AICPA
Free Update Supplements

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Making Strategy Happen

Author: Arnold S Judson
Strategic business plans, the key to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage in an increasingly turbulent and complex world, are useless until successfully implemented. Yet managements' failures in execution are far more common than their successes. This book explains in a practical, down-to-earth way how management can ensure successful implementation of its business strategy and achieve desired outcomes both in the marketplace and inside the organization.
The new edition of this bestselling primer contains an extensive, entirely new chapter on strategic management, further elaboration of recommended processes, and many additional international examples.

Table of Contents:
Preface.
Part I: Great Plans do not Happy Outcomes Make: .
1. The Implementation Issue.
2. Why Strategies Fail.
3. Strategic Management.
4. The Anatomy of Implementation.
Part II: New Uses for an Old Vehicle:.
5. Driving Strategy Implementation with Operating Plans.
6. Setting the Stage.
Part III: Three Cornerstone Analyses: .
7. Targeting High-Leverage Improvement Opportunities.
8. Setting the Right Priorities and Objectives.
9. Assessing Capabilities for Success.
Part IV: Formulating an Agreed Plan:.
10. Establishing Direction and Focus.
11. Specifying the Work Required.
Part V: Ensuring Implementation Success: .
12. Tracking Implementation Progress.
13. Sustaining Momentum and Focus.
14. Making Strategy Happen.
Appendices. .
1. Sample Operating Systems Characteristics.
2. High-Leverage Targets of Opportunity (Prioritized)>.
3. Organization and Management Readiness Assessment Questionnaire.
4. Generic Strategy Options.
5. An Example of a List of Issues to be Addressed by a Strategy.
6. Some typical Obstacles to Successful Stratagy Implementation.
7. Examples of Action Programs.
8. Examples of Tailored Measurement Packages.
Notes.
Index.

An Economic Analysis of the Family or Intermediate Accounting

2009-01-12T02:53:00.000-08:00

An Economic Analysis of the Family

Author: John F Ermisch
What do economists have to say about behavior within the context of the family? This book improves our understanding of how families and markets interact, why important aspects of families have been changing in recent decades, and how families respond to, and are affected by, public policy. It covers a broader range of topics with more consistency than have previous studies, including all major theoretical developments in the field over the past decade. John Ermisch builds his analysis on the premise that the standard analytical methods of microeconomics can help us understand resource allocation and the distribution of welfare within the family.
Families are dynamic institutions--and so the author uses these same methods to study family formation and dissolution (including marriage, fertility, and divorce) and household formation, as well as intergenerational transfers, household production and investment, and bargaining between family members. He also shows how economic theories of the family can help guide and structure empirical analyses of demographic and related phenomena, such as labor supply, child support, and returns to education. Examples of studies that apply the theory are provided throughout the book.
The most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to an increasingly dynamic area of research, one with important implications for public policy, An Economic Analysis of the Family will be a valuable resource for advanced students of microeconomics and also for students and researchers in sociology, psychology, and other social sciences.

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Intermediate Accounting, Vol. 1

Author: Donald E Kieso
Keeping its finger on the pulse of the profession, the new twelfth edition update of this bestselling book effectively prepares readers for their accounting futures. They'll find the latest information in the field, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act legislation as well as proven tips for passing the computerized CPA exam. Reflecting the demands for entry-level accountants, the focus of this book is on fostering critical thinking skills, reducing emphasis on memorization and encouraging more analysis and interpretation by requiring use of technology tools, spreadsheets and databases. It integrates numerous examples from real corporations throughout the chapters to clearly demonstrate how accounting principles and techniques are applied in practice.

Booknews
The new, enhanced edition of a standard text includes substantial new content and new pedagogical features. Coverage begins with a chapter on financial accounting and accounting standards and continues through 24 chapters covering such topics as income statement and related information; balance sheet and statement of cash flows; valuation of inventories; depreciations, impairments, and depletion; intangible assets; long-term liabilities; income taxes; and pensions and postretirement benefits; among other topics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:
Tomorrow's accountants won't be just number crunchers; they'll be communicators, consultants, and decision makers. This Tenth Edition is specifically designed to help you fill those rolls. With the Digital Tool CD-ROM (packaged free with this text), you'll have access to skill-building aids that will help you prepare for professional practice.

Wiring for Wireless Sites or Punishment for Profit

2009-01-11T19:12:00.000-08:00

Wiring for Wireless Sites

Author: Ira Wiesenfeld
Wiring for Wireless Sites is one of only a handful of concise, yet highly technical information resources devoted exclusively to teaching readers the ins and outs of installing equipment in a wireless site. A "go to" resource for site planning engineers and technicians, as well as professionals already in the radio and wireless installation and maintenance business, this book virtually eliminates hours of time linking generic electrical/electronic circuit theory to manufacturer-specific descriptions of cables before moving on to actual installation. Comprehensive coverage spans the spectrum, from equipment layout and wiring through grounding and lighting protection. Helpful learning aids are also included in every chapter to guide readers to new levels of expertise.
Booknews
This resource offers information on installing equipment in a wireless site, for site planning engineers and technicians as well as professionals already in the radio and wireless installation and maintenance business. The book links generic electrical/electronic circuit theory to manufacturer-specific descriptions of cables, then moves on to actual installation, with coverage spanning equipment layout and wiring through grounding and lighting protection. Each chapter includes safety precautions, specific procedures and guidelines for testing and documentation, and objectives, summaries, and review questions. The author is a licensed professional engineer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Punishment for Profit: Private Prisons/Public Concerns

Author: David Shichor

"Shichor, a recognized American criminologist, has provided a thoughtful, comprehensive, issue-directed investigation into the privatization solution. . . . An excellent resource for policy makers and those knowledgeable about corrections." --J. H. Larson in Choice "In this comprehensive study of the privatization of correctional institutions, David Shichor provides a much-needed critical analysis and evaluation of the privatization movement in corrections today. After presenting a lucid historical overview, the author discusses in separate chapters the conceptual, legal, economic, qualitative, and management issues involved in privatizing prisons. . . . The book deserves to be widely read because of its clarity, comprehensiveness, and relevance." --Matthew Kanjirathinkal in Corrections Today "David Shichor, a recognized American criminologist, has provided a thoughtful, comprehensive, issue-directed investigation into the privatization solution. . . . Each issue is systematically reviewed, allowing readers to relate it to the perspective, central thesis, and to other issues. Shichor then uses empirical program information and evaluations to test elements of basic privatization. . . . Good bibliography. An excellent resource for policy makers and those knowledgeable about corrections." --Choice Presenting a systematic and complete review of the literature on privatization of prisons, Punishment for Profit raises some fundamental questions about who we are as a society. Moving beyond the comfort zone of more pragmatic discussions, David Shichor examines some serious ethical, legal, political, and theoretical considerations regarding a clientele that is not only viewed asundesirable but also vulnerable to social and political manipulation. Acknowledging the need to synthesize both research and "gut feeling" in order to formulate a thoughtful opinion on such an important topic, the author encourages evaluation of basic issues such as: What are the functions of state and government? What are the limits of civil liberties? What are the bonds holding members of society together? Researchers, academicians, policy makers, correctional officers, and advanced students will find Punishment for Profit thought provoking and an excellent resource for continued efforts to resolve this critical issue facing the national community. "Although there is no question where the author comes down on the matter of privatizing prisons, readers seeking a full view of what is known and thought about this important public policy issue should be pleased to have before them a full and fair portrayal of every matter of importance on the issue: the historical record, legal issues, management concerns, expense data, monitoring matters, and outcome measures, the last concerned with whether private operations show a better result than the present system in terms of reform of inmates." --from the Foreword by Gilbert Geis

Booknews

Shichor (criminal justice, California State U., San Bernardino) offers a review of the literature on privatization of prisons, of interest to researchers, policymakers, correctional officers, and advanced students. He raises fundamental questions about the functions of state and government, the limits of civil liberties, and the relevance of a utilitarian approach to punishment and social control, and discusses the history of private prisons, empirical evaluations of private correctional facilities, and legal, economic, and quality issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	A Historical Review of Private Prisons	19
3	Conceptual and Theoretical Issues	45
4	Legal Issues	78
5	Contract and Monitoring Issues	111
6	Economic Issues	135
7	Quality Issues	166
8	Management and Personnel Issues	189
9	Empirical Evaluations of Private Correctional Facilities	210
10	Further Considerations	233
	References	262
	Index	283
	About the Author	295

Computing Skills for Economists or Global Strategy and Organization

2009-01-11T10:31:00.000-08:00

Computing Skills for Economists

Author: Guy Judg

Today's students are expected to use computers and familiarise themselves with word-processing and spreadsheet packages in their work. They are also expected to be able to use the Internet for e-mail and accessing information on the Web. In fact, some lecturers use the Web to provide course notes or even deliver parts of the course interactively. Most available computer books are too general and often miss out features that would be particularly helpful to economists. In fact, they don't show how such tools can be used in economics.

This textbook fills a need for a computing and IT book aimed specifically at undergraduate economics students. It bridges the gap between IT literacy and the use of hardware, software and other resources in learning and doing economics. The main focus is on the tools and the resources that are particularly relevant to economists with examples of their use and suggestions of how to apply and exploit them in applications in economics.

FEATURES

Assumes no previous computing background - the book will adopt a practical and applied approach with emphasis on the software used by economists and how they use it.

Use of examples and applications will allow readers to learn by doing and develop their computing skills.

The book will be written in a concise and informal style with the use of screen grabs and text boxes.

wiley.co.uk/judge - a Website containing solutions to exercises, PowerPoint slides and other supplementary material for instructors. The site will also have an archive for data used in the book and be a means of updating information.

CONTENTS: Introduction: Tools,Tasks, Resources and Skills; Beginning to Work with Computers in Economics; Building on the Basics: Skills Development; Spreadsheets for Economists; The Internet for Economists; Statistics and Econometrics Software for Economists; More Advanced Computing Skills for Economists.

Booknews

A textbook for undergraduate economics students who have never turned on a personal computer. Judge (University of Portsmouth) introduces the use of word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers, statistics software, and econometrics software. Topics include regression on a spreadsheet, time series analysis with econometrics, and economic journals available on-line. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

INTRODUCTION: TOOLS, TASKS, RESOURCES and SKILLS.
Economists, computers and IT in today's world
The contents, structure and approach of this book
Preliminary information and key concepts
Tools, tasks, skills and resources
Summary
Appendix. Skills for file and disk management tasks
BEGINNING TO WORK WITH COMPUTERS IN ECONOMICS
Beginning to work with a word processor
Your first word processed document
Beginning to work with a spreadsheet
Your first spreadsheet application
Beginning to work with e-mail software
Your first e-mail message
Beginning to work with a web browser
Your first time browsing the web
Beginning to work with presentation software
Preparing your first presentation
Beginning to work with database software
Creating your first database
Summary
Exercises and mini-projects
BUILDING ON THE BASICS. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Incorporating graphics, symbols and equations
Including a graphics image in a word processed document
Working with longer word processed documents
A word processed essay
Simple economic modeling using a spreadsheet
Cost-volume-profit analysis on a spreadsheet
Developing your e-mail skills
Sending and receiving a file attachment
Summary
Exercises and mini-projects
SPREADSHEETS FOR ECONOMISTS.
Analyzing and summarizing economic data
GDP per capita in OECD countries
Cross-tabulation
The position of women in economics departments
Regression on a spreadsheet
Carbon monoxide emissions in the European Union
A simple model of the UK consumption function
A simple Cobb-Douglas production function
Financial analysis on a spreadsheet
Investmentappraisal and the net present value of an investment project
Optimization in a spreadsheet
Least squares regression again
A linear programming problem
Portfolio selection
Working with matrices in a spreadsheet
A simple macroeconomic model
Dynamic economic models in a spreadsheet
A simple multiplier-accelerator model
Summary
Exercises and mini-projects
STATISTICS AND ECONOMETRICS SOFTWARE.
Introduction. Dedicated statistics and econometrics packages
Preparing to use statistics and econometrics software: some preliminary considerations
Becoming familiar with statistics and econometrics software
Cigarette consumption in Turkey
More advanced time series analysis with econometrics packages
Unit-root tests of Tansel's cigarette consumption data
Cointegration analysis of the advertising-sales relationship
Summary
Exercises and mini-projects
THE INTERNET FOR ECONOMISTS.
Introduction: the ever changing Internet - expansion, evolution, and revolution
Finding information on the web
Using search engines
Using SOSIG
Finding specific types of economic information on the web
Downloading and using data from the web
Conducting a bibliographical search
Economic journals available on-line
Working papers and pre-prints
Tracking down working papers by Hal Varian
Current awareness services
On-line learning and interactive tools on the web
Building your own web page
Creating a simple web page
Summary
Exercises and mini-projects
MORE ADVANCED COMPUTING SKILLS FOR ECONOMISTS.
Introduction
More advanced use of spreadsheets and econometrics software: controlling your software with macros and procedures
Other computing tools for programming in econometrics
More advanced word processing for mathematical documents
Symbolic algebra software
Getting ready for the future
Summary
Exercises and mini-projects
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING.
INDEX.

Interesting textbook: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Supplement use in People with Diabetes or Mind Body Fitness

Global Strategy and Organization

Author: Anil K Gupta

In the battle for global dominance, only those organizations that lead the ongoing globalization of their industries will succeed. That’s why students need a strategic framework that they can apply in a global setting.

In GLOBAL STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATION, awarding-winning scholars and teachers Anil L. Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan focus on the four essential tasks for transforming a company in a global success:

• Identify market opportunities worldwide and pursue those opportunities by establishing the necessary presence in all key markets

• Convert global presence into global competitive advantage

• Cultivate a global mindset

• Strive to reinvent the rules of the global game

Each chapter focuses on a specific, action-oriented issue. Reports on the activities of real firms, such as Wal-Mart, Dell Computer, and Canon, provide insights into the challenges associated with globalization and illustrate the author’s findings.

You Can Do the Math or Industrial Economics

2009-01-11T03:50:00.000-08:00

You Can Do the Math: Overcome Your Math Phobia and Make Better Financial Decisions

Author: Ron Lipsman

Every day we are faced with financial decisions. Should I buy that DVD player or 100 lottery tickets? What percentage of my salary should I allocate to my 401K? How much should I be saving for my daughter's college education? Will I be better off leasing or buying my next car? The problem for most of us is that we freeze up when making these choices; regardless of our level of formal education, we find ourselves intimidated by the numbers and poorly prepared to make some of the most important decisions of our lives. We've become a society of math-o-phobes with profound consequences for our financial well-being. In You Can Do the Math, Ron Lipsman draws from over 30 years of teaching mathematics to help you take control of your financial destiny by applying basic arithmetic techniques. Step by step, he walks you through the fundamental calculations that underlie virtually every financial decision. Mastering such concepts as compounding interest, lease and loan payments, and the impact of inflation, you will learn how to: Institute a successful college savings program; Minimize your taxes; Wisely purchase insurance; Decide whether to buy or rent a home; Plan for retirement; and much more. Featuring entertaining real-life examples and keyed to a companion Web site (math.umd.edu/~rll/cgi-bin/finance.html) where you can input your own figures and calculate the results, You Can Do the Math demystifies credit, mortgages, stocks and bonds--and even the odds of beating the house in Vegas, and will become an essential resource for anyone looking to conquer their math anxiety and make more informed financial decisions.

Industrial Economics: Economic Analysis and Public Policy

Author: Stephen Martin

The book's central topic is the exercise of market power, the control of price and exclusion of competitors. This edition includes detailed case studies and examples, including many international cases.

1. Introduction.
2. The Welfare Consequences of Market Power.
3. Public Policy Toward Private Enterprise—Introduction.
4. The Dominant Firm.
5. Oligopoly—The Recognition of Interdependence.
6. Oligopoly—Collusion.
7. Structure, Conduct, Market Power—The Evidence.
8. The Determinants of Market Structure.
9. The Determinants of Firm Structure.
10. Public Policy Toward Mergers.
11. Sales Efforts.
12. Research and Development.
13. Industrial Economics and International Trade.
14. Industrial Economics and Macroeconomics.
15. Price Discrimination/Tying.
16. Predation.
17. Vertical Restraints.
18. Public Policy Toward Private Enterprise.
References.
Case Index.
Name Index.
Subject Index.

The Future of Wireless Communications or Balance of Payments Adjustment

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

The Future of Wireless Communications

Author: William Webb

Here's a forward-looking new book that realistically forecasts the changes in mobile communications over the next 20 years to help you make informed decisions and develop successful strategies that address the future challenges of this industry. This resource provides organizations with specific recommendations on the direction of technological development, and examines critical constraints and drivers such as the limits of efficiency, standardization, radio spectrum, industry structure, and user requirements.

From cellular and fixed wireless systems... to wireless local area and personal area networks, this cutting-edge reference gives you an easy-to-understand overview of current and emerging wireless technologies and systems. The book predicts network structure in 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020, and looks at a day in the life of users in 2010 and 2020. Contributions are included from leading industry experts Mark Birchler, Larry Marturano, Frank Yester, Michel Mouly, Tero Ojanpera, Malcolm Oliphant, Siegmund Redl, Mike Short and the UK Radiocommunications Agency.

Booknews

Forecasts changes in mobile communications over the next 20 years and provides organizations with specific recommendations on the direction of technological development. Overviews emerging wireless technologies and systems in plain language, then examines critical constraints and drivers such as the limits of efficiency, standardization, radio spectrum, industry structures, and user requirements. Coverage encompasses cellular and fixed wireless systems, and wireless local area and personal area networks. Webb is director of strategy at Motorola. He has written other books on wireless communications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Balance of Payments Adjustment: Macro Facets of International Finance Revisited

Author: Augustine C Ariz

A detailed analysis of the two approaches, Monetary and traditional Keynesian, to international adjustment and balance of payments.

Booknews

Business and economic scholars analyze in detail the two major approaches to international balance-of-payments adjustment, the traditional one called Keynesian and developed early in the 20th century, and the Monetary developed in the 1970s but which is claimed by its adherents to have been around since the time of David Hume. They review them theoretically and empirically, look at critiques, compare them theoretically and empirically, and survey the theoretical literature and empirical evidence on determining exchange rates. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Putting Trust in the U S Budget or The Education Gospel

2009-01-10T11:28:00.000-08:00

Putting Trust in the U. S. Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment

Author: Eric M Patashnik

In the United States many important programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, are paid from trust funds. At a time when major social insurance funds are facing insolvency, this timely book provides the first comprehensive study of this significant yet little-studied feature of the American welfare state. Trust funds are at the heart of US budgeting and public social provision, and also raise a fundamental question of democratic politics: can current officeholders bind their successors? Through detailed case studies Patashnik shows how long term government commitments are effectively designed.

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
1	Introduction: trust funds and the politics of commitment	1
2	Political transaction costs, feedback effects, and policy credibility	18
3	Trust fund taxes vs. general fund taxes	40
4	Social Security	63
5	Medicare	94
6	Highways	113
7	Airports	135
8	Superfund	154
9	Barriers to trust fund adoption: the failed cases of energy security and lead abatement	173
10	Conclusions: the structure and normative challenges of promise-keeping	188
	Bibliography	205
	Index	226

Books about: Freedom or The Puritan Dilemma

The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling

Author: W Norton Grubb

In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems—and that the central purpose of education is workplace preparation.

But do increasing levels of education accurately represent the demands of today's jobs? Grubb and Lazerson argue that the abilities developed in schools and universities and the competencies required in work are often mismatched—since many Americans are under-educated for serious work while at least a third are over-educated for the jobs they hold. The ongoing race for personal advancement and the focus on worker preparation have squeezed out civic education and learning for its own sake. Paradoxically, the focus on schooling as a mechanism of equity has reinforced social inequality. The challenge now, the authors show, is to create environments for learning that incorporate both economic and civic goals, and to prevent the further descent of education into a preoccupation with narrow work skills and empty credentials.

Michael Duffy - Times Educational Supplement

This is a major work that is balanced, analytical, [and] accessible.

George Keller - Review of Higher Education

Every once in a rare while, a book appears that causes us to reassess much of what we believe in. It questions our basic beliefs and suggests that the allegedly wise persons among us may have no undergarments and be blind in one eye. This is such a volume. The Education Gospel is amiably written and forcefully argued...What Grubb and Lazerson have produced collaboratively is a provocative contrarian tract about schools, colleges, job training, and politics...This book is a powerful and salutary assault on educational evangelism, and a compassionate plea that meritocracy may have some new requirements for social justice.

The State of the Nation or Information Systems Project Management

2009-01-10T02:48:00.000-08:00

The State of the Nation: Government and the Quest for a Better Society, 1960-1995

Author: Derek Bok

Never before have Americans been so anxious about the future of their society. But rarely has anyone offered a clear statement about why, in a nation so prosperous, free, and stable, we tend to assume that the country is in dire straits and that the government can do little to help. This book is just such a statement, an eloquent assessment of where America stands, how our society has changed in the past half-century, and who or what is responsible for our current frustrations.

Derek Bok examines the nation's progress in five areas that Americans generally consider to be of paramount importance: economic prosperity, quality of life, opportunity, personal security, and societal values. He shows that although we are better off today in most areas than we were in 1960, we have performed poorly overall compared with other leading industrial nations. And when it comes to providing adequate health care at a reasonable cost, educating our young people for high-skilled jobs, alleviating poverty and urban blight, and reducing crime, our record has been dismal. Comparing the United States with other leading industrial nations on more than sixty key indicators, Bok shows that we rank below average in more than two-thirds of the cases and at the bottom in more than half.

What has caused this decline, and what can be done about it? In virtually all important areas of American life, Bok concludes, government policies have played a significant, often decisive role in accounting for our successes as well as our failures. But whereas others call for downsizing the federal government, Bok argues that government is essential to achieving America's goals. In short, Ronald Reaganwas only half right. Government is the problem. But it is also the most important part of the solution. By assessing the state of the nation and identifying the reasons for its current condition, this book helps set the agenda for improving America's performance in the future.

Publishers Weekly

Bok, president emeritus of Harvard and a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, knows that tables and statistics are the most subjective of objective facts. But in his attempt to pin down exactly what the state of the nation is and why Americans are so gloomy about it, Bok has accumulated hundreds of them. He measures the reality and the perception of five basic goals that Americans tend to agree on: economic growth; quality of life (e.g., healthy environment and cultural life); chance for advancement; security; and maintenance of certain basic values. Bok proves that, overall, America is closer to these five goals than it was 20 years ago, but the speed of its advancement is poor compared to other industrialized countries. Nowhere is that more obvious than with education, largely because the country spends "twice as much educating college students as it does training those who merely graduate from high school, and more than five times as much as it does on high school dropouts." Bok sees this as the first of two volumes, with the second aimed at probing "more deeply the question why our policies and programs so often fail to meet our expectations." Perhaps because it is more descriptive than prescriptive and because it is precisely not polemical, The State of the Nation is often dry. There are plenty of interesting facts and points that readers will want to store away for future reference, but the argument they add up to is rather diffuse. (Jan.)

Library Journal

Bok, president of Harvard University from 1971 to 1991, is a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Here he looks at five long-time concerns of Americans-prosperity, quality of life, opportunity, personal security, and values-to determine whether the pessimism rampant in the United States in the 1990s is justified. Changes since the 1950s are described and comparisons are made to other advanced industrial democracies. In areas where the United States seems to be performing poorly, Bok explores why and the role the government plays. Bok does a truly superior job of marshaling ideas and factual information from many fields of knowledge. His methodical presentation of this information is revealing, and the approach is a refreshing change from the unsubstantiated opinion that frequently characterizes debate on these topics. Essential reading for public policy scholars, this book will find a wide audience among educated readers generally. Highly recommended for all libraries.-Mary Jane Brustman, SUNY at Albany Libs.

Barbara Boyle Torrey

Bok has taken on a formidable task. He has surveyed the major social changes in the United States since World War II and examined not only the causes of each trend, but also the pattern of the combined changes. His survey ranges from the economy to qualify of life to opportunities to values. He examines in detail crime, race, education, children, the environment, the arts, health, poverty, and old age...What slowly emerges from the tapestry of data and research that Bok weaves is a wealthy nation that is underachieving. -- Barbara Boyle Torrey, Washington Monthly

Kirkus Reviews

Incredibly, Bok, who is president emeritus of Harvard University, manages to come off here as a Milquetoast, even though he is addressing controversial questions and providing intelligent commentary.

Do America's best days lie ahead or is the country in decline? Bok responds with a survey of five critical areas of social life—the economy, living conditions, opportunity, personal security, and values—to consider whether the optimists or pessimists should be believed. Evenhanded to a fault, he places issues in historical context, systematically compares conditions, trends, and government policies in the US to those of Western Europe and Japan, and presents the arguments of both sides. Two recurrent themes emerge: First, the comparatively high level of economic inequality in this country is exacerbated by public policy, and second, attempts by the federal government to achieve widely popular goals (such as economic growth and full employment) have been comparatively unsuccessful. The former drops from sight in the concluding chapters, but the latter provokes a potentially controversial assertion. Bok insists that many of the things Americans want cannot be achieved without government action; consequently, it must be part of the social equation, despite past lackluster performance. The real question, then, is why the US government is less able than its foreign counterparts to meet public expectations. This would seem to demand an answer, but Bok immediately returns to his self-assigned role as an observer above the fray. Throughout the book his analysis is a scholar's litany: "A careful look at the record suggests that both the gloom and the euphoria have been greatly overdone." To reinforce his balanced approach, both sides of every issue considered in the text are rehearsed once again in a chapter titled "Summing Up"; the following chapter is actually titled "Questioning the Verdict."

Is it better to scream or go to sleep in the face of pathological moderation?

	Introduction	1
1	The Economy	19
2	Scientific Research and Technology	37
3	Education	55
4	Labor Market Policies	73
5	Living Conditions	95
6	The Environment	116
7	Encouraging the Arts	134
8	Child Policies	157
9	Race	174
10	Career Opportunities	191
11	Violent Crime	217
12	Health Care	235
13	Regulating the Workplace	256
14	The Burdens of Old Age	276
15	Individual Freedom under Law	295
16	Personal Responsibility	313
17	Helping the Poor	334
18	Summing Up	359
19	Questioning the Verdict	390
20	The Role of Government	405
	Notes	427
	Index	477

New interesting textbook: Desarrollo de Organización y Cambio

Information Systems Project Management

Author: Gholamreza Torkzadeh

Until now, books available for information systems project management focused either on information techonology or production and operations. Information Systems Project Management reflects new thinking about the need for balance between technology topics and production-operations issues needed to manage successful IS projects.

International Trade and the World Economy or White Collar Crime

2009-01-09T19:07:00.000-08:00

International Trade and the World Economy

Author: Charles Van Marrewijk

International Trade and the World Economy provides an up-to- date theoretical and empirical analysis of the structure and forces underlying all 'real' international economics, such as trade flows, investment flows, and trade policy. The book is organized into four parts: introduction and classical trade; neo-classical trade; new trade; and new interactions (in geographical economics, multinationals, growth and development, and applied trade policy).
An accompanying study guide and website provide empirical questions to test theories and simulation questions to allow the student to get the feel for the structure of economic models and for the interpretation of results.

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Boxes
	List of Technical Notes
Pt. 1	Introduction and Classical Trade
1	The World Economy	3
2	Opportunity Costs	26
3	Comparative Advantage	41
Pt. 2	Neoclassical Trade
4	Production Structure	59
5	Factor Prices	78
6	Production Volume	97
7	Factor Abundance	113
8	Trade Policy	138
Pt. 3	New Trade
9	Imperfect Competition	165
10	Intra-industry Trade	182
11	Strategic Trade Policy	205
12	International Trade Organizations	220
13	Economic Integration	237
Pt. 4	New Interactions
14	Geographical Economics	265
15	Multinationals	290
16	New Goods, Growth, and Development	316
17	Applied Trade Policy Modelling	341
18	Concluding Remarks	360
	References	366
	Index	373

White Collar Crime: The Uncut Version

Author: Edwin H Sutherland

A classic study of corporate crime in America, available with the names and case studies of the offenders included. This book reveals, in vivid detail, the corporate looting, price-fixing, union busting, and wartime profiteering, which are only a few of the crimes committed.

Project Management or Crosstalk

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

Project Management: Tools and Trade-offs

Author: Ted Klastorin

This book presents the fundamental concepts of project management in a concise fashion with an emphasis on the difficult tradeoffs that must be made by project managers. The authors describe the basic analytical tools and project management methodologies and show how to apply these tools and methodologies to realistic problems.
* Offers a unique balance of theory and practice, with emphasis on the uncertain, risky projects that managers have to manage in the real world.
* Takes an analytical and applied approach.
* Includes Excel templates for all models described in the book on an accompanying disk.

Interesting book: Coltura e direzione organizzative

Crosstalk: Communicating in a Multicultural Workplace

Author: Sherron Kenton

As a result of increasing relationships with individuals whose culture is different from our own, our communication challenges grow proportionately greater. The purpose of this text is to make it easier and more effective for workplace professionals to speak, write, interview, or meet with other professionals whose cultural backgrounds differ from their own. Offers one straightforward, strategic model for effective business communication. Enables the reader to identify and effectively communicate with a culturally diverse audience. Covers gender issues in conjunction with diverse cultures. For anyone interested in the multicultural business communications field.

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Ch. 1	The CrossTalk Communication Model	1
Ch. 2	What if Your Audience Is a Man or a Woman with Roots in the European Culture?	22
Ch. 3	What if your Audience Has Roots in the African Culture?	51
Ch. 4	What if Your Audience Has Roots in the Asian Culture?	71
Ch. 5	What if Your Audience Has Roots in the Latino Culture?	96
	Appendixes	118
	Bibliography	208

A History of British Publishing or Non State Actors in World Politics

2009-01-09T02:45:00.000-08:00

A History of British Publishing

Author: John Feather

This revised, restructured and thoroughly updated edition of a classic text covers six centuries of publishing in Britain, from before the invention of the printing press to the electronic era.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the publishing industry is being transformed by new technologies. Over 500 years ago, book production was revolutionised by an earlier new technology - the printing press and moveable type. A whole new industry grew out of this invention, an industry in which books were mass-produced for the first time. By the end of the 15th century printed books had largely ousted manuscripts in the commercial book trade; their predominance as an information medium was not seriously challenged until after the turn of the twentieth century, and even then only at the margins. The printed book became one of the symbols of Western culture.

In this book, John Feather considers not only the publishing industry itself, but also areas affecting and affected by it, from education, politics,technology and law, to religion, custom and class. He traces the history of the publishing of books in Britain, looking at how they were financed, produced and distributed. The key player in this complex process was always the publisher, although the person or firm which performed that function has undergone many changes of both name and substance since Caxton set up his press in Westminster Abbey. The successors of the small tradesman who produced books in early modern England are the great global corporations which dominate the media today. This book explains how that transformation has happened.
In this radically reworked second edition, John Feather places Britain, and herindustries, firmly in the global marketplace. With transatlantic competition and co-operation now standard, and with books marketed across the world via internet stores, Feather concludes by asking, how British is British publishing?

	List of figures	viii
	List of tables	x
	List of boxes	xi
	Illustration credits	xii
	Notes on contributors	xiii
	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgements	xxii
	List of terms and measurements	xxiv
Part 1	The Rise of New Urban Approaches
01	New urbanism(s) ascendant	3
02	Getting to (sub)urbanism	29
03	Theory in new urbanism	45
Part 2	New Urbanism(s) in Practice
04	New urbanism is born: the American experience	81
05	Revamping urbanism: the European experience	105
06	Modernizing urbanism: new urban Asia	131
07	Colonial urbanism: Canada signs on	151
Part 3	The Prospects for New Urbanism(s)
08	Reconciling new urbanism's theory and practice	175
09	The fate of new urbanism	203
	Notes	231
	Bibliography	235
	Index	265

See also: Comptabilité Intermédiaire

Non-State Actors in World Politics

Author: William Wallac

The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterized as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. Non-State Actors in World Politics analyzes a diverse range of economic, social, legal (and illegal), old and new actors, such as the Catholic Church, trade unions, diasporas, religious movements, transnational corporations and organized crime.

The Business Policy Game or Fundamentals of Economics

2009-01-08T19:04:00.000-08:00

The Business Policy Game: An International Simulation: Player's Manual

Author: Richard V Cotter

The Business Policy Game is a general management simulation that provides students with a challenging decision-making exercise. It has been used successfully with groups of upper-class undergraduates and graduate students in business adminstration and in executive development programs. Includes one 31/2 inch diskette.

Fundamentals of Economics

Author: William Boyes

Fundamentals of Economics remains the first brief survey textbook to thoroughly integrate international economic issues while retaining concise coverage of core economic models.

Fundamental Questions preview key points at the beginning of each chapter, reappear next to the relevant in-text discussion, and form the basis of chapter-ending summaries.
International topics include the effects of exchange rates on individual markets, price discrimination on an international scale, multinationals, measuring national and international economies, a comparative analysis of different countries' fiscal policies, and international banking.

I. The Price System
1. Economics and the World Around You
The Definition of Economics
Specialization and Exchange
Trade
Appendix to Chapter 1: Working with Graphs: The Production Possibilities Curve
Reading and Constructing Graphs
Application: The PPC
2. Markets and the Market Process
Allocation Mechanisms
How Markets Function
Demand
Supply
Equilibrium: Putting Demand and Supply Together
Alternatives to Market Allocation
3. Applications of Demand and Supply
The Market for Low-Carb Foods
The Labor Market
Market Intervention: Medical Care, Rent Controls, and Agricultural Price Supports
II. Consumers, Firms, and Social Issues
4. The Firm and the Consumer
Revenue
How Does a Firm Learn About Its Demand?
Knowing the Customer
What's to Come?
5. Costs and Profit Maximization
Costs
Maximizing Profit
The Profit-Maximizing Rule: MR = MC
6. Competition and Market Structures
Characteristics of the Market Structures
Firm Behavior in the Long Run
The Benefits of Competition
7. Competition, Cooperation, and the Government
Price Strategies for Independent Firms
Firm Behavior When There Are Few Rivals
Government and Firms
8. Social Issues
The Environment
Illicit Drugs
Discrimination
Minimum Wages
Income Inequality and Poverty
III. The National and Global Economies
9. An Overview of the National and International Economies
Households
Business Firms
The International Sector
Overview of the U.S. Government
Linking theSectors
10. Macroeconomic Measures
Measures of Output and Income
Nominal and Real Measures
Flows of Income and Expenditures
The Foreign Exchange Market
The Balance of Payments
11. Unemployment, Inflation, and Business Cycles
Business Cycles
Unemployment
Inflation
12. Macroeconomic Equilibrium: Aggregate Demand and Supply
Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and Business Cycles
Factors That Influence Aggregate Demand
The Aggregate Demand Curve
Aggregate Supply
Aggregate Demand and Supply Equilibrium
13. Fiscal Policy
Fiscal Policy and Aggregate Demand
Fiscal Policy in the United States
Fiscal Policy in Different Countries
14. Money and Banking
What is Money?
Banking
Banks and the Money Supply
IV. Macroeconomic Policy
15. Monetary Policy
The Federal Reserve System
Implementing Monetary Policy
Monetary Policy and Equilibrium Income
The European Central Bank
16. Macroeconomic Policy, Business Cycles, and Growth
The Phillips Curve
The Role of Expectations
Sources of Business Cycles
The Link Between Monetary and Fiscal Policies
Economic Growth
17. Issues in International Trade and Finance
An Overview of World Trade
International Trade Restrictions
Exchange Rate Systems and Practices
18. Globalization
The Meaning of Globalization
Globalization Controversy
Globalization, Economic Growth, and Incomes
Financial Crises and Globalization

Organizational Behavior or Copyright on the Internet Illustrated Essentials

2009-01-08T10:24:00.000-08:00

Organizational Behavior

Author: Don Hellriegel

Tired of theory? Ready for the real world? Learn what it takes to be a high performance manager in business today with the twelfth edition of Hellriegel and Slocum's ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR. Master seven core competencies--managing self, managing communication, managing diversity, managing ethics, managing across cultures, managing teams, and managing change--through real-world case studies and interactive critical thinking. Each core competency was developed through a combination of classic OB theory, contemporary research, and emerging trends so you benefit from the most useful connection between theory and practice. The twelfth edition contains updated real-world cases, examples, and critical-thinking exercises to reflect the most current managerial thinking in today's business world. With Hellriegel and Slocum, build the foundation you need to become a successful business leader.

Part I: Learning about Organizational Behavior.
1: Organizational Behavior and Key Competencies.
Part II: Individuals in Organizations.
2: Understanding Individual Differences.
3: Perceptions and Attributions.
4: Applying Reinforcement and Social Learning Concepts to Improve Effectiveness.
5: Motivating Employees.
6: Motivation through Goal Setting and Reward Systems.
7: Workplace Stress and Aggression.
Part III: Leadership and Team Behaviors.
8: Fostering Interpersonal Communication in Organizations.
9: Leading Effectively: Foundations.
10: Leading Effectively: New Perspectives.
11: Developing and Leading Teams.
12: Managing Conflict and Negotiating Effectively.
Part IV: The Organization.
13: Approaches for Making Ethical and Managerial Decisions.
14: Designing Organizations.
15: Cultivating Organizational Culture.
16: Guiding Organizational Change.
Part V: Critical Thinking Integrating Cases.

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Copyright on the Internet-Illustrated Essentials

Author: Barbara Waxer

Copyright on the Internet—Illustrated Essentials is a friendly essential guide to understanding and respecting copyright on the Internet. Using the Illustrated series' signature, two-page spread format, this book is designed to give the bare essentials of the dos and dont's of respecting copyrighted material so that students don't infringe rights when using and downloading media from the Internet.

Natures Capacities and Their Measurement or Checking on Banks

2009-01-08T03:43:00.000-08:00

Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement

Author: Nancy Cartwright

Ever since David Hume, empiricists have barred powers and capacities from nature. In this book Cartwright argues that capacities are essential in our scientific world, and, contrary to empiricist orthodoxy, that they can meet sufficiently strict demands for testability. Econometrics is one discipline where probabilities are used to measure causal capacities, and the technology of modern physics provides several examples of testing capacities (such as lasers). Cartwright concludes by applying the lessons of the book about capacities and probabilities to the explanation of the role of causality in quantum mechanics.

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Checking on Banks: Autonomy and Accountability in Three Federal Agencies

Author: Anne M Khademian

Anne Khademian argues that downsizing government activities through consolidation does not guarantee better performance. Consolidation implies agreement on the best way to perform a task, but each of the three banking agencies has a unique management style and level of autonomy growing out of its history and politics. For example, the Fed has a high level of expertise and autonomy, the OCC is known for innovation, and the FDIC places priority on examiner training. Khademian maintains that the jurisdictional overlap among the agencies reflects an essential tension between accountability and autonomy. And a new consolidated agency would destroy that tension. Khademian contends that in the rush to consolidate, we might destroy administrative systems that have real benefits or provide important lessons about implementing government programs and risk creating new "super agencies" whose systems of accountability and operational autonomy are at odds with expectations for performance. Before we can improve government performance, we need to know why agencies behave the way they do. This book offers a framework for understanding agency behavior. In the case of banking, Khademian argues that the diverse approaches to supervision provide an important balance in the system that has worked to keep U.S. banks among the safest and strongest in the world.

Booknews

Uses the tools of modern time series analysis to determine the role of an aggregate demand for real balances in the generation of macroeconomic time series. Undertakes the identification and estimation of the demand function in a multivariate, rather than the usual single-equation, framework. Discusses the development and failures of the empirical literature; identification, estimation, and inference; a framework for structural and dynamic analysis; a prototype economic model characterized by co- integration; three-variable and higher dimensional VECM models; and combining term structure and Fisher effects. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Capitalism with Morality or The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust

2009-01-07T18:01:00.000-08:00

Capitalism with Morality

Author: David W Haslett

A broad and lucid study of the merits of different economic systems, this work combines economic criteria of success with a philosophically sophisticated analysis of ethical foundations and moral justification. Arguing that despite the fall of socialism, the deep feelings of moral discontent that many have with capitalism are as strong as ever, the author analyzes unadulterated capitalism and centrally-planned socialism. He considers economic systems from a moral as well as economic standpoint, considering such criteria as freedom, justice, and equal opportunity, as well as standards of productivity, growth, and employment levels. The author concludes with an outlining and defending an alternative system which attempts to avoid the moral deficiencies of current capitalism without abandoning the traditional strengths and benefits of capitalism itself.

1	Is There a Correct Answer?	1
1.2	The Sceptics	2
1.3	Two Premisses	6
1.4	An Indirect Utilitarian Methodology	10
1.5	An Illustration: Justifying the Virtue of Charity	13
1.6	Indirect Utilitarianism vs. Direct	17
1.7	Well-Being and Utility	24
1.8	The Models Compared	33
1.9	The Standard Objection	39
1.10	Social Utility	41
1.11	Compared with Institutionalist Methodology	43
2	Libertarianism	47
2.2	Indirect Utilitarian Political Morality	48
2.3	Libertarian Morality	54
2.4	The Moralities Compared	57
2.5	Using the Private Sector Instead	65
2.6	Productivity	73
2.7	Freedom	76
2.8	The 'Separate-Persons' Objection	80
3	Central-Planning Socialism	87
3.2	Comparing Socialism with Capitalism	95
3.3	Equal Access to Necessities	98
3.4	Equal Opportunities	99
3.5	Freedom	103
3.6	Productivity	115
4	Worker Control	136
4.2	Worker-Control Socialism	138
4.3	Problems with Socialized Investment	144
4.4	Worker-Control Capitalism	150
4.5	Compared with Worker-Control Socialism	167
4.6	Compared with Traditional Capitalism	169
4.7	A Mixed Economy	187
5	Capitalism Without Poverty	191
5.2	Antipoverty Policy, 1990	194
5.3	The Proposed Policy: An Overview	199
5.4	The Standard Exemption	203
5.5	The Refundable Credit	206
5.6	Extraordinary Expenses	212
5.7	Jobs	221
5.8	Compared with 1990 Policy	226
5.9	Some Objections	228
6	Capitalism With Equal Opportunity	235
6.2	Inheritance and Capitalism	238
6.3	A Proposal for Abolishing Inheritance	245
6.4	Objections	247
6.5	A Compromise Proposal	257
6.6	Capitalism with Morality: Conclusion	261
	References	265
	Index	273

The Causes and Consequences of Antitrust: The Public-Choice Perspective

Author: Fred S S McChesney

Why has antitrust legislation not lived up to its promise of promoting free-market competition and protecting consumers? Assessing 100 years of antitrust policy in the United States, this book shows that while the antitrust laws claim to serve the public good, they are as vulnerable to the influence of special interest groups as are agricultural, welfare, or health care policies. Presenting classic studies and new empirical research, the authors explain how antitrust caters to self-serving business interests at the expense of the consumer.
The contributors are Peter Asch, George Bittlingmayer, Donald J. Boudreaux, Malcolm B. Coate, Louis De Alessi, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, B. Epsen Eckbo, Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Roger L. Faith, Richard S. Higgins, William E. Kovacic, Donald R. Leavens, William F. Long, Fred S. McChesney, Mike McDonald, Stephen Parker, Richard A. Posner, Paul H. Rubin, Richard Schramm, Joseph J. Seneca, William F. Shughart II, Jon Silverman, George J. Stigler, Robert D. Tollison, Charlie M. Weir, Peggy Wier, and Bruce Yandle.

Booknews

Presents classic studies and contemporary research on 100 years of antitrust policy in the US, and explains how antitrust caters to business and political interests at the expense of the consumer. Compares perspectives from the "Chicago school" and the "Harvard school," and discusses the emerging "Virginia school" and its use of standard economic theory to analyze government. Other subjects include public-choice models of antitrust, antimerger policy, antitrust before the Sherman Act, and the origins of antitrust. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Fundamental Principles of Manufacturing Processes or Making Decisions

2009-01-07T11:20:00.000-08:00

Fundamental Principles of Manufacturing Processes

Author: Robert H H Todd

The key to understanding how to produce products with low response time, low inventory, and flexibility can be found in this important new text. Using a systematic approach, this unique analysis of contemporary manufacturing processes identifies family characteristics of individual processes to facilitate learning. In all, six families of Shaping processes that change the basic geometry of shape of a workpiece (Mechanical Mass Reducing, Thermal Mass Reducing, Chemical Mass Reducing, Mass Conserving, Consolidation, and Joining) and four families of Nonshaping processes that modify the engineering and aesthetic properties of materials (Hardening, Softening, Surface Preparation, and Surface Coatings) re identified and studied. This classification, or taxonomy, now used in the United States and Europe, is a valuable tool in identifying processes and their capabilities.

Booknews

Provides a taxonomy of manufacturing processes and discusses general characteristics of the 10 fundamental families, such as mass-reducing, joining, hardening, and surface treatment. The individual processes themselves are described in the companion Reference Guide. Well illustrated. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

1	General Structure of Manufacturing Processes	1
2	Mechanical Mass-Reducing Processes	17
3	Thermal Mass-Reducing Processes	41
4	Chemical Reducing Processes	51
5	Consolidation Processes	57
6	Deformation Processes	79
7	Mechanical, Thermal, and Chemical Joining Processes	97
8	Annealing (Softening) Processes	111
9	Thermal Hardening Processes	129
10	Surface Preparation Processes	139
11	Surface Coating Processes	145

Making Decisions

Author: Dennis V Lindley

Making Decisions Second Edition D.V. Lindley Formerly Professor of Statistics, University College London This book looks at the problems involved in decision-making and argues that there is only one logical way to make a decision. By the use of three basic principles—assigning probabilities to the uncertain events; assigning utilities to the possible consequences; and choosing that decision that maximizes expected utility—decisions can be reached more efficiently and with less disagreement. It shows that only maximization of expected utility leads to sensible decision-making. This extensively revised second edition uses only elementary mathematics and will be of interest to all those concerned with decision-making and its consequences. Since his retirement from University College London in 1977 Professor Lindley has held visiting appointments at Berkeley, University of Florida, George Washington University, University of Sao Paulo, University of Wisconsin, Monash University, Australia, and University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Contents

Decisions and uncertain events
A numerical measure for uncertainty
The laws of probability
A numerical measure for consequences
The utility of money
Bayes’ Theorem
Value of information
Decision trees
The assessment of probabilities and utilities
An appreciation

Appendix Answers to exercises Glossary of Symbols Subject Index

The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions Vol 2 or U S Development Aid a Historic First

2009-01-07T02:39:00.000-08:00

The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions - Vol. 2

Author: Martin Shubik

This is the second volume in a three-volume exposition of Martin Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics"--a term he coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop a process-oriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro- and macroeconomics, using as a prime tool the theory of games in strategic and extensive form. The approach involves a search for minimal financial institutions that appear as a logical, technological, and institutional necessity, as part of the "rules of the game." Money and financial institutions are assumed to be the basic elements of the network that transmits the sociopolitical imperatives to the economy.

Volume 1 deals with a one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy. Volume 2 explores the new economic features that arise when we consider multi-period finite and infinite horizon economies. Volume 3 will consider the specific role of financial institutions and government, and formulate the economic financial control problem linking micro- and macroeconomics.

	Preface
I	Multiperiod Exchange	1
1	Multiperiod Trade with Commodity Money and Nondurable Goods	3
2	Multiperiod Trade with Commodity Money and Durable Goods	29
3	Multiperiod Trade with Commodity Money and Credit	59
4	Multiperiod Trade with Fiat Money and Credit	77
II	Trade and the Infinite Horizon	111
5	Multiperiod Trade: Transactions and the Float	113
6	Capital Stock, Salvage Values, and Expectations	143
7	Expectations, Uncertainty, Information, and Finance	175
8	Money, Credit, and Incomplete Markets	189
9	Multiperiod Trade with Money, Credit, Assets, and Overlapping Generations	229
III	Money and Institutions	271
10	Transactions Technology and Costs	273
11	Brokers, Dealers, and Setup Costs	291
12	Money, Institutions, and Political Economy	313
	References	351
	Name Index	361
	Subject Index	365

U. S. Development Aid--A Historic First: Achievements and Failures in the Twentieth Century

Author: Samuel Hale Butterfield

The first comprehensive account of U.S. development aid policies and implementation operations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this work is a unique contribution to world history and to the extensive literature on "Third World" development. Butterfield begins with the remarkable story of why, in 1949, President Truman surprised Americans with his unprecedented development aid policy. He then describes the major alterations in U.S. development aid strategy and operations from 1950 to 2000. Drawing upon his long experience both in Washington and in country aid missions, Butterfield puts a human face on the story by weaving real world vignettes into his narrative.

Organizations and Communication Technology or Corporate Global Citizenship

2009-01-06T18:58:00.000-08:00

Organizations and Communication Technology

Author: Charles W Steinfield

"Organizations and Communications Technology is must reading for those interested in the relation of communication technology to organizational form and function. The book does what many such collections do not do: It presents in a complementary--if not totally unified--fashion a variety of perspectives on and answers to questions raised about the essential nature, determinants, and effects of the organization-communication technology interface. Such coherence in theme and structure is not accidental; rather, it derives from the editors' commitment to a robust theoretical foundation in which to ground past and future research. . . . They have succeeded brilliantly in their efforts to focus substantive scholarship on theory building in a data-rich but theory-poor field. The result is a work that will no doubt be a classic. The reader who makes the commitment to mine its essays will not be disappointed."--Journal of Business and Technical Communication "As a summary of the field, this collection of theoretical essays succeeds on two main counts. . . . First, it brings together in one volume writers whose recent work has been widely cited and discussed throughout the literatures of information science, communication, management, and technology studies. Second, the book presents some exciting theoretical ideas about the relationship between communication technologies and social behavior that are applicable beyond the organizational setting. . . . On the whole, this book is a fine overview that updates and lends structure--'organizes'--this evolving literature for a diverse audience." --Journal of Communication "The editors . . . argue convincingly that the study of human andorganizational aspects of communications technology suffers from a glut of data and a deficiency of theory. The objective of the book becomes one of starting the process of developing a corpus of theory that will integrate the knowledge we have. Overall, the book achieves this objective well, with the gratifying addition that there are also plenty of practical recommendations of immediate value to the practitioner. . . . This is an ambitious book and given the importance of the topic this is inevitable. It is aimed at a broad range of disciplines. It is unashamedly theoretical in its approach yet contains a good deal of immediate practical importance. My own prediction . . . suggests that this book will be regarded as a milestone from which future progress will be measured." --The Occupational Psychologist "Communications technology offers a wonderful springboard for much broader considerations of how people in organizations and behavior within them. Worthwhile . . . engaging."--Academy of Management Review "Will interest any business communication scholar concerned with the ways organizations are affected by new technologies. . . . Provide[s] a wealth of stimulating ideas."--Journal of Business Communication "Organizations and Communications Technology is an attempt to provide a foundation for theory development on information technology in organizations by delegating the task to a set of competent researchers and theorists. Given the dearth of theory development in the field such a strategy makes some sense. Because of (its) diversity, organizations, communications, and management information systems scholars should all find something of interest." --Administrative Science Quarterly How do technology and organization interact to shape organizational structures and processes? What organizational, political, and social processes constrain technological development? What forces shape the articulation of organizational and technological systems? Answering these and other pivotal questions, this powerful volume centers on the role of theory for advancing our knowledge of communication technology in organizations at several levels: micro, group, and macro. A distinguished team of contributors examines a richly diverse group of topics, including telecommunications, communication networks and new media, the use of group decision support systems, and discretionary databases, to name but a few. Organizations and Communication Technology offers nothing less than a fresh foundation for research and management practice. As such, it is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and students in the fields of management studies, communication science, organization studies, and policy studies.

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Corporate Global Citizenship: Doing Business in the Public Eye

Author: Noel M Tichy

Corporate Global Citizenship offers the first comprehensive examination of the activities high-profile multinationals are undertaking to enhance the quality of life within the nations and communities in which they operate. It details their motivations and accomplishments in both ethical and economic terms. But more important, it seeks to provide an in-depth understanding of the global corporate citizenship movement from the perspectives of the citizens themselves, as well as from broader theoretical perspectives grounded in sociological, psychological, and environmental concepts.

	Preface
	The Editors
	The Contributors
	Introduction: Corporate Global Citizenship - Why Now?	1
Pt. 1	The Theory of Corporate Global Citizenship	23
1	Three Pillars of Corporate Citizenship: Ethics, Social Benefit, Profitability	27
2	Three Pillars of Responsibility: A Conversation with Amitai Etzioni About the Individual, the Community, and the Corporation	43
3	A Three Sector Model of Community Service: The Alliance of Business, Government, and Nonprofit Organizations	62
4	Institutionalizing Community Action in Corporate America: A Road Map to Corporate Global Citizenship	75
Pt. 2	Corporate Global Citizenship in Action	101
5	American Express Philanthropy: Developing an Academy of Travel and Tourism in Hungary	105
6	Doing Good the Morgan Way: Generating Economic Returns with Investments in Communities	134
7	Merck & Co., Inc.: From Core Competence to Global Community Involvement	150
8	The General Electric Elfun Society: Leveraging Employee Volunteerism with Foundation Dollars	168
9	Ameritech: The Community Service Link in Organizational Transformation	183
10	Sara Lee Corporation and Corporate Citizenship: Unity in Diversity	197
11	The Evolution of Procter & Gamble's Environmental Program	214
12	Compaq Computer Corporation: Maximizing Environmental Conscientiousness Around the Globe	230
Pt. 3	The Future of Corporate Global Citizenship	245
13	From Global Citizenship to Sustainable Development	249
14	China: Opportunities and Constraints for Corporate Citizenship	260
15	Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakstan: Corporate Citizenship in Unstable Environments	295
16	Corporate Citizenship in India: Multinational Corporate Experiences and Best Practices	326
17	A Global Model for the Business of Corporate Citizenship: The Success Story of Focus: HOPE	348
18	An Agenda for Corporate Global Citizenship	358
App	Company Profiles and Citizenship Programs	370
	Index	417

Acuerdos or Financial Accounting

2009-01-06T12:17:00.000-08:00

Acuerdos: Actividades interactivas de produccion oral orientadas al mundo de trabajo

Author: Nuria Hervas

Acuerdos is an exciting new manual of supplementary activities designed for students in Business Spanish courses. Flexible enough to be used with any Business Spanish text, Acuerdos offers students 60 paired activities in which student A interfaces with student B, replicating the situations they will encounter in conducting business in Spanish.

The activities in Acuerdos are designed to reflect natural communication processes utilized in standard business interactions. These activities encourage students to think critically, make decisions, negotiate, find solutions and exchange information with their partners, and in this way recreate an authentic use of language. The activities primarily practice oral communication skills in business contexts and are sequenced from the most basic to the more complex.

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Financial Accounting

Author: Jerry J J Weygandt

This book contains the financial statements of PepsiCo, Inc. and The Coca Cola Company in order to give you the chance to examine the accounting issues two familiar companies in the same industry face. In every chapter, Comparative Analysis questions ask you to analyze, compare and contrast the financial information of Pepsi and Coke. Why is this so important? Because, no matter what classes you take or which career path you choose, you will be asked to understand the why as well as the how behind the numbers.

	Prologue. The Role of Accounting in Society
Ch. 1	Characteristics and Basic Concepts of Accounting	1
Ch. 2	The Accounting Information System	41
Ch. 3	Adjusting the Accounts	85
Ch. 4	Completion of the Accounting Cycle	129
Ch. 5	Accounting for Merchandising Operations	177
Ch. 6	Financial Statement Concepts and Analysis	227
Ch. 7	Internal Control and Cash	273
Ch. 8	Accounting for Receivables	315
Ch. 9	Inventories	349
Ch. 10	Plant Assets, Natural Resources, and Intangible Assets	389
Ch. 11	Liabilities	441
Ch. 12	Corporations: Organization, Stock Transactions, and Dividends	489
Ch. 13	Corporations: Retained Earnings and Investments	535
Ch. 14	Statement of Cash Flows	569
Ch. 15	Financial Statement Analysis	627
	Appendix I. Specimen Financial Statements	I1
	Appendix J. Present Value Concepts	J1
	Appendix K. Payroll	K1
	Appendix L. Special Journals and Subsidiary Ledgers	L1
	Appendix M. Income Taxes and Management Decisions	M1
	Appendix N. Consolidated Financial Statements	N1
	Appendix O. Other Significant Liabilities	O1

Introduction to Radio or World Financial Orders

2009-01-06T02:36:00.000-08:00

Introduction to Radio: Production and Programming

Author: Michael H Adams

Introduction to Radio: Production and Programming lays the groundwork early with a thorough introduction to basic terms and equipment. Students are then walked, step-by-step, through the production and programming processes. Once students have a "feel" for the systems, Adams and Massey explain why a radio station selects a specific programming format and then explains how to produce that programming.

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World Financial Orders: An Historical International Political Economy

Author: Paul Langley

World Financial Orders challenges the predominance of neo-liberalism as a mode of knowledge about contemporary world finance, and claims that it neglects the social and political bases as well as the malign consequences of change. He looks to the field of International Political Economy (IPE) to construct an alternative mode, one that critically restores society and politics. An 'historical' approach to IPE is advanced that accounts for modern world finance since the seventeenth century as a succession of structurally distinct hierarchical social orders.
This book will be of interest to those working in the field of IPE and to those scholars, researchers and students from across the social sciences who seek to challenge the common-sense, neo-liberal explanation of contemporary world finance.

	Series editors' preface
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	World finance: towards an Historical International Political Economy	15
1	An Historical International Political Economy	17
2	An Historical International Political Economy of world finance	27
Pt. II	Modern world financial orders	39
3	From Amsterdam to London: the Dutch and British world financial orders	41
4	From London to New York: the British and American world financial orders	60
Pt. III	The contemporary world financial order	79
5	From New York to 'global finance'	81
6	The making of the contemporary world financial order	104
7	Stability, crises and governance in the contemporary world financial order	125
	Conclusion	155
	Bibliography	168
	Index	188

	Preface
Pt. I	Automobiles and Societal Structures
1	Humanity on the Move	1
2	Industrial Ecology	8
3	Culture, Psychology, and the Automobile	26
4	Automotive Technology as a System	37
Pt. II	Historical Perspectives
5	The Evolution of the Automobile	47
6	The Evolution of the Automotive Infrastructure	62
Pt. III	Design for Environment
7	Choosing Materials	77
8	Environmental Interactions During Manufacture	93
9	Energy Consumption	109
10	Environmental Interactions During Product Use	125
11	Design for Recycling	147
12	How Green is the Automobile and Its Infrastructure?	162
Pt. IV	Future Prospects
13	The Future of the Automobile and Its Infrastructure	193
14	Epilogue	217
App. A	Environmentally-Responsible Product Matrix	219
App. B	Conversion Factors and Units of Measurement	236
	Index	238