E Commerce The Internet and the Law Cases and Materials or Politics of NGOs in Indonesia

E-Commerce, The Internet and the Law, Cases and Materials

Author: Richard Warner

Cases and Materials on E-Commerce, The Internet, and the Law offers comprehensive coverage of Internet and e-commerce law. Combining the knowledge of four expert authors, it covers contracting, jurisdiction, copyright, trademarks, trespass, information security, e-mail, defamation and privacy. A substantive body of caselaw has emerged in these areas, and E-Commerce, The Internet, and the Law contains the leading cases. This distinguishes it from many earlier Internet law casebooks, which contain a mix of relatively few cases and relatively extensive excerpts from theoretical commentary. E-Commerce, The Internet, and the Law combines caselaw and theory by discussing trends, open questions, and theoretical issues in "Notes and Questions" sections following each case. This blend of theory and practice engages students by making the relevance and importance of theory clear.

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Politics of NGOs in Indonesia: Developing Democracy and Managing a Movement, Vol. 57

Author: Bob S Hadiwinata

This book deals with two major issues: how Indonesian NGOs survived under Suharto's authoritarian rule; and how NGOs contributed to the promotion of democracy in the post-Suharto era. If NGOs are to change from 'development' to 'movement' in democratic post-Suharto Indonesia, they must adjust not only their management and working style, but also their very ideology. This comprehensive study will be an important book for scholars interested in Asian studies, Indonesian politics and development studies.

Table of Contents:

	List of tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations and acronyms
1	Introduction	1
2	NGOs, community development and social movements	23
3	The social and political settings	48
4	NGOs in Indonesia: strategies and approaches	90
5	Development, empowerment and professionalism: the case of development NGOs	120
6	Building constituencies and institutionalising a movement: the case of women's NGOs	168
7	Developing democracy through a local network: the case of the Yogyakarta NGO Forum	206
8	Conclusion	241
	Glossary	256
	Notes	258
	Bibliography	268
	Index	296

Integrated Project Management or The Politics of Economic Adjustment

Integrated Project Management

Author: Earl Hall

This book provides users with a solid basis for managing a project and helps them prepare for dealing with managers, project customers, and the people who work with them on a project.This book serves as a useful handbook for project managers and can be used by those who receive project management assignments as part of their job as well as persons with project management titles. Topics include: Project Work Breakdown Structure and Team Recruitment, Creating the Project Gantt Chart, Budget and Cost, Project Plan Review, Project Execution, among many others. Useful for various fields including project managers, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, manufacturing engineers, etc.

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The Politics of Economic Adjustment: International Constraints, Distributive Conflicts and the State

Author: Stephan Haggard

In the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic crises, others experimented with alternative programs, and still others failed to develop coherent adjustment strategies of any sort. Building on the case studies in Economic Crisis and Policy Choice, these essays offer comparative analysis of these divergent experiences with macroeconomic stabilization and structural adjustment. Barbara Stallings and Miles Kahler explore the external pressures on governments. Peter Evans and John Waterbury examine the role of the state in the adjustment process, Evans through the lens of earlier historical experience with economic restructuring, Waterbury by focusing on the politics of privatization. Joan Nelson analyzes the politics of income distribution in the adjustment process, and Haggard and Kaufman investigate the political correlates of inflation and stabilization. A final essay assesses the prospects for combining market-oriented reforms with political democratization.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures and Tables
	Contributors
	Preface
	Introduction: Institutions and Economic Adjustment	3
Pt. I	International Constraints
Ch. 1	International Influence on Economic Policy: Debt, Stabilization, and Structural Reform	41
Ch. 2	External Influence, Conditionality, and the Politics of Adjustment	89
Pt. II	The State and the Politics of Adjustment
Ch. 3	The State as Problem and Solution: Predation, Embedded Autonomy, and Structural Change	139
Ch. 4	The Heart of the Matter? Public Enterprise and the Adjustment Process	182
Pt. III	Distributive Politics
Ch. 5	Poverty, Equity, and the Politics of Adjustment	221
Ch. 6	The Political Economy of Inflation and Stabilization in Middle-Income Countries	270
Pt. IV	Conclusion
Ch. 7	Economic Adjustment and the Prospects for Democracy	319
	Index	351

The Wealth of Nature or Modelling Complex Projects

The Wealth of Nature

Author: Robert L Nadeau

Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting book, Robert Nadeau demonstrates that the claim that neoclassical economics is a science comparable to the physical sciences is totally bogus and that our failure to recognize and deal with this fact constitutes the greatest single barrier to the timely resolution of the crisis in the global environment.

Neoclassical economic theory is premised on the belief that the "invisible hand" -- Adam Smith's metaphor for forces associated with the operation of the "natural laws of economics" -- regulates the workings of market economies. Nadeau reveals that Smith's understanding of these laws was predicated on assumptions from eighteenth-century metaphysics and that the creators of neoclassical economics incorporated this view of the "lawful" mechanisms of free-market systems into a mathematical formalism borrowed wholesale from mid-nineteenth-century physics. The strategy used by these economists, all of whom had been trained as engineers, was as simple as it was absurd -- they substituted economic variables for the physical variables in the equations of this physics. Strangely enough, this claim was widely accepted and the fact that neoclassical economics originated in a bastardization of mid-nineteenth-century physics was soon forgotten.

Nadeau makes a convincing case that the myth that neoclassical economic theory is a science has blinded us to the fact that there is absolutely no basis inthis theory for accounting for the environmental impacts of economic activities or for positing viable economic solutions to environmental problems. The unfortunate result is that the manner in which we are now coordinating global economic activities is a program for ecological disaster, and we may soon arrive at the point where massive changes in the global environment will threaten the lives of billions of people. To avoid this prospect, Nadeau argues that we must develop and implement an environmentally responsible economic theory and describes how this can be accomplished.

Publishers Weekly

Although economics may still be described colloquially as the "dismal science," Nadeau (S/He Brain: Science, Sexual Politics, and the Myths of Feminism) argues that the propounders of classical and neoclassical economic theory, from Adam Smith in the 18th century to the present, have been mistaken in asserting that economics is a science. Through careful textual analysis, the author explains how economists, using outmoded metaphysical assumptions originally propounded by Smith in The Wealth of Nations, deceived themselves into believing that there are natural laws of economics. Furthermore, these misjudgments were compounded in the 19th century by the use of now discredited mathematical formulas, in which economic forces were perceived by economists in the same way physicists perceived principles of physics. The title of this book is an ironic play on the title of Smith's seminal explanation of capitalism. Unfortunately, the author contends, the continuing formalistic misapprehensions of economists spell possible global environmental catastrophes. These dislocations will result from outdated economic theories that do not take into account the physical realities of the world. The writer proposes a reordering of economic studies that will include an awareness of the vital interplay between ecology, natural resources, trade and population. This well-annotated, scholarly treatment of a dense subject is written in a lively style and will appeal largely to serious students of economics, history, ecology and philosophy. (Aug.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

According to this new book, flaws in the fundamental principles of economics make it unable to assess environmental concerns properly. Nadeau, an interdisciplinary scholar at George Mason University, explains that neoclassical economists in the 19th century defined the fundamental principles of economics based upon the scientific knowledge of that time. He spends a chapter each on biology and physics to show how these sciences have evolved to understand the interconnectedness of the environment. In contrast, he argues, economics has merely layered new theory on top of its fundamental ideas of a closed-market system residing separate from the natural environment and thus cannot properly assess current resource usage and environmental degradation. Especially galling to Nadeau is the assumption of many economists that, left to itself, a free-market economy will inevitably work out suitable environmental solutions. In conclusion, Nadeau presents his ideas on how to begin formulating a new environmentally responsible theory of economics. While the book is free of mathematics and most jargon, its lengthy theoretical discussions recommend it to academic and larger public libraries with collections in economics and environmental studies.-Lawrence R. Maxted, Gannon Univ., Erie, PA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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Besides Updike, big names contributing include Norman Mailer, Cynthia Ozick, and Arthur Schlesinger. Their approach is not so much institutional history as a cascade of anecdotes illustrating how the US intelligentsia conduct themselves when they think the hoi poloi are not watching. Among the tales are a feud between brothers over which one was worthier, the struggle against modernism in the 1930s that resulted in F. Scott Fitzgerald and H.L. Mencken failing to be nominated, and Gore Vidal declining membership on the grounds that he already belonged to the Diners Club. Lists of past and present members are appended. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Kirkus Reviews

Of inputs, outputs, and invisible hands: a prolegomenon to a future economics that takes environmental costs fully into account. A "green economics" is almost certainly impossible, writes Nadeau (Economics/George Mason Univ.), within the schema of existing neoclassical economic theory, whose assumptions derive from the union of classical economics with 19th-century physics. Those assumptions are metaphysical more than real, he continues; among them are the notions that "the market is a closed circular flow between production and consumption," that market systems operate without reference to the external environment, that the free market will sort out whatever problems are thrown at it, and, worst of all, that "the external resources of nature are inexhaustible, or replaceable by other resources or by technologies that minimize the use of these resources or rely on other resources." Strolling leisurely through the thickets of economic thought planted by the likes of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, and other thinkers, Nadeau points to a host of contradictions and thorny problems, such as the essential unreality of the invisible hand (which "exists only in the minds of those who believe in its existence"), before setting about the harder work of concocting an economic theory that accounts fully for external inputs such as raw timber and hydroelectric power, all produced at fearful cost to the nonhuman environment. The details of this program will sometimes seem a little murky to the reader not well steeped in economic theory, and to those of a free-market bent, Nadeau's proposals will smack of one-worldism: the absolute value, he argues, is a sustainable global environment, while oneof his desiderata is the establishment of an international agency "that has the power and authority to ensure that . . . price mechanisms are universally applied in a fair and consistent manner throughout the global economic system." In short: Get thee behind us, Milton Friedman-there's a new accountant in town, and he's counting megawatts and felled forests.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Ch. 1	Spaceship Earth: Homo economicus and the Environmental Crisis	1
Ch. 2	The Not So Worldly Philosophers: Metaphysics, Newtonian Physics, and Classical Economics	19
Ch. 3	The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Neoclassical Economists and Mid-Nineteenth Century Physics	37
Ch. 4	No Free Lunch: Mainstream Economics and Globalization	77
Ch. 5	A Green Thumb on the Invisible Hand: Environmental Economics	113
Ch. 6	Schisms, Heresies, and Keeping the Faith: Ecological Economics	133
Ch. 7	The Real Economy in Biology: Emergence and a New View of Order	149
Ch. 8	The Real Economy in Physics: Cosmic Connections	163
Ch. 9	Toward a New Theory of Economics: The Costs of Doing Business in the Global Environment	185
Ch. 10	The Ceremony of Innocence: Science, Ethics, and the Environmental Crisis	207
	Notes	225
	Index	241

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Modelling Complex Projects

Author: Terry Williams

It is widely acknowledged that traditional Project Management techniques are no longer sufficient, as projects become more complex and client's demand reduced timescales. Problems that arise include inadequate planning and risk analysis, ineffective project monitoring and control, and uninformed post-mortem analysis. Effective modelling techniques, which capture the complexities of such projects, are therefore necessary for adequate project management. This book looks at those issues, describes some modelling techniques, then discusses their merits and possible synthesis.
* This is the only project management book that deals with Project Modelling.
* Features case studies throughout.
* Places the various approaches to Project Modelling within a coherent framework, and gives an objective overview.

Working under Different Rules or People out of Place

Working under Different Rules

Author: Richard B Freeman

For much of the twentieth century, American workers were the world's leaders in productivity, wages, and positive workplace conditions. American unions championed free enterprise and high labor standards, and American businesses dominated the world market. But, as editor Richard B. Freeman cautions in Working Under Different Rules, despite our relatively high standard of living we have fallen behind our major trading partners and competitors in providing good jobs at good pay - what was once considered "the American dream." Working Under Different Rules assesses the decline in the well-being of American workers - evidenced by spiraling income inequality and stagnant real earnings - and compares our employment and labor conditions with those of Western Europe, Canada, Japan, and Australia. As these original essays demonstrate, the modern U.S. labor market is characterized by a high degree of flexibility, with rapid employee turnover, ongoing creation of new jobs, and decentralized wage setting practices. But closer inspection reveals a troubling flip side to this adaptability in the form of inadequate job training, more frequent layoffs, and increased numbers of workers pushed to the very bottom of the income scale, into the low wage occupations where much of the recent job growth has occurred. While the variety of works councils prevalent throughout the developed world have done much to foster democratic rights and economic protection for employees, the virtually union-free environment emerging in many areas of the private U.S. economy has stripped workers of a strong collective voice. German apprenticeship programs and the Japanese system of "job rotation" represent more effective approaches to preparing workers for the changing demands of lifetime employment. In addition, workers in European advanced economies and in Canada have greater social protection than Americans. But while this has some cost in unemployment and higher taxes, carefully designed social s

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Assesses the decline in the well- being of American workers--evidenced by spiraling income inequality and stagnant real earnings--and compares American employment and labor conditions with those of Western Europe, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights, and the Citizenship Gap

Author: Alison Brysk

Globalization pushes people "out of place"--across borders, out of traditions, into markets, and away from the rights of national citizenship. But globalization also contributes to the spread of international human rights ideas and institutions. This book analyzes the impact of these contradictory trends, with a focus on vulnerable groups such as migrants, laborers, women, and children. Theoretical essays by Richard Falk, Ronnie Lipschutz, Aihwa Ong, and Saskia Sassen rethink the shifting nature of citizenship. This collection advances the debate on globalization, human rights, and the meaning of citizenship.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Globalization and the Citizenship Gap	3
2	Citizenship and Human Rights in an Era of Globalization	11
3	Constituting Political Community: Globalization, Citizenship, and Human Rights	29
4	Latitudes of Citizenship: Membership, Meaning, and Multiculturalism	53
5	Agency on a Global Scale: Rules, Rights, and the European Union	73
6	Mandated Membership, Diluted Identity: Citizenship, Globalization, and International Law	87
7	Deflated Citizenship: Labor Rights in a Global Era	109
8	Globalized Social Reproduction: Women Migrants and the Citizenship Gap	131
9	Children across Borders: Patrimony, Property, or Persons?	153
10	Citizenship and Globalism: Markets, Empire, and Terrorism	177
11	The Repositioning of Citizenship	191
12	Conclusion: Globalizing Citizenship?	209
	Bibliography	217
	List of Contributors	235
	Index	239

Public Budgeting Systems or The Magic Window

Public Budgeting Systems

Author: Robert D D Le

This edition emphasizes methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system, as well as ways in which different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making.

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New edition of a general examination of public budgeting that surveys the current state of the art among all levels of government in the US. Covers the distinction between the public and private sectors, budget cycles, budget preparation, approval and execution of a budget, financial management, and intergovernmental relations. The authors stress the use of program information since budget reforms for decades have sought to introduce greater program considerations into financial decisions. Intended primarily for budget practitioners and scholars. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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The Magic Window: American Television, 1939-1953

Author: James A Von Schilling

This book tells the story of how television became popular in the United States following the medium's debut at the 1939 New York World's Fair. You'll learn about the people, events, and performances that were televised - or influenced what was being televised - from 1939 to 1953. In addition to the entertainment and cultural aspects of this newborn medium, The Magic Window also explores the business, politics, and technology of early television.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	The Beginning of Everything	1
	Television's Debut	1
	The Jenkins Television System	2
	RCA Television	4
	Television's First Season	8
	Test-marketing in Newburgh	10
	The FCC's First Report on TV	12
	The Amber Light	15
	Hearings in Washington	18
Ch. 2	A Torch of Hope	21
	The Future Appears in Newburgh	21
	The War in Europe	22
	The 1940 Republican Convention	24
	A Disappointing Fall	28
	Debating TV's Future in 1941	30
Ch. 3	In a Troubled World	33
	The 1941 FCC Hearings	33
	The Beginning of Commercial TV	35
	The Summer of 1941	38
	The Buildup to War	40
	Wartime Television	42
	Schenectady's WRGB	45
	Plans for Postwar TV	47
	Television As a War Weapon	48
	The Studios Reopen	50
	TV's First Censored Program	53
Ch. 4	The Winds of Postwar	55
	The Homefront TV War	55
	The 1944 Conventions	56
	TV Programs Blossom Again	59
	Docket No. 6651	61
	TV and the End of the War	64
Ch. 5	Turning the Corner	69
	The Camera with the Eyes of a Cat	69
	TV Begins in Washington	70
	The Louis-Conn Fight	72
	Hour Glass	73
	The New Postwar Sets	74
	The Bikini Bomb Explosion	77
	Surveying the TV Viewer	78
	The Emerging Genres	79
	Drama in Washington	81
	The First Color Telecasts	82
	Integration on TV	84
	The Second Wave of TV Stations	85
	The "Split" TV Audience	87
	Television and Women	89
	Middlebrow Television	91
Ch. 6	From Boom to Berle	93
	The 1947 World Series	93
	Puppet Playhouse	95
	The Expanding Network	97
	The "Original Amateur" Network	99
	"Miss Television of 1948"	101
	"Mr. Television"	102
	The 1948 Conventions	104
	The Cold War on Television	107
	CBS's Revival	108
	The Big Freeze	109
	The 1948 Election	110
	Selling Sugar and Tobacco	112
	Radio Takes Notice	114
Ch. 7	Conflicts in the Air	117
	Kukla, Fran and Ollie	117
	The Cultural Backlash Begins	118
	Censoring TV's Contents	119
	The "Golden Hope" and The Goldbergs	121
	The Admiral Broadway Revue	123
	The Berle Phenomenon	125
	A Midseason Slump	127
	Wrestling and Roller Derby	128
	The 1949 World Series	130
	The Chicago School of Television	131
	Cavalcade of Stars	133
	Hopalong Cassidy	135
	The New Bomb and the "Red Scare"	137
	Faye Emerson	140
	TV's Effects on Children	141
Ch. 8	Comics and Communists	145
	Your Show of Shows	145
	The "Bandit Raid" on Korea	147
	Red Channels	149
	The Invasion of Comics	152
	Jack Benny and Fred Allen	154
	Groucho Marx and Martin and Lewis	156
	Jackie Gleason and the Cavalcade of Stars	158
	Truman and MacArthur	160
	Expanding the Daily Schedule	162
Ch. 9	Linking Coast to Coast	165
	Color TV Begins	165
	The Crime Commission Hearings	166
	Amos 'n' Andy	168
	Hollywood and the Coast-to-Coast Link	170
	The Birth of I Love Lucy	173
	The "Hollywood Boom" Begins	175
	The Today Show	177
	New Hampshire and "Ike"	179
	The Freeze Is Lifted	180
	Lucy Takes Over	182
	The 1952 Conventions	183
	Congress and the Code	186
	The FCC and Blacklisting	187
	Dragnet	189
	Live Drama from New York	190
Ch. 10	Liking Ike and Loving Lucy	195
	The Checkers Speech	195
	Lucy Is Pregnant	197
	Ozzie and Harriet	198
	See It Now	199
	The Birth and the Inauguration	202
	The ABC-Paramount Merger	203
	The End of the Du Mont Network	205
	The End of the Beginning	206
	Notes	211
	Index	227

The Interactive Computing Series or Epidemiology of Quality

The Interactive Computing Series: Office XP Vol I

Author: Kenneth Laudon

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

Table of Contents:

Volume 1
	Preface
	Windows 2000
Lesson 1	Introduction to Windows 2000
	Examining the Desktop Icons
	Opening, Moving, and Resizing a Window
	Using the Start Menu
	Using the Taskbar
	Using Menus
	Using Dialog Boxes
	Getting Help
	Shutting Down Windows 2000
Lesson 2	Managing Files with Windows Explorer
	Viewing Folders with My Computer
	Using Windows Explorer
	Creating New Folders and Files
	Moving and Copying Files and Folders
	Creating Shortcuts
	Using the Recycle Bin
	Searching for Files or Folders
Lesson 3	Working with Internet Explorer
	Introduction to the Internet
	Opening Internet Explorer
	Navigating the Web
	Searching the Internet
	Creating Favorites
	Managing Favorites
	Printing a Web Page
	Word 2002
Lesson 1	Introduction to Word
	Starting Word
	Exploring the Word Screen
	Creating a Document and Entering Text
	Saving and Closing a Document
	Opening an Existing Document
	Deleting and Inserting Text
	Formatting Text
	Previewing and Printing a Document
Lesson 2	Editing Documents
	Searching for Files
	Selecting Text and Undoing Actions
	Cutting, Copying, and Moving Text
	Copying and Moving Text with the Mouse
	Creating a Document with a Wizard
	Creating a Document with a Template
	Using the Office Assistant
	Other Word Help Features
Lesson 3	Advanced Editing
	Setting Up a Page
	Inserting Page Numbers
	Inserting Footnotes and Endnotes
	Applying Paragraph Indents
	Changing Line Spacing
	Inserting Page Breaks
	Working with Multiple Documents
	Using the Format Painter
	Checking Spelling and Grammar
	Using AutoCorrect
	Inserting Frequently Used Text
	Using the Word Thesaurus
	Finding and Replacing Text
Lesson 4	Tables and Charts
	Creating and Modifying Tables
	Editing Tables
	Inserting and Deleting Rows, Columns, and Cells
	Sorting Data in a Table
	Calculating Data in a Table
	Formatting a Table
	Creating a Chart
	Editing a Chart
	Drawing a Table
	Adding Borders and Shading
	Excel 2002
Lesson 1	Introduction to Spreadsheet Software
	Introducing Excel and Worksheet Design
	Starting Excel
	Exploring the Excel Window
	Moving around the Worksheet
	Entering Labels
	Saving and Closing a Workbook
	Opening a Workbook
	Editing a Cell's Information
	Using the Office Assistant
	Other Excel Help Features
Lesson 2	Manipulating Data in a Worksheet
	Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Labels
	Entering Values
	Entering Formulas
	Using Functions
	Using the Insert Function Feature
	Copying and Pasting Formulas
	Using What-If Analysis
	Previewing and Printing a Worksheet
Lesson 3	Formatting Worksheet Elements
	Merging and Splitting Cells
	Formatting Cell Labels
	Formatting Cell Values
	Formatting Rows and Columns
	Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
	Hiding, Unhiding, and Protecting Cells
	Defining and Naming Cell Ranges
	Filling a Cell Range with Labels
	Applying Shading, Patterns, and Borders to Cells & Ranges
	Applying AutoFormat to a Worksheet
Lesson 4	Inserting Objects and Charts
	Inserting Text Objects
	Enhancing Graphics
	Adding and Editing Comments
	Understanding Excel Charts
	Creating a Chart
	Moving and Resizing a Chart
	Formatting a Chart
	Changing a Chart's Type
	Using Advanced Printing Features
	Access 2002
Lesson 1	Introduction to Databases
	Opening an Existing Database
	Navigating in Datasheet View
	Working in Table Design View
	Formatting a Datasheet
	Creating a Drop-Down List
	Entering Records in a Datasheeet
	Editing Records in a Datasheet
	Understanding Shared Fields
	Getting Help and Exiting Access
Lesson 2	Creating Tables and Queries
	Creating a Database with the Database Wizard
	Using the Table Wizard
	Modifying Field Properties
	Creating an Input Mask
	Setting a Validation Rule
	Creating a Table in Design View
	Establishing Table Relationships
	Sorting and Finding Records
	Filtering Records
	Using the Simple Query Wizard
	Creating a Calculated Field in a Query
Lesson 3	Creating Forms
	Creating an AutoForm
	Creating a Form with the Form Wizard
	Modifying a Form
	Setting Tab Order
	Adding a Field to a Form
	Using the Expression Builder
	Using Property Sheets
	Entering Records Using a Form
Lesson 4	Creating Reports
	Creating an AutoReport
	Using the Report Wizard
	Formatting a Report
	Adding a Calculated Control to a Report
	Using a Query to Create a Report
	Previewing and Printing a Report
	Creating Mailing Labels
	PowerPoint 2002
Lesson 1	Introduction to PowerPoint
	Introducing PowerPoint and Presentation Design
	Starting PowerPoint
	Using the AutoContent Wizard
	Exploring the PowerPoint Window
	Viewing Your Presentation
	Saving and Closing a File
	Using the Office Assistant
	Other PowerPoint Help Features
Lesson 2	Designing Your Presentation
	Opening a New Presentation
	Opening an Existing PowerPoint File
	Entering Text in Normal View
	Adding a New Slide to Your Presentation
	Working with Text on the Outline Tab
	Adding Speaker's Notes
	Printing Slides and Notes Pages
Lesson 3	Developing Your Presentation
	Editing and Adding Text Boxes
	Formatting Text
	Moving Text Boxes and Aligning Text
	Using Spell Check
	Finding and Replacing Text
	Using AutoCorrect
	Drawing and Formatting Objects
	Modifying and Enhancing Drawn Objects
	Printing Audience Handouts
	Saving Slide Presentations as RTF Files
Lesson 4	Strengthening Your Presentation
	Adding Clip Art
	Editing Clip Art
	Inserting a Picture from a File
	Inserting a Chart
	Customizing the Datasheet
	Changing a Chart's Type
	Setting Chart Options
	Formatting Chart Elements
	Adding Transition Effects
	Timing Slide Transitions
	Annotating Slides
	Navigating During a Slide Show
Lesson 1	Office Integration and Web Features
	Embedding an Excel Chart in a PowerPoint Slide
	Linking Excel and Word Files
	Editing Linked Excel Data
	Converting a Presentation into a Word Document
	Adding a Word File to a Word Document
	Merging Access Data with a Word Document
	Creating Hyperlinks and Web Pages
	Glossary
	Index
	File Directory
	Notes

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Epidemiology of Quality

Author: Vahe A Kazandjian

Here is a "how—to" approach for exploring the essentials of common quality measurement standards. Readers will learn how to translate quality management concepts into the decision—making process.

William R. Hendee

This book addresses the question of what happens to groups of people when exposed to different aspects and doses of quality, primarily but not exclusively in a health care setting. Multiauthored with contributions from 22 individuals with excellent credentials in epidemiology, quality assurance, hospital administration, health care finance, and health services research, the book starts with epidemiological theory and tools, navigates through concepts and principles, and ends with descriptions of successful national initiatives to quantify performance and improve social accountability of healthcare services. The purpose of the book is to (1) illustrate how epidemiological methods of inquiry can be applied to studies of the quality of care; (2) describe the changes in population health status that occur over time following exposure to quality; and (3) demonstrate the common frame of mind underlying both the study of disease and that of health status following exposure to shades of quality. The authors state that the book should be of interest to all in pursuit of quality of care. In particular, the book should interest anyone who has managerial or operational responsibility for some form of health care service in inpatient, outpatient, or public health settings. It is not overly technical or sophisticated, and it should be comprehensible to persons from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. This hardbound text is attractively formatted and adequately illustrated. Each of the 16 chapters is annotated with references that provide a reasonable historical as well as current context. The index is adequate. This book begins with a definition of epidemiology, but of greater interest is a definition ofquality. Quality is described in the various chapters more through example and comparison than by definition. One is left with the impression that I can't define quality, but I know it when I see it. Like good art. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book for many of us. Patient and social accountability are being demanded of everyone working in healthcare. Accountability is met through the delivery of cost-effective services of high quality. Cost is measurable, and so is cost-effectiveness to a lesser extent. This book addresses the issue of quantifying quality. Examples, many from other disciplines, are used to illustrate the application of quality measures to healthcare. These examples point how far our society has come over a short period in its commitment (or at least its claim to commitment) to quality in the marketplace. And they emphasize how far we have to go in health care to achieve the same level of commitment. One good step in this direction is to read this book.

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Reviewer: William R. Hendee, PhD (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Description: This book addresses the question of what happens to groups of people when exposed to different aspects and doses of ^^quality,^^ primarily but not exclusively in a health care setting. Multiauthored with contributions from 22 individuals with excellent credentials in epidemiology, quality assurance, hospital administration, health care finance, and health services research, the book starts with epidemiological theory and tools, navigates through concepts and principles, and ends with descriptions of successful national initiatives to quantify performance and improve social accountability of healthcare services.
Purpose: The purpose of the book is to (1) illustrate how epidemiological methods of inquiry can be applied to studies of the quality of care; (2) describe the changes in population health status that occur over time following exposure to quality; and (3) demonstrate the common frame of mind underlying both the study of disease and that of health status following exposure to shades of quality.
Audience: The authors state that the book ^^should be of interest to all in pursuit of quality of care.^^ In particular, the book should interest anyone who has managerial or operational responsibility for some form of health care service in inpatient, outpatient, or public health settings. It is not overly technical or sophisticated, and it should be comprehensible to persons from a wide spectrum of backgrounds.
Features: This hardbound text is attractively formatted and adequately illustrated. Each of the 16 chapters is annotated with references that provide a reasonable historical as well as current context. The index is adequate.
Assessment: This book begins with a definition of ^^epidemiology,^^ but of greater interest is a definition of ^^quality.^^ Quality is described in the various chapters more through example and comparison than by definition. One is left with the impression that ^^I can't define quality, but I know it when I see it.^^ Like good art. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book for many of us. Patient and social accountability are being demanded of everyone working in healthcare. Accountability is met through the delivery of cost-effective services of high quality. Cost is measurable, and so is cost-effectiveness to a lesser extent. This book addresses the issue of quantifying quality. Examples, many from other disciplines, are used to illustrate the application of quality measures to healthcare. These examples point how far our society has come over a short period in its commitment (or at least its claim to commitment) to quality in the marketplace. And they emphasize how far we have to go in health care to achieve the same level of commitment. One good step in this direction is to read this book.

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The authors illustrate how the epidemiological methods of inquiry can be applied to studies of the quality of health care. Sections on applications of epidemiological techniques and reports from the field address subjects including indicators of performance, survey methods, comparative performance measurement for health plans, reporting patient outcomes, and managing quality under cost constraints. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Turning off the Heat or The Economics of Women Men and Work

Turning off the Heat: Why America Must Double Energy Efficiency To Save Money and Reduce Global Warming

Author: Thomas R Casten

Global warming, the result of increasing carbon dioxide emissions from energy producers and users, has become a danger to humans, threatening radical climate changes, severe storms, and ecological havoc. Turning Off the Heat targets a main source of overuse of fossil fuels--the energy producers themselves who, through their government-approved monopolies, have led to energy inefficiency and needless pollution.

Library Journal

Carbon dioxide emission and its relationship to global warming is the subject of a raging debate among scientists and world leaders. Federal and state governments have proposed three actions to decarbonize our economy: put a cap on carbon emissions, place revenue-neutral taxes on energy, and establish a renewable energy portfolio standard. Casten, an entrepreneur in the field of energy conversions for 20 years, offers another solution, a variant on the carbon-cap approach specifically targeting energy producers. The Fossil-Fuel Efficiency Standard (FFES) would eliminate all government subsidies on fossil fuels, deregulate the electric industry, and eliminate the barriers to efficiency embodied in environmental and regulatory laws. A built-in time line would give businesses time to adapt to the standard. Additionally, the FFES would promote research, thus driving down the price of renewable energies. This thoughtful work adds to the national debate. Recommended for large public and academic libraries.--Eva Lautemann, DeKalb Coll. Lib., Clarkston, GA

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An advocate of market-based solutions to environmental problems documents the enormous waste of energy and heat in the US, and calls for further deregulation of what he calls the 90-year monopoly on the production and sale of electricity. With the industry unshackled, he says, competition would force companies to produce more efficiently and the price of electricity would drop radically. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface	1
1	Establishing the Problem and a Market Perspective	15
2	Understanding Monopoly Behavior	25
3	Noblesse Oblige - For Planet Earth	70
4	Sending Price Signals	84
5	Linking Deregulation and Carbon Dioxide Reduction	105
6	Facing the Challenge: Stabilizing Global Carbon Dioxide	119
7	Changing Consumer Attitudes Toward Energy Use	130
8	Barriers to Efficiency	146
9	Federal Action to Decarbonize	198
10	Errata - Energy Regulatory Reform and Tax Act	230
	Notes	235
	Glossary	243
	Index	263

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The Economics of Women, Men, and Work

Author: Marianne A Ferber

/*9095B-3, 0-13-090922-X, Blau, Francine D., Economics of Women, Men and Work, 4/E*/ This single, highly accessible volume explores the most current summary and synthesis of research and data from economics and the social sciences on women, men, and work in the labor market and household. Women and Men: Changing Roles in a Changing Economy. The Family as an Economic Unit. The Allocation of Time Between the Household and the Labor Market. Differences in Occupations and Earnings: Overview. Differences in Occupations and Earnings: The Human Capital Model. Differences in Occupations and Earnings: The Role of Labor Market Discrimination. Recent Developments in the Labor Market: Their Impact on Women and Men. Changing Work Roles and the Family. Policies to Balance Paid Work and Family. Gender Differences in Other Countries. Economists, Sociologists, Social Workers, Demographers, Policy Analysts, Labor Market Analysts. Also of interest to noneconomists and students who would like to learn about gender issues in the workplace and in the family but have little, if any, prior background in economics.

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This text is designed to acquaint students with research findings concerning women, men, and work, both in the labor market and in the household. It is intended primarily for courses concerned with the economic status of women. Topics include the narrowing gender pay gap, the declining employment prospects of less-educated men, wage stagnation, corporate restructuring, and changing family structures. The authors assume a knowledge of introductory economics but not of advanced theory. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Entrepreneurial Management or All the Rage

Entrepreneurial Management

Author: Robert J J Calvin

Successful entrepreneur and author Robert J. Calvin uses his own knowledge and experience­­plus in-depth examinations of real-world start-up successes and failures­­to detail the human, technical, and financial issues that confront every new business. From spotting the right opportunity and writing a successful business plan to raising capital, enhancing productivity, and building customer loyalty, Entrepreneurial Management helps budding entrepreneurs master the planning and growth issues required to make any new business a success.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

A Well-Developed Plan
Starting a new business takes careful consideration, determined preparation and a well-developed plan. Robert Calvin, president of an international consulting firm for startups and a business professor at the University of Chicago, has compiled the strategies, tools, techniques, models and methodologies for starting a new business on the right track into a comprehensive guidebook. Along with organizing the interrelated aspects of launching a business, Calvin's informative textbook offers numerous hands-on business skills and the motivation to help new business owners move toward success while conquering the entrepreneurial challenges along the way.

Entrepreneurial Management begins with a sound justification of why people should set out on the road to entrepreneurship, despite the fact that 60 percent of all new businesses fail within their first two years, and 70 percent fail within the first five years of their existence. By thoroughly describing the rewards and risks entrepreneurs must face and the strengths and weaknesses of many kinds of ventures, Calvin prepares the new entrepreneur with the lessons others have learned through hard work and difficult odds. "This book attempts to bridge the old and new economy with a proven strategic and tactical formula for entrepreneurial success," he explains.

How To Avoid the 'Growth Busters'
The first step to creating a new business venture is writing a plan. Calvin's first chapter describes the steps involved in writing an effective business or strategic plan, and explains what should be included. His proven formula for success involves ways to avoid the "growth busters" that can holda company back, including using target marketing to focus resources; dealing with change; using market segmentation to differentiate and customize the offering; and having a cost-efficient sales organization and marketing approach.

Once the plan is set, the proper financing will be necessary to launch the business. According to Calvin, this starts with engaging a qualified attorney to help in raising cash. To avoid extra later-stage expenses and restrictions, he writes that it is crucial to prepare correctly during this early stage. Asking other entrepreneurs and conducting several interviews can help new business owners find the right attorney. Calvin offers additional advice that can help entrepreneurs get a loan, set up a workable loan structure, and find equity financing.

Chapter 3 describes the financial controls that must be set in place before a business can take shape. These deal with accounts receivable aging, inventory, capital expenditures, balance sheet ratios, sales forecasts, critical operating margins and line-item expense budgets.

The second part of Entrepreneurial Management is dedicated to keeping the money flowing through the business, and includes chapters that describe differentiation, segmentation, target marketing and target customers. By placing his ideas into the context of real-world examples, including a North Dakota trash removal service and a Virginia lawn care service, Calvin develops numbers which help his readers understand "the strong relationship between profitability, customer loyalty and employee satisfaction, retention and productivity."

Next, Calvin delves into ways to create a cost-efficient, effective sales organization and marketing approach; how to inexpensively develop a demand for your products and services through advertising and packaging; and how to properly price offerings by looking at competitive advantage in terms of features, benefits and image.

Risks and Rewards
The final chapters of Calvin's book delve into the options that entrepreneurs have when they have decided to start a new business. Calvin explains the reasons for, the ways to go about, and the options to consider when buying an existing business. Since the average sale price of an existing business is less than $200,000, he writes that most entrepreneurs can afford this inroad to a new business venture. Calvin offers proven advice about how to look at the price of a new business; the rewards and risks of buying an existing business; and ways to find and evaluate a business to buy. The last chapter of his book describes the risks and rewards of developing and introducing new products and services.

Why Soundview Likes This Book
Entrepreneurial Management is a valuable source book for new business owners, and delivers an MBA-level course on developing, launching and growing a new business venture. By focusing on the step-by-step process that entrepreneurs must undergo on the road to success, Calvin plots out the entire journey by detailing the business knowledge and tactics that can turn a great vision into a success story. Calvin's useful examples of successful and failed startups, along with his insightful commentary and analysis, reveal the secrets of entrepreneurial management in a well-organized, easy-to-reference manual that can help anyone improve his or her chances of success amid the tough challenges of entrepreneurship. Copyright (c) 2002 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

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All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America

Author: Suzanna Danuta Walters

From the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres and the success of Will and Grace to the vicious murder of Matthew Shepard, recent years have seen gay lives and images move onto the center stage of American public life. In this incisive and authoritative guide to the new gay visibility, Suzanna Danuta Walters argues that we now live in a time when gays are seen, but not necessarily known. Taking on the common wisdom that equates visibility with full integration, All the Rage maps the terrain on which gays are accepted as witty film accessories and sassy sitcom stars yet denied full citizenship.

Publishers Weekly

The love that once dared not speak its name now dances at Disneyland's annual gay day and sells Bud Lite. Heck, even Bart Simpson questions his sexuality, while nobody questions South Park's Big Gay Al's, and there is no ambiguity about Saturday Night Live's Ambiguously Gay Duo. This comprehensive survey of gay and lesbian visibility in popular culture offers a whirlwind of facts, figures and documentation of gay representations. Acknowledging television's past e.g., Mike Wallace's 1967 CBS report reconfirming many homophobic stereotypes Walters concentrates on post-AIDS entertainment in which gay characters and themes appear everywhere from HBO's Oz to The Drew Carey Show to that bastion of backlash, Ally McBeal. A double edge runs through Walters's countless examples: does this visibility indicate acceptance, or does "gay chic" just characterize a profitable niche market? Moreover, are these trends destructive? An associate professor of sociology and director of women's studies at Georgetown, Walters (Material) quotes activist and writer Sarah Schulman as criticizing "the creation of a false public homosexuality that is palatable and containable and... not authentic." Walters's analyses are often astute the Roseanne gay marriage show was more about Dan and Roseanne confronting their own homophobia than about homosexuality but occasionally reductive, like her assertion that the film Boys in the Band is "filled with... self hatred" mightn't it be commenting on self-hatred? Citing academics Kath Weston, Josh Gamson and responding to mainstream critics, Walters's initial distrust of this visibility gives way to grudging appreciation in a clear, up-to-date map of the basic debate overhomosexuality in the media. (Oct.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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Should gays and lesbians exult in the recent spate of media depictions of their lives or shudder at the homogenized sterilization of their diversity? Against the backdrop of the 1980s and '90s, Walters (Sociology & Women's Studies/Georgetown Univ.; Lives Together/Worlds Apart, 1992) analyzes the promise and the threat of queer portrayals in contemporary media: although the number of these programs and personalities has skyrocketed, the resulting depictions of gay and lesbian life often emerge as disturbingly skewed. In a nutshell, her thesis contends that increased gay representations in the media may entail that America sees the gay and lesbian community more frequently than ever; however, due to the stereotypical visions of queer life-such as psycho dykes, ditzy fashion homos, and lesbian chic-this visibility does not correspond with an increased knowledge about homosexuality. With a sweeping range, Walters probes the cultural repercussions of such characters as Dynasty's tortured bisexual Steven Carrington and the all-too-chaste Matt of Melrose Place, as well as examining specific episodes of programs including Roseanne (when Mariel Hemingway kissed the eponymous heroine) and the coming-out episode of Ellen. Films also come under scrutiny, as Walters considers the differences between queer portrayals in mainstream Hollywood and those in independent films. And there are chapters on gay marriages, coming-out stories, and queer parenting-and an analysis of advertising images of gay and lesbian life, in which Walters dissects the commercialization of the queer community (pointing to a predictable display of gleaming teeth and toned bodies). A frenetic packing of materials that leavesin-depth analysis mostly sacrificed for a panoramic view-but the resulting picture nevertheless emerges as detailed and refined.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Prologue
Pt. 1	It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
1	The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name: The Explosion of Gay Visibility	3
2	Pride and Prejudice: The Changing Context of Gay Visibility	30
Pt. 2	A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
3	Ready for Prime Time? TV Comes Out of the Closet	59
4	Dossier on Ellen	81
5	All Gay, All the Time?	95
Pt. 3	Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
6	Hiding, Dying, and Dressing-Up	131
7	Out Is In: Liberal Narratives for the Nineties	149
Pt. 4	In the Family Way
8	Wedding Bell Blues: Imagining Marriage	179
9	Mom, I've Got Something to Tell You: The Coming-Out Story in the Age of Visibility	197
10	It Takes a Lesbian Village to Raise a Child: Parenting Possibilities	210
Pt. 4	Money Makes the World Go Round
11	Consuming Queers: Advertising and the Gay Market	235
12	If It's Pink We'll Sell It: Gay Entrepreneurship	273
	Conclusion: Beyond Visibility (Welcome to Our Rainbow World)	290
	Notes	301
	Bibliography	315
	Index	323

What Else You Can Do With a PHD or Modern Auditing

What Else You Can Do With a PH.D.: A Career Guide for Scholars

Author: Jan Secrist

"This book will serve as a light-hearted but strong life-line to many readers who are for one reason or another steeling themselves to walk away from the ivory tower."

--Jennifer Lee Carrell, Free-lance writer

This book provides concrete advice and support for readers moving from the advanced academic world to the real world. The authors cover all the big issues including skill and interest assessment, writing effective resumes and cover letters, preparing for interviews, and evaluating job offers. Written in a lively, engaging style that from a "been there, done that" perspective, this is exactly the kind of information people need when academia unravels around them.

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Now that delayed retirement and other factors mean there are not enough chairs in academe to accommodate all the people getting doctorate degrees, communication and career counselor Secrist and Fitzpatrick (education, U. of San Diego) offer advice on getting work outside the ivory tower. Assessing academic powers and skills, investigating popular paths, gender and cultural issues, interviewing skills, and evaluating job offers are among their topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Modern Auditing

Author: William C Boynton

Known for its clear writing style and accessibility, this revision incorporates increased emphasis on understanding the business and industry, analytical procedures, computer aspects of internal controls, plus new assurance and value-added services, Internet applications and end-of-chapter materials. The result is a new edition that provides comprehensive and integrated coverage of the latest developments in the environment, standards, and methodology of auditing.

Table of Contents:

1	Auditing and the Public Accounting Profession
2	Financial Statement Audits and Auditors' Responsibilities
3	Professional Ethics
4	Auditor's Legal Liability
5	Audit Objectives, Evidence, and Working Papers
6	Accepting the Engagement and Planning the Audit
7	Materiality, Risk, and Preliminary Audit Strategies
8	Understanding the Internal Control Structure
9	Assessing Control Risk/Tests of Controls
10	Detection Risk and the Design of Substantive Tests
11	Audit Sampling in Tests of Controls
12	Audit Sampling in Substantive Tests
13	Auditing Electronic Data Processing Systems
14	Auditing the Revenue Cycle
15	Auditing the Expenditure Cycle
16	Auditing the Production and Personnel Services Cycles
17	Auditing the Investing and Financing Cycles
18	Auditing Cash Balances
19	Completing the Audit/Postaudit Responsibilities
20	Reporting on Audited Financial Statements
21	Other Services and Reports
22	Internal, Operational, and Governmental Auditing
23	The Independent Accountant and the Securities and Exchange Commission
	Appendix X: Auditing Research

The European Union or Help Wanted

The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration

Author: Brent F Nelsen

Dinan's book - written in an accessible, straightforward style - explains clearly the extent of European integration since World War II. Part 1 explores the European Community's history and political developments since the early 1950s, including the emergence of the European Union in the early 1990s. Part 2 describes and analyses EC and EU institutions. Part 3 assesses the Community's policies and programs, from agriculture to industry, from social affairs to science and technology. Imaginative and interdisciplinary in approach, the book makes the EU comprehensible and whets the appetite for further research. It is essential reading for all who are interested in the emerging New Europe.

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Section I presents visions of a united Europe expressed by some primary shapers of the European Union. Section II introduces the work of early scholars, dealing with ideas of federalism, functionalism, and intergovernmentalism. Section III features contemporary scholarship on the integration process. Introductions set a context for each selection and summarize its arguments. This second edition is focused more on ideas informing theory and practice of European integration rather than EU policy making. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	The Ventotene Manifesto	3
2	The Tragedy of Europe	7
3	The Schuman Declaration	13
4	Preambles to the Treaties Establishing the European Communities (Treaties of Paris and Rome)	15
5	A Ferment of Change	19
6	A Concert of European States	27
7	Preamble to the Single European Act	45
8	A Family of Nations	49
9	A Necessary Union	55
10	Preamble to the Treaty on European Union (The Maastricht Treaty)	65
11	Preamble to the Treaty of Nice Amending the Treaty on European Union (The Nice Treaty)	67
12	Reflections on a Constitution for Europe	69
13	Altiero Spinelli and the Strategy for the United States of Europe	91
14	A Working Peace System	99
15	Political Community and the North Atlantic Area	121
16	The Uniting of Europe	145
17	Political Integration: Definitions and Hypotheses	151
18	Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State and the Case of Western Europe	163
19	The Theory of Economic Integration: An Introduction	179
20	The Political Theory of Federalism: The Relevance of Classical Approaches	195
21	Integration, Supranational Governance, and the Institutionalization of the European Polity	215
22	The Choice for Europe	239
23	Delegation and Agency in the European Community	255
24	Multi-Level Governance in the European Union	281
25	Making Sense of EU Decision-Making	313
26	The Governance Approach to European Integration	335
27	Social Construction and European Integration	351
	Index	361
	About the Book	379

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Help Wanted: An Inexperienced Job Seeker's Complete Guide to Career Success

Author: Ann M Gill

Powerful strategies for the job seeker! Finding a job can be difficult. Finding the right job is even harder. Fortunately, this engaging book provides readers with powerful strategies that can help them discover the most advantageous career path and techniques to help them market themselves effectively. Gill and Lewis present a wealth of practical information gained from interviews with employers from a wide variety of fields and with successful job seekers. Includes interactive exercises that enable readers to identify and analyze their strengths and weaknesses and then to focus their efforts on those jobs for which they are best suited. Readers will learn how to put their best foot forward when searching for the right job in a competitive and often discouraging market.

American Enterprise in Japan or Democratic Process and the Market

American Enterprise in Japan

Author: Tomoko Hamada

This book describes how American and Japanese management ideologies meet, collide, and contend in the process of competitive cooperation during a joint venture in Japan. In a detailed case study, Hamada describes the very real problems when Japanese and American managers run a business operation, and analyzes them from a comparative, relativistic, and historical perspective.

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Describes how American and Japanese management ideologies meet, collide, and contend in the process of joint ventures in Japan. Hamada (east Asian studies and anthropology, College of William and Mary) analyzes the problems from comparative, relativistic and historical perspectives, drawing on case studies to contribute to both the theory and the practice of international management. Also available in paper (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Bernard Karsh
This is the first study with the experience of an American firm in Japan. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of both American and Japanese firms.

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Democratic Process and the Market: Challenges of the Transition

Author: Mihaly Simai

The transition of the former socialist countries of East and Central Europe to a pluralistic, democratic system of governance and a modern market economy has involved historically-unparalleled changes. In contrast to past examples of systemic transition, democratization in these countries has not resulted from an organic process of development, resting on other social and economic changes, but from "sociopolitical implosion," brought about internally by the collapse of their own socialist regimes and externally by the impact of the dissolution and dismemberment of the Soviet Union.

The global information revolution, providing a window upon the transition process, added another dimension to the unique quality of the upheaval. Never before, in the period of modern history, has the process of transition so clearly demonstrated the complex interaction between past and present; political, economic and social process; cultural values and institutions, and national and international influences.

This volume forms part of the United Nations' study of the global democratic process and offers a specific contribution to the global dialogue on democracy in transition. Eminent specialists in the field, many from the countries under discussion, provide a regional perspective on the interrelation between political and economic change, and delineate the unprecedented challenges recent developments have presented both to the states in transition and to the international community.

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Contributors continue the global dialogue on democracy in transition, provide regional perspectives on the interrelation between political and economic change, and delineate the unprecedented challenges recent development has presented to states in transition and to the international community. They focus on changes in former socialist countries where democratization has resulted from socio-political implosions, looking at patterns and trends in the post-communist region. The editor is affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Science Institute for World Economics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)