Public Management Reform or International Economics

Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis

Author: Christopher Pollitt

Since its publication in 2000, Public Management Reform has established itself as the standard text in the field, presenting a comparative analysis of recent changes in Public Management and Public Administration in a range of countries in Europe, North America and Australasia. This completely rewritten second edition radically expands, develops and updates the original.
Two countries have been added to the comparison (making twelve countries in all) and a much fuller treatment has been provided of the European Commission (including a commentary on the recent reforms led by Vice-President Kinnock). Empirical data has been brought up to date, so as to cover many key developments of the last few years. The theoretical framework of the book has been further developed, including a challenging new interpretation of the trends in continental Europe, which are seen here as markedly different from the Anglo-American style 'New Public Management".
This second edition provides an unparalleled synthesis of developments in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK, the USA and the European Commission. It is organized in an integrated format, within an overall theoretical framework that identifies the main pressures for and trajectories of, change. It includes a multi-dimensional analysis of the results of reform, and a chapter reflecting on the dynamic relationship between management reform and politics. Extensive appendices provide an in valuable information resource for students.

Table of Contents:

1	The nature of public management reform	6
2	Problems and responses : a model of public management reform	24
3	Many houses : types of politico-administrative regime	39
4	Trajectories of modernization and reform	65
5	Results : through a glass darkly	103
6	Politics and management	143
7	Trade-offs, balances, limits, dilemmas, contradictions, and paradoxes	159
8	Reflections : management and governance	182
App. A	The socio-economic context	203
App. B	Country files	210

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International Economics

Author: Peter H Lindert

This classic text has sold well for over 35 years because it covers all the conventional areas of international economics in an easy-to-understand manner. The 12th edition has been thoroughly revised and it continues to be accessible, flexible, and interesting to economics and business majors alike. Like earlier editions, it also places international economics events within an historical framework. The overall treatment continues to be intuitive rather than mathematical and is strongly oriented towards policy.

Home Health Redesign or Human Relations

Home Health Redesign: A Proactive Approach to Managed Care

Author: Barbara Stover Gingerich

Home Health Redesign introduces home health providers to integrated care delivery systems and shows how to capture and control costs and outcomes, how to deal with staffing issues, and how to gain accreditation from all relevant organizations, including the National Council for Quality Assurance. Changes in documentation, information management, and marketing and billing are addressed. Implementation issues, maintaining the restructured organization, and quality assessment and improvement strategies such as benchmarking are covered. An abundance of practical tools, such as tracking tools, orientation outlines, job descriptions, and examples of documentation and competency assessment and performance tools support the text.

Joan C. Murphy

This book outlines in detail the reengineering process for a home care agency in order that it remain competitive in the present and in future markets. They use the concepts of leaders in the field, Hammer and Champy, who have advised other corporations. The authors define the principles and concepts of the reengineering process for home care agencies. The readers have access to tools to remain fiscally accountable to both the agency mission and the community. According to the authors, and I agree, the book is intended for all persons employed in home health care, including those from acute care. It is also appropriate for nursing, management, and business students with an interest in home care. The authors provide many tools that can be used for the process. The references are timely and useful. The many tables and charts enhance the text. The authors take on the challenge of inspiring and motivating the readers to a higher level of accountability for the agency. They accomplish this by pointing out that home care as we knew it is gone and that to remain competitive and survive one must change. The content is presented in an understandable format. The reader is left with the realization that change is needed and has the tools available to undertake that process. The book is a must for home care providers who want to help create our future.

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Reviewer: Joan C. Murphy, EdD, MS, NP (Utica College of Syracuse University)
Description: This book outlines in detail the reengineering process for a home care agency in order that it remain competitive in the present and in future markets. They use the concepts of leaders in the field, Hammer and Champy, who have advised other corporations.
Purpose: The authors define the principles and concepts of the reengineering process for home care agencies. The readers have access to tools to remain fiscally accountable to both the agency mission and the community.
Audience: According to the authors, and I agree, the book is intended for all persons employed in home health care, including those from acute care. It is also appropriate for nursing, management, and business students with an interest in home care.
Features: The authors provide many tools that can be used for the process. The references are timely and useful. The many tables and charts enhance the text.
Assessment: The authors take on the challenge of inspiring and motivating the readers to a higher level of accountability for the agency. They accomplish this by pointing out that home care as we knew it is gone and that to remain competitive and survive one must change. The content is presented in an understandable format. The reader is left with the realization that change is needed and has the tools available to undertake that process. The book is a must for home care providers who want to help create our future.

Rating

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Human Relations: Interpersonal, Job-Oriented Skills

Author: Andrew J DuBrin

Designed to help readers enhance their interpersonal skills in the workplace, this book explores a blend of current and traditional interpersonal concepts—and features a heavy emphasis on skill development and self-assessment through an extensive variety of skill-building suggestions, exercises, and cases related to specific topics. Meets federal SCANS requirements. Addresses a full range of contemporary topics, including: the triarchic theory of intelligence and multiple intelligences; metacomunication; cross-functional teams and virtual teams; self-efficacy as it contributes to motivation; the integration of information technology into interpersonal skill development; improving cross-cultural relations; helping others grow and develop (including dealing with difficult people); 360-degree feedback; the integration of information technology into interpersonal skill development; and the modern career path. For anyone interested in developing or improving their interpersonal skills in the workplace.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	A Framework for Interpersonal Skill Training	1
Ch. 2	Understanding Individual Differences	13
Ch. 3	Interpersonal Communications	35
Ch. 4	Resolving Conflicts with Others	59
Ch. 5	Developing Teamwork Skills	83
Ch. 6	Group Problem Solving	105
Ch. 7	Cross-Cultural Relations and Diversity	123
Ch. 8	Becoming an Effective Leader	145
Ch. 9	Motivating Others	165
Ch. 10	Helping Others Develop and Grow	185
Ch. 11	Positive Political Skills	207
Ch. 12	Customer Satisfaction Skills	227
Ch. 13	Enhancing Ethical Behavior	247
	Glossary	265
	References	271
	Index	277

Microeconomics or The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Marketing

Microeconomics: With Xtra! Access Card

Author: Roger A Arnold

Offering a unique blend of solid theoretical content and student accessibility, this text: 1) covers all the basics of microeconomics, 2) gives student a clear idea of how economists think about the world, 3) stresses the key concepts in economics, and 4) is extremely rich in intriguing applications that convey the prevalence of economics in everyday life. By applying economics to phenomenon that students are familiar with and interested in, this book demonstrates like no other text how economic analysis can be applied to virtually anything of interest, thus helping students develop true economic intuition. Additional student-oriented features include a unique active-learning format, an emphasis on developing economic analysis skills, and an outstanding visual program for exhibits and graphs.

Table of Contents:

AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS. PART ONE: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY. 1. What Economics is About. Appendix A: Working with Diagrams. 2. Trade, Tradeoffs, and Economics Systems. 3. Supply, Demand, and Price: The Theory. 4. Applications of Supply and Demand: Explaining and Predicting Market and Nonmarket Behavior. MICROECONOMICS. PART TWO: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS. 5. Elasticity. 6. The Logic of Consumer Choice. Appendix B: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis. 7. The Firm. 8. Production and Costs. PART THREE: PRODUCT MARKETS AND POLICIES. 9. Perfect Competition. 10. Monopoly. 11. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly. 12. Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation. 13. Agriculture: Farmers' Problems, Government Policies, and Unintended Effects. PART FOUR: FACTOR MARKETS AND RELATED ISSUES. 14. Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market. 15. Wages, Unions, and Labor. 16. The Distribution of Income and Poverty. 17. Interest, Rent, and Profit. PART FIVE: MARKET FAILURE AND PUBLIC CHOICE. 18. Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information. 19. Public Choice: Economic Theory Applied to Politics. THE WORLD ECONOMY. PART SIX: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: THEORY AND POLICY. 20. International Trade. 21. International Finance. 22. International Economic Development.

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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Marketing

Author:

In the dynamic field of marketing, new terms, concepts, and techniques are emerging everyday. Keeping track of them is very difficult, if not impossible. This dictionary serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding marketing, its lexicon, and their usage. Marketing is discussed in all its dimensions, going beyond just the meaning of words to their etymology, nuances, and current significance.

This invaluable reference tool covers more than 5,000 terms, concepts, theories, methods and techniques from the fields of:

• General marketing
• Consumer behavior
• Advertising
• Sales promotion
• Sales management
• Retailing
• International marketing
• E-marketing
• Services marketing

Examples, illustrations, figures, and charts have been provided in order to better explain some of the terms. Lucidly written, this encyclopaedic dictionary will serve as a source of ready reference for all those in the area of marketing including students, research scholars, teachers, managers and marketing consultants.

Critical Issues in Business Conduct or Wireless and Mobile Data Networks

Critical Issues in Business Conduct: Legal, Ethical, and Social Challenges for the 1990s

Author: Walter W W Manley

Critical Issues in Business Conduct addresses the legal, ethical, and social issues that will dominate business in the 1990s. From the impact of AIDS and problems of drug and alcohol in the workplace to financial accounting, employee rights, and sexual harassment, the book explores topical issues arising from the relationship between business organizations and their external constituencies as well as those that characterize relationships between firms and their own managers, employees, directors, and shareholders. The aim throughout is to provide practical guidelines for dealing with the most critical business conduct issues facing managers and executives today.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Robert H. Stovall
Foreword by Governor LeRoy Collins
Introduction
A Manager's Overview
Balancing Employer and Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Drugs, Alcoholism, AIDS, and Genetics in the Workplace
Preventing Sexual and Nonsexual Harassment in the Work Environment
Equal Employment Opportunity and Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex, Race, Age, and Disability
Workplace Safety, Consumer Protection and Product Quality
Protecting the Firm's Proprietary and Confidential Information
Marketing and Advertising Issues for the 1990s
Financial Accounting and Reporting: Duties of Accountants and Firms
Computer-Based Information Systems
Business Dealings and Relationships: Truthfulness, Integrity, and Deception
Insider Trading and Securities Laws
Fundamental Honesty, Law Compliance, Fair Competition and the Antitrust Laws
International Business Relationships and Practices
Bibliography
Index

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Wireless and Mobile Data Networks

Author: Aftab Ahmad

Wireless and Mobile Data Networks provides a single point of knowledge about wireless data technologies, including:
* Comprehensive easy-to understand resource on wireless data technologies
* Includes wireless media, data transmission via cellular networks, and network security
* Provides a single point of knowledge about wireless data
* Focuses on wireless data networks, wireless channels, wireless local networks, wide area cellular networks and wireless network security

An Instructor Support FTP site is available from the Wiley editorial department.

The Principles of Scientific Management or Transforming Fundraising

The Principles of Scientific Management

Author: Frederick Winslow Taylor

The basis of modern organization and decision theory, this influential essay has motivated administrators and students of managerial technique for more than 80 years. The author discusses eliminating inefficiency through a system based on principles applicable to individual and collective activities. A ground-breaking, and still-inspiring work.

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<:st>Reprint of Taylor's classic 1911 work on industrial management/engineering with a new introduction and an article from magazine of October, 1992. Cited in . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Transforming Fundraising: A Practical Guide to Evaluating and Strengthening Fundraising to Grow with Change

Author: Judith E Nichols

"You've got to read this book! You'll learn what to do, when to do it, and exactly how to go about it. A useful, practical tool to help any CEO or development officer position an organization for growth and success."
--Karen SAndelback, executive director, American Kidney Fund
"Candor is a missing commodity in many of today's dialogues. Judy Nichols' wisdom and sharp insights make this book a refreshing guide to honest organizational self-evaluation."
--Jeannie Thompson, fund raising consultant and member, board of directors of the International Fund Raising Group In this practical and straightforward guide, Judith E. Nichols, an internationally renowned fundraising expert, introduces a proven method of fundraising evaluation: the Development Assessment Process. This formula will fundamentally transform the way nonprofit organizations approach evaluation and help them improve fund raising strategies to not only achieve their mission, but to keep pace with a changing world.
Nichols' revolutionary Development Assessment Process is a unique evaluation tool that combines traditional internal evaluation practices with a method for appraising shifting philanthropic and demographic trAnds. Proven successful in a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, this innovative process creates opportunities for open dialogue among audiences inside and outside the organization, encourages useful feedback, and provides practical recommAndations that can be seamlessly incorporated into current operations. Transforming Fundraising walks readers step by step through the process of evaluating current fundraising programs, assessing their potential for improvement, and planning forchange.
Readers will also find a real-life, in-depth case that clearly demonstrates--from the first step through the last--how the Development Assessment Process works. Written in clear, accessible language and designed to be a hands-on guide and workbook, Transforming Fundraising is filled with easy-to-use worksheets, checklists, exhibits, and a resource guide. By using Nichols' groundbreaking Development Assessment Process, nonprofit organizations--of all sizes--will dramatically increase their fundraising results.

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Introduces a method of fundraising evaluation designed to transform the way nonprofit organizations approach evaluation and help them improve fundraising strategies. This method combines traditional internal evaluation practices with a method for appraising shifting philanthropic and demographic trends. Walks through each step of the process of evaluating current programs. Includes an on-going case, and a wealth of worksheets, checklists, and planning aids. The author has 20 years of experience in helping nonprofits understand the impact of changing demographics on fundraising. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dragon in a Three Piece Suit or Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China

Author: Doug Guthri

Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie, who spent more than a year in Shanghai studying firms, interviewing managers, and gathering data on firms' performance and practices, provides the first detailed account of how these firms have been radically transformed since the mid-1980s.

Guthrie shows that Chinese firms are increasingly imitating foreign firms in response both to growing contact with international investors and to being cut adrift from state support. Many firms, for example, are now less likely to use informal hiring practices, more likely to have formal grievance filing procedures, and more likely to respect international institutions, such as the Chinese International Arbitration Commission. Guthrie argues that these findings support the de-linking of Western trade policy from human rights, since it is clear that economic engagement leads to constructive reform. Yet Guthrie also warns that reform in China is not a process of inevitable Westernization or of managers behaving as rational, profit-maximizing agents. Old habits, China's powerful state administration, and the hierarchy of the former command economy will continue to have profound effects on how firms act and how they adjust to change.

With its combination of rigorous argument and uniquely rich detail, this book gives us the most complete picture yet of Chinese economic reform at the crucial level of the industrial firm.

What People Are Saying

Craig Calhoun
Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit brings state-of-the-art institutional analysis together with a brilliant empirical study of the real world of economic reforms in China. Combining fieldwork, interviews, and unique quantitative data sources, Guthrie offers the clearest account available of how China's reforms translate into concrete organizational practices. His study is among the best at illuminating how markets and firms work in transitional economies.

Barry Naughton
Guthrie brings new insights and fresh perspectives to the study of organizational change in China during the process of economic reform. The book is exceptionally well written and moves easily between organizational theory and 'big questions,' on the one hand, and the particularities of Chinese experience on the other.

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Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

Author: Marianne Schmink

An interdisciplinary analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern portion of the state of Pará. The authors show how deforestation, settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence were outcomes of the competition for resources among social groups such as ranchers, peasants, loggers, Indians, goldminers, rubber farmers, bureaucrats, and investors, all of whom were capable of mobilizing varying degrees of power.

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Probably the most detailed of the recent spate of accounts of conflict and resistance in the Amazon, based on the authors' 15 years of research in the field. This interdisciplinary analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern portion of the state of Para, shows how deforestation, settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence were outcomes of the competition for resources among social groups capable of mobilizing varying degrees of power. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Business or The New Political Economy of Development

Business: Library Edition

Author: William Prid

This best-selling introductory survey text provides comprehensive coverage ofall functional areas within the field including management, marketing, accounting, economics, finance, law, and computer information systems. The Seventh Edition integrates an appealing design, innovative features, and extensive revisions to remain both accessible and relevant. Topical issues such as entrepreneurship, gender and diversity, change, social responsibility, and the growth of technology are included throughout to prepare students for today's business environment.

The pedagogical framework continually reinforces the material, and places abstract concepts into a practical context. The combination of chapter-opening cases involving well-known companies, end-of-chapter discussions which reference these cases, Spotlights that provide a visual snapshot of factual data, and actual advertisements allows students to understand the material's real-world application. To maintain the length of past editions, sections addressing Risk Management and Insurance have been moved to the appendix, while the appendices on law and government have been merged together. The inexpensive, flexible looseleaf format allows students to organize the material according to their individual needs and class schedule.

• New! E-business issues appear in various discussions, features, and examples throughout including Chapter 4, Navigating the World of E-Business.
• New! Each chapter contains a Using the Internet box, highlighting web sites that address pertinent concepts, companies, or topics.
• New! End-of-part cases feature a video segment, encouraging students to applylearned knowledge in reality-based activities.
• New! A US News and World Report Career Guide accompanies each text, and compiles career-related information and appropriate articles from the magazine including Charting Your Own Course and Flip-of-the-coin Jobs.
• New! The extensive technology package includes several study aids such as a set of 4 Audio CD-ROMs and the Real Deal CD-ROM.

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The New Political Economy of Development: Globalization, Imperialism, Hegemony

Author: Ray Kiely

This major new text analyzes changes and continuities in the current international order and their implications for understanding international development in the 21st century. The author assesses the extent and impact of globalization as well as the emergence of a more aggressive unilateralist and militarist stance by the United States and the debates this has provoked on hegemony, empire and imperialism. He offers a careful rebuttal of mainstream thinking on development and globalization while also challenging some key arguments of its radical critics.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements     viii
Introduction     1
Defining globalization     2
Defining imperialism     6
Defining hegemony     7
Defining development     9
Globalization as a win-win situation: diffusing development     13
Globalization as a zero-sum game: development as underdevelopment     16
Globalization as uneven development     18
The structure of the book     25
Capitalist Expansion and Imperialism     27
The origins of capitalist development     27
Periodizing international capitalist development     30
Conclusions: three fallacies and the legacy of imperialism     39
Post-1945 Capitalism and Development     42
The post-war international settlement: Bretton Woods and the Cold War     42
The post-war boom     47
Development and the 'Third World'     49
Conclusion     57
The End of the Post-war Boom and Capitalist Restructuring     59
The end of the post-war boom     59
The US state and capitalist restructuring     63
Neo-liberalism and the developing world     67
Conclusion     73
Globalization and Contemporary Imperialism:Theoretical Debates     76
Defining globalization     76
Globalization, transnational capitalism and empire     87
Globalization, US hegemony and the 'new imperialism'     92
Conclusion     105
Cosmopolitanism, Globalization and Global Governance     106
Cosmopolitanism and global governance     106
The United Nations, universal rights and humanitarian intervention     109
The WTO and global economic governance     116
Civil society and the state in the international system     122
Conclusion     128
Globalization, Poverty and the Contemporary World Economy     131
Poverty reduction?     131
Market friendly policies, growth and poverty reduction     137
Neo-liberalism and the myth of global convergence     143
Conclusion: states, neo-liberalism and globalization     157
Globalization, neo-liberalism and the State     160
The state and globalization     161
From the developmental state to market friendly intervention     169
Reconstructing rogue and failed states     173
Beyond technocracy: the limitations of (neo-)liberal and statist perspectives on development     176
Conclusion: states, neo-liberalism and globalization     191
Globalization, Regionalism and Hegemony     193
US hegemony: strengthening or in decline?     193
The East Asian challenge     195
Europe: a progressive alternative?     216
US hegemony re-assessed     223
Conclusion: neo-liberalism, regionalism and development     227
Resisting Globalization?     230
Imperialism and anti-imperialism in the era of globalization     231
Islam and Islamism     236
Social movements: agents of post-development?     244
Global justice and anti-globalization     247
Conclusion     257
Conclusions     259
Revisiting globalization     259
Revisiting imperialism     260
Revisiting hegemony     262
Revisiting development     264
Notes     269
Further Reading     278
References     290
Index     325

Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market or The Social Construction of Free Trade

Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market: Evidence from the Census SARs on Occupational Segregation and Labour Mobility, Part-Time Work and Student Jobs, Homework and Self-Employment

Author: Catherine Hakim

This important study presents the results of the first analysis of labor market data from Britain's new SARs, drawing comparisons with research results for the USA and for Western European countries. The author fully examines several relevant phenomena, such as: a new and distinctive category of integrated occupations, employing men and women equally in highly qualified work; the diversification of part-time work; the emergence of a new category of marginal jobs; and the expansion of student jobs. This book also provides an excellent introductory guide for future SAR users.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Cases
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	Profiles of Integrated and Segregated Occupations	26
3	Occupational Segregation, Social Stratification, and the Pay Gap	66
4	Women with Discontinuous Employment Histories	86
5	A Differentiated Part-Time Workforce: Marginal Jobs, Half-Time Jobs, and Reduced Hours Jobs	102
6	Working Students: Students in Full-Time Education with Full-Time and Part-Time Jobs	145
7	Homework and Travel to Work Patterns	178
8	Small Firms and the Solo Self-Employed	200
9	The Drug Dealers: A Case Study of Pharmacy, an Integrated Occupation	221
10	Conclusions	235
Annex A	Labour Market Data in the 1991 Census 1% and 2% SARs	251
Annex B	1991 Census 10% Sample Data on Occupational Structure and Sex Ratios	266
Annex C	The International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO88): Occupational Sex Ratios and Part-Time Work Rates by Type of Occupation	284
	Bibliography	291
	Author Index	311
	Subject Index	316

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The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur

Author: Francesco G Duina

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century. Challenging the widespread assumption that RTAs should be seen as fundamentally similar economic initiatives to pursue free trade, Francesco Duina proposes that the world is reorganizing itself into regions that are highly distinctive and enduring. With evidence from Europe, North America, and South America, he challenges our understanding of globalization, the nature of markets, and the spread of neoliberalism.

The pursuit of free trade is a profoundly social process and, as such, a unique endeavor wherever it takes place. In an unprecedented comparative analysis, the book offers striking evidence of differences in the legal architectures erected to standardize the worldview of market participants and the reaction of key societal organizations--interest groups, businesses, and national administrations--to a broader marketplace. The author gives special attention to developments in three key areas of economic life: women in the workplace, the dairy industry, and labor rights. With its bold and original approach and its impressive range of data, The Social Construction of Free Trade represents a major advance in the growing fields of economic sociology and comparative regional integration.

The Geography of the Canadian North or Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts

The Geography of the Canadian North: Issues and Challenges

Author: Robert M Bon

This text looks at the dual relationship of the Canadian north as both resource frontier and homeland of many Aboriginal groups. Since the last edition of this text, many changes have occurred, raising the possibility that both the frontier and homeland concepts can become a northern reality. These concepts are coherently presented throughout the book and brought to the fore in the concluding chapter.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Preface
1	Northern Perceptions	1
2	The Physical Base	16
3	The Historical Background	44
4	Population Geography	79
5	Resource Development	102
6	Megaprojects in Northern Development	134
7	Environmental Impact of Resource Projects	159
8	Aboriginal Economy and Society	186
9	Looking to the Future	213
	Appendices	227
	Glossary	232
	Index	242

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Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts

Author: Thomas P Edmonds

The Enhanced Cartridge is developed to help you get your course up and running with much less time and effort. The content, enhanced with more assignments and more study materials than a standard cartridge, is pre-populated into appropriate chapters and content categories. Now there’s not a need to cut and paste our content into your course – it’s already there! But, you can still choose to hide content we provide and add your own – just as you have before in WebCT and Blackboard.

Careers Professional Development for Reatailing and Apparel Merchandising or Underwriting 101

Careers! Professional Development for Reatailing and Apparel Merchandising

Author: V Ann Paulins

This book and CD-ROM combination is designed to provide students and aspiring professionals with realistic information about careers in the retailing and apparel merchandising industry. With its focus on preparing students for careers in their chosen field, Careers! Professional Development for Retailing and Apparel Merchandising will help students explore their options, develop portfolios and r‚sum‚s, prepare for job interviews, complete internships, and negotiate the transition from student to professional.

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Underwriting 101: Selling College Radio

Author: Shyrl L Plum

This media sales primer serves as a step-by-step manual to assist students in attaining sales proficiency and confidence. The author employs a practical, hands-on approach, enabling readers to develop valuable professional and interpersonal skills and to improve their options for obtaining sales positions. Underwriting 101 covers the activities involved in sales work, such as developing sales kits and presentations, handling objections, writing proposals, closing, and preparing underwriting announcements. Role-playing, sales promotion, résumé preparation, and interviewing are also covered.

Special features include:

*materials needed to teach the 15 week course, including a syllabus, calls schedule, positioning worksheet, sample proposals, sample résumé, sample cover letter, and course evaluation;
*comments from former students who have secured sales positions upon completion of the course;
*underwriting announcement guidelines for FCC conformation; and
*a guide to Internet research tools for sales presentation enhancement.

Intended for upper-level students in radio or broadcast sales courses, Underwriting 101 will be useful to sales instructors with or without sales experience. It is also appropriate for use in college radio stations, as a resource for sales departments.

Competitive Strategy for Media Firms Strategic and Brand Management in Changing Media Markets or New Geography of Global Income Inequality

Competitive Strategy for Media Firms Strategic and Brand Management in Changing Media Markets

Author: Sylvia M Chan Olmsted

Competitive Strategy for Media Firms introduces the concepts and analytical frameworks of strategic and brand management, and illustrates how they can be adapted according to the characteristics of distinct media products. Working from the premise that all media firms must strategize in response to the continuing evolution of new media, author Sylvia M. Chan-Olmsted offers applications of common business approaches to the products and components of the electronic media industry, and provides empirical examinations of broadcast, multichannel media, enhanced television, broadband communications, and global media conglomerate markets.

This insightful and timely volume provides a thorough review of current concepts and industry practices, and serves as an essential primer for the application of business models in media contexts. As a realistic and integrated approach to media industry studies, this volume has much to offer researchers, scholars, and graduate students in media economics and management, and will be an important reference for industry practitioners.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction : enter the arena of strategic media management	1
2	A primer in strategic management for media firms	13
3	A primer in corporate and international strategy for media firms	38
4	A primer in brand management for media firms	57
5	Strategy and competition in the new broadcast industries	76
6	Strategy and competition in the multichannel media industry	106
7	Strategy and competition in the enhanced television market	136
8	Strategy and competition in the broadband communications market	160
9	Strategy and competition of global media conglomerates	179
10	Conclusions	203

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New Geography of Global Income Inequality

Author: Glenn Firebaugh

The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations). Firebaugh claims that this historic transition represents a new geography of global income inequality in the twenty-first century.

This book documents the new geography, describes its causes, and explains why other analysts have missed one of the defining features of our era-a transition in inequality that is reducing the importance of where a person is born in determining his or her future well-being.

Wireless Networks or Lecturers on Economic and Financial Sector Reforms in India

Wireless Networks

Author: P Nicopolitidis

Wireless is a term used to describe telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves (rather than some form of wire) carry the signal over part or all of the communication path and the network is the totality of switches, transmission links and terminals used for the generation, handling and receiving of telecoms traffic.
Wireless networks are rapidly evolving, and are playing an increasing role in the lives of people throughout the world and ever-larger numbers of people are relying on the technology directly or indirectly.

The area of wireless communications is an extremely rich field for research, due to the difficulties posed by the wireless medium and the increasing demand for better and cheaper services. As the wireless market evolves, it is likely to increase in size and possibly integrate with other wireless technologies, in order to offer support for mobile computing applications, of perceived performance equal to those of wired communication networks.
Wireless Networks aims to provide an excellent introductory text covering the wireless technological alternatives offered today. It will include old analog cellular systems, current second generation (2G) systems architectures supporting voice and data transfer and also the upcoming world of third generation mobile networks. Moreover, the book features modern wireless technology topics, such as Wireless Local Loops (WLL), Wireless LANs, Wireless ATM and Personal Area Networks (such as Bluetooth).
* Provides an easy to use reference which presents a clear set of technologies per chapter
* Features modern wireless technology topics, such as Wireless Local Loops (WLL), Wireless LANs, Wireless ATM, PersonalArea Networks (such as Bluetooth) and Ad-hoc wireless networks
* Progresses through the developments of first, second, third, fourth generation cellular systems and beyond
* Includes helpful simulation examples and examples of algorithms and systems Essential reading for Senior undergraduate and graduate students studying computer science, telecommunications and engineering, engineers and researchers in the field of wireless communications and technical managers and consultants.

New interesting book: Contabilidad:Textos y Casos

Lecturers on Economic and Financial Sector Reforms in India

Author: YV V Reddy

These lectures by YV Reddy were delivered in various parts of India on banking, financial sector, external sector, fiscal and public policy in the context of economic reforms.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Autonomy of the Central Bank : changing contours in India	11
3	Choice between single and multiple regulators of the financial system	26
4	Developments in monetary policy and financial markets	45
5	Future of rural banking	65
6	Issues and challenges in the development of debt market in India	83
7	Credit rating : changing perspectives	101
8	Operationalizing capital account liberalization : the Indian experience	121
9	Globalization and challenges for South Asia	137
10	Issues in implementing international financial standards and codes	158
11	Fiscal and monetary policy interface : recent developments in India	175
12	Fiscal reforms at the state level : review and prospects	187
13	Reviving confidence in the Indian economy	199
14	Indian agriculture and reform : concerns, issues and agenda	214
15	Economists and public policy	224

Images of Strategy or Banking Across State Lines

Images of Strategy

Author: Stephen Cummings

Images of Strategy develops an innovative and multi-faceted approach to strategic management which will enable students to use and develop interesting and wide-ranging applications alongside some of the latest ideas and analysis.

• An innovative and multi-functional approach to strategic management.

• Approaches strategy from different viewpoints: functional, eg technology and systems management, marketing, accounting and HRM, and analytical, eg organization theory, game theory and knowledge management

• Helps students to analyse, integrate and apply the many competing functional elements of strategic choice in today's world.

• Includes case examples to illustrate the chapters.

• Provides further reading sections and student questions

• Written by a team of top management scholars with many years of successful MBA teaching experience.

Further lecturer resources and links, including case analyses and Power Point slides, are available at blackwellpublishing.com/cummings

Table of Contents:

	Notes on Contributors
	Preface
1	Images of Strategy	1
2	Strategy as Ethos	41
3	Strategy as Organizing	74
4	Strategy as Intention and Anticipation	105
5	Strategy as Orchestrating Knowledge	136
6	Strategy as Data Plus Sense-Making	164
7	Strategy as Creativity	197
8	Strategy as Exploration and Interconnection	228
9	Strategy as Systems Thinking	266
10	Strategy as Process, Power and Change	301
11	Strategy as Marketing	331
12	Strategy as Numbers	356
13	Strategy as Decision Making	383
14	Strategy as Orientation and Animation	411
	Index	438

New interesting textbook: Experimentación de Sistema informativo de dirección

Banking Across State Lines: Public and Private Consequences

Author: Peter S S Ros

With full-service nationwide banking on the verge of becoming a reality in the U.S., here is a thoughtful analysis of how it emerged and what its effects will be. Dr. Rose is frankly skeptical. He sees advantages but he also predicts significant disadvantages, mainly in the form of possibly higher fees and reduced personal attention for consumers of banking services. His book provides the best summary available of the research findings to date and one of the best summaries of new federal interstate banking rules enacted by Congress and signed into law in 1994. This is an important book not only for executives engaged in government-relations work throughout the financial services industry, and for those engaged in marketing and strategic planning, but also for public policy people in the private and public sectors.

Booknews

A skeptical analysis of the interstate banking trend, providing a summary of research findings and reviewing laws and legislation while predicting significant disadvantages for consumers in terms of higher fees and reduced service. Rose (finance and business administration, Texas A&M U.) overviews the US trend toward a consolidated banking system, identifies the causes of the movement, governmental interventions, and the evolution of federal and state restrictions against interstate banking toward the 1990 laws allowing nationwide banking companies to develop. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Success Paradigm or Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage

The Success Paradigm: Creating Organizational Effectiveness Through Quality and Strategy

Author: Michael E Friesen

Organizations can accelerate the pace of quality improvements by ensuring that Total Quality efforts are driven from organizational strategy. In the process of doing this, a success paradigm can be created that allows different units of an organization to work more effectively toward a shared purpose. The significant examples presented here are the result of almost a decade of direct research and application in a very diverse set of organizations, including Fortune 500 manufacturing and service firms, non-profit organizations, health care organizations, and public education. The result is a specific process with enough detail for professional managers to read the book and implement the process in their own organizations. CEOs and NPO professionals, as well as business academics and upper level students, should find significant examples in an array of industries and situations that make this reading especially worthwhile.

Booknews

Describes a specific learning-oriented approach to planning that Friesen and Johnson developed and have implemented in large and small manufacturing and service firms, non-profit and health- care organizations, and public education. Explains the relationship between management control and strategic planning styles; and the concepts and successes and failures of reinventing government. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Success Paradigm: Theoretical Description and Application Process	13
Ch. 2	The Quality/Strategy Connection	15
Ch. 3	Creating an Organizational Success Paradigm	33
Pt. II	Cases and Applications	53
Ch. 4	Manufacturing	55
Ch. 5	Education	89
Ch. 6	Services	111
Ch. 7	Health Care	129
Pt. III	Concepts, Considerations, and Recommendations	151
Ch. 8	Strategic Planning and Management	153
Ch. 9	Continuous Quality Improvement	165
Ch. 10	CSFs and Public Policy	175
	Recommendations and Conclusion	195
	Bibliography	203
	Index	207

Interesting book: Osteoporosis Prevention or Chi Kung

Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage

Author: Wicker B Stephen

This introductory book on error control coding focuses on key implementation issues and performance analysis with applications valuable to both mathematicians and engineers.

FEATURES:

• features a complete discussion of punctured convolutional codes.
• includes full-chapter coverage of performance analysis of block codes, including code performance over the fading channel (i.e., cellular mobile phone systems).
• examines system implementation issues for the Viterbi Decoder and the various decoders for Reed-Solomon and BCH codes.
• devotes two full chapters to the theory of finite fields.
• features the most current research results on error control for channels with feedback.
• includes an entire chapter on trellis coded modulation.
• includes historical background and emphasizes practical, up-to-date applications (i.e., the space program) for all key areas in the book.

Booknews

A self-contained survey of error control that can serve as a graduate- level text, as a starting point for those conducting doctoral research in error control coding, and as an applications-oriented text that can provide practicing engineers with the information necessary to design and implement error control subsystems for digital communication systems. It includes a tutorial on trellis coded modulation and an up-to-date treatment of ARQ protocols. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Internal Evaluation or The Kindness of Strangers

Internal Evaluation: Building Organizations from Within, Vol. 24

Author: Arnold J Lov

"A terrific combination of pragmatic techniques and relevant theory. I wish I had this book when I became an internal evaluator 20 years ago--but I am glad I have it now because it is helping me put my experience in context, and providing many new ideas. I will make substantial use of it on the job and as a text in my next teaching opportunity." --Gerald L. Barkdoll, Associate Commissioner for Planning and Evaluation, Food and Drug Administration "An essential tool for the managers of any organization. The evaluation techniques used for internal evaluation are discussed from the vantage points and practical concerns of internal evaluators, making the book a valuable desktop reference for internal evaluators." --Canadian Evaluation Society Newsletter "Serves as a handbook for managers developing an internal evaluation system in their company, including information on evaluating goal achievement, efficiency and strategic benefit. To help managers apply what they have learned, there are several practical exercises at the end of each chapter." --Personnel "Readers find concise summarizations of, and helpful tips about the different methods for carrying out systematic internal evaluation: needs assessment, program utilization studies, evaluability assessment, systematic program monitoring, consumer/ client satisfaction studies, quality assurance, and self-study. Whether the reader of Internal Evaluation comes from the private sector or a nonprofit organization, whether he or she is the manager of, or the person responsible for carrying out an internal evaluation, this is a practical and useful guide. It reaffirms that evaluation, properly understood and applied, is not an enemybut an ally in a hectic world." --Jan Corey Arnett in Foundation News "This book quite adequately provides the reader with a comprehensive view of internal evaluation, its value and place within an organization. . . . Very well organized with a detailed introduction to each chapter, and a comprehensive summary. Provides many case examples, diagrams and tables which help to clarify and explain concepts. This text is written in a textbook fashion. Practical exercises are provided at the end of each chapter which further clarify concepts introduced. In addition, a comprehensive reference section is provided as well as an author and subject index. . . . A solid introduction." --Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling "Presents a particular view of internal evaluation that proponents of decision-making approaches to evaluation will find useful. . . . A manifesto for a managerial approach to internal evaluation, a useful message for those who wish to take up that cause." --Evaluation and Program Planning An indispensable tool for managers and an essential part of the management process, internal evaluation has become the method of choice for evaluating programs and problems. To better acquaint managers with this invaluable management tool, Internal Evaluation offers a step-by-step guide for conducting such an evaluation. After presenting the theory behind internal evaluation (showing how internal evaluation fits with other aspects of organizational life), this practical volume describes the stages of internal evaluation, ways of identifying users' needs and selecting appropriate evaluation methods, the evaluation techniques associated with each stage, avoiding common pitfalls, and how to develop and manage the internal evaluation resource. Also included are discussions about techniques that better emphasize the vantage points and practical concerns of internal evaluators, making Internal Evaluation the perfect desk-top reference for internal evaluation practitioners. Replete with examples taken from real-world settings, this masterful volume brings to managers, practitioners, students, and internal evaluators a broad spectrum of useful methods that allow them to take full advantage of the power internal evaluation offers.

Interesting book: Mexican New York or Learning to Drive

The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Volunteerism

Author: Marc Freedman

The Kindness of Strangers takes a hard, realistic look at mentoring while offering a vivid portrayal of the mentoring movement and how ordinary citizens in cities across America are trying to turn young lives around.

Publishers Weekly

In the examples of adult mentor-youth relationships presented by Freedman, who is on the staff of Public/Private Ventures, a Philadelphia research organization that focuses on youngsters in poverty, we hear from eight men and women who ``answered the call.'' They describe their not unqualified successes in helping young people through volunteer projects, and the strength of their commitment as mentors. An overview of various programs throughout the country--I have a Dream, One-on-One, Project RAISE--discusses various strategies of outreach to youth. Mentors are often challenged to the point of frustration, yet their experience of small victories and subtle changes in their young mentees are inspiring. As Freedman notes, ``Mentoring enables us to participate in the essential but unfinished drama of reinventing community, while reaffirming that there is an important role for each of us in it.'' (Sept.)

Library Journal

Americans have been volunteering for various social causes for quite some time. Freedman takes a look at the history of a number of volunteer movements, including such familiar ventures as Big Brothers/Big Sisters and less familiar antecedents such as Friendly Visiting. Emphasizing the importance of one-on-one relationships between adult mentors and urban youth, who so often experience poverty and violence in their lives, he argues that mentoring is an important partial solution to many of our social problems. Several mentors describe their experiences, and Freedman distills some guidelines for successful mentoring. This book should find a welcome spot in most social science collections.-- John Moryl, Yeshiva Univ. Lib., New York

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	The Author
1	A Call to Action	1
2	Great Expectations	15
3	Recurring Fervor	25
4	Birth of a Movement	42
5	The Benefits of Mentoring	61
6	The Limits of Mentoring	76
7	Making the Most of Mentoring	92
8	Closing the Caring Gap	109
9	Reengaging the Middle Class	125
10	Reinventing Community	139
	Notes	143
	Index	157

Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics or Boys and Their Toys

Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics

Author: Robert Beynon

Combining the in-depth background coverage of an encyclopedia, with the quick look-up convenience of a dictionary, this new work is an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with international economics.

The only reference work to cover the latest theories in the vital field of global economics, The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics explores new economic thought from A-Z, and offers full-length survey discussions by the most respected experts in the field. Beginning and advanced students will be certain to want a copy of this authoritative, yet accessible new work.

New interesting textbook: Lectures Classiques dans le Comportement D'organisation

Boys and Their Toys: Masculinity, Class and Technology in America

Author: Roger Horowitz

Our second volume with the Hagley Museum and Library 's Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Boys and Their Toys is a collection of essays that places masculinity and work at the core of class formation. Negotiating the divide betweenrespectable manhood and rough manhood this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.

This groundbreaking collection begins new insights into the complexities of masculinity, and its relationship to class and society. It's a fresh and original exploration of gender, business, and culture that is sure to appeal to readers of Gail Bederman and Michael Kimmell.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Work, Play, and Power: Masculine Culture on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1960	13
2	"To Make Men out of Crude Material": Work Culture, Manhood, and Unionism in the Railroad Running Trades, c. 1870-1900	33
3	"Now That We Have Girls in the Office": Clerical Work, Masculinity, and the Refashioning of Gender for a Bureaucratic Age	55
4	Rereading Man's Conquest of Nature: Skill, Myths, and the Historical Construction of Masculinity in Western Extractive Industries	91
5	"Building Better Men": The CCC Boy and the Changing Social Ideal of Manliness	111
6	Boys and Their Toys: The Fisher Body Craftman's Guild, 1930-1968, and the Making of a Male Technical Domain	139
7	Masculine Guidance: Boys, Men, and Newspapers, 1930-1939	169
8	Everyday Peter Pans: Work, Manhood, and Consumption in Urban America, 1900-1930	199
9	Masculinity, the Auto Racing Fraternity, and the Technological Sublime: The Pit Stop As a Celebration of Social Roles	229
10	Rights of Men, Rites of Passage: Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing, Michigan, 1945-1975	251
	Contributors	273
	Permissions Acknowledgments	275
	Index	277