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Business Ethics and Common Sense or Managing Elites

2009-12-05T22:07:00.000-08:00

Business Ethics and Common Sense

Author: Robert W W McGe

Many business ethics books take a basically collectivist approach to the subject. They speak in terms of collective rights and interests, the public interest, social justice, the greatest good for the greatest number, and so forth. If individualism is mentioned at all, it is mentioned disparagingly. This book takes a different approach. While some of the contributors to this volume take the more popular collectivist approach, many of them do not. Thus, this book offers a more balanced presentation of business ethics than that found in most books on the subject.

	Preface
I	Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
1	Teaching Business Ethics in an Academic Environment of Mistrust	3
2	Selfishness, Exploitation, and the Profit Motive	19
3	Capitalism and Morality: The Role of Practical Reason	31
4	Business: Myth and Morality	45
5	Ayn Rand's Objectivist Ethics as the Foundation of Business Ethics	67
6	What Is the Public Interest?	89
II	Relationships between the Corporation and Outsiders
7	Are Anticompetitive Practices Unethical?	101
8	To Whom Does the Corporation Owe a Duty?	115
9	Corporate Social Responsibility	137
10	Business Environmental Ethics	153
III	Responsibilities of the Corporation to Insiders
11	Ethical Issues in Acquisitions and Mergers	167
12	Ethics and Affirmative Action - A Managerial Approach	187
13	Ethical Behavior in Labor Relations	197
14	Insider Trading	219
IV	Responsibilities of Employees and the Corporation
15	Conflicts of Interest	233
16	Ethical Dilemmas of Management Accountants	251
17	The Ethics of Computer Activities	271
18	Codes of Ethics	283
	Index	295
	About the Editor and Contributors	301

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Managing Elites: Socialization in Law and Business Schools

Author: Debra J Schleef

How does one become a member of an elite profession? Managing Elites examines how elites-in-training contest, rationalize, and ultimately embrace their dominant positions in society. Using interviews with law and MBA students, the author shows that becoming elite is not a straightforward process without tensions. Successful socialization outcomes--employment in large corporate law firms or prominent investment banks and consulting firms--require both accomodation iandi resistance to ideologies about achievement and meritocracy.

Handbook of Work and Health Psychology or Technical Managers Handbook

2009-12-04T20:36:00.000-08:00

Handbook of Work and Health Psychology

Author: Marc J Schabracq

Workplace health is now recognised as having major legal, financial and efficiency implications for organizations. Psychologists are increasingly called on as consultants or in house facilitators to help design work processes, assess and counsel individuals and advise on change management.
The second edition of this handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date survey of the field with a focus on the applied aspects of work and health psychology.
An unrivalled source of knowledge and references in the field, for students and academics, this edition also reflects the need to relate research to effective and realistic interventions in the workplace.

• Editors are outstanding leaders in their fields
• Focuses on linking research to practice
• Over 50ew chapters. New topics include Coping, The Psychological Contract and Health, Assessment and Measurement of Stress and Well-Being, the Effects of Change, and chapters of Conflict and Communication

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Technical Manager's Handbook: A Survival Guide

Author: Melvin Silverman

'The Technical Manager's Handbook' serves as a valuable, cross-method reference to scientists, researchers, engineers, and students who are currently, or are soon to be involved in technical management operations. Managers and would-be managers in quality assurance, manufacturing, administration, and computer manufacturing will also benefit from this volumes accessible and practical exploration.

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Interprets the latest management theories and techniques and suggests how to use them and integrate them in the development of individual management styles. Includes material on dealing with international firms; TQM and ISO 9000; information systems; CAD management; ethics; motivation; and team structures, with chapter summaries, case studies, and questions. For researcher, engineers, and students involved in technical management operations, and managers in quality assurance, manufacturing, administrations, and computer manufacturing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
	About the Author
Ch. 1	Technical Management: Who and What We Are	1
Ch. 2	The Manager: Dealing with Yourself - The Most Important Individual	31
Ch. 3	Beginning: Building Your Own Model/Theory	65
Ch. 4	The Whole Organization Design: A Little History, Many Models	85
Ch. 5	The Model Components	115
Ch. 6	People - Basic Building Blocks Concerning Motivation	135
Ch. 7	Putting Theory to Work: Motivation Prescribed	195
Ch. 8	Structures: Description and Prescription Semi-permanent Teams: Functions and Survival Today	217
Ch. 9	Prescriptions for Structures: Temporary Teams	257
Ch. 10	Technology: How We Do Things, Techniques and Systems	307
Ch. 11	Leadership and Ethics: Holding It All Together	349
Ch. 12	Repetitive Decision Systems: Information: Tell Me What's Happening in the Organization	393
Ch. 13	Costs and Measurement: What Do I Need as a Manager?	427
Ch. 14	Getting Things Changed	449
Ch. 15	Speculation on Future Uses and Personal Thoughts	483
	Index	497

Profiles in Entrepreneurship or Business Concepts for English Practice

2009-12-03T18:56:00.000-08:00

Profiles in Entrepreneurship: Leaving More Than Footprints

Author: David C Nelson

Profiles in Entrepreneurship showcases success through the experiences of 29 highly successful entrepreneurs in their own words. Learn about topics like opportunity recognition, risk assessment, leadership, and how to compensate for limited resources from the first-hand accounts of leaders like Herb Kelleher, Red McCombs, and Katie Brickman Harvey. Each profile includes a look at their driving motivation, tactics, and strategies, highlights of their professional experiences, and a question and answer session. Also included is 2 hours of video--where the profiled entrepreneurs discuss their experiences as if they were addressing your own class. Profiles in Entrepreneurship provides the real-world experience and wisdom in a way that both engages and informs.

1. Sam Barshop, Barshop & Oles Company, Inc. 2. Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines 3. Ray Benson, Bandleader, Asleep at the Wheel 4. Stacey Bishkin, BBH Exhibits, Inc. 5. Randi Shade, Charitygift.com 6. Heriberto Guerra, Jr., SBC Communications, Inc. 7. Robert F. McDermott, USAA 8. Richard E. Tankerson, Carver Academy via Metropolitan Transit Authority 9. Jim Kozlowski, Texas Growth Fund & TGF Management Corp. 10. Walter Embrey, Embrey Development Company 11. C. Patrick Oles, Jr., Barshop & Oles Company, Inc. 12. Lowell Lebermann, Centex Beverage, Inc. 13. Nelson Wolff, Sun Harvest Foods 14. Katie Brickman Harvey, KG Brickman, Inc. 15. Charles E. Amato, Southwest Business Corporation/Employees Life Holding Company 16. Steve Hicks, AMFM, Inc. 17. Ian Fisher, Builders First Source 18. Gary Woods, McCombs Enterprises 19. Jan A. Lehman, Lehman McLeskey 20. Thomas Meredith, Dell Ventures 21. Jesse Luxton, Former President, CEO National Picture and Frame 22. Bob Marbut, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. 23. Sonny Melendrez, Radio Personality 24. Peter Holt, The Holt Companies 25. Todd Maclin, Chase Bank 26. H.B. Zachry, Jr., H.B. Zachry Company 27. Bobby Inman, Venture Capitalist 28. Lionel Sosa, Media Consultant 29. Red McCombs, McCombs Automotive/Minnesota Vikings

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Business Concepts for English Practice

Author: Barbara Tolley Dowling

This book is a business-oriented English text with both an academic and an applied focus. It is intended for intermediate to advanced students of English who have an academic and/or professional interest in business. For students with little or no business terms are defined in the glossary. Those with experience in the business world and advanced language proficiency will be able to move more quickly through the readings and on to move more quickly through the readings and on to the application exercises and task-based activities.

Making Globalization or Consumer Behavior

2009-12-02T17:15:00.000-08:00

Making Globalization

Author: Robert J Holton

This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization--political, economic, social and cultural--and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalization is shown neither to be an inexorable process nor one that can be equated simply with Westernization.

1	Introduction	1
2	When did globalization begin?	28
3	Global patterning : systems, structures, fields, networks, Webs, and flows	55
4	Globalization and the transformation of space, and time	81
5	Global, national, regional, and local : competing or inter-dependent?	105
6	Global civil society	132
7	Globalization and its discontents	159
8	The making of globalization : puzzles and prospects	185

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Consumer Behavior

Author: James F Engel

This text contains diverse and balanced coverage of consumer behavior research in theory and application from some of the pioneering authors in this field. Ideal for one-term courses in consumer behavior offered by both marketing and psychology departments. This was the first text to integrate behavioral science with the decision orientation of the business school.

Keys to Engineering Success or Price Theory and Applications

2009-12-01T15:35:00.000-08:00

Keys to Engineering Success

Author: Carol Carter

The variety of paths afforded an engineering student—academically and personally—can be both exciting and overwhelming. Required course work can seem sometimes irrelevant or, at the very least, extraordinarily difficult. Keys to Engineering Success offers an upfront description of what engineering is, skills needed to succeed, and information about what career opportunities are available upon graduation. Profiles of engineering professionals, and personal stories about a variety of people who have gone through an engineering program, offer inspiration and encouragement in pursuing academic and professional excellence.

1. What Is Engineering?
2. Where to Get Help When You Need It.
3. Individual Realities.
4. Goal Setting and Time Management.
5. Critical and Creative Thinking.
6. Reading and Study Skills.
7. Note-Taking and Writing.
8. Listening, Memory, and Test Taking.
9. Relating to Others.
10. Managing Career and Money.
11. Changing With the Future.
Appendix A. Types of Engineers.
Appendix B. Web Resources.
Index.

Book review: Financial Accounting or Basics

Price Theory and Applications

Author: Landsburg

By the successful author of "The Armchair Economist" (a popular trade book that explains basic economics to the general public), this book makes intermediate microeconomics fun and intellectually challenging. The writing style provides an exceptionally friendly and application-rich presentation, combined with a rigorous and careful development of microeconomics theory. All of the standard topics of intermediate price theory are included, as well as many innovative topics, such as alternative normative criteria, efficient asset markets, contestable markets, antitrust law, human capital, demand for public goods, and more. A unique unifying theme of social welfare is used throughout. The inclusion of higher-level mathematics is minimal.

Cost Accounting for Managerial Planning Decision Making and Control 5e or Substance Abuse in the WorkPlace

2009-11-30T13:54:00.000-08:00

Cost Accounting for Managerial Planning, Decision Making and Control, 5e

Author: Andrew Schiff

This text is intended for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in cost accounting at both the basic and advanced levels. It provides complete, concise and clearly written discussions of topics commonly included in a basic course, with an in-depth treatment of selected topics more appropriate for a course in advanced cost accounting. Modular coverage of these topics enables the instructor to present a greater amount of core material in a limited time, while adapting the text to his or her own preferences for course content. By emphasizing the differing uses for cost accounting information, the text makes the student an intelligent provider, user, and interpreter of this information. This strategy is evident in each chapter, as basic concepts are presented and then illustrated with examples and a wide variety of end-of-chapter assignments.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Role of Cost Accounting
2. Cost Accounting Objectives and Cost Classifications
3. Cost Estimation
4. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
5. Traditional Product Cost Systems: Job Order Cost Systems
6. Traditional Product Cost Systems: Process Cost Systems
7. Cost Allocation
8. Activity Based Costing Systems and Activity Based Management
9. Profit Planning and the Master Budget
10. Standard Costs and Control
11. Flexible Budgets, Overhead Control, and Variance Investigation Decisions
12. Variable Costing
13. Approaches to Special Managerial Decisions
14. Inventory Management
15. Measuring, Reporting, and Controlling Product Quality Costs
16. Capital Budgeting Decisions
17. Responsibility Accounting and Performance Reporting
18. Divisional Performance Measurement

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Substance Abuse in the Workplace

Author: Reginald L Campbell

Substance Abuse in the Workplace makes a valuable contribution tothe national movement to help stem the tide of drug abuse. The book begins with the history of substance abuse, continues with a discussion of how the human body functions normally or under the influence of chemicals, and follows with a toxicological description of the more common chemicals abused today in America.

It discusses ways to help the abuser through identification and assistance programs and also covers the laws involved.

The broad audience for Substance Abuse in the Workplace is includes middle and upper management, labor leaders, industrial hygienists, safety personnel, and workers.

Principles of Microeconomics or The Professional Musicians Legal Companion

2009-11-29T12:13:00.000-08:00

Principles of Microeconomics

Author: Karl E Cas

's hardbound Principles of Economics text. This fourth edition contains more international material, and coverage of health-care reform, immigration, urban problems, new trade treaties, and transitional economies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Professional Musician's Legal Companion

Author: Michael Aczon

Do you find the legal aspects of the music business daunting? Are you seeking recording contracts or other business relationships, but you have financial concerns over the costs of attorneys? Have you, like many musicians, had a bad experience or bad impression of entertainment attorneys? If you're ready to address these issues and embrace the responsibility of your career, let this guide be your legal companion. By taking the time to become well informed and prepared, you'll be able to work better with an attorney to suit your style and specific needs. In an effort to get to the core of the legal issues without confusing you, this book is very straightforward. You'll get an introduction to all the legal subjects you should know and how to deal with attorneys. You'll gain an understanding of the four main contracts used in the music business— recording artist, songwriter, artist management, and performance— which are explained in simple, easy-to-comprehend terms. Furthermore, you'll get guidance on how to make the experience with your current attorney, or future attorney, more fruitful, and more time- and cost-effective. With more than 20 years in this business, interacting with many musicians both personally and professionally, Michael A. Aczon shares the many lessons he's learned and takes you on a journey to a better legal understanding of the entertainment industry and your music career.

From Product Description to Cost or The Structure of Womens Nonprofit Organizations

2009-11-28T10:33:00.000-08:00

From Product Description to Cost: A Practical Approach: Volume 1 the Parametric Approach

Author: Pierre Foussier

Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a very powerful and cost effective technique. Unfortunately, this technique is often misunderstood and rejected by many potential users for whom it could be a beneficial tool. The development of an agreement on how to use it and how to recognise its limitations is a major benefit to the cost estimating community.

From Product Description to Cost: A Practical Approach:

presents different ways of parametrically forecasting costs, and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods by using real examples from the mechanical, software and building industries;

discusses most of the mathematical procedures which are useful for parametrically forecasting costs;

introduces the judgement needed to audit the ways in which these forecasting techniques are used, firstly as a process, and secondly as a tool to generate estimates.

Volume 1: The Parametric Approach contains four parts. Over the course of this volume, cost estimating is introduced; the preparation of data before utilization is discussed; the basic concepts of 'general' cost estimating models are examined; the use of cost models is considered and finally, risk analysis (as it can be used during parametric cost estimating) is introduced.

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The Structure of Women's Nonprofit Organizations

Author: Rebecca L Bordt

In the decades since the women's movement first called for new collective, nonhierarchical modes of organization, have distinctly "feminist" organizational structures evolved? Focusing on women's nonprofit organizations founded in New York City between 1967 and 1988, Rebecca Bordt describes what these organizations look like structurally and explains why they have adopted a particular form.

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Bordt (sociology, U. of Notre Dame) describes the organizational structure of women's nonprofit organizations and uses organizational theory to explain why they adopt a particular form. She presents results of a study of 30 women's nonprofit organizations established in the years 1967-88 in New York City. She concludes that the majority of these groups are hybrid organizations and that as such, their structure is best predicted by a set of factors that differ from those that predict the form of bureaucracies and collectives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
I	The debate about organizational form in the contemporary women's movement	9
II	What do women's nonprofits look like?	15
III	Rarely bureaucracies or collectives: a typology of women's nonprofits in New York City	35
IV	Why do women's nonprofits look the way they do?	49
V	Conclusion	77
	Appendix: Methodology	83
	Notes	99
	References	103
	Index	111

Cases in Business Ethics or China in the World Market

2009-11-27T08:52:00.000-08:00

Cases in Business Ethics (Ivey Casebook Series)

Author: David J Sharp

The Ivey Casebooks Series is a co-publishing partnership between SAGE Publications and the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario. Due to their popularity in more than 60 countries, approximately 200 new cases are added to the Ivey School of Business library each year. Each of the casebooks comes equipped with Instructor's Resources on CD-ROM. These affordable collections will not only help students connect to real-world situations, but will benefit corporations seeking continued education in the field as well.

Cases in Business Ethics provides the opportunity for students not only to discuss the application of ethical theories in managerial situations, but also to apply judgment and make decisions in a real-world context. This collection of cases focuses on business decision- making, and includes both short and long, more complex cases that highlight the practicalities of business practice and ethical theory. A beneficial feature of Cases in Business Ethics is the variety of ways in which the cases can be organized to fit the course curriculum. The instructor's resources on CD-ROM includes detailed 6-10 page casenotes for each case, preparation questions for students to review before class, discussion questions, and suggested further readings.

The IVEY Casebook Series
Cases in Business Ethics
Cases in Entrepreneurship
Cases in Gender & Diversity in Organizations
Cases in Operations Management
Cases in Organizational Behavior
Cases in the Environment of Business
Cases inAlliance Management
Mergers and Acquitisions: Text and Cases

Introduction to the Ivey Casebook Series - Paul W. Beamish
Preface
Introduction
1. Ethics of the Firm's Relationship With Its Shareholders
Northeastern Mutual Life: Preparing for Employee Terminations
Enron Corp.
Acme Hardware
Fardo Industries Inc.
The Ontario Capital Group
The Jeffrey Verde Account
2. Ethics of the Relationship Between the Firm and Its Customers
Hayward & Guzman: Disposable Contact Lenses
Cruickshank, Garth & Romano
Grandview Excavators Ltd.
Peter Farber (A)
3. Ethics of the Firm's Relationship With Its Employees
Matt Moreau's Dilemma
Coastal Uniforms
CXP Publishing Inc. (A)
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce: Digital Employee Privacy
Stamford Machine Corporation: Allegations of Racism
4. Ethical Issues in International Business
Siam Canadian Foods Co., Ltd.
NES China: Business Ethics (A)
N.K.Builders and Contractors-India
Citibank Mexico Team: The Salinas Accounts
Bank of Nova Scotia (Brady Subpoena) (A)
Yahoo v. Survivors of the Holocaust
Talisman Energy Inc.
5. Ethical Issues in Business Policy and Strategy
Biovail Corporation (A)
Enron - What Went Wrong
OrangeWerks: A Question of Ethics
www.centralmba.com
Ethics Management at Imperial Oil Ltd.
6. Corporate Social Responsibility
AWC Inc.: The Ventilation Dilemma
Ethical Funds - The Stevensons' Debate
The Rent-to-Own Industry
Pembina Pipeline Corporation
7. Individual Ethics in the Corporation
Jane Lennox
Simon Donato: Deciding on a Course of Action
TALFI-Sudbury Canada
Winston Liu, Bookman
WestWood Securities (A)
Harrison-Lockington (A)
Graham Stewart - General Manager (A)
John McCulloch - United Beef Packers
Stephen Zhang's Opportunity
Tanya Silk
About the Editor

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China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era

Author: Thomas Gale Moor

Thomas G. Moore examines the role of the outside world as a source of change in post-Mao China. Based on extensive documentary and interview material, the book adds the Chinese case to a long tradition of country-based studies by political economists, historians, and area specialists that have chronicled the experiences of developing countries as they enter specific industrial markets in the world economy. This book will be timely and provocative reading for anyone concerned with the nature of China's deepening participation in the world economy and its consequences for the country's development prospects, internal reforms, and foreign policy.

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Moore (political science, U. of Cincinnati) studies the impact of outside economic forces on the reform and restructuring of Chinese businesses in the period following Deng Xiaoping's institution of the Open Door policy. He argues that industry-specific trade regimes have had a profound impact on the Chinese economy, disrupting state interventionism and promoting reform. Contrary to many analysts, he contends that China has benefited from protectionist trade regimes in such industries as textiles and shipbuilding. China's economy, while relatively open to free trade environments, also has a strong domestic filter that helps its industries compete. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Inefficient Stock Market or Global Development Finance 2004

2009-11-26T07:11:00.000-08:00

The Inefficient Stock Market: What Pays Off and Why

Author: Robert A Haugen

Sparked with wit and humor, this clever and insightful book provides clear evidence that the stock market is inefficient. In the author's view, models based on rational economic behavior cannot explain important aspects of market behavior. The book tackles important issues in today's financial market in a highly conversational and entertaining manner that will appeal to most readers. Chapter topics include: estimating expected return with the theories of modern finance, estimating portfolio risk and expected return with ad hoc factor models, payoffs to the five families, predicting future stock returns with the expected-return factor model, super stocks and stupid stocks, the international results, the topography of the stock market, the positive payoffs to cheapness and profitability, the negative payoff to risk, and the forces behind the technical payoffs to price-history. For anyone who wants to learn more about today's financial markets.

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Global Development Finance 2004: The Changing Face of Finance: Analysis and Statistical Appendix

Author: World Bank Group

The external financing environment facing developing countries has brightened. In 2003, as global growth gained momentum, prices for key commodities rose, financial markets recovered, interest rates remained low, and private capital flows to developing countries increased to $200 billion -- their highest level in five years. Harnessing these gains to promote long-term investment and growth is the key theme of Global Development Finance 2004. Much of the developing world still has difficulty accessing the international capital markets. International investment in developing-country infrastructure has declined dramatically since 1997 and -- with the exception of trade finance -- private capital flows remain heavily concentrated in specific countries and regions. Although official aid flows have increased, they remain well below the levels required to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

In several developing countries, there has been a large scale build-up in official reserves, much of which has been invested in the financial markets of advanced economies, especially the United States -- epitomizing the diverse landscape of contemporary development finance, as well as intricate linkages between exchange rates, trade and capital flows, and the growing interdependence between developed and developing countries. Global Development Finance 2004, I: Analysis and Summary Tables is the World Bank's annual review of recent trends in and prospects for financial flows to developing countries. It highlights sources of vulnerability and risk in the recovery in private flows, notably the likely increases in interest rates in the advanced economies, volatility in major currencies and financial markets stemming from large global current-account imbalances, and fears of policy slippages in macroeconomic management in developing countries. It also contains the World Bank's assessment of the global outlook in light of the recent economic recovery.

Global Development Finance 2004, II: Summary and Country Tables includes a comprehensive set of tables of data for 136 countries that report under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. It contains data on total external debt stocks and flows, aggregates, and key debt ratios, and provides a detailed, country-by-country picture of debt. Global Development Finance 2004 debt data are also available on CD-ROM, with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2002, and country group estimates for 2003. With analysis and data spanning from short-term trade to long-term infrastructure finance, Global Development Finance 2004 is unique in its breadth of coverage of the issues related to international development finance. By providing a comprehensive review of recent trends in and prospects for all development-related flows (including debt, equity, official aid, and workers' remittances), Global Development Finance 2004 enables government officials, economists, investors, financial consultants, academics, and policymakers in the development community to better understand, manage, and promote the key challenge of financing development in today's globalized environment.

	Foreword	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Selected Abbreviations	xv
	Overview and Policy Messages: Harnessing Cyclical Gains for Development	3
Chapter 1	The Global Upturn and the Need for Adjustment	13
	Adjustment, recovery, and imbalances in the high-income countries	15
	Developing countries: a favorable outlook, but risks remain	20
	Regional prospects	25
	Advanced-economy policies and the outlook for development finance	33
	Note	34
	References	34
Chapter 2	Private Debt Finance for Developing Countries	37
	Conditions affecting the supply of funds	38
	Conditions affecting the demand for funds	41
	Ongoing structural change in financing	44
	Bond flows responded strongly to the external environment and domestic conditions	45
	Bank lending picked up	52
	Progress in reforming the international financial architecture	58
	Prospects for private debt flows	63
	Notes	63
	References	64
Annex	Commercial Debt Restructuring	65
Chapter 3	Shifting Forms of Equity Finance for Developing Countries	77
	Trends in FDI flows in 2003	78
	The shifting composition of FDI toward services	82
	Trends in portfolio equity flows to developing countries	90
	Why portfolio equity flows are so much smaller than FDI and debt flows	94
	Prospects for 2004-2005	96
Annex A	FDI Forecasting Model	100
Annex B	Top 25 International Equity Deals in 2003	101
	Notes	102
	References	103
Chapter 4	The Changing Landscape for Official Flows	107
	Recent trends in official flows	108
	Prospects for a rise in official aid	110
	Strategic considerations and aid flows	113
	Progress in raising aid effectiveness	115
	The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative	119
	The growing importance of international civil society in development	119
	Notes	123
	References	124
Chapter 5	Financing Developing Countries' Trade	127
	Evolution in the sources, magnitude, and methods of trade finance	128
	Access of less creditworthy borrowers to trade finance	137
	Trade finance in times of crisis	140
	Notes	144
	References	145
Chapter 6	The Challenge of Financing Infrastructure in Developing Countries	149
	The changing balance between the public and private sectors	151
	Recent developments in private external financing	154
	Unlocking the potential of the global capital markets	161
	Notes	165
	References	166
Appendix A	Enhancing the Developmental Effect of Workers' Remittances to Developing Countries	169
Appendix B	Summary Statistical Tables	175
	Tables
1	Net capital flows to developing countries, 1997-2003	4
2	Net private capital flows to developing countries, 1997-2003	8
1.1	Global outlook in summary, 2002-2006	14
1.2	Financing of U.S. current account deficit, 1999-2003	18
1.3	Export revenues of developing countries, 2000-06	22
1.4	Developing-country growth, 1991-2006	24
1.5	Growth in Europe and Central Asia, 1991-2006	25
1.6	Growth in South Asia, 1991-2006	27
1.7	Growth in East Asia and Pacific, 1991-2006	28
1.8	Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1991-2006	29
1.9	Growth in the Middle East and North Africa, 1991-2006	30
1.10	Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1991-2006	33
2.1	Net debt flows to developing countries by region, 2000-03	37
2.2	Gross market-based debt flows to developing countries, 2000-03	38
2.3	Declining severity of contagion over time	40
2.4	Selected indicators of debt burden, 1997-2003	44
2.5	Net bank flows to developing countries, 2001-03	52
2.6	Average spreads on medium- and long-term announced loans, 1999-2003	53

Romancing the Clock or Microsoft Office 2003

2009-11-25T05:30:00.000-08:00

Romancing the Clock (NetEffect Series)

Author: Marvin Karlins

The NetEffect series is your one source for hands-on, appliedbooks for business “soft skills” training courses. The books in the NetEffect series are written by authors with experience in education and industry and contain real-world information and advice to help readers develop the skills they need to succeed in today's workplace. The books are supported by leader's guides, Companion Websites, free JWA Videos, and (selected titles) self-paced exercise guides. Topics covered include: Choosing a career, time management, interpersonal relationships and avoiding pitfalls. This book is of interest to anyone in the workforce.

	Preface
	About the Author
	What My Doctor's Appointment Taught Me About Time Management	1
1	Don't Accumulate Possessions That Create More Hassle Than Joy	5
2	Money Is Time: Use It to Purchase Positives and Sell "Shoelaces" in Your Life	15
3	Prune Your Interpersonal Relationships	24
4	Give the Green Face Syndrome the Red Light	29
5	Don't Get Down on Your Luck	35
6	Choose a Career As If a Third of Your Life Depended on It: It Does	43
7	Revel in the Journey or Skip the Trip!	57
8	Don't Always Put Off Until Tomorrow What You Can Enjoy Today	62
9	Avoid the Pitfalls of Perfectionism	66
10	Pursue a Healthy Lifestyle: It Enhances Joyful Living	71
11	When You Must Do Battle ... Pick Your Fights with Care	87
12	A Metaphor to Live By	98
	Index	103

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Microsoft Office 2003, Vol. 2

Author: Stephen Haag

The I-Series leads the student through clear, error-free, and unambiguous steps to accomplish tasks that produce a finished document, work sheet or database table. The approach is not simply results-oriented; teaching how to accomplish a task is not enough for complete understanding and mastery. Prior to introducing steps, the authors discuss why each step is important and what roll all the steps play in the overall plan for creating a document, workbook or database. The I-Series Applications textbooks strongly emphasize that students learn and master applications skills by being actively engaged by doing.

Public Management Reform or International Economics

2009-02-25T13:23:00.000-08:00

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.

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

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

2009-02-24T11:41:00.000-08:00

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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Book about: Cases to Accompany Contemporary Strategy Analysis 5th Edition or Object Solutions

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.

	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

2009-02-15T06:33:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

New interesting book: Glory Walk or DHEA

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

2009-02-14T04:52:00.000-08:00

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.

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

Book review: Pilaf Pozole and Pad Thai or Bread Reflections and Family Distractions

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

2009-02-13T03:11:00.000-08:00

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.

Booknews

<: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.

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.

Booknews

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

2009-02-12T01:30:00.000-08:00

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.

Interesting book: Comportamiento Organizativo:un Acercamiento Estratégico

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.

Booknews

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

2009-02-10T23:50:00.000-08:00

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.

New interesting book: Ale Beer and Brewsters in England or Delicious Ways to Control Diabetes Cookbook

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.

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

2009-02-09T22:09:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

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

2009-02-08T20:28:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

New interesting textbook: Fraude de Soins de santé et Abus :l'Indicateur d'un Médecin devant l'Acquiescement

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

2009-02-07T18:47:00.000-08:00

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.

New interesting textbook: Führung "aus dem Kasten"

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

2009-02-06T17:07:00.000-08:00

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.

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

Look this: Eat and Grow Thin or Pineapples

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

2009-02-05T15:26:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-02-04T13:45:00.000-08:00

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

	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

2009-02-03T12:04:00.000-08:00

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)

	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

2009-02-02T10:23:00.000-08:00

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

Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics or Boys and Their Toys

2009-02-01T08:42:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

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

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

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.

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.

	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

2009-01-30T05:20:00.000-08:00

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.

Books about: Martha Washington or Government in America

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.

	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

2009-01-29T03:39:00.000-08:00

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.

Booknews

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.

	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

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

2009-01-28T01:58:00.000-08:00

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

Booknews

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)

Look this: Buchfreunde

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.

	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

2009-01-27T00:18:00.000-08:00

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.

Booknews

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.

Book review: EveryWomans Canning Book or Haute Cuisine

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.

	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

2009-01-25T22:37:00.000-08:00

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.

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

Books about: Confianza & Traición en el Lugar de trabajo:Edificio de Relaciones Eficaces en Su Organización

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.

Doody Review Services

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.

Booknews

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)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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

2009-01-24T20:56:00.000-08:00

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

Booknews

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.

	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

Interesting textbook: Men and the War on Obesity or A Fit and Well Way of Life

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.

Booknews

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

2009-01-23T19:15:00.000-08:00

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

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.

Kirkus Reviews

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.

	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

2009-01-22T17:34:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-01-21T15:53:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

2009-01-20T14:12:00.000-08:00

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)

What People Are Saying

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)

Asia in Crisis or GAIA Connections

2009-01-14T12:35:00.000-08:00

Asia in Crisis: The Implosion of the Banking and Finance Systems

Author: Philippe Delhais

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Asia's economic growth astonished the world. The region's stock markets soared to new heights, unprecedented economic growth rates were recorded and an acquisitive new middle class emerged. Then overnight, it all fell apart. The question now being asked is: Who brought the party to an end?. "In this penetrating and thoughtful account, Philippe Delhaise points the finger squarely at Asia's antiquated banking and financial systems. Everything else - the currency panics, the social and political shocks - is simply a stream of consequences flowing from the main source. What is exceptional about the crisis is not that it happened but the manner in which it came about, inflicting indiscriminate devastation to all.

Far Eastern Economic Review - Dan Biers

...[P]uts the blame squarely on weak banks that could not keep up with the region's phenomenal growth. Delhaise wins no awards for prose — after all, he hammered out the book in just 10 weeks and the subject is banking. But it's an informative read....Delhaise has written a book that is valuable as a primer to why so many of Asia's banks collapsed. It is also a useful contribution to the debate about what should be done to rebuild those crippled institutions.

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Asia Panic	11
Ch. 2	Crime and Punishment	33
Ch. 3	Bank Accounting in Asia	47
Ch. 4	Thailand	81
Ch. 5	Korea	101
Ch. 6	Indonesia	123
Ch. 7	Malaysia	143
Ch. 8	The Philippines	161
Ch. 9	Other East Asian Countries	177
Ch. 10	The Cure	195
Ch. 11	Conclusion	223
	Chronology of the Asian currency and stock market panic	243
App. 1	Summary of IMF Executive Board discussions on Indonesia, Korea and Thailand	259
App. 2	Definitions of ratios	261
App. 3	BIS captial ratios	263
App. 4	Figures and ratios by country	264
	References	273
	Index	275

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Gaia Connections: An Introduction to Ecology, Ecoethics, and Economics

Author: Alan Miller

Miller's writing style makes the book easy to pick up and difficult to put down. Written at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduates, it is an important and valuable acquisition for academic libraries. —Choice

Communicating in Crisis or Managerial Accounting

2009-01-14T03:52:00.000-08:00

Communicating in Crisis

Author: Jean Michel Guillery

This volume is both an in-depth field analysis and step-by-step guide to preventing commercial disasters from which companies may never recover. Drawing upon a wide range of the sorts of crises that managers must face (examples include McDonald's, Perrier, Tylenol, etc.) the authors present appropriate strategies designed to reassure the public and keep business going. A tool for corporate managers, Communicating in Crisis is also a unique supplementary text for graduate and undergraduate business courses focusing on public relations, managerial and corporate communication, and risk management.

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Referring to corporate crisis case studies from product rumors to actual contamination (e.g. of Tylenol), two French consultants discuss how to apply their theoretical framework to appropriate communication strategies. Originally published as (1997). Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Foreword
	Introduction: What Is Crisis Communication?
1	Product Risk and Crisis Communication	1
2	Industrial Risk and Crisis Communication	29
3	Institutional Risk and Crisis Communication	37
4	Major Collective Fears and Crisis Communication	47
5	Communicating in a Crisis	53
6	Crisis Unit Organization and Operation	73
7	Training and Preparing for Crisis Communication	85
	Conclusion	91
	References	93

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Managerial Accounting

Author: Cecily A A Raiborn

Raiborn was developed around a business decision framework that emphasizes the practical rather than the theoretical. The new edition continues this tradition, but also focuses more attention on those concepts that will help future managers in business: organizational strategy, planning and control.

World Wide Web Marketing3rd Edition or Joan Robinson

2009-01-13T22:11:00.000-08:00

World Wide Web Marketing,3rd Edition

Author: Jim Stern

Here it is! The bestselling guide to online marketing is now back in a new expanded edition. Popular speaker and author Jim Sterne updates all information, providing marketing and advertising professionals with the ultimate how-to guide to succeed in today's hyper-competitive online world. Taking the same practical and detailed approach that has made his book an industry classic, Sterne shows how to apply classic marketing strategies to the latest technologies and explores the Web's impact on the way we do business. Readers will find expert guidance on how to take advantage of hot new technologies and Web marketing tools that have emerged since the Second Edition was published, including:

Interactivity
Affiliate marketing
Using B2B technology to sell through resellers
Wireless marketing
eMetrics, or how to measure online marketing strategies
Data mining techniques

	Acknowledgments
	About the Author
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Using the World Wide Web for Marketing - What Are You Trying to Accomplish?	1
Ch. 2	Customer Service First	15
Ch. 3	The Usable Web - Be Kind to Your Users	35
Ch. 4	Interactivity Goes with the Flow	85
Ch. 5	Selling Services	107
Ch. 6	Feedback	125
Ch. 7	Value-Added Marketing - It's Personal	157
Ch. 8	Personalization - Getting to Know You	175
Ch. 9	Professional Personalization - Extranets and Customer Relationship Management	225
Ch. 10	Partner Relationship Management	249
Ch. 11	Attracting Attention	267
Ch. 12	Measure for Measure	319
Ch. 13	Managing Your Site and Your Sanity	361
Ch. 14	Looking toward the Future	383
	Index	403

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Joan Robinson: A Bio-Bibliography, Vol. 2

Author: James Cicarelli

Among the most imaginative and controversial economists of the 20th century, Joan Robinson is one of the intellectual giants of modern economics. This book pays homage to her and extends the knowledge of her contributions to a new generation of economists. It begins with a chronological history of her life. A biographical sketch follows, giving in-depth analysis of her major writings and her many conflicts with mainstream economists, particularly the "bastard Keynesians" of the United States. The book includes two annotated bibliographies of works by Robinson and works about her and her economic theories. The index makes the book readily accessible.

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Details the life of this multi-faceted woman, one of the foremost economists of the 20th Century until her death in 1983. Includes a chronological history, a seven-part biographical sketch, plus an annotated bibliography of her published works, and of works about Joan Robinson and her writings. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Poverty Is Not a Vice or Micro Econometrics for Policy Program and Treatment Effects

2009-01-13T12:30:00.000-08:00

Poverty Is Not a Vice: Charity, Society, and the State in Imperial Russia

Author: Adele Lindenmeyr

At the turn of the twentieth century, many Russians clung to the traditional belief that "poverty is not a vice" and that personal acts of generosity toward the poor, including beggars, earn spiritual salvation. Here Adele Lindenmeyr explores how this thinking--and opposition to it--shaped the development of private charity and public welfare in Russia from the eighteenth century to World War I. In recovering a long-forgotten aspect of Russian history, Lindenmeyr offers new insights into major issues debated by historians today: the development of a viable civil society in an autocratic state, the efficacy of central and local government, and Russians' complex reaction to Western ideas. Her book also provides fascinating background to the new flourishing of private charity in post-communist Russia.

The first challenges to the ethos of personal charity came from Peter the Great. Influenced by the Western notion that poverty was a vice, he attempted a systematic approach to its eradication. Lindenmeyr traces the course of poor relief from the establishment of the first state welfare institutions to the post-emancipation devolution of responsibility for the needy to local authorities. At the same time, however, almsgiving still thrived, especially among the peasant estate, where personal acts of charity were preferred to a poor tax. Finally, the author shows how hundreds of privately founded charitable societies and institutions also emerged, reflecting educated society's increasing awareness of poverty as a social problem and contributing significantly to the public sphere.

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	The Russian Culture of Giving	7
Ch. 2	The Autocracy and Poor Relief, 1682-1861	26
Ch. 3	Estates, Local Government, and Poor Relief, 1861-1914	48
Ch. 4	The Autocracy and Poor Law Reform, 1891-1914	74
Ch. 5	From Charity to Philanthropy: Private Charitable Associations and the Origins of Civil Society, 1762-1856	99
Ch. 6	Charity and Civil Society in the Era of the Great Reforms	120
Ch. 7	"Scientific Charity" in Imperial Russia	142
Ch. 8	Transforming the Poor: The Work Relief Movement	168
Ch. 9	The Zenith of Voluntarism, 1881-1914	19д
Ch. 10	Conclusion	227
	Appendix	233
	Notes	241
	Bibliography	305
	Index	329

Micro-Econometrics for Policy, Program, and Treatment Effects

Author: Myoung Jae Le

This is one of the first books to provide a textbook exposition of the literature on how to measure accurately the 'effects' of a 'treatment,' such as a drug, educational program, or tax regime, on a response variable like an illness, GPA, or income. The book focuses on non-experimental, micro-economic estimation.

Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning or Hospitality Sales

2009-01-13T05:49:00.000-08:00

Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning

Author: Sally M Jones

This text is appropriate for a one-semester introductory tax course at either the undergraduate or graduate level in which the instructor emphasizes business planning and decision-making. The content of the text is highly compatible with the AICPA Model Tax Curriculum and is ideal for preparing students to take the revised computer-based CPA exam.

Jones takes a different approach to the study of taxation than the traditional tax return preparation approach. This book teaches students to recognize the role taxes play in business and investment decisions. In addition, the book presents the general role of taxation and its implications across all taxpaying entities before discussing the details relevant to specific entities. This approach allows students to really grasp the fundamental concepts that are the foundation for specific tax rules. The benefit is that the students will understand the framework of the tax system, even though specific tax rules and regulations change from year to year.

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Hospitality Sales: Selling Smarter

Author: Judy A Siguaw

This concise handbook addresses the processes of selling in the Hospitality Market. More and more, the act of selling is recognized as a function that is separate from and just as important as the function of marketing in the Hospitality Industry. The text takes a "how-to", "by the numbers" approach to consultative hospitality sales. It is filled with practical, useable information for all kinds of sales situations in the hospitality arena. The text takes the reader all the way from prospecting to negotiations through closing. It includes a chapter of personal selling "tools" and discusses listening skills. The text emphasizes ethics and attempts to create a customer-oriented sales person who succeeds by serving the needs of the customer. It is recommended as a support handbook in a traditional Hospitality Marketing and Sales course or as a primary text in a Sales Course.

1	Overview of Hospitality Sales	1
2	Prospecting and Preapproach	9
3	Approach by Adapting Social Style	29
4	Approach through Nonverbal Communication, Listening, and Trust	55
5	Openings	69
6	Probing for Needs	85
7	The Presentation	93
8	Handling Objections	107
9	Gaining Commitment	119
10	Post-Sale Follow-up	139
11	Hotel Contracts	145
12	Servicing the Meeting	155
13	Personal Selling Tools	167
14	Revenue Management and Price Negotiation	177
	Answers to Selected Exercises	193
	References	197
	Index	201

Business Writing for Hospitality or Planning under Pressure

2009-01-12T21:09:00.000-08:00

Business Writing for Hospitality

Author: Vivienne J Wildes

This book introduces the current and future manager to writing in the hospitality Industry. Starting with a grammar review, the book quickly moves into the writing done daily in the various hospitality operational departments from food and beverage to lodging.

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Planning under Pressure

Author: John Friend

Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty.
Starting from basic principles, the book uses helpful diagrams and clear explanations to demonstrate practical ways of approaching daunting decision problems; of devising possible ways forward; and of working effectively towards agreed courses of action. Along he way, decision makers are helped to cope with diverse sources of uncertainty — technical, political, managerial — in a strategic manner.
In this extended third edition, the authors have added short contributions from 21 users from seven countries. These new contributors present lessons from their varied experiences in adapting the Strategic Choice Approach to guide decision-making and learning in settings ranging from the re-routing of a controversial city carnival procession to national policy for the management of nuclear waste.

* Provides a step-by-step guide to the Strategic Choice Approach and guidance on how you can adapt it to your own organizational setting;
* Offers examples of its application in practice to many kinds and levels of strategic challenge around the globe;
* Authored by the two leading members of the team of pioneers who have been at the heart of development of the approach and its wide range of applications.

1	Foundations	1
2	Working into problems	23
3	Working towards decisions	43
4	Orientations	67
5	Skills in shaping	89
6	Skills in designing	119
7	Skills in comparing	147
8	Skills in choosing	179
9	Practicalities	211
10	The electronic resource	245
11	Extensions in process management	257
12	Invention, transformation and interpretation	273
13	Learning from others	295
14	The developmental challenge	361

Managed Care or Texas Cotton and the New Deal

2009-01-12T13:28:00.000-08:00

Managed Care: Strategies, Networks, and Management

Author: Montague Brown

This collection provides the health care manager with the latest and best thinking about the dynamic field of managed care. Here are expert advice and insightful perspectives on strategies and structures for managed care, the roles of hospitals and physicians, and management issues. Indispensable for providers, insurers, buyers, and anyone seeking the techniques, methods, linkages, and alliances needed to make managed care succeed.

Marten M. Kernis

Edited by a recognized leader in the field of managed care, this book is a compendium of 25 articles published between 1986 and 1993 in Health Care Management Review. The authors of the papers are distinguished scholars and professionals in the field. The papers themselves are arranged in a logical, interesting manner. In light of the current national discussion of health care reform and the directions the proposed policies seem to be taking, the book seems to be designed to provide a single source for selected important previously published papers about managed care. The book is not a handbook for managers of managed care, but instead it is meant to serve as a background for those who currently have policy-making responsibilities and for scholars who will have recognized Health Care Management Review as a vehicle for publication of related papers. The audience is anticipated to include policymakers, managers, scholars, and students of health care management in general and managed care in particular. There are no photographs. Black-and-white figures, graphs, and tables are included in several of the sections. Because the papers have been published over a seven-year time span by many different authors, some references are dated, and there is some variation in the quality of selected bibliographies and selected articles. For persons interested in managed care, the book provides easy reference to a sample of previously published papers. Because the earlier papers contain older data, the reader must be certain to supplement these readings with more current information. The book is most useful to those who have limited access to the journalfrom which the articles were taken.

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Reviewer: Marten M. Kernis, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: Edited by a recognized leader in the field of managed care, this book is a compendium of 25 articles published between 1986 and 1993 in Health Care Management Review. The authors of the papers are distinguished scholars and professionals in the field. The papers themselves are arranged in a logical, interesting manner.
Purpose: In light of the current national discussion of health care reform and the directions the proposed policies seem to be taking, the book seems to be designed to provide a single source for selected important previously published papers about managed care. The book is not a handbook for managers of managed care, but instead it is meant to serve as a background for those who currently have policy-making responsibilities and for scholars who will have recognized Health Care Management Review as a vehicle for publication of related papers.
Audience: The audience is anticipated to include policymakers, managers, scholars, and students of health care management in general and managed care in particular.
Features: There are no photographs. Black-and-white figures, graphs, and tables are included in several of the sections. Because the papers have been published over a seven-year time span by many different authors, some references are dated, and there is some variation in the quality of selected bibliographies and selected articles.
Assessment: For persons interested in managed care, the book provides easy reference to a sample of previously published papers. Because the earlier papers contain older data, the reader must be certain to supplement these readings with more current information. The book is most useful to those who have limited access to the journal from which the articles were taken.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Getting To Go in Managed Care	3
	HCMR Diaglogue: Managed Care	17
	Vertical Integration in Health Services: Theory and Managerial Implications	27
	Vertical Integration: Exploration of a Popular Strategic Concept	41
	The Economic Transformation of American Health Insurance: Implications for the Hospital Industry	55
	Health Maintenance Organizations: Improvements in the Regulatory Environment	63
	Hospital-Health Care Plan Affiliations: Considerations for Strategy Design	79
	Strategies Employed by HMOs To Achieve Hospital Discounts: A Case Study of Seven HMOs	91
	The Growth and Effects of Hospital Selective Contracting	99
	Contracts between Hospitals and Health Maintenance Organizations	107
	Product Lines in a Complex Marketplace: Matching Organizational Strategy to Buyer Behavior	121
	A Hospital Administrator's Guide to Successful HMO Negotiations	127
	Critical Factors for Successful Hospital-Based Case Management	131
	Factors for Success: Capitated Primary Physicians in Medicare HMOs	141
	Lessons Learned Hiring HMO Medical Directors	147
	Critical Factors in Recruiting Health Maintenance Organization Physicians	157
	Career Paths of Physician Executives	169
	Physician Managers: Personal Characteristics versus Institutional Demands	179
	The Secret of Medical Management	185
	Impact of IPAs on Fee-for-Service Medical Groups	193
	Determinants of HMO Success: The Case of Complete Health	205
	An Assessment of Employers' Experiences with HMOs: Factors That Make a Difference	217
	Management Information Systems: Their Role in the Marketing Activities of HMOs	225
	Controlling Disenrollment in Health Maintenance Organizations	231
	A Model for Understanding Benefit Segmentation in Preventive Health Care	239
	Index	251
	About the Editor	259

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Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal

Author: Keith Joseph Volanto

"In this book, Keith J. Volanto relates the story of the New Deal's efforts to aid Texas cotton farmers, specifically with the production-control policies introduced by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). He explores the reasons the AAA cotton programs in Texas were instituted, the implementation problems the AAA encountered and how they were resolved, and the results of the programs. He draws conclusions concerning how well Texans benefited from the AAA cotton programs and about those who were actually harmed by them. In addition, he also examines the role of Texas politicians and bureaucrats in formulating the policies in Washington and the importance of Texas to New Deal cotton policy broadly." Volanto's study of the AAA cotton programs in Texas is an important case study not only of agriculture policy but also of the New Deal itself. The AAA provides an example of how the New Deal attempted to solve a national problem in a largely experimental fashion.

American Historical Review

Overall, this is a strong offering that looks through a narrow lens at a period of dramatic transformation in Texas agriculture.

Systems for Administrative Office Support or Mapping Educational Success

2009-01-12T06:47:00.000-08:00

Systems for Administrative Office Support

Author: Walter A Brower

This successful office procedures text covers oral communications, time management, the ARMA filing rules, and the roles of management and supervision in the office environment.

THE CHANGING OFFICE A Changing Profession Skills and Background for Your Career Office Systems and Organization Working with People in the Office COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES AND WORK PLANNING Oral Communications Document Production Reprographics Work Planning CAPTURING, HANDLING, AND STORING INFORMATION Capturing Information Through Dictation and Transcription Creating Written Documents Mail Handling Maintaining Financial Records Making Travel Arrangements FINDING A JOB AND PROFESSIONAL GROWTH Seeking Employment Professional Growth GLOSSARY INDEX WORKING PAPERS

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Mapping Educational Success: Strategic Thinking and Planning for School Administrators, Vol. 1

Author: Roger A Kaufman

This revised edition of Mapping Educational Success has been updated to include the latest insights into planning and delivering successful education. The author suggests that principals and administrators should make a strategic shift to an orientation where results are always the central focus. This would involve new methods of planning, developing, implementing and evaluating in order to achieve predictable educational success.

Net Profit or E Collaborations and Virtual Organizations

2009-01-11T21:06:00.000-08:00

Net Profit: How to Invest and Compete in the Wild World of Internet Business

Author: Peter S Cohan

In Net Profit, author Peter Cohan maintains that the internet, while unique in aspect, is not so different in form from other industries. Using tried-and-true economic analysis, he examines nine specific internet business segments and identifies the underlying dynamics of each. He compares the strategies and practices that distinguish each segment leader from its peers. He cuts through the hyperbole surrounding internet business to make economic sense of the Web and provides readers with a thorough understanding of today's industry. Along the wey Cohan also offers a wealth of savvy investment advice.

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The bulk of this work consists of an economic evaluation of nine Internet business segments, including Powerware, Brandware, and Lossware businesses. After defining the segments business consultant Cohan analyzes their markets and profit potentials, presents case studies, and describes the implications for managers. Finally, he applies the lessons to non-Internet businesses' decisions to sell on the Web. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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E-Collaborations and Virtual Organizations

Author: Fong

This book covers a broad range of topics, from underlying technological structures to fundamental mechanisms that are relevant to e-collaboration and virtual organizations. Chapters present some of the current work in the field and represent a resource upon which knowledge, lessons and views can be drawn upon for consideration and applications in the virtual world.

	Preface
Ch. I	Knowledge sharing infrastructure and methods for virtual enterprises	1
Ch. II	Workplace e-collaboration in practice : practical guidelines for implementing e-collaboration in organizations	29
Ch. III	Using web services in business-to-business integration	61
Ch. IV	Peer-to-peer corporate resource sharing and distribution with mesh	98
Ch. V	Collaborative engineering communities - architecture and integration approaches	120
Ch. VI	Strategic use of virtual organization	151
Ch. VII	Successful virtual organizations as collaboration networks : descriptions and experiences from two Norwegian examples	169
Ch. VIII	Virtualization as a process of transformation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the global virtual organization	184
Ch. IX	Impact of activities in the virtual environment	206
Ch. X	Seamless multiparty videoconference	231
Ch. XI	ITFG : design and experience with a Groupware system	252
Ch. XII	E-school administration systems	276

Accountants Guide to Fraud Detection and Control or Business Communication Today

2009-01-11T13:25:00.000-08:00

Accountant's Guide to Fraud Detection and Control

Author:

From internal control structures that are not fraud-specific to insufficient communication in the fraud discovery-to-investigation and conviction process, fraudulent activity is a widespread fact of life in the business world. Historically, the corporate tendency has been to react to fraud after the fact, rather than to be proactive in its prevention. And in most cases, blame is directed at accountants and auditors. Unfortunately, these officers are rarely provided with the resources, proper training, and commitment from top management that are essential to effective fraud detection and control. The Accountants Guide to Fraud Detection and Control offers comprehensive direction for this largely uncharted area.
Two types of fraud are addressed in this book: fraudulent financial reporting, also known as "Treadway" fraud, usually originating in the top management sector; and "asset-theft" fraud, the more common and more costly type, likely to be practiced by virtually anyone, including outsiders. Treadway fraud is being adequately detected by independent auditors (CPAs) in their annual audits. Asset-theft fraud is not being adequately detected by anyone, with very few exceptions. From following clues to achieving a prosecution, here is sound advice that accountants and auditors will find invaluable.

Businesses lose over $100 billion a year to fraud. Only 20 percent is discovered. Whos to blame?

Accountants and internal auditors are often the scapegoats for managements insufficient fraud detection operations and guidelines. At last, here is comprehensive, intermediate training for evaluating, devising, and installing fraud-specific internal controls,and for conducting proactive fraud-specific examinations. Including actual case studies, the authors show accountants and auditors how to:

• Anticipate problems and follow clues
• Successfully disclose fraud
• Compile the evidence necessary to prosecute acts of fraud
• Develop investigative techniques
• Create effective internal controls . . . and much more, to fill the needs of this crucial area.

Accounting Technician

...I opened this book with anticipation and it did not disappoint! I found the book well presented and easy to read. It certainly provides plenty of food for thought.

Booknews

Arguing that the extent and damage of fraud is more widespread than commonly believed, the authors present a guide for the detection of two types of commonly practiced fraud<-->fraudulent financial reporting, generally practiced by top management, and the more common and less detected asset-theft fraud. They provide information on the detection of fraud by accountants and discuss what to do if fraud is detected. Also discussed the nature of evidence required by the Justice system to support allegations of fraud and a methodology for the evaluation of internal control strengths and weaknesses. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

FRAUD-SPECIFIC EXAMINATIONS AND INTERNAL CONTROL.
Audit Responsibility for Fraud Detection After Cohen and Treadway.
New Perspectives on Fraud.
Principles and Standards for Fraud-Specific Examinations.
Classifying Fraud for Improved Detection.
Internal Control and Fraud-Specific Internal Control.
Establishing and Operating an Effective Fraud-Specific Internal Control System: Seven Steps to Internal Control.
Computer Fraud 101.
Fraud Case Studies.
Fraud Case Studies--Solutions.
Custodial Fraud.
INVESTIGATING FRAUD.
Investigating Suspected Fraud.
Proactive and Reactive Investigations.
PROSECUTING FRAUD.
Rules of Evidence, Fraud Discovery, and Prosecution.
The Legal Cases in Fraud.
Ethical Conduct and Fraud Prevention.
Bibliography.
Index.

Books about: Taste of Tofu or Biscotti Other Low Fat Cookies

Business Communication Today

Author: Courtland L Bove

A book that addresses the need for skills-building in today’s competitive business environment, Business Communication Today has been completely revised and reworked to provide the most cutting-edge information available on the market. Combining a solid foundation of communication fundamentals with practical advice and insights, readers will be effectively prepared for the challenges they’ll face when entering the job market. Thorough coverage and thoughtful integration of business communication technology sets this book apart from the competition. Every essential technology is covered, successfully demonstrating the importance of business etiquette, teamwork, proper short communication (memos, email, instant messaging, etc.), and effective business reports and proposals. An especially useful tool for those entering the job market, this book is also a must-read for corporate trainers, office managers, and others that need to utilize effective communications on a day-to-day basis.

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For this seventh edition of a text for undergraduates, material has been reorganized to incorporate a three-step process for solving communication problems. Coverage of communication issues in teams has been expanded, and there are new chapters on writing for the Web, communicating through the Internet and other technologies, and enhancing presentations with electronic visual aids. Learning features include boxes on technology applications, ethics, and communication across cultures, documents for students to critique, cases, margin notes, and test questions. The author teaches business communication at Grossmont College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Managed Care Pharmacy or Profits in the Wilderness

2009-01-11T04:44:00.000-08:00

Managed Care Pharmacy: Principles and Practice

Author: Albert I Wertheimer

This informative book analyzes the trends in pharmacy benefit systems to provide physicians, pharmacists, payers, benefit consultants, and pharmaceutical companies with ways to preserve quality pharmaceutical care while reducing costs. Managed Care Pharmacy offers proven suggestions that will help you choose or develop a pharmacy benefit system that will maximize the goals of managed care organizations, pharmacists, and consumers and better position your company to keep pace in this changing environment.

Amy E. Lodolce

This is an overview of various aspects of the managed care pharmacy from drug distribution systems to drug benefits and formulary management. According to the editors, the purpose is to review and describe drug benefits associated with managed care and to familiarize the reader with comprehensive managed care pharmacy. The target audience includes healthcare providers as well as other professionals involved in the pharmaceutical industry. The editors also state that benefit consultants are part of the intended audience. The editors begin by providing an overview of the types of managed care organizations and pharmacy's role in managed healthcare. In the remainder of the book contributors emphasize and extensively review specific components related to these topics. Some key topics covered include basic issues such as reimbursement methods for drugs, formulary management, distribution systems including mail order pharmacy, automation, and pharmacy benefit management companies. Additionally, the expanded cognitive role that pharmacists can assume in managed care organizations is discussed, including comprehensive management of drug therapy, drug utilization review, and applying pharmacoeconomic principles. The chapters are referenced (some more extensively than others), and each one contains a supplemental reading list. This is helpful for the reader who would like further information. The book contains a key word index to allow readers to quickly find a certain concept as well as a glossary. The glossary contains acronyms and their expanded definitions. Another unique feature of the book is the appendixes which contain templates of managed care benefit forms, notably enrollmentinformation, drug exclusions, and service agreements. This book is well written and informative. The topics covered are timely regarding the changing healthcare system and the emerging role of managed care. Besides the target audience, benefit plan administrators, healthcare administrators, and pharmacy educators would find this book beneficial.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Amy E. Lodolce, PharmD,BCPS (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy)
Description: This is an overview of various aspects of the managed care pharmacy from drug distribution systems to drug benefits and formulary management.
Purpose: According to the editors, the purpose is to review and describe drug benefits associated with managed care and to familiarize the reader with comprehensive managed care pharmacy.
Audience: The target audience includes healthcare providers as well as other professionals involved in the pharmaceutical industry. The editors also state that benefit consultants are part of the intended audience.
Features: The editors begin by providing an overview of the types of managed care organizations and pharmacy's role in managed healthcare. In the remainder of the book contributors emphasize and extensively review specific components related to these topics. Some key topics covered include basic issues such as reimbursement methods for drugs, formulary management, distribution systems including mail order pharmacy, automation, and pharmacy benefit management companies. Additionally, the expanded cognitive role that pharmacists can assume in managed care organizations is discussed, including comprehensive management of drug therapy, drug utilization review, and applying pharmacoeconomic principles. The chapters are referenced (some more extensively than others), and each one contains a supplemental reading list. This is helpful for the reader who would like further information. The book contains a key word index to allow readers to quickly find a certain concept as well as a glossary. The glossary contains acronyms and their expanded definitions. Another unique feature of the book is the appendixes which contain templates of managed care benefit forms, notably enrollment information, drug exclusions, and service agreements.
Assessment: This book is well written and informative. The topics covered are timely regarding the changing healthcare system and the emerging role of managed care. Besides the target audience, benefit plan administrators, healthcare administrators, and pharmacy educators would find this book beneficial.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

	About the Editors
	Contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	Evolution of the Contemporary Health Care Delivery System	1
Ch. 2	Contemporary Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Their Structure	15
Ch. 3	Pharmacy in Managed Health Care	37
Ch. 4	Pharmacy Reimbursement in Managed Care	47
Ch. 5	Defining and Shaping Financing Needs	63
Ch. 6	Pharmacy Distribution Systems	83
Ch. 7	Evolving Role of Systems in Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM)	97
Ch. 8	The Drug Formulary, the Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee, and Product Selection	109
Ch. 9	DUR and DUE in Managed Competition	119
Ch. 10	Data Capture and Information Reporting Systems	131
Ch. 11	Quality Assurance and Outcomes Research	149
Ch. 12	Management of Drug Therapy in Health Programs	165
Ch. 13	Pharmacoeconomics (PE): Applications for Managed Care	177
Ch. 14	Off-Label Use and Experimental Treatment	191
Ch. 15	Rx-to-OTC Conversion: Managed Care Implications	209
Ch. 16	Worldwide Review of Pharmacy Benefit Controls	229
Ch. 17	Future Trends in Managed Care Pharmacy	257
Ch. 18	Marketing and Selling to Managed Care: Pharmaceutical Industry Perspective	273
Ch. 19	Drug Benefit Design	285
Ch. 20	Measuring the Performance of Managed Pharmacy Benefit Programs	293
	Appendix	309
	Glossary of Managed Care Terms	351
	Index	389

Interesting textbook: The Magic of Digital Printing or Data Mining for Business Intelligence

Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century

Author: John F Martin

In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common.

In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time.

Martin's study will challenge historians to rethink not only social history but also the cultural history of early New England. Instead of taking sides in the long-standing debate between Puritan scholars and business historians, Martin identifies strains within Puritanism and the rest of the colonists' culture that both discouraged and encouraged land commerce, both supported and undermined communalism, both hindered and hastened development of the wilderness. Rather than portray colonists one-dimensionally, Martin analyzes how several different and competing ethics coexisted within a single, complex, and vibrant New England culture.

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Instead of taking sides in the long-standing debate between Puritan scholars on the one hand and business historians on the other, Martin identifies strains within Puritanism and the rest of the colonists' culture that both discouraged and encouraged land commerce, both supported and undermined communalism, both hindered and hastened development of the wilderness. He reviews some 60 towns and the activities of 100 town founders. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

People Focused Knowledge Management or Legacies of Change

2009-01-10T23:03:00.000-08:00

People-Focused Knowledge Management: How Effective Decision Leads to Corporate Success

Author: Karl Wiig

Business/ Management

People-Focused Knowledge Management: How Effective Decision Making Leads to Corporate Success

Karl Wiig

"Karl Wiig's understanding of the human and organization dynamics of KM is unsurpassed. His decades of experience and insight are captured in this
seminal work."
— Carla O'Dell, Ph.D., President, APQC

" Karl Wiig instructs us precisely how to take advantage of a dynamic knowledge strategy. In People-Focused Knowledge Management, he simplifies the complex, makes the concepts relevant and actionable and leaves the (inevitable) results to us. Finally, we have a resource for creating a compelling knowledge value proposition linking economics, behavior and technology. — Debra Amidon, Founder and CEO, Entovation International, Ltd., and author of The Innovation Superhighway

"When it comes to weaving together theory and practice, Karl Wiig is a master! People-Focused Knowledge Management illustrates this beautifully. The depth of Wiig's analysis is unusual, and the fact that he carries the analysis all the way to concrete actions makes this book an especially valuable addition to the growing literature on knowledge management. A feast for the mind as well as the enterprise!"
— Sue Stafford, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Simmons College

"In People-Focused Knowledge Management, Karl Wiig goes beyond the boundaries of traditional knowledge management and integrates this with recent cognitive research on such diverse subjects as mental models, narrative, conceptual blending, decision theory, and sense making, in a very comprehensive treatment."
— Steve Denning, author of TheSpringboard

In People-Focused Knowledge Management, noted expert Karl Wiig moves our understanding of the knowledge economy to the next level focusing on the people—the knowledge workers themselves. Wiig synthesizes recent research findings in cognitive science and related fields to describe how people actually work. He examines how people learn, remember, make decisions, solve problems and act—in general, how knowledge relates to work behavior. He then shows how this understanding of how people work enables managers to implement structures and processes to improve effectiveness and gain competitive advantage.

Karl Wiig is the Chairman and CEO of Knowledge Research Institute, Inc. He has authored four books and over 60 articles on knowledge management, co-founded the International Knowledge Management Network, and served as a keynote speaker on six continents.

Ch. 1	Competing in the global economy requires effective enterprises	1
Ch. 2	The effective enterprise	26
Ch. 3	Actions are initiated by knowledgeable people : people make decisions and act using different kinds of mental functions	63
Ch. 4	Mental and structural reference models	100
Ch. 5	A knowledge model for personal situation-handling	117
Ch. 6	Enterprise situation-handling	155
Ch. 7	People-focused knowledge management in daily operations	213
Ch. 8	People-focused knowledge management expectations	248
App. A	Examples of knowledge management analysis approaches	281
App. B	Examples of knowledge management practices and initiatives	298
App. C	Memory and knowledge categorizations	312

New interesting book: Liberty and Power or In the Jaws of the Dragon

Legacies of Change: Transformations of Postcommunist European Economies

Author: John Campbell

The essays in this volume examine institutional change in five of the most important areas of economic life in central and eastern Europe after 1989: international and regional economic reintegration; the restructuring of the industrial base; how economic interests are to be represented; fiscal and budgetary reform; and reform of the social welfare system. The editors use these research findings to buttress a somewhat heterodox theory of institutional dynamics, one pointing to "discursive structures" and "governance structures" as key dimensions that, in combination, affect institutional change in this part of the world so that an economic "revolution" becomes an evolutionary processes of gradual transition.

Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet or Pissing on Demand

2009-01-10T13:22:00.000-08:00

Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet

Author: Henry C Lucas

This book offers a novel approach for analyzing and developing business strategies for the Internet and electronic commerce. The topics addressed include how to predict which firms will be successful, how a manager should respond to competitors who adopt the Internet and electronic commerce, and how a company can obtain a competitive advantage in times of intense competition and proliferating information technology. The book uses case studies (including Dell Computer, Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab, and Merrill Lynch) and develops a dynamic resource-based model of strategy.

Library Journal

Lucas (information systems, Univ. of Maryland; The T-Form Organization) effectively reinforces what others have said before: the Internet and e-commerce have allowed new markets to emerge. For example, many companies have become "virtual manufacturers," with activities such as the design and marketing of products occurring in numerous locations. According to Lucas, this new economy has created a need for new business models, and his book places a strong emphasis on developing such models by providing an in-depth look at "resource analysis" tables and case studies of successful companies that have experienced these changes, among them Dell Computer, Cisco Systems, and Charles Schwab. Aiming to help managers of traditional companies supplement their understanding of electronic commerce, he also addresses how companies can keep up with the competition once they decide to transform their business and outlines a concise plan of action. Another book on this topic is Craig Fellenstein and Ron Wood's Exploring E-Commerce, Global E-Business, and E-Societies (Prentice-Hall, 1999), which takes a broader view, covering the impact of e-commerce on the global economy. Recommended for business collections in academic libraries. Bellinda Wise, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Interesting book: Tobacco or The Hardgainers Body Building Handbook

Pissing on Demand: Workplace Drug Testing and the Rise of the Detox Industry

Author: Ken D Tunnell

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"Offers a critical view of both the detox titans, who Tunnell sees as snake-oil purveyors, and the drug testers themselves."
—The Chronicle

Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demand examines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement, or the "detox industry," that works to beat these tests. Strategies include over-the-counter products like "body flushers" that sound innocent but are really designed to mask the presence of illegal drugs to kits advertised in pro-drug publications like High Times that make no bones about their real purpose. The first exposé of the detox industry in all its manifestations, this book is required reading for anyone concerned with social control, privacy, and workers' rights.

Globalization and Its Discontents or World Cities Globalization and Inequality

2009-01-10T06:41:00.000-08:00

Globalization and Its Discontents

Author: Roger Burbach

The decisive event of the late twentieth century has been the collapse of communism and the perceived triumph of capitalism. Written by authors from the First, former Second, and Third Worlds, this book reveals the characteristics and flaws of the late capitalist order. The authors explore the societal polarization produced by globalization, the crisis of Western ideology, and the soft financial underbelly of globalization that could well bring us to an economic collapse. The perspective of this provocative book goes beyond those of the traditional left and the relativist, anti-historical school of post-modernism to offer an entirely fresh view of the world order.

What People Are Saying

Mike Davis
Required reading for the dark times ahead.
— (Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz)

	Preface
	Introduction: Back to the Future	1
1	The New World Disorder	11
2	The Discontents	21
3	The Crisis of Western Ideology	35
4	The Economic Shock of Globalization	53
5	The Trauma of the Third World	75
6	Decomposition in the United States	97
7	The Post-communist World: From Crisis to Catastrophe	117
8	Visions: Old and New	139
9	The Long Transition to Postmodern Socialisms	153
	Notes	171
	Bibliography	181
	Index	186

New interesting book: CompTIA Security Study Guide or Build Your Own Security Lab

World Cities, Globalization and Inequality

Author: Josef Gugler

Providing an original perspective on world cities and the impact of globalization upon them, leading authorities contribute to this dedicated study of major cities in countries outside the industrialized West: Bangkok, Mumbai, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore. All play important global and regional roles, and the contributors compare their historical paths to their present world positions and problems.

Bond Pricing and Portfolio Analysis or Introduction to Automation for Librarians

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

Bond Pricing and Portfolio Analysis: Protecting Investors in the Long Run

Author: Olivier de La Grandvill

This text makes accessible the most important methodological advances in bond evaluation from the past twenty years. With uncommon precision and a strong emphasis on the underlying economic fundamentals, Olivier de La Grandville presents a unified framework for understanding the basic tools of bond evaluation, including duration, convexity, and immunization.

Among the book's most valuable contributions is a general immunization theorem that can be used by practitioners to protect investors against any change in the structure of spot interest rates. Also of note is the detailed presentation of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model and a discussion of its relationships with classical immunization schemes. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions, problem sets, and projects; detailed solutions to all of them appear at the end of the book. Although the treatment is thorough and rigorous, the presentation throughout the book is intuitive.

Introduction to Automation for Librarians

Author: William Saffady

In a complete update of this classic text, author and automation expert William Saffady once again performs the vital function of surveying the types of technology used in libraries and discusses the library applications available to staff and patrons. He assesses the newest developments in operating systems, computer hardware, desktop and display technologies, and programming languages.. "Written in layman's terms that even technophobes can understand, Introduction to Automation provides the keys to identifying the important characteristics of technology and understanding its many uses and applications.

Library Journal

Like the second edition (Professional Reading, LJ 9/1/89), the text of this new version is divided into two sections: the fundamentals of automation and library operations. Reflecting the rapid technological changes of the past few years, part one provides new information on computer workstations, optical and magnetic storage, data communications, local area networks, document imaging, and multimedia technologies. Part two adds or revises data on barcoding for circulation, CD-ROM cataloging, online catalogs, integrated systems, automated reference, and online acquisitions. While this edition is almost 30 pages longer than the previous one, it is more compact, with fewer illustrations; it also contains in each chapter updated sources for further reading, most of them published since 1990. This will be of interest to librarians who plan to start or change their technological services or who want a good summary of recent developments.-Janice Kirkland, California State Univ. Lib., Bakersfield

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**** An update of the first edition (1983) which appears in BCL3. It is a comprehensive survey of current computer technology and library applications. In non-technical language, emphasizes concepts and terminology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Introduction
Pt. 1	Fundamental Aspects of Computing and Related Technologies	1
1	Computer Hardware	3
2	Computer Software	47
3	Data Management and Data Communications Concepts	82
4	Automated Office Systems and Related Technologies	129
Pt. 2	Library Automation, Systems, and Services	167
5	Computers and Descriptive Cataloging	169
6	Integrated Library Systems	209
7	Automated Reference Service	247
8	Digital Libraries	291
	Index	323

Economic Theory for Environmentalists or Perspectives on Organizational Communication

2009-01-09T14:19:00.000-08:00

Economic Theory for Environmentalists

Author: John M Gowdy

Economic Theory for Environmentalists is a much-needed and heralded new book that examines the implications of neoclassical economic theory and how it relates to the environment and environmental activity. It addresses the ongoing conflict between market forces and environmental integrity and explains how neoclassical economic theory views the relationship between economic activity and the natural world. Each chapter outlines the concepts of economic theory and the relevance of its environmental and policy implications. It focuses on both micro and macro-economics. Policy tools such as price and income elasticities, consumer surplus and methods for measuring the economic value of environmental resources are discussed. A case study which examines a range of policy options is presented. Examples are also given throughout the text to illustrate regional and international policy questions. Presented in a simple and easy to understand manner, this valuable book is suited for anyone dealing with environmental, economic, or policy issues.

Go to: Wirksame Führung und Management in der Krankenpflege

Perspectives on Organizational Communication

Author: Steven R Corman

This unique volume promotes constructive dialogue among the basic methodological positions in organizational communication today. The goal is to identify theoretical moves and scholarly practices that can help people with divergent views compare or integrate their ideas instead of waging war. Essays from three distinguished scholars first discuss the concept of common ground from interpretive, post-positivist, and critical vantage points. Brief commentaries from a diverse array of colleagues then expand on key issues raised in the essays, explore creative tensions among the different perspectives, and reexamine the role of paradigms in organizational communication scholarship and scholarly discourse.

Booknews

This collection of essays promotes constructive dialogue among the basic methodological positions in organizational communication. Essays from three distinguished scholars discuss the concept of common ground from interpretive, post-positivist, and critical vantage points. Brief commentaries from colleagues expand on key issues raised in essays, explore creative tensions among different perspectives, and reexamine the role of paradigms in organizational communication scholarship. Corman teaches communication at Arizona State University; Poole teaches speech communication at Texas A&M University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

I	Introduction
1	The Need for Common Ground	3
II	Three Essays
2	Interpreting Interpretive Research: Toward Perspectivism without Relativism	17
3	Common Ground from the Post-Positivist Perspective: From "Straw Person" Argument to Collaborative Coexistence	46
4	Common Ground from the Critical Perspective: Overcoming Binary Oppositions	68
III	Commentary
5	Commentary on Common Ground in Organizational Communication	89
6	On the Destiny of Acceptance Frames: Organizational Communication Discourse	96
7	The A Priori of the Communication Community and the Hope for Solving Real Problems	105
8	The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality in Organizational Communication Scholarship	113
9	Paradigm Skirmishes in the Review Process	120
10	Disciplinary Controversies and Interdisciplinary Consequences	128
11	A Case for a Different Kind of Dialogue: The After Action Review	135
12	Becoming Deeply Multiperspectival: Commentary on Finding Common Ground in Organizational Communication Research	144
13	"Paradigm" Critique: How to See Our Task as a Common One, and How to Work on It	152
14	Challenges for the Professional Newcomer in Doing Common Ground Research	165
15	Potential "Sites" for Building Common Ground across Metatheoretical Perspectives on Organizational Communication	175
16	Pedagogy and Paradigms: The Search for Common Ground	183
17	A Common Ground, Common Grounds, or Footbridges?	190
18	The Shifting Common Ground: Feminism(s), Organizational Communication, and Productive Paradigmatic Tensions	200
IV	Afterword
19	Reflections on Finding Common Ground	211
	Readings	225
	References	229
	Index	255
	About the Editors	261
	Contributors	262

Contesting Agriculture or Real Law Virtual Space

2009-01-09T07:38:00.000-08:00

Contesting Agriculture: Cooperativism and Privatization in the New Eastern Germany

Author: Hans C Buechler

This analysis of the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany captures the turbulent times after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent reunification of the two Germanies. Based in large part on oral histories provided by cooperative managers, newly independent family farmers, and westerners who established farms in the east, the authors examine the competitive struggle involved in the transformation from communism to capitalism. Linking the personal to the local, regional, national, and global, they develop a theory of the construction of identities out of past experiences and new challenges, in order to account for the ambiguities and contradictions inherent in the core relations and ideas that constitute the new Germany.

Author Biography: Hans C. Buechler is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University and Judith-Maria Buechler is Professor of Anthropology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Together they are the coeditors of Migrants in Europe: The Role of Family, Labor, and Politics.

New interesting textbook: Jumping Fire or Terror in the Name of God

Real Law @ Virtual Space: Communication Regulation in Cyberspace

Author: Susan J Ed J Drucker

Legislators, service providers, consumers, and courts are grappling with the liability and free expression implications of technological developments. Through the process of litigation and legislation the principles of "cyberlaw" are emerging. The technology of communication challenges developments in speech, copyright and intellectual property, and obscenity, as well as sexual harassment and jurisdictional issues. This edited volume addresses existing law and explores the issues which will require legislative and judicial attention in the near future as the law develops and focuses on communicative rights and liabilities in the mediated realm of cyberspace.

	Preface
1	Legal Geography: The Borders of Cyberlaw Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Overview	29
2	Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Intersection of Regulatory Principles and Technology	31
3	Frontiers and Legal Landscapes: As Safety Valves Open and Close	51
4	Freedom and Liability in Cyberspace: Media, Metaphors, and Paths of Regulation	71
5	Economics and the Internet: No Free Rides on the InfoBahn; The Information Superhighway Becomes a Toll Road	95
Pt. 2	Communications Decency Act	129
	Communications Decency Act: Editors' Comments	131
6	First Amendment Challenges to Restrictions on Internet Expression: Which Standard for Judicial Review?	137
7	The Old Rules May Not Apply Anymore: Technology Aversion, Virtual Communities, and the Need for Innovation in Evaluating Restrictions of Cyberspace	151
8	History and Decency: Overcoming the Threat of an Inside-Out Approach	167
9	Regulation of Indecency in Electronic Communication	183
Pt. 3	Property Interests	203
10	Copyright in a Digital World: Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace	205
11	Museums Without Walls: Property Rights and Reproduction in the World of Cyberspace	227
12	Rights of Attribution and Integrity in Online Communication	251
13	Identities, Commodities, and Information Flows: Intellectual Property Rights and the Construction of Emergent Electronic Social Spaces	267
14	Selling On, Not Out, the Internet	287
Pt. 4	Personal Liabilities	303
15	Cubby or Stratton Oakmont?: Defamatory Speech on Computer Bulletin Boards	305
16	Of Firewalls and Unlocked Doors: Expectations of Privacy	325
17	Commercial Speech in Cyberspace: The Junk E-mail Issue	349
18	Ethical Issues for a Virtual Self	371
19	Ethical and Legal Issues in E-mail Therapy	19
	Author Index	419
	Case Index	427
	Subject Index	431

Principles of Managerial Finance or Applied Derivatives

2009-01-08T21:56:00.000-08:00

Principles of Managerial Finance

Author: Lawrence Gitman

Gitman’s proven Learning Goal System—a hallmark feature of Principles of Managerial Finance—weaves pedagogy into concepts and practice, providing readers with a road map to guide them through the text and supplementary tools. The Twelfth Edition now includes an emphasis on personal finance issues to add currency and relevance to the already cohesive learning framework.

Introduction to Managerial Finance: The Role and Environment of Managerial Finance; Financial Statements and Analysis; Cash Flow and Financial Planning. Important Financial Concepts: Time Value of Money; Risk and Return; Interest Rates and Bond Valuation; Stock Valuation. Long-Term Investment Decisions: Capital Budgeting Cash Flows; Capital Budgeting Techniques; Risk and Refinements in Capital Budgeting. Long-Term Financial Decisions: The Cost of Capital; Leverage and Capital Structure; Dividend Policy. Short-Term Financial Decisions: Working Capital and Current Asset Management; Current Liabilities Management. Special Topics in Managerial Finance: Hybrid and Derivative Securities; Mergers, LBOs, Divestitures, and Business Failure; International Financial Management; Financial Institutions and Markets.

For all readers interested in managerial finance.

I. INTRODUCTION TO MANAGERIAL FINANCE
1. The Role and Environment of Managerial Finance
2. Financial Statements and Analysis
3. Cash Flow and Financial Planning

II. IMPORTANT FINANCIAL CONCEPTS
4. Time Value of Money
5. Risk and Return
6. Interest Rates and Bond Valuation
7. Stock Valuation

III. LONG-TERM INVESTMENT DECISIONS
8. Capital Budgeting Cash Flows
9. Capital Budgeting Techniques
10. Risk and Refinements in Capital Budgeting

IV. LONG-TERM FINANCIAL DECISIONS
11. The Cost of Capital
12. Leverage and Capital Structure
13. Dividend Policy

V. SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL DECISIONS
14. Working Capital and Current Asset Management
15. Current Liabilities Management

VI. SPECIAL TOPICS IN MANAGERIAL FINANCE
16. Hybrid and Derivative Securities
17. Mergers, LBOs, Divestitures, and Business Failure
18. International Financial Management

Web Chapter 19: Financial Institutions and Markets

APPENDIXES
A. Financial Tables
B. Solutions to Self-Test Problems
C. Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems
Online Appendix: Excel Tutor

Sources
Index

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Applied Derivatives

Author: Richard Rendleman

Applied Derivatives provides a detailed, yet relatively non-technical, treatment of the conceptual foundations of derivative securities markets' pricing and investment principles. This book draws from the most fundamental concepts of pricing for options, futures, and swaps to provide insight into the potential risks and returns from conventional option investing.

Applied Derivatives is supported by the website www.rendleman.com/book which contains course software referenced in the text and additional questions and problems as they become available.

Credit to the Community or Sustaining Environmental Management Success

2009-01-08T14:15:00.000-08:00

Credit to the Community (Cities and Contemporary Society): Community Reinvestment and Fair Lending Policy in the United States

Author: Dan Immergluck

"Credit to the Community provides the an examination of community reinvestment and fair lending problems and policies currently available. It outlines the history of lending discrimination and redlining in U.S. mortgage and small business lending markets and documents the persistence of such problems even today. The author explains the role that government has played in developing banking and credit markets in the United States, from the creation of Alexander Hamilton's First Bank of United States to the ongoing support government provides through the subsidization of secondary markets and the maintenance of critical regulatory infrastructure." Dan Immergluck takes issue with those calling for deregulation of financial services - especially in the arena of fair lending and consumer protection - and gives a new voice to rationales for such social contract policies as the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). He also provides a long-term analysis on the failure of federal bank regulators to enforce the CRA and shows how successful periods of increased community activism and media attention have led to sporadic periods of stronger CRA enforcement. Finally, he recommends a number of policy changes that are needed to modernize the nation's fair lending and community reinvestment laws and make them more relevant for the twenty-first century.

Sustaining Environmental Management Success: Best Business Practices from Industrial Leaders

Author: W Gary Wilson

For business and environmental professionals looking to sort through the latest trends in environmental management systems.

Sustaining Environmental Management Success is the essential guide to the latest practices and trends driving environmental management in business today. The authors, experts in this field, provide a thorough explanation of the many issues of environmental management, discussing its relationship to sustainability and value-based management. By offering real-world examples from leading companies who are pushing the envelope on environmental management practices, this book clearly lays out ways for you and your company to find and sustain success with your own initiatives. The profiles woven throughout the book emphasize key concepts and applications, as well as provide measures for assessing performance. The book also covers such key topics as writing an environmental policy, identifying environmental aspects, integrating business goals with environmental management systems, achieving sustainability, and integrating quality management initiatives.

Sustaining Environmental Management Success includes real-world examples from many U.S. and international businesses leading the way with new and effective environmental management practices, such as Chrysler, Gillette, Digital Equipment, Baxter Polaroid, Northern Telecom, Georgia-Pacific, and numerous smaller enterprises.

	Introduction
Sect. I	The Foundation
Ch. 1	On the Road to Sustainability through Environmental Management	3
Ch. 2	Trends and Drivers for Environmental Management	17
Ch. 3	Vision, Values, and Leadership	43
Sect. II	The Environmental Management System (EMS) Approach
Ch. 4	Environmental Management Systems	63
Ch. 5	Planning Your Company's EMS	79
Ch. 6	Implementing Your Company's EMS	109
Ch. 7	Monitoring and Improving EMS Performance	125
Ch. 8	Third-Party Certification	133
Ch. 9	Measuring and Reporting Environmental Performance	147
Sect. III	Integration and the Road to Value-Based Management
Ch. 10	Business, Quality, and Environmental Integration	177
Ch. 11	Value-Based Environmental Management and Sustainability	215
App. A	Information Sources	229
App. B	Environmental Terms and Definitions	235
App. C	Commonly Used Abbreviations and Acronyms	239
App. D	The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development	241
	Notes	247
	References	249
	Index	253

Document Engineering or Issues in Economics Today

2009-01-08T05:34:00.000-08:00

Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services

Author: Robert J Glushko

Much of the business transacted on the Web today takes place through information exchanges made possible by using documents as interfaces. For example, what seems to be a simple purchase from an online bookstore actually involves at least three different business collaborations--between the customer and the online catalog to select a book; between the bookstore and a credit card authorization service to verify and charge the customer's account; and between the bookstore and the delivery service with instructions for picking up and delivering the book to the customer. Document engineering is needed to analyze, design, and implement these Internet information exchanges. This book is an introduction to the emerging field of document engineering.

The authors, both leaders in the development of document engineering and other e-commerce initiatives, analyze document exchanges from a variety of perspectives. Taking a qualitative view, they look at patterns of document exchanges as components of business models; looking at documents in more detail, they describe techniques for analyzing individual transaction patterns and the role they play in the overall business process. They describe techniques for analyzing, designing, and encoding document models, including XML, and discuss the techniques and architectures that make XML a unifying technology for the next generation of e-business applications. Finally, they go beyond document models to consider management and strategic issues--the business model, or the vision, that the information exchanged in these documents serves.

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Issues in Economics Today

Author: Robert Guell

Robert Guell's Issues in Economics Today, 2e employs a unique format that allows instructors and students the flexibility to choose which issues they wish to cover in their one-semester survey course. The book begins with eight intensive core theory chapters followed by thirty shorter issues chapters that can be easily mixed and matched to create a customized course syllabus. Two additional issues chapters can be found on the book's website. In the preface, the author provides a list of suggested issues to cover in a course with specific themes, such as social policy, international issues, or business. For those instructors who want to "do it themselves," the author has also included a grid that shows which theory chapters need to be mastered before moving on to each issue.Instructors and students alike will appreciate the solid theoretical foundation as well as the intriguing and timely economic issues explored in the book, such as sports, education, and crime.

PrefaceIssues Chapter Grid Suggested Issues for Themed Courses I. Theory Chapters 1: Economics: The Study of Opportunity Cost 2: Supply and Demand 3: Elasticity, Consumer Surplus, and Producer Surplus 4: Production and Costs 5: Perfect Competition and Monopoly 6: Macroeconomic Vocabulary 7: Interest Rates and Present Value 8: Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand II. Issue Chapters Part 1: Macroeconomic Issues 9: Federal Spending 10: Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt 11: Fiscal Policy 12: Monetary Policy 13: Overstatement of the Cost of Living by the CPI Part 2: International Issues 14: International Trade 15: International Monetary Fund 16: NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO Part 3: Externalities and Market Failure 17: Tobacco, Alcohol, Illegal Drugs, and Prostitution 18: Environment Part 4: Health Issues 19: Health Care 20: Government Provision of Health Insurance 21: The Economics of Prescription Drugs Part 5: Governmental Solutions to Societal Problems (and more...)

Dont Marry Me to a Plowman or Restoring Responsibility

2009-01-07T23:51:00.000-08:00

Don't Marry Me to a Plowman!: Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India

Author: Patricia Jeffery

Popular Western images of Indian women range from submissive brides behind their veils to the powerful, active women of Indian politics. In this lively and unique book, Patricia and Roger Jeffery present a different perspective on women’s lives. Focusing on the mundane rather than the exotic, they explore the complex interplay between the power of social structures to constrain individuals and the ways women negotiate these constraints to carve out places for themselves.Based on information collected by the authors during their research in villages in Bijnor District, western Uttar Pradesh, the volume offers eight life histories of Hindu and Muslim women. The women’s life histories present a variety of class positions and domestic circumstances, illustrating many aspects of north Indian village life. Interspersed with thematic discussions composed of dialogues, episodes, and songs, the life histories deal with topics of vital concern for women in rural north India: the birth of children, worries about dowry, arranging weddings, sexual politics in marriage, relationships with in-laws, relationships with natal kin, and widowhood.

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Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Healthcare

Author: Dennis F Thompson

Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. Thompson suggests that we stop thinking about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability).

Part II. Varieties of Institutional Failure:
6. Democratic secrecy: the dilemma of accountability;
7. Mediated corruption: the case of the Keating Five;
8. Election time: normative implications of temporal properties of the electoral process in the US;
9. Hypocrisy and democracy;
10. Private life and public office;

Part III. Extensions of Institutional Responsibility:
11. Restoring distrust: the ethics of oversight;
12. The institutional turn in professional ethics;
13. Hospital ethics;
14. Understanding financial conflicts of interest in medicine;
15. The privatization of business ethics;
16. Democratic theory and global society.

Medical Office Procedures or Management of a Sales Force

2009-01-07T14:10:00.000-08:00

Medical Office Procedures: With Computer Simulation Text-Workbook with CD-ROM

Author: Karonne Becklin

Medical Office Procedures 5e by Becklin is a text-workbook that introduces and describes the tasks of a medical assistant's career; teaches records management, medical communications, and scheduling skills; and describes procedures for preparing patients' charts and bills. Practice management and finances are also addressed. Multi-day simulations provide real-world experience with physician dictation.

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Management of a Sales Force

Author: William J J Stanton

Management of the Sales Force covers the concepts and applies the theories associated with managing a sales force. The sales management course is offered in most marketing departments. In some cases you will find the sales management and selling course have merged (which is one reason why we've added a new chapter on personal selling to appeal to the widest audience.)This is the #1 selling text in this market. It has been praised over the years for being practical, applied, and student friendly. Previously known as Stanton, Buskirk and Spiro, the tenth edition marks Rosann Spiro's leadership role and thus, the cover reflects this change by including only Bill Standon and Rosann Spiro's names.

Part I: Introduction to Sales Force Management1. The Field of Sales Force Management 2. Strategic Sales Force Management 3. The Personal Selling Process Part II: Organizing, Staffing, and Training a Sales Force 4. Sales Force Organization 5. Profiling and Recruiting Salespeople 6. Selecting Salespeople 7. Hiring and Socializing New Salespeople 8. Developing, Delivering and Reinforcing a Sales Training Program Part III: Directing Sales Force Operations 9. Motivating a Sales Force 10. Sales Force Compensation 11. Sales Force Expenses and Transportation 12. Leadership and Supervision of a Sales Force 13. Sales Force Morale Part IV: Sales Planning 14. Estimating Market Potential and Forecasting Sales 15. Sales Territories 16. Sales Budgets and Quotas Part V. Evaluating Sales Performance 17. Analysis of Sales Volume 18. Marketing Cost and Profitability Analysis 19. Evaluating a Sales Person's Performance 20. Ethical and Legal Responsibilities of Sales Managers (and more...)

Human Resource Management7th Edition or Services Marketing Management

2009-01-07T07:29:00.000-08:00

Human Resource Management,7th Edition

Author: David A Decenzo

This text provides a current, real-world perspective that gives readers a crystal-clear picture of what today's HRM is really like. Emphasizing the application of theory, the Seventh Edition carefully integrates real examples with the most up-to-date information available.

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Services Marketing Management: A Strategic Perspective

Author: Hans Kasper

In order to deliver excellent service quality, it is critical to understand, create and deliver real value to all stakeholders. The second edition of Services Marketing Management has been thoroughly revised and restructured to provide the students with an overview of services marketing from this clear strategic orientation. It includes:

• A linking of five core guiding principles: market orientation, assets and capabilities, characteristics of services, internationalization and the value concept

• New coverage of electronic services

• Many 'Service Practice' boxes, featuring examples from all of the world

• End of chapter review questions and practical assignments

• Full length cases at the end of the book with accompanying exercises

‘An up-to-date, comprehensive and truly global treatment of services marketing management with new insights for every reader.’
Leonard L. Berry, Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Mays Business School and author of Discovering the Soul of Service

‘This book is a very valuable addition to the services marketing literature. Its logical structure and clarity of expression will make it extremely appealing to students and lecturers.’
Steve Oakes, University of Liverpool

‘This is a must for students, teachers and practitioners in services marketing.’
Kjell Grønhaug, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

‘This is anacademically rigorous text with a strong European focus – excellent.’
Jill Brown, Portsmouth Business School

‘Services Marketing Management: a comprehensive and completely up-to-date book based on an excellent combination of modern theory and actual practice.’
Peter Leeflang, Frank M. Bass Professor of Marketing, University of Groningen and Professor at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University at Frankfurt am Main

‘This excellent textbook has got what it strongly deserved: a second edition. I particularly appreciate:

• the consequent focus on market and customer orientation

• the integration of business-to-business services

• the overarching HRM perspective and

• the refined didactic approach not self-evident in other service management textbooks.

What a service for the reader!’
Bernd Günter, Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf

1	The world of services	4
2	Fundamentals of services marketing management	52
3	Buyer behaviour and segmentation	90
4	Service relationships and brands	140
5	Service quality	174
6	Market strategies for service organizations	214
7	Internationalizing services	260
8	Services and e-services	306
9	Service innovation	340
10	People, process and physical evidence	370
11	Creating the service experience : place, promotion and price	398
12	Implementation, performance and control	442
13	Case studies	488

Texture of Industry or Liberalization and Foreign Policy

2009-01-06T22:48:00.000-08:00

Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America

Author: Robert B Gordon

The Texture of Industry looks at the industrialization of North America from the perspective of the industrial archaeologist. This heavily illustrated study demonstrates the value of material evidence in the interpretation of the past. Using examples that range from Indian steatite quarries to automobile plants and coal mines, the authors examine manufacturing technology, transportation systems, and the effects of industrialization on the land. While historians have given ample attention to stories of entrepreneurship, heroic invention, and labor conflict, they have told us little about actual workplaces and the skills employed in them. Americans from past generations seldom wrote about their daily work. However, they did leave us examples of their tools, products, shops, and factories. They also left us industrial landscapes and communities that speak eloquently of the costs associated with the production of wealth from natural resources. Industrial archaeologists study physical traces in combination with documents and other sources. Their research has greatly expanded our understanding of industry and focused attention on the contributions of anonymous artisans who applied their skills to shape our industrial heritage. The incremental, unrecorded innovations of countless workers are finally brought to light in this pathbreaking book.

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Liberalization and Foreign Policy

Author: Miles Kahler

Unlike other studies of democratization and economic reform, this volume covers both economic and political liberalization in nine essays by scholars who illuminate a new agenda in international relations.
The book takes as its subject the global wave of political liberalization that has arisen since the mid-1970s and the even wider trend toward liberal economic policies in the 1980s. Filling the gap left by neorealism, which has failed to address such upheavals as the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Liberalization and Foreign Policy discusses how the foreign policy effects of liberalization support new democratic regimes and help launch economic reforms-but do not guarantee full democratization.
The authors discuss how democracies engage in foreign policies that are vastly different from those of other regimes; the comparison of transitional or liberalizing democracies in Spain, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa to established democracies like the United States; the noteworthy outcome of economic liberalization; and the strategies of collaboration within international institutions such as the European Community and NATO.

	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Liberalization and Foreign Policy	1
Pt. I	Liberal Democracies and Their Foreign Policies	25
1	Democratic States and Commitment in International Relations	27
2	Legislative Influence and International Engagement	67
3	Democratic States and International Disputes	105
Pt. II	Political Liberalization and Foreign Policy: Cross-Regional Comparisons	119
4	Democratization and Foreign Policy in the Arab World; The Domestic Origins of the Jordanian and Algerian Alliances in the 1991 Gulf War	121
5	Political Liberalization and the African State System	143
6	Liberalization and Foreign Policy in East Europe	165
7	From Reluctant Choices to Credible Commitments: Foreign Policy and Economic and Political Liberalization - Spain, 1953-1986	193
Pt. III	Economic Liberalization, International Institutions, and Foreign Policy	235
8	Economic Liberalization and the Policy of European Monetary Integration	237
9	Financial Liberalization and Regional Monetary Cooperation: The Mexican Case	269
	Conclusion: Liberalization as Foreign Policy Determinant and Goal	287
	Index	315

Study Guide for Use with Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts or Effective Measurement and Management of It Costs and Benefits

2009-01-06T15:08:00.000-08:00

Study Guide for Use with Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts

Author: Thomas P Edmonds

Prepared by Phil Olds, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Effective Measurement and Management of It Costs and Benefits: Key Issues

Author: Dan Remenyi

The rapidly increasing level of expenditure on information technology in most organisations is one reason why IT benefits management has become an important business concern.

Top management have begun to insist that much more attention be paid to the economic aspects of information systems. This had led to a great demand for a comprehensive IT metric. However, little attempt has yet been made to produce a complete approach to understanding the economics of how information is used to boost the efficiency or effectiveness of companies.

This second and fully updated edition of The Effective Measurement and Management of IT Costs and Benefits provides a basic framework for an understanding of the economic issues of information as well as some suggestions as to how a company's IT efforts may be appraised.

The authors discuss a number of different evaluation concepts as well as reviewing several approaches to cost and benefit measurement. An IT Assessment Metric (ITAM) is proposed which allows firms to measure their progress towards obtaining maximum value from their information technology efforts.

- A professional level book for the computer Weekly Professional Series- Provides a basic framework for an understanding of the economic issues of information as well as some suggestions as to how a company's IT efforts may be appraised.

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British contributors with both academic and industrial credentials examine the role information plays in helping companies conceive, produce, and deliver goods and services. Theoretical chapters discuss the nature of information technology investment and the benefits to be derived from it. Practical chapters provide guidelines about issues such as business case accounting, ranking and scoring techniques, and user information systems surveys. The second edition incorporates findings on the matter since the 1995 first. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Power in Motion or Neoliberalism Revisited

2009-01-06T08:27:00.000-08:00

Power in Motion: Capital Mobility and the Indonesian State

Author: Jeffrey Winters

Departing from more abstract treatments of globalization, this innovative approach to changing power relations in contemporary capitalism builds on a textured account of Indonesian politics since 1965. Extending insights on the structural power of those controlling capital, Jeffrey A. Winters argues that the relative mobility of capital is becoming a better predictor of the interests and leverage of investors than is its nationality. The question now, he believes, is less whether capital is foreign or domestic than whether it is mobile or immobile. We are, he asserts, witnessing a "locational revolution" as profound as the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century. Power in Motion offers a portrait of Indonesian politics from the fall of President Sukarno, through the oil booms and busts of the 1970s and 1980s, and into the 1990s. Analyzing the political and economic shifts during these periods, Winters uses Indonesia to explore how the structural power of capital controllers varies across place and time. He also illustrates how a focus on capital mobility illuminates a broad range of issues in developing and advanced industrial countries. A clearer understanding of the power of capital is, he contends, important for communities struggling for meaningful democracy.

	List of Figures
	Preface
1	The Structural Power of Capital Controllers	1
2	The Preboom Years, 1965-1974: Investor Confidence and Political Contradictions	47
3	The Oil Boom, 1974-1982: Structural Leverage and State Indifference	95
4	Capital's Power Restored, 1982 to the Present	142
5	Capital Mobility: Applications and Comparisons	192
	References	223
	Index	235

Neoliberalism Revisited: Economic Restructuring and Mexico's Political Future

Author: Gerardo Otero

Having unilaterally opened its borders to international competition and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico has become one of the world’s leading proponents of economic liberalization. Nevertheless, as the recent uprising of native peoples in Chiapas has made clear, economic reforms are not universally welcomed.This book addresses the challenges brought about by the restructuring of the Mexican economy at a time when multiple organizations of civil society are demanding a democratic political transition in a system that has been dominated by one party for nearly seventy years. The contributors identify the key social and political actors—both domestic and international—involved in promoting or resisting the new economic model and examine the role of the state in the restructuring process. They explore such questions as: In what ways is the state itself being reconstituted to accommodate the demand for change? How have Canada and the United States responded to the increased internationalization of their economies? What are the challenges and prospects for transnational grassroots networks and labor solidarity?Answers are provided by scholars from anthropology, economics, history, political science, and sociology, all of whom promote interdisciplinary approaches to the issues. Each chapter traces the structural transformations within the central social relationships in Mexican society during the last decade or so and anticipates future consequences of today’s changes.

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Walden (former Bush Administration White House counsel) examines ethics laws and regulations in relation to the Clinton administration, recommending various government ethics reforms. He addresses the myriad conflicts the administration has faced during its term: the Health Care Task Force, the White House Travel Office firings, Whitewater, and allegations leading to the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy. The volume is the result of the Hudson's Project on Civil Justice Reform. Distributed by The Brookings Institution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	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

	Acknowledgments
1	The Emergence of Drug Testing	1
2	The Drug-Testing Industry	21
3	The Detox Industry	56
4	Drug Testing as Social Monitoring and Control	98
5	The Politics of Resistance	115
	Appendix	156
	Notes	161
	References	165
	Index	173
	About the Author	179

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