Timed Readings or Leading Your Team to Excellence

Timed Readings: Book 8, Vol. 8

Author: Edward Spargo

Do your students fail to even finish a timed test? Do they read word by word? Do they simply move their eyes over the page, never remembering what they read?

If you suspect that students' test scores are being confounded by any of these traits, or if you have students who need to process greater amounts of information, the Timed Readings books can help.

For over thirty years, Jamestown has been helping students increase their reading rate and fluency while maintaining comprehension.

Timed Readings is the original series of timed reading books; 400-word nonfiction timed passages in science, social studies, the humanities, and more.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the StudentHow to Use This Book Instructions for the Pacing Drills Steps to Faster Reading Step 1: Preview Step 2: Read for Meaning Step 3: Grasp Paragraph Sense Step 4: Organize Facts Timed Reading Selections Answer Key Progress Graph Pacing Graph

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Leading Your Team to Excellence: How to Make Quality Decisions

Author: Elaine K McEwan

"This book is particularly well-organized. It will be an invaluable resource for educators who are interested in leading their teams to excellence."

Ren T. Snyder, Associate Principal
Flowing Wells High School, Tucson, Arizona

This book provides the tools and decision-making skills to help propel your school to excellence. McEwan shows you, step-by-step, how to create and sustain an effective, dynamic, site-based decision-making team at your school. Share the responsibility for leadership and improve the quality of every decision your group makes.

You'll learn how to:   

• Introduce and nourish the "teaming" concept
• Create a flexible team structure
• Master the necessary skills for successful decision making
• Choose the right group process for each problem-solving situation
• Unleash the power and productivity in your staff (and yourself)

Begin by building shared values, mutual trust, and teamwork abilities to make working together more productive. Lead your group in developing creative new ideas for solving old problems. Share critical information among group members. Your team will learn to improve and streamline its decision-making process and develop better strategies for dealing with conflict. Your newly empowered site-based management group will share commitment, success, and the realization of a job well done--together. Your quality decision making team can share the benefits with everyone at your school and create your school's future as a real teaching and learning community.

Timed Readings Plus Book Eight or Politics in Chile

Timed Readings Plus, Book Eight, Vol. 8

Author: Edward Spargo

Do your students fail to even finish a timed test? Do they read word by word? Do they simply move their eyes over the page, neverremembering what they read?

If you suspect that students' test scores are being confounded by any of these traits, or if you have students who need to process greater amounts of information, the Timed Readings books can help.

For over thirty years, Jamestown has been helping students increase their reading rate and fluency while maintaining comprehension.

Timed Readings Plus contains 400-word nonfiction timed passages followed by related fiction passages.

Table of Contents:

To the InstructorHow to Use This Book Part A: Reading Faster and Better Step 1: Preview Step 2: Read for Meaning Step 3: Grasp Paragraph Sense Step 4: Organize Facts Part B: Reading Faster and Better Recognizing Words in Context Distinguishing Fact from Opinion Keeping Events in Order Making Correct Inferences Understanding Main Ideas Timed Readings Plus Lessons Answer Key Graphs Reading Rate Comprehension Score Comprehension Skills Profile

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Politics in Chile: Socialism, Authoritarianism, and Market Democracy, Vol. 3

Author: Lois Oppenheim

The third edition of Politics in Chile provides significantly updated coverage of Chilean politics and economic development from the return to civilian rule in 1990 to the 2006 election and early administration of Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first woman president. Lois Hecht Oppenheim focuses on recent efforts to reconstruct democratic practices and institutions, including resolving such sensitive and lingering issues as human-rights violations under Pinochet and civil-military relations.

Chapters on the contemporary politics and economics under the civilian Concertaciуn governments are largely rewritten for this edition. Rather than focusing on the "search for development," the third edition considers in greater depth the "exceptionalism" of the Chilean economic experiment through successive stages of stability, socialism, and neoliberalism.

Public Spaces Private Lives or Economy Environment Development Knowledge

Public Spaces, Private Lives: Beyond the Culture of Cynicism

Author: Henry A Giroux

Offers progressive readers new and reinvigorated paths of engaged hope, imagination and public involvement.

Library Journal

In each of the five densely written chapters of this ardent critique of American society and politics, educational and cultural critic Giroux (Channel Surfing: Racism, the Media, and the Destruction of Today's Youth) rails against what he perceives to be the pervasive impact of corporatization, commercialization, neo-liberalism, privatization, and consumerism. He quotes from a variety of like-minded social critics (such as Zygmunt Bauman and Stanley Aronowitz), as well as from his own prolific writings, to substantiate his claim that the forces of capitalism have foisted an individualistic ethic on our society at the expense of the common good. An afterword by Douglas Kellner tries to illuminate Giroux's main arguments, although his writing is sometimes as difficult to decipher as Giroux's overlong sentences. Lay readers would be better off reading Jonathan Kozol's moving and incisive critiques of the American educational system and society because they highlight more clearly the societal ills that Giroux excoriates. For large academic libraries and specialized education collections. Jack Forman, San Diego Mesa Coll. Lib. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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Economy-Environment-Development-Knowledge

Author: Ken Col

To understand, contrast, and compare alternative understandings of economic, environmental and development issues, we need to be aware why theorists conceptualize the process of social experience so differently. By addressing the disagreements between theorists, this book provides a unique basis to contrast and compare the plethora of theories of, and policies for, economic prosperity, environmental sustainability, and social progress.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Prologue: What can we know about the world?	1
1	The scientific parameters of social existence	5
Pt. I	Economy	21
2	The economy	23
3	The consumer as economic dynamic: the subjective preference theory of value	33
4	The producer as economic dynamic: the cost-of-production theory of value	49
5	The citizen as economic dynamic: the abstract labour theory of value	63
Pt. II	Environment	89
6	Environment	91
7	The environment as a source of pleasure: egocentrism	99
8	The environment as a productive resource: ecocentrism	121
9	The environment and social evolution: sociocentrism	135
Pt. III	Development	153
10	Development	155
11	Development as the fulfilment of individuals' potentials: modernization	167
12	Development as fulfilling the technical potentials of cooperation: structuralism	183
13	Development as the fulfilment of people's social potentials: class struggle	201
Pt. IV	Knowledge	217
14	Knowledge	219
15	What? Identifying events: positivism	229
16	How? Explaining systems: paradigms	237
17	Why? Understanding processes: praxis	245
18	Intellectual panorama, ideological vision, and political view	257
	Epilogue: what do we know about the world?	271
	References	273
	Index	297

Digital Crossroads or Electricity Fluid Power and Mechanical Systems for Industrial Maintenance

Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age

Author: Jonathan E Nuechterlein

With a new preface for the paperback edition

Telecommunications policy profoundly affects the economy and our everyday lives. Yet accounts of important telecommunications issues tend to be either superficial (and inaccurate) or mired in jargon and technical esoterica. In Digital Crossroads, Jonathan Nuechterlein and Philip Weiser offer a clear, balanced, and accessible analysis of competition policy issues in the telecommunications industry. After giving a big picture overview of the field, they present sharply reasoned analyses of the major technological, economic, and legal developments confronting communications policymakers in the twenty-first century.

Since the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, when Congress fundamentally reoriented the existing regulatory scheme, no book has cogently explained the intricacies of telecommunications competition policy in the Internet age for general readers, students, and practitioners alike. Digital Crossroads meets this need, focusing on the regulatory dimensions of competition in wireline and wireless telephone service; competition among rival platforms for broadband Internet service and video distribution; and the Internet's transformation of every aspect of the telecommunications industry, particularly through the emergence of "voice over Internet protocol" (VoIP). The authors explain not just the complicated legal issues governing the industry, but also the rapidly changing technological and economic context in which these issues arise. The book includes extensive endnotes and tables that cover relevant court decisions, FCC orders, and academic commentaries; a glossary of acronyms; astatutory addendum containing the most important provisions of federal telecommunications law; and two appendixes with information on more specialized topics. Supplementary materials for students are available at spot.colorado.edu/~weiserpj.

Table of Contents:

1	The big picture	1
2	Introduction to wireline telecommunications	31
3	Wireline competition under the 1996 Act	69
4	A primer on Internet technology	115
5	Monopoly leveraging concerns and the Internet	149
6	VoIP and proposals for "horizontal" regulation	191
7	The spectrum	225
8	Mobile wireless services	261
9	Intercarrier compensation	291
10	Universal service in the age of competition	333
11	Competition in the delivery of television programming	357
12	Telecommunications standards, technological transitions, and digital television	385
13	The future of telecommunications policy	407
App. A	The pricing of network elements	431
App. B	Enforcement mechanisms under the 1996 Act	455

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Electricity, Fluid Power, and Mechanical Systems for Industrial Maintenance

Author: Thomas E Kissell

This book reflects the recent shift in industry that finds companies consolidating employees from multiple trades—such as electricians, mechanics, pipe fitters, and hydraulic technicians—into a single position deemed "mechanic." Specifically designed to meet this change and prepare students for the new job classification, it provides an integrated presentation of the tools and techniques for troubleshooting electrical systems, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and mechanical systems of modern machines.

Booknews

A text on operational theory, installation, and troubleshooting of three major systems found in nearly all industrial machines, focusing on the interactions and interdependence of these systems. Emphasis is on troubleshooting and repair. Contains sections on safety, and electrical, fluid power, and mechanical systems, with material on electricity presented in several subsections. Includes chapter objectives, questions, quizes, and problems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Us China Trade Disputes or Organizing

Us-China Trade Disputes: Rising Tide, Rising Stakes

Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer

Since its accession to the World Trade Organization, China has become the United States' third-largest trading partner and the sixth-largest market for US exports. Between 2000 and 2005, US imports from China rose from $100 billion to $243 billion, while US exports to China climbed from $16 billion to $42 billion. As China continues its rise as a great economic power, the US Congress and administration wrestle over the proper tactics and strategies to shape US-China economic relations. What major disputes - ongoing and looming on the horizon - will shape US-China relations? What can be done to resolve or at least manage them? This book suggests policies for both sides.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	The revaluation debate	11
3	Textiles and clothing	29
4	Intellectual property rights	39
5	The CNOOC case	47
6	Semiconductor chips and automobile parts	55
7	Antidumping disputes	63
8	Conclusion	75
App. A	Tables	83
App. B	Safeguards and antidumping remedies against textile and clothing imports	95
App. C	Short history of US-Japan trade frictions	97

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Organizing: A Guide for Grassroots Leaders

Author: Si Kahn

Organizing is a dynamic guide to uniting people for change and helping people work together to get things done. It describes how to influence power structures, how to become successful organizers and fundraisers, and how to effect social change through grassroots organization and mobilization.
Special Features

* Distinguishes practicality and theory
* Presents step-by-step guidelines for change
* Provides a framework for multiracial organizing.

Design for the Environment or Investments

Design for the Environment

Author: T E Graedel

Concentrating on the preservation and enhancement of the environment, this ecologically conscious book discusses the effects of industrial actions on the environment, focusing on environmental clean-up from our past while working towards future, environmentally-sound industrial growth.

FEATURES:

• Offers a one-of-a-kind topic coverage on design for the environment - a vital but seldom-studied aspect of engineering design.
• Includes extensive appendices to enhance understanding and for further reference.
• Provides a succinct treatment of applied aspects of DFE.

Table of Contents:

1. Technology and Environment.


2. Industrial Design of Processes and Products.


3. Designing for Energy and Efficiency.


4. Industrial Process Residues: Composition and Minimization.


5. Choosing Materials.


6. Product Delivery: Packing, Transport, and Installation.


7. Environmental Interactions During Product Use.


8. Design for Recycling.


9. DFE Assessments of Products and Processes.


10. Implementing DFE in the Corporation.

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Investments: An Introduction

Author: Herbert B Mayo

Covering the same topics found in more advanced-level texts, Investments incorporates minimal math and is much more student-friendly, resulting in an increased excitement for and understanding of the basic investment course material. It is the text of choice for the College of Financial Planning. It includes a strong focus on the individual financial planner and features a "Financial Advisor's Investment Case" at the end of each chapter. These short cases illustrate how text material applies to real investment decisions. Financial calculators are introduced and utilized throughout the text with explanations employing both interest tables and the calculator. It is also ideal for non-majors courses.

Booknews

This weighty textbook covers the environment of investment and offers detailed discussion on common stock, fixed-income securities, derivatives, and portfolio management. Specific chapters discuss topics like the creation of assets, security markets, taxes, risk, dividends, bonds, government securities, futures, foreign securities, non-financial assets, and portfolio planning. Numerous examples and illustrations underscore key points. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Splintering Urbanism or Economics of Professional Team Sports

Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

Author: Steve Graham

This work offers a path-breaking analysis of the nature of the urban condition at the start of the new millennium. Adopting a global and interdisciplinary perspective, it reveals how new technologies and increasingly privatised systems of infrastructure provision--telecommunications, highways, urban streets, energy, and water--are supporting the splintering of metropolitan areas across the world.

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Economics of Professional Team Sports

Author: Paul Downward

A detailed survey of the economic literature on sporting leagues, the demand for professional team sports and the players' labor market.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
Sect. A	The market, industry and firm in professional team sports	11
2	The market structure of professional team sports leagues: general themes	13
3	The market structure of professional team sports leagues: the firm in professional team sports	27
4	Cross-subsidisation in professional team sports leagues	42
Sect. B	The demand for professional team sports	67
5	Theoretical and empirical issues	69
6	Traditional findings and new developments	100
7	The uncertainty of outcome hypothesis: theoretical and empirical issues	130
8	Broadcast demand and the impact of television	157
Sect. C	The labour market in professional team sports	181
9	The traditional view: theory and evidence	183
10	Recent developments: theory and evidence	203
	Conclusions	235
	Bibliography	239
	Index	245

Show Business Law or Mexican Economy 1870 1930

Show Business Law: Motion Pictures, Television, Video

Author: Peter Muller

This comprehensive work provides a thorough discussion of the procedures, timing, and agreements used in the motion picture, television, and video industries. Written in an easy-to-understand style, the book functions as a hands-on guide to the contracts used in show business, providing model contracts and explaining why specific clauses are employed and what the mutual benefits of each may be. Among the topics covered are the personal manager, agent, actor, director, and screen writer agreements; worldwide motion picture distribution and licensing for television; pay-per-view and home video; and endorsements.

Table of Contents:

The Acquisition of Motion Picture Rights by Option
The Personal Manager Agreement
The Agent Agreement
The Actor Agreement
The Screen Writer Agreement
The Producer Agreement
The Director Agreement
Master Recording Use for a Motion Picture and Synchronization Rights
The Motion Picture Distribution Agreement: The Worldwide Pick-Up Deal
The Pay-Per-View Agreement
Licensing Feature Films for Television Syndication
International Coproductions
The Home Video License Agreement
Endorsements
Independent Production Financing
The Attorney and the Accountant
Appendix A: Copyright Registration Forms
Appendix B: Labor Organizations and Associations
Bibliography
Index

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Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth

Author: Jeff L Bortz

Until the last decades of the nineteenth century, Mexico faced the twin problems of chronic political instability and slow economic growth. During the period of the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship (1876-1911), however, a series of institutional reforms reignited growth and created rents that enabled the Díaz government to threaten its opponents with military force or to buy them off.

These institutional reforms came out of distinctly political processes, which often had to be brokered among multiple groups of economic elites and regional political bosses. Therefore, they were often structured to encourage investment by specifying property rights or creating streams of rents for particular entrepreneurs. In short, Porfirian Mexico is an excellent natural laboratory in which to investigate not only how institutional change can foment economic growth, but also how specific features of political institutions give rise to specific economic institutions that have both positive and negative effects on growth and distribution.

In fact, the distributional consequences of the Porfirian regime gave rise to the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917, which produced a further round of dramatic changes in Mexico's political institutions. These changes, in turn, restructured the institutions that governed property rights and those that determined the allocation of rents generated by property rights. This book aims both to identify the crucial institutions and to measure their economic effects.

In addressing these issues, the contributors to this volume employ theoretical insights from the New Institutional Economics and statistical hypothesis-testing as well as traditionalarchival methods. Thus, in addition to advancing the field of Latin American economic history by studying the interaction of political and economic institutions during the period 1870-1930, the book also makes a methodological contribution by using analytic tools not previously employed in the literature.

Booknews

Bortz (history, Appalachian State U.) and Haber (history and political science, Stanford U.) 10 articles that study the impact of changing institutions on the performance and nature of the Mexican economy between 1876 and 1930. The purpose is both to understand Mexican history and to use it as an experimental model for understanding the nature of institutional change on economies in general. The 55-year period covered witnessed two major waves of institutional change, the first through the reign of Porfirio Diaz and the second with the coming of the revolution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Through My Own Eyes or The Therapists Emotional Survival

Through My Own Eyes: Single Mothers and the Cultures of Poverty

Author: Susan Holloway

Shirl is a single mother who urges her son's baby-sitter to swat him when he misbehaves. Helena went back to work to get off welfare, then quit to be with her small daughter. Kathy was making good money but got into cocaine and had to give up her two-year-old son during her rehabilitation. Pundits, politicians, and social critics have plenty to say about such women and their behavior. But in this book, for the first time, we hear what these women have to say for themselves. An eye-opening--and heart-rending--account from the front lines of poverty, Through My Own Eyes offers a firsthand look at how single mothers with the slimmest of resources manage from day to day. We witness their struggles to balance work and motherhood and watch as they negotiate a bewildering maze of child-care and social agencies.

For three years the authors followed the lives of fourteen women from poor Boston neighborhoods, all of whom had young children and had been receiving welfare intermittently. We learn how these women keep their families on firm footing and try--frequently in vain--to gain ground. We hear how they find child-care and what they expect from it, as well as what the childcare providers have to say about serving low-income families. Holloway and Fuller view these lives in the context of family policy issues touching on the disintegration of inner cities, welfare reform, early childhood and "pro-choice" poverty programs.

Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare - Jill Duerr Berrik

Through My Own Eyes is a thoughtful book that adds to our knowledge about poverty in America.

Library Journal

Over a three-year period, Berkeley professors Holloway and Bruce Fuller and independent scholars Marielee F. Rambaud and Constanza Eggers-Pirola interviewed 14 poor, single-parent women of Anglo, Latina, African American background in the Boston area to learn about their attitudes and beliefs toward parenting, employment, and welfare. This in-depth study reveals similarities and variations in these womens' approaches to (mostly) common goals of attaining self-reliance, education, and respect for themselves and their children. The authors strongly suggest that policymakers, educators, professionals, and community members (to all of whom this book is addressed) understand the underlying ambitions and key influences of these families' differing cultural milieus, resource availability, and attitudes when planning what should be a mix of programs to help them escape the poverty that precludes their independence and hurts our society as a whole. Recommended.Suzanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Alfred, Lib.

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The Therapist's Emotional Survival

Author: Stuart D Perlman

This book explores the private thoughts of the therapist in response to the patient's inner expressions and how each affects the other over the course of treatment. Stuart Perlman documents his own journey of having treated trauma and sexually abused patients over many years. He details the issues the therapist needs to deal with, the emotional strain, how the therapist's own traumas and history shape his behavior and intrude into the therapeutic process, and how he and others he has supervised have come to manage this difficult process and maintain emotional health. Dr. Perlman illustrates this with powerful revealing of his thoughts, dreams, memories, history, personal psychotherapy, and emotional reactions.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	The Patient-Therapist Relationship
1	Pioneers	5
2	The Survivor's Shattered Existence	15
3	Bearing the Pain of Treatment	23
4	My Introduction to Treating Sexually Abused and Traumatized Patients	41
5	Therapist Rescue Fantasies	57
6	Therapy Openings	65
Pt. II	Openings to Trauma and Pain
	First Stage of Treatment: Establishing Safety and Connection	77
7	Will You Hurt, Ignore, or Help Me? Fear and Self-Protection	81
8	Can I Take Control Over My Own Physical and Emotional Needs?	97
9	Can You Hear Me?	107
	Second Stage of Treatment: Deep Experience	117
10	Can You Listen to the Trauma and Validate Me?	121
11	Am I Lovable? Feeling Deep Love and Bonding	135
12	Can You See Me? Discontinuous and Shattered Existence	145
13	Who Is Bad and Who Is the Abuser?	169
14	Is This My Body? Touch	177
15	Can You Believe in Ritual Abuse?	189
Pt. III	Emotional Survival
16	Reality, Countertransference, and the False Memory Controversy: Guidelines	209
17	Therapist Survival: Concluding Perspectives and Strategies	231
	References	241
	Index	249

Integrated Strategic Change or Organizational Communication

Integrated Strategic Change: How Organizational Development Builds Competitive Advantage

Author: Christopher G Worley

In Integrated Strategic Change, Chris Worley, David Hitchin, and Walter Ross describe a process model of change that leads organizations through strategic analysis, strategy making, and the development and implementation of a strategic change plan. By integrating the process orientation of OD with the content orientation of strategy, an organizational capability is produced that helps organizations understand when and how to make fundamental strategic change. The book is written for human resource executives, strategic planners, and line managers interested in improving the quality of strategic implementation. It can also serve as a supplemental text for business strategy courses that wish to emphasize process approaches to strategy or strategic change.

Booknews

Integrating the process orientation of Organizational Development with the content orientation of strategy, the authors present a model of change and show how organizations can learn when and how to make fundamental strategic changes. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	Organization Development, Strategic Change, and Industrial Competitiveness	1
2	The Integrated Strategic Change Model	12
3	Performing A Strategic Analysis: The VIP Process	26
4	Strategic Analysis: Diagnosing Strategic Orientation	44
5	The Process of Strategy Making: Visioning and Choice	66
6	Strategy Making: Designing A Strategic Orientation	85
7	Developing the Strategic Change Plan	106
8	Implementing the Strategic Change Plan	124
9	ISC As A Competitive Advantage	137
	References	155

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Organizational Communication: Theory and Behavior

Author: Peggy Yunas Byers

Here is a new edited book that provides in-depth coverage of human communication in modern organizations. The exploration of topics such as chaos theory, gender, diversity, conflict, culture, ethics, technology, consulting and creativity is designed to present readers with both theoretical and practical information about how people communicate within organizations. This contributed volume of chapters contains the work of well-known authors: Cynthia Berryman-Fink, Julie M. Billingsley, Alberto Gonzalez, Susan A. Hellweg, Valerie Manusov, David R. Neumann, Raymond M. O'Connor, Jr., John Parrish-Sprowl, Ann L. Plamondon, Dale L. Shannon, Timothy Neal Thompson, Phillip K. Tompkins, Angela Trethewey, Ethel M. Wilcox, James R. Wilcox, Jennifer Willis, and Cory Young.Business Owners, Corporate Trainers, and Human Resources Professionals.

Strategic Alliances as Social Facts or Psychology of Legitimacy

Strategic Alliances as Social Facts: Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History

Author: Mark de Rond

Strategic alliances are generally analyzed as planned and rational developments with clearly measurable outcomes in traditional management textbooks. Mark de Rond argues that such a view is unrealistic. Instead, he emphasizes the social dimension and the importance of the individuals involved inside alliances. Based on in-depth case studies of three major biotechnology alliances, the book combines insights from social theory and intellectual history with more mainstream strategic management literature. It provides a thought-provoking analysis that appeals to the reflective professional as well as academic researchers.

Interesting textbook: Common Sense or While America Aged

Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations

Author: John T Jost

This book addresses how people think about inequalities of race, gender, class, status, and power, and it focuses on why social inequality is perceived as fair and legitimate. Work on stereotyping and internalization of inferiority helps to explain why the oppressed do not revolt. The book has important implications for leadership and politics and for understanding how businesses and governments maintain their legitimacy to customers and public audiences.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	List of Contributors
1	Emerging Perspectives on the Psychology of Legitimacy	3
2	Theories of Legitimacy	33
3	Reflections on Social and Psychological Processes of Legitimization and Delegitimization	54
4	A Perceptual Theory of Legitimacy: Politics, Prejudice, Social Institutions, and Moral Value	77
5	Blame It on the Group: Entitativity, Subjective Essentialism, and Social Attribution	103
6	Status versus Quo: Naive Realism and the Search for Social Change and Perceived Legitimacy	135
7	Tolerance of Personal Deprivation	157
8	Legitimacy and the Construal of Social Disadvantage	176
9	Individual Upward Mobility and the Perceived Legitimacy of Intergroup Relations	205
10	Restricted Intergroup Boundaries: Tokenism, Ambiguity, and the Tolerance of Injustice	223
11	The Emergence of Status Beliefs: From Structural Inequality to Legitimizing Ideology	257
12	Ambivalent Stereotypes as Legitimizing Ideologies: Differentiating Paternalistic and Envious Prejudice	278
13	Legitimizing Ideologies: The Social Dominance Approach	307
14	The (Il)legitimacy of Ingroup Bias: From Social Reality to Social Resistance	332
15	Conflicts of Legitimation among Self, Group, and System: The Integrative Potential of System Justification Theory	363
16	The Architecture of Legitimacy: Constructing Accounts of Organizational Controversies	391
17	A Psychological Perspective on the Legitimacy of Institutions and Authorities	416
18	License to Kill: Violence and Legitimacy in Expropriative Social Relations	437
	Index	469

Business Organization Specialty Review Manual or Governing the Corporation

Business Organization Specialty Review Manual

Author: Denise A Hill

This review manual on business organizations will help the reader understand the different types of business and how they function. The reader will learn about sole proprietorships, partnerships and limited partnerships, joint stock companies, joint ventures, limited liability companies and corporations. It covers organizational structure and discusses formation, taxation, management, shareholders, distributions, dissolution, termination and other topics pertinent to all kinds of businesses.

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Governing the Corporation: Regulation and Corporate Governance in an Age of Scandal and Global Markets

Author: Justin OBrien

Governing the Corporation is a unique forum combining the insights of some of the most influential minds involved in the governance of global financial markets with internationally recognised academics and practitioners.

Divided into three sections, the book first examines changes to the regulation of markets and assesses the global implications of the export of Sarbanes-Oxley for financial sector governance. The second section examines the challenges facing the professions with critical analysis from leading lawyers and accountants. The final section calculates the effectiveness of state and self-regulatory policy and posits the importance of institutionalising an ethical framework tied to incentives.   Each section of the book features contributions from regulators, practitioners and academics from a range of disciplines, including finance, political science, criminology, law and philosophy. 

Table of Contents:

1	Governing the corporation : regulation and corporate governance in an age of scandal and global markets	1
2	Restoring trust after recent accountability failures	21
3	Accountability in the age of global markets	47
4	European responses to corporate governance challenges	63
5	Economic globalisation and national corporate governance reform	79
6	From workers to global politics : how the way we work provides answers to corporate governance questions	101
7	Multilateral regulatory initiatives - a legitimation-based approach	121
8	Corporate social responsibility as regulation : the argument from democracy	141
9	The criminological lens : understanding criminal law and corporate governance	163
10	Detecting fraud and managing the risk	185
11	After Enron : corporate governance, creative compliance and the uses of corporate social responsibility	205
12	The role of lawyers : hired guns or public servants?	223
13	Financial reporting, corporate governance and Parmalat : was it a financial reporting failure?	233
14	Corporate regulation in Ireland	255
15	Corporate governance - more than a state of mind?	273
16	Redesigning financial regulation : Eliot Spitzer, state-federal relations and the battle for corporate control	295
17	Public trusteeship : the responsibilities of transparency and legacy	317

Consuming Environments or Race Gender and Discrimination at Work

Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture

Author: Mike Budd

Whether we love it, hate it, or use it just to pass the time, most adults in the United States are watching more television than ever, up to four hours a day by some estimates. Our devotion to commercial television gives it unprecedented power in our lives. Advertisers and television executives want us to spend as much time as we can in front of our sets, for it is access to our brains that they buy and sell. Yet the most important effect of television may be one that no one intends-accelerated destruction of the natural environment.

Consuming Environments explores how, with its portrayal of a world of simulated abundance, television has nurtured a culture of consumerism and overconsumption. The average person in the US consumers more than twice the grain and ten times the oil of a citizen of Brazil or Indonesia. And people in less industrialized countries suffer while their resources while their resources are commandeered to support comfortable lifestyles in richer nations. Using detailed examples illustrated with images from actual commercials, news broadcasts, and television shows, and authors demonstrate how ads and programs are put together in complex way s to manipulate viewers, and they offer specific ways to counteract the effects of TV and overconsumption's assault on the environment.

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Explores how, with its portrayals of a world of simulated abundance, television has nurtured a culture of consumerism and overconsumption. Uses detailed examples illustrated with b&w images from actual commercials, news broadcasts, and television shows to demonstrate how ads and programs are put together in complex ways to manipulate viewers, and offers specific ways to counteract the effects of TV and overconsumption's assault on the environment. Budd is a professor of communication and director of the film and video program at Florida Atlantic University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

Jackie Byars
From Jackie Byars, Wayne State University

Budd, Craig, and Steinman reach across the conceptual and methodological gulf between 'cultural studies' and 'political economy' to address the impact of commercialized television on our cultural and physical environments, highlighting the interconnectedness of the ostensibly discrete categories of culture, nature, and economics... But they do not stop there-they foreground the social movements seeking to engage and ameliorate the influence of corporate commercialism. Read this book. Ask your friends to read this book. It's important.

Robert W. McChesney
Robert W. McChesney, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Consuming Environments is an excellent introduction to the issue of commercial broadcasting, the peculiar culture it generates, and the political and environmental problems to which it contributes.

Ramona Curry
From Ramona Curry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This important book skillfully draws reader's attention to what goes on 'behind' the TV set as well as in front of it.

Book review: A Hazardous Inquiry or Happiness and Hardship

Race, Gender, and Discrimination at Work

Author: Samuel Cohn

In Race and Gender Discrimination at Work Samuel Cohns provides a fascinating, unorthodox account of the causes of discrimination at work. The book is packed with statistics, yet witty; rigorous, yet light. Cohn introduces readers to the fundamental realities of race and gender barriers in the workplace, and he goes beyond these as well by introducing startling new reinterpretations. Cohn is tactful enough to appeal to the conservative student, but honest enough to appeal to the feminist student. In the first several chapters, Cohn provides a description of the historical and current states of race and gender inequality and explains how employers persist in seemingly irrational actions, even in the face of more profitable alternatives. Cohn then turns to an introduction of the five primary social and economic theories of wages: marginal productivity theory, human capital theory, dual sector theory, union strength theory, and internal labor market theory. He follows with a review of the implications for pay differentials between blacks and whites. In subsequent chapters, he explores racial and gendered theories of wages for employment and unemployment. Finally, Cohn concludes with a review of the trends and causes of white male exclusionary attitudes towards blacks and women. This book is ideal for gender courses at all levels. Cohn's compelling, non-standard reformulations of traditional explanations of workplace inequalities make the book important for all serious scholars of gender studies.

Table of Contents:

1	Has the Problem of Inequality Gone Away?	1
	Some Introductory Definitions	3
	Recent Trends in Inequality	5
	Racial Inequality	6
	Gender Inequality	14
	Occupational Typing Versus Status Segregation	23
2	Discrimination and Market Competition	29
	The Becker Model: Core Assumptions	30
	The Becker Model: Operation	31
	The Feminist Gary Becker: Heidi Hartmann	34
	Decision Theory: Why Organizations Don't Behave So Rationally After All	36
	The Link Between Decision Theory and Discrimination: Buffering from Competition	40
3	What Determines If a Job Is Male or Female?	51
	The Myth That Women Exclude Themselves from Employment: Supply-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing	52
	Demand-Side theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Some Preliminary Dead Ends	62
	Demand-Side Theories of Occupational Sex-Typing: Buffering Models	68
	Empirical Studies of Buffering and Sex-Typing	73
4	Why Are Women Confined to Low-Status Jobs?	79
	Human Capital Theory	80
	Problems with Human Capital Theory	83
	Synthetic Turnover	88
	Differential Visibility Models	97
	The Simplest Theory: Employee Discrimination	105
5	Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men?	114
	The Overcrowding Hypothesis	115
	Human Capital Theory	122
	Comparable Worth Theory	126
	Production Constraint Theory	131
6	Why Are Blacks More Likely to Be Unemployed Than Are Whites?	140
	A Cartographic Analysis of Race and Employment	143
	Shiftlessness	150
	IQ and Human Capital	154
	Spatial Mismatch	159
	Employer Discrimination	161
7	Twenty-Six Things to Remember About Discrimination	166
	App. A: Glossary	171
App. B	A Socratic Guide to Race and Gender Discrimination at Work	174
App. C	Problems for Deeper Thought	183
	References	185
	Index	193

The Complete Guide to Foodservice in Cultural Institutions or Superintendents Handbook of Financial Management

The Complete Guide to Foodservice in Cultural Institutions: Keys to Success in Restaurants,Catering,and Special Events

Author: Arthur M Manask

Create, manage, and grow a successful foodservice operation in any cultural institution

The Complete Guide to Foodservice in Cultural Institutions provides insight, strategies, and information needed to run an appealing, efficient, and profitable foodservice operation that lives up to the commitment, standards, and quality expectations of any cultural institution. It is a unique and invaluable resource for administrators charged with ensuring the quality, profitability, and safety of foodservice operations in any cultural institution.

A series of case studies recounts the problems and shortcomings encountered by a number of cultural institutions’ foodservice programs. These studies demonstrate how to achieve improved financial performance, management efficiencies, visitor satisfaction, and integration with each institution’s mission and culture. Through presentation of these case studies, this comprehensive guide shows administrators at museums, zoos, and other cultural institutions how to:

• Use catered special events to encourage membership and sponsorship
• Develop and market a private special events program
• Create a restaurant that enhances the visitor experience
• Evaluate and assess in-house restaurants and special events programs
• Renovate or expand an existing foodservice operation
• Ensure food quality and safety

Table of Contents:

Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Foodservice and the Visitor Experience.
The Role of Catering and Special Events in Membership and Sponsorship Development.
Achieving Self-Operation: Challenge-Solution Case Studies.
Performing Evaluations and Assessments: Challenge-Solution Case Studies.
Developing and Marketing Special Events Programs: Challenge-Solution Case Studies.
Performing Special-Events Department Assessments: Challenge-Solution Case Study.
Analysis of Demand and Architectural Program Statement for Foodservice Planning in a Museum Building.
Conducting Market Research for Restaurants and Special Events.
Developing and Understanding Foodservice Requirements Within a New Institution or Existing as Part of a Facility Expansion.
UBIT: A Food and Facilities Tax Primer by: Jeffrey M. Hurwit.
Food Safety: Too Often Ignored Until Too Late.
Glossary.
Index.

Go to: Nols Cookery or Vegetarian Classics

Superintendent's Handbook of Financial Management

Author: Raymond S Schmidgall

The key to any successful business is the effective management of revenue, costs and of course profitability. This book provides golf course superintendents with the necessary tools to manage their daily financial operations by explaining basic accounting principles such as pricing, budgeting, cost control, payroll and cash flow. With chapters on financial statements, golf course operation schedules, breakeven analysis and operating budgets this is an invaluable tool for all owners, operators and managers of golf courses.
* The first edition has become the standard industry tool for understanding and making sound financial decisions (1575040395, Ann Arbour Publishing, 1996)
* Schmidgall is the industry's leading authority of financial practices for golf-course superintendents

Booknews

Covers financial management concepts for golf course superintendents, and serves as a guide for studying for the financial management section of the Golf Course Superintendents Association's certification exam. Offers chapters on financial statements; basic accounting; golf course operations schedule; analysis of financial statements; breakeven analysis; and operating budgets, with problems and worked solutions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Happiness and Economics or Women of the Praia

Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being

Author: Bruno S Frey

Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an "unscientific" concept. This is the first book to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics--and between happiness and democracy. Two respected economists, Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, integrate insights and findings from psychology, where attempts to measure quality of life are well-documented, as well as from sociology and political science. They demonstrate how micro- and macro-economic conditions in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness. The research is centered on Switzerland, whose varying degrees of direct democracy from one canton to another, all within a single economy, allow for political effects to be isolated from economic effects.

Not surprisingly, the authors confirm that unemployment and inflation nurture unhappiness. Their most striking revelation, however, is that the more developed the democratic institutions and the degree of local autonomy, the more satisfied people are with their lives. While such factors as rising income increase personal happiness only minimally, institutions that facilitate more individual involvement in politics (such as referendums) have a substantial effect. For countries such as the United States, where disillusionment with politics seems to be on the rise, such findings are especially significant. By applying econometrics to a real-world issue of general concern and yielding surprising results, Happiness and Economics promises to spark healthy debate over a wide range of the social sciences.

Financial Times - Elizabeth Bailey

Are we ready to consider that neither money nor medication can buy happiness? Jaded as we are by politician's shenanigans, and fearful of political movements sponsoring terrorism, the authors of this book suggest the answer to happiness may lie in the political process, at least as much as in our own temperament and economic well-being.

Publishers Weekly

Still convinced money doesn't buy happiness? In Happiness & Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being, economists Bruno S. Frey (Inspiring Economics) and Alois Stutzer demonstrate how unemployment and inflation lead to unhappiness and argue that increased happiness comes with increased wealth. While this is no surprise, their next declaration may be. Far more important than wealth to well-being, they say, is democracy. Drawing on research conducted in Switzerland's single-economy, multi-state nation (where levels of democracy vary between cantons) the authors show how participation in governmental procedures and a sense of local autonomy empowers and satisfies people more than a full wallet. ( Dec.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Look this: Marching Toward Hell or Hitler the Germans and the Final Solution

Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community

Author: Sally Cooper Col

In this richly detailed, sensitive ethnographic work, Sally Cole takes as her starting point the firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal. Skillfully combining these life stories with cultural and economic analysis, Cole radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and the Mediterranean. Her very different strategy--a focus on women as workers--reflects the Portuguese women's own definition of themselves and allows them the strong, resonant voice that is the goal of both the new ethnography and feminist scholarship. From this new perspective, Cole proposes an important critique of the dominant paradigm of southern European gender relations as being embedded in the code of honor and shame. Covering the Salazar years, as well as the period since the 1974 Revolution, Cole shows that fisherwomen of the past enjoyed greater autonomy in work and social relations than do their daughters and granddaughters, who live in a context of increasing commoditization and industrialization. Central to this account is an examination of the changing structure and role of the household as economic production moved to the factory.

The Middle East in the World Economy 1800 1914 or Mastering the Diversity Challenge

The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800-1914

Author: Roger Owen

Examines the growth and transformation of the Middle East economy during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The text looks at how the region's economic structures were fundamentally altered by the growing impact of European trade and finance, and by the internal reforms of the rulers of Egypt. It also examines in detail the impact of this process on the four central areas of the Middle East. The result, the author argues, was the creation of a fixed pattern of agricultural, industrial and financial activity. The states formed after the collapse of teh Ottoman Empire found that altering this pattern in their attempts to promote a less dependent form of development was frought with difficulty; and the problems they faced and their different approaches are still highly relevant to the Middle East's economic development today.

New interesting book: Everyday Strength or Anatomy of the Spirit

Mastering the Diversity Challenge: Easy On-the-Job Applications for Measurable Results

Author: Fern Lebo

This easy-to-use guidebook goes beyond the basic requirements for mastering the diversity challenge. It not only provides practical, step-by-step guidelines and answers, but gives important reasons as to why managing diversity is good for overall business. Designed for quick and easy access to useful and practical checklists, tests, questionnaires, exercises, stories, experiential activities and new ideas-this important book will help you make a difference. Written in an easy-to-understand format, Mastering the Diversity Challenge identifies issues specific to designated groups and provides effective techniques for creating a level playing field. Specific on-the-job applications are provided for running meetings, building the team, opening the dialogue, and coaching and counseling. Mastering the Diversity Challenge exposes the elements of human interaction as the cornerstone of the workplace and helps you create a culture that encourages respect and promotes equality of opportunity. When implemented, these new and useful techniques will undoubtedly impact productivity-benefiting both the individual and the company.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Author
1	The Diversity Issue in Management Today	1
2	Creating the Motivational Climate	27
3	The Lonely Soul	43
4	Developing People	67
5	Getting Results	77
6	Fair Meeting Guidelines	101
7	Team-Building Exercises	109
8	Quick and Easy Progress Survey	149
9	Where Do We Go from Here?	153
	Index	157

Investing in Your Future or Creating the Band

Investing in Your Future

Author: National Association Of Investors Corpor

Produced in conjunction with the National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC), INVESTING IN YOUR FUTURE teaches students a step-by-step method of approaching smart saving and investing. Topics include everything from certificates of deposit to mutual funds and stocks. Students learn how to analyze the value of stocks and appreciate the importance of investing for the future.

Table of Contents:

1. Plan for Life
2. Investment Power
3. Mutual Interests
4. The Big Picture
5. Investor Blueprint
6. Plotting the Past
7. Projecting the Future
8. Measuring the Bottom Line

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Creating the Band: An Accounating Simulation for Peachtree, QuickBooks, and Microsoft Excel

Author: Beth Kan

Learn to keep accurate accounting records for a small business with CREATING THE BAND and its accompanying CD-ROM! Through simulations, you will have the opportunity to work as an accountant for a band whose members have formed a business partnership known as CTB. This simulation may be completed using any of the following programs: Peachtree Complete Accounting Educational Version 2004 or higher, QuickBooks Pro 2004 or higher, Excel version 5.0 or higher. Special features such as FYI boxes, accounting tips, software tips, and check figures provide you with extra practice.

Information Systems or The Internal Auditor at Work

Information Systems: Creating Business Value

Author: Mark W Huber

Achieve a higher return on your investment in IS

When a business devotes resources to its information systems, it expects a positive return on its investment. So should you.

You are about to invest your own time and effort in your Information Systems Course. With Huber, Piercy, and McKeown's Information Systems: Creating Business Value, you can expect to be prepared to succeed in the modern business world. This book shows you the value of investing in IS for your career and for today's organizations.

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The Internal Auditor at Work: A Practical Guide to Everyday Challenges

Author: KH Spencer Pickett

A clear, accessible guide to the roles and responsibilities of today's internal auditor

At a time when companies are seeking to reevaluate their practices and add value to their audit processes, The Internal Auditor at Work represents an invaluable, user-friendly, and up-to-date guidebook for the internal auditing professional to refine and rethink both day-to-day methods and the underlying significance of the job.

Each chapter of this in-depth, functional analysis contains numerous resources to guide the reader toward greater understanding and performance. Discussion questions promote dialogue among auditing professionals on the various topics covered. Top ten considerations lists recap the important points of each chapter. And end-of-chapter exercises are especially valuable to new internal auditors in that they facilitate self-development and application of principles covered.

Written in partnership with the Institute of Internal Auditors with special attention to its revised standards and guidelines, The Internal Auditor at Work includes chapters on:

• The audit context

• The strategic dimension

• Quality and audit competence

• The audit process

• The audit proposition

• And more

In a business environment currently undergoing major reevaluation, The Internal Auditor at Work provides an invaluable tool for internal auditing professionals and all others with an interest in adding value to their organizational processes.

Table of Contents:

	List of Abbreviations
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Sect. 1	About the Book	1
Sect. 2	The New Internal Auditor	2
Sect. 3	The Challenges of a Career in Internal Auditing	4
Sect. 4	Popular Misconceptions	6
Sect. 5	A Brief History of Internal Auditing	10
Sect. 6	The Importance of Tracking New Developments	14
Sect. 7	The Audit Model	17
Sect. 8	Summary: Top Ten Considerations	19
Sect. 9	Your Personal Development Exercises	20
Ch. 2	The Audit Context	23
Sect. 1	The Growth of Corporate Governance	23
Sect. 2	Understanding Societal Expectations	24
Sect. 3	The Global Dimension	29
Sect. 4	Impact on the Board and Senior Management	33
Sect. 5	The Role of the Audit Committee	34
Sect. 6	Risk Management: The Key to Success	39
Sect. 7	Understanding Internal Controls	44
Sect. 8	Defining the Internal Audit Role	50
Sect. 9	External Audit	55
Sect. 10	The Value-Add Proposition	59
Sect. 11	The Audit Model	62
Sect. 12	Summary: Top Ten Considerations	65
Sect. 13	Your Personal Development Exercises	67
Ch. 3	The Strategic Dimension	69
Sect. 1	Approaches to Internal Audit Work	69
Sect. 2	Risk-Based Systems Approach	71
Sect. 3	Consulting Services	74
Sect. 4	Compliance	79
Sect. 5	Fraud and Abuse	82
Sect. 6	Information Systems	87
Sect. 7	CSA Workshops	91
Sect. 8	Developing an Integrated Approach	96
Sect. 9	The Audit Model	100
Sect. 10	Summary: Top Ten Considerations	103
Sect. 11	Your Personal Development Exercises	106
Ch. 4	Quality Assurance and Audit Competence	109
Sect. 1	The Quality Concept	109
Sect. 2	Professional Internal Auditing Standards	110
Sect. 3	Documentation Standards and Review	113
Sect. 4	Internal and External Reviews	125
Sect. 5	Audit Competence	129
Sect. 6	Interviewing	132
Sect. 7	The Audit Model	140
Sect. 8	Summary: Top Ten Considerations	143
Sect. 9	Your Personal Development Exercises	146
Ch. 5	The Audit Process	151
Sect. 1	The Audit Process	151
Sect. 2	Risk-Based Strategies	152
Sect. 3	Preliminary Surveys	162
Sect. 4	Developing Assignment Plans	168
Sect. 5	Audit Fieldwork	180
Sect. 6	Developing Findings	214
Sect. 7	Audit Reporting and Follow-Up	222
Sect. 8	The Audit Model	241
Sect. 9	Summary: Top Ten Considerations	244
Sect. 10	Your Personal Development Exercises	248
Ch. 6	The Audit Proposition	253
Sect. 1	Impacting Corporate Governance	253
Sect. 2	Supporting the Board and the Audit Committee	255
Sect. 3	Providing Assurances on Controls	258
Sect. 4	Making Risk Management Work	261
Sect. 5	Partnerships with Management	265
Sect. 6	The Global Audit Community	267
Sect. 7	Future Directions and Challenges	268
Sect. 8	The Final Audit Model	273
Sect. 9	Summary: Top Ten Considerations	279
Sect. 10	Your Personal Development Exercises	281
	Index	283

The Management of Innovation and Technology or Bringing the Empire Back Home

The Management of Innovation and Technology: The Shaping of Technology and Institutions of the Market Economy

Author: John Howells

This book analyzes a range of social contexts in which human decisions shape technology in the market economy. It comprises a critical review of both a select research literature and in-depth historical studies. Material is drawn from many social science disciplines to inform the reader of the reality of taking decisions on innovation.

The chapters cover:

• The social context for individual acts of creative insight
• The development of the technology-market relationship
• The management of R&D and technological standards
• Technological competition
• The role of institutions of finance in innovation
• The reciprocal relationship between intellectual property law and technological innovation
• The role of technological skills and regimes of technological education in innovation
• An introduction to the role of the state in maintaining the innovative capacity of the private sector

 

Table of Contents:

1	Technological innovation	1
2	Invention, science, R&D and concepts of use and market	22
3	Patterns in technological development and the creation of technological standards	61
4	Competition and innovation as substitution threat	85
5	Intellectual property law and innovation	114
6	Finance - techniques, institutions and innovation	145
7	Innovation and the organisation of technical expertise and work	182
8	The state and the management of technology	227
9	Concluding comments on this book	268

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Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age

Author: Herman Lebovics

Thirty years ago, an international anti-globalization movement was born in the grazing lands of France's Larzac plateau. In the 1970s, Larzac farmers were joined by others from around the world in their efforts to prevent the expansion of a local military base: by ecologists, religious pacifists, and urban leftists, and by social activists including American Indians and South American peasant leaders. In 1999 some of the same farmers who had fought the expansion of the base in the 1970s -- including Jose Bove -- dismantled the new local McDonald's. That gesture was part of a protest against U.S. tariffs on specified French exports including Roquefort cheese, the region's primary market product. The two struggles -- the one against expanding a French army camp intended to train troops for postcolonial wars, the other against American economic might -- were landmarks in the global campaign to preserve local cultures. They were also key episodes in the decades-long attempt by the French to define their cultural heritage within a much changed nation, a new Europe, and, especially, an American-dominated world.

In Bringing the Empire Back Home, the inventive cultural historian Herman Lebovics provides a riveting account of how intense disputes about what it means to be French have played out over the past half-century, redefining Paris, the regions, and the former colonies in relation to one another and the world at large. In a narrative populated with peasants, people from the former colonies, museum curators, former colonial administrators, left Christians, archaeologists, anthropologists, soccer players and their teenage fans, and, yes, leading government officials, Lebovics reveals contemporary French society and cultures as perhaps the West's most important testing grounds of pluralism and assimilation. A lively cultural history, Bringing the Empire Back Home highlights not only the political significance of France's efforts to synthesize the regional, national, European, ethnic postcolonial, and global but also the chaotic beauty of the endeavor.

Advanced Accounting or Up Against the Retail Giants

Advanced Accounting

Author: Floyd A Beams

This comprehensive book addresses practical financial reporting problems while reflecting recent business developments and changes in accounting standards.   The book focuses on accounting concepts rather than bookkeeping techniques in learning the consolidation materials.

The perfect reference for accounting professionals looking to check facts or brush up on their skills.

See also: The Ultimate Barbecue Bible or The Turkey Cookbook

Up Against the Retail Giants: Targeting Weaknesses, Gaining an Edge

Author: A Samli

Focusing on the uniqueness of small and medium retailers, this resourceful guide is packed with practical insight and covers the gamut of retail issues, emphasizing relationship management, customer service, in-store merchandise analysis, and special promotion opportunities for smaller retailers. It also uses an analytical approach to facilitate management functions at small and midsize retailers. Drawing from 25 years of experience consulting with retailers, Dr. Samli equips small and medium-size retailers with the tools to survive -and thrive -in a fiercely competitive marketplace. It's a must read for managers and entrepreneurs alike!

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Retail marketing strategy development	1
Ch. 2	Fitting into multi-layered retail competition	11
Ch. 3	Major trends in the retailing sector	25
Ch. 4	The retail evolution	37
Ch. 5	Capitalizing on market potentials	49
Ch. 6	Consumer behavior and retail strategy	65
Ch. 7	Strategy alternatives	83
Ch. 8	Developing, measuring, and managing store image	97
Ch. 9	People are our strength	113
Ch. 10	We must communicate with our market	123
Ch. 11	Developing a merchandise mix	137
Ch. 12	Pricing is a powerful tool	155
Ch. 13	Being a part of a supply chain	165
Ch. 14	Controlling the store performance	173

Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages 950 1350 or On the Art of Singing

Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350

Author: Robert S Lopez

Professor Robert Lopez provides an incisive analysis of the economic structure of the Middle Ages. He makes use of modern economic concepts to explain how an underdeveloped economic system gave birth to the commercial revolution through which Europe succeeded in developing itself. The book goes far beyond the familiar picture of medieval European society, with its magnificent cathedrals and imposing castles, to concentrate instead on the walled cities and open countryside, for it was here that the revolution was born. Deftly and concisely, Professor Lopez traces the history of this remarkable economic upheaval which saw the rise of merchants and craftsmen and the decline of agricultural dependence by the society.

Table of Contents:

1. Roman and Barbarian precedents;
2. The growth of self-centered agriculture;
3. The take-off of the commercial revolution;
4. The uneven diffusion of commercialization;
5. Between crafts and industry;
6. The response of the agricultural society; Index.

Books about: The Business of Consulting or When The Mines Closed

On the Art of Singing

Author: Richard Miller

A comprehensive volume on all facets of vocal performance, On the Art of Singing considers in detail established comparative vocal techniques, the specifics of interpretation and communication, the factors that contribute to career preparation and maintainance, and the application of functional information to the art of singing. Topics that most frequently concern singers and teachers at all levels of accomplishment are reviewed. These include an examination of pedagogical approaches to breath management, to laryngeal freedom, and to resonance balance, advice on career building, considerations of style and interpretation, and information on the physiology and acoustics of the singing voice. Data from diverse sources, otherwise inaccessible to the singer, are assembled and interpreted in the light of performance artistry. From his own long and distinguished career as a performer, teacher of singing, and vocal researcher, the author aims at making practical the relationship of technical proficiency to freedom in performance.

The Breakthrough Portfolio or Macroeconomics

The Breakthrough Portfolio

Author: Ken Thurlbeck

In today's competitive marketplace, the difference between landing a job and losing it is often a direct result of the quality and personal style expressed in a designer's portfolio. Drawing on the author's extensive experience in portfolio reviews and in hiring creative professionals, Creating The Breakthrough Portfolio delivers to designers all the tools and ideas needed to develop a compelling presentation of their work-and leave a potential employer with a lasting and powerful impression. Uniquely designed to address the entire creative audience, this innovative book guides students and professionals through the essential steps in creating a portfolio that reflects who they really are, an often-overlooked aspect that employers cite as essential information. Coverage includes a unique plan for defining your own "brand" or "image," with practical suggestions for translating that personal vision into a cohesive "marketing program" that gets results.

Look this: Supervisory Management or Military Leadership

Macroeconomics

Author: Robert Gordon

Macroeconomics is widely praised for its ability to present theory as a way of evaluating key macro questions, such as why some countries are rich and others are poor. Gordon makes extensive use of data, international examples, and case studies throughout, and the Eleventh Edition incorporates critical developments in the field. New topics include the housing bubble and the role of housing wealth, the economic progress of China, recent discussions of growth theory, and the effect of oil prices on the economy.

Introduction and Measurement: What Is Macroeconomics?; The Measurement of Income, Prices, and Unemployment. Income, Interest Rates, Policy, and the Open Economy: Spending, Income, and Interest Rates; Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the IS-LM Model; National Saving, the Government Budget, Foreign Borrowing, and the Twin Deficits; International Trade, Exchange Rates, and Macroeconomic Policy. Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Unemployment and Inflation: Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and the Self-Correcting Economy; Inflation: Its Causes and Cures; The Goals of Stabilization Policy: Low Inflation and Low Unemployment. Macroeconomics in the Long Run: Growth and Public Finance: The Theory of Economic Growth; The Big Questions of Economic Growth; The Government Budget, the Public Debt, and Social Security. Stabilization Policy in an Open Economy: Money and Financial Markets; Stabilization Policy in the Closed and Open Economy. Stability and Instability in the Private Economy: The Economics of Consumption Behavior; The Economics of Investment Behavior. Debates at the Macroeconomic Frontier: New Classical Macro Confronts New Keynesian Macro; Conclusion: Where WeStand.

For all readers interested in macroeconomics.

Table of Contents:

	To the Instructor
	To the Student
Pt. 1	Introduction and Measurement	1
Ch. 1	What Is Macroeconomics?	3
Ch. 2	The Measurement of Income, Prices, and Unemployment	28
Pt. 2	Income, Interest Rates, Policy, and the Global Economy	63
Ch. 3	The Simple Keynesian Theory of Income Determination	65
Ch. 4	The IS-LM Model	93
Ch. 5	Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, and the Government Budget	123
Ch. 6	International Trade, Exchange Rates, and Macroeconomic Policy	154
Pt. 3	Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and Inflation	191
Ch. 7	Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and the Self-Correcting Economy	193
Ch. 8	Inflation: Its Causes and Cures	226
Pt. 4	Macroeconomics in the Long Run: Growth and the Public Debt	269
Ch. 9	The Theory of Economic Growth	271
Ch. 10	Explanations of Slow Growth in Productivity and Real Wages	302
Ch. 11	The Government Budget and the Public Debt	333
Pt. 5	Stabilization Policy in an Open Economy	359
Ch. 12	The Goals of Stabilization Policy: Low Inflation and Low Unemployment	361
Ch. 13	Money and the Financial Markets	402
Ch. 14	The Conduct of Stabilization Policy	436
Pt. 6	Sources of Instability in the Private Economy	473
Ch. 15	Instability in the Private Economy: Consumption Behavior	475
Ch. 16	Instability in the Private Economy: Investment	503
Pt. 7	Debates at the Macroeconomic Frontier	531
Ch. 17	New Classical Macro Confronts New Keynesian Macro	533
Ch. 18	Conclusion: Where We Stand	566
App. A	Time Series Data for the U.S. Economy: 1875-1997	A1
App. B	International Annual Time Series Data for Selected Countries: 1960-97	A7
App. C	Data Sources and Methods	A13
	Glossary	G1
	Index	I1