Remaking the Hexagon or Economics and Contemporary Issues with Economics Applications Card and InfoTrac

Remaking the Hexagon: The New France in the New Europe

Author: Gregory Flynn

In this volume, distinguished French and U.S. historians, economists, and political scientists explore the dimensions of France's current crisis of identity. Although every European nation has been adjusting to the dramatic transformations on the continent since the end of the Cold War, France's struggle to adapt has been particularly difficult. Responding to a mix of external and internal pressures, the nation is now questioning many basic assumptions about how France should be governed, what the objectives of national policies should be, and ultimately what it means to be French.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables and Figures
	Acknowledgments
1	Remaking the Hexagon	1
2	The Legacy of Traumatic Experiences in French Politics Today	17
3	The France We Have Lost: Social, Economic, and Cultural Discontinuities	31
4	Democratic Dysfunctions and Republican Obsolescence: The Demise of French Exceptionalism	49
5	The Franc Fort Strategy and the EMU	69
6	France and Global Competition	87
7	From Barre to Balladur: Economic Policy in the Era of the EMS	117
8	Change and Stability in French Elites	161
9	The Reconstruction and De-Construction of the French Party System	181
10	Trade and Identity: The Coming Protectionism?	195
11	France and Security in the New Europe: Between the Gaullist Legacy and the Search for a New Model	213
12	French Identity and Post-Cold War Europe	233
13	Thoughts on Sovereignty and French Politics	251
	About the Contributors	259
	About the Book	263
	Index	265

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

Economics and Contemporary Issues with Economics Applications Card and InfoTrac

Author: Michael R Edgmand

This text examines major issues pertaining to education, health care, Social Security, unemployment, inflation, and international trade. It also examines social and political phenomena, such as the collapse of communism and central planning, the role of government in a modern economy, crime and drugs, poverty, and the failure of some economies to grow. The book maximizes the advantages of the issues approach by examining issues that interest students, while developing core economic principles, providing insights and challenges, and an analytical framework—all of which emphasize critical thinking. Students who study this textbook will develop an increased interest in economics, seeing it as important in understanding issues that affect them personally, as well as in understanding today's headlines. This book develops principles and applications to issues more thoroughly and provides much more of an international perspective than most of the others like it on the market.

Integrated Applications for Office XP or Rethinking Development Theory and Policy

Integrated Applications for Office XP

Author: Susie Van Huss

This text builds on advanced word processing skills and reinforces communication, keyboarding, and Internet skills while teaching all of the tools of Microsoft Office XP: PowerPoint, Excel, Access, FrontPage, Outlook and Speech Recognition. The first project (Module 4) follows the PowerPoint, Excel, and Access modules and integrates these modules with Word. The second project (Module 8) is positioned after the Outlook, Front Page, and Speech Recognition applications are taught and integrates all six applications with Word. These projects also integrate communication skills, information management skills, decision-making skills, and the ability to work without direction.

Booknews

This reference presents the tools of Microsoft Office XP, together with real-world scenarios and projects that allow students to incorporate the tools with Word 2002 documents. The eight modules cover PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Front Page, Outlook, and Speech Recognition, and the integration of the various applications. The included CD-ROM contains the integrated applications. Spiral binding. Oversize: 12x8.5<">. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

New interesting textbook: Invitation to Italian Cooking or Cooking Around the World

Rethinking Development Theory and Policy: A Human Factor Critique

Author: Senyo BSK B S K Adjibolosoo

For many decades post-colonial leaders in developing countries have tried various development plans based on orthodox development thinking and theorizing. Yet the developing world has failed to achieve sustained human-centered development. Many of the development plans have failed or been abandoned. Why does the developing world run the risk of falling behind their previously attained standards of living? This book takes a detailed look at the key paradigms of orthodox development thinking, discusses the various theories about economic growth, and concludes that the myths of orthodox development thinking regarding the origins of and obstacles to economic growth and human factor decay are the cause of economic underdevelopment in developing countries.

Booknews

The editor of the journal of Review of Human Factors Studies analyzes the obstacles and agents of change that developing countries face in becoming part of the technological global village. From a human factors (HF) perspective, Adjibolosoo (business and economics, Trinity Western U., Canada) addresses: orthodox misconceptions about development; the human factors philosophy of economic growth/development--with a case study of African nations; and "identifying and defusing the hidden mines along the rails of the development train." Tables and figures illustrate variables of the HF model. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Illustrations
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Agents of and Obstacles to Development
2	The Political Economy of Growth and Development: Orthodox Thinking, Presuppositions, and Policy	9
3	Misconceptions about Development: The Economic Underdevelopment Nightmare of the Developing Countries	25
4	Obstacles to Economic Growth and Development: Orthodox Views and New Recipes for Progress	45
Pt. II	Human Factor Reflections
5	The Human Factor Philosophy of Economic Growth and Development	61
6	Human Factor Reflections and Critique of the Presuppositions of Orthodox Development Thinking and Policy	83
7	The Genesis of Entrepreneurial and Commercial Decline in the Developing World: A Case Study of African Countries	111
8	Human Factor Underdevelopment and Its Implications for Policy Failure, Dependency, and Employee Work Behavior	137
9	Human Factor Engineering: The Primary Foundation of All Technology Transfer Programs	151
10	The Certification Epidemic in the Developing Countries: Transcending Credentialization and Doing It by Yourself	169
Pt. III	Changing Course for Action and Development
11	Identifying and Defusing the Hidden Mines along the Rails of the Development Train	181
	References	203
	Index	225

African American Women and Poverty or Becoming an Electronics Technician

African-American Women and Poverty: Can Education Alone Change the Status Quo?

Author: Catherine M Casserly

African American Women and Poverty examines why educational investments by African American women, the group in American society that is most susceptible to being poor, have not reduced poverty as expected. The analysis in this study reveals that the ability of human capital investment to alleviate poverty for African American women differs depending on whether one estimates private or social returns. Tables. Charts. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

Booknews

Examines issues of education as they concern African American women. Focuses on the question of why investments by these women in education have not reduced poverty amongst the group as expected. The study uses National Longitudinal Surveys of Market Experience data form 1969 and 1988. The author argues that ultimately education is only one of many determinants of poverty, and that the ability of capital investment to alleviate poverty differs depending on whether one estimates private or social returns. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book review: Onest� assoluta: Sviluppando una coltura corporativa che stima il colloquio diritto e ricompensa l'integrit�

Becoming an Electronics Technician: Securing Your High-Tech Future

Author: Ronald A Reis

This book provides readers with useful and encouraging information on the exciting world of electronics.

Important changes to the fourth edition are:

• Data have been revised and updated.
• Information on job shadowing has been included in Chapter 5.
• Information on ISCET Certification has been expanded in Chapter 7.
• A completely new chapter on information technology (IT) certification, with emphasis on A+ certification, has been added.
• Material on online job search techniques has been expanded in Chapter 9.
• Information on negotiating salary and benefits has been included in Chapter 9.
• A completely new chapter on virtual electronics has been added.
• Five new projects have been added to Chapter 17.
• Appendix 1, Electronic Kit and Part Sources, has been completely updated.
• Fifty new terms have been added to the Glossary.

A free Instructor's Manual (ISBN 0-13-093210-8) is available to instructors using this book for a course.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	The Electronics Industry: In the Air and Everywhere	5
Ch. 2	Electronics: Field of Dreams	29
Ch. 3	The Electronics Technician: Bringing Electronics to Life	49
Ch. 4	Electronics Technician Profiles: Meet Ron, Kay, and Eric	67
Ch. 5	Taking the Big Step: Getting Educated in Electronics	89
Ch. 6	Succeeding as an Electronics Student: Making the Most of Your School Day	113
Ch. 7	Being an "Electronics Activist": Electronics Beyond the Classroom	135
Ch. 8	Launching Your Career as an Electronics Technician: Finding, Getting, and Keeping Your First Position	151
Ch. 9	Breadboarding: A Half-Dozen Ways to Go	175
Ch. 10	Creating Troubleshooting Trees: Your Key to Circuit Understanding and Repair	187
Ch. 11	Transducers: The Ins and Outs of Electronic Circuits	197
Ch. 12	A Short Course on Active Solid-State Components: The Big Half-Dozen	209
Ch. 13	Electronics Safety: Where the Danger Lies	221
Ch. 14	Useful Electronic Projects You Can Build	233
Appendix 1	Electronic Kit Companies	253
Appendix 2	The Big Three Electronics Magazines	255
	Index	257

Foundations of Education or Quality Management

Foundations of Education: The Challenge of Professional Practice

Author: Robert F McNergney

Completely revised and rewritten, the fourth edition of this leading text takes the theme of the "Teacher as a Professional" and presents a balance between the core topics in foundations and their practical classroom applications.

This entirely new and streamlined edition retains its comprehensive range of foundations topics while focusing on accessibility and relevance to pre-service teachers, as well as an emphasis on social issues and trends in schools. Exciting pedagogical features focus on professional practice, technology, national standards, professional portfolios, and other topics. A new chapter on standards and assessment addresses the prevalence of these issues in teachers' lives. A bonus section on the PRAXIS Series and state licensure offers FAQs, test-taking tips, and practice questions. This special bonus feature on the PRAXIS Series is currently located at the fron of the book.

Booknews

A text for students in education, featuring color photos and many learning aids. Coverage includes historical foundations, school governance and finance, social issues and the schools, curriculum, and education and the law. Contains chapter cases and questions, key concepts, online activities, and boxed readings on real classrooms, cultural awareness, and voices of professionals. This second edition condenses material, offers a new chapter on global education, and infuses material on multicultural education and technology throughout. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Teaching from the Inside Out
1	A Teacher's Role
2	Challenges Teachers and Schools Face
3	The Richness of Classroom Cultures
Pt. 2	Our Educational Heritage
4	Education in America: The Early Years
5	Education in America: Then and Now
6	Why Teachers Behave As They Do
Pt. 3	Education from the Outside In
7	Where Teachers Work: Schools
8	Leading, Governing, and Funding Schools
9	The Influence of the Law
Pt. 4	Helping Students Succeed
10	Curriculum and Instruction
11	Recognizing Educational Success: Standards and Assessment
Pt. 5	A Connected Future
12	A Global Educational Context
13	What Lies Ahead
	Benchmarks: From the Past Comes the Future
	Developing a Professional Portfolio: Preparing Your Resume
	Online Activity: Teaching Overseas
	Glossary
	References
	Name Index
	Subject Index

Interesting book: Administration de Personnel Publique :Problèmes et Perspectives

Quality Management: Creating and Sustaining Organizational Effectiveness

Author: Donna Summers

Designed to enable readers to recognize the cornerstones of creating and sustaining organizational effectiveness, the First Edition is based on key quality initiatives including Six Sigma, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, ISO 9000, lean manufacturing, and value creation. This book explores how quality management has progressed from an emphasis on the management of quality to a focus on the quality of managing, operating, and integrating customer service, marketing, production, delivery, information, and finance areas throughout an organization's value chain. For professionals with a career or interest in business, engineering, engineering technology, and quality management.

Quality Tourism Experiences or Introduction to Health Care Delivery

Quality Tourism Experiences

Author: Gayle Jennings

Business/ Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism

Quality Tourism Experiences

Gayle Jennings and Norma Nickerson

"This is an important book that raises the level of scholarship in the tourism field... an essential read for anyone interested in tourism experiences... In addition, the book draws together authors from different countries, backgrounds, interdisciplinary interests, and research methodologies. Consequently, Quality Tourism Experiences provides a model that will enable researchers to work together to examine an area and provide multiple representations and interpretations of that area."
— Charles R. Goeldner, Professor Emeritus of Tourism, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado

"In an era of competition, speed, and quantity, a reflective piece of work on meaning, experience, and quality from a group of leading tourism researchers is of paramount value. This collection will prompt tourism planners and marketers to think about the real purpose and true benefits of tourism development. This should be on the "must read" list for tourism students and practitioners."
— Cathy Hsu, Associate Head and Graduate Programs Director, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

"This is a very unique book unlike the ones we have seen in the field. The connection between tourism and quality experiences and quality of life has always been implied and assumed. The collections of both essays and empirical works in this edited volume bring out the essence and true meaning of engaging in tourism and leisure activities in life. This book would be of great interest to tourism professionals and practitioners alikeat all levels."
— Muzaffer Uysal, Professor of Tourism Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Quality Tourism Experience draws together writers from different backgrounds, interdisciplinary interests and research methodologies, and as a consequence, the book provides a model of the way researchers can work together to illuminate an area and to provide multiple representations and interpretations of that area. Moreover the book demonstrates interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches and collaborations. The authors investigate the role of the mass media, the role of travel providers, the role of host communities, the role of tourists, and the role of "government" at all its levels.

Quality Tourism Experiences acknowledges and investigates the multiple meanings of quality tourism experiences, the diverse contexts in which tourism occurs, and the varied stakeholders associated directly or indirectly with the phenomenon of tourism.

Gayle Jennings is Associate Professor of Marketing and Tourism, Central Queensland University, Australia.
Norma Nickerson is Professor and Director of the Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research, University of Montana, USA.

Table of Contents:

Chapter One: Perspectives on Quality Tourism Experiences:
An Introduction

Gayle Jennings

Chapter 2: State of Knowledge
Mass Media and its Relationship to Perceptions of Quality

Sue Beeton Heather E. Bowen Carla Almeida Santos

Chapter 3: Constructing Quality, Constructing Reality

Heather E. Bowen Carla Santos

Chapter 4: Mediating Meaning:
Perspectives on Brokering Quality Tourist Experiences

Gayle Jennings Betty Weiler

Chapter 5: Connecting Experiences to Quality:
Understanding the Meanings Behind Visitors' Experiences

Kathleen Andereck Kelly Bricker Deb Kerstetter Norma Nickerson

Chapter 6: Saravanua ni vanua:
Exploring Sense of Place in the Rural Highlands of Fiji

Kelly S. Bricker Deborah Kerstetter

Chapter 7: Linking Quality Tourism Experiences,
Residents' Quality of Life and Quality Experiences For Tourists

Barbara A. Carmichael

Chapter 8:
Tourism and Quality of Life

Kathleen Andereck Claudia Jurowski

Chapter 9:
Introduction to Political-Economic Construction of Quality Tourism Experiences

Margaret J. Daniels

Lori Pennington-Gray

Chapter 10:
Quality Tourism Development and Planning

Kelly S. Bricker Margaret J. Daniels Barbara A. Carmichael

Chapter 11:
The Distribution of Tourism Benefits

Claudia Jurowski Margaret J. Daniels Lori Pennington-Gray

Chapter 12:
Political-Economic Construction of Quality Tourism Experiences

Lori Pennington-Gray Barbara A. Carmichael

Chapter 13 Quality Tourism ExperiencesReconstructed Norma Polovitz Nickerson

New interesting book: Rome Wasnt Burnt in a Day or The Price of Fire

Introduction to Health Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists

Author: Robert L McCarthy

Covering the latest research and trends, the third edition of Introduction to Health Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists continues to offer the most up-to-date and complete picture of the U.S. health care delivery system. With an emphasis on the pharmacy profession, this text is ideal for practicing and prospective pharmacists who will find the careful review of the social, organizational, and financial aspects of health care delivery perfectly suited to their particular needs and responsibilities. The authors and a distinguished group of contributors cover the entire health care system, including hospitals, ambulatory care, managed care, public health, Medicare and Medicaid, health care ethics, and health care reform. New and Improved Instructor's Resource Manual has been greatly expanded to include chapter outlines, responses to the case scenarios, answers to the chapter questions, answers to the questions for further discussion, and multiple choice test questions (and answers).

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Charles K. Tuey, PharmD cand. (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy)
Description: This book, written from the pharmacist's perspective, provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and components that are pertinent to delivering healthcare in the U.S. This The original edition was published in 1998.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide the needed knowledge and tools for readers to understand the dynamics and the complexities of the healthcare system. This book can be used as a resource for teaching or referencing.
Audience: The target audience is pharmacists, pharmacy students, and others interested in the healthcare industry.
Features: The book's 22 chapters are grouped into three sections covering the social, organizational, and economic aspects of healthcare delivery. The first section identifies the social issues pertaining to healthcare professionals and public health. The second section covers roles and responsibilities of the healthcare delivery units (hospitals, ambulatory, long-term and home care). Pharmacoeconomics, insurance, and Medicare are just some of the economic aspects the third section reviews. The second edition added six new chapters providing insights to issues that challenge the pharmacy profession and healthcare consumers. In addition, the new chapters discuss healthcare informatics and the health economics principles. The authors use case scenarios and discussion questions to help the reader realize the challenges that are faced by the healthcare industry and professionals in delivering care.
Assessment: Bringing the essential pieces of the healthcare puzzle together, this book is great resource for individuals who want to learn how and what makes healthcare work. As a primer, the authors provide sufficient depth and breadth in each topic. By incorporating some current key topics, the second edition offers a more complete overview of the American healthcare delivery system.

Booknews

Offers a comprehensive picture of the US health care delivery system while emphasizing the perspective of the pharmacy profession. Covers the entire system, including hospitals, ambulatory care, managed care, Medicare and Medicaid, health care ethics, and reform. This second edition includes chapter-opening vignettes, and new chapters on the patient, informatics in health care, and health care economics. All health data and legislation have been updated for this edition. McCarthy teaches pharmacy administration at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Schafermeyer teaches pharmacy administration at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Managing Diverse Working Styles or E Retailing

Managing Diverse Working Styles: The Leadership Competitive Advantage

Author: Elaine S Potoker

This book recognizes that mobile, culturally-constituted individuals may construct themselves daily as groups do business, and provides managers with theory and practice for assessing their own communication and working style preferences. Managing Diverse Working Styles moves managers beyond 'sensitivity? and exhortations to introduce leadership strategies that aim to bridge the diverse working and communication styles that characterize integrated and mobile contemporary workplaces.

Table of Contents:

1. Breaking the Code
2. The Limitations of Language
3. Learning Organizations, Present and Future: Recognizing the "Others" Are Us
4. [Intermezzo] The Changing Face of Management
5. Management's New Face
6. Building Learning Organizations through Learning Landscapes
7. Communications Design Issues of the Future

Look this: Le Lecteur de Transformations Global :une Introduction à la Discussion de Globalisation

E-Retailing

Author: Charles Dennis

Concerning the topical issue of e-retailing, this textbook provides readers with a guide to the implementation and operation of a successful e-retailing business. Written accessibly for students at all levels, it identifies and explains the underlying principles of e-retailing and its relationship with conventional retail methods. Featuring international examples and original case vignettes, it leads students clearly through the subject and is a welcome addition to a subject too often neglected.

Educating the Consumer or Telephone Techniques

Educating the Consumer: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media

Author: Joel H Spring

Documents, analyzes, and presents an historical argument to explain how schools, sdvertising, and media have together created a consumerist ideology that is central in American life and the driving force of the global ecomomy.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Horace Mann Meets the Wizard of Oz	1
Pt. 1	Introduction and Overview of the Book	1
Pt. 2	Prelude to a Consumer Society	6
2	Liberation with Jell-O and Wonder Bread: Educating the New Woman	28
3	Cowboys and Jocks: Visions of Manliness	62
4	Commodification of Leisure and Cultural Control: Schools, Movies, and Radio	95
5	The American Way and the Manufacturing of Consent	125
6	Participating in the American Dream	154
7	Sonya's Choice: Fast-Food Education	182
	Notes	209
	Author Index	236
	Subject Index	241

New interesting textbook: Applied Public Relations Cases in Stakeholder Management or Bases of Competence

Telephone Techniques

Author: Dorothy A A Neal

This five-hour program teaches proper telephone use to helpstudents develop and maintain professional relationships, project a positive company image, and provide reliable service. The program includes a consumable text-workbook, an instructor's manual and key, and a 40-minute videotape. In addition to the content listed below, the text also includes reinforcement exercises, self-assessments, case studies, reference charts for on-the-job use, and a glossary.

Using Information Technology or Managerial Economics

Using Information Technology

Author: Brian K Williams

The Williams, Using Information Technology, 8th edition utilizes a practical, applied approach to technology. This text is user-focused and has been highly updated including topics, pictures and examples. The Williams text contains less theory and more application to engage students who might be more familiar with technology. In addition, this text correlates with Simnet Online for full integration of resources within the Computing Concepts course.

Booknews

New edition of an introductory text. Topics include an overview of the information revolution, applications software, processors, storage, online resources, databases, information systems, software development, and cultural and social issues. Intended for use as a concepts textbook to accompany a one-semester introductory course on computers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Go to: Políticas & Procedimentos para Prevenir Fraude e Desfalque:Orientação, Controles Internos, e Investigação

Managerial Economics

Author: S Charles Mauric

Maurice Thomas' Managerial Economics teaches students how to use microeconomic theory to analyze business decisions. In a clear and engaging writing style, the 7th edition explores the current market forces that create both opportunities and constraints for business enterprises. The book has enjoyed success in part because of its mid-level rigor. This edition also features a stronger emphasis on international perspectives and updated examples from today's high-tech economy. Strategic decision making in oligopoly markets has been modernized.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	The Preliminaries	1
Ch. 1	Scope of Managerial Economics	2
Ch. 2	Demand and Supply	15
Ch. 3	Theory of Optimizing Behavior	55
Ch. 4	Basic Estimation Techniques	92
Pt. II	Demand	129
Ch. 5	Theory of Consumer Behavior: Demand Curves	130
Ch. 6	Demand Elasticity	180
Ch. 7	Empirical Demand Functions	222
Ch. 8	Demand Forecasting	251
Pt. III	Production and Cost	285
Ch. 9	Theory of Production	286
Ch. 10	Theory of Cost	334
Ch. 11	Empirical Production and Cost Functions	370
Pt. IV	Perfect Competition	425
Ch. 12	Theory of Perfectly Competitive Firms and Industries	426
Ch. 13	Profit Maximization in Competitive Markets - Implementation of the Theory	470
Pt. V	Firms With Market Power	495
Ch. 14	The Theory of Monopoly	496
Ch. 15	Imperfect Competition	531
Ch. 16	Profit Maximization for Firms with Market Power - Implementation of the Theory	584
Ch. 17	Multiple Plants, Markets, and Products	606
Pt. VI	Time and Uncertainty	649
Ch. 18	Profit Maximization over Time	650
Ch. 19	Profit Maximization under Uncertainty	677
Ch. 20	The Investment Decision	708
	Appendix: Statistical Tables	728
	Appendix: Linear Programming	735
	Answers to Selected Technical Problems	751
	Index	759

Contemporary Visual Merchandising or Academic Advancement in Composition Studies

Contemporary Visual Merchandising

Author: Emeritus Diamond

The latest edition of this widely used textbook features a wealth of new and improved content. Every aspect of the field is covered, ranging from basic theories of visual merchandising and facilities design to the most recent innovations being utilized by professionals working in the field.

Features of the revision include:

• Three completely new chapters
• Chapter 10: Energizing the Specialty Boutique
• Chapter 12: Graphics in Today's Retail Environment
• Chapter 15: Creating an Overall Design Concept From Inception to Conclusion
• A totally new complement of photographs that reflect the work of today's visual merchandisers and facility designers
• Sixteen pages of full-color that excitingly depict the works of masters in the field
• A host of Profiles throughout the text that represent various retail organizations that have distinguished themselves through visual presentation
• An In The News segment at the conclusion of each chapter featuring reprints of articles that have made the news in professional journals
• Internet exercises that teach the users how to explore a wealth of websites to solve merchandising and design problems
• Ancillary materials including PowerPoint presentations and an exciting new video to accompany the book

Contemporary Visual Merchandising and Environmental Design provides professional advice and guidance to those aspiring to enter the field or for retailers wishing a better understanding of visual merchandising and design, and how it may improve their own establishments.

Book about: Infotopia or Pragmatic Unit Testing in C with NUnit

Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure

Author: Richard C C Gebhardt

This volume deals with a number of related issues that are becoming increasingly crucial for English studies during this time when most faculty in the field are assistant professors approaching tenure review or associate professors seeking promotion. These critical issues focus on:
* The diversity of research and scholarly publication in composition studies;
* The fact that composition studies faculty are often evaluated by personnel committee members, department chairs, and deans unfamiliar with the nature and demands of the field;
* The way that American higher education is rethinking "scholarship" and the role it plays in the work and evaluation of faculty members; and
* The role composition studies faculty can play in this review of scholarship and professional advancement.

This book seeks to address the entire spectrum of "composition studies" -- expository and argumentative writing, personal essay, literary nonfiction, technical and business writing, historical rhetoric, empirical research, and more -- by understanding the nature of and evaluating the work of faculty members in this broad field. Scholarship and advancement issues are discussed in a variety of situations including basic and regular first-year composition classes at four-year and two-year institutions or writing centers, advanced writing courses, ESL and skills-development programs, and writing classes and programs for teachers, administrators, and researchers. The chapters focus on a variety of subjects, including the importance of mentoring and faculty development in all departments and institutions; and how young scholar-teachers and assistant professors can prepare for a successfulpersonnel or tenure review.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Authors
1	Evolving Approaches to Scholarship, Promotion, and Tenure in Composition Studies	1
2	Scholarship in Composition and Literature: Some Comparisons	21
3	Nonacademic Publication As Scholarship	31
4	Writing Administration As Scholarship and Teaching	43
5	Scholarship, Tenure, and Composition Studies in the Two-Year College	57
6	Scholarship, Tenure, and Promotion in Professional Communication	71
7	Presenting Writing Center Scholarship: Issues for Faculty and Personnel Committees	87
8	Promotion and Tenure Review of ESL and Basic-Skills Faculty	103
9	Preparing Yourself for Successful Personnel Review	117
10	Special Challenges Facing Women in Personnel Reviews	129
11	Mentoring - and (Wo)mentoring - in Composition Studies	137
12	Mentor and Evaluator: The Chair's Role in Promotion and Tenure Review	147
13	The Importance of External Reviews in Composition Studies	167
14	Scholarship Reconsidered: A View from the Dean's Office	177
	Afterword: Re-Envisioning Tenure in an Age of Change	191
	Author Index	201
	Subject Index	205

Economics of Resources Agriculture and Food or Consumer Behavior

Economics of Resources, Agriculture, and Food (Agricultural Economics Series)

Author: Wesley D Seitz

This text is intended for students who are interested in learning the principles of economics. It is particularly appropriate for students enrolled in colleges of agriculture and in some of the biological and physical science courses in liberal arts colleges, where a familiarity of agriculture will help enliven examples. Economics of Resources, Agriculture, and Food was developed to present the full range of basic economic theory, which is illustrated with examples from resource, agricultural, and food issues of today. Students who study this text will be prepared to understand the basis for most economic and management decisions.

Table of Contents:

Part 1 Economic Scope, Organization, and Problems of Agriculture

1 Economics of Resources, Agriculture, and Food

Part 2 Microeconomic Concepts

2 Economics of Demand

3 Production Functions and Product Curves

4 Costs, Returns, and Profit Maximization

Part 3 Markets

5 Theory of Markets

6 Multiple Inputs and Outputs

7 Forms of Market Competition

8 International Trade

9 Agribusiness Organization, Management, and Finance

10 Economic Performance of Agribusiness

Part 4 Macroeconomic Relationships

11 Introduction to Macroeconomics

12 Gross Domestic Product and Fiscal Policy

13 Gross Domestic Product and Monetary Policy

14 Gross Domestic Product, International Transactions, and Macroeconomic Policy

Part 5 Public Policy and Agriculture

15 Resource and Environmental Management

16 Agriculture and Development

17 Agricultural Price and Income Policy

18 Putting It All Together: The Economic System

Glossary

Index

Go to: Financing Sport or How to Enter and Succeed in Developing World Markets

Consumer Behavior: Concepts and Applications

Author: David L L Loudon

Consumer Behavior: Concepts and Applications 4/e is written as an introduction to consumer behavior for the upper-level marketing student,and yet is comprehensive and challenging enough to be used at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The pedagogical elements of the text include a list of learning objectives and opening vignettes at the start of each chapter,managerial reflections,discussion topics,projects,and end notes.

Student Problem Manual to Accompany Essentials of Corporate Finance or Applied Human Relations

Student Problem Manual to Accompany Essentials of Corporate Finance

Author: Stephen A A Ross

Prepared by Thomas Eyssell, University of Missouri¿St. Louis, provides additional problems for practice. Each chapter begins with concepts for review, followed by chapter highlights. A short concept test, averaging 10 questions and answers, appears next. Each chapter concludes with additional problems for students to review, with answers available at the end of the manual.

Books about: Career Perspectives in Electronic Media or War and Underdevelopment

Applied Human Relations: An Organizational and Skill Development Approach

Author: Douglas A A Benton

Applied Human Relations emphasizes the person in the organization and the interactions between managers and other employees. Each chapter includes a Profile of Human Behavior to allow readers to identify with successful job holders at all levels, from entry level to top executives. The sixth edition of Applied Human Relations: An Organizational Approach has been reorganized and rewritten to be more direct than previous editions. The book now includes new sections on conflict management and communications and management in virtual organizations. The sections on selective teamwork, service orientation, catalytic leadership, personal and organizational values, quality management, and cross-cultural relations have been expanded from the previous edition. A valuable reference book for anyone who wishes a greater understanding of human relations in the workplace.

Energy and Conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus or Guide To Using The National Electric Code

Energy and Conflict in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Author: Robert Ebel

This timely study is the first to examine the relationship between competition for energy resources and the propensity for conflict in the Caspian region. Taking the discussion well beyond issues of pipeline politics and the significance of Caspian oil and gas to the global market, the book offers significant new findings concerning the impact of energy wealth on the political life and economies of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The contributors, a leading group of scholars and policymakers, explore the differing interests of ruling elites, the political opposition, and minority ethnic and religious groups region-wide. Placing Caspian development in the broader international relations context, the book assesses the ways in which Russia, China, Iran, and Turkey are fighting to protect their interests in the newly independent states and how competition for production contracts and pipeline routes influences regional security. Specific chapters also link regional issues to central questions of international politics and to theoretical debates over the role of energy wealth in political and economic development worldwide. Woven throughout the implications for U.S. policy, giving the book wide appeal to policymakers, corporate executives, energy analysts, and scholars alike.

Author Biography: Rajan Menon is Monroe J. Rathbone Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University and adjunct professor, Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Robert Ebel is director, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Booknews

Examines prospects for the Caspian Sea region in the era of globalization. Looks at how the post-Cold War international system shapes and is shaped by the region, and considers how energy revenues could influence Azerbaijan's political and economic order. Explores the link between energy and development, focusing on Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and illuminates issues of corruption, the distribution of wealth, the balance of power between central and provincial governments, and the standing of civil society in relation to the state. Ebel is director of the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Menon teaches international relations at Lehigh University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

Graham E. Fuller
"The Caspian" no longer refers merely to a sea, but has become a new geopolitical concept denoting Eurasian rivalries over energy and geopolitics in the region. Amid a welter of recent books that often hype the topic with little professional depth, this volume offers a welcome contrast characterized by realism in its exploration of the shifting balance of economics, politics, ethnic groups, religion, societies, and geopolitics by some of the savviest authors around on these subjects. One of the best books on the outlook for this complex region.
— Graham E. Fuller

James Schlesinger
For too many Americans, Central Asia and the Caspian region represent unfamiliar territory combining mystery, romance, and ignorance. All three are captured in the misleading comparison to the nineteenth-century "Great Game" between Britain and Russia---misleading since the United States has no stake equivalent to India, then Britain's Jewel in the Crown. This collection of essays, rich in context and in content, will go far to dispel that gap in knowledge. If the usual flaw in treatment of this region is the glittering generality passed off with a wave of the hand, this collection is detailed, specific, and comprehensive, treating the nations concerned both individually and collectively.
— James Schlesinger

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Map of Commonwealth of Independent States
	Map of Existing and Potential Oil and Gas Export Routes from the Caspian Basin
1	Introduction: Energy, Conflict, and Development in the Caspian Sea Region	1
2	The Caspian Region in the Twenty-first Century	21
3	Crude Calculations: OPEC Lessons for the Caspian Region	29
4	Azerbaijan: The Politicization of Oil	55
5	Kazakhstan: The Long-Term Costs of Short-Term Gains	79
6	Turkmenistan's Energy: A Source of Wealth or Instability?	107
7	Regional Cooperation in Central Asia and the South Caucasus	123
8	U.S.-Iranian Relations: Competition or Cooperation in the Caspian Sea Basin	145
9	Paradigms for Russian Policy in the Caspian Region	163
10	The Afghan Civil War: Implications for Central Asian Stability	189
11	China's Interest in Central Asia: Energy and Ethnic Security	209
12	Turkey's Caspian Interests: Economic and Security Opportunities	225
	Index	247
	About the Contributors	263
	About NBR	267

See also: Amministrazione di risorsa umana internazionale: Politica e pratica per l'impresa globale

Guide To Using The National Electric Code

Author: Gregory W Fletcher

Written in accordance with the 2005 National Electrical Code®, this new book is designed to provide straightforward, easy-to-understand explanations of how to use and apply the Code®. Readers with little or no electrical experience can learn how to use the NEC® to find must-know information quickly. The Guide to Using the National Electrical Code® contains the essential information for determining the minimum requirements for installing electrical wiring and equipment in a safe and proper manner. Coverage has been thoughtfully arranged to clearly explain the basic information and the use of the NEC®, which is vital to understanding how to meet Code requirements for safe electrical installations.

Integrated Computer Applications or Europe Since 1945

Integrated Computer Applications: Modules 1-8, Vol. 8

Author: Susie VanHuss

Providing students with real-world applications and scenarios, this text combines all of the tools of Microsoft Office. Organized into distinct modules, this text provides the freedom to pick and choose the topics applicable to students' needs.

Table of Contents:

MODULE 1. BUSINESS DOCUMENTS WITH WORD. Lesson 1. Block Letters. Lesson 2. Modified Block Letters. Lesson 3. Multiple-Page Letters. Lesson 4. Memos. Lesson 5. Electronic Mail. Lesson 6. Tables. Lesson 7. Unbound Reports. Lesson 8. Leftbound Reports. Lesson 9. Documents with Columns and Graphics. Project 1. Word Essentials Creative Designs & Production I. MODULE 2. PRESENTATIONS WITH POWERPOINT®. Lesson 1. Create and Modify Presentation. Lesson 2. Graphics and Tables. Lesson 3. Graphics, Transitions, and Animations. Lesson 4. Slides, Handouts, and Note Pages. Project 3. Integrate PowerPoint and Word Riverfront Enterprises. Lesson 5. Masters and Custom Template. Lesson 6. Collaborate on Presentations. Lesson 7. Data from Other Sources. Lesson 8. Manage and Deliver Presentations. Project 4. Integrate PowerPoint and Word The Leadership Group. MODULE 3. SPREADSHEETS WITH EXCEL. Lesson 1. Create Worksheets. Lesson 2. Edit Worksheets. Lesson 3. Create and Revise Formulas. Lesson 4. Edit and Format. Lesson 5. Print Worksheets. Project 5. Integrate Excel and Word. Lesson 6. Modifying Workbooks. Lesson 7. Create and Modify Charts. Lesson 8. Learn Advanced Features. Project 6. Integrate Excel and Word. MODULE 4. DESKTOP PUBLISHING WITH WORD. Lesson 1. Graphics. Lesson 2. Columns. Lesson 3. Brochures. Lesson 4. More. Project 7. MODULE 5. INTEGRATED PROJECT. Project 8. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Jobs 1-6. Essentials. Jobs 7-12. Beyond the Essentials. MODULE 6. DATABASE WITH ACCESS. Lesson 1. Work with Access. Lesson 2. Create Modify Tables. Lesson 3. Create Simple Queries. Lesson 4. Create SimpleForms. Lesson 5. Create Simple Reports. Project 9. Integrate Access and Word. Lesson 6. More About Queries. Lesson 7. Special Database Features. Lesson 8. Integrate Access with Office and the Internet. Project 10. Integrate Access, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. MODULE 7. DESKTOP INFORMATION MANAGEMENT WITH OUTLOOK. Lesson 1. Getting Started with Outlook and E-Mail. Lesson 2. Managing Contacts. Lesson 3. Schedule with Calendar. Lesson 4. Using Tasks. Lesson 5. Using Notes. Lesson 6. Manage Messages. MODULE 8. INTEGRATED PROJECT Project 12. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Jobs 1-7. Essentials. Jobs 8-14. Beyond the Essentials. APPENDIX A. STYLE GUIDE. Document Formats. Microsoft Office Functions. Proofreader's Marks. Communication Skills. APPENDIX B. COMPUTER CONCEPTS.

Go to: Pyrrhic Victory or We the People

Europe Since 1945

Author: Mary Fulbrook

Mary Fulbrook's Introduction to this splendid concluding volume in The Short Oxford History of Europe begins with a vivid contrast, setting the struggle for survival in a devastated rubble-strewn street of East Berlin in 1945 against the same location in the reunited city at the end of the century, unrecognizable in its gleaming, confident, cosmopolitan affluence. The book brings home the extraordinary waves of transformation that have washed across Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, sketching out the major general patterns of this change, and exploring some of the local themes and variations in different parts of Europe. The result is both illuminating and engrossing: a must for students of contemporary history, politics, and European studies, it also offers immense rewards to any reader interested in the roots, and fruits, of the post-war European renaissance.

Inside Washington or Marketing Management

Inside Washington: Government Resources for International Business

Author: William A Delphos

Designed to help professionals find specific resources from the federal government, including incentives and programs. Find the money that the government has stored and puts aside for businesses. Get the hidden funding that your business deserves by learning the secrets Delphos has discovered and begin learning what government resources are available, where to find them, and how much is available for your business.

Interesting book: Measurement and Evaluation in Human Performance 3rd Edition w Web Study Guide or Integrative Oncology

Marketing Management

Author: Michael R Czinkota

A marketing management course shouldn't be treated like a principles class. And, an upper-level text doesn't need to be written like an encyclopedia. That's why Marketing Management, 2e by Michael Czinkota and Masaaki Kotabe takes a direct, "no bull" approach, bringing concepts to life without dry explanations and unnecessary "extra" information. Theoretical and practical considerations are balanced throughout. Coverage of critical and contemporary marketing topics includes integration of e-commerce and a unique chapter on estimating marketing demand.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	About the Authors
Ch. 1	An Overview of Marketing	1
Ch. 2	Understanding the Buyer	27
Ch. 3	Understanding the Environment and the Competition	57
Ch. 4	Marketing Planning	93
Ch. 5	Marketing Research and Information	125
Ch. 6	Forecasting	165
Ch. 7	Market Segmentation, Positioning, and Branding	199
Ch. 8	Product and Service Decisions	241
Ch. 9	New Products	287
Ch. 10	Pricing Decisions	325
Ch. 11	Distribution Decisions	359
Ch. 12	Designing Effective Promotion and Advertising Strategies	401
Ch. 13	Direct Marketing, Sales Promotion, and Public Relations	439
Ch. 14	Selling and Sales Management	473
Ch. 15	The Future of Marketing	509
	Case Studies	525
	Company Index	661
	Name Index	665
	Subject Index	669

Achieving Business Value From Technology or Effective WorkPlace Writing

Achieving Business Value From Technology: A Practical Guide for Today's Executive

Author: Tony Murphy

PRAISE FOR ACHIEVING BUSINESS VALUE FROM TECHNOLOGY

"Clearly, IT investments have never before played such a critical part in business growth. The book addresses the weakness existing in most management systems involving the lack of a systematic process to realize the economic benefits of the IT investment and provides a clear A-Z methodology for business to bridge this gap. This book is clearly written for all levels and backgrounds in business management and is a must-do for those whose business involves IT, is considering IT, or would like to significantly tailor IT investments for their economic advantage."
—Professor Richard P. Wool, University of Delaware, President and CEO, Cara Plastics Inc.

"Tony Murphy addresses the difficult question of the value of IT investments head on. He translates an elegant theory into effective practice. The case studies in the book effectively reinforce his key messages."
—Dr. Dermot Moynihan, Senior Vice President, World Wide Chemical Development, GlaxoSmithKline

"This book is the answer to most CIOs' need for a well-structured, pragmatic, and easily implemented set of tools and practices designed to answer the universal problem of managing and measuring IT's contribution to the business. Tony Murphy's unique blend of practical experience, industry best practice, and excellent communication skills provides the reader with a valuable-and highly readable-guide on how best to achieve that elusive objective of reliably realizing the business benefits of IT investments."
—Michael Rice, oup Director of IT, Kerry Group plc

"At Oxfam we are one year into a three-year IT strategybased on the principles Tony Murphy lays out in this book, and there is a real, positive difference in how IT is perceived, and in its real strategic position within the organization. If you have ever wondered just how you can gain strategic alignment for your IT function, and then how to make the practical link to IT investment for the organization, Tony has provided a framework that joins them both."
—Simon Jennings, Head of Information Systems, Oxfam GB

Book review: Foundations of Athletic Training Prevention Assessment and Management or The Practice of Shiatsu

Effective Workplace Writing

Author: Beth Camp

This hands-on text provides abundant exercises that cover practical writing skills such as researching, organizing, and writing documents. It also teaches students how to evaluate and respond to written material and how to use writing skills toadvance a career.

Table of Contents:

FOCUSING ON THE WORKPLACE
Writing in the Workplace
Developing a Writing Process for Work
Reading and Researching for Workplace Writing
IMPROVING WRITING PRODUCTIVITY
Describing and Defining: Writing about Tools and Equipment
Using Forms: Writing on the Floor and from the Field
Communicating with E-Mail
BUILDING COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Writing for Co-Workers: Informing and Instructing
Writing for Customers: Informing and Persuading
Writing for Teams and Managers: Meeting and Presenting
WRITING ABOUT YOUR CAREER
Writing to Get the Job You Want
Writing for Promotion
Appendix A: Quick Format: Letters and Memos
Appendix B: Quick Format: Reports
Appendix C: Quick Reference: Writing Skills Review.

Disinfection by Products in Water Treatment or Logistics Systems Analysis

Disinfection By-Products in Water Treatment: The Chemistry of Their Formation and Control

Author: Roger A A Minear

Disinfection By-Products in Water Treatment describes new government regulations related to disinfection by-products. It explains the formation of microorganism by-products during water treatment and the methods employed to control them. The book includes several chapters on chlorine by-products and discusses techniques for the removal of chloroform from drinking water. It also describes gamma radiation techniques for removing microorganic by-product precursors from natural waters and the removal of bromate from drinking water.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	Disinfection By-Products: Current Practices and Future Directions	3
Ch. 2	Minimizing Disinfection By-Product Formation while Ensuring Giardia Control	17
Ch. 3	The Impact of TOC and Bromide on Chlorination By-Product Formation	59
Ch. 4	Influence of Bromide Ion on Trihalomethane and Haloacetic Acid Formation	91
Ch. 5	Removal of Chloroform from Drinking Water Using High-Energy Electron Beam Irradiation	131
Ch. 6	Disinfection By-Product Precursor Removal from Natural Waters Using Gamma Radiation to Simulate an Innovative Water Treatment Process	151
Ch. 7	An Overview of Ozonation Disinfection By-Products	165
Ch. 8	Ozonation of Bromide-Containing Waters: Bromate Formation through Ozone and Hydroxyl Radicals	187
Ch. 9	Removal of Bromate after Ozonation during Drinking Water Treatment	207
Ch. 10	Ozone-Bromide Interactions with NOM Separated by XAD-8 Resin and UF/RO Membrane Methods	235
Ch. 11	Evaluation of Bromate Formation and Ozone Decomposition Kinetics	255
Ch. 12	Hydrolysis and Dehalogenation on Trihaloacetaldehydes	283
Ch. 13	The Effect of Granular Activated Carbon Surface Chemistry on Bromate Reduction	293
Ch. 14	DBP Speciation and Kinetics as Affected by Ozonation and Biotreatment	311
Ch. 15	Verification of a Rational Kinetic Model for Chloroform Formation from a Model Precursor during Water Chlorination	339
Ch. 16	Modeling the Distribution of Chloramines during Drinking Water Chloramination	351
Ch. 17	Chloramine Loss and By-Product Formation in Chloraminated Water	363
Ch. 18	A Study of Disinfection By-Products Formed Using Four Alternative Disinfectants as a Function of Precursor Characteristics	371
Ch. 19	The Use of ClO[subscript 2] in Drinking Water Treatment: Formation and Control of Inorganic By-Products [actual symbol not reproducible]	393
Ch. 20	Using Fractionated Natural Organic Matter to Study Ozonation By-Product Formation	411
Ch. 21	Characterization of NOM Removal by Biofiltration: Impact of Coagulation, Ozonation, and Sand Media Coating	449
Ch. 22	Inhibition of GAC-Induced Phenol Coupling: Reactions by Humic Materials and Model Compounds	477
	Index	491

Read also JavaScript Pocket Reference or Creating Web Pages with HTML Simplified

Logistics Systems Analysis

Author: Carlos F Daganzo

This book describes how to plan and design efficient logistics systems considering simultaneously all integral aspects of their operation, and how to evaluate economically existing or proposed systems. The approach, more physical than mathematical, requires little data. Building on an understanding of the simplest logistics system with only one origin and one destination, the book treats problems with many origins and one destination, many destinations and one origin, and many origins and many destinations; this is done for systems with and without transshipments. The methodologies presented in the book are particularly useful when decisions have to be made with incomplete or uncertain information; e.g., when evaluating a business plan, or designing a system for a long time horizon.

This expanded edition includes new research results and numerous modifications to enhance comprehensiveness and clarity. It has two new sections, a new appendix, and more than half a dozen new figures.

Intermediate Accounting Solving Intermediate Accounting Problems Using Lotus 1 2 3 and Excel for Windows or Disconnected

Intermediate Accounting, Solving Intermediate Accounting Problems Using Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel for Windows

Author: Donald E Kieso

This bestseller has powered the careers of countless professionals. This update to the 11^th edition builds on the book's reputation for comprehensiveness, accuracy, and currency, incorporating all the recent changes to the accounting literature. It integrates numerous examples from real corporations throughout the chapters to help readers understand the application of accounting principles and techniques in practice. They'll also find problems that are modeled on the AICPA 'Simulations' - a new question format designed for the computerized uniform CPA Exam. These problems prepare readers for the exam, testing their ability to read, digest, research and respond to both a numeric problem and a short answer essay. This edition does NOT include the Problem Solving Survival Guide

Interesting textbook: Poder y Abundancia:Comercio, guerra y la Economía Mundial en el Segundo Milenio

Disconnected: Haves and Have Nots in the Information Age

Author: William C Wresch

In the Information Age, information is power. Who produces all that information, how does it move around, who uses it, to what ends, and under what constraints? Who gets that power? And what happens to the people who have no access to it? With vivid anecdotes and data, William Wresch contrasts the opportunities of the information-rich with the limited prospects of the information-poor. Surveying the range of information - personal, public, organizational, commercial - that has become the currency of exchange in today's world, he shows how each represents a form of power. He analyzes the barriers that keep people information-poor: geography, tyranny, illiteracy, psychological blinders, "noise," crime. Technology alone, he demonstrates, is not the answer. Even the technology-rich do not always get access to important information - or recognize its value. Wresch spells out the grim consequences of information inequity for individuals and society. Yet he ends with reasons for optimism and stories of people who are working to pull down the impediments to the flow of information.

Publishers Weekly

As a Fulbright Fellow in Namibia, Wresch found 30 personal computer vendors in the capital city of Windhoek, and met businessmen who received floods of e-mail and CD-ROMS from Europe. Just blocks away, migrant laborers relied on word of mouth to get occasional work unloading trucks. Wresch, now a computing and mathematics professor at the University of Wisconsin, takes us on a dizzying global tour of information glut and famine. Television sets per 1000 people? The Netherlands has 906; Bangladesh, five; the U.S., 815 (or 850, depending on which page you're reading). Phone lines per 100? Make that 51 in the U.S.; only one in China, India, Kenya and several other countries. And even where print, broadcast and electronic media abound, so do paradoxes and perils. Libraries across the world are accessible electronically, but books are still being burned; gigabytes of news bounce from satellite to satellite, but journalists are harassed, censored and killed. In case anyone in the information-rich world is getting complacent, Wresch warns of a surfeit of junk, numerous gaps in real information (black holes in cyberspace), and ever-increasing opportunities for invasion of privacy and the spread of hate. Wresch gushes facts like a fire hydrant, but his humane values and high-energy writing make him an excellent guide for this eye-opening trip. (Nov.)

Library Journal

References to the Information Age and the Information Superhighway appear daily in American media, creating an impression that information flows freely between computers and people around the world. Wresch challenges this image with a careful assessment of the current state of the information revolution. Drawing on his personal experience and research as a Fulbright Fellow in Namibia, he highlights the plight of the information-poor in contemporary society. Describing information as a commodity, he examines the types available, the ability to move information, and human limits in processing it. Anecdotes such as a description of Elzibe Erasmus and the operation of her ITC Credit Bureau in Namibia or the account of the theft of the computer disks that control the glassmaking machines at Waterford Glass effectively illustrate his arguments. This lively and well-written book belongs on all information professionals' reading lists and in most libraries.Judy Solberg, George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.

Communication Power or The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

Communication Power: Energizing Your NonProfit Organization

Author: Larry Lauer

Nonprofits are well aware that good communication skills help them strengthen their organizations, have a strong impact on fund raising, and improve marketing efforts. Good communication can also help lower costs, increase contributions, improve board relations, and increase community support. This handbook covers every aspect of communications, both internal and external. In addition, it provides a unique managerial how—to focus, with information on presentation skills, effective crisis plans, tips for handling difficult situations, on—camera tips, and more.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Ch. 1	An Introduction to Executive Communication	1
Ch. 2	Communication Performance for Executive Leadership	39
Ch. 3	Internal Communication and External Impact	57
Ch. 4	Board Communication	85
Ch. 5	Donor Communication	101
Ch. 6	Customer Communication	117
Ch. 7	External and Community Communication	125
Ch. 8	Effective Media Relations	149
Ch. 9	How To Handle a Crisis	167
Ch. 10	International Communication and the Nonprofit Sector	181
	Appendix A - Materials for Staff Development	189
	Selected Bibliography	199
	Index	201

Read also Racisme sans Racistes :le Racisme Daltonien et la Persistance d&apos;Inégalité de Race aux États-Unis

The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

Author: J L Pric

The Dutch Republic emerged from the epic revolt of the Netherlands against Spanish rule in the late sixteenth century and almost immediately became a major political force in Europe. Leslie Price - an acknowledged expert in the field - shows how this extraordinary new state, a republic in a Europe of monarchies, was able to achieve such successes despite the burdens of the Eighty Years War with Spain, which only came to a definitive end in 1648.

Booknews

Shows how the Dutch Republic became a major political force in Europe despite the burdens of the Eighty Years War with Spain. Price (history, U. of Leeds) examines how the economic boom of the late 16th and early 17th centuries produced a vigorous society that was able to combine religious pluralism with relative political stability, and rapid social change with cultural vitality. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Principles of Financial Accounting Text Only or 40 Top Tools for Manufacturers

Principles of Financial Accounting - Text Only

Author: Belverd E Needles

Designed for financial accounting programs that prefer to start with a sole proprietorship approach, this market-leading text provides business students with a strong foundation in accounting procedures and emphasizes the use of financial information in decision making and analysis. The text—intended for use in a single semester or quarter—contains balanced, flexible content supported by an array of integrated print and technology supplements. The 2005e Edition maintains a high standard for accuracy, integrates performance measurement, and emphasizes technology. Real-world examples appear throughout the text to help students link accounting procedures to publicly held companies as well as international, governmental, and not-for-profit organizations.

See also: Electrical Power and Controls or The Real World Entrepreneur Field Guide

40 Top Tools for Manufacturers: A Guide for Implementing Powerful Improvement Activities

Author: Walter J Michalski

Just for Manufacturing, we've selected the 40 most powerful tools for your process improvement.

Farmers for the Future or Managerial Economics

Farmers for the Future

Author: Dan Looker

Farmers for the Future is the first book to show with real-life examples that it's still possible for young people to start farming in rural America.

New interesting book: Alan Simpsons Windows Vista Bible or Olympus Evolt E 510

Managerial Economics

Author: Paul Keat

KEY BENEFIT: This text will excite readers by providing a more linear progression, while proving the consistency and relevance of microeconomic theory.
KEY TOPICS: Goals of a firm, supply and demand, elasticity, demand estimation and forecasting, theory and estimation of production and cost, pricing and output decisions of monopolies and oligopolies, special pricing practices, game theory and asymmetric information, capital budgeting, risk, and uncertainty, multinational corporations and globalization, government and industry challenges, managerial economics in the semiconductor industry.

For business professionals looking to expand their knowledge of managerial and applied economics.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1.  Introduction
Chapter 2.  The firm and its goals
Chapter 3A.  Supply and demand
Appendix 3.  The mathematics of supply and demand
Chapter 4.  Demand elasticity
Appendix 4.  Applications of supply and demand
Chapter 5.  Demand estimation and forecasting
Chapter 6.  The theory and estimation of production
Appendix 6A.  The production of services
Appendix 6B.  The multiple-input case
Appendix 6C.  Expressing the production function with the use of calculus
Chapter 7.  The theory and estimation of cost
Appendix 7A.  A mathematical restatement of the short-run cost function
Appendix 7B.  The estimation of cost
Chapter 8.  Pricing and output decisions: perfect competition and monopoly
Appendix 8A.  The use of calculus in pricing and output decisions
Appendix 8B.  Break-even analysis (volume-cost-profit)
Chapter 9.  Pricing and output decision: monopolistic competition and oligopoly
Chapter 10.  Special pricing practices
Chapter 11.  Game theory and asymmetric information
Chapter 12.  Capital budgeting and risk
Appendix 12A.  The value of a corporation
Chapter 13.  The multinational corporation and globalization
Chapter 14.  Government and industry: challenges and opportunities for today’s manager
Chapter 15.  Managerial economics in action
Part 1.  Beverage industry survey
Part 2.  The business planning process
Appendix 15A. Beverage industry executives
Appendix A.  Statistical and financial tables
Index
Online appendices
   Reviewof mathematical concepts used in managerial economics
   Linear programming
   Calculations for the time value of money
   Solutions to odd-numbered problems

The Global Agenda or The Sexuality of Organization

The Global Agenda

Author: Charles W Kegley

A reader by top scholars; The Global Agenda is incisive in its coverage of key concepts, issues and theoretical and prescriptive approaches to the interpretation of world politics. The readings in this top selling book are broad based, balanced, and are categorized into four areas that build on the distinction between high and low politics.

Interesting book: Japanese Light or Dinner for Eight

The Sexuality of Organization

Author: Peta Tancred Sheriff

"The book contains interesting insights and useful empirical material. . . . The two most significant [themes] for the future development of organizational theory are the relationship between sexuality, gender, and power and the way the public and private aspects of identity relate to the structuring of work and society. The gook succeeds in illustrating how complex these relationships are and how well-dominant thought systems have succeeded in veiling them from sight." --Organization Studies "This book bravely goes where few have gone before. I found this a challenging book with ideas both familiar and new. . . . This book is an important read in the area and I do strongly recommend it. One of the difficulties we have as women in organizations is unpicking the complex nature of a territory set up by male concepts and principles. While we are working in such territory it is hard to take a step back and analyze what is going on, for we are too busy attempting to survive and succeed. This book gives us some clues and gives us a chance to review some of our strategies." --Women in Organizations & Management "This book provides valuable insights into hidden sexual dynamics in the workplace. Although most of the examples provided are from private, profit-making organizations, the same issues apply to social service organizations, which frequently are dominated by men and are infused with patriarchal assumptions, yet rely on women to implement policies." --Administration in Social Work "Clearly achieves its aim of demonstrating the pervasiveness of sexuality in organizations. I found each of the chapters highly illuminating. The book is stimulating and challenges a number of 'safe'assumptions about sexuality and gender relations. It will be useful to both those readers interested in organizational theory generally and those who wish to dip into particular chapters that are aligned to their research interests. A thorough consideration of the role of sexuality within organizations is a brave, stimulating and crucial addition to the field of organizational theory." --The Occupational Psychologist "Sexuality has been the blindspot of organization studies. A book such as this, written from within organization theory by feminist women and pro-feminist men, is an important move. It reminds us that the sexual regime, as much as unequal jobs and pay, keeps down women at work. And it makes wonderfully clear that a multinational or a trade union is no more 'sexless' than the bedroom, the pub, or the movies." --Cynthia Cockburn, City University, London "Here is a superb collection of essays studying sexuality in organizations. The editors have not only broken the conventional silence but through sound editing practice have produced a coherent and stimulating text." --David Knights, Manchester School of Management, UMIST "This volume is especially significant in indicating the complexity of the relationship between sex, gender and organization and is valuable in its suggestiveness for further and deeper research. Pointedly, it raises the question of the sexual neutrality of the past development of organizational theory." --Organizations & Occupations Newsletter (of the American Sociological Association) "An excellent introduction to a new and rapidly expanding area of study." --Sociology "The authors of this reader focus on issues well recognized in everyday life but only recently investigated in academic publications. The Sexuality of Organization would be very worthwhile reading for those people interested in organization studies, labor relations, women's studies, and studies on gender." --Contemporary Sociology "A welcome contribution to organizational theory and the conceptualization of sexual difference . . . raises questions concerning how sexuality is constructed across organizations and at different levels within the organizations. The authors do not try to replace one master narrative with another but, rather, allow each contribution to speak for itself and engage in a dialogue with one another. Should find an eager audience among feminist scholars interested in sexuality, organizations, and power." --Journal of the History of Sexuality "I can only imagine the discussions that might take place in colleges of education and school organizations where this book, or even a few chapters of it, was shared reading. In light of the pervasiveness of sexuality and the serious implications of its frank exposure this topic has been hidden too long; the authors of The Sexuality of Organization are to be applauded for their serious and daring discussion." --Educational Administration Quarterly "A major strength of this book is the breadth of issues treated and the variety of disciplines represented by the contributors. Provocative analyses challenge existing assumptions in organizational research. . . . A bold and articulate invitation to legitimate sexuality as a serious topic for organizational scholarship." --Contemporary Psychology "This slim volume provides an excellent introduction to a new and rapidly expanding area of study." --Sociology (Journal of the British Sociological Association) "Provides a number of insights for organisational theorists. Perhaps the main strength of this collection is its focus on organisational as well as individual aspects of sexual behaviour, including both sexual harassment and non-harassing sexual activity. The book is particularly welcome given the preliminary nature of research in this area." --Industrial Relations Journal "The chapters . . . are interesting and insightful, combining rigorous theory with perceptive research. . . . Individual authors have linked their work to each other's, the papers are arranged in a logical sequence . . . and the editors provide a useful preface to each one and a postscript drawing the volume to a close. . . . Collectively these writers demonstrate the pervasiveness of heterosexuality within organizations and its interconnections with gender and power. . . . In identifying the centrality of sexuality to the ways in which organizations function, this book forges connections between organizational theory and theorizations of sexuality which are not made in existing literature. It thus begins to break new ground." --Cultural Studies "The contributions are broadly successful in demonstrating the ubiquity, centrality and complex subtleties of the operation of sexuality in organisations, particularly, of course, in its articulation with processes of power. . . . This paper is replete with insight and is bold in its level of generalisation. . . It is difficult to see that there is any excuse for this text not becoming required reading on any course of study purporting to analyse organisations, or, indeed, sexuality for that matter." --Reviewing Sociology "Chapters by Burrel, Hearn, Mills, and Tancred-Sheriff clearly demonstrate the relevance, pervasiveness, and importance of sexuality in the theories and practice of organization, production, labor process, and management, organizational culture theory is analyzed and critiqued in light of sexuality and gender rules. . . . Given traditions in which sexuality was considered unimportant and ignored, readers with organizational/management backgrounds will be struck by the pervasiveness and power of sexuality in organizations. The authors make a strong argument of the relevance of sexuality to the theory and practice of organizations. Management professionals should find the chapters focusing on lesbian workers, women managers, and secretaries particularly helpful in increasing awareness and sensitivity to the experiences and concerns of these groups of workers. . . . Those who serve as consultants to industry or management may find that the essays provide a perspective that can help them understand their organizational/management clients' concerns and point of view. Professionals who provide sexuality related consultin

Table of Contents:

The Sexuality of Organization - Gibson Burrell and Jeff Hearn Gender, Sexuality and Organization Theory - Albert J Mills Gender, Sexuality and the Labour Process - Peta Tancred-Sheriff Sexuality in the Workplace - Barbara A Gutek
Key Issues in Social Research and Organizational Practice Sexuality in the Workplace - Nancy DiTomaso
Discrimination and Harassment Sexuality in the Workplace - David L Collinson and Margaret Collinson
The Domination of Men's Sexuality Private Experiences in the Public Domain - Wendy Parkin
Sexuality and Residential Care Organizations Private Experiences in the Public Domain - Marny Hall
Lesbians in Organizations Organizations, Power and Sexuality - Deborah L Sheppard
The Image and Self-Image of Women Managers Bureaucracy, Rationality and Sexuality - Rosemary Pringle
The Case of Secretaries The Sexuality of Organization - The Editors
A Postcript

Development Theory or Athletic Training in Occupational Settings

Development Theory: An Introduction

Author: Peter W Preston

In this invaluable introduction to the major post-Second World War theories of Third World development, Peter Preston takes as his focus the strategies used to analyze change in the Third World and examines the ways in which different conceptions of the nature of change have led to different lines of policy advice. In doing so, the author demonstrates how the various contemporary approaches to development draw upon strategies of enquiry which are lodged deep within the intellectual traditions of the modern world. The author's approach is based on the premise that the reader can only fully grasp the live issues and debates surrounding development through an understanding of the linkages with the broader frameworks of social theory.

The volume is organized into four major sections:



• An introduction to the nature of social scientific analysis;

• A review of the work of the major social scientific figures of the nineteenth century and their impacts in the twentieth;

• A comprehensive discussion of the post-Second World War theories of Third World development;

• A prospective study of the current debates within the field of development theory about global structures and agent responses.




Development Theory is designed to appeal to students across a wide range of disciplines, who are taking courses dealing with aspects of development.

Interesting book: Nutrition for Sport and Exercise or Bach Flower Remedies

Athletic Training in Occupational Settings

Author: Sue Finkam

Finally, there is a text that instructs both prospective and existing athletic trainers about offering services in the fast-growing, professionally rewarding corporate and industrial environment. Athletic Training in Occupational Settings comprehensively presents the ways to successfully tailor and deliver services to meet this market’s needs.

Susan Finkam, MS, ATC/L, CEA, begins by addressing "why" athletic trainers have expanded the markets they serve. An overview of this evolution into occupational settings is provided to enhance your understanding of this marketplace and the opportunities it presents. After identifying the differences, the text then shifts its attention to answering "how" an athletic trainer can practice effectively in this setting. Topics covered in this section include marketing ideas, proposal and contract writing, service delivery, and other pertinent skills.

Athletic Training in Occupational Settings also contains clinical examples and numerous professional forms to supplement the information presented. These valuable features further assist students in understanding the function of athletic trainers in occupational settings. This easy-to-read resource is also valuable for professionals either desiring a career change to a different athletic training setting or looking to develop additional services for their place of employment

Topics covered inside:

• Occupational athletic training service offerings
• Marketing methods
• Proposal and contract writing
• Facility/program management

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	The evolution of work	1
Ch. 2	The occupational work setting	9
Ch. 3	Occupational athletic training services	25
Ch. 4	Business development	47
Ch. 5	Proposals	63
Ch. 6	Business agreements	67
Ch. 7	Reimbursement	75
App. A	Sample job descriptions for the certified athletic trainer in the occupational setting	81
App. B	Sample ergonomic analysis report	85
App. C	General workstation design principles	91
App. D	Sample physical demands analysis data collection form	97
App. E	Sample physical demands job description addendum	101
App. F	Executive summary : certified athletic trainers deliver ROI in occupational work settings	103
App. G	Sample request for proposal	109
App. H	Sample proposal for occupational athletic training services	113
App. I	Sample proposal for on-site rehabilitation services	119
App. J	Sample employment agreement for an occupational athletic trainer (#1)	123
App. K	Sample employment agreement for an occupational athletic trainer (#2)	127
App. L	Sample agreement for fitness, health promotion, and rehabilitation services (#1)	133
App. M	Sample agreement for fitness, health promotion, and rehabilitation services (#2)	137
App. N	Sample agreement for new-hire training services	143