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.

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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)

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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.

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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