Corporations and Other Business Associations or Human Value Management

Corporations and Other Business Associations: Cases and Materials

Author: Charles R OKelley

With this extensive revision of their well—regarded casebook, authors O'Kelley and Thompson respond to the many changes in the world of business. Retaining its balance of legal theory, enlightening cases, and widely praised problems, CORPORATIONS AND OTHER BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS, Third Edition, incorporates new material and analyzes important developments in the field.

If you haven't already adopted this intelligent and straightforward casebook, you'll be pleased to discover its:

real—life focus on: close corporations, mergers/changes in control, and the relationship between corporations and outsiders

skillful blend of theory, cases, and problems

carefully edited and thoughtfully selected classic and contemporary cases

generous number of excellent problems ranked among the best for clarity and effectiveness

sophisticated — but not intimidating—writing style

flexible organization which makes it easily adaptable to various teaching methods

New material in CORPORATIONS AND OTHER BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS, Third Edition, includes:

discussion and problems on the "hot" new business entities: LLPs and LLCs

expanded treatment of agency law

new hypothetical problems that develop and build within a chapter

more emphasis on the applications of theory, presented in a more accessible style

An updated Teacher's Manual

If you want to expose your students to the realities of business today, this powerful set of teaching tools is an ideal choice.

Book about: Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s or Fight like a Girl

Human Value Management: The Value-Adding Human Resource Management Strategy for the 1990s

Author: Jac Fitz Enz

Demonstrates how HR managers can play a more integral and dynamic role in their companies' growth by running human resources like a business. Shows how to shift focus from the administration of traditional personnel programs to proactive support for organizational goals.

Table of Contents:

PrefaceThe Author
1. Changing Perceptions About Human Resource Management
2. The New Laws of the Marketplace: Evolutionary Change at a Revolutionary Speed
3. Human Value Management: The Strategy for the Next Decade
4. A Strategic Plan for Effective Human Value Management
5. Creating a New Vision for Human Resources
6. Repositioning Human Resources
7. Researching and Developing Markets for Human Resources
8. Assessing the Human Resource Capacity of the Organization
9. Deciding and Acting on Key Success Points and Options
10. Evaluating the Value-Added Effects of Human Resources
11. Conclusion: The Present and Future States of Human Value Management
Index

Proactive Security Administration or A Unified Approach to Subschapters K S

Proactive Security Administration

Author: R Bruce McBrid

Proactive Security Administration presents the current theory and practice of security operations in both the public and private sectors. Organizations must implement a comprehensive strategic plan for security operations in order to survive and thrive in the competitive global economy. This text presents security as policies, operations and resources directed to the protection of assets and clients. The impact of the 9/11 attacks on public and private security is an important focus of the text. As well, the influence of technology on security in relation to protection and threat assessment is an important focus. Accordingly, homeland security, cybercrime and internet security, digital protection systems, and internal and external fraud are examined. Model policies and procedures are presented throughout the book, as well as a number of case problems that may be used for in-class exercises.

Unlike other texts, Proactive Security Administration focuses on needs and services and less on whether security is provided by the public police or a private security company. The reality is that many public police departments and investigative services have state powers directed for security protection and investigation of crimes related to certain governmental services.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Development of security in the United States	1
Ch. 2	Proactive security administration and planning	24
Ch. 3	Legal bases for the security function	50
Ch. 4	Security assets - humans and property	76
Ch. 5	Securing critical assets - information and intellectual property	105
Ch. 6	Investigation of criminal security incidents	125
Ch. 7	Emergency management	151
Ch. 8	Human resource management in security services	177
Ch. 9	Training	210
Ch. 10	Global and homeland security issues	229

Interesting textbook: War Made Easy or With Ossie and Ruby

A Unified Approach to Subschapters K & S

Author: George Mundstock

The Second Edition of A Unified Approach updates the First Edition to reflect all of the developments in the last 5 years: Prominently, the pending simplification of Section 751(b) is considered. Recent anti-tax shelter legislation and rulings, and their impact on ordinary business transactions, also are considered. Further, the Second Edition is reorganized to be easier to teach. A new Chapter VII looks at both sides of the sale of a partnership interest. Chapter VI now looks at all aspects of the taxation of contributions of property (at the time of contribution and thereafter under Section 704(c) and related provisions). The discussion of liquidating distributions is simplified. A new section that covers the consequences of transfers of partnership interests by gift and at death has been added.

E Commerce Basics or Computer Media and Communication

E-Commerce Basics

Author: Bruce J McLaren

This text shows how fundamental business concepts apply to the world of e-commerce. It covers personal applications such as online banking, retail purchasing, and consumer education as well as business applications such as Internet marketing, advertising, and security. The book shows how to build and maintain a commercial Web site and includes end-of-chapter projects that emphasize the practical application of technical skills in a business setting.

Table of Contents:

Unit 1: An Introduction to Electronic Commerce
Lesson 1: The Internet in Our Economy
Lesson 2: Business on the Internet
Unit 2: Personal and Business Services Online
Lesson 3: Searching for a Career
Lesson 4: Personal Finance on the Internet
Lesson 5: Internet Information Services
Unit 3: Buying Online
Lesson 6: B2C: Business-to-Consumer
Lesson 7: B2B: Business-to-Business
Lesson 8: Consumer Issues
Unit 4: Doing Business on the Web
Lesson 9: Internet Marketing
Lesson 10: Digital Advertising
Lesson 11: Global E-commerce
Unit 5: Developing an Electronic Commerce Web Site
Lesson 12: Creating a Web Site
Lesson 13: Developing a Web Site with Microsoft FrontPage
Appendices A: Browser Basics B: E-Mail Basics C: Web Security

Book review: Menschliche Dienstleistungen im Zeitgenössischen Amerika

Computer Media and Communication: A Reader

Author: Paul Mayer

Computer Media and Communication: A Reader is a collection of key texts selected for their significance to thought about computers as media. The chapters in the first part offer a chronological overview of how thinking about computers as a means of communication developed. The second part offers prophetic analyses of the implications of computer media for culture and society, while exemplifying significant directions of current research.

Restaurant Basics or 4th Party Cyber Logistics for Air Cargo

Restaurant Basics: Why Guests Don't Come Back... and What You Can Do about It

Author: William Marvin

An easy-to-read, comprehensive, commonsense look at restaurant service from the guest's point of view. Helps teach the details of good service, develop meaningful middle management training and establish definitive operating guidelines that enhance service. Explores the particular process by which customers form their opinions of restaurant service. Provides a competitive advantage for restaurant operators.

Table of Contents:

Momentous Minutiae.
Outside Oversights.
Annoying Impressions.
Table Transgressions.
Environmental Apathy.
Menu Missteps.
Service Stumbles.
Attitude Errors.
Vacant Verbiage.
Culinary Catastrophes.
Beverage Blunders.
Cleaning Calamities.
Restroom Repulsion.
Family Fiascos.
Disabled Disasters.
Teenage Turnoffs.
Elderly Irritations.
Management Mistakes.
Closing Comments.
Helpful Homework.

Interesting book: Drug Therapy and Premenstrual Disorders or Naptime Book

4th Party Cyber Logistics for Air Cargo

Author: Lawrence C Leung

4^th Party Cyber Logistics For Air Cargo is a technical discussion for researchers and practitioners to understand the issues, models, and future directions of air cargo logistics in the cyber era. This book introduces the many aspects of planning and control of air cargo logistics processes in an e-Business environment. The authors approach this subject matter from the perspective of the logistics service providers. There is tremendous potential of achieving industry-wide collaboration between agents of the air cargo industry via an e-Business community platform. At the same time, there are many intellectually challenging problems regarding the architecture, ownership, decision support environment, and knowledge management of such an e-Business platform.
The authors provide an evolutionary view to conceptualize the developments of websites where e-Commerce activities and e-Business activities co-exist. Four Web eras are detailed, providing an impetus for the development of frameworks of an e-Business platform for air cargo logistics, or e-Platform. The conceptual framework captures the new elements in cyber logistics and what the framework can do for the industry.

International Economics or Issues in Security Management

International Economics

Author: Hendrik van den Berg

Author Hank Van den Berg had a fourteen-year career in the US State Department and with multinational companies overseas prior to getting his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. As a result, international economics has been a favorite subject for him. After eleven years of teaching International Economics in a variety of Colleges at the University of Nebraska (Business Administration, Arts and Sciences, and Architecture), Hank was ready to begin his own text. He was particularly interested in writing a book that would engage students more than the existing ones do and appeal to the diverse audience he has taught (adult students, students from a variety of countries, students with a variety of academic interests).

Go to: Cookery for the Hospitality Industry or Weekend on a Plate

Issues in Security Management: Thinking Critically About Security

Author: Robert Robinson

This is a truly unique collection of 39 articles written by authorities or based on authoritative research. It goes beyond locks, lighting, and alarms to offer provocative viewpoints on a variety of security topics.
Contributors to this book are knowledgeable and practical individuals who are aware of the impact of their work on society. They have extensive and specialized experience in their respective sectors including corporate, retail, college, hospital, art gallery, and within the community at large. They are knowledgeable about technical and legal aspects of CCTV, electronic counter-intelligence, computers, fire safety, violent employees, terrorism and the future of policing. In addition, they are concerned about the right to privacy, the influence of gambling on employee theft, privatization of correctional services, the place of women in security work, security audit anxiety, and crime control/prevention.


The book looks beyond everyday applications and routines to an understanding of the social significance of careers in security. It will be of interest to practitioners in all sectors as well as students at all levels.

Goes beyond the usual nuts and bolts security book
An important, horizon-broadening supplement to the basic texts
Appeals to everybody in the security field from students to practitioners

Booknews

A collection of 39 articles on security by practitioners and researchers, offering provocative, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, viewpoints on security topics including crime prevention, security personnel, CCTV's role, investigations, and industrial espionage. Other subjects include retail loss prevention, healthcare and campus security, understanding gangs, and computer insecurity. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Section 1: Crime Prevention

Postcolonialism Meets Economics or The Quality of Growth

Postcolonialism Meets Economics

Author: S Charusheela

In the last half century, economics has take over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied. This book changes that.
The wide array of contributions to this book draw on the rapidly growing body of postcolonial studies to critique both orthodox and heterodox economics. This book addresses a large gap in postcolonial studies, which lacks the type of sophisticated analysis of economic questions that it displays in its analysis of culture. The intellectual and disciplinary terrain covered within this book spans economics, history, anthropology, philosophy, literary theory, political science and women's studies.
With contributions from such leading scholars as Robert Dimand, R. Radhakrishnan and Anne Mayhew, this impressive new book brings two massive subjects together for the first time. Students andresearchers involved with economics and postcolonial studies as well as being of interest across the social science spectrum.

Table of Contents:

	List of contributors
	Preface and acknowledgments
	Introduction: economics and postcolonial thought	1
1	Articulating the postcolonial (with economics in mind)	21
2	Postcolonial thought, postmodernism, and economics: questions of ontology and ethics	40
	Comment: On the possibility of a postcolonial economic analysis: a comment on Zein-Elabdin and Charusheela	59
	Comment: Disciplining postcolonialism and postcolonizing the disciplines	65
3	Classical political economy and orientalism: Nassau Senior's eastern tours	73
4	Trading bodies, trade in bodies: the 1878 Paris World Exhibition as economic discourse	91
5	Economics and the postcolonial other	113
	Comment: Economics as a colonial discourse of modernity	130
	Comment: Political economy and postcolonial modernities	136
6	The hungry ghost: IMF policy, global capitalist transformation, and laboring bodies in Southeast Asia	145
7	Orientalism and economic methods: (re)reading feminist economic discussion of Islam	165
8	Writing economic theory another way	183
	Comment: Creating spaces: a comment on contemporary discourses in economics	201
	Comment: Ethicizing economics, or for that matter, any discourse	207
9	Hybrid thinking: bringing postcolonial theory to colonial Latin American economic history	215
10	Hegemony, ambivalence, and class subjectivity: southern planters in sharecropping relations in the post-bellum United States	235
11	Contested states, transnational subjects: toward a Post Keynesianism without modernity	253
	Comment: Econometrics and postcolonial theory: a comment on the fluidity of race	271
	Hybridity, hegemony, and heterodoxy: a new world	275
	Index	281

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The Quality of Growth

Author: World Bank Publications

Part of the World Bank's Millennium Program, this book offers a retrospective of the World Bank's development efforts since 1991.

Leadership for Competitive Advantage or Property Rights and Managerial Decisions

Leadership for Competitive Advantage

Author: Nick Georgiades

Virtually every organisation today realises the need to change in order to succeed. Success can only come through good management which, itself, needs to be driven by leaders. This book illustrates how a leader can systematically create a business that is better at satisfying customers, is more effective at using its human resources and is more rewarding to its owners. The authors achieve this by:
* looking at how a leader can best understand and quantify the pressures on the organisation from customers, shareholders and existing employees
* explaining how the leader can set about formulating a vision and strategy for the business which will respond to these pressures
* providing a prescription for defining the array of management practices needed to foster the organisational culture that is best able to facilitate the strategy.
This book provides the insights and practical tools for any leader to achieve competitive advantage in their organisation.

"This book draws from experience to create a path of light and logic through the most difficult of business territories-the territory of change. The authors maintain careful balance between the academic and the pragmatic, but with the obvious passion for the need to do something to bring the human element back into the world of work." Sir Colin Marshall, Chairman of British Airways and President of the CBI.

"For anyone interested in organizational transformation and the human spirit engaged in that pursuit, this is the book not just to read but to have by one's side. This book has the conceptual depth, the gift of clarity and the practical examples that should make it required reading for everyleader." Professor Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA and author of Organizing Genius.

Read also Handbook of North European Garden Plants or Americas Best Brews

Property Rights and Managerial Decisions: Comparative Theory and Policy

Author: Kathleen A Carroll

The author describes the property rights that exist in different organizational forms and explains how these establish incentives for managerial decision behavior. She compares the rights, incentives, and corresponding decision behavior in for-profit, nonprofit, and public organizations under conditions of unbounded rationality. She shows that managerial responses to regulation, tax, and industrial organization policies may differ from the usual predictions when property rights are considered. She also shows how property rights link economic and organization theory.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction and Overview	1
Pt. I	The Analytical Framework	11
2	The Economic Theory of Organizations: What It Is and What It Isn't	13
3	Efficient Decisions in Organizations and Social Welfare	27
4	Property Rights, Incentives, and Organizations	45
Pt. II	Managerial Decision Making in Alternative Organizations	59
5	Private For-Profit Organizations: the Firm	61
6	Public Sector Organizations: the Bureau	79
7	Nonprofit Organizations	93
8	Comparative Organizational Structures and Managerial Decisions	108
Pt. III	Policy Implications	127
9	Organizational Structure and Policy: Regulation and Taxation	129
10	Organizational Structure and Policy: Industrial Organization	148
11	Variations in Organizational Structures	164
Pt. IV	Additional Issues in Comparative Organizational Structure	183
12	Economic Theory of Organizations as a Social Science	185
13	Additional Issues in Economic Theory of Organizations	199
	Notes	208
	Bibliography	215
	Index	226

Man Who Saw the Future or Accounting for Growth

Man Who Saw the Future: William Paterson's Vision of Free Trade

Author: Andy Forrester

This is the incredible story of one man's vision of world commerce. William Paterson was a businessman and economic thinker far ahead of his time, whose place in history is assured. He founded the Bank of England, he helped broker the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England and, above all else, he envisaged a world where nations could trade unencumbered by monopolies and restrictive practices, and companies could be funded with international investment. All more than 300 years ago. In an attempt to realise his dream he set off on a daring voyage across half the globe to establish a trading emporium for the world at Darien, Panama. In the tradition of Longitude, The Man Who Saw the Future is the exciting story of buccaneers, political intrigue, economic vision, failed dreams, warring countries and dogged determination in the face of adversity.

Book review: Absolut Sequel with CD ROM or Youngs

Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation

Author: Margaret C Levenstein

Accounting for Growth is a study of information systems in American business during the quarter-century before World War I, a period that saw the birth of the large modern corporation as the dominant form of American enterprise. The book takes as its starting point the way in which the Dow Chemical Company constructed and reconstructed its internal information systems during years of rapid growth and technological change in the chemical industry. The book also discusses how changes in information systems affected Dow's organization and management, as well as the extent of its technological innovation.

During this period, Dow transformed itself from a small, single-product firm, which sold all its output through a national cartel, into a technologically dynamic, vertically integrated firm selling pharmaceutical, agricultural, and industrial chemicals throughout the world. These organizational and strategic changes required changes in the firm's information systems, which measured and recorded what occurred within the firm, particularly in the areas of monitoring and planning. Most of these changes were incremental and were initiated by Dow's managers, who relied heavily on the expertise of large stockholders associated with other firms.

The book examines the impact of the accounting profession and its new standards in cost accounting on the development of information systems at Dow. It compares Dow's accounting practices to those of other manufacturing firms as well as to the emerging ideas of accountants and engineers about how information systems should be designed. Despite urging from professional accountants, Dow declined to include allocated overhead in itscalculation of product costs, relying instead on measures of average variable cost except when it was making prospective investment decisions. Such innovations changed both the information available to managers and the incentives that followed.

These information changes encouraged Dow's master strategy of product diversification (moving into new markets and out of some large but less profitable ones) and vertical integration, rather than cooperation with cartels, which controlled distribution as well as output decisions.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
1	Introduction: Information and Innovation	1
2	The History of Early Manufacturing Accounting	20
3	Strategy and Structure: A History of Dow	40
4	Reports and More Reports: A Reconstruction of the Information System	87
5	Accounting for Capital: Depreciation, Inventory Valuation, and Cost Calculation	140
6	Strategy, Structure, and Information: The Evolution of Accounting at Dow	164
7	Information, Organization, and Competition: The Creation of Monopoly Capitalism	190
App. A	Biographical Information for Key Individuals in the Early History of the Dow Chemical Company	199
App. B	Products of the Midland and Dow Chemical Companies, 1891-1914	204
App. C	Item Identifications: Elements of the Dow Information System	208
App. D	Types of Information Included in Midland and Dow Chemical Company Reports	211
	Notes	215
	Bibliography	265
	Index	273

Understanding Africa or Accounting Information Systems

Understanding Africa: A Political Economy Perspective

Author: Richard A A Fredland

Africa is a fascinating, complex, and infuriating place. This valuable work covers a broad range of topics aiming to make Africa comprehensible to the general reader. Richard A. Fredland based this book on his extensive travels and research in many African countries. The author offers a systematic and integrated portrait of the continent and its peoples through detailed analysis of African history, political systems, social, cultural and economic development.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Before the Present Age: History and Geography	13
Ch. 3	The Colonial Experience: Precursor to Subservience	38
Ch. 4	Postindependence Africa	66
Ch. 5	African Development	87
Ch. 6	African Political Systems	122
Ch. 7	African Images of Self: Modernization in the Twentieth Century	139
Ch. 8	Dilemmas of Development	155
Ch. 9	South Africa: A Special Case	185
Ch. 10	Africa and the International System	193
Ch. 11	Problems and Prospects	214
	App. A: General Data for Selected African States	239
	App. B: Measures of Well-being	243
	App. C: African Financial Data	247
	Selected References	251
	Index	255
	Photo Credits	268

Go to: Country Recipes and Other Interesting Stuff or Chefs Salad

Accounting Information Systems: A Business Process Approach

Author: Frederick L Jones

Succeed in accounting with ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS: A BUSINESS APPROACH! Problem-solving aids, core cases, and a comprehensive case at the end of the text are just a few of the many tools that make learning and studying easy. Organized and presented in a way that is relevant to you and the role you'll play in your future career as a designer, user, and evaluator of information systems, this AIS textbook provides a strong conceptual foundation in accounting systems and control and helps you develop skills in documenting and analyzing transaction cycles and AIS data, identifying risks and controls, and using accounting applications.

Stochastic Dominance or The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur

Stochastic Dominance: Investment Decision Making under Uncertainty

Author: Haim Levy

This book is devoted to investment decision-making under uncertainty. The book covers three basic approaches to this process:The stochastic dominance approach; the mean-variance approach; and the non-expected utility approach, focusing on prospect theory and its modified version, cumulative prospect theory. These approaches are discussed and compared in this book. In addition, this volume examines cases in which stochastic dominance rules coincide with the mean-variance rule and cases in which contradictions between these two approaches may occur. It then discusses the relationship between stochastic dominance rules and prospect theory, and establishes a new investment decision rule which combines the two and which we call prospect stochastic dominance. Although all three approaches are discussed, most of the book is devoted to the stochastic dominance paradigm. This book is intended for Ph.D students, advanced MBA students specializing in finance, and advanced MA economics students interested in the economics of uncertainty. The book can be used as a supplementary book in post-graduate courses on portfolio selection and investment decision-making under uncertainty.

Table of Contents:

1	On the measurement of risk	7
2	Expected utility theory	25
3	Stochastic dominance decision rules	49
4	Stochastic dominance : the quantile	143
5	Algorithms for stochastic dominance	173
6	Stochastic dominance with specific distributions	197
7	The empirical studies	223
8	Applications of stochastic dominance rules	241
9	Stochastic dominance and risk measures	257
10	Stochastic dominance and diversification	271
11	Decision making and the investment horizon	293
12	The CAPM and stochastic dominance	313
13	Almost stochastic dominance (ASD)	331
14	Non-expected utility and stochastic dominance	353
15	Stochastic dominance and prospect theory	373
16	Future research	395

See also: Developing e Commerce Systems or Playing the Field

The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur: Benjamin Rathbun, Master Builder and Architect

Author: Roger Whitman

This story of intrigue and scandal in the life of an early American businessman set during the raucous Jacksonian era brings to light a nearly forgotten tale of high-stakes intrigue, scandal, and financial ruin during a pivotal moment in the economic history of canaltown Buffalo and its western hinterland. Originally called Queen's Epic by the author, Roger Whitman's work probes beneath the surface of Benjamin Rathbun's startling career to reveal the unsettling social and economic forces that the American commercial revolution unleashed. When Rathbun's vast transportation, construction, and real estate empire finally collapsed under the weight of accumulated debt, shock waves rocked markets in the east. Amidst accusations of fraud, investors and currency speculators ran for cover in what soon became the nationwide Panic of 1837. After several decades of neglect, the manuscript was rediscovered and given a new title by editors Scott Eberle and David A. Gerber, who revived the book and shaped its historiographical context. The biography and history that emerges details a personal struggle to build stability, wealth, and rectitude in the shifting moral and economic sands of the Jacksonian era.

Gender or Business to Business Marketing

Gender

Author: Carol C Gould

Here is a comprehensive collection of the most important essays on gender in the last two decades. It presents lively, controversial and critical discussions concerning such themes as the social constitution of gender; the nature of sexual oppression; the relation of gender to family, class, race and culture; and feminist perspectives on science and philosophy. It also includes leading essays on questions of ethics and difference in the law, such as privacy, pornography and reproductive rights. It is an indispensable text for courses in feminist philosophy and theories of gender, as well as an important resource for scholars in philosophy and the social sciences.

Table of Contents:

	Series Editor's Preface
	Dedication
	Acknowledgments
	Preface
Selection 1	from The Second Sex	3
Selection 2	from Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?	16
Selection 3	from Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective	25
Selection 4	from Mothering and the Reproduction of Power	41
Selection 5	from Human Biology in Feminist Theory: Sexual Equality Reconsidered	48
Selection 6	from Do Women Have a Distinct Nature?	56
Selection 7	from A Feminist Aspect Theory of the Self?	66
Selection 8	from Re-Creating Sexual Politics: Men, Feminism, and Politics	74
Selection 9	from Gender Trouble	80
Selection 10	from The Politics of Reality	91
Selection 11	from Femininity and Domination	103
Selection 12	from Masculinity and Power	113
Selection 13	from This Sex Which Is Not One	120
Selection 14	from Audre Lorde's (Nonessentialist) Lesbian Eros	128
Selection 15	from Gender and History	139
Selection 16	from Inessential Woman	148
Selection 17	from The Alchemy of Race and Rights	155
Selection 18	from Black Feminist Thought	159
Selection 19	from The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Non-Western Feminist	172
Selection 20	from The Science Question in Feminism	183
Selection 21	The Gender/Science System: or, Is Sex to Gender as Nature Is to Science?	195
Selection 22	from The Woman Question: Philosophy of Liberation and the Liberation of Philosophy	207
Selection 23	from The Man of Reason	225
Selection 24	from Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory	231
Selection 25	from Postmodernism and Other Skepticisms	243
Selection 26	from Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender-Skepticism	250
Selection 27	from Noncontractual Society: A Feminist View	261
Selection 28	from Moral Orientation and Moral Development	272
Selection 29	from Women and Caring: What Can Feminists Learn About Morality from Caring?	282
Selection 30	from The Generalized and the Concrete Other	290
Selection 31	from Maternal Thinking	299
Selection 32	from The Social Self and the Partiality Debates	306
Selection 33	from The Sexual Contract	317
Selection 34	from Feminism and Democratic Community Revisited	325
Selection 35	from Justice, Gender, and the Family	337
Selection 36	from On Racism and Sexism	347
Selection 37	from The Ideal of Impartiality and the Civic Public	359
Selection 38	from Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy	369
Selection 39	from The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism	375
Selection 40	Human Rights as Men's Rights	384
Selection 41	from Making All the Difference	397
Selection 42	from Feminist Critical Theories	408
Selection 43	from Women and Their Privacy: What Is at Stake?	417
Selection 44	from Pornography and the Erotics of Domination	424
Selection 45	from Only Words	434
Selection 46	from Preventing Birth	447
Selection 47	from Selling Babies and Selling Bodies	457
Selection 48	Commodification or Compensation: A Reply to Ketchum	468

Book review: Excel 2007 or Beginning Flash Game Programming For Dummies

Business to Business Marketing: Analysis and Practice in a Dynamic Environm

Author: Rob Vital

Designed to prepare upper-level undergraduate and graduate business students for work in the exciting field of marketing, this text focuses on the basic principles of business marketing. Enlivened by interesting scenarios involving actual companies, people, and events within the business world, the examples serve to deepen student appreciation for business-to-business marketing while differentiating it from consumer marketing. A variety of real-world examples, based upon the authors' experience as business marketers in Silicon Valley, help to enrich the text.

Internal Marketing or Broadband Problem

Internal Marketing: Your Company's Next Stage of Growth

Author: Dennis J Cahill

Here is a fresh look at marketing a company to its employees as well as its customers. In today's business world, competence is no longer enough in an employee--competent employees are merely a starting point.

Booknews

Cahill presents strategies on marketing a firm to employees to improve their effectiveness in dealing with customers. He discusses the concept of internal marketing, vision messages, hiring and training, organization, communication, training models, and issues of competency and innovation. The final chapters are case studies in the success and failure of operations which interface with the public. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	Definitions and Necessities	1
Ch. 2	What Do We Market?	25
Ch. 3	To Whom Do We Market Internally?	49
Ch. 4	How Do We Market?	69
Ch. 5	Innovation?	99
Ch. 6	What Have We Gained?	117
	Appendix 1. Addresses of Institutions Mentioned	139
	Appendix 2. Marketing Typologies	141
	References	147
	Index	163

Go to: Cases in Hospitality Management or Managed Care Contracting

Broadband Problem: Anatomy of a Market Failure and a Policy Dilemma

Author: Charles H H Ferguson

About the Author:

Charles H. Ferguson is a nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and an independent computer consultant. He is author of High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Talk of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars (Times Books, 1999) and coauthor with Charles R. Morris of Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology (Random House, 1993). He founded and served as CEO of Vermeer Technologies, the company responsible for developing FrontPage.

Surrogate Motherhood or Managing Organizational Change

Surrogate Motherhood

Author: Martha A Field

A practice known since biblical times, surrogate motherhood has only recently leaped to prominence as a way of providing babies for childless couples—and leaped to notoriety through the dramatic case of Baby M. Contract surrogacy is officially little more than ten years old, but by 1986 five hundred babies had been born to mothers who gave them up to sperm donor fathers for a fee, and the practice is growing rapidly. Martha Field examines the myriad legal complexities that today enmesh surrogate motherhood, and also looks beyond existing legal rules to ask what society wants from surrogacy.

A man's desire to be a "biological" parent even when his wife is infertile-the father's wife usually adopts the child-has led to this new kind of family, and modern technology could further extend surrogacy's appeal by making gestational surrogates available to couples who provide both egg and sperm. But is surrogacy a form of babyselling? Is the practice a private matter covered by contract law, or does adoption law govern? Is it good or bad social and public policy to leave surrogacy unregulated? Should the law allow, encourage, discourage, or prohibit surrogate motherhood? Ultimately the answers will depend on what the American public wants.

In the difficult process of sorting out such vexing questions, Martha Field has written a landmark book. Showing that the problem is rather too much applicable law than too little, she discusses contract law and constitutional law, custody and adoption law, and the rights of biological fathers as well as the laws governing sperm donation. Competing values are involved all along the legal and social spectrum. Field suggests that afederal prohibition would be most effective if banning surrogacy is the aim, but federal prohibition might not be chosen for a variety of reasons: a preference for regulating surrogacy instead of driving it underground; a preference for allowing regulation and variation by state; or a respect for the interests of people who want to enter surrogacy arrangements. Since the law can support a wide variety of positions, Field offers one that seems best to reconcile the competing values at stake. Whether or not paid surrogacy is made illegal, she suggests that a surrogate mother retain the option of abiding by or canceling the contract up to the time she freely gives the child to the adopting couple. And if she cancels the contract, she should be entitled to custody without having to prove in court that she would be a better parent than the father.

Library Journal

Of the many titles in the wake of the Baby M surrogate mother lawsuit, this one by Harvard law professor Field provides a particularly clear and comprehensive overview of the subject. Among the topics she discusses are federal regulation of surrogacy, the rights of biological fathers, and custody and adoption law. Throughout, she considers the pros and cons of potential legal and fairness arguments, some of which apply to the newest fertility technologies, including extracorporeal embryos. Field concludes that surrogacy contracts should be legal, but unenforceable if the birth mother objects. The appendix, which gives the legal status of surrogacy throughout the country, is most useful. Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New York

Booknews

Field sorts out the legal issues involved in the surrogate motherhood debate so that a layperson can understand them. Since the first edition of 1988 (Harvard U. Press), several states and foreign countries have enacted laws to deal with surrogacy, and the updated appendix reflects those changes and provides an analysis of how surrogacy law is actually developing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book review: The Marketplace of Revolution or Government By the People National Version

Managing Organizational Change: Second Edition

Author: Patrick E E Connor

About the first edition:" . . . Written in a practical forthright style . . . Appropriate for an undergraduate, a graduate student, or a business person interested in the `big picture' of the process of organizational change." Personnel Psychology A revision and update of Connor and Lake's classic text on the management of organizational change--a practical guide to understanding and effecting changes in your organization. The text is a complete sourcebook of current ideas and trends in organizational change--how it comes about, who participates, how it is concluded, and the obstacles often faced. An excellent introduction to corporate innovation and its management.

Table of Contents:

	Tables, Figures, and Questionnaires
	Preface
1	Managing Organizational Change	1
2	Getting Started	17
3	Objects of Change	37
4	Technological and Structural Methods of Change	69
5	Managerial and Human Methods of Change	91
6	Strategies for Change	117
7	Who's Who in the Change Process	139
8	Change Policy	169
9	Conducting the Change	187
10	Ethical Issues in Managing Change	221
	Selected Bibliography	243
	Index	247

Trouble on the Inca Trail or The Foreign Exchange Market

Trouble on the Inca Trail: A Decision-Making Survival Simulation

Author: Lorraine L Ukens

Trouble on the Inca Trail presents you with numerous challenging situations that require you to choose from a set of possible actions that offer the best chance for survival. To begin, you embark on the simulated adventure alone, determining your own choices, and then you take the journey as a team member making the decisions by group consensus. Afterward, compare your choices with what the group selects and determine whether the group performs better than any one individual alone. Trouble on the Inca Trail tests your knowledge and survival skills. Through this challenging and fun-filled simulated activity, you will learn how to work with others to solve problems and hone your team synergy and action-planning skills.

Interesting book: Introduction to Hospitality or Strategics

The Foreign Exchange Market: Theory and Econometric Evidence

Author: Richard Bailli

This book provides an integrated approach to recent developments in the understanding of foreign exchange markets. It covers the theory of efficient markets as developed in finance, and the models used to explain the movements of exchange rates in macroeconomics. The authors deal with the econometric estimation and testing of different models and theories of the foreign exchange market and macro-economy.

Table of Contents:

1. Historical development and institutions;
2. The theory of efficient markets;
3. Models of exchange rate behaviour;
4. Econometric methodology;
5. Expectation models;
6. Statistical properties of exchange rate series;
7. The forward rate as a predictor of the future spot rate;
8. Purchasing power and interest rate parity theories: empirical evidence;
9. Exchange rate forecasting and conclusions.

Fundamentals of Investing or Income Inequality in America

Fundamentals of Investing

Author: Lawrence J Gitman

Renowned for its writing style, trademark example method, and learning goals, Gitman and Joehnk's classic investment text is now in its Seventh Edition. Addressing the growing demand to learn how to manage personal investments and finances, the authors have turned the spotlight on individual rather than institutional investors. Their strong real-word focus includes superior coverage of mutual funds, international investments, and investment decision techniques. The new edition makes use of the Internet through exercises and cross references to Internet resources. An accompanying CD-ROM offers hands-on practice in analyzing companies for investment purposes. All these distinctive features ensure that Fundamentals of Investing will continue to define the market for years to come.

Booknews

A book/disk text for students in a first course in investments, focusing on both individual securities and on portfolios, and describing techniques for implementing investment goals in light of risk-return tradeoffs. Learning aids include summaries; discussion questions; case problems; margin definitions; boxes on real-life investing situations; and STOCK-TRAK simulations. The accompanying disk contains software for performing calculations, keyed to the text. This sixth edition includes investor interviews and expanded material on subjects such as globalization and mortgage-backed securities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

I. THE INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT.

1. The Role and Scope of Investments.
2. Investment Markets and Transactions.
3. Investment Planning and Information.
4. Investment Return and Risk.

II. INVESTING IN COMMON STOCK.

5. Common Stock Investments.
6. Analytical Dimensions of Stock Selection.
7. Stock Valuation and Investment Decisions.

III. INVESTING IN FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES.

8. Bond Investments.
9. Bond Valuation and Analysis.
10. Preferred Stock and Convertible Securities.

IV. DERIVATIVE SECURITIES.

11. Options: Puts, Calls, and Warrants.
12. Commodities and Financial Futures.

V. OTHER POPULAR INVESTMENT VEHICLES.

13. Mutual Funds: An Indirect Route to the Market.
14. Real Estate and Other Tangible Investments.
15. Tax-Advantaged Investments.

VI. INVESTMENT ADMINISTRATION.

16. Portfolio Construction.
17. Portfolio Management and Control.

Book review: DNA or Fasting Path

Income Inequality in America: An Analysis of Trends

Author: Paul Ryscavag

Paul Ryscavage, a noted labor economist, seeks to analyze various aspects of a major contemporary economic problem: the growing inequality of income in society.

What is income inequality? How is it measured? Is the middle class really declining? How does it relate to poverty? How long has inequality been rising in the US? Have there been other periods in history when income differences were as large as they are today? What are the causes of growing income and wage inequality? The author addresses these and other conceptual issues in eight carefully reasoned and clearly presented chapters. Concluding with an analysis and comparison of trends in wage inequality in other developed countries, he asks the final speculative question: How much more growth in inequality can our society withstand?

Booknews

Labor economist Ryscavage looks at a number of indexes for the measurement and describes the growth of inequality since World War II. Finding that all ways of looking at income describe growing inequality, he explores future trends, makes international comparisons, and recommends policy solutions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

What People Are Saying

Frank Levy
It is a great luxury to have a book on income inequality written by a professional who knows where the data came from, knows what they mean, understands their significance, and does not have an axe to grind. Paul Ryscavage's Income Inequality in America is that book.

Accounting Principles or Fast Forward

Accounting Principles: A Future to Cheer About!

Author: Donald E Kieso

Accounting Principles, Seventh Edition addresses the issues that our customers-- instructors and students-- have said are important. These include student success, student motivation, student problem-solving skills, student decision-making skills, and technology to assist learning and technology to assist teaching. Click on wiley.com/college/wkk for details on how we address each of these issues.

Booknews

This colorful textbook covers merchandising operations, inventories, information systems, internal control and cash, receivables, plant assets, payroll, and partnerships. The CD-ROM contains an accounting cycle tutorial and demonstration problems. The 2000 annual report for Lands' End serves as a supplement for the sixth edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Accounting in Action	1
Ch. 2	The Recording Process	43
Ch. 3	Adjusting the Accounts	87
Ch. 4	Completion of the Accounting Cycle	133
Ch. 5	Accounting for Merchandising Operations	179
Ch. 6	Accounting Information Systems	235
Ch. 7	Internal Control and Cash	283
Ch. 8	Accounting for Receivables	327
Ch. 9	Inventories	363
Ch. 10	Plant Assets, Natural Resources, and Intangible Assets	405
Ch. 11	Current Liabilities and Payroll Accounting	451
Ch. 12	Accounting Principles	493
Ch. 13	Accounting for Partnerships	527
Ch. 14	Corporations: Organization and Capital Stock Transactions	567
Ch. 15	Corporations: Dividends, Retained Earnings, and Income Reporting	609
Ch. 16	Long-Term Liabilities	631
Ch. 17	Investments	695
Ch. 18	The Statement of Cash Flows	731
Ch. 19	Financial Statement Analysis	789
Ch. 20	Managerial Accounting	839
Ch. 21	Job Order Cost Accounting	879
Ch. 22	Process Cost Accounting	917
Ch. 23	Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships	961
Ch. 24	Budgetary Planning	1001
Ch. 25	Budgetary Control and Responsibility Accounting	1039
Ch. 26	Performance Evaluation Through Standard Costs	1081
Ch. 27	Incremental Analysis and Capital Budgeting	1121
	Appendix A Specimen Financial Statements	A1
	Appendix B Present-Value Concepts	B1
	Appendix C Standards of Ethical Conduct for Management Accountants	C1

New interesting textbook: Flavors of the Mediterranean or Great Women Chefs of Europe

Fast Forward: Work, Gender and Protest in a Changing World

Author: Torry D D Dickinson

This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Using vivid examples from around the world, it reveals how "globalization" is reshaping social institutions and lives. "Fast Forward" explores how businesses and states reshaped and redistributed work around the world during the last 30 years of "globalization," often with adverse consequences. Within this fast-moving context, laboring people today engage in work outside of formal employment, try to obtain survival resources, mount a diverse array of often women-centered protests against firms and states, and try—on their own terms—to reinvent work and democratic political practices. Portraying the human face of global change, "Fast Forward" shows how overlapping social movements wrestle with economic and political marginalization, and initiate highly diverse, but related attempts to change the way the world works.

Author Biography: Torry Dickinson is associate professor of women's studies at Kansas State University. Robert Schaeffer is associate professor of sociology at Kansas State University.

Booknews

Dickinson (women's studies, Kansas State University) and Schaeffer (sociology, Kansas State University) provide a feminist political analysis of work. They consider the various problems and related protests of workers around the world. The changes prompted by economic globalization are highlighted, as is the resistance to globalization. Chapters focus on the relationships and conflicts between workers, businesses, and the state, the reorganization of work and the decline of the welfare state, the degradation of social and natural environments, the emergence of a woman-centered labor movement, and the changing meanings of work and society. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)