How Nations Grow Rich or South Western Accounting with Peachtree Complete 2005

How Nations Grow Rich: The Case for Free Trade

Author: Melvyn Krauss

In How Nations Grow Rich, Krauss argues there is no inherent reason why the growth of the welfare state in the Western industrial countries should conflict with free trade - that is, there is no inherent reason for the welfare state to be protectionist. Exposing fallacious "welfare state" arguments for protection, Krauss makes a powerful case for free trade in general, and NAFTA in particular, as mechanisms for raising U.S. living standards. Americans are made better off through a reallocation of U.S. productive resources from lower to higher productivity uses - from textiles to computers, for example. Moreover, by raising wages in Mexico relative to the U.S., Krauss expects NAFTA to help reduce both legal and illegal immigration. Were states like California to reduce their generous social services and affirmative action programs, labor immigration from Mexico would fall to politically acceptable levels. Krauss' new insight that migration and foreign trade are alternative means of effectuating international exchange is used in this lively and informative book to shed light on a host of important policy issues. By the very act of restricting textile and apparel imports, the U.S. virtually compels foreign textile workers to migrate to the U.S. The European Union's tariff against East European exports provokes a flood of Eastern workers to Western Europe. In How Nations Grow Rich, Krauss dispatches both traditional and newer arguments for protection with unusual verve and clarity. Addressing the belief that protectionism boosts employment, he points out that import restrictions can destroy U.S. jobs when imposed on materials we use as parts. In response to protectionist demands that the U.S. close its markets until Japan reduces its trade barriers against U.S. goods - that trade be fair before it can be free - Krauss points out that in a market economy where consumers are kings, only a consumer-based equity standard is valid. Thus what the "fair-trade" protectioni

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Pushing against protectionist groups trying to regulate global free trade, Krauss (economics, New York U.) critiques the concepts underpinning their arguments and makes a case for his own. Basically, the author thinks free trade in general (NAFTA) will raise US production standards by inhibiting immigration of workers from Mexico and other countries, and that in an economy where "consumers are kings" protectionism by all countries simply ensures cost increases, foolishly undermining the only valid standard<-->consumer-based equity. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction
1	The Advantages of Comparative Advantage	3
2	Bill Clinton's "Affirmative Action" Trade Policy	13
3	False Arguments for Protection	19
4	Free Trade and the Welfare State	35
5	No Cheers for Foreign Aid	61
6	The Consensus of Expert Opinion	85
7	The Rise of Regionalism	101
	Notes	121
	Bibliography	129
	Index	133

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South-Western Accounting with Peachtree? Complete 2005

Author: Carol Yacht

Why juggle two books while working at the computer?

Macroeconomics or A Practical Guide to Estate Planning and Administration

Macroeconomics

Author: Stephen D Williamson

This text strives to make macroeconomics come alive for today's students planning to major in business or economics. The content reflects the news-stream from financial markets,Fed monetary policy,and budget debates. Key concepts are stressed and reinforced as the story of unfolds: the real vs. nominal distinction,the role of the interest rate in linking the real economy to the financial sector,how that linkage allows monetary policy to operate,and the role of the trade deficit. The fourth edition expands the chapter on financial intermediaries and markets - one that is popular with students,introduces indexed bonds into the discussion of interest rates,adds charts putting the recent bull market in historical context,and the chapter on the federal budget is completely revamped to reflect the emergence of a surplus. Additional exercises help reinforce concepts.

Table of Contents:

I. INTRODUCTION AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES.

 1. Introduction.
 2. Measurement.
 3. Business Cycle Measurement.

II. A ONE-PERIOD MODEL OF THE MACROECONOMY.

 4. Consumer and Firm Behavior: The Work-Leisure Decision and Profit Maximization.
 5. A Closed-Economy One-Period Macroeconomic Model.

III. ECONOMIC GROWTH.

 6. Economic Growth: Malthus and Solow.
 7. Income Disparity Among Countries and Endogenous Growth.

IV. SAVINGS, GOVERNMENT DEFICITS, AND INVESTMENT.

 8. A Two-Period Model: The Consumption Savings Decision and Ricardian Equivalence.
 9. A Real Intemporal Model with Investment.

V. MONEY AND BUSINESS CYCLES.

10. A Monetary Intertemporal Model: The Neutrality of Money, Long-Run Inflation, and Money Demand.
11. Market-Clearing Models of the Business Cycle.
12. Keynesian Business Cycle Theory: The Sticky Wage Model.

VI. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS.

13. International Trade in Goods and Assets.
14. Money in the Open Economy.

VII. MONEY, BANKING, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND INFLATION.

15. Money, Inflation, and Banking.
16. Unemployment: Search and Efficiency Wages.
17. Inflation, the Phillips Curve, and Central Bank Commitment.

Mathematical Appendix.

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A Practical Guide to Estate Planning and Administration

Author: Michael J Gau

This publication takes a highly practical approach to teaching estate planning and administration by presenting the process from start to finish as it applies to three fictional families with various planning needs. The material is presented logically and allows readers to test their knowledge after each chapter and in a cumulative manner. It places emphasis on the practical concerns of drafting estate planning documents, and it provides numerous examples of such documents for the reader to review and relate to the fictional families' situations. Not only does it present the step-by-step process of traditional estate administration, it offers some alternatives to full administration. Sample documents, case briefs, discussions of ethical issues, and recommended Web sites for further study round out this valuable learning tool and desk reference.

Careers Serving Families and Consumers or Alternatives to Deforestation

Careers Serving Families and Consumers

Author: Elizabeth Kendall Sproles

This book provides coverage of many careers available to readers trained in human ecology, family and consumer sciences, and human services, including 38 Career Profiles that offer an in-depth look at the responsibilities of a variety of jobs in the field, their potential career growth, and the qualifications each demands. The start of career planning. Integrates the use of computer technology with job search information. Contains updated career projections and bibliographical materials. Anyone interest in a career serving families and consumers.

Table of Contents:

I. THE START OF CAREER PLANNING.

1. Careers for the 21st Century—Serving Families and Consumers.
2. The Growth of the Family and Consumers-Sciences Profession.
3. Beginning Your Career Plan.
4. The Career Market of Today—What to Expect.

II. PROFESSIONAL CAREERS SERVING FAMILIES AND CONSUMERS.

5. Careers in Human Services for Families.
6. Careers in Business and Consumer Services.
7. Careers in Education and Communications.
8. Careers in Design, the Arts, and Sciences.
9. Careers in Government and Public Services.
10. Developing an Innovative Career.

III. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CAREERS.

11. Your Education and Professional Development.
12. Internships and Other Preprofessional Employment.
13. Developing Your Strategy for Job Seeking.
14. Your Professional Resume and Portfolio.
15. How to Find Potential Employers.
16. How to Obtain Interviews and Offers of Employment.

IV. CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOLLOWING GRADUATION.

17. The Major Issues in Career Development.
18. Managing a Successful Career Day to Day.
19. Professional Associations and Organizations.
20. Future Directions for Family and Consumer-Oriented Professions.

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Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest

Author: A B Anderson

Alternatives to Deforestation explores some of the possible sustainable uses of the world's largest rain forest, the Amazon. The collection by scientists, policymakers, and foundations presents innovative approaches and technologies that will permit simultaneous use and conservation of the rain forest, and will benefit the population of Amazonia as a whole, rather than just a small rural minority. By presenting sustainable land-use alternatives that are both economically viable and ecologically sound, this book represents a valuable contribution in the effort to end the tragic consequences of tropical deforestation.

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Originally published (cloth) by Columbia U. Press in 1990. In papers presented at an international conference in Belem, Brazil, January 1988, scientists, policymakers, and foundations present innovative approaches and technologies that will permit simultaneous use and conservation of the rain forest, and will benefit the population of Amazonia as a whole, rather than just a small rural minority. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Short Term Financial Management or From Training to Performance Improvement

Short-Term Financial Management

Author: Terry S Maness

Most finance students will do short-term finance assignments when they go to work. In recent survey of CEO's, Controllers, and Treasurers that appeared in Financial Practice & Education, the question was asked which elective is the most important and 81% responded a short-term financial management course should be required. Both authors hold a Certified Cash Manager credential.Strengths include broader and better integrated coverage of treasury and working capital management, while using valuation and the cash flow timeline as integrating themes. Up to date presentations of developments in treasury management, banking deregulation, globalization of financial services delivery, electronic commerce, international cash management, and foreign exchange risk with a decision making emphasis throughout offers a complete view for students.

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From Training to Performance Improvement: Navigating the Transition

Author: Jim Fuller

Achieve measurable gains!

Organizations are spending millions of dollars every year training employees. Yet why are organizations sending their employees to training? They often don't know.

Training is a quick fix; many managers don't believe that it really works. But even if it isn't the appropriate solution to a problem, many organizations automatically implement training for lack of a more reasoned, thoughtful alternative.

Here's the approach you've waited for: performance improvement. Jim Fuller and Jeanne Farrington show you how to achieve measurable gains by implementing this cutting-edge technique at your organization.

"A practical guide for identifying and eliminating the root causes of business problems. Business leaders and human resource professionals responsible for turning around bottom-line results will find From Training to Performance Improvement well worth the read."
-- Kathleen Dalton, Procter & Gamble

"Clear, concise, and compelling. This book is a great asset for executives and management teams who are seeking ways to make changes that will count."
-- James J. Hill, manager of executive education, Sun Microsystems

"A must for human resource development professionals and managers interested in moving their organizations from training to a business-goal focused performance improvement system. Fuller and Farrington have 'been there.' They give the reader the benefit of their considerable experience on how to guide large and small organizations toward a human performance technology strategy. Unique, persuasive, and field-tested."
-- Richard E. Clark, professor and director, doctoral program in human performance atwork, University of Southern California

You'll learn how to:

• Explain and sell the notion of performance improvement to organizations
• Surmount obstacles that can prevent organizations from achieving their full potential
• Demonstrate the results of your efforts . . . and much more!

As director of learning at a Fortune 20 company, where he worked for eighteen years, Jim Fuller helped to lead his corporation to a performance breakthrough. In this hands-on resource, Fuller and seasoned consultant Jeanne Farrington show you how to make this transition at your organization.

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Business consultants explain how to identify and surmount obstacles that can prevent organizations from reaching their full growth potential, sell the notion of performance improvement to organizations, build an organizational groundwork to facilitate fast implementation, and demonstrate the results of efforts to improve performance. The practical and informal treatment discusses such aspects as driving the value of human capital, making the transition within a department, developing professionals within the organization, and managing performance technology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Figures and Exhibits
	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Discovering Human Performance Technology	1
2	Understanding Human Performance Technology	13
3	Driving the Value of Human Capital Within Your Organization	35
4	Preparing for Performance Technology	55
5	Demonstrating Results with HPT	67
6	Building Organizational Awareness for HPT	93
7	Analyzing and Addressing Organizational Barriers to HPT	111
8	Making the Transition to HPT Within Your Department	137
9	How to Develop HPT Professionals Within Your Organization	159
10	Becoming the Manager of Performance Technology for Your Organization	183
	References	201
	About the Authors	205
	Index	209

Economic Issuses and Policy with Economic Applications or Essentials of Economics

Economic Issuses and Policy with Economic Applications

Author: Jacqueline Brux

This book provides students with a grasp of basic economic tools through the analysis of important economic issues and their related policy perspectives. Economic theory is presented in a simple, market-oriented framework at a level of technicality that is deliberately appropriate for a basic first course in economics directed at non-majors. Complex topics more appropriate for a Principles of Economics course are left out or contained in appendices. In analyzing economic situations and the implications of policies, liberal and conservative viewpoints are effectively balanced -- the careful presentation of conservative and liberal viewpoints is one of the unique characteristics of this book.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction. 2. Crime and Drugs. 3. The Environment. 4. Education. 5. Discrimination. 6. U.S. Poverty. 7. World Poverty. 8. Market Power. 9. International Trade. 10. Housing. 11. Health Care. 12. Agriculture. 13. Social Security. 14. Unemployment and Inflation. 15. Government Macroeconomic Policy. 16. Taxes, Borrowing, and the National Debt. 17. Globally Free Markets for the Twenty-First Century?

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Essentials of Economics

Author: Bradley R Schiller

Contains Quick Review, Learning Objectives, Using Key terms, True or False, Multiple Choice, Problems and Applications, Common Errors.

Aris Business Process Frameworks or Games Businesses Play

ARIS - Business Process Frameworks

Author: August Wilhelm Scheer

ARIS (Architecture of Integrated Information Systems) is a unique and internationally renowned method for optimizing business processes and implementing application systems. This book enhances the proven ARIS concept by describing product flows and explaining how to classify modern software concepts. The importance of the link between business process organization and strategic management is stressed. Bridging the gap between the different approaches in business theory and information technology, the ARIS concept provides a full-circle approach - from the organizational design of business processes to IT implementation. Featuring SAP R/3 as well, real-world examples of various standard software solutions illustrate these concepts.

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Games Businesses Play: Cases and Models

Author: Pankaj Ghemawat

Game theory has come to dominate industrial organization economics, but business strategists continue to debate its usefulness. So far, empirical work on the application of game theory to business strategy has been too limited to force a consensus. As a (partial) remedy, Games Businesses Play uses detailed case studies of competitive interaction to explore the uses and limits of game theory as a tool for business strategists.

Because they are analytical rather than descriptive, the case studies are not typical teaching cases. The cases are paired with customized game-theoretic models that cover a wide range of commitment decisions, from short-run commitments such as price to longer-run commitments such as capacity expansion and reduction, product and process innovation, and battles for market share. A variety of quantitative and qualitative techniques are used to test the models' predictions on case data. In addition the book sheds light on a number of other issues important to strategic management, including the resource-based view of the firm and the emergent theory of dynamic capabilities.

Grammar Connection 1 or The Clinicians Guide to Managed Behavioral Care

Grammar Connection 1: Structure Through Content

Author: Jill Korey OSullivan

The Grammar Connection series offers a basal program in Academic, Adult, and International programs. The skills it develops are useful for students planning to enroll in college-level courses, adults planning to return to college, or high school students in preparation for college.

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The Clinician's Guide to Managed Behavioral Care

Author: Norman Winegar

Managed care is a revolution impacting the practice of clinicians throughout America. The Clinician's Guide to Managed Behavioral Care, called "a survival kit" and "must reading," shows clinicians how to develop and market professional services attuned to the needs of managed care systems, how to best manage the utilization process, and how to reshape an office practice or hospital-based program to become more "managed care friendly." It is newly referenced and updated for clinicians to continue to advocate for their patients and clients.

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An introduction and guide to the managed mental health care environment, providing a thorough discussion of historical developments as well as present-day practices, including HMOs, PPOs, and networks. Other topics include contracting, legal issues, marketing, and critical issues in managed mental health. Includes some sample documents for practitioners. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	What is "Managed Care"?	5
Ch. 2	Managed Care Basics: Health Maintenance Organizations	19
Ch. 3	Preferred Provider Organizations and Mental Health Point-of-Service Networks	39
Ch. 4	Employee Assistance Programs and Managed Care	49
Ch. 5	Managed Behavioral Care Systems	71
Ch. 6	Contracting with Managed Care	115
Ch. 7	Managing the Utilization Management Process	121
Ch. 8	Legal Issues and Utilization Management	135
Ch. 9	Marketing to Managed Care	145
Ch. 10	Critical Issues	169
	Appendix A. Mental Health Provider Agreement	183
	Appendix B. Directory of America's Health Maintenance Organization	231
	Appendix C. Treatment Summary	297
	Appendix D. S.O.A.P. Process Note Recording Format	303
	Appendix E. Managed Care Directory, 1995	305
	Appendix F. Brief Therapy Reading List	311
	Appendix G. Managed Care Market Share Estimates, 1995	315
	Glossary	317
	Index	325

The Transplanted Executive or Justice in the WorkPlace

The Transplanted Executive: Why You Need to Understand How Workers in Other Countries See the World Differently

Author: P Christopher Earley

The Transplanted Executive provides a comprehensive resource for managers of any nationality striving to understand the diversity of workplace values and traditions - and how they can be used to maximize employee efficiency, morale, and the bottom line. Offering sensible solutions to everyday problems, this informative volume shows how employees with different cultural religious, and ethnic backgrounds respond to specific managerial techniques. Further, they describe why the same management practices used in the same country can generate success for some, but failure for others. Each chapter focuses on a different management problem - effective communication, motivation of workers, turning groups into teams, leadership skills, and quality management production - and following each chapter are quick reference charts that neatly summarize the text. The authors also include a table which provides cultural profiles of nearly 50 countries from major business centers around the world.

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Helps managers in any industry and of any nationality understand the diversity of worldviews and culture in workplaces and identify practices that seem obvious and natural but in fact are specific to a particular culture. Provides guidelines for effective communication, motivating workers, turning groups into teams, leadership skills, and quality management. Most of the examples come from Japan and Latin America. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Justice in the Workplace: From Theory to Practice, Vol. 2

Author: Russell Cropanzano

Justice in the Workplace acts as a central reference point for application of organizational justice and helps human resource managers relate the importance of justice to their work environments.

Forming much of this book's content, outcomes, processes, and interpersonal treatment are three powerful tools for building and maintaining workplace justice. In Part I these books are discussed at a theoretical level. Part II applies these theories to several issues important to both human resource management and society. And Part III looks at organizational justice in the years ahead.

Compared to the first volume, this book will appeal to practitioners and researchers in such applied areas as human resource management, industrial organizational psychology, and management.

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Discusses outcomes, processes, and interpersonal treatment for building and maintaining workplace justice. Early chapters trace the history of organizational justice, examine workplace stress, look at cognitive processes by which people decide if they are being treated unfairly, and explore cross-cultural research on justice. Later chapters apply theory to several issues important to both human resources management and society, discussing affirmative action policies, fairness in staffing decisions, and workplace revenge. Final chapters speculate on organizations of the future. The editor is affiliated with Colorado State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Trade Policy and Economic Welfare or Correspondence of Alfred Marshall Economist

Trade Policy and Economic Welfare

Author: Warner Max Corden

The second edition of this classic text on international economics has been substantially revised and updated to take account of the considerable activity in this field over the last two decades. Three new chapters discuss trade policy and the environment, strategic trade policy, and trade policy and the exchange rate. Corden also analyzes in detail the many arguments for protection.

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Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist: Volume 3, Towards the Close, 1903-1924

Author: Alfred Marshall

This is the third of a three-volume work constituting a comprehensive, scholarly edition of the correspondence of the English economist, Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), one of the leading figures in the development of economics and the founder of the Cambridge School of Economics. The edition fills a long-standing gap in the history of economic thought with hitherto unpublished material. Students will find it a basic resource for understanding the development of economics and other social sciences in the period since
1870. In particular, it provides much new information about Marshall's views on economic, social and political issues, his struggles to promote the teaching of economics at the University of Cambridge, and his relations with colleagues in Cambridge and elsewhere. Marshall's letters are notable for their frankness and spontaneity.

Table of Contents:

Introduction; Abbreviations; List of manuscript collections; Biographical register; Chronology 1903-1924; List of letters reproduced in Volume 3; Letters 733-1148; Appendix I: Reports of Marshall's speeches to the Cambridge University Senate, 1903-1908; Appendix II: Comprehensive listing of archival sources for Volumes 1, 2 and 3; Indexes.

Nursing Leadership Management and Professional Practice for the LPN LVN or Whats Happening to Public Higher Education

Nursing Leadership, Management, and Professional Practice for the LPN/LVN

Author: Mary Ann Anderson

KEY FEATURES

• The only book that provides leadership and management content designed specifically for the LPN, updated to reflect the latest changes in clinical practice
• Offers a strong focus on the leadership/management skills needed for practice in a variety of clinical settings, including acute, subacute, long-term, community, and home care, with particular emphasis on long-term care
• Includes "real-world" case studies with related critical thinking exercises at the end of each chapter; answers are provided at the end of each chapter
• Numerous critical thinking and values clarification exercises on perforated pages that can be removed and submitted as homework
• Offers chapters on communication skills, team building, and making assignments
• New chapter on chaos theory and its application to the high-stress health care environment in which LPN/LVNs work
• Expanded coverage of legal issues relating to the LPN/LVN leadership and management roles
• Includes pedagogical aids such as learning objectives, NCLEX-style review questions, and reference lists/bibliographies for each chapter

Table of Contents:

1	Historical Perspective of the Licensed Practical Nurse	1
2	Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing	17
3	Entry into Practice	35
4	Employment Process	56
5	Understanding Nursing Leadership and Management as a Concept	72
6	Communication Skills	97
7	Understanding Benefits of Change	119
8	Welcome to Conflict	133
9	Understanding Use of Power	155
10	Ethics and Nursing Management	174
11	Motivating Employees	190
12	Team Building	209
13	Making Assignments, Counseling, and Analyzing Performance	223

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What's Happening to Public Higher Education?

Author: Ronald G Ehrenberg

Public higher educational institutions, where about 80 percent of all college students and 65 percent of all four-year college students are educated, appear to be in serious trouble. In order to delve more deeply into his topic, Dr. Ehrenberg invited a wide-ranging team of experts to examine changes in public higher education over the last quarter century, and to present their findings at a conference at Cornell University in May 2005. Edited versions of their papers are presented here. The authors of the essays are leading researchers from around the country who have intensively studied the causes of the changing finances of public higher education and the ways in which these changes have affected public higher education institutions, their students, and their potential students.

International Economics or Culture on Demand

International Economics

Author: Dennis R Appleyard

Appleyard, Field, and Cobb's International Economics 5e text is an International Economics textbook that offers a consistent level of analysis and treatment of the two main subdivisions of international economics—international trade theory and policy and international monetary theory and policy. Comprehensive and clear, the text helps students move beyond recognition toward and understanding of current and future international events. A new co-author, Steven L. Cobb from the University of North Texas, joins the book this edition and brings expertise especially in the fields of economic education and transition economies, particularly those in Eastern Europe.

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A text that is accessible to economics majors; nonmajors, and separate review chapters on micro- and macroeconomic tools make the material useful to a broad audience of students in related subjects. It presents international trade theory and policy and covers the Classical model of trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin model and alternatives, economic integration, the foreign exchange market, and the aggregate demand-aggregate supply framework. Includes biographical boxes, case studies, questions and problems, key terms, and concept checks. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Culture-On-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World

Author: James Lull

This highly original, thought-provoking book – written by a pioneer of communication studies – is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of global media and popular culture.

• Written in an engaging and candid manner by a leading expert in this field
  
• Argues that cross-cultural understanding can only be achieved by harnessing the power of global media, popular culture, information technology, and personal communications technologies
  
• Examines the global trend of using film, video, music, and TV “on-demand” as the framework through which we experience all cultural activity
  
• Draws inspiration from the work of a range of theorists, from Charles Darwin to Anthony Giddens
  
• Candidly interrogates the very latest developments in world affairs, especially the roles of fundamentalist religious ideology, media globalization, and individualism, whose complex relationships have yet to be explained by social scientists

Table of Contents:

List of figures.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. All Eyes on the Global Stage.

Media Globalization.

Modern Media Development.

The Global Divides.

China and the Middle East: Responses to Modernity and.

Globalization.

The Communications Revolution.

2. Human Expression.

The Cultural Politics of Expression.

The Need for Expression.

Symbolic Creativity and the Expressive Self.

Emotional Communication.

The fear factor and the pleasure principle.

The Active Pleasures of Expression and Communication.

Mobile expression.

Cultural Open Sourcing.

Symbolic Power to the People.

3. Programming Our Personal Supercultures.

Cultural Experience.

Culture, culture, Superculture.

The “supers”.

Culture in common.

Cultural Technology in the Communication Age.

Cultural Programming.

The Cultural Self and Self Culture.

Encountering Culture.

The Cultural Spheres.

Universal values and concepts.

Transnational cultural media.

Civilizations.

Nations.

Regions and everyday life.

The Cultural Mix in Action.

Superculture Revisited.

4. The Push and Pull of Culture.

The Push of Culture.

Diaspora.

Nation as contested push.

The Pull of Culture.

Individualism.

“A life of one’s own”.

New Cultural Horizons.

5. Globalized Islam.

The Islamic Cultural Body.

The visible visual body.

Gender equality, political democracy, and economic prosperity.

Islam in the West.

The Opinion, and the Other Opinion.

The global TV war.

The New Imagined World of Islam.

Instrumental modernity.

The communications problem.

6. Cultural Transparency.

Reflexive CulturalGlobalization.

The globalization of good and bad ideas.

Loving to hate America.

Open Society: The Guiding Principle for Cultural Development.

The Power of Transparency.

Transparency or surveillance?.

7. The Open Spaces of Global Communication.

Stage 1: Cultural Technology, Industry, Abundance.

Stage 2: Global Visibility and Transparency.

Stage 3: Platforms for Participation.

Stage 4: Global Consciousness and Public Opinion.

Stage 5: Global Wisdom.

Stage 6: Institutional Channels.

Stage 7: Utopian Potential.

8. Fundamentalism and Cosmopolitanism.

The Passion of the Religious Culture.

Fundamentalist America.

The active passivity of Islam.

Other Fundamentalisms.

Nationalism.

Market fundamentalism.

The Democratic Secular Imperative.

One Moral Universe?.

A “modest cosmopolitan” alternative.

9. Communicating the Future.

The Paradox of Tolerance.

The Great Chain of Communication.

References.

Index

Managing Business Relationships 2nd Edition or Economics of the Law

Managing Business Relationships, 2nd Edition

Author: David Ford

No company can be an island in today's business world. Each one is locked into a complex network of relationships with suppliers, customers and other business partners. To be effective, managers within companies must constantly assess these relationships and the intentions, actions and reactions of their counterparts within them. Indeed, managing its relationships and its position in the business network has become the critical task on which a company's very existence stands or falls.
This new edition of Managing Business Relationships aims to help managers and students understand the reality of business networks and how to manage in them. It has been entirely rewritten to include the latest thinking and research from the IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) Group.
The book
* provides a structured way to understand business networks and their effect on the practicing manager.
* offers a complete analysis of management in different relationships including those with suppliers, customers, distributors and development partners.
* includes a brand new and easy to understand model of managing in networks.
This book is vital reading for students of business marketing, purchasing, business networks and relationship management at the MBA and final year undergraduate level. It will also be a valuable resource for all managers operating in business markets, including those in purchasing, marketing, technical development and distribution.

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Economics of the Law: Torts, Contracts, Property, and Litigation

Author: Thomas J Miceli

Over the past two decades, the field of law and economics has matured to the point where scholars have employed the latest economic methods in an effort to understand the nature of legal rules and to guide legal reform. This book is the first to provide a broad survey of this scholarship as it has been applied to problems in torts, contracts, property, and litigation. It will therefore serve as a convenient reference guide to this exciting field.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	3
2	The Economics of Tort Law: The Basic Model	15
3	The Economics of Tort Law: Extensions	39
4	The Economics of Contract Law: Remedies for Breach	71
5	The Economics of Contract Law: Mistake, Impossibility, and Other Doctrines	92
6	The Economics of Property Law	115
7	Government Taking and Regulation of Private Property	137
8	The Economics of Litigation and Settlement	156
9	The Economics of Frivolous Litigation	181
	Notes	201
	References	220
	Index	231

Comparative Planning Cultures or Argentina and the Fund

Comparative Planning Cultures

Author: Bishwapriya Sanyal

Are there significant variations in the ways planners in different nations have influenced urban, regional, and national development? Do such variations arise from differences in planning cultures, meaning the collective ethos and dominant attitude of planners in different nations towards the appropriate roles of the state, market forces, and civil society? How are such professional cultures formed? Are they indigenous and immutable, or do they evolve with social, political, and economic changes both within and outside the national territories? Specifically, what has been the impact of the intensification of global interconnectedness in trade, capital flows, labor migration, and technological connectivity on national planning cultures?

Comparative Planning Cultures addresses these questions, drawing on the planning experience in ten nations and at different territorial levels. The result is an understanding of planning culture that is complex and dynamic-in contrast to traditional notions of culture that evoke a sense of immutability and inheritance of unchanging social attributes of planners. The volume concludes that there is no cultural nucleus or core planning culture, no social gene that can be decoded to reveal the cultural DNA of planning practice of any nation.

Table of Contents:

1	Hybrid planning cultures : the search for the global cultural commons	3
2	Planning cultures in transition	29
3	Space of flows, space of places : materials for a theory of urbanism in the information age	45
4	Planning culture in Iran : centralization and decentralization and local governance in the twentieth century (the case for urban management and planning)	67
5	Modernity confronts tradition : the professional planner and local corporatism in the rebuilding of China's cities	91
6	Planning cultures in two Chinese transitional cities : Hong Kong and Shenzhen	113
7	Understanding planning cultures : the Kolkata paradox	145
8	Does planning culture matter? : Dutch and American models in Indonesian urban transformations	165
9	Contending planning cultures and the urban built environment in Mexico City	193
10	The developmental state and the extreme narrowness of the public realm : the twentieth century evolution of Japanese planning culture	223
11	The nature of difference : traditions of law and government and their effects on planning in Britain and France	259
12	The Netherlands : a culture with a soft spot for planning	285
13	Picking the paradoxes : a historical anatomy of Australian planning cultures	309
14	U.S. planning culture under pressure : major elements endure and flourish in the face of crises	331

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Argentina and the Fund: From Triumph to Tragedy

Author: Michael Mussa

The catastrophic crisis of late 2001 and early 2002 marks the tragic end to Argentina's initially successful, decade-long experiment with sound money and market-oriented economic reform. The IMF consistently supported Argentina's stabilization and reform efforts in the decade leading up to the current crisis, and often pointed to many of Argentina's policies as examples for other emerging market economies to emulate.

In this analysis, former IMF Chief Economist Michael Mussa addresses the obvious question: What went wrong in Argentina and what critical errors did the IMF make in either supporting inappropriate policies or in failing to press for alternatives that might have avoided catastrophe? He emphasizes that the persistent inability of the Argentine authorities at all levels to run a responsible fiscal policy-even when the Argentine economy was performing very well-was the primary avoidable cause of the country's catastrophic financial collapse. The IMF failed to press aggressively for a more responsible fiscal policy. Mussa also addresses the role of the Convertibility Plan, which linked the Argentine peso rigidly at parity with the U.S. dollar and played a central role in both the initial success and ultimate collapse of Argentina's stabilization and reform efforts. While the IMF accepted this plan as a basic policy choice of the Argentine authorities so long as it remained viable, it erred in the summer of 2001 by extending further massive support for unsustainable policies, rather than insisting on a new policy strategy that might have mitigated some of the damage from a crisis that had become unavoidable.

Mussa moves on to discuss what needs to be done to restore economic and financial stability in Argentina and begin the process of recovery, including the proper role that the IMF and the international community. He also examines what the IMF can do to avoid repeating the types of mistakes it made in the tragic case of Argentina.

Author Biography: Michael Mussa, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, served as Economic Counsellor and Director of the Department of Research at the International Monetary Fund from 1991-2001, where he was responsible for advising the Management of the Fund and the Fund's Executive Board on broad issues of economic policy and in providing analysis of ongoing developments in the world economy. Dr. Mussa's main areas of research are international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, and municipal finance. He has published widely in these fields in professional journals and research volumes. By appointment of President Ronald Reagan, Dr. Mussa served as a Member of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers from August of 1986 to September of 1988.

Foreign Affairs

In late 2001, the government of Argentina defaulted on its outstanding debt, the largest sovereign default in history. The banking system collapsed, and the Argentine economy went into deep economic depression. Mussa, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, here gives a brief and cogent account of what happened, why it happened, and how it might have been avoided. He also addresses the role of the IMF (which provided exceptional financial support to Argentina in 2001) and lessons for future IMF lending. The fundamental problem, according to Mussa, is that Argentina's fiscal condition (federal and provincial) was inconsistent with its Convertibility Plan, which involved a strong commitment to one-to-one convertibility between the peso and the U.S. dollar. One or the other had to yield, but neither did until the government's financial crisis. He might have added that Argentina's decision to join Mercosur in 1993 committed it to greater economic engagement with crisis-prone Brazil, which further reduced the probability that the Convertibility Plan could survive indefinitely after its initial successes.

Medieval England or International Trade and Agriculture

Medieval England: A Social History 1250-1550

Author: P J Goldberg

All too often the medieval social past has been explored as an adjunct to high politics. The subject of this study is ordinary men and women, for whom the politics of the manor, the vill, or the borough were often far more real and pressing. It engages with questions relating to the various structures of society, be they social hierarchy, household, family, parish or manor, lay or clergy. It also considers the ways in which age, gender, and marital status shaped people's lives.

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International Trade and Agriculture

Author: Won W Koo

In an increasingly globalized world, an understanding of the role of international trade is central to the study of agricultural economics and agribusiness. This text interweaves these two elements, explaining the theories and practices relevant to agricultural trade. Using real-life examples to explain theories and models, the text prepares readers to critically examine agricultural trade issues. In addition to its comprehensive coverage, each chapter features chapter overviews and summaries, key concepts, questions for review, and suggested readings.

• Explains the theories and practices relevant to agricultural trade.

• Uses real-life agricultural examples to convey theories and models.

• Offers an international perspective on an increasingly globalized market.

• Features extensive pedagogical material, including chapter overviews and summaries, key concepts, review questions, and suggested readings.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Pure theory of international trade	9
2	Classical theory of comparative advantage	11
3	Comparative advantage with two factors of production	30
4	Comparative advantage and factor endowments : the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem	46
5	Imperfect competition and economies of scale in trade	58
Pt. II	Protection of domestic industry and international treaties	77
6	The partial equilibrium analysis of international trade	79
7	Trade restrictions : tariffs	95
8	Nontariff trade barriers	112
9	Domestic support policies and trade	136
10	Multilateral trade negotiations and US trade policy	152
11	Economic integration	167
Pt. III	Foreign exchange markets	183
12	Foreign exchange markets and the exchange rate	185
13	Agricultural trade and the exchange rate	210
Pt. IV	Direct foreign investment, economic growth, and the environment	225
14	International capital movements and multinational corporations	227
15	Agricultural trade and economic development	238
16	Trade and the environment	255

The Internet Upheaval or Human Resource Management and Technical Change

The Internet Upheaval: Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in Communications Policy

Author: Ingo Vogelsang

At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in particular the Internet, are upending fundamental economic and social structures.

These research studies explore some of the telecommunications policy ramifications of this upheaval. The first section addresses the complexities of adapting the First Amendment to the Internet, the debate over the taxation of e-commerce, and Internet users' attitudes toward online privacy. The second section looks at how the Internet has changed, or will change, traditional models used by economists, sociologists, and others to explain how the world works. The third section discusses the need for new economic models to deal with the rapidly changing competitive landscape. Finally, the fourth section examines economic and policy aspects of universal service.

Contributors:

Mark S. Ackerman, James C. Brent, Barbara A. Cherry, Benjamin M. Compaine, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Irina Dmitrieva, Robert S. Gazzale, Austan Goolsbee, Shane Greenstein, R. Glenn Hubbard, Jed Kelko, Steven G. Lanning, William Lehr, Douglas Lichtman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Paul Milgrom, Bridger Mitchell, Geoffrey Myers, W. Russell Neuman, Shawn R. O'Donnell, Joseph Reagle, Michael Riordan, Juan F. Riveros, Gregory L. Rosston, Padmanabhan Srinagesh, Linda O. Valenty, Bradley S. Wimmer.

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Human Resource Management and Technical Change

Author: Jon Clark

"The case study format provides selected details of the interplay between HRM and technical change and offers some insights into HRM practices in the United Kingdom." --Industrial and Labor Relations Review "This is a well-coordinated effort in which each of the contributors has, unusually, read the work of the others and there is a considerable degree of cross referencing between them. Jon Clark contributes his own case study and, as editor, a thoughtful introduction and a conclusion which pulls the threads together and teases out the theoretical and practical implications." --Work, Employment, and Society "The publication. . .is remarkable not only for the speed with which it was produced but also for the coherence and integration of it. This integration is achieved not only through the editor's valuable introduction and insightful conclusion to the nine different contributions but also through the explicit attempt by the authors to utilise findings from their own research. . . . --Sheila Rothwell, Henley Management College, Human Resources Management Journal Technical change is a fact of modern organizational life, inevitably impacting--to a greater or lesser extent--upon human resource management. This volume provides the first systematic analysis of the relations between technical change and human resource management. Contributors to this impressive volume explore such salient questions as: Is technical change within work organizations still seen largely as a technical matter in which there is no established role for the personnel specialist or human resource manager? Does it present particular opportunities or constraints in the management ofpersonnel? To what extent are organization and job design, total quality management, teamwork, skills training, and employee involvement central or marginal to technical change? And, do non-union firms behave differently from unionized ones in relation to technical change? In this volume, contributors provide answers and offer innovative solutions to these and other questions arising from the rapid technological change within organizations. Replete with actual case studies from a variety of organizational settings, Human Resource Management and Technical Change will be of interest to students and professionals in human resource management, organizational behavior, industrial relations, and general management studies.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Contributors
	Abbreviations
1	Personnel Management, Human Resource Management and Technical Change	1
2	The Role of Personnel Specialists: Centrality or Marginalization?	20
3	Findings from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys	43
4	Personnel Leadership in Technical and Human Resource Change	78
5	Human Resource Specialists and Technical Change at Greenfield Sites	101
6	Full Flexibility and Self-Supervision in an Automated Factory	116
7	Human Resource Management in 'Surveillance' Companies	137
8	Introducing On-Line Processing: Conflicting Human Resource Policies in Insurance	155
9	Technical Change and Human Resource Management in the Non-Union Firm	175
10	Towards Factory 2000: Designing Organizations for Computer-Integrated Technologies	192
11	Managing People in a Time of Technical Change: Conclusions and Implications	212
	Bibliography	223
	Index	233

Privacy in the Information Age or miniAtlas of Global Development

Privacy in the Information Age

Author: Fred H Cat

For all the passion that surrounds discussions about privacy, and the recent attention devoted to electronic privacy, surprisingly little consensus exists about what privacy means, what values are served - or compromised - by extending further legal protection to privacy, what values are affected by existing and proposed measures designed to protect privacy, and what principles should undergird a sensitive balancing of those values. In this book, Fred H. Cate addresses these critical issues in the context of computerized information. He provides an overview of the technologies that are provoking the current privacy debate and discusses the range of legal issues that these technologies raise. He examines the central elements that make up the definition of privacy and the values served, and liabilities incurred, by each of those components. Separate chapters address the regulation of privacy in Europe and the United States. The final chapter identifies principles for protecting information privacy. The principles recognize the significance of individual and collective nongovernmental action, the limited role for privacy laws and government enforcement of those laws, and the ultimate goal of establishing multinational principles for protecting information privacy.

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Addresses issues of privacy in the context of computerized information, overviewing technologies and legal issues. Defines elements of privacy and their values and costs, compares privacy regulations in Europe and the US, and identifies principles for protecting information privacy. Principles recognize the significance of individual and collective nongovernmental action, the limited role of government enforcement, and the ultimate goal of establishing multinational principles for protecting information privacy. Includes appendices of documents and guidelines. For general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Electronic Information Networks	5
3	Privacy	19
4	Privacy Regulation in Europe	32
5	Privacy Regulation in the United States: The Public Sector	49
6	Privacy Regulation in the United States: The Private Sector	80
7	Electronic Privacy in the Twenty-First Century	101
App. A	The European Union Directive	133
App. B	The Privacy Principles of the Information Infrastructure Task Force	177
App. C	General Discussion	195
	Bibliography	207
	Notes	215
	Index	241

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miniAtlas of Global Development

Author: Staff of the World Bank

The miniAtlas of Global Development is an at-a-glance guide to the most pressing development issues facing the world. Based on the World Bank's authoritative compilation of development data as well as the World Bank Atlas and the Little Data Book, the miniAtlas provides colorful and easy-to-read world maps, tables, and graphs that highlight key social, economic, and environmental data for 208 countries and territories. Specially designed to show detailed information on a small scale, the miniAtlas is a useful introduction and quick reference to today's most urgent development challenges.

Ecological Economics or Relocating Global Cities

Ecological Economics: An Introduction

Author: Sigrid Stagl

Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, this textbook is intended for interdisciplinary environmental science and management courses. The authors, who have written extensively on the economics of sustainability, combine insights from mainstream economics as well as ecological sciences.

Part I explores the interdependence of the modern economy and its environment, while

Part II focuses mainly on the economy and on economics.

Part III reviews how national governments set policy targets and the instruments used to pursue those targets.

Part IV examines international trade and institutions, and two major global threats to sustainability - climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins

Author: M Mark Amen

Drawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, Relocating Global Cities argues that all cities are globalizing in important ways. Case studies of Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Manila, Tampa, Sydney, Brussels, and Caracas provide the basis for an alternative theoretical approach to global city formation. Reconciling a market-based understanding and an agency-based understanding of global cities, this book proposes that globalization and cities are mutually constituted by the global political economy engaging with transnational and local agents.

This volume proposes an alternate theoretical approach to the literature of globalization while remaining grounded in concrete discussions of key cities. Its expert contributors reconcile the conflicting ways in which two dominant paradigms, one emphasizing market forces and the other the unique actions of individuals and groups, embody our understanding of global cities. This book will be of interest to students and researchers alike and is a perfect complement to texts in urban studies and globalization.

Table of Contents:

1	Thinking through global cities	1
2	In London's long shadow : Frankfurt in the European space of flows	23
3	Johannesburg 1986-2030 : a quest to regain world status	49
4	Bangkok : intentional world city	75
5	Laboring in the periphery : the place of Manila in the global economy	101
6	Place-imaging Tampa in the age of globalization	117
7	Gentrification, globalization, and governance : the reterritorialization of Sydney's city-state	139
8	Reluctant globalizers : the paradoxes of "glocal" development in Brussels	155
9	The processes underlying Caracas as a globalizing city	179
10	Reconsidering the social structuration of globalization	201

Developing e Commerce Systems or Playing the Field

Developing e-Commerce Systems

Author: Jim Carter

This book focuses on those concepts that are at the core of developing effective e-Commerce systems and is a starting point for the study of how effective e-Commerce systems are developed. Readers are provided a foundation for further investigation into particular issues as well as for actually developing successful e-Commerce in the real world. Provides computer scientists with guidance in identifying and dealing with e-Commerce related issues within a set of software engineering processes and provides business professionals with an understanding of how software engineering processes are applied to developing e-Commerce systems and their role in this development. It does not require any particular programming skills skills or other systems development skills as a prerequisite. Takes a complete life-cycle approach and uses a combination of user, business, and computing viewpoints to identify the range of commerce and computing issues that need to be resolved together to ensure a successful result. Discusses the computing processes required for the development of e-Commerce systems. Integration of applicable international standards equips readers with guidance from recognized international sources in the fields of e-Commerce, software engineering, user-centered design, ergonomics, multimedia design, accessibility, and privacy. A corresponding website provides comments on and links to numerous e-Commerce sites which illustrate the concepts being discussed. For managers, marketing professionals, and other professionals in organizations considering and/or developing e-Commerce systems; for developers of e-Commerce systems; and for computer consultants.

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Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them

Author: Charles C Euchner

Can a sports franchise "blackmail" a city into getting what it wants -- a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms -- by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city council approved it. A few years later, when Comiskey Park was in need of renovation, the owners threatened to move the team to Florida unless a new stadium was built. A site was chosen near the old stadium, property condemned, residents evicted, and a new stadium built. "We had to make threats," the owners said. "If we didn't have the threat of moving, we wouldn't have gotten the deal."

"Sports is not a dominant industry in any city," writes Charles Euchner, "yet it receives the kind of attention one might expect to be lavished on major producers and employers." In Playing the Field, Euchner looks at why sports attracts this kind of attention and what that says about the urban political process. Examining the relationships between Los Angeles and the Raiders, Baltimore and the Colts and the Orioles, and Chicago and the White Sox, Euchner argues that, in the absence of public standards for equitable arbitration between cities and teams, the sports industry has the ability to steer negotiations in a way that leaves cities vulnerable.

According to Euchner, this greater leverage of sports franchises is due, at least in part, to their overall economic insignificance. Since the demands of a franchise do not directly affect many interest groups, opponents of stadium projects have difficulty developing coalitions to oppose them. Theresult is that civic leaders tend to succumb to the blackmail tactics of professional sports, rather than developing and supporting sound economic policies.

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Studies why sports attract a disproportionate amount of attention from cities, and what that says about the urban political process. Discusses why opponents of stadium projects have difficulty developing coalitions to oppose them and how, as a result, civic leaders succumb to the blackmail tactics of professional sports rather than developing and supporting sound economic policies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Sports Politics: Teams, Local Identity, and Urban Development	3
2	Sports as an Industry	23
3	Local Political Economy and Sports	53
4	Los Angeles: Raided and Raider	70
5	Baltimore: City of Defensive Renaissance	103
6	Chicago: Whither the White Sox?	133
7	Sports and the Dependent City	161
	Notes	185
	Index	207

Economic Justice or Microeconomics

Economic Justice

Author: Harris Jordan

Economic Justice: Race, Gender, Identity and Economics is a new casebook, offered as a means to further the conversation between critical legal scholarship and law and economics. The phrase "economic justice" signals the authors' aim to engage these two cultures, and to find the answer to questions, such as: What can economics tell us about democracy and the law? What can theories of justice tell us about economic theory and the law?

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Microeconomics: Economics

Author: Stephen L Slavin

Steve Slavin's lively and comprehensive Microeconomics student-friendly, step-by-step approach, coupled with its low price and built-in Workbook/Study Guide is very attractive to adopters. Instructors and students like the author's humorous anecdotes, direct language, and easy conversational style. The text encourages active rather than passive reading.

On Time within Budget or Social Work Experience

On Time, Within Budget: Software Project Management Practices and Techniques

Author: E M M Bennatan

A developer's survival guide packed with real-life case

studies, tips, techniques, and best practices for completing software projects on time and within budget

Whether you work at a large or small company, this book will provide you with expert, down-in-the-trenches tips, techniques, and strategies to deliver a software project in a cost-effective and timely way. Real-life case studies let you learn from the mistakes as well as the successes of others. Author E. M. Bennatan zeroes in on proven methods for avoiding bottlenecks and overruns at every step in the software development cycle--from cost estimating to product delivery.

The Third Edition of this bestselling guide routes you directly to what you need to know about:
* Managing both small and large projects in a distributed environment
* Common development problems and how to avoid them
* Preparing estimates and proposals and bidding for contracts
* Managing teams for maximum quality and productivity
* Proven scheduling and project development planning techniques

New to this edition:
* How best to ensure an effective relationship with customers
* Risk management and disaster prevention
* The pros and cons of acquiring custom software from outside suppliers
* Managing multinational projects
* How to save time by reusing software components

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With updated material on organizational excellence, software standards, and legal and international perspectives, a veteran software design manager for Motorola overviews software project management, the theory of risk analysis, and methods (with pointed reference to the title ) for avoiding glitches and overruns at every step in the software development cycle<-->from contract development to project scheduling. Includes the prefaces to the first and second iterations (dates not specified), case studies, chapter-end exercises, summary tables, and a better- than-average bibliography for such a text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the First Edition
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Trademarks
1	Introduction to Software Project Management	1
2	Software Development Problems	13
3	Software Development Under Contract	25
4	The Software Development Cycle	45
5	Principles of Managing Software Engineers	68
6	How to Handle Large Projects: Divide and Conquer	83
7	Software Project Management in a Client/Server Environment	100
8	Project Support Functions	117
9	Software Development Standards	139
10	Project Scheduling	169
11	The Preparation of Estimates: Methods and Techniques	193
	References	227
	Further reading	230
	Index	231

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Social Work Experience: An Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare

Author: Mary Ann Suppes

Created to introduce students to the field of social work and its relationship to social welfare policy, The Social Work Experience gives readers both an historical and practical overview of the profession. In each chapter, the authors continue to integrate policy coverage with social work practice, values and ethics, and social justice issues. The relationship between policy and practice is carefully examined in the context of nine major fields of social work, and in discussions of the challenges faced by today's practitioners. Comprehensive coverage is delivered in the highly readable style readers have come to expect of this author team, with engaging case studies as chapter openers, exhibit boxes, debate boxes, and research activity sections designed to draw readers into the text.

Making Managed Healthcare Work or Effective Communication for Colleges

Making Managed Healthcare Work: A Practical Guide to Strategies and Solutions

Author: Peter Boland

Making Managed Healthcare Work is your comprehensive guide to developing and implementing a new strategic approach to managed care that's practical, performance—based, and results—oriented. Learn how to prepare for, identify, pursue, negotiate and implement a new type of managed care arrangement that can accomplish the objective of delivering quality care at competitive prices.

Kevin Croke

This book describes the variety of factors that contribute to or inhibit the success of managed care as a means of delivering quality care and effective cost containment. The purpose is to establish the type of cooperative arrangement among providers, payers, and purchasers necessary to make managed care work. Given the significance of managed care to the future of the American health care system, the objective is well defined. The book is useful for providers and purchasers of managed care as well as a text for a graduate course. The contributors represent a wide variety of outlooks and experience in the managed care field. The illustrations are not useful. The references are current and pertinent. The case studies provide interesting insights. The index and table of contents are adequate, and the overall appearance of the book is good. This book presents a variety of perspectives on what it will take to make managed care fulfill its promise as a major tool to enhance the cost/quality position of American health care. It is not a how-to book, but it does explain major factors to be considered in designing managed care systems.

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Reviewer: Kevin Croke, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This book describes the variety of factors that contribute to or inhibit the success of managed care as a means of delivering quality care and effective cost containment.
Purpose: The purpose is to establish the type of cooperative arrangement among providers, payers, and purchasers necessary to make managed care work. Given the significance of managed care to the future of the American health care system, the objective is well defined.
Audience: The book is useful for providers and purchasers of managed care as well as a text for a graduate course. The contributors represent a wide variety of outlooks and experience in the managed care field.
Features: The illustrations are not useful. The references are current and pertinent. The case studies provide interesting insights. The index and table of contents are adequate, and the overall appearance of the book is good.
Assessment: This book presents a variety of perspectives on what it will take to make managed care fulfill its promise as a major tool to enhance the cost/quality position of American health care. It is not a how-to book, but it does explain major factors to be considered in designing managed care systems.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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Effective Communication for Colleges

Author: Clarice Pennebaker Brantley

Updated with the most current trends in the workplace this text continues to provide its proven process approach. With updated and enhanced chapters on technology, short reports, interviewing skills, customer communication, visual/graphics presentations and technical communication, the reader can prepare effective workplace correspondence for our expanding technology-driven world.

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New edition of a text that presents a three-step approach for achieving successful communication in today's workplace. The principles and strategies cover how to execute messages for both print and electronic transmission, as well as how to facilitate communication with diverse audiences. In the 11 chapters, Brantley (president, Innovative Training Team) and Miller (business and graphic arts, Milwaukee Area Technical College) discuss the communication cycle; elements of effective messages; the communication-by-objectives approach (planning, composing, and completing a message); electronic technology; good, neutral, persuasive, and bad news messages; job searches, resum<'e>s, and cover letters; applications, interviews, and follow-up; visuals, presentations, and instructions; and reports in the workplace. Spiral binding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1. Communication and Electronic Technology. 2. Qualities of Effective Messages. 3. Planning and Developing Messages. 4. Document Preparation. 5. Good News and Neutral News Messages. 6. Bad News Messages. 7. Persuasive Messages. 8. Employment Messages. 9. Reports in the Workplace.

Managing Global Finance in the Digital Economy or Development Economics

Managing Global Finance in the Digital Economy

Author: Francisco Carrada Bravo

To help global managers and international business scholars understand the multiple influences of globalization and digital technology on global financial management, Carrada-Bravo has dispensed with traditional distinctions between corporate and global finance in order to bring a much-needed coherence to the practice and study of global finance. Throughout this well-structured and highly practical volume, he emphasizes the delivery of business experiences associated with the financial interaction between entities of two or more regions of the world via the Internet or other form of electronic communication.

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Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations

Author: Yujiro Hayami

This book provides a comprehensive, systematic treatise on development economics, combining classical political economy, modern institutional theory, and current development issues. It addresses one basic question: Why has a small set of countries achieved a high level of affluence while the majority remains poor and stagnant? This fully revised and updated third edition also incorporates analyses of several recent changes and newly emerged problems relevant to the global economy.

Table of Contents:

1	A theoretical framework for economic development	9
2	A comparative perspective on developing economies	31
3	Population growth and the constraint of natural resources	63
4	Breaking the natural resource constraint	92
5	Capital accumulation in economic development	122
6	Patterns and sources of technological progress	161
7	Income distribution, poverty, and environmental problems	191
8	Market and state	242
9	The role of community in economic development	310
10	Tradition and modernization : a concluding remark	349

Employee Training and Development or Americas

Employee Training and Development

Author: Raymond Andrew No

Employee Training and Development, 3rd Edition, by Ray Noe continues to set the standard in this course area. First introduced in 1999, Noe's ETD became the market-leading and market-defining text in this area within 6 months of publication. Instructors and students celebrated the arrival of lively and inspiring text that includes coverage of the most up-to-date developments in training and research and in practice, including the strategic role of training and the use of new technologies in training.Noe's ETD finds a real balance between research and real company practices. The text provides students with a solid background in the fundamentals of training and development - needs assessment, transfer of training, designing a learning environment, methods, and evaluation. In addition, the role of training is broadening due to its strategic nature, the changing nature of the workplace, and availability of technology. Current topics such as strategic training and development process, e-learning, blended learning, learning management systems, knowledge management, older workers, issues in work life balance and work life balance programs, protean career are discussed.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction to employee training and development	1
Ch. 2	Strategic training	37
Ch. 3	Needs assessment	73
Ch. 4	Learning : theories and program design	105
Ch. 5	Transfer of training	145
Ch. 6	Training evaluation	169
Ch. 7	Traditional training methods	201
Ch. 8	E-learning and use of technology in training	231
Ch. 9	Employee development	265
Ch. 10	Special issues in training and employee development	303
Ch. 11	Careers and career management	347
Ch. 12	Special challenges in career management	375
Ch. 13	The future of training and development	409

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Americas: New Interpretive Essays

Author: Alfred C Stephan

A new interpretation of the forces shaping the Americas informs this book of original essays written by scholars from diverse disciplines of history, comparative literature, anthropology, sociology, demography, women's studies, economics, and political science. Part I, Contested States, explores issues of sovereignty, the development of Latin American states, economic restructuring and political democratization, and the evolution and future of revolutionary movements in the region. Part II, New Voices/New Visions, explores the innovative and creative forces emerging in the region, including feminist movements, religious innovations, and developments in literature and the arts. Part III, American Identities in Formation, analyzes some of the varied identities of people of the region, from indigenous peoples in Mayan communities to immigrants and refugees within the Americas and in the United States.

Film and Politics in America or Fashion Design on Computers

Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition

Author: Brian Nev

A study of the relationship between American film and American politics and society, by examining directors such as Orson Welles, Elia Kazan and Jules Dassin.

This title available in eBook format. .

Table of Contents:

	List of illustrations
	Preface
1	Out of the thirties	1
2	Populism, romanticism and Frank Capra	28
3	Liberals, radicals and the wartime agenda	56
4	Post-war Hollywood	84
5	Post-war: new directors and structures	112
6	Film noir and society	145
7	Into the fifties	171
8	The sixties	211
	Notes	237
	Select bibliography	265
	Index of films	271
	General index	276

Book review: Metrik und Modelle in der Softwarequalitätstechnik

Fashion Design on Computers

Author: M Kathleen Colussy

Generic approach to all software types, brands, and tools

Based on both vector-based and rastor-based programs

Digital swatch book for textiles

Booknews

Geared toward the textile and garment designer, the text focuses on developing design skills using the computer. Colussy (no credentials noted) offers a generic approach to all software types, brands, and tools covering on both vector-based and rastor-based programs. Elementary, intermediary, and advanced skills are all discussed. The book can also be used to create a digital swatch book for textiles. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Post Industrial Labour Markets or Globalization of Capital and the Nation State

Post-Industrial Labour Markets: Profiles of North America and Scandinavia

Author: Thomas P Boj

In nearly all OECD countries, the labour market has been in flux in recent decades. This book examines the labour markets and the institutional frameworks that condition their functioning in four different countries: Canada, the United States, Denmark and Sweden. Through a comparative study of these cases, the book discusses the nation-specific patterns that exist in a world that seems to become increasingly subject to common social and economic development.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Preface and acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The institutional framework of national labour markets	17
2	Labour movement and industrial relations	19
3	Labour law and employment regulation	51
4	The welfare state and labour market policies	77
Pt. II	Labour market outcomes and welfare regimes	97
5	Labour force and employment: age and gender differences	99
6	Towards a post-industrial service society	124
7	Occupational changes and education	147
8	Patterns of unemployment	169
9	Flexibility and employment insecurity	186
10	Wage formation, institutions and unemployment	213
Pt. III	Comparisons with other OECD countries	239
11	Post-industrial profiles: North American, Scandinavian and other Western labour markets	241
	Notes	262
	References	267
	Index	287

Book about: Social Determinants of Health or Painless Police Report Writing

Globalization of Capital and the Nation-State: Imperialism, Class Struggle, and the State in the Age of Global Capitalism

Author: Berch Berberoglu

This book provides a cogent analysis of the globalization process and the role of the imperial state in twentieth-century capitalist expansion on a world scale. It examines the development of capitalism and the capitalist state across national boundaries and traces the evolution of imperialism and inter-imperialist rivalries that have come to define the nature of the world political economy.