Finance or Modern Firm

Finance: Foundations of Financial Institutions and Management

Author: Edgar A Norton

How do financial markets and institutions affect businesses and individuals? How do firms raise funds? How can an individual use markets and institutions to meet their own personal goals? In order to answer these questions, a reader must have a strong understanding of financial markets and institutions. This concise book provides the necessary information, presenting the general principles of finance and showing how they are applied in the field.

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Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth

Author: John Roberts

Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process, they are changing the scope of their business operations, redrawing their organization charts, redefining the allocation of decision-making authority and responsibility, revamping the mechanisms for motivating and rewarding people, reconsidering which activities to conduct in-house and which to out-source, redesigning their information systems, and seeking to alter the shared beliefs, values and norms that their people hold. In this book, John Roberts argues that there are predictable, necessary relationships among these changes that will improve performance and growth. The organizations that are successful will establish patterns of fit among the elements of their organizational designs, their competitive strategies and the external environment in which they operate and will go about this in a holistic manner. The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy and the business environment. Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from the eighteenth century fur trading companies to such modern firms such as BP and Nokia. Finally, the book explores why these developments are happening now, pointing to the increase in global competition and changes in technology. Written by one of the world's leading economists and experts on businessstrategy and organization, The Modern Firm provides new insights into the changes going on in business today and will be of interest to academics, students and managers alike.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Strategy and organization	1
2	Key concepts for organization design	32
3	The nature and purpose of the firm	74
4	Motivation in the modern firm	118
5	Organizing for performance	180
6	Organizing for growth and innovation	243
7	Creating the modern firm : management and leadership challenges	281
	References	289
	Index	303

Business Finance or Health Careers Today

Business Finance

Author: Les Dlabay

BUSINESS FINANCE presents finance from a business point of view. This text covers finance fundamentals, long-term and short-term funding sources, business risk management, use of technology, and international finance. Business Finance combines fundamental concepts with a strong lesson-based instructional design, weaving in interesting real-world features, creative methods of assessment, research opportunities, financial calculations, case studies, and academic connections. Examine the financial side of running a business, keeping records, protecting against loss, offering credit, and making strategic decisions.

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Health Careers Today

Author: Judith Gerdin

This valuable guide provides an introduction to the basic health care environment and a preview of various popular health careers designed to help students make informed choices based on their interest and their commitment to the educational and professional responsibilities of each health career. It gives students a realistic glimpse of various health careers available today, outlining the roles and responsibilities, levels of education and credentialing, daily functions, and key disorders and assessment tools that are involved.
• Clear introductory information to approximately 60 health careers is presented, providing an excellent way for students to explore the roles and responsibilities of various health care careers.
• The book follows the National Health Care Skill Standards, which apply to workers across the entire health care industry.
• An Anatomy and Physiology unit (Unit 2) clearly presents the structure and function, assessment techniques, disorders, issues, and innovations of the various anatomy and physiology systems so students can see the applications of science in various career settings.
• Comprehensive career chapters incorporate the skills associated with specific careers into the chapter's discussion so readers can investigate the skills, functions, and issues related to that career.
• Learning Objectives at the beginning of every chapter give students an idea of what they should get out of the chapter and help them focus on critical information.
• Lists of Key Terms for each chapter provide definitions of terms that help the reader understand the chapter more clearly.
• Easy-to-follow Skill Lists in manychapters present step-by-step instructions on how to perform various career or health care related tasks.
• Figures, boxes, and tables throughout the book highlight important points in an easy-to-read format, often providing details not incorporated in the text discussion.
• Terminology boxes highlight the most important terminology in the chapter, provide their definitions, and break them into parts to aid in the reader's understanding.
• Abbreviation boxes list frequently used abbreviations and their meanings to familiarize readers with these abbreviations.
• Review questions and critical-thinking questions at the end of every chapter help students memorize important facts and apply them to chapter topics.
• Appendices provide important and practical information that students will need throughout their health care education and career.
• A new chapter on careers in alternative or complementary therapies and treatments covers careers in Alternative Medical Systems, Mind-Body Interventions, Biological-Based Therapies, Manipulative and Body-Based Methods, and Energy Therapies.
• Career chapters have been reorganized and broken down into three topics: Careers, Content Instruction, and Performance Instruction so that similar information on careers is available in each chapter.
• More applications and skills have been added, with critical thinking exercises at the end of every chapter and skill resources in the workbook to further engage students.
• A separate chapter on Foundational Skills has been added, featuring expanded, more detailed information on the skills.
• Information on bioterrorism has been added to relevant chapters, and careers associated with bioterrorism are discussed in the chapter on Biotechnology Careers.

Table of Contents:

1	History, Current Trends, and Future	4
2	Interpersonal Dynamics and Communication	22
3	Safety Practices	42
4	Legal and Ethical Principles	60
5	Seeking a Career in Health Care	70
6	Body Organization	92
7	The Cardiovascular System	104
8	The Circulatory System	118
9	The Respiratory System	132
10	The Skeletal System	144
11	The Muscular System	160
12	The Digestive System	172
13	The Urinary System	184
14	The Endocrine System	194
15	The Nervous System	206
16	The Sensory System	220
17	The Integumentary System	232
18	The Reproductive System	244
19	Wellness, Growth and Development	260
20	Laboratory Science in Health Care	278
21	Imaging in Health Care	294
22	Nursing Health Care	302
23	Medical Health Care	318
24	Dental Health Care	330
25	Animal Health Care	346
26	Community and Social Health Care	362
27	Mental Health Careers	374
28	Rehabilitative Health Care	382
29	Emergency Health Care	400
30	Information and Administration in Health Care	432
31	Environmental Health Careers	450
32	Biotechnology and Research in Health Care	468
	Appendix I: Common Prefixes, Word Roots, and Suffixes	480
	Appendix II: Abbreviations and Symbols	486
	Appendix III: Vitamins and Minerals	494
	Glossary	496
	Index	506

Paralegal Studies or Mass Customization

Paralegal Studies: An Introduction

Author: Paul D Jordan

This introduction to the paralegal profession includes information on career opportunities and options, the court system, legal ethics, typical paralegal functions in law firms, legal research and writing, interviewing clients and witnesses, and using computers in the practice of law. Clear examples are used to illustrate concepts and procedures and "Practice Tips" offer down-to earth guidance.

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Organized into four sections, this text offers an introduction to the professional field, explains the legal system in detail, and explores the many skills and procedures required. A CD-ROM provides access to the substantive law section, available on the West Legal Studies Web site. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Paralegals: A Profession Evolves. Chapter 2: Careers in Law Firms and Beyond. Chapter 3: Paralegal Ethics and Other Professional Issues. Chapter 4: The Law: Its Source and Application. Chapter 5: Legal Persons, Property, Contracts and Crimes. Chapter 6: Interviewing and Investigations. Chapter 7: Tort Law and the Indispensable Specialty: Civil Litigation. Chapter 8: Basics of Legal Research and Writing. Chapter 9: Computer Basics for Paralegals. Chapter 10: The Paralegal Role in Family, Probate, Bankruptcy and Administrative Law. Chapter 11: Identifying—and Getting—the Right Job for You. Appendix A: Shepard's Notations. Appendix B: Sample Time Sheets. Appendix C: Cite Check: "The Supremacy Clause" Appendix D: Sample Deposition Transcripts and Summaries. Appendix E: Sample Brief of Court Opinion. Appendix F: Sample Memorandum of Law. Appendix G: Sample Resumes and Cover Letters. Appendix H: Independent Paralegals: "Working for the Public". Recommended Reading. Glossary. Index.

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Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions

Author: Thorsten Blecker

Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions defines the parameters of the emerging business strategy, mass customization. The book will cover the main categories of the area with a systematic examination of the following themes: manufacturing systems and mass customization, supply chain management and mass customization, and information systems and mass customization.

In addition to being tightly organized by themes and a carefully selected group of contributors, the Editors will write introductory material to the sections along with introductory and concluding chapters. The result is a book that provides the field with the conceptual framework of mass customization, its tools, its solutions, and real-world examples of successful implementations of the business strategy. An important book for academics working in production operations, production manufacturing, industrial engineering, logistics, supply chain management, and industry practitioners.

Essentials of Physician Practice Management or Media Economics

Essentials of Physician Practice Management

Author: Blair Keagy MD

Essentials of Physician Practice Management offers a practical reference for administrators and medical directors and provides a comprehensive text for those preparing for a career in medical administration, practice management, and health plan administration. Essentials of Physician Practice Management is filled with valuable insights into every aspect of medical practice management including operations, financial management, strategic planning, regulation and risk management, human resources, and community relations.

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Media Economics: Application of Economics to New and Traditional Media

Author: Adam Finn

"Hoskins, McFadyen and Finn de-dismalise economics. Their book is clearly written, full of cogent and apposite examples and analyses persuasively what makes media and communications like, and unlike, other economic sectors. From network externality to public good, from experience goods to superstars, from dumping to quotas they lucidly guide the reader through the tangles of the new economy and why it now matters less if maids burn books. Eat your heart out Thomas Carlyle."

-Richard E. Collins, The Open University, U.K.


How does the Internet affect the supply of information-based entertainment and cultural goods? Why do telephone companies have peak and off-peak prices for long-distance calls? Why is broadcasting, but not newspaper publishing, usually regulated and sometimes subsidized? Media Economics: Applying Economics to New and Traditional Media provides a thorough foundation of the microeconomic principles and concepts needed to understand media industries and issues in the converging media environment.

Media Economics differs from ordinary media economic texts by taking a conceptual approach to economic issues. As the book progresses through economic principles, authors Colin Hoskins, Stuart McFadyen, and Adam Finn use cases and examples to demonstrate how these principles can be used to analyze media issues and problems. Media Economics emphasizes economic concepts that have distinct application within media industries, including corporate media strategies and mergers, public policy within media industries, how industry structure and changing technologies affect the conduct and performance ofmedia industries, and why the United States dominates trade in information and entertainment.

Key Features

• Chapter opening vignettes introduce the issues analyzed in each chapter
• Concise definitions of key terms for a clear understanding of basic microeconomic and managerial economic concepts
• Examples from a variety of media industries including those in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia
• A concept-driven approach enabling a longer shelf-life as technologies, structures, and revenues change
• A recognition of the reality of convergence and consolidation in media industries rather than addressing each media outlet individually

Media Economics assumes no prior background in economics and is designed for undergraduate and graduate students studying media economics and media industries. The book is an ideal text for public policy and the media as well as media and society courses with an economic perspective taught in Media Studies, Communication, Business, Journalism, Film Studies, Political Studies, and Economics programs.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction and overview	1
2	Demand and supply	17
3	Markets	39
4	Consumer behavior	59
5	Production and cost	85
6	Revenue, profit, risk, and managerial decisions	111
7	Market structure, theory of the firm, and industrial organization	141
8	Perfect competition and monopoly	157
9	Monopolistic competition and oligopoly	181
10	Pricing and market segmentation	215
11	Advertising	247
12	Labor markets	261
13	Government intervention	287
14	International trade	311

The Textbook of Total Quality in Healthcare or State and Society in Spanish America During the Age of Revolution

The Textbook of Total Quality in Healthcare

Author: A F F Al Assaf

The Textbook of TQ in Healthcare is the first true text prepared by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals. It provides a discussion of the tools, techniques, and principles of TQ. It is an excellent reference for students and professionals in medicine, nursing, allied health services, pharmacy, and healthcare administration.

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Introduces and explicates the principles of Total Quality Management as used in business and industry, addressing their use in the health care fields. Published by St. Lucie Press, 100 E. Linton Blvd., Suite 403B, Delray Beach, FL 33483. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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State and Society in Spanish America During the Age of Revolution

Author: Victor M Uribe Uran

State and Society in Spanish America during the Age of Revolution calls into question the orthodox split of Latin American history into colonial and modern, arguing that this split obscures significant economic, social, and even political continuities from 1780 to 1850. The book covers an unconventional period-1750 to 1850-and looks at the continuities over this longer, more comprehensive timespan. The essays discuss late colonial and postcolonial developments in gender, racial, class, and cultural relations across Latin America and in specific regions, including Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile. By bridging these two eras and looking at the Age of Democratic Revolution as a whole, the book allows readers to see the coming of Latin America's struggle for independence from Spain and Portugal and the changes after independence. Written by established Latin American scholars as well as up-and-coming historians, these essays are published in this volume for the first time. This book is ideal for courses on Latin American history, including colonial history, national history, and the Age of Revolution.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction - Beating a Dead Horse?
1	Latin America Was Behind: The Economic Background of Independence	3
2	"Dutch Disease" and Other (Dis)Continuities in Latin American History, 1780-1850	31
3	The Changing Meaning of Honor, Status, and Class: The Letrados and Bureaucrats of New Granada in the Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Period	59
4	Doing Business in the Age of Revolution: The Major Import-Export Merchants of Chile	89
5	Marriage and Family Relations in Mexico during the Transition from Colony to Nation	121
6	Gender Ideology, Race, and Female-Headed Households in Urban Mexico, 1750-1850	149
7	Patriotic Footwork: Social Dance and the Watershed of Independence in Buenos Aires	173
8	Constructing the City, Constructing the State: Architecture and Political Transition in Urban Argentina, 1810-1860	193
	Conclusion - Was There an Age of Revolution in Spanish America?	219
	Index	247
	About the Contributors	259

Integrated Environmental Modeling or Air Pollution Engineering Manual

Integrated Environmental Modeling: Pollutant Transport, Fate and Risk in the Environment

Author: Anu Ramaswami

A unified presentation of environmental model development, implementation, and testing

Integrated Environmental Modeling teaches model development, model implementation, and model testing skills in a unified manner, crosscutting the three "media" comprising environmental systems—air, water, and soil—by focusing on parallels and similarities between them, and introducing a new generation of multimedia models. No other single volume offers comprehensive coverage of chemical transport and fate in all three environmental media, including the resulting impacts on the biosphere and human health, with a focus on the fundamental processes underlying environmental modeling.

Integrated Environmental Modeling provides broad-based training in the development of pollutant transport and fate models in air, water, and soil, with a focus on five essential competencies:

• Understanding the fundamental process principles that govern contaminant transport and transformations in multimedia environments, emphasizing the parallels and links between different media

• Learning model development skills, starting from the simplest conceptual models and building more complex and realistic models that couple component process modules at the appropriate spatial and temporal scales of resolution

• Using statistical methods and data sources to estimate input parameters and characterize model sensitivity and uncertainty

• Gaining hands-on experience with computer-aided implementation and evaluation of fate and transport models using realistic case study examples

• Applying fate and transport models to evaluatepollutant interactions with the biosphere, particularly in human exposure modeling and health risk assessment

Complete with case studies, Integrated Environmental Modeling is a valuable, single-source tool for senior and graduate students in environmental science and engineering courses on pollutant transport, remediation, and risk assessment, and an essential reference text for professionals in industry, consulting, and government agencies responsible for environmental assessment and risk analysis.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction to modeling the transport and transformation of contaminants in the environment	1
2	Nature of environmental pollutants	28
3	Intermedia contaminant transfer : equilibrium analysis	72
4	Kinetics of intermedia pollutant transfer	115
5	Transport fundamentals	165
6	Overview of numerical methods in environmental modeling	206
7	Overview of probabilistic methods and tools for modeling	239
8	Models of transport in air	280
9	Models of transport in soil and groundwater	315
10	Models of transport in surface water	378
11	Atmospheric transformation and loss processes	433
12	Modeling chemical transformations in water	475
13	Exposure and risk assessment	532
14	Tools for evaluation, analysis, and optimization of environmental models	585

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Air Pollution Engineering Manual

Author: Air Waste Management Association

The definitive resource for information on air pollution emission sources and the technology available to control them.

The Air Pollution Engineering Manual has long been recognized as an important source of information on air pollution control issues for industries affected by the Clean Air Act and regulations in other countries. Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest emission factors and control measures for reducing air pollutants, this new edition provides industry and government professionals with the fundamental, technological, and regulatory information they need for compliance with the most recent air pollution standards. Contributing experts from diverse fields discuss the different processes that generate air pollution, equipment used with all types of gases and particulate matter, and emissions control for areas ranging from graphic arts and chemical processes to the metallurgical industry. More than 500 detailed flowcharts and photographs as well as an extensive listing of Internet resources accompany coverage of:
* Biological air pollution control, including biofilters and bioscrubbers
* Emissions from wood processing, brick and ceramic product manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, numerous other industrial processes, fugitive emissions, internal combustion sources, and evaporative losses
* Water/wastewater treatment plant emissions
* Changes in emission factors for each source category, including particle size factors related to PM10 and PM2.5 standards
* Updated MACT regulations and technologies
* And much more

THE AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION is the world's leading membership organization forenvironmental professionals. The Association enhances the knowledge and competency of environmental professionals by providing a neutral forum for technology exchange, professional development, networking opportunities, public education, and outreach events. The Air & Waste Management Association promotes global environmental responsibility and increases the effectiveness of organizations and individuals in making critical decisions that benefit society.

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Environmental engineers and specialists in various related fields provide a wealth of information on air pollution control issues for industries affected by the US Clean Air Act...

Industry and Environment

The manual is intended for industry and government professionals directly involved in the Choice of air pollution control technologies and in their operation...

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Environmental engineers and specialists in various related fields provide a wealth of information on air pollution control issues for industries affected by the US Clean Air Act...

Industry and Environment

The manual is intended for industry and government professionals directly involved in the choice of air pollution control technologies and in their operation...

International Journal of Environment

deserves a place on the reference bookshelf of everyone who is actively involved or interested in air pollution control measures...

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In fact, the Manual first appeared in the early 1960s, and editions were published by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1973 and by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1992. Environmental engineers and specialists in various related fields provide a wealth of information on air pollution control issues for industries affected by the US Clean Air Act and analogous regulations in other countries. They offer fundamental, technological, and regulatory perspectives to aid complying with the most recent air pollution standards. The topics include biological air pollution control, including biofilters and bioscrubbers; emissions from wood processing, brick and ceramic product manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, many other industrial processes, fugitive emissions, internal combustion sources, and evaporative losses; water and wastewater plant emissions; changes in emission factors for each source category; and accidental and catastrophic releases. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Professional Development or New Directions for Organization Theory

Professional Development: The Dynamics of Success

Author: Mary Wilkes Hull

This book provides the essential foundation necessary for the aspiring professional. It covers personal appearance, money management, job campaigning, values, ethics, and other key topics.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	The Job Campaign	4
Ch. 2	The Interview	33
Ch. 3	The Look of Success	66
Ch. 4	Personal and Professional Poise	90
Ch. 5	Planning and Buying a Wardrobe	121
Ch. 6	Maintaining Good Health	147
Ch. 7	Communicating: The Lifeline of Business	176
Ch. 8	Personal Effectiveness	200
Ch. 9	Group Dynamics	221
Ch. 10	Personal Values and Business Ethics	247
Ch. 11	Set Your Goals - Manage Your Time	272
Ch. 12	Courtesy and Common Sense	289
Ch. 13	When You Travel	311
Ch. 14	Managing Your Money	333
Ch. 15	Taking Charge	362
Ch. 16	Management as a Career	380
	Glossary	393
	Index	414

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New Directions for Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects

Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer

In New Directions for Organization Theory, Jeffrey Pfeffer offers a comprehensive analysis and overview of the field of organization theory and its research literature. This work traces the evolution of organization studies, particularly its more recent history, and highlights the principle concepts and controversies characterizing the study of organizations.

Pfeffer argues that the world of organizations has changed in several important ways, including the increasing externalization of employment and the growing use of contingent workers; the changing size distribution of organizations, with a larger proportion of smaller organizations; the increasing influence of external capital markets on organizational decision-making and a concomitant decrease in managerial autonomy; and increasing salary inequality within organizations in the US compared both to the past and to other industrialized nations. These changes and their public policy implications make it especially important to understand organizations as social entities. But Pfeffer questions whether the research literature of organization studies has either addressed these changes and their causes or made much of a contribution to the discussion of public policy.

New Directions for Organization Theory provides a clear, accessible summary of the current state of organization studies, skillfully synthesizing diverse research and presenting it in an orderly, insightful manner. It offers suggestions for the development of the field, including a call to focus more on issues of design and to use the ability to understand real phenomena to help distinguish among theoretical approaches. A major scholar in the field oforganization theory, Jeffrey Pfeffer offers a perspective on its current state that will be of interest and value to scholars and graduate students interested in organizations.

"Jeffrey Pfeffer's book is a real contribution to the field. It is a masterful blend of rigorous literature review and synthesis along with provocative ideas and challenges for scholars of organizations. Pfeffer manages to not only span multiple literatures and levels of analysis, but he also steps back to inject his own critical opinions on where the field of organizations has been and, even more importantly, directions in which it should proceed. This book deserves to be required reading for any individual seriously interested in understanding how and why organizations work the way they do".--Michael Tushman, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

"...a concise but comprehensive coverage of the main trends in the field.[...]Given the author's well-deserved reputation, I believe that this book...will influence the thinking of researchers in all domains of organizational theory."--Academy of Management Review

"An even-handed, eclectic, at times critical discussion. [. . .] Pfeffer has gathered a significant evidential base that shores up our efforts to translate theory into practice. [. . .] New Directions is vintage Pfeffer scholarship, which means he samples richly, articulately, and knowingly from a vast literature, supplies a reasonable representation of lines of work, and provides an informed pretext for seasoned scholars of organization to ask, 'Is this what I signed on for?' [. . .] This is a good read!"--Administrative Science Quarterly

His and Hers or Changing by Design

His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology

Author: Roger Horowitz

The pathbreaking essays in this collection explore the history of consumption by synthesizing discrete historical literatures on consumer culture, gender, and the history of technology. Luxury hotels and the chocolate industry are among the diverse array of topics these authors use to demonstrate that consumption is both a material and a cultural process. Production and consumption become equally inextricable under close analysis. Tools from both the history of technology and gender studies illuminate how these categories intersect. Although broad social and technological trends influence the outcome of these stones, the authors emphasize the agency of particular groups, including consumers, workers, manufacturers, and the "mediators" who communicate between producers and consumers. This volume will be of interest to historians in a wide range of fields.

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Eight contributions explore the history of consumption by synthesizing literature on consumer culture, gender, and the history of technology. Topics include the culture of the American luxury hotel, gender and the American candy industry, gender and energy marketing in the early 20th century, the reconfiguration of community marketplaces in postwar America, and a parable involving gender, design, the market, and the search for a good stove. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
	Introduction	1
1	Men/Women/Production/Consumption	7
2	A House Divided: The Culture of the American Luxury Hotel, 1825-1860	39
3	Love, War, and Chocolate: Gender and the American Candy Industry, 1890-1930	67
4	Getting Housewives the Electric Message: Gender and Energy Marketing in the Early Twentieth Century	95
5	"A Cleanser for the Mind": Marketing Radio Receivers for the American Home, 1922-1932	115
6	Cinderella Stories: The Glass of Fashion and the Gendered Marketplace	139
7	Shopping for a Good Stove: A Parable about Gender, Design, and the Market	165
8	From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America	189
	About the Contributors	235
	Index	237

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Changing by Design: Organizational Innovation at Hewlett-Packard

Author: Deone Zell

Hewlett-Packard is among a growing number of companies in the United States exploring what is called sociotechnical systems (STS) redesign. As competitive pressures have grown, interest in STS redesign has increased because it has the potential to catalyze comprehensive organizational change and avoid the pitfalls of a piecemeal of small-scale approach. STS redesign works from the ground up, involving front-line employees in both analysis of the entire organization and creation of a new design. In Hewlett-Packard's California Personal Computer Division, production operators worked alongside managers to redesign their printed circuit board assembly line into self-managing teams of employees. In the Santa Clara Division, a very different workforce of engineers, initially unwilling to standardize their creativity, had to develop commercial applications and become more responsive to customers in order to survive. On the basis of Hewlett-Packard's success, Zell concludes that with top-level support and a high investment of resources at the outset, redesign can inspire relatively rapid change, especially suitable for organizations in fast-paced environments. As one HP manager commented, "Empowerment is no longer a nice thing to do. It is now a business imperative."

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Zell (vice chancellor's office, UCLA), who based this work on her 1994 doctoral thesis, offers a detailed ethnographic case study of two sociotechnical systems (STS) redesigns at Hewlett-Packard. She begins with a brief, historical introduction to organizational change, including a summary of the rise and fall of mass production, the emergence of mass customization, and three current strategies for changeTQM, business process reengineering, and STS. She then launches into an ethnographic study that provides a rich, insider's view of the redesign process and how it actually works. Finally, she synthesizes her material into a set of recommendations and concepts for guiding others through the redesign process. A shorter description of this study appeared in Wellford W. Wilms's Restoring Prosperity (LJ 10/1/96). Recommended for academic business libraries.Michael R. Leach, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass.

Strategic Management of e Business or Personnel Selection

Strategic Management of e-Business

Author: Stephen Chen

E-business is changing fast, along with the thinking behind it, and as yet there is no agreement on what should be taught on an e-business course and how. This revised and updated edition of a successful MBA-level text takes a strategic management perspective of e-business, although it also touches on related areas such as Internet marketing and IS. Stephen Chen focuses on the strategic implications of e-business and examines the strategies employed in a range of industries, providing a comprehensive review of current research and practice.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction to e-business	1
Ch. 2	The basics of e-business technology	33
Ch. 3	The markets for electronic commerce	79
Ch. 4	e-Marketing	101
Ch. 5	The economics of e-business	147
Ch. 6	Analysing the industry impacts of e-business	183
Ch. 7	Developing an e-business strategy	213
Ch. 8	Implementing an e-business strategy	255
Ch. 9	Public policy issues	291
Ch. 10	Future trends	325

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Personnel Selection: Adding Value Through People

Author: Mark Cook

Popular with students, academics and professionals alike, this is the fourth edition of Personnel Selection. A thoughtful, entertaining and comprehensive text, this edition has been thoroughly revised to focus on the key issues and the latest research in this rapidly developing field.

Features of the fourth edition include:

• The use of the internet in job application, recruitment and assessment.
• How job analysis is changing to meet changing concepts of the nature of work, leading to an increasing emphasis on broader abilities and dispositions.
• The big five model in personality: new measures, new reviews of selection research, links to job analysis, the use of broad factors vs. more specific facets.
• The problem of faking in personality questionnaires: its extent and its impact on selection decisions.
• The effectiveness of teams (as opposed to individuals) in terms of personality and ability.
• Adverse impact in selection, especially education, interview, biodata, assessment centres, personality tests, honesty tests.

This book is essential reading for students and professionals in occupational psychology and HR who are interested in relating research to the real world practice of personnel selection.

Understanding Business or Managing Professional Services

Understanding Business

Author: William G G Nickels

Understanding Business by Nickels, McHugh, and McHugh has been the number one textbook in the introduction to business market for several editions for three reasons: (1) The commitment and dedication of an author team that teaches this course and believes in the importance and power of this learning experience, (2) we listen to our customers, and (3) the quality of our supplements package. We consistently look to the experts –full-time faculty members, adjunct instructors, and of course students– to drive the decisions we make about the text itself and the ancillary package. Through a series of focus groups, symposia, as well as full-book, single-chapter, revised manuscript reviews of both text and key ancillaries, we have heard the stories of more than 500 professors and their insights and experiences are evident on every page of the revision and in every supplement. As teachers of the course and users of their own materials, the author team is dedicated to the principles of excellence in business education. From providing the richest most current topical coverage to using dynamic pedagogy that puts students in touch with today’s real business issues, to creating groundbreaking and market-defining ancillary items for professors and students alike, Understanding Business leads the way.

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New edition of an introductory text with color photos, sidebars, and abundant pedagogical trappings (including "ethics boxes" for practice in making ethical decisions). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Managing Professional Services: Text & Cases

Author: Thomas J DeLong

DeLong and Nanda's Professional Services: Text and Cases is the first casebook to be published on the management of professional service firms (law firms, architecture, financial services, consulting). It includes a comprehensive selection of case studies that span these industries broadly. Although much has been researched and written about managing service firms generally (e.g., food service, hotels, banking and other consumer services), very little has been compiled on managing professional services. Professional Service firms have a highly educated employee base and these firms offer both consumer and commercial services that involve managing, supporting and improving their clients' intellectual assets. Delong and Nanda have developed this text to demonstrate to students the unique challenges and opportunities attendant upon this market segment of our economy.

Table of Contents:

	About the Authors
	Preface
	An Overview of the Professional Services Book
	Module Summary Notes (Module One through Module Seven)
	Hambrecht & Quist	10
	AGENCY.COM (A): Launching an Interactive Service Agency	26
	History of Investment Banking	35
	The Rise and Decline of e-Consulting	54
	Thomas Weisel Partners (A)	97
	Woodland Partners: Field of Dreams?	117
	Shouldice Hospital Limited	125
	Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Client Services	151
	Diamond in the Rough (A)	167
	The Goldman Sachs IPO (A)	183
	Family Feud (A): Andersen versus Andersen	203
	The Saga of Prince Jefri and KPMG (A): Mystery of the Missing Billions	224
	International Profit Associates	238
	Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (A)	268
	Strategic Services at Andersen Consulting	281
	Bain & Company, Inc.: Making Partner	296
	Venture Law Group	312
	&Samhoud Service Management	338
	The Union Carbide Deal (Abridged)	352
	Jill Greenthal at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (A): The TCI/AT&T Deal	362
	Cambridge Consulting Group: Bob Anderson	388
	Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A)	393
	Lehman Brothers (A): Rise of the Equity Research Department	410
	Alexander Bandelli (A)	440
	Tom Tierney at Bain & Company (A)	448
	Infosys Technologies, Limited	464
	Tim Hertach at GL Consulting (A)	500
	Professionals' Quandaries	511
	Tradeoffs: Juggling Careers in PSFs with Private Life	515
	The First Six Months: Launching a PSF Career	525
	Index	529

Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory or Tourism Management

Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory

Author: Barry D Shirver

Clearly explains the sampling methods associated with the inventory of forest resources. It avoids extensive coverage of theoretical statistics and mathematics in favor of thorough coverage of forest inventory topics for the practitioner.

Booknews

A textbook for undergraduates and a reference for practicing professionals in forest resources. Explains principles and methods of inventorying virtually any forest resource, including timber, other vegetation, soils, water, and wildlife. Considers determining the needed sample size, handling edge-effect problems, and designing cruises to reduce sampling errors, optimizing the benefits of stratification, auxiliary variables, point sampling and point vs. plot comparison, and 3P sampling. Many of the methods have only been published in journals before. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

New interesting book: Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design or Fundamentals of Process Safety

Tourism Management

Author: David Weaver

Tourism Management, Third Edition, builds upon the strength of the previous editions by introducing students to the complexities of the tourism system. The third edition has been updated with recent industry and research developments and retains the thoroughness of content and application that had been established in the previous editions. A theme of this edition is looking at the challenges of tourism in a time of regional and international uncertainties and complexities as a consequence of terrorism and security threats, health issues such as SARS, natural events like the Boxing Day Tsunami and the changing geo-political landscape.

Table of Contents:

Preface     xi
Acknowledgements     xiii
Introduction to tourism management     1
Introduction     2
The phenomenon of tourism     2
Definition of tourism     3
The importance of tourism     3
Tourism as an academic field of study     4
Obstacles to development     4
Indications of development     8
A sequence of tourism platforms     12
Universities and community colleges     14
Characteristics, outline and structure     15
Characteristics     15
Chapter outline     16
Chapter structure     17
Chapter review     18
Summary of key terms     18
Questions     20
Exercises     20
Further reading     21
The tourism system     22
Introduction     23
A systems approach to tourism     23
The basic whole tourism system     23
The tourist     26
Spatial component     26
Temporal component     28
Travel purpose     29
Major tourist categories     34
Data problems     37
Origin region     38
Origin community     38
Origin government     39
Transit region     40
Management implications of transit regions     41
Effects of technology     41
Destination region     43
Destination communities     45
Destination governments     46
The tourism industry     46
Chapter review     48
Summary of key terms     48
Questions     50
Exercises     51
Further reading     51
Case study     53
The evolution and growth of tourism     55
Introduction     56
Premodern tourism     56
Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley     56
Ancient Greece and Rome     57
The Dark Ages and Middle Ages     59
Early modern tourism (1500-1950)     61
The Grand Tour     61
Spa resorts     62
Seaside resorts     62
Thomas Cook     65
The post-Cook period (1880-1950)     66
Contemporary tourism (1950 onwards)     67
The world's biggest industry?      67
Factors associated with increased tourism demand     69
Economic factors     69
Social factors     72
Demographic factors     75
Technological factors     79
Political factors     81
Australian tourism participation     81
Future growth prospects     83
Chapter review     84
Summary of key terms     85
Questions     87
Exercises     88
Further reading     88
Case study     89
Destinations     91
Introduction     92
Global destination patterns: MDCs and LDCs     92
Tourism market share and growth     93
Reasons for the emergence of the LDCs as destinations     93
Pull factors influencing a destination     97
Geographical proximity to markets     97
Accessibility to markets     98
Availability of attractions     100
Cultural links     101
Availability of services     102
Affordability     102
Peace, stability and safety     103
Positive market image     105
Pro-tourism policies     106
Regional destination patterns     107
Europe     107
The Americas     110
Asia-Pacific     111
Africa     113
The Middle East     113
Australia     114
Internal destination patterns     117
The Australian pattern     119
Chapter review     121
Summary of key terms     122
Questions     123
Exercises     124
Further reading     124
Case study     125
The tourism product     128
Introduction     129
Tourist attractions     129
Natural sites     130
Natural events     136
Cultural sites     137
Cultural events     144
Attraction attributes     146
The tourism industry     151
Travel agencies     151
Transportation     152
Accommodation     155
Tour operators     157
Merchandise     158
Industry structure     160
Chapter review     162
Summary of key terms     162
Questions     165
Exercises      165
Further reading     166
Case study     167
Tourist markets     170
Introduction     171
Tourist market trends     171
The democratisation of travel     171
The emergence of simple market segmentation and multilevel segmentation     171
Niche markets and 'markets of one'     172
The destination selection process     173
Multiple decision makers     175
Tourist market segmentation     175
Geographic segmentation     176
Sociodemographic segmentation     177
Psychographic segmentation     185
Behavioural segmentation     189
Chapter review     195
Summary of key terms     195
Questions     197
Exercises     197
Further reading     198
Case study     199
Tourism marketing     202
Introduction     203
The nature of marketing     203
Definition of marketing     203
Services marketing     204
Intangibility     204
Inseparability     205
Variability     206
Perishability      207
Managing supply and demand     207
Daily variations in demand     208
Weekly variations in demand     209
Seasonal variations in demand     209
Long-term variations in demand     210
Supply/demand matching strategies     210
Market failure     214
Government tourism organisations     214
Strategic tourism marketing     216
SWOT analysis and objectives     217
Objectives     218
Control/evaluation     219
Marketing mix     219
Place     219
Product     220
People     220
Price     222
Packaging     223
Programming     223
Promotion     223
Partnerships     228
Chapter review     230
Summary of key terms     230
Questions     232
Exercises     233
Further reading     233
Case study     235
Economic impacts of tourism     238
Introduction     239
Economic benefits     239
Direct revenue     239
Indirect revenue      245
Economic integration and diversification     247
Employment (direct and indirect)     247
Regional development     248
Formal and informal sectors     250
Economic costs     251
Direct financial costs     252
Indirect financial costs     253
Fluctuations in intake     256
Competition with other sectors     260
Employment problems     261
Chapter review     263
Summary of key terms     264
Questions     265
Exercises     266
Further reading     267
Case study     268
Sociocultural and environmental impacts of tourism     271
Introduction     272
Sociocultural benefits     272
Promotion of cross-cultural understanding     272
Incentive to preserve culture and heritage     275
Promoting social wellbeing and stability     275
Sociocultural costs     276
Commodification     276
The demonstration effect revisited     280
The relationship between tourism and crime     281
Factors contributing to the increased likelihood of sociocultural costs      283
The irridex     287
Environmental benefits     288
Environmental costs     289
Environmental impact sequence     289
'Permanent' environmental restructuring     290
Generation of waste residuals     292
Tourist activities     293
Indirect and induced activities     294
Management implications of sociocultural and environmental impacts     296
Chapter review     298
Summary of key terms     299
Questions     300
Exercises     301
Further reading     301
Case study     303
Destination development     305
Introduction     306
Destination lifecycle     306
The Butler sequence     307
Critique of the Butler sequence     317
Factors that change the destination lifecycle     323
Internal-intentional actions     324
External-unintentional actions     324
Internal-unintentional actions     324
External-intentional actions     324
National tourism development     326
Spatial diffusion     326
Effects of hierarchical diffusion      327
Effects of contagious diffusion     327
Model of national tourism development     328
Chapter review     330
Summary of key terms     330
Questions     332
Exercises     332
Further reading     333
Case study     334
Sustainable tourism     337
Introduction     338
A paradigm shift?     338
Dominant Western environmental paradigm     339
Contradictions in the dominant Western environmental paradigm     340
Towards a green paradigm?     341
Sustainable tourism     343
Indicators     343
Sustainability and mass tourism     345
Reasons for adoption     346
Practices     349
Quality control     350
Sustainability and small-scale tourism     354
Alternative tourism     354
Manifestations     356
Critique of alternative tourism     357
Ecotourism     359
Soft and hard ecotourism     359
Magnitude     361
Location     362
Destination sustainability     364
Extending the Butler sequence      365
Chapter review     368
Summary of key terms     369
Questions     371
Exercises     372
Further reading     372
Case study     374
Tourism research     377
Introduction     378
Types of research     378
Basic research     378
Applied research     381
Cross-sectional research     382
Longitudinal research     383
Qualitative research     383
Quantitative research     384
Primary research     385
Secondary research     391
The research process     394
Problem recognition     395
Question formulation     395
Identification of research methodology or methods     397
Data collection     399
Data analysis     399
Data presentation     400
Data interpretation     400
Chapter review     402
Summary of key terms     402
Questions     404
Exercises     405
Further reading     405
Case study     407
Selected international and Australian tourism organisations     411
Refereed English language tourism journals (2005)     413
Inbound and outbound tourism data     416
References     425
Glossary     460
Index     477

Ethics of Consumption or Ladies on the Lot

Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship, Vol. 107

Author: David A Crocker

Scholars in diverse fields now agree on the importance of investigating the impact of consumption practices on the global environment, quality of life, and international justice. In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines—philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social psychology—examine the causes, nature, and consequences of present-day consumption patterns in the United States and throughout the world. Specifically, the essays evaluate the impact of consumption practices on our own lives, our institutions, other people, and the environment. The contributors give explicit attention to the principles relevant for a consumption ethic, as well as to the policies and practices that such an ethic permits or requires. These engaging, jargon-free essays frame the problem of consumption in a variety of ways, challenging readers to see the issue from new perspectives. For scholars and students from across the disciplines, as well as for environmental and consumer activists, this volume will serve as the touchstone for discussions of consumption and global stewardship.

Author Biography: David A. Crocker is a senior research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. He is a founder and current president of the International Development Ethics Association. Toby Linden was a research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and is currently an educational consultant.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Consumption: Value Added, Physical Transformation, and Welfare	19
2	Carrying Capacity and Ecological Economics	28
3	Reply to Mark Sagoff's "Carrying Capacity and Ecological Economics"	53
4	Limits to Consumption and Economic Growth: The Middle Ground	63
5	Food, Feed, and Land	69
6	The Case Against the Consumption of Grain-Fed Meat	95
7	The Political Economy of Consumption	113
8	A New Economic Critique of Consumer Society	131
9	Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming	139
10	Consuming Because Others Consume	155
11	Consumer Expenditures and the Growth of Need-Required Income	176
12	Alternatives to the Consumer Society	198
13	The Road Not Taken: Friendship, Consumerism, and Happiness	218
14	Delectable Materialism: Second Thoughts on Consumer Culture	249
15	Consumption As Culture: A Desert Example	269
16	The Living Standard	287
17	The Good As Discipline, the Good As Freedom	312
18	Living at a High Economic Standard: A Functionings Analysis	342
19	Consumption, Well-Being, and Capability	366
20	"The Earth Is the Lord's and the Fullness Thereof": Jewish Perspectives on Consumption	391
21	The Ethics of Consumption: A Roman Catholic View	403
22	On the Subversive Virtue: Frugality	416
23	Natural Resource Consumption: North and South	437
24	Consumption and Population	476
25	A Global Resources Dividend	501
26	Consumption, Appropriation, and Stewardship	537
27	Consumption As a Topic for the North-South Dialogue	552
	Index of Names	561
	Index of Subjects	565
	About the Contributors	581

Look this: To Begin the World Anew or The Last Undercover

Ladies on the Lot: Women, Car Sales, and the Pursuit of the American Dream

Author: Helene M Lawson

In this unique and lively ethnography of women who sell cars, sociologist Helene Lawson and the ladies on the lot take readers behind the scenes of one of the last bastions of a predominantly male workplace: the car dealership. Linking the women s own stories within the broader framework of gender and occupation, Lawson presents an engaging and important case study on the impact of gender differences and behavior in the workplace. In doing so, Ladies on the Lot makes an original contribution to the field and will be of interest for a wide variety of courses, including gender and occupations, the sociology of work, the sociology of women, and various courses in women s studies and qualitative methods.

What People Are Saying

Patricia A. Adler
Contributing to the growing literature on how women cross the gender divide and struggle for survival in traditional male trades, this occupational study offers insights into the ordeals women sales agents encounter on the automobile lots across America. Lawson's typologies are rich and descriptive, probing many different facets of women's car sales careers, including navigating the selling floor, relating with colleagues and customers, and negotiating the contract. Anyone who has ever experienced the onerous task of purchasing a car will be enlightened by this behind-the-scenes account of the process. Students of gender and work and occupations will find it a delightful read.
—(Patricia A. Adler, University of Colorado )

E Doyle. McCarthy
Lawson's Ladies on the Lot is an example of the finest work being done in qualitative social science today. Her interviews and fieldwork succeed in making these women come alive as they tell us their stories and draw us into their lives of struggles and dreams. This is a wonderful book to teach with, for it shows us how culture, class, and gender are played out in the lives of ordinary people and what it costs women to pursue their dreams of making it in America today. This study is a rare and insightful look at many of the changes that came upon American women and men in the decade 1988 to 1999!
—(E. Doyle McCarthy, Fordham University )

Handbook of Cost Management or Operations Management

Handbook of Cost Management

Author: Michael W Maher

Handbook of Cost Management, Second Edition covers all of the essential topics in cost management and accounting. It includes conventional topics, such as job costing and cost allocation, as well as such current topics as balanced scorecard, economic value added, logistics and marketing cost, theory of constraints, inter-organizational costing, and the cost of quality.

Book about: Tone Your Tummy Type or Gaining

Operations Management: Quality and Competitiveness in a Global Environment

Author: Bernard W Taylor

Featuring an ideal balance of managerial issues and quantitative techniques, this new Fifth Edition of Russell and Taylor's comprehensive introduction to operations management keeps pace with current innovations and issues in the field, particularly those related to the impact of information technology and the global business environment on OM. The authors present the concepts clearly and logically, and help students see how OM relates to real business.

Russell and Taylor recognize that many students struggle with the quantitative material in their Operations Management course. That's why their text offers extensive collection of exercises and solved problems, along with outstanding problem-solving support, including eGrade Plus. eGrade Plus links problems from the book to relevant sections in an online version of the text, and provides opportunities for practice and a quantitative survival guide.

Table of Contents:

Preface.

PART ONE: DESIGNING A PRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.

1. Operations and Competitiveness.

2. Operations Strategy.

3. Quality Management.

4. Statistical Process Control.

5. Products and Services.

6. Processes, Technology, and Capacity.

7. Facilities.

8. Human Resources.

9. Project Management.

PART TWO: OPERATING THE PRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.

10. Operational Decision-Making Tools: Transportation and Transshipment Models.

11. Forecasting.

12. Inventory Management.

13. Aggregate Planning.

14. Resource Planning.

15. Lean Production.

16. Scheduling.

17. Waiting Line Analysis for Service Improvement.

EPILOGUE.

APPENDIX A—Normal Curve Areas.

SOLUTIONS TO SELECTED ODD-NUMBERED PROBLEMS.

INDEX.

Economic Literacy or Integrating Ecofeminism Globalization and World Religions

Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude

Author: Frederick S Weaver

With wit and verve, Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and worldview of economic theory and engagingly describes the organization and performance of the U.S. economy. Its combination of theory and description is essential for understanding debates about current affairs, penetrating the literature of economics, and reflecting on the usefulness and limits of economic analysis. Updated throughout, the second edition includes new discussions of social security, tax reform, surging petroleum prices, and the economic effects of the Iraq war and other international issues.

New interesting book: Economic Development or Comprehensive Project Management

Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions

Author: Rosemary Radford Ruether

This book addresses the practical relevance of the interconnection of feminism, ecology, and religious theological thought, and asks questions about the lack of attention to gender issues in both ecological theology and deglobalization theory. The book looks at issues of globalization, interfaith ecological theology, ecofeminism, and deglobalization movements comparatively across different world religions and across geographical regions.

European Integration 1950 2003 or Sustaining Abundance

European Integration, 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?

Author: John Gillingham

Integration is the most significant European historical development in the past fifty years, eclipsing in importance even the collapse of the USSR. This movement toward economic and political union has not only helped revive, transform and rejuvenate a battered civilization; it is opening the way to a promising future. Yet, until now, no satisfactory explanation is to be found in any single book as to why integration is significant, how it originated and has developed, how it has changed and continues to change Europe, and where it is headed. John Gillingham is a professor of history at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His fields of research include European economic and cultural history as well as the history of international organizations. His book Coal, Steel and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955(Cambridge, 1991) was awarded the prestigious George Lewis Beer Prize by the American Historical Association. In addition to two edited volumes and approximately fifty published articles, Gillingham is the author of Industry and Politics in the Third Reich (Columbia, 1985) and Belgian Business in the Nazi New Order (Ghent, 1977). Gillingham has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and elsewhere.

Foreign Affairs

This monumental book is in many ways the opposite of Tsoukalis': twice as long, far less interested in security and diplomacy, and held together by a thesis. The least one can say is that it is original. Gillingham is a firm believer in economic liberalism, and he conceives of the history of European integration as a contest between the liberal vision and the interventionist one. It is therefore not surprising that he begins not with the French proposal for a coal and steel community in 1950 but with "the classic liberal solution to the German problem" after the Second World War. He regards Margaret Thatcher's actions and influence as a powerful push toward "the formation of the kind of large, minimally regulated, decentralized market-driven interstate federal union that might have met with the approval of Friedrick Hayek" and portrays Jacques Delors (a Christian Democrat turned Socialist) as the enemy of that dream. Gillingham believes that "a federal Europe can be created democratically, functionally, and through the market — or not at all." But would "a feeling of European nationhood" result from the institutional evolution of the community into "an efta-like mechanism" to "encourage the emergence of an enterprise society" and "erode pointless hierarchies"? Is it true that the EU has "accomplished little or nothing in the last ten years"? Or that "a political Europe" is needed only as a hedge against the contingency of a large-scale disaster that could threaten the values of European civilization? In any case, Gillingham's belief that these values can be saved only by the economics and politics of classical liberalism is more an ideological position than a well thought outprogram.

Look this: Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry or Financial Institutions Valuations Mergers and Acquisitions

Sustaining Abundance: Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies

Author: Lyle Scruggs

Representing the first comprehensive study of its kind, this book evaluates the comparative performance of national environmental policies since the beginning of the modern environmental era. Unlike other comparative studies, it looks directly at the purpose of environmental policy: pollution reduction. Lyle Scruggs presents four major explanations of environmental performance which it evaluates through the comparative statistical analysis of data from seventeen affluent countries. The results often challenge conventional explanations of good performance.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures and Tables
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Measuring National Environmental Performance	19
3	Economic Development, Geographic Advantage, and Environmental Performance	55
4	Public Opinion, Environmental Mobilization, and Environmental Performance	78
5	Pluralism, Corporatism, and Environmental Performance	122
6	Political Institutions	162
7	Checking the Robustness of the Results	191
8	Conclusion	204
App. I	Estimated Measures of Environmental Performance	215
App. II	Institutions for Environmental Policy Making in Fourteen Countries	219
	References	229
	Index	245

Space in the Tropics from Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana or Interviewing

Space in the Tropics - from Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana

Author: Peter Redfield

Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical medicine, postwar exploration of outer space, satellite technology, development, and ecotourism with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this particular place into greater extended systems. Examining the wider context of the Ariane program, he argues that technology and nature must be understood within a greater ecology of displacement and makes a case for the importance of margins in understanding the trajectories of modern life.

Interesting book: No Salt Lowest Sodium Baking Book or Happiest Baby on the Block

Interviewing: Principles and Practices

Author: Charles J Stewart

The most widely-used text for the interviewing course, Interviewing: Principles and Practices offers comprehensive coverage of a wide range of interviews, as well as the most thorough treatment of the basics of interviewing (including the complex interpersonal communication process, types and uses of questions, and the structuring of interviews from opening to closing). Relevant theory is carefully integrated as a foundation for the practical aspects of interviewing--for both the interviewer and the interviewee. The 11th edition continues to reflect the growing sophistication with which interviewing is being approached, the ever-expanding body of research on all types of interview settings, recent interpersonal communication theory, and the effect of equal opportunity laws on interviewing practices.

Table of Contents:

	An introduction to interviewing	1
	The essential elements of interviews	1
	A relational form of communication	4
	Electronic interviews	7
	An interpersonal communication process	15
	Two parties in the interview	15
	Interchanging roles during interviews	15
	Perceptions of interviewer and interviewee	18
	Communication interactions	20
	Feedback	29
	The interview situation	33
	Questions and their uses	47
	Open and closed questions	48
	Primary and secondary questions	51
	Neutral and leading questions	57
	Common question pitfalls	60
	Structuring the interview	69
	Opening the interview	69
	The body of the interview	76
	Closing the interview	84
	The probing interview	95
	Preparing the interview	95
	Selecting interviewees and interviewers	99
	Conducting the interview	102
	Preparing the report or story	113
	The interviewee in the probing interview	114
	The survey interview	125
	Purpose and research	125
	Structuring the interview	127
	Survey questions	129
	Selecting interviewees	138
	Selecting and training interviewers	141
	Conducting survey interviews	143
	Coding, tabulation, and analysis	145
	The respondent in survey interviews	147
	The recruiting interview	157
	Recruiting in a rapidly changing world	157
	Preparing the recruiting effort	159
	Obtaining and reviewing information on applicants	166
	Structuring the interview	170
	Conducting the interview	173
	Evaluating the interview	180
	The employment interview	191
	Where are the jobs?	192
	Analyzing yourself	192
	Doing your homework	194
	Conducting the search	199
	Preparing credentials	204
	Creating a favorable first impression	214
	Answering questions	217
	Asking questions	224
	The closing	227
	Evaluation and follow-up	227
	The performance interview	237
	New visions for new organizations	238
	Preparing for the performance interview	239
	Selecting an appropriate review model	243
	Conducting the performance review interview	251
	The employee in the performance review	255
	The performance problem interview	256
	The persuasive interview : the persuader	269
	Five interrelated conditions for persuasion	269
	The ethics of persuasion	270
	Analyzing the interviewee	271
	Studying the situation	274
	Researching the issue	275
	Planning the interview	276
	Structuring the interview	279
	Conducting the interview	285
	The persuasive interview : the persuadee	301
	Be a responsible participant	301
	Be an informed participant	303
	Be a critical participant	308
	Be an active participant	311
	The counseling interview	319
	Preparing for the counseling interview	319
	Structuring the interview	323
	Conducting the interview	327
	The health care interview	341
	Changing views on the health care interview	341
	Creating a collaborative relationship	343
	Opening the interview	347
	Getting information	349
	Giving information	353
	Counseling and persuading	357