The New Leaders or The Asian Financial Crisis

The New Leaders: Leadership Diversity in America

Author: Ann M Morrison

By the year 2000, white males will represent less than one third of the American workforce. In this universally praised work, Ann Morrison, co-author of Breaking The Glass Ceiling, becomes the first to offer companies practical strategies for moving tomorrow's new leaders -- white women and people of color -- into the executive ranks. Using personal interviews with nearly 200 managers in organizations noted for their model diversity programs, Morrison presents a very definite, step-by-step action plan that will prove invaluable to leaders looking to guide their businesses into the next century.

Library Journal

This book builds on Breaking the Glass Ceiling (Addison-Wesley, 1987), which Morrison coauthored, and addresses issues of concern to white women and people of color. It is based on a study involving 16 organizations (both profit and nonprofit) identified as role models in diversity in management. The book is organized in three parts. The first discusses organizational benefits of developing diversity. The next part presents a strategy designed to make upper-level management positions available to nontraditional managers. The last part suggests specific steps to design and implement a diversity plan. Effective coverage of an important topic for the future; recommended for practitioners and students of management.-- Grace Klinefelter, Ft. Lauderdale Coll., Fla.

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Intended primarily for organizational leaders, but useful also to employees who differ in gender and ethnicity from management and want insight on how to get ahead. Describes the benefits and challenges of actively seeking women and minorities for management track positions, and tells how to do it. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Contagion and Consequences

Author: David Vines

The first theoretical analysis of the Asian Financial Crisis--perhaps the single most important economic event of the 1990s--starts by presenting a factual and analytic overview of what happened. It goes on to consider why crisis turned into collapse, speculative attacks, and contagion and finishes with a round table discussion of policy issues. The distinguished contributors are from organizations including IMF, the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements. This is vital reading for policy professionals as well as researchers and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
	List of conference participants
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations and acronyms
	Introduction	1
1	The role of macroeconomic and financial sector linkages in East Asia's financial crisis	9
	Discussion
2	The Asian crisis: lessons from the collapse of financial systems, exchange rates and macroeconomic policy	67
Appendix	Thailand, a stylised chronology
	Discussion
3	Are capital inflows to developing countries a vote for or against economic policy reforms?	112
	Discussion
4	The Asian crisis: an overview of the empirical evidence and policy debate	127
	Appendix
	Discussion
5	Capital markets and the instability of open economies	167
Appendix 1	solving the model in the Leontief case
Appendix 2	why full financial liberalisation - unlike foreign direct investment - may destabilise an emerging market economy
	Discussion
6	Volatility and the welfare costs of financial market integration	195
	Discussion
7	A theory of the onset of currency attacks	230
	Discussion
8	Contagion: monsoonal effects, spillovers and jumps between multiple equilibria	265
	Discussion
9	Contagion and trade: why are currency crises regional?	284
	Appendix
	Discussion
10	Competition, complementarity and contagion in East Asia	312
	Appendix
	Discussion
11	Coping with crises: is there a 'silver bullet'?	357
12	Must financial crises be this frequent and this painful?	386
13	Round Table discussion	404
	Index	412

Managing Construction Equipment or Sold to the Highest Bidder

Managing Construction Equipment

Author: SW Nunnally

This book guides readers in planning, estimating, and directing construction equipment operations toward achieving the best possible result.

Every effort is made to present such advanced management techniques as quantitative management methods, queuing theory, and system simulation in a way that can be easily understood and used by those with little background in higher mathematics or operations research. Coverage features new chapters on compressed air and water systems, lifting equipment, and the production of aggregate, concrete, and asphalt mixes as well as expanded discussions of more traditional topics, including compaction equipment and techniques, construction safety and environmental health, loaders, pavement repair and rehabilitation, quantitative management methods, the rent-lease-buy decision, rock excavation production and cost, roller compacted concrete, the simulation of construction equipment operations, soil stabilization, and trenchers and trenchless technology.

For construction and construction equipment managers and engineers.

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Guides construction and construction equipment managers in planning, estimating, and directing equipment operations in a manner that will attain the best possible result. Based on Nunnally's many years of experience in construction, engineering, and education, the book presents such advanced techniques as quantitative management methods, queueing theory, and system simulation in a form that can be understood by those without a background in higher mathematics or operations research. In addition, it incorporates material that reflects current developments in the industry such as compressed air and water systems, lifting equipment, and the production of aggregate, concrete, and asphalt mixes. Includes many b&w photographs and illustrations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Sold to the Highest Bidder: The Presidency from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush

Author: Daniel M M Friedenberg

The growing disparity between rich and poor, the corrupting influence of money on politics, and the rise of mass media run by monied corporate interests virtually guarantee that elections - and the policies of the representatives selected by them - will favor the wealthy few over the poor and middle-class majority. Friedenberg offers real solutions to the problems facing the American election system, including a new focus on improved education for all to narrow the widening gap between rich and poor. He also explains how the vast technological resources unleashed by the computer revolution can be used to create a more equitable American future.

Publishers Weekly

In a no-holds-barred style, Friedenberg (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land) decries recent U.S. presidents as manipulators of "legislative capitalism": elected by those special-interest groups that give them the most money and, in turn, appointing to key administrative positions these same friends, often leaders of major industries, like defense contractors or scions of wealthy families, with many of the same names continually circulating in positions of high power. Devoting a chapter to each presidency, Friedenberg keeps a journalistic balance while making his opinions spotlessly clear. For example, while praising LBJ for enacting the 20th century's most progressive civil rights legislation, he also calls him "a discord of vulgar traits, a bawdy loud-mouth, liar, conniver, show-off, as sex obsessed as Jack Kennedy but with less style, and a peddler of federal benefits to others and even more to himself." And while Carter, to Friedenberg, "was no different than other recent presidents and would-be presidents in scratching to the top and paying off friends and patrons," he was also "one of the few twentieth century presidents who did not use the CIA and other government agencies to undermine foreign countries or involve us in foreign adventures." Unfortunately, his writing is uneven and sometimes digressively gossipy (e.g., on a particularly tacky component of Catherine Zeta-Jones's and Michael Douglas's wedding). Friedenberg postpones until near the end his best arguments against plutocracy and for democracy involving campaign finance reform, one six-year presidential term, disbanding the electoral college and providing for all children a better education, which he sees as the key tocontinued economic strength. Illus. (Nov.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Formulaic chest-beating, mixed with a bit of useful data, on the injustices attendant in a political machine wedded to wealth. America has no true liberal and conservative parties, former journalist Friedenberg argues, but "rather a froth of candidates put up by private interests," candidates who "circle close to that center set by those defending their economic power." Among them, in his estimation, were the likes of Dwight Eisenhower, whose cabinet comprised millionaires almost exclusively; the "war monger" Lyndon Johnson, who earned a considerable fortune through a string of questionable deals while serving on the Senate Commerce Committee; Jimmy Carter, beholden to Wall Street and, according to AFL-CIO head George Meany, "the most conservative president he'd seen in his lifetime"; and the sitting president, whose personal fortune amounts to more than $20 million and whose administration "will probably be a banal period little remembered in future years, unless of course there is a severe depression." (Strangely, Gerald Ford comes in for kinder treatment than most of his fellow presidents, if only, perhaps, because he earned his millions after leaving the White House.) Such men and their ilk have crafted a political system that is not really democratic, Friedenberg insists, but instead resembles the Venetian Republic, a superpower ruled by a hereditary aristocracy. He scores a few points here and there, in particular when he contrasts the number of congressmen's sons who died in the American Revolution (9) with those who died in Vietnam (0) and when he dissects Ronald Reagan's antifederal tirades in light of the millions he received from the government. Still, Friedenberg's argumentsare too broad to sway readers with any knowledge of US political history, and it hardly helps that he too often falls back on by-the-numbers rhetoric: he insists, for example, that Americans "are puzzled when crooks in high places can go free through payoffs while a young student who smokes a marijuana cigarette may sit in jail for years." Old arguments loudly expressed.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations	7
	Foreword	11
	Introduction	15
Ch. 1	Dwight David Eisenhower	21
Ch. 2	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	34
Ch. 3	Lyndon Baines Johnson	50
Ch. 4	Richard Milhous Nixon	66
Ch. 5	Gerald Rudolph Ford	86
Ch. 6	James Earl Carter, Jr.	96
Ch. 7	Ronald Wilson Reagan	110
Ch. 8	George Herbert Walker Bush	138
Ch. 9	William Jefferson Clinton	166
Ch. 10	George Walker Bush	204
Ch. 11	Democracy/Plutocracy	230
Ch. 12	Campaign Finance and Privilege	242
Ch. 13	Political Reforms	260
	The Electoral College	260
	Term Limits	268
	Primaries	271
	U.S. Senate and House Apportionment	273
	Conclusion	277
	Appendix	295
	Notes	299
	Index	333

Labour Market and Social Protection Reforms in International Perspective or First Aid in the Workplace

Labour Market and Social Protection Reforms in International Perspective: Parallel or Converging Tracks?

Author: Hedva Sarfati

Social protection systems and labour markets have undergone major changes since the 1970s. Welfare states are being reformed, scaled back and modernized; labour markets are more precarious, more feminized, in some countries more unequal, and throughout the OECD area, older. Understanding the interaction between the two systems is crucial to addressing the challenges of economic growth, social equity and sustainable safety nets.

This book presents the work of an interdisciplinary team of leading experts, labour economists, sociologists and political scientists, which examine the links between employment and social protection financing, the adaptation of social protection systems to women's career patterns and the development of social protection that promotes employment. Including selected case studies and comparative chapters it indicates successful outcomes in matching social protection reforms with labour market changes and the opportunities and risks that underpin them. With practical policy guides and recommendations, this will be engaging reading for policy-makers, social actors and academics alike.

Author Biography: Hedva Sarfati, International Social Security Association, Switzerland and Giuliano Bonoli, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Having noticed that social security experts and people involved with formulating and implementing labor protection policies were not talking to each other, the International Social Security Association took on the project of opening a dialogue. They provide insight and seek solutions to providing social protection as jobs degrade toward casualization, and social security programs are being altered to respond to globalization, aging populations, changing family structures, and the concentration of wealth in a few hands. Most of the contributors are social scientists in Europe, with some from the US and Oceana. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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First Aid in the Workplace

Author: Grant B Goold

Designed for people who have little or no background in first aid and CPR, this book provides coverage of every essential element required by OSHA's current guidelines. Grant Goold offers clear and concise information on how to properly provide basic first aid on a limited number of injuries and illnesses until professional help arrives. Universal first aid symbols trigger instant recall of skills and allow readers to focus on only the most important skills necessary. Real-life response scenarios offer readers the opportunity to check their recall of chapter material and prepare emergency action plans. The emergency action plan helps readers develop a pre-plan on how to react in similar situations. Includes new information on infants and children. Contains over 100 full color photos and illustrations. Anyone who needs to learn basic first aid skills.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Roles and Responsibilities of First Aid Responders.

PART 1: UNIVERSAL SYMBOLS TRAINING.

1. Scene Safety.

2. Body Substance Isolation.

3. Activation of the Emergency Medical Services System.

4. Initial Assessment.

5. Ongoing Assessment.

6. Airway Management: Basic Life Support and Artificial Ventilations.

7. Circulation and CPR.

8. Shock.

9. Soft-Tissue Injuries and Bleeding .

10. Muscle and Bone Injuries.

11. Spinal Precautions.

12. Oxygen Application.

Part 2: ILLNESS AND INJURY TREATMENT.

13. Eye Injuries.

14. Heat-Related Emergencies.

15. Cold-Related Emergencies.

16. Burns.

17. Breathing Emergencies.

18. Cardiac Emergencies: Chest Pain and Heart Attacks.

19. Chest and Head Injuries.

20. Abdominal Emergencies.

21. Stroke.

22. Diabetic Emergencies.

23. Poisoning and Overdose.

24. Seizures, Convulsions, and Altered Mental Status.

25. Allergic Reactions.

Glossary.

Index.

Live Direct and Biased or Corporate Governance

Live, Direct and Biased?: Making Television News in the Satellite Age

Author: Brent MacGregor

Former news producer and director Brent MacGregor takes a hard look at the changes that TV news has undergone, including an accelerated cycle, increased use of technology, and greater focus on the bottom line. MacGregor shows how the news media make decisions on a daily basis that may leave the public not as informed as it thinks. 256 pp.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	More news, less understanding?	23
2	Theories of news production, from 'Mr Gates' to market-driven journalism	44
3	Rhetoric and reality in 24-hour news	85
4	The history of television news and its institutions	110
5	International television coverage of the bombing of the Baghdad 'bunker'	147
6	The technology of newsgathering and production	174
7	Multiskilling or deskilling? Visions of the future and realities of today	202
	References and further reading	217
	Sources	227
	Index	229

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Corporate Governance: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Author: Xavier Vives

Corporate governance is an active area of research and public debate. The recent generalization of "shareholder value" ideas and institutional investment, the establishment of codes of best practice for boards of directors, and the controversy about whether market oriented or bank/relations oriented systems are better for economic performance provide cogent examples. The volume takes stock of the most recent research in the topic.

Contributors:
Xavier Vives, Franklin Allen, Douglas Gale, Jorge Padilla, Monika Schnitzer, Martin Hellwig, Andrei Shleifer, Wendy Carlin, Colin Mayer, Marco Beteh, Vicenç Salas, Masahiko Aoki, M. Angel García-Cestona, Raghuram Rajan, Luigi Zingales, Carmen Matutes, Joan Enric Ricart

National Purpose in the World Economy or Marketing for CPAs Accountants and Tax Professionals

National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective

Author: Rawi Abdelal

Abdelal combines considerable theoretical sophistication with extraordinary in-depth empirical grounding.... In this outstanding book, Abdelal makes a major contribution to the fields of post-Soviet studies and international political economy. —2002 Marshall Shulman Book Prize citation

How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theoretical framework, a distinctively Nationalist perspective on international political economy, to answer this question. Using this framework, and drawing on field research in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus, he provides an in-depth look at the link between national identity and the economic policies of the new states formed by the breakup of the Soviet Union.

All these states, from the Baltic coast to central Asia, were economically dependent on Russia during the 1990s. However, they reacted very differently to that dependence, and their reactions can be traced, Abdelal contends, to their individual societies. Some, such as Belarus, found dependence inevitable and sought economic reintegration with Russia. Others, like Lithuania, interpreted dependence as a large-scale security threat and reoriented their economies away from Russia. A third group, typified by Ukraine, demonstrated no coherent economic policy at all regarding dependence.

Abdelal distinguishes the Nationalist tradition in international political economy from the Realist tradition, and shows that economic nationalism is different than mercantilism. He demonstrates the ways that national identity affects economic policy and explainswhy some governments seek economic autonomy while others prefer regional reintegration. He then applies his approach to other cases of economic reorganization after the end of empire—eastern Europe in the 1920s after the Habsburgs, 1950s Indonesia, and French West Africa in the 1960s.

Choice

The work is based on a wide range of English-language literature and on interviews for case study chapters on Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. . . . The theoretical framework and analytical tools in this volume will interest political scientists more than economists. No other recent books have a similar scope and methodology.

Foreign Affairs

Abdelal provides . . . a subtle and lucid discussion of contending theories (realism, liberalism, and institutionalism on the one side, national identity on the other). . . . He ends by skillfully comparing his three core examples with other end-of-empire episodes in nineteenth-century Europe and postwar Asia and Africa.

Perspectives on Politics - Juliet Johnson

Abdelal's nationalist perspective gives an exciting and important new twist to constructivist theory that deserves to be further explored and expanded. I highly recommend it to international relations scholars, comparativists, and policymakers alike.

New Political Economy - Mark Blyth

An excellent example of [bringing] constructivist theory more fully into political economy.

Business Horizons

A novel theoretical framework examines the link between national identity and the economic policies of the new states formed by the breakup of the USSR.

Slavic Review - Randall W. Stone

This is a challenging and informative book. It makes a strong case for paying attention to national identity when we try to explain the foreign economic policies of new nation-states.

What People Are Saying

Alexander Cooley
In addition to producing the most compelling available account of the origins of the post-Soviet states' foreign economic policies, Abdelal rescues the study of national identity from realism, develops a coherent and falsifiable constructivist theory of international political economy, and advances our understanding of the dynamics of postimperial spaces. . . . National Purpose in the World Economy is one of the most original and important contributions to the study of international political economy in the last decade. It is theoretically compelling, conceptually elegant, and empirically sound. It should be widely read and debated by anyone interested in international political economy, post-Soviet political economy, imperial governance and dissolution, as well as international relations theory. (Alexander Cooley, Political Science Quarterly, Winter 2002-03)

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Marketing for CPAs, Accountants, and Tax Professionals

Author: William J Winston

The contributing authors to Marketing for CPAs, Accountants, and Tax Professionals combine their expertise into a reference manual for today’s accountant. Presented in four sections, the book covers all areas pertinent to effective marketing for accounting firms in the 90s and beyond: The Marketing Process

• Are Accountants Responding to the Challenge of Change?
• Marketing by CPA Firms: Room for Improvement?
• Has the Household User Profile for Accounting Services Changed?
• The Small Accounting Firm: Managing the Dynamics of the Marketing Function

Perspectives on Marketing

• Professional Tax Service Marketing From a Consumer Buyer Behavior Perspective
• Price of Tax Preparation Services and the CPA Credential on Perceived Quality of Service
• Marketing Implications for Small CPA Firms Based on Clients’ Criteria for Selection and Retention

Advertising

• Advertising by Accountants: Attitudes, Practice, and Their Use of Marketing Tools
• A Survey of the Utilization of Advertising by CPA Firms
• The Changing Face of Accounting Advertising

Marketing Tools and Strategies

• Marketing Financial Planning Services: Highlights of a Survey of CPAs
• Strategic Marketing Planning for the Development of the Small Accounting Practice
• A Complete Positioning Strategy for the Professional Services Firm
• Practical Approaches for Evaluating the Quality of Professional Accounting Services
• An Empirical Investigation of the Pricing of Professional Services (Applied to Public Accounting)

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A reference manual for accountants, with sections on the marketing process, perspectives on marketing, advertising, and marketing tools and strategies. Topics include the small accounting firm, tax service marketing, effects of the price of services on the perception of quality, deceptive advertising, and the changing role of the CPA. Includes section introductions and an overview. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction and Overview	1
Ch. 1	Marketing: Are Accountants Responding to the Challenge of Change?	11
Ch. 2	The Service Marketing Planning Process: A Case for Accounting Firms and Banks	23
Ch. 3	Marketing by Professionals as Applied to CPA Firms: Room for Improvement?	37
Ch. 4	Marketing Priorities and Practice Within the Accounting Profession: Does Formalization Make a Difference?	51
Ch. 5	Has the Household User Profile for Accounting Services Changed with the Changing U.S. Environment During the Eighties?	73
Ch. 6	The Small Accounting Firm: Managing the Dynamics of the Marketing Function	85
Ch. 7	Priorities and Perceptions from the Client Point of View: Opportunities for Effective Marketing of an Accounting Practice	97
Ch. 8	Different Perspectives on the Marketing of Accounting Services	113
Ch. 9	Professional Tax Service Marketing from a Consumer Buyer Behavior Perspective	125
Ch. 10	Effects of the Price of Tax Preparation Services and the CPA Credential on the Perception of Service Quality	137
Ch. 11	Comparing Accountants' Perceptions Toward Marketing and Advertising in Hong Kong and Malaysia: A Preliminary Study	151
Ch. 12	Clients' Selection and Retention Criteria: Some Marketing Implications for the Small CPA Firm	167
Ch. 13	Accountants' Attitudes Toward Advertising and Their Use of Marketing Tools	181
Ch. 14	A Survey of the Utilization of Advertising by CPA Firms	195
Ch. 15	False, Misleading, or Deceptive Advertising by CPA Firms: Opinion of Practicing Accountants	211
Ch. 16	Advertising by Accountants: Attitudes and Practice	217
Ch. 17	The Changing Face of Accounting Advertising	233
Ch. 18	Attitudes Toward the Advertising by Lawyers, Doctors, and CPAs	249
Ch. 19	Strategic Marketing Planning for the Development of the Small Accounting Practice	263
Ch. 20	The Use of Marketing Plans and Advertising Among Accounting Firms: Is This Profession a Viable Candidate for Marketing?	275
Ch. 21	Consumer-Oriented Financial Statements: The Changing Role of the CPA	285
Ch. 22	Six Ps for Four Characteristics: A Complete Positioning Strategy for the Professional Services Firm (CPA Firm Example)	295
Ch. 23	Marketing of Professional Services as Applied to Tax Professionals: Representation of the Client, Public, or Profession?	313
Ch. 24	Practical Approaches for Evaluating the Quality Dimensions of Professional Accounting Services	325
Ch. 25	An Empirical Investigation of the Pricing of Professional Services (As Applied to Public Accounting)	339
Ch. 26	Persuasion Timing and Content in Public Accounting Practice	351
Ch. 27	Marketing Financial Planning Services: Highlights of a Survey of CPAs	361
	Index	369

Policy Politics and Gender or The Perpetual Enterprise Machine

Policy, Politics and Gender: Women Gaining Ground

Author: Kathleen Staudt

• Covers NGO, government agency, and international agency policies

• Addresses key policy areas, such as education and work, through gender analysis

Policy, Politics & Gender identifies and develops the connections between women’s politics and public policies and practices. Staudt focuses on political activism, underscoring strategies that have influenced great change in policies. By examining the realities of social change from all perspectives, we are reminded that every institution is a source of and site for struggle.

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The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: Seven Keys to Corporate Renewal Through Successful Product and Process Development

Author: H Kent Boeen

U.S. manufacturing is today in a critical period. As a consequence of new global competitors, changes in technologies, and significant shifts in national priorities, our manufacturing base has shrunk alarmingly and thousands of manufacturing jobs have been lost. To address this problem, a unique team was formed called the Manufacturing Vision Group, which included members from five major companies (Chaparral Steel, DEC, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, and Eastman Kodak) and four major universities (Harvard, MIT, Purdue, and Stanford). In The Perpetual Enterprise Machine, this group argues that the development project is the vehicle to change a firm's products, processes, and capabilities in order to compete successfully in today's dynamic business environment. The manufacturer that can execute successful projects - leading to new products and processes - will be the one that prospers in the years ahead. Projects become the mechanism for growth and learning for successful firms. The Perpetual Enterprise Machine outlines seven critical elements that outstanding development projects have in common, principles that can be powerful engines of success for the manufacturer facing the challenges of today's fiercely competitive environment. Successful firms recognize and nurture their core capabilities, which are uniquely defined by their hardware, software, and humanware systems and which are crucial to the success of projects. A guiding vision, shared by all members of the cross-functional teams has three levels of specificity. They push the performance envelope, using the immediate project goals to also push the company's capabilities along other dimensions (such as process technology). They have leadership, someone who can navigate uncertain terrain, who sees the project's essential elements from beginning to end, creating integrity in the project and its outcome. They instill the team with a sense of ownership and commitment, linking their personal success, st

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"The Perpetual Enterprise Machine" is about the principles that drive outstanding development of new products and processes. The authors (from Harvard, MIT, Purdue, and Stanford) primarily draw from five companies (Chaparral Steel, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, and Eastman Kodak) as they discuss product development across a wide range of industries. Of the volume's 14 chapters, the seven principles get one each, as do the five companies. The book outlines seven critical elements that can bring success in today's fiercely competitive world environment: illustrating how "core capabilities" across business functions can bring people together; explaining the necessity of a "guiding vision"; striving to "push the performance envelope" to cope with the rapidly changing competitive environment; stressing the importance of "leadership"; instilling the team concept with a sense of "ownership and commitment"; using "prototyping" to enhance learning and reduce mistakes; and "integrating within projects" to strive for systemwide solutions. The authors use their extensive scholarly and consulting experiences to blend theory and practice; their book is highly recommended for academics and practicing managers.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: The Manufacturing Vision Group	3
	Appendix: Project Summaries	7
1	The Manufacturer's Perpetual Enterprise Machine	13
2	Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities	26
3	Guiding Visions	57
4	Pushing the Performance Envelope	88
5	Project Leadership and Organization	125
6	Ownership and Commitment	165
7	Prototyping: Rapid Learning and Early Testing	202
8	Integration Within Projects	229
9	An Opportunity for Leadership in Learning	264
10	Chaparral Steel Company	293
11	Digital Equipment Corporation	315
12	Eastman Kodak Company	349
13	Ford Motor Company	372
14	Hewlett-Packard Company	393
	Notes	427
	Index	433

Entrepreneurship Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and the Macroeconomy or Whos Running America The Clinton Years

Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, and the Macroeconomy

Author: Zoltan J J Acs

Why has the United States economy successfully moved beyond its chief competitors? This collection suggests that at least some of the answers to the pattern of divergent development can be found in the role of the entrepreneur. By examining the process that new firms and entrepreneurs play in the economy, the essays in this volume make a fundamental contribution to our understanding of the macroeconomy. The public policy implications of this process are clear. Countries that encourage entrepreneurship and free entry will have better macroeconomic performance than those that retard it.

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Who's Running America? The Clinton Years

Author: Thomas R Dy

Arguing that the power in America is concentrated in large institutions, this book studies the people at the top of these institutions, who they are, how much power they wield, and how they came to power. KEY TOPICS: This volume chronicles the changes in leadership in Washington accompanying the first Democratic administration in 12 years. It describes how changes in technology, especially in the mass media, have inspired challenges to established elites.

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First published in 1976 with new editions appearing every few years with succeeding presidencies. Dye describes the changes in leadership accompanying the arrival of Clinton's administration and assesses recent developments in corporate governance in America. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. I	Power in American Society
1	Elitism in a Democracy	1
Pt. II	Institutional Leadership in America
2	The Corporate Directors	14
3	The Governing Circles	57
4	The Newsmakers	108
5	The Civic Establishment	127
Pt. III	The Structure of Institutional Elites
6	Interlocking and Specialization at the Top	150
7	Elite Recruitment: Getting to the Top	168
8	Conflict and Consensus among Institutional Leaders	195
9	How Institutional Leaders Make Public Policy	219
10	Institutional Elites in America	240
	Index

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Control Self-Assessment: Concepts and Applications

Author: Dani Saad El Din

Prepare for the Certification in Control Self-Assessment (CCSA)exam with CONTROL SELF-ASSESSMENT; CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS. this practical manual is an authoritative reference for professionals or companies implementing - or planning to implement - control self-assessment. You'll benefit from the theory review, relevant practices and real-life applications.

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NonProfit Resources: A Companion to NonProfit Governance

Author: Victor Futter

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Essential Readings in Nursing Managed Care or Business Computer Applications for Reinforcement

Essential Readings in Nursing Managed Care

Author: Susan Odegaard Turner

This collection of readings is the companion to The Nurse's Guide to Managed Care, which is a text designed to provide a broad overview of the managed health care system as it relates to nursing. Articles were selected for this collection to present a point of view not found in the text, to present more depth to a subject, or to provoke discussion. The readings parallel the chapters in the text. You'll find 40 insightful and thought-provoking articles that will help to facilitate an understanding of the concepts in The Nurse's Guide to Managed Care and draw out discussions of issues ranging from patient care quality to nursing ethics to integrity.

Michelle M.O. Boylan

This collection of readings augments key concepts of managed care that might be covered in an academic setting. The text utilizes common examples and is complemented with tables and illustrations. This collection provides the audience with an overview of the complexities found in a managed care environment. This text meets the editor's objectives. Nurses in the managed care industry are targeted, but this book could be easily read by other allied health professionals practicing in managed care. It can also be utilized in academic settings for healthcare providers, administrators, and business students. I believe it could also benefit anyone interested in managed care. The editor opted to include both text and illustrations. The preface is clear and easily understood. The reader is readily engaged through the use of stimulating facts and examples that members of the healthcare team can identify with or have experienced themselves. The table of contents provides a nice overview of the topics discussed in the readings and groups the readings by subject, allowing easy access to a particular reading. Illustrations allow the audience to visualize the concepts presented in the readings. A glossary of terms and definitions is not included, which forces readers to search for definitions to key terms that are utilized. This text is a wonderful addition to the literature that is available as it provides a very operational and practical overview to managed care. I believe it would be a welcome addition to any professional library or academic program. The readings are enjoyable and do not require intense concentration to understand the main concept. The fact that the editor has taken manytopics and put them together in one book is an added plus.

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Reviewer: Michelle M.O. Boylan, RN, MA (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center)
Description: This collection of readings augments key concepts of managed care that might be covered in an academic setting. The text utilizes common examples and is complemented with tables and illustrations.
Purpose: This collection provides the audience with an overview of the complexities found in a managed care environment. This text meets the editor's objectives.
Audience: Nurses in the managed care industry are targeted, but this book could be easily read by other allied health professionals practicing in managed care. It can also be utilized in academic settings for healthcare providers, administrators, and business students. I believe it could also benefit anyone interested in managed care.
Features: The editor opted to include both text and illustrations. The preface is clear and easily understood. The reader is readily engaged through the use of stimulating facts and examples that members of the healthcare team can identify with or have experienced themselves. The table of contents provides a nice overview of the topics discussed in the readings and groups the readings by subject, allowing easy access to a particular reading. Illustrations allow the audience to visualize the concepts presented in the readings. A glossary of terms and definitions is not included, which forces readers to search for definitions to key terms that are utilized.
Assessment: This text is a wonderful addition to the literature that is available as it provides a very operational and practical overview to managed care. I believe it would be a welcome addition to any professional library or academic program. The readings are enjoyable and do not require intense concentration to understand the main concept. The fact that the editor has taken many topics and put them together in one book is an added plus.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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Business Computer Applications for Reinforcement

Author: Wynema Anderson

This book provides exercises for word processing, database, spreadsheet, presentation graphics, and integrated software in a non-software specific format. It is appropriate for use with a Macintosh or Windows Operating System. There are numerous hands-on activities—approximately 400—that move from simple to complex to help reinforce learning. The exercises at the end of each lesson test the user's critical thinking skills.

Table of Contents:

UNIT 1- WORD PROCESSING AND DESKTOP PUBLISHING: 1 Basic Formatting and Editing. 2 Document Formatting. 3 Format Columns and Tables. 4 Advanced Document Formatting. 5 Enhance a Document. UNIT 2- SPREADSHEET: 6 Create, Format, Edit, and Print a Spreadsheet. 7 Delete Columns and Rows and Use Formulas. 8 Use Windows and Macros. 9 Create Charts. 10 Create and Use Database and Other Miscellaneous Functions. UNIT 3- DATABASE: 11 Create, Save, and Print a Database. 12 Edit and Manipulate a Database. 13 Extract and Report Databases. UNIT 4- PRESENTATION GRAPHICS: 14 Create, Edit, Format, and Print a Presentation.
15 Create Presentations Using Automatic Slide Layouts. 16 Presentation Options. UNIT 5- INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES: 17 Integrated Activities. UNIT 6- SIMULATION:
18 Simulation. Reference Guide.

Defining Visions or The Changing Geography of Africa and the Middle East

Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience since 1945

Author: Mary Ann Watson

Founded on the key concept that television has not only covered history but altered its course, DEFINING VISIONS explores the connection between television and American culture. Organized thematically, each chapter stands alone and makes an important historical point. Taken together, these chapters offer a sweeping account of recent American history. An ideal opportunity to examine how television has shaped the world, this text provokes students to reflect critically upon the programming they watch.

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The Changing Geography of Africa and the Middle East

Author: Graham P P Chapman

Clearly illustrated with basic maps, these books present a systematic review of twenty-five years of development, covering the physical, economic, social and political environments of contemporary Africa, the Middle East and Asia

Table of Contents:

	Figures
	Tables
	Contributors
	Preface
	Acknowledgement
1	Introduction - Independence: Promise at the New Dawning	1
2	The Changing Geography of Southern Africa	12
3	The Changing Geography of Central Africa	52
4	The Changing Geography of West Africa	80
5	The Changing Geography of Eastern Africa	114
6	The Changing Geography of North Africa: Development, Migration and the Demographic Time Bomb	139
7	The Changing Geography of the Lower Nile: Egypt and Sudan as Riparian States	165
8	The Troubled Arab Middle East	191
9	The Non-Arab Middle East: Iran, Turkey and Israel	213
10	Conclusions: A Growing Sense of Urgency	236
	Index	243

Reinventing the WorkPlace or Camembert

Reinventing the WorkPlace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win

Author: David I Levin

What is the future shape of the American workplace? This question is the focus of a national debate as the country strives to find a system that provides a good standard of living for workers while allowing U.S. businesses to succeed at home and compete abroad. In this book, David Levine uses case studies and extensive evidence to show that greater employee involvement in the workplace can significantly increase both productivity and worker satisfaction. Employee involvement has many labels, including high-performance workplaces, continuous improvement, or total quality management. The strongest underlying theme is that frontline employees who are actually performing the work will always have insights about how to improve their tasks. Employee involvement encompasses policies that, at the minimal end, permit workers to suggest improvement, and at the substantive end, create an integrated strategy to give all employees the ability, motivation, and authority to constantly improve the organization's operations. Despite the evidence of its benefits, substantive employee involvement remains the exception in the U.S. work force. Levine explores the obstacles to its spread, which include legal barriers, capital markets that discourage investment in people, organizational inertia, and the costs of implementation. Levine concludes with specific public policy recommendations for increasing the extent of employee involvement, including changes in government regulation of capital and labor markets to encourage long-term investment and labor-management cooperation. He recommends macroeconomic policies to sustain high employment, less regulation for high-involvement workplaces, and training in schools and on the job to teach high-involvement practices. He also suggests new roles for unions and provides a checklist for employers to assess their progress in implementing employee involvement.

Library Journal

Levine, a member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that reengineering through greater employee involvement will significantly improve productivity and employee satisfaction. He presents his evidence through a case study of the New United Motor Manufacturing plant, a GM-Toyota venture. Once an old GM plant with problems of low quality, poor labor relations, and high absenteeism, the new factory is now at the top of U.S. plants in terms of quality and low absenteeism and has improved productivity by about 40 percent even though it employs the same workers. Levine covers methods of creating and fostering employee involvement, explores why U.S. companies ignore evidence of the benefits of this involvement, and explains how public policy discourages these actions. This highly practical guide will be of interest to managers and human resources personnel.Gary W. White, Pennsylvania State Univ., Harrisburg

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Increasing worker participation will not instantly dissipate the traditional antagonism between workers and bosses, says economist Levine, but can provide a framework for creating more rewarding jobs and increasing company productivity and profitability. He points to the US economic and political system as a main obstacle to such changes, and recommends reforming laws against employee investment, and financial and macroeconomic policies that penalize companies for long-term investment in their workforce. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Camembert: A National Myth

Author: Pierre Boisard

Camembert--delectably fragrant, creamy-centered, neatly boxed--is the most popular and most famous French cheese. Originally made by hand in the Norman countryside, it is now mass-produced internationally, yet Camembert remains a national symbol for France, emblematic of its cultural identity. In this witty and entertaining book, Pierre Boisard investigates the history of Camembert and its legend. He considers the transformation of France's cheese-making industry and along the way gives a highly selective, yet richly detailed history of France--from the Revolution to the European Union. Camembert: A National Myth weaves together culinary and social history in a fascinating tale about the changing nature of food with implications for every modern consumer.
As the legend goes, by coincidence, grand design, or clever marketing, the birth of Camembert corresponds almost exactly in time with the birth of the French republic. In this book, republicans and Bonapartists, revolutionaries and priests are reconciled over the contents of a little round box, originating a great myth and a great nation. The story of the cheese's growing fame features Napoleon, Louis Pasteur, the soldiers of the First World War, and many others.
Beneath this intriguing story, however, runs a grittier tale about the history of food production. We learn, for example, how Camembert became white--a topic that becomes a metaphor for the sanitation of the countryside--and how Americans discovered the secrets of its production. As he describes the transformation of the Camembert industry and the changing quality of the cheese itself, Boisard reveals what we stand to lose from industrialization, the hallmark ofthe past century.
Today, small producers of raw-milk, ladle-molded Camembert are fighting to keep their tradition alive. Boisard brings us to a new appreciation of the sensual appeal of a lovely cheese and whets the appetite for a taste of the authentic product.

Library Journal

Boisard, a social sciences professor at the Centre d'Etudes de l'emploi in Noisy-le-Grand, France, has written a book ostensibly about a cheese: Camembert. The text accordingly discusses its production, from gathering the milk to aging the cheese. A brief chapter further discusses the sensual aspects of Camembert-its taste, aroma, and softness. Boisard's real topic, however, is what the growing ubiquity of the cheese in contemporary France tells us about French society. This renders his book both a little dry and speculative. Boisard is not above shaky generalizations based on his observations, and though he notes archival records and interviews with elderly cheesemakers, he occasionally forces the story of the cheese to fit the cultural history of a nation. Non-French readers may more readily associate Brie with Gaul, and had Boisard somehow accommodated such a foreign view of his topic, he might have written a more interesting book that would have appealed to a broader readership. Suitable only for academic food and French studies collections.-Peter Hepburn, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Lib. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Preface. Opening the Box
1	A Myth Is Born	1
2	Marie Harel and Her Descendants	25
3	Camembert Goes National	69
4	The Reign of the Great Families	116
5	The War of the Two Camemberts	160
6	The Image of Camembert	196
7	Permanence of the Myth	221
	Notes	227
	Index	241

Accounting or Entrepreneurship and Productivity

Accounting, Vol. 13

Author: Charles T Horngren

The Demo Docs System of instruction replicates the classroom experience by providing more “I get it” moments outside of class.We’ve talked to tons of POA instructors and our editors have even taken the accounting course (numerous times!) to figure out the following issue in this course that is consistent:  Students understand (or “get it”) right after you do a problem in class, but as soon as they leave class, with each passing hour, their ability to do the problems again and complete their homework diminishes to the point of them either having to come to office hours to get help, or they just quit and get behind in the course.  On top of this, you can end up getting behind in the course as well, in order to keep everyone on track.  The Demo Docs system helps to recreate the “I get it” moments outside of class–keeping both you and the students on track.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	The Basic Structure of Accounting	1
Pt. 2	Accounting for Assets and Liabilities	279
Pt. 3	Accounting for Partnerships and Corporate Transactions	519
Pt. 4	Analysis of Accounting Information	727
Pt. 5	Management Accounting and Product Costing	839
Pt. 6	Internal Decision Making, Planning, and Control	915
Pt. 7	Strategy and Long-Term Decision Making	1055
	Appendixes
	Glossary
	Indexes

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Entrepreneurship and Productivity

Author: Edward E Williams

Contents: " Productivity and Production; The Economics of Aggregate Production; Economic Growth and Enhanced Production; Production at the Enterprise Level: The Entrepreneurial Firm; Preparing a Business Plan; The Business Plan Document; Enterprise Growth; An Introduction to Forecasting; Empirical Time Series Modelling; The Deming Paradigm for System Optimization; Control Charting: Some Case Studies; Index."

Booknews

Examines issues affecting entrepreneurship and productivity, looking at factors contributing to enhanced productivity, the future of US and world growth rates, and the role of entrepreneurship and quality in productivity and production decisions. Includes chapter problems. Useful as a text for undergraduate and graduate students of business administration, economics, and engineering, in courses emphasizing production and productivity. Material is accessible to students without previous courses in economics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Full Leadership Development or Essentials of Strategic Management

Full Leadership Development: Building the Vital Forces in Organizations

Author: Bruce J Avolio

"I found this book a real treat. It has the rare quality of being both profound and light at the same time. . . . It has the potential for appealing to a large audience, including managers, consultants, trainers, students, and researchers. For some of them, it will make a real difference in their life and work. Few books do." -- Boas Shamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem People interested in developing their own leadership potential, or the leadership potential of those around them, will find a wealth of knowledge in Full Leadership Development. The author approaches the concept of leadership as a system, not only as a process or a person. His framework is based on what he defines as the full range of leadership: people, timing, resources, the context of interaction, and the expected results in performance and motivation. He contends that when a leadership system is optimized, it in turn optimizes the vital force of each individual, thereby enhancing the collective force of the entire organization. The quality of the relationships among the leaders, their peers, and followers is a source of enrichment for all involved. Bruce J. Avolio models his theory for leadership through his writing style. The author pulls together his experiences and perspectives from all aspects of his life, providing a rich foundation for his theories. He uses personal examples, anecdotes, and cases to communicate his range of experience as a consultant, trainer, and researcher, as well as a traveler, spouse, and parent. The result is a conversational and accessible book that engages the reader with its interactive style.

Booknews

Avolio integrates his experience as a consultant, trainer, and researcher with aspects of his personal life, anecdotes, and case studies to develop a theory of leadership. He sees leadership not as a process or person, but a whole system that includes people, timing, resources, the context of interaction, and the expected results in performance and motivation. Paper edition (unseen) $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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Essentials of Strategic Management

Author: Thomas L Wheelen

This brief book offers a short, concise explanation of the most important concepts and techniques in Strategic Management. While based on rigorous research studies, the citations and footnotes are minimal. Essentials of Strategic Management is suitable for use in corporate and executive training programs.

Offers a sound introduction to strategic management, focusing on the basic concepts and their applications to the management field. Topics include environmental scanning and industry analysis, strategy formulation: corporate strategy, strategy implementation: organizing for action, among others.

For professionals in fields of strategic planning and competitive strategy.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Basic Concepts of Strategic Management	1
Ch. 2	Strategic Decision Markers and Social Responsibility	18
Ch. 3	Environmental Scanning and Industry Analysis	34
Ch. 4	Internal Scanning: Organizational Analysis	57
Ch. 5	Strategy Formulation: Situation Analysis and Corporate Strategy	76
Ch. 6	Strategy Formulation: Business and Functional Strategy	100
Ch. 7	Strategy Implementation: Organizing for Action	123
Ch. 8	Strategy Implementation: Staffing and Directing	144
Ch. 9	Evaluation and Control	160
Ch. 10	Suggestions for Case Analysis	178
App. 10.A	Suggested Techniques for Case Analysis and Presentation	187
App. 10.B	Resources for Case Library Research	190
App. 10.C	Strategic Audit of a Corporation	192
	Notes	201
	Index	207

Human Resource Development or Footloose Labour

Human Resource Development

Author: Randy L Desimon

Human Resource Development was written primarily to serve as a comprehensive text for undergraduate and graduate courses that prepare students to train and develop people. As such, the book covers the entire field of HRD (as defined by the American Society for Training and Development's competency study), from orientation and skills training, to career development and organizational development. Human Resource Development provides a clear understanding of the concepts, processes, and practices that form the basis of success, and shows how concepts and theory can and have been put into practice in a variety of organizations. The book focuses on the shared role of line management and human resource specialists in HRD. It also reflects the current state of the field, blending real-world practices and up-to-date research.

Booknews

Intended for use in undergraduate and graduate course in business, management, and administration, this textbook introduces HRD, covering everything from orientation and skills training to career development and organizational development. It outlines the concepts, processes, and practices that form the foundation of HRD, and describes how these have been applied by a variety of organizations. The role of line management and human resource specialists are emphasized. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Human Resource Development
2.Influences on Employee Behavior
3.Learning and HRD
4.Assessment of HRD Needs
5.Designing Effective HRD Programs
6.Implementing HRD Programs
7.Evaluating HRD Programs
8.Employee Orientation
9.Skills and Technical Training
10.Performance Management and Coaching
11.Employee Counseling Services
12.Career Management and Development
13.Management Development
14.Organization Development and Change
15.HRD in a Culturally Diverse Environment.

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Footloose Labour: Working in India's Informal Economy

Author: Jan Breman

In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labor market, depend on casual work. By considering two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilization of casual labor, demonstrating that this is characteristic of an employment pattern that dominates the rural and urban economy of large parts of South Asia. Elaborating on the social profile of the work migrants, the author shows that little has been done to improve their quality of life, which is defined by caste and class relations.

The Internet Security Guidebook or Home Health Financial Management

The Internet Security Guidebook: From Planning to Deployment

Author: Juanita Ellis

This book will help the CEO, the CIO, information technology managers, and business persons with an interest in the architecture, design, and configuration of a secure computing environment.
This book discusses and reviews the strategies, steps, and procedures necessary to conduct business securely on the Internet.
The Internet Security Guidebook: From Planning to Deployment provides an analysis of an enterprise's complete Internet security. Very few organizations take the needed precautions to protect their Internet-facing enterprises. Protection for the Internet-facing enterprise is not just a firewall; it is a strategy that encompasses risk, trust, business goals, security processes, and technology. The holistic approach, offered in this book, evaluates the security needs in relation to the business goals and the current attacks on our Internet. Specific steps that show the reader how to implement security from the individual process to the complete corporate enterprise are discussed and illustrated.


From the Foreword by William P. Crowell, President and CEO of Cylink Corporation and former Deputy Directory of the NSA:
This book is aimed at providing the reader, in plain English, an understanding of the business risks, the threats, the tools for dealing with the threats, and the processes needed to build more secure systems and continually improve them. The authors understand that the primary objective for the business users of security products is to build businesses that work and make money, not to build fortresses that no one can enter. They emphasize the practical and pragmatic approaches to securing e-business.

Book News

A practical guide with well presented explanations of both the technical and human sides of a particular aspect of computer security.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Copyright Notices and Statements
	Introduction: Who Is Knocking at the Door?	1
Ch. 1	Let's Do Business	7
Ch. 2	Security Review	19
Ch. 3	Cryptography	43
Ch. 4	Secure Networks	65
Ch. 5	Protecting Your Intranet from the Extranet and Internet	95
Ch. 6	Authentication	121
Ch. 7	E-Commerce - Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)	139
Ch. 8	Messaging Security	165
Ch. 9	What Are We Doing Here?	199
Ch. 10	Let's Make the Plans	219
Ch. 11	We Have Been Hacked! Oh, the Humanity!	245
Ch. 12	The Total Package Specific Steps	255
App. 1	Security Tools	269
App. 2	The CERT Report	277
	Glossary	305
	References	313
	Index	317

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Home Health Financial Management

Author: Tad McKeon

Home Health Financial Management is the only comprehensive financial resource written specifically for home health providers. In six parts, each containing three chapters, it addresses the full range of financial issues that confront home health providers. Diagrams, charts, forms, and a glossary of relevant terms make it understandable and useful.

Booknews

Intended for both financial and nonfinancial managers, this text covers six primary areas the author deems necessary for managers to incorporate into their decision-making processes: financial reporting, prospective and retrospective payment systems, cost accounting, management accounting, financial management, and strategic management. The author, a business and finance consultant, stresses the importance of teamwork in working toward an outcome management system that honors clients and coworkers, promotes innovation, and balances clinical and financial organizational requirements. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Software for Your Head or Essentials of Management

Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision

Author: Jim McCarthy

At least once in their lives, most people experience the incomparable thrill of being part of a great team effort. Members of successful teams often feel a unity of purpose, powerful passion and inspiration, and a strong sense of accomplishment. People who have been on a great team know that the difference between being on a team with a shared vision and being on a team without one is the difference between joy and misery.

After successful careers leading software development teams at Microsoft and elsewhere, Jim and Michele McCarthy set out to discover a set of repeatable group behaviors that would always lead to a state of shared vision for any team. They hoped to design a practical, communicable, and reliable process that could be used to create the best possible team every time it was applied.

In 1996, Jim and Michele McCarthy established a hands-on laboratory for the study and teaching of high-performance teamwork, and in a controlled-simulation environment challenged dozens of real-world, high-tech teams to produce and deliver a product. The teams were given a product development assignment and instructed to envision the product, agree on how to make it, and then design, build, and ship it on time. Repeating these simulations time after time, with new teams building on the learning of previous teams, core practices emerged that were repeatedly successful. These were encoded as the patterns and protocols that became the "Software for Your Head" included in this book.

Software for Your Head is the first publication of the most significant results of the authors' unprecedented five-year investigation into the dynamics of contemporary teams. This book willgive any team the know-how it needs to create its own compelling state of shared vision.

0201604566B12102001

Booknews

Jim and Michele McCarthy worked previously on successful software development teams at Microsoft and elsewhere before establishing a hands-on laboratory in 1996, for the study and teaching of teamwork. At their lab, teams of software developers come together for a five- day product development simulation, with the assignment of forming a team, envisioning a product, agreeing on how it would be made, and designing and building it. Over the past five years, through repetition of this simulation with new teams, the authors have been able to identify core structures and protocols which lead to successful teamwork. They present their findings here as a practical, communicable, and reliable process to guide others in their efforts at effective teamwork. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Part I	Check In	1
Chapter 1	The Elements of Check In	11
	Overcoming Distance	11
	The Check In Protocol	12
	The Check Out Protocol	13
	The Passer Protocol	13
	Connection	14
	Problem Behaviors	14
	Patterns Synergistic with Check In	15
Chapter 2	Check In Patterns and Protocols	19
	Pattern: Check In	19
	Additional Discussion of Check In	32
	Pattern: Check Out	43
	Pattern: Passer	46
	Pattern: Connection	48
Chapter 3	Check In Antipatterns	53
	Antipattern: Too Emotional	53
	Antipattern: No Hurt Feelings	63
	Antipattern: Wrong Tolerance	66
Chapter 4	Other Patterns in the Check In Family	69
	Pattern: Team = Product	69
	Pattern: Self-Care	74
	Pattern: Thinking and Feeling	77
	Pattern: Pretend	80
	Pattern: The Greatness Cycle	82
Part II	Decider	105
Chapter 5	The Elements of Decider	111
	Other Decision-Related Elements	114
	Antipatterns	115
Chapter 6	Decider Patterns and Protocols	117
	Pattern: Decider	117
	Analysis of Decider	130
	Pattern: Resolution	137
	Pattern: Work with Intention	140
	Pattern: Ecology of Ideas	146
Chapter 7	Decider Antipatterns	149
	Antipattern: Resolution Avoidance	149
	Antipattern: Oblivion	154
	Antipattern: Turf	158
	Antipattern: Boss Won't Give Power	163
	Antipattern: Team Quackery	165
Part III	Aligning	179
Chapter 8	The Elements of Alignment	185
	Personal and Team Alignment	185
Chapter 9	Alignment Pattern and Protocol	189
	Pattern: Alignment	189
Chapter 10	Alignment Antipatterns	199
	Antipattern: Not Enough People	199
	Antipattern: Align Me	208
Chapter 11	Alignment Patterns	215
	Pattern: Personal Alignment	215
	How and Why Alignment Works	232
	Pattern: Investigate	236
	Pattern: Receptivity	241
	Pattern: Web of Commitment	247
	Pattern: Ask for Help	253
Part IV	Shared Vision	261
Chapter 12	The Elements of Shared Vision	269
	Aspects of Shared Vision	271
	Patterns Involved in the Shared Vision Process	276
Chapter 13	Shared Vision Patterns and Protocols	279
	Pattern: Shared Vision	279
	Pattern: Metavision	287
	Pattern: Far Vision	290
	Pattern: Version	302
Chapter 14	Shared Vision Antipatterns	303
	Antipattern: Blinder	303
	Antipattern: Technicality	305
	Antipattern: Recoil	313
	Antipattern: Feedback	317
Chapter 15	The Perfection Game Pattern	325
	Playing and Perfecting	325
Part V	Appendixes	333
Appendix A	The Core Lexicon	335
Appendix B	BootCamp Material	353
Appendix C	The Core Protocols V. 1.0	383
	Index	425
	Artwork	433
	Authors	435

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Essentials of Management

Author: Andrew J DuBrin

ESSENTIALS OF MANAGEMENT, Eighth Edition, offers a comprehensive, focused, and reader-friendly review of the fundamental principles and applications of effective management, linking theory and practice to prepare students for leadership in today's competitive business environment.

Property or Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform 1890 1935

Property: Mainstream and Critical Positions, Vol. 214

Author: C B B MacPherson

The legitimate role of the state in relation to property and the justification of property institutions of various kinds are matters of increasing concern in the modern world.

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Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935

Author: Robyn Muncy

In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues that during the Progressive era, female reformers built an interlocking set of organizations that attempted to control child welfare policy. Within this policymaking body, female progressives professionalized their values, bureaucratized their methods, and institutionalized their reforming networks. To refer to the organizational structure embodying these processes, the book develops the original concept of a female dominion in the otherwise male empire of policymaking. At the head of this dominion stood the Children's Bureau in the federal Department of Labor. Muncy investigates the development of the dominion and its particular characteristics, such as its monopoly over child welfare and its commitment to public welfare, and shows how it was dependent on a peculiarly female professionalism. By exploring that process, this book illuminates the relationship between professionalization and reform, the origins and meaning of Progressive reform, and the role of gender in creating the American welfare state.

"A finely crafted study....Muncy's book is a fine example of recent works that critically document women's political activism and their influence on the making of the welfare system."--The Nation
"An important contribution to the literature on Progressivism, feminism, and reform."--American Historical Review
"Offers a powerful and provocative synthesis of women's reform activities and demonstrates conclusively their key role in building the welfare state."--History of Education Quarterly
"In the burgeoningliterature on women and welfare in the first three decades of the century, Muncy's study of the female dominion opens new territory. It is a must read."--Journal of American History
"The argument is original and illuminating. Women's inventions in and contributions to the formation of social welfare policy in the U.S. have never been described more concisely and effectively than in this book."--Nancy Cott, Yale University
"A masterful recounting of the intergenerational relations of a group of social reformers/professionals embedded in a strikingly original concept of a dominion of women. Gender and reform, professionalization, public policy, are marvelous additions to our comprehension of the first third of the twentieth century, and put women where they belong, at the center of the development of the welfare state."--Nancy Weiss, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"This is a very good work--interesting, well and concisely written, and relevant to major questions about 20th-century women, politics, and the state. I especially like the way Muncy has perceived and presented the structure of the "dominion," moving across voluntary associations, education and reform institutions, and government. This is impressive, and I think could serve as a model for other studies."--Suzanne Lebsock, Rutgers University
"This is not just another study of female reform. Muncy's treatment of the professionalization of reform and the creation of new bailiwicks for women within the federal bureaucracy is a significant contribution to early twentieth-century social history. The author uncovers important connections, not only among the first generation of female progressive reformers, but between them and the younger women they brought through the ranks. She fleshes out much of what we have only suspected regarding goals, strategies, and accomplishments, placing her findings in the broader context of the women's movement, as well as changes in government and the professions."--Regina Morantz-Sanchez, University of California, Los Angeles
"A superb book."--Mary O. Turner, University of California at Santa Barbara

Office and Career Management for the Eyecare Paraprofessional or Global Imperative

Office and Career Management for the Eyecare Paraprofessional, Vol. 2

Author: Bill A Borover

The Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals is a series that provides fundamental and advanced material with a clinical approach to clinicians and students. A special effort was made to cover information needed for the certification exams in ophthalmic and optomeric assisting, low vision, surgical assisting, opticianry, and contact lens examiners.

Bill Borover and Tammy Langley, COT clearly define office procedures such as handling patients, records, and marketing. Career management elements are addressed including job procurement and advancement. There is also a chapter on legal issues explaining documentation, malpractice, and ethics. Techniques are described on approaching daily eyecare practice activities with specific methods and helpful hints...even how to handle stress. This book can also serve as a complete guide for the manager of any eyecare practice.

Table of Contents:

Contents 

Section I. Office Procedures
Chapter 1. Records Management
Chapter 2. Marketing
Chapter 3. Patient Management
Chapter 4. Office Finances
Chapter 5. The Office Manager 

Section II. Career Management
Chapter 6. Resume and Interviews
Chapter 7. Success, Advancement, and Certification
Chapter 8. Stress and Burnout
Chapter 9. Legal Issues 

Appendix: Forms

Look this: The Economic System or Winning at Service

Global Imperative: An Interpretive History of the Spread of Humankind

Author: Robert P P Clark

Robert Clark delves into 100 millennia of human history to create a unified and consistent explanation for humankind’s inner need to spread itself across the globe. He examines key events from different eras, such as the voyages of the Chinese treasure fleet, the shaping of the Aztec’s trade system in MesoAmerica, the role of steam-powered transport in the supply of an English city, the rise of the gas-powered engine, and the digitization of information in the computer age, melding them together to form a framework for understanding the process of globalization.Drawing on a variety of academic disciplines including the physical sciences, biology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, sociology, and demography, Clark reveals the spread of humans and their cultures to be part of an ongoing struggle to supply the energy needs of an increasingly large and complex society. “Entropy” and “thermodynamics,” terms often ignored or misunderstood by social science students, clearly frame a fascinating vision of humans’ inherent tendency toward a globalized world.Although human expansion has drawn increasing attention in the last several decades, as this tumultuous century has progressed, Clark shows that the process of globalization is not a recent concept. From the very roots of the species, humankind has been driven by a range of internal and external factors to expand in order to survive the increasing complexity of human civilization.