Texas Real Estate Law or Proposal Preparation

Texas Real Estate Law

Author: Charles J Jacobus

As the most trusted and well-informed legal resource on Texas real estate law, Charles J. Jacobus delivers clear and thorough coverage of the many aspects and complexities of real estate law today in Texas. The 10th edition is a complete and well-organized study covering what the law has been in the past before moving to what it is at the present—all with a perfect balance of principles and practice.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction to the Basic Processes of Real Estate Law	1
2	Estates in Land - Freehold Estates	13
3	Estates in Land - Statutory Estates	27
4	Legal Descriptions	57
5	How Ownership is Held	67
6	Fixtures and Easements	95
7	Real Estate Brokerage	121
8	Agency	155
9	Contracts for the Sale of Real Estate	191
10	Voluntary Conveyances	227
11	Involuntary Conveyances	247
12	Acknowledgments, Recording, and Constructive Notice	265
13	Mortgages	277
14	Interest and Finance Charge	311
15	Methods of Title Assurance	327
16	Closings	345
17	Liens	361
18	Landlord and Tenant Relationships	379
19	Condominiums and Cooperatives	443
20	Regulation of Real Estate	471
21	Real Estate Taxation	495
	Appendices	519
	Table of Cases	583
	Index and Glossary	611

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Proposal Preparation

Author: Ann L Stewart

This is a "must-have" for anyone who desires to effectively and successfully sell their products, projects, ideas or services. The new edition has been revised and expanded to include detailed coverage of the current methods and procedures required by the government and used by commercial companies for bid preparation; the latest applications for identifying and tracking fund sources; new desktop publishing techniques for rapid proposal preparation along with available software; and storyboarding methods. The concept of "straight-line" control is presented for the first time and a complete case study provided to illustrate how to evolve a proposal from development through strategic marketing planning.

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A handbook on the preparation and submission of a business proposal by any technical/entrepreneurial firm offering products, processes, projects, or services on a small or large scale. Among the topics are short cycle-bidding by governments, straight-line control in proposal preparation, and identifying and tracking fund sources. The second edition (first in 1984) has deeper coverage in some areas, broader in others, and includes a description of the "graphic representation of work" process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Going Global or Designing and Managing the Supply Chain

Going Global: The Textile and Apparel Industry

Author: Grace I Kunz

As the merchandising, design, production, and distribution of textiles and apparel become increasingly global, it is crucial to recognize the role of political, social, and economic perspective in the international marketplace. Going Global: The Textile and Apparel Industry exposes reader to the language and basic concepts of global textile an apparel trade without overwhelming them with data that may become readily outdated. Students are taught to assess the marketing and sourcing of textiles and apparel in four major global trading regions and examine the latest trends that are impacting manufacturing, retailing, and consumption throughout the world.

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Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, and Case Studies

Author: David Simchi Levi

Designing and Managing the Supply Chain, 3/e provides state-of-the-art models, concepts, and solution methods that are important for the design, control, operation, and management of supply chain systems. In particular, the authors attempt to convey the intuition behind many key supply chain concepts and to provide simple techniques that can be used to analyze various aspects of the supply chain. Topical coverage reflects the authors’ desire to introduce students to those aspects of supply chain management that are critical to the success of a business. Although many essential supply chain management issues are interrelated, the authors strive to make each chapter as self-contained as possible, so that the reader can refer directly to chapters covering topics of interest. Each chapter utilizes numerous case studies and examples, and mathematical and technical sections can be skipped without loss of continuity. The 3rd edition represents a substantial revision. While the structure and philosophy were kept intact, the authors placed an increasing importance on finding or developing effective frameworks that illustrate many important supply chain issues. At the same time, motivated by new developments in industry, they added material on a variety of topics new to the book while increasing the coverage of others.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Inventory Management and Risk Pooling

Chapter 3: Network planning

Chapter 4: Supply contracts

Chapter 5: The Value of information

Chapter 6: Supply Chain integration

Chapter 7: Distribution strategies

Chapter 8: Strategic alliances

Chapter 9: Procurement and Outsourcing Strategies

Chapter 10: Global Logistics and Risk Management

Chapter 11: Coordinated product and supply chain design

Chapter 12: Customer Value

Chapter 13: Smart Pricing

Chapter 14: Information Technology and Business Processes

Chapter 15: Technology standards

Appendix A: Computerized Beer Game

Appendix B: Risk Pool Game

Appendix C: Supply Contract Spreadsheet

Appendix D: Bidding Game

Unravelling Global Apartheid or Economics

Unravelling Global Apartheid: An Overview of World Politics

Author: Titus Alexander

Unravelling Global Apartheid provides a clearly written overview of global problems as well as a vigorous analysis of the underlying causes and strategies for dealing with them.

Table of Contents:

	A Note on Terminology
	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	Introduction: What is Global Apartheid and Why does it Matter?	1
1	The World in One Country	9
2	The Dynamics of Separate Development	35
3	The Economics of Global Apartheid	54
4	Global Privileges of Private Enterprise	85
5	Managed Markets of Global Apartheid	120
6	Institutions of Global Apartheid: The United Nations System	146
7	The Laws of Exclusion	169
8	The Western Alliance Government	203
9	The West Knows Best: Values and Ideology of Global Apartheid	229
10	Prospects for Improvement	257
	Sources	280
	Index	297

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Economics: A New Introduction

Author: Hugh Stretton

Economics: A New Introduction provides a fresh introduction to real economics. Highlighting the complex and changing nature of economic activity, this wide-ranging text employs a pragmatic mix of old and new methods to examine the role of values and theoretical beliefs in economic life and in economists' understanding of it. It attends to the problems which have come with high productivity, rapidly changing technology and skills, changing proportions of earning and non-earning years in most people's lives, and a faltering revolution in childhood and parenting which has brought stress and over-work for many women. It addresses such issues as rising poverty, inequality, insecurity and the slow progress of environmental reform. In focusing on such abuses of affluence the text draws on institutional, Keynesian, green, and feminist theories, while emphasizing all approaches to understanding economic life.

Paul Streeten

Stretton provides a brilliant, critical, and fresh look at the whole of economics. He points to the contradictions and the lack of realism in its current approaches. I cannot recommend this book too strongly.

Michael Keaney

The publication of this book is one of the most important events of the last ten years in economics. It is not a flimsy response to the stagnating orthodoxy, but a substantial quality alternative building upon solid philosophical foundations.

G.C. Harcourt

Exactly what is needed for the thoughtful and concerned student. It introduces the reader to the many different skills required in economics: analysis, a knowledge of history and institutions, philosophical concepts, quantitative precision, judgment, relevance, and a sense of time and place.

Marc Tool

I recommend this volume without reservation as an introductory text for university students at any stage of their career. More advanced students can proceed more rapidly. But the inquiry mode presented will function well at all levels of inquiry.

Fundamentals of Investments withstudent CD Stock Trak Powerweb or Strategic Marketing Management Cases

Fundamentals of Investments withstudent CD + Stock-Trak + Powerweb

Author: Charles J Corrado

Fundamentals of Investments was created to: 1. Focus on students as investment managers, giving them information they can act on instead of concentrating on theories and research without the proper context. 2. Offer strong, consistent pedagogy, including a balanced, unified treatment of the main types of financial investments as mirrored in the investment world. 3. Organize topics in a way that makes them easy to apply—whether to a portfolio simulation or to real life—and support these topics with hands-on activities.

The approach of this text reflects two central ideas. First, there is a consistent focus on the student as an individual investor or investments manager. Second, a consistent, unified treatment of the four basic types of financial instruments—stocks, bonds, options, and futures—focusing on their characteristics and features, their risks and returns, and the markets in which they trade.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: A Brief History of Risk and Return

Chapter 2: Buying and Selling Securities
Chapter 3: Security Types
Chapter 4: Mutual Funds
Chapter 5: The Stock Market
Chapter 6: Common Stock Valuation
Chapter 7: Earnings and Cash Flow Analysis
Chapter 8: Stock Price Behavior and Market Efficiency
Chapter 9: Interest Rates
Chapter 10: Bond Prices and Yields
Chapter 11: Corporate Bonds
Chapter 12: Government Bonds
Chapter 13: Mortgage-Backed Securities
Chapter 14: Stock Options
Chapter 15: Option Valuation
Chapter 16: Futures Contracts
Chapter 17: Diversification and Asset Allocation
Chapter 18: Return, Risk, And the Security Market Line
Chapter 19: Performance Evaluation and Risk Management

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Strategic Marketing Management Cases

Author: David W Cravens

Strategic Marketing Management Cases is a versatile collection of approximately 45 cases. This casebook has a decision-making focus and addresses the challenges facing marketing managers today. It is organized to reflect the priorities of a marketing manager: market orientation, growth strategies and target market strategies.

Chile or Managed Care and Monopoly Power

Chile: The Great Transformation

Author: Javier Martinez

Chile is frequently cited as a remarkable success story of neoliberal economic restructuring. In fact, countries around the world are encouraged to follow the Chilean model so that they can reap the extraordinary benefits of rapid growth and expanding export markets associated with the drastic economic reform in Chile. But the Chilean experience is extremely complicated and contradictory.

Two outstanding Chilean scholars and activists present an original interpretation of the Chilean experience. They cut through the rhetoric surrounding "the Chilean miracle" and provide an integrated analysis of the process of socioeconomic and political change that transformed their country between 1970 and 1990. In so doing, they discover not only a neoliberal revolution, but a capitalist revolution with roots far deeper than the Pinochet reforms.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Politics: From Dictatorship to Democracy	8
Ch. 2	The Economy: From the State to the Market	41
Ch. 3	The Actors: From Classes to Elites	75
Ch. 4	Restructuring and the New Working Classes	101
Ch. 5	A Capitalist Revolution	130
	Notes	143
	Index	153

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Managed Care and Monopoly Power: The Antitrust Challenge

Author: Deborah Haas Wilson

As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals, as the health care sector undergoes reorganization and consolidation. There are two tools to limit the growth of monopoly power: government regulation and antitrust policy. In this timely book, Deborah Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of the antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases.

The antitrust laws, when wisely enforced, permit markets to work competitively and therefore efficiently. Competitive markets foster low prices and high quality. Applying antitrust tools wisely, however, is a tricky business, and Haas-Wilson carefully explains how it can be done. Focusing on the economic concepts necessary to the enforcement of the antitrust laws in health care markets, Haas-Wilson provides a useful roadmap for guiding the future of these markets.

Relevant Business Statistics Using Excel or White Collar Crime

Relevant Business Statistics Using Excel

Author: David Gerbing

Not only classroom tested, this book has truly been classroom driven. David Gerbing has been teaching this material in his own classes for over 3 years and revising it to better address difficult topics and areas of student confusion. This Excel driven text combines the presentation of content, the illustration of concepts, and multiple opportunities for application throughout the body of each chapter; the author does not wait until the end of the chapter to provide exercises which reinforce the material. He relies heavily on visual examples (line graphs, tables, histograms, screen dumps from Excel, ect.) to explain and support the theoretical material being discussed. The integration of content and exercises allows for more regular practice of statistical principles, ensuring a higher level of student mastery.

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This statistics textbook for business students features real world examples for applying concepts that include screen shots of Excel output. Coverage includes inference, regression analysis, ANOVA, and forecasting. The included disk contains the data for all problems in the text that present data for analysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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White Collar Crime: Law and Practice

Author: Jerold H Isreal

Overall, the book is designed to promote student appreciation of the interaction in the white collar field of legal doctrines. The material exposes students to how legal transactions involved in a single white collar crime case can require consideration of substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, administrative procedure, corporate law, evidence, civil procedure, sentencing law, and highly specialized regulatory law. The book also allows students to appreciate the influence of administrative policies and the influence of the basic "culture" of white collar criminal practice. Provides a unique combination of traditional materials (cases and statutes) and not-so-traditional materials (e.g., newspaper articles, forms, and practice manuals).

Table of Contents:

PrefaceAcknowledgments Table of Cases Table of Statutes, Standards and Court Rules Part General Principles White Collar Offenses Procedural Issues Punishment

Pocketbook Politics or Nation State in Question

Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America Series)

Author: Meg Jacobs

"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern.

In this groundbreaking study, Meg Jacobs demonstrates how pocketbook politics provided the engine for American political conflict throughout the twentieth century. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, national politics turned on public anger over the high cost of living.

Beginning with the explosion of prices at the turn of the century, every strike, demonstration, and boycott was, in effect, a protest against rising prices and inadequate income. On one side, a reform coalition of ordinary Americans, mass retailers, and national politicians fought for laws and policies that promoted militant unionism, government price controls, and a Keynesian program of full employment. On the other, small businessmen fiercely resisted this low-price, high-wage agenda that threatened to bankrupt them.

This book recaptures this dramatic struggle, beginning with the immigrant Jewish, Irish, and Italian women who flocked to Edward Filene's famous Boston bargain basement that opened in 1909 and ending with the Great Inflation of the 1970s.

Pocketbook Politics offers a new interpretation of state power by integrating popular politics and elite policymaking. Unlike most social historians who focus exclusively on consumers at the grass-roots, Jacobs breaks new methodological ground by insisting on the centrality of national politics and the state in the nearly century-long fight to fulfill the AmericanDream of abundance.

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Nation-State in Question

Author: T V Paul

Has globalization forever undermined the state as the mighty guarantor of public welfare and security? In the 1990s, the prevailing and even hopeful view was that it had. The euphoria did not last long. Today the "return of the state" is increasingly being discussed as a desirable reality. This book is the first to bring together a group of prominent scholars from comparative politics, international relations, and sociology to systematically reassess--through a historical lens that moves beyond the standard focus on the West--state-society relations and state power at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

The contributors examine the sources and forms of state power in light of a range of welfare and security needs in order to tell us what states can do today. They assess the extent to which international social forces affect states, and the capacity of states to adapt in specific issue areas. Their striking conclusion is that states have continued to be pivotal in diverse areas such as nationalism, national security, multiculturalism, taxation, and industrial relations. Offering rich insights on the changing contours of state power, The Nation-State in Question will be of interest to social scientists, students, and policymakers alike. John Hall's introduction is followed by chapters by Peter Baldwin, John Campbell, Francesco Duina, Grzegorz Ekiert, Jeffrey Herbst, Christopher Hood, Anatoly Khazanov, Brendan O'Leary, T. V. Paul, Bernard Yack, Rudra Sil, and Minxin Pei. The conclusion is by John Ikenberry.

Foreign Affairs

This impressive volume brings together political scientists and sociologists to assess what effects globalization has had on the state. Simplistic early views of globalization held that increasing openness and interdependence, together with the benign post-Cold War security environment, would rob states of their historical role and capacities while fueling the rise of supranational actors such as the European Union and subnational actors such as nongovernmental organizations. The essays here are part of a later wave of more balanced scholarship that moderates such breathless, often hysterical conclusions. The contributors show that states are not likely to disappear or lose much significance anytime soon. In summing up the findings, the editors note that "as in the past, state capacities continue to evolve, declining in some areas and rising in others. There are no rival political formations — local, regional, transnational, or global — that have the full multidimensional capacities of the state." Although not entirely novel or startling, this conclusion is backed up by an unusually comprehensive collection of historical and comparative research on economic and security issues in the advanced industrial and developing worlds. Unfortunately, as in so much contemporary academic work, many of the chapters are presented in such a way as to minimize their accessibility to intelligent and potentially interested general readers.

Table of Contents:

	Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction: Nation-States in History	1
Pt. 1	National Identities
Ch. 1	Nationalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Liberal Democratic State	29
Ch. 2	What States Can Do with Nations: An Iron Law of Nationalism and Federation?	51
Ch. 3	A State without a Nation? Russia after Empire	79
Ch. 4	The Return of the Coercive State: Behavioral Control in Multicultural Society	106
Pt. 2	State Security
Ch. 5	States, Security Function, and the New Global Forces	139
Ch. 6	States and War in Africa	166
Pt. 3	State Autonomy
Ch. 7	National Legislatures in Common Markets: Autonomy in the European Union and Mercosur	183
Ch. 8	The Tax State in the Information Age	213
Ch. 9	States, Politics, and Globalization: Why Institutions Still Matter	234
Ch. 10	Globalization, the State, and Industrial Relations: Common Challenges, Divergent Transitions	260
Pt. 4	State Capacity
Ch. 11	The State after State Socialism: Poland in Comparative Perspective	291
Ch. 12	Rotten from Within: Decentralized Predation and Incapacitated State	321
	Conclusion: What States Can Do Now	350
	Contributors	373
	Index	377

Globalization or The Psychodynamics of Work and Organizations

Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture

Author: Roland Robertson

The global society. Today everyone from scholars to politicians is debating the nature and makeup of a global society. But what is actually meant by a global society? Does such a global society actually exist? In Globalization, Roland Robertson argues that the real nature of globalization is obscured while peripheral concerns, such as minute economic analyses, are overstated. Robertson presents an alternative view that incorporates the economic and cultural aspects of the global scene, and in the process connects general social structures to historical developments in the modern world. Offering a distinctively cultural focus on the social theory of the contemporary world, Globalization makes a major contribution to the current debate for graduate students and professors of sociology, social theory, and cultural studies. "A professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, Roland Robertson is, as this book proves, the foremost sociologist engaged in the study of globalization. . . . Although empirical data crop up only occasionally, this book offers a sweeping yet detailed survey of the ways in which sociologists have dealt with the subject. Indeed, Robertson shows in a brief history of his discipline, sociology has been a key element in the effort to come to grips with what he calls "globality"; sociologists have crucially helped to shape global awareness. . . . All told, this is a difficult book, but one worthy of careful reading as a stimulant for raising global awareness" --Journal of World History "Globalization deals with an important subject. Its inherent comprehensive approach would be of interest not only to macrosociologists but also to those studying postmodernity,gender, ethnicity, and identity." --Contemporary Sociology "Roland Robertson has been writing about these topics for some years and has a grasp of the huge and multifaceted literature that is as sure as it is impressive. . . . this volume manages to work very well as a whole and provides a good introduction to many of the questions that underlie the phenomenon of globalization while standing as a sustained and stimulating interpretive essay in its own right. . . . the book is an impressive and highly readable essay and deserves to be widely read." --International Affairs "Robertson's approach to globalizatin is multidimensional, complex, well-grounded in sociological theory, and centered on culture--so often the stepchild in other approaches. . . . Robertson fruitfully contrasts his approach to that of Wallerstein, Elias, and Giddens. . . . His contribution is in several respects original, probes deeply, and is highly stimulating." --Political Studies Association

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The Psychodynamics of Work and Organizations

Author: William M Czander

In this innovative book, William M. Czander demonstrates that applying depth psychology to the organization and its employees provides a deeper understanding of the American workplace than traditional industrial psychology has offered. Using a psychoanalytic framework, Czander examines such issues as interactions between employees and management, the conscious and unconscious forces that bind fellow employees together, and the role of autonomy in people's lives. Most important, he details a means of intervention in the form of organizational consultation based on this more profound conceptualization of the dynamics of the workplace.

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Psychoanalyst and organizational consultant Czander asserts the importance of applying in-depth psychology to the organization and its employees by adding to a deeper understanding of the workplace than traditional industrial psychology has offered. He further details a means of intervention in the form of organizational consultation based on this more profound conceptualization of the dynamics of the workplace. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Freud and Work	11
Ch. 2	Object Relations Theory and Work	43
Ch. 3	Self Psychology	74
Ch. 4	The Relationship between Intrapsychic Structure and Organizational Structure	101
Ch. 5	Understanding Work and the Organization from the Psychoanalytic Perspective	123
Ch. 6	Review of Current Methods of Consultation	147
Ch. 7	Psychoanalytic Consultation	176
Ch. 8	Boundary Maintenance and Regulation	203
Ch. 9	Task Analysis	233
Ch. 10	Authority	266
Ch. 11	The Taking of a Role	294
Ch. 12	Interorganizational Relations	317
Ch. 13	Dependent and Autonomous Structures	341
Ch. 14	Management and Change	363
	References	382
	Index	401

Grand Design or Advanced Derivations Pricing and Risk Management with Hands On Programming Applications

Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939

Author: Tino T Balio

The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," saw the release of such memorable films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach. It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series History of the American Cinema, Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era.

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The six contributors to this volume examine aspects of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era. Topics include the production code and the Hays office, technological change and classical film style, production trends, and avant-garde film. B&w film stills. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
1	Introduction	1
2	Surviving the Great Depression	13
3	The Production Code and the Hays Office	37
4	Feeding the Maw of Exhibition	73
5	Technological Change and Classical Film Style	109
6	Selling Stars	143
7	Production Trends	179
	Prestige Pictures	179
	Musicals	210
	The Woman's Film	235
	Comedy	256
	Social Problem Films	280
	Horror Films	298
8	The B Film: Hollywood's Other Half	313
9	The Poetics and Politics of Nonfiction: Documentary Film	351
10	Avant-Garde Film	387
	App. Variety's Top-grossing Films	405
	App. Major Academy Awards	407
	App. Film Daily's Ten Best Films	411
	List of Abbreviations	413
	Notes	414
	Bibliography	441
	General Index	449
	Index of Films	473

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Advanced Derivations Pricing and Risk Management with Hands On Programming Applications

Author: Claudio Albanes

In this book the authors teach finance students about the most important and cutting-edge topics in financial derivatives pricing and risk management, striking a fine balance between theory and practice. A dozen carefully designed numerical projects are included on the accompanying CDROM that introduce students to actual implementation issues in pricing and risk management within the computational environment of a financial engineer.

The text is succinctly written, with clear and insightful descriptions of state-of-the-art financial models. The numerical projects contained on the CDROM provide a laboratory companion for the text that gives students an initial experience in actual quantitative implementations of pricing and risk management. The projects progress from simple to complex so as the student progresses, the exercises become more challenging and resemble realistic situations more closely.

*Includes easy-to-implement VB/VBA numerical software libraries
*Proceeds from simple to complex in approaching pricing and risk management problems
*Provides analytical methods to derive cutting-edge pricing formulas for equity derivatives

Information Technology Investment or Processes of Manufacturing

Information Technology Investment: Decision-Making Methodology

Author: Mare J Schniederjans

Information Technology Investment : Decision-Making Methodology is a textbook that will provide the understanding of methodologies available to aid in this area of complex, multi-criterion decision-making. It presents a detailed, step-by-step set of procedures and methodologies that readers can use immediately to improve their IT investment decision-making. Unique to this textbook are both financial investment models and more complex decision-making models from management science, so users can extend the analysis benefits to confirm and enhance the ideal IT investment choices.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	List of tables and figures
Pt. I	Introduction to information technology investment decision-making methodology
Ch. 1	Introduction to information technology investment decision-making	3
Ch. 2	Needs analysis and alternative information technology investment strategies	29
Ch. 3	Measuring information technology investment performance	53
Pt. II	Financial information technology investment methods
Ch. 4	Basic financial methods	81
Ch. 5	Other financial methodologies	105
Ch. 6	Cost/benefit analysis	139
Pt. III	Multi-criteria information technology decision-making methods
Ch. 7	Critical success factors, delphi method and the balanced scorecard method	163
Ch. 8	Multi-factor scoring methods and the analytic hierarchy process	189
Ch. 9	Decision analysis and multi-objective programming methods	233
Pt. IV	Other information technology investment methods
Ch. 10	Benchmarking techniques and game theory	289
Ch. 11	Investment portfolio methodologies	321
Ch. 12	Value analysis and benefit/risk methodologies	349
	Epilogue : the costs of not making the right information technology decision (and strategies on how to avoid them)	367
	Index	383

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Processes of Manufacturing

Author: R Thomas Wright

'Process Of Manufacturing' is designed for the student seeking a comprehensive introduction to various methods for processing metallic, polymeric, and ceramic materials. The content is organized around the major families of process: casting and molding, forming, separating, conditioning, assembling, and finishing.

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A text introducing various methods of processing metals, plastics, ceramics, and composite materials. Material is organized around six major manufacturing processes: casting and molding, forming, separating, conditioning, assembling, and finishing. Sections devoted to each process are further subdivided into introductory chapters and chapters detailing specific methods used with various industrial materials in that process. Includes an introductory section on the nature of manufacturing, the organizational structure of manufacturing enterprises, and the physical characteristics of industrial materials. A final section covers process planning, automation, and quality. Includes b&w photos, chapter summaries, and study questions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Consumerism in World History or British National Cinema

Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire

Author: Peter N Stearns

The desire to acquire luxury goods and leisure services is a basic force in modern life. Consumerism in World History explores both the historical origins and world-wide appeal of this relatively modern phenomenon. By relating consumerism to other issues in world history, this book forces reassessment of our understanding of both consumerism and global history.
This second edition of Consumerism in World History draws on recent research of the consumer experience in the West and Japan, while also examining societies less renowned for consumerism, such as Africa. Ever chapter has been updated and new features include:
· A new chapter on Latin America
· Russian and Chinese developments since the 1990s
· the changes involved in trying to bolster consumerism as a response to recent international threats
· examples of consumerist syncretism, as in efforts to blend beauty contests with traditional culture in Kerala.
With updated suggested reading, the secondedition of Consumerism in World History is essential reading for all students of world history.

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British National Cinema, Vol. 2

Author: Sarah Street

The first substantial overview of the British film industry, with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's National Cinemas series.

British National Cinema synthesizes years of scholarship on British film while incorporating the author's fresh perspective and research. Street divides the study of British cinema into four sections: the relation between the film industry and government; specific film genres; movie stars; and experimental cinema. In addition, this beautifully illustrated volume includes over thirty stills from every sphere of British cinema.

British National Cinema will be of great interest to film students and theorists as well as the general reader interested in the fascinating scope of British film.

Table of Contents:

	List of plates
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The Fiscal Politics of Film	4
2	Studios, Directors and Genres	28
3	Genres from Austerity to Affluence	61
4	Genres in Transition, 1970s-1990s	92
5	Acting and Stars	114
6	Borderlines I: Modernism and British Cinema	147
7	Borderlines II: Counter-Cinema and Independence	169
	Conclusion	197
	Notes	201
	Bibliography	210
	Subject index	217
	Name index	219
	Index of films and television programmes	227

A Primer on Quality in the Analytical Laboratory or Managing Workforce 2000

A Primer on Quality in the Analytical Laboratory

Author: John Kenkel

Today's industrial laboratory analyst encounters issues such as quality control, quality assurance ISO 9000, standard operating procedures, calibration, standard reference materials, statistical control, control charts, proficiency testing, validation, system suitability, chain of custody, good laboratory practices, protocol, and audits. In a well-written and readable style, A Primer on Quality in the Analytical Laboratory provides an introduction to quality, standards, and regulations in the analytical laboratory and serves as a valuable resource to a myriad of laboratory practices.

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In preparing chemists and technicians for the real-world analytical chemical laboratory, Kenkel (Southeast Community College, Lincoln, Nebraska) includes, but goes beyond, a review of elementary statistics to introduce the principles and terminology of quality assurance (QA); good lab practices per government regulatory requirements; and what different types of QA audits, and lab accreditation and certification entail. Includes b&w photos of lab equipment, and homework exercises. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage

Author: David Jamieson

Using examples from over eighty organizations, this practical guide to human resource development strategies shows how to attract, make the best use of, and retain employees of different skills and perspectives. The authors reveal the strategies successful companies are using to capitalize on today's increasingly diverse and nontraditional workforce and shows how organizations must change to mesh with the needs, preferences, life-styles, and values of contemporary workers.

Practical Project Management with CD ROM or Microeconomics

Practical Project Management with CD-ROM

Author: RG Ghattas

Using an easy-to-read conversational style and down-to-earth approach, this book follows a fictional training seminar given to six management professionals who are "trainees" in project management. In the seminar, the trainees work through two major projects and several others--each project highlighting and refining different issues that will make the managers better at controlling a complex process and in avoiding and eliminating unnecessary stress for the project, themselves, and their employees. Exceptionally practical and applied, the book guides readers through a proven strategy for success and provides them with the tools they need to handle any project's unique combination of people, process, and tasks. Features dialogues in which the "trainees" discuss concepts presented and their own personal experiences in project management; interviews with expert project managers; special Skill and Tool boxes; and applications and problems for practice, some using project management software. Introduction to Project Management. Change. Leadership and Motivation. Communications. Teams. Diversity. Organization. Organization. Network Analysis and Duration Estimating. Managing Resources. Project Control concepts. Project Control Techniques. Final Project Challenge: Applying What You Know. For first-time project leaders in industry.

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As more and more companies downsize their experienced and experienced people, many are relying on project managers to take care of the company business, and workers previously concerned only with<-->and about<-->their own jobs find themselves in charge of project with complex task relationships, often across disciplines. Ghattas and McKee (both DeVry Institute of Technology, Atlanta) compile hand-outs, overheads, and other material they have used over the years into a text for readers who are not expected to have any prior experience in project management, engineering, or elaborate statistical models. The disc contains an evaluation version of Practical Project Management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Look this: Capitalism vs Capitalism or Quantum Investing

Microeconomics: Explore and Apply, Enhanced Edition

Author: Ronald M Ayers

This easy to read, accessible, macro-first principles book engages readers with familiar real-world examples and applications that bring economics to life. Its 18 chapters focus on those topics that are at the heart of economics, making the volume concise, yet complete. The authors follow an Explore & Apply theme to demonstrate how economics are a part of everyday life and how it can be a useful tool in making personal decisions and evaluating policy decisions. Notable coverage includes consumer and producer surplus, utility and consumer decision, as well as government and market failure. For a working knowledge of microeconomics.

Table of Contents:

(NOTE: Each chapter contains sections titled A look Ahead, Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Test Yourself, Questions and Problems, and Working with Graphs and Data.)

I. A JOURNEY THROUGH THE ECONOMY.
 1. The Economic Perspective.

 2. Production and Trade.

 3. Demand and Supply.

 4. The Power of Prices.

II. MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS.
 5. Elasticity: Measuring Responsiveness.

 6. Consumer Behavior.

 7. The Firm and Production.

 8. Costs and Profit-Maximizing Output.

III. OUTPUT MARKETS.
 9. Pure Competition.

10. Monopoly and Antitrust.

11. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition.

IV. INPUT MARKETS.
12. Markets for Labor and Other Inputs.

13. Earnings and Income Distribution.

V. MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT ACTION.
14. Public Goods, Information, and Regulation.

15. Externalities and Common Property Resources.

16. Public Choice.

VI. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
17. Into the International Marketplace.

18. Policy Toward Trade.

Distance Training or Communicating for Change

Distance Training: How Innovative Organizations Are Using Technology to Maximize Learning and Meet Business Objectives

Author: Deborah A Schreiber

Winner of the University Continuing Education Association's Charles A. Wedemeyer Award, which recognizes highly meritorious book-length publications that advance research in independent study and distance education.

"This manual is the one we have been waiting for! It takes dead aim at all the important issues facing distance learning providers and hits the bull's eye on every one of them. It is down to earth, real world, and up to date. Its examples and insights for practitioners help create the sense of urgency and excitement all of us in distance learning feel today."--Michael P. Lambert, executive director, Distance Education and Training Council

Today's advances in communications technology have created exciting new possibilities for training professionals. But not all technologies are created equal. Distance Training examines these new tools to show how compressed video, satellite broadcasting, the Internet, and other innovations can each be used to their best advantage. In-depth case studies of sixteen progressive organizations--NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, and Unisys among them--provide real-world models readers can use to design learning programs that transcend the traditional boundaries of time and space by turning the home, office, and meeting room into immediate, effective learning environments.

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After three introductory essays that identify guiding principles and provide a framework for discussion, 15 case studies present methods by which diverse organizations have used advanced communications technologies to train employees over distances. The cases give a close look at the specifics of distributing information and increasing knowledge, building skills, and changing attitudes and enhancing motivation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	The Authors
1	Organizational Technology and Its Impact on Distance Training	3
2	Conceptual Frameworks in Distance Training and Education	19
3	Instructional Design of Distance Training	37
Pt. 1	Distributing Information and Increasing Knowledge
4	Building Customer Relations: Web-Based Training for the Home Improvement Industry	71
5	Increasing Employee Knowledge and Understanding of Operational Systems: Integrating Multiple Technologies at NYNEX	92
6	Disseminating Time-Sensitive Information: Using Interactive Distance Learning to Deliver Training and Education in the American Red Cross Biomedical Services	115
7	Disseminating Time- and Regulation-Sensitive Information: Online Training Seminars at Mortgage Bankers Association of America	137
8	Graduate Programs at a Distance: A Partnership Between the California Department of Rehabilitation and San Diego State University	155
Pt. 2	Building Skills (Technical and Critical Thinking)
9	Reskilling Employees for Competitive Advantage: Reinventing Learning at Unisys Corporation	187
10	Delivering Technical Training to Advance Mechanical Skills: Interactive Video Teletraining in the Federal Aviation Administration	201
11	Delivering Clinical-Based Training in a Public Health Setting	223
12	Skills-Based Distance Training for a Global Environment: Malaysia's Virtual University	246
13	The Value of Building Skills with Online Technology: Online Training Costs and Evaluation at the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission	270
14	Building Intranet Courseware Using Multidisciplinary Teams: The Story of Quantum Solutions, Inc. and Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation	287
Pt. 3	Changing Attitudes and Enhancing Motivation
15	Eliciting Community Beliefs and Changing Attitudes Through Education: Innovative Distance Learning at the Columbus Center	309
16	Measuring Attitudes to Assess Training: The Interactive Distance Learning Group Looks at Learning and Transfer from Satellite Training	328
17	Unanticipated Attitudinal Change: The Progression Toward Self-Directed Distance Training at H.B. Zachry	351
18	Utilizing Telelearning as a Strategic Media Choice to Enhance Executive Development and Affect Organizational Perspective: The U.S. Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)	369
	Conclusion
19	Best Practices of Distance Training	393
	Glossary	410
	References	419
	Index	433

Interesting textbook: Classic Stars Desserts or Memphis Cookbook

Communicating for Change

Author: Roger DAprix

Marshal support throughout your organization

Develop a communications strategy that works for -- not against -- you. Based on years of battle-tested principles and case-examples, Roger D'Aprix tells managers how they can avoid the communications breakdowns that sabotage attempts at change, and cause employees to lose faith in their leaders and the system itself. Instead, he shows how communications can be used strategically to connect an organization's vision, mission and business goals to the forces and opportunities in the marketplace -- the driving force behind all change. Includes D'Arpix's market-based strategic communications model for integrating and aligning communications at all levels.

International Business or Computers

International Business: A Managerial Perspective

Author: Ricky W Griffin

Bring the world into focus...

From supply chains to retail outlets, business activities are increasingly wired and global. To be prepared for this international marketplace, you must understand traditional business functions as they are influenced by geography, culture, and technology.

In the third edition of their internationally popular text, Ricky W. Griffin and Michael W. Pustay illustrate how successful managers must function in a competitive world.

FEATURES

Forty cases, many updated, plus eight comprehensive cases, integrated throughout the book.

New! Coverage of cultural and political forces affecting business.

More than forty maps, plus updated tables and graphs.

New! Three content boxes—"Wiring the World," "Venturing Abroad," and "Bringing the World into Focus"—highlight coverage of current issues related to technology, entrepreneurship, and doing business with a global perspective.

Four "Point-Counterpoint" features provide opposing perspectives on controversial business topics—global tobacco marketing, for example—and serve as launch pads for student discussion and research into hotly debated contemporary issues.

New! Updated student exercises, plus an FT.com activity.

JUST FOR YOU

• FINANCIAL TIMES: World business newspaper. Discounted student subscription rates to the Financial Times newspaper, which is free to adopting instructors.
• GLOBE: Global Landscape of Business Environment, an optional CD-ROM that can be packaged with the book, offers an electronic atlas with a variety of political and physicalmaps. Each of the nine geographic sections features content pertinent to students learning about international business, such as interactive exercises based on statistical data, culture and economics, plus a Geoconcepts section focusing the impact of geography on business decision making. (ISBN: 0-13-016285-X).

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A textbook for students who are not necessarily specializing in international business, and so are not familiar with many of the technical terms, but who will need at least to be aware of the global dimension, if not participate in it themselves, when they begin their management career. Leaves such details as international accounting to specialized texts and courses. No date is noted for the first edition; the second incorporates recent crises and bailouts, treaties and alliances, new cultural and management theories, and current technologies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book review: Customer Service or Rfid Field Guide

Computers: Information Technology in Perspective

Author: Larry Long

This tenth edition is a technology update intended to bring Computers abreast with a rampaging technology. About six Internet years pass in one real-time year, the elapsed time since the last edition. The tenth edition retains the same familiar look and feel as the ninth edition. However, it contains hundreds of changes needed to ensure that Long continues to be the most current introductory IT book available. Includes over 150 new or updated images that reflect the latest releases and innovations in software. Numerous new photos show new hardware and applications. Throughout the book, capacities and speeds for communications hardware, disks, RAM, processors, printers, and so on have been adjusted to reflect the state of the art. Provides essential information on hardware, Windows, and networking procedures, and on word processing, e-mail, and browser software. Expanded presentation of ethics; additional coverage of the Internet; and a new IT Illustrated section on careers gives readers an in-depth look at career opportunities for IT specialists and for IT-competent people. For anyone who wants to advance their personal computing experience and skills, and individuals considering careers as IT specialists.

Booknews

This textbook introduces the basic concepts of computer hardware and software. The authors overview the purpose of common software packages, processor design, storage devices, types of networks, Internet browsers, security measures, and business information systems. The tenth edition represents a technology update. Color photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Booknews

This time-tested text for the newcomer to computer technology informs readers about PCs and related products, the Internet, basic vocabulary, and use of software and services. The seventh edition is modular and can be custom published to meet curriculum needs, e.g. the module on information technology concepts can be published alone or with any combination of the other two modules on living in an information society and business information systems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Student
	Preface to the Instructor
	Getting Started	1
Ch. 1	The Technology Revolution	20
Ch. 2	Software	76
Ch. 3	Going Online	130
Ch. 4	Inside the Computer	170
Ch. 5	Storing and Retrieving Information	206
Ch. 6	Information Input and Output	238
Ch. 7	Networks and Networking	280
Ch. 8	IT Ethics and Healthy Computing	320
Ch. 9	Exploring the Cyberworld	354
Ch. 10	Information Systems	386
Ch. 11	Developing Business Information Systems	416
Ch. 12	Technology and Society	446
	Answers to Self-Check Questions
	Glossary
	Index

How to Build and Market Your Mental Health Practice or Facility Management

How to Build and Market Your Mental Health Practice

Author: Linda L Lawless

The help you need to continue helping those in need

This book is for mental health professionals who wonder how to survive in the constantly changing mental health services marketplace. It provides crucial advice on how to build and run a mental health practice while serving clients and coping with the seemingly endless series of adjustments, documentation requirements, and ethical dilemmas that confront the profession today.

Successful psychotherapist and practice consultant Linda L. Lawless takes you step by step through the process of evaluating your current position, choosing a professional path, and taking decisive action to achieve your business goals. She covers the nuts and bolts of the business side of private practice—including renting office space, securing referrals, billing and record keeping, and office management.

This accessible guidebook also shows you how to:

• Market your services effectively and ethically
• Enhance your professional reputation
• Build a steady client referral base either inside or outside the managed care system
• Position yourself to serve client and community needs, while building the kind of practice you want

Supplemented with dozens of sample brochures, business plans, marketing plans, and self-assessment exercises, Therapy, Inc. is the book that beleaguered therapists and counselors have been waiting for.

Pierre R. Nunez

This guide teaches business skills for developing and marketing an independent clinical practice in mental health. It offers step-by-step guidelines to help clinicians think through such issues as developing a professional identity and choosing an area of specialization as well as creating a business plan and marketing professional services. Sample marketing plans and brochures are provided to illustrate marketing strategies. The author seeks to promote the clinician's ability to succeed in an increasingly competitive, managed care-oriented marketplace by applying basic practices used in small businesses. These help structure and organize the practice-building process. The intended audience for this guide consists of advanced trainees in mental health, new practitioners seeking to build independent practices, and experienced clinicians who wish to enhance or rebuild practices eroded by managed care or increased competition in the mental health marketplace. The guide features specific examples and illustrations of recommended strategies in the practice assessment and development process. The examples include marketing plans, brochures, advertisements, and announcements as well as the selection of an appropriate target audience or client base. The bibliography lists other important resources for materials, advice, and information on practice issues. This guide is a welcome and much-needed resource for independent practitioners and advanced trainees who aspire to create niches in an increasingly crowded professional milieu. The author offers practical, well-organized, and highly useful suggestions and recommendations for marketing a practice. More important, however, are the chapterson the developmental stages of the career of a mental health professional, the establishment of a professional identity, and the transitions needed to succeed in the current marketplace. Overall, this is an outstanding reference guide for the mental health professional seeking to develop an understanding of basic business and marketing skills.

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Reviewer: Pierre R. Nunez, PhD (Cermak Health Services)
Description: This guide teaches business skills for developing and marketing an independent clinical practice in mental health. It offers step-by-step guidelines to help clinicians think through such issues as developing a professional identity and choosing an area of specialization as well as creating a business plan and marketing professional services. Sample marketing plans and brochures are provided to illustrate marketing strategies.
Purpose: The author seeks to promote the clinician's ability to succeed in an increasingly competitive, managed care-oriented marketplace by applying basic practices used in small businesses. These help structure and organize the practice-building process.
Audience: The intended audience for this guide consists of advanced trainees in mental health, new practitioners seeking to build independent practices, and experienced clinicians who wish to enhance or rebuild practices eroded by managed care or increased competition in the mental health marketplace.
Features: The guide features specific examples and illustrations of recommended strategies in the practice assessment and development process. The examples include marketing plans, brochures, advertisements, and announcements as well as the selection of an appropriate target audience or client base. The bibliography lists other important resources for materials, advice, and information on practice issues.
Assessment: This guide is a welcome and much-needed resource for independent practitioners and advanced trainees who aspire to create niches in an increasingly crowded professional milieu. The author offers practical, well-organized, and highly useful suggestions and recommendations for marketing a practice. More important, however, are the chapters on the developmental stages of the career of a mental health professional, the establishment of a professional identity, and the transitions needed to succeed in the current marketplace. Overall, this is an outstanding reference guide for the mental health professional seeking to develop an understanding of basic business and marketing skills.

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Provides mental health care professionals with tools for competing in the contemporary health care marketplace. Addresses such issues as how to identify and position yourself in the mental health arena, the impact of alternative healthcare, marketing strategies, and the changes that have occurred in behavioral healthcare, clinical treatment methodologies, and corporate America. Also includes a long chapter devoted to the increasing prominence of managed care. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Go to: Natural Health Natural Medicine or Its So Much Work to Be Your Friend

Facility Management

Author: Edmond P Rondeau

From the moment it was first published, Facility Management became the ultimate reference for facility and design professionals who want to create a productive workplace that corresponds to the short- and long-term goals of their corporation. This Second Edition provides complete, fully up-to-date information and guidance on the evolving facility management profession that will help facility professionals and their service providers meet and exceed these goals.

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A comprehensive guide that provides the decision making strategies necessary for facility managers and design professionals to create productive work environments that correspond to the short- and long- term goals of the corporation. It covers long-range planning in facility management; space planning and design alternatives which focus on people and their interaction with new technologies and the environment; successful construction management and renovation projects; and current professional trends and resources for career development. It provides examples, policies, procedures, forms, and exhibits that can be adapted for specific corporate needs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	An Overview of Facility Management	1
2	Long-Range and Annual Facility Planning	64
3	Facility Financial Forecasting and Management	123
4	Real Estate Considerations, Analysis, and Planning	168
5	Architectural and Engineering Planning and Design	300
6	Interior Programming and Space Planning	352
7	Construction and Renovation Work	393
8	Maintenance and Operations	486
9	General Administrative Services	549
10	Successful Facility Management	591
	Glossary of Facility Management Definitions and Buzz Words	606
	Index	615

Making the Most of Microsoft Office or Making Globalization Good

Making the Most of Microsoft Office

Author: Jonathan Elizabeth Luxmoor

Making the Most of Microsoft office provides educators and curriculum developers with the fundamental skills and strategies necessary to become proficient users of Microsoft Office technology and to integrate it effectively into the classroom.

This book is based on Microsoft Office 2000 technology. The text addresses issues such as “word processing” versus “typing,” the importance of communication design for today's students, and how to use the correct tools to work as efficiently as possible. Applications covered in the text include Word, Power Point, Excel, and Access. The authors believe that educators should first learn basic computer skills and the “basics” of teaching and then bring both sets of skills—technology and “teaching”—to such tasks as software evaluation, lesson plans, incorporating technologies, etc. Novice users will find this book very useful while advanced users will find skill building activities in areas such as stylesheets and templates that will allow them to enhance communications to a greater degree.

Features

• Developed and field-tested for many years, this book focuses on Office 2000 but can easily be used with other versions of Office for both the Macintosh and PC.
• "Microsoft Office Menus" at the beginning of each chapter allow students to reference a printed copy of menus instead of clicking and searching.
• Provides an introduction to design principles and word processing guidelines. The text goes beyond “how to” use the software and encourages students to learn to use their computer to improve their communication when creating a variety ofdocuments.
• Points about technical aspects of Office are highlighted as Technical Notes and vertical sidebars for entries highlight important ideas for ease of reference.
• References to ISTE National Technology Standards are embedded throughout the text.
• Focuses on concepts rather than keystrokes, but includes complete instructions for using the programs with "Keystroke Quick References" in selected chapters and the appendices.
• Provides examples of ways for teachers and students to use Microsoft Office both in and out of the classroom.
• Includes many graphics that illustrate examples so that students can verify that they have taken the correct steps in completing a task.

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Making Globalization Good: The Moral Challenges of Global Capitalism

Author: John Dunning

Gordon Brown, Jonathan Sacks, Joseph Stiglitz, Hans Kung, Shirley Williams, and a dozen other leading thinkers in international business and ethics identify the pressing moral issues which global capitalism must answer. How can we develop a global economic architecture, which is efficient, morally acceptable, geographically inclusive and sustainable over time? If global capitalism-arguably the most efficient wealth creating system currently known to man-is to be both economically viable and socially acceptable, each of its four constituent institutions (markets, governments, supranational agencies and civil society) must not only be technically competent, but also be buttressed and challenged by a strong moral ethos. The book includes contributions from leading academics, politicians, and moralists. Recognizing that solutions will not come from any one quarter, and that any serious discussion of a just and equitable system will touch on questions of ethics and faith, the book approaches the issues from a range of different disciplines and forums.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, John H. Dunning

1. The Moral Imperatives of Global Capitalism: An overview, John H. Dunning

2. Private Morality and Capitalism: Learning from the past, Deepak Lal

3. Institutions and Morality: An economist's appraisal, Alan Hamlin

4. Towards a New Paradigm of Development, Joseph Stiglitz

5. Transformation of Society: Implications for globalization, Jack N. Behrman

6. Global Social Justice: The moral responsibilities of the rich to the poor, Shirley Williams

7. The Ethical Framework of the Global Market Economy, Hans Kung

8. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: A Christian perspective, Brian Griffiths

9. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: An Islamic perspective, Khurshid Ahmad

10. Global Convenant: A Jewish perspective on globalization, Jonathan Sacks

11. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The perspective of eastern religions, David R. Loy

12. A Universal Culture of Human Rights and Freedom's Habits: Caritapolis, Michael Novak

13. On the Political Relevance of Global Civil Society, Richard Falk

14. [to be confirmed], Robert Davies

15. Governments and Supranational Agencies, Gordon Brown

16. Conclusion, John H. Dunning

Team Sports Marketing or Back Off

Team Sports Marketing

Author: Kirk Wakefield

Business/Sport Management

Team Sports Marketing

Kirk Wakefield

"Kirk Wakefield has crafted a textbook that is quite useful for students, scholars and faculty members interested in sport marketing. Kirk combines humor, accepted marketing theory and practice, and empirically tested research to provide readers with material that can be applied to the discipline. Those interested in obtaining a better understanding of sport marketing will find this book ideal."
— Gregg Bennett, Director, Sport Marketing Lab, Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Texas A&M University

"Team Sports Marketing sets the standard for sport marketing literature by providing a good overview of both basic and detailed sport marketing concepts and how they are applied to the sport product. With clear and concise real world examples based on extensive research, this book delivers a quality instructional and practical guide for both students in sport marketing as well as the serious sport manager.
Clearly and engagingly written, it combines great insight gained from in-depth research and practical application to illustrate how the business behind the sport industry works. For its substance, it should be within easy reach of anyone interested in managing in sport."
— David Peart, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, San Francisco 49ers

"Team Sports Marketing represents the cutting edge in sports marketing knowledge and practice. Kirk's extensive experience with professional sports teams at all levels and all types, coupled with well-founded theory and research, makes this a perfect book for sports marketing classes everywhere. This book was written forprofessors who want to give their students the best preparation for landing that entry level positon in professional sports and to enable them to move up the ladder in the sports industry."
— Scott Kelley, Professor of Marketing and Director of the UK Center for Sports Marketing, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky

Some might argue that sports marketing is a mere subfield of marketing, meaning that there are theoretical and practical dimensions that apply only to sports marketing and are only of interest to those involved in sports. In Team Sports Marketing, author
Kirk Wakefield dispels this argument by demonstrating that effective sports
marketing epitomizes the science and art of marketing across any context. At the core
of sports marketing is the creation and enhancement of fan identification, where
consumers are not just loyal customers, but have become brand fanatics.

Team Sports Marketing shows that while many aspects of sports marketing are
thought to be unique to the field, other product and service sectors would do well to
learn from teams in the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL that have transformed customers
into fans. Moving beyond principles of marketing, Team Sports Marketing is
packed with examples of best practices and covering subjects as diverse as
sponsorships, season ticket sales, venue management and all topics in between. Team
Sports Marketing is a must read text for students and managers in professional and
collegiate sports.

Support materials for professors and students are available at teamsportsmarketing.com.

Kirk Wakefield, Ph.D., is Professor, Sport Sponsorship and Sales, and Chair of the Marketing Department, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University.

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Back Off!: How To Confront And Stop Sexual Harassment And Harassers

Author: Martha J Langelan

Back Off! is filled with real-life success stories from women who have stopped harassers cold: Sharon, who succeeded in stopping a whole crew of habitual harassers in a city park...; Stephanie, a ten-year-old who confronted and escaped a child molester...; Catharine and Molly, who stood up to their landlord and stopped him from harassing the tenants...; and dozens more. From an eight-year-old who successfully challenged two young harassers on the playground to an organized group of fifty women who confronted a dockworker in response to an attempted rape on the job, here's what they did, how they did it - and how you can do it, too. Back Off! is the first book to focus on the direct-action tactics that work and the first to deal with harassment everywhere it takes place, in both blue-collar and white-collar jobs, at school, on the street, on the bus or subway, in the park, even in church. Back Off! examines the dynamics of sex and power in sexual harassment, the motives behind harassers' actions, and why traditional responses such as appeasement or aggression don't work, and describes the successful resistance strategies that you really can use - including nonviolent personal confrontation techniques, group confrontations, administrative remedies, and formal lawsuits.

Ilene Rosoff - WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women

Martha Langelan'sintention with this book is to provide innovative, bold and original techniques and strategies used by the 200 women who contributed to it, to coounter covert and overt sexual harassment in everyday situations. As Martha remarks in her introdction, "The fact is, the law does not have much experience with sexual harassment, and women have a lot." (Weighty words coming from an attorney.) You probably won't find most of these remedies in any formal studies of sexual harassment or legal guides, but that is exactly the point.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	13
Pt. I	The Culture and History of Harassment and Resistance
Ch. 1	Sexual Harassment: The Beginning of the End	21
Ch. 2	What's Going On Here? Why Do Men Harass Women?	37
Ch. 3	The Roots of Successful Resistance: Civil Rights, Self-defense, and Nonviolence	75
Ch. 4	Confrontation: Stopping Harassers on the Job and on the Street	96
Pt. II	The Success Stories: Confrontation in Action
Ch. 5	When Children Are the Target: Kids Who Defend Themselves	139
Ch. 6	When the Job Becomes a Misery: Confronting Harassers at Work	153
Ch. 7	Deep in Hostile Territory: Confronting Harassers in Male-Dominated Jobs	178
Ch. 8	Not All Men Harass: Men as Allies for Women	201
Ch. 9	Construction Workers, Subway Creeps, and Other Daily Hazards: Confronting Harassers in the Community	226
Ch. 10	When Your Minister Is a Molester, Your Professor Is a Lech, or Your Landlord Is a Sleaze: Stopping Harassers in Power Positions	257
Ch. 11	Confronting Muggers and Burglars: Self-defense in a Robbery	281
Ch. 12	Confronting Rapists: Self-defense in a Sexual Assault	294
Ch. 13	There Is Strength in Numbers: The Power of Group Confrontations	309
Ch. 14	Where Do We Go from Here? Community Strategies for Ending Sexual Harassment	330
	Appendix A The Confrontation Survey	336
	Appendix B Your Legal Options: Sexual Harassment and the Law	340
	Appendix C Resources for Action: Further Reading and Organizations	360
	Notes	369

Demystifying the European Union or Essential Weber

Demystifying the European Union: The Enduring Logic of Regional Integration

Author: Roy H Ginsberg

The European Union-the world's greatest experiment in interstate reconciliation through regional integration-is now fifty years old. However, it remains a mystery to many people in and outside Europe. This clear and comprehensive book is dedicated to "demystifying" the EU for both introductory and seasoned students of European integration. Roy H. Ginsberg begins with the foundation blocks of history, law, economics, and politics to provide the context for understanding integration. He then deconstructs the EU into its individual elements to examine them in relation to one another and to the whole before reconstructing the EU as a single polity: In doing so, he evaluates the EU's scope for agency and its effects on Europeans and non-Europeans alike.

About the Author:
Roy H. Ginsberg is professor of government at Skidmore College

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations     xiii
Acknowledgments     xv
Preface     xvii
Acronyms     xix
Note to Instructors     xxiii
Introduction     1
The Importance of the European Union to the World     1
For Europeans     2
For Americans     5
For Europeans and Americans Together     6
The Structure of the Book     8
Key Concepts     9
Study Questions     9
Selected Readings     9
Notes     10
Foundations     11
Unity and Disunity     13
Preview     13
Presence and Absence of Regional Unity and Integration     13
Incarnations and Ghosts     15
Unity and Disunity in Christian Europe     17
The Renaissance, the Hanseatic League, and the Elements of Unity     22
Revolution, War, and Peace     24
Extreme Nationalism and Disintegration     29
Elusive Unity and War Again     32
Two Unities and a Cold War     37
The Reflex to Cooperate: Early Modern European Integration, 1947-1957     39
Collective Self-Defense and the United States     40
Regional Economic Integration, the Schuman Plan, and the United States     41
Extension of Collective Self-Defense     49
The Treaties of Rome     52
Review     56
Key Concepts     57
Study Questions     57
Selected Readings     58
Notes     58
Theory and Practice of Modern European Integration     61
Preview     61
Political Thinkers, Writers, and Statesmen: Fourteenth-Twentieth Centuries     62
Postwar Political Theories of European Integration     67
Federal and Functional Logics     67
Intergovernmentalism and Its Variants     70
Peaks and Troughs of Modern European Integration     72
Growth, Turmoil, and Compromise: 1958-1969     72
Expansion and Sclerosis: 1970-1985     74
Revitalization, Enlargement, New Compacts, and the Return of Uncertainty: 1986-Present     79
Political Theory of European Integration Revisited     86
Conventional Political Theories of Modern European Integration     87
Revisionist Theories of Modern European Integration     89
Review     90
Key Concepts     91
Study Questions     91
Selected Readings      92
Notes     92
The Economic and Legal Foundations of the European Community     95
Preview     95
The Economics of the European Community     97
Customs Union Theory     99
Optimum Currency Area Theory     103
International Political Economy     106
Recap     107
The Law of the European Community     108
Structure and Function     110
Avenues of Legal Redress     112
Principles and Landmarks     117
Cases by Area of EC Competence     121
Looking Back, Looking Ahead     125
Review     129
Key Concepts     130
Study Questions     130
Selected Readings     131
Notes     131
The European Union in Practice     137
The Contexts and Actors of EU Governmental Decisionmaking     145
Preview     145
The Contexts of EU Governmental Decisionmaking     145
Inside World     146
European World     148
Outside World     150
The Inputs into EU Governmental Decisionmaking     151
EU Member Governments, Institutions, and NGOs      152
Political Parties and Electorates     155
Actors outside the European Union     156
Review     157
Key Concepts     157
Study Questions     158
Selected Readings     158
Notes     158
Inside EU Governmental Decisionmaking     160
Preview     160
Conscience of the European Union: The Commission     164
Appointment and Delegation     165
Structure     168
Function and Agency     169
Role in EU Governmental Decisionmaking     171
Taking Stock     174
Fulcrum of Political Power in the European Union: The Council     175
Structure and Function     177
Role in EU Governmental Decisionmaking     179
The Sovereigns of the European Union: The European Council     182
Taking Stock     183
Voice of the European Union: The European Parliament     184
Structure and Function     189
Powers and Role in EU Governmental Decisionmaking     192
Taking Stock     199
The Budgetary Process of the European Community: A Thumbnail Sketch     200
The Auditor of the European Union: The European Court of Auditors      201
The Banks of the European Union     203
The Agencies of the European Union     204
The European Union and the United States: Insights from Comparative Government     205
Constitutionalism and Federalism     207
Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances     208
The EU and U.S. Executives     210
The EU and U.S. Legislatures     212
Review     214
Theoretical Observations     214
Empirical Observations     216
Key Concepts     217
Study Questions     217
Selected Readings     218
Notes     218
The Outputs of EU Governmental Decisionmaking     223
Preview     223
Types of EU Governmental Decisionmaking Instruments     224
Internal Market     226
Origins, Objectives, and Timeline     226
Formulation and Execution     228
Key Elements     229
Common Commercial Policy     242
Origins, Objectives, and Timeline     242
Formulation and Execution     243
Key Elements     244
Monetary Policy     247
Origins, Objectives, and Timeline      247
Formulation and Execution     250
Key Elements     251
Agriculture     254
Origins, Objectives, and Timeline     254
Formulation and Execution     254
Key Elements     255
Regional Development     257
Origins, Objectives, and Timeline     257
Formulation and Execution     260
Key Elements     261
Environment, Fisheries, and Food Safety     261
Origins, Objectives, and Timeline     261
Formulation and Execution     263
Key Elements     264
Justice and Home Affairs     266
Origins, Objectives, and Timeline     266
Formulation and Execution     269
Key Elements     270
Review     273
Theoretical Observations     273
Empirical Observations     275
Key Concepts     277
Study Questions     278
Selected Readings     278
Notes     278
EU Foreign and Security Policy     283
Preview     283
Origins, Objectives, and Timeline     286
Phase One, 1958-1970     289
Phase Two, 1970-1993      290
Phase Three, 1993-1999     291
Phase Four, 1999-Present     292
Formulation and Execution     293
Institutions and Decisionmaking     293
Instruments and Military Capabilities     296
Key Elements-Multilateral Functional Issues     298
Key Elements-Multilateral Security Issues     300
EU Security Operations     300
Nonproliferation, Disarmament, and Arms Control     302
Combatting Crime and Terrorism     303
Key Elements-Countries and Regions     304
Central and Eastern Europe and Enlargement     304
European Neighborhood     306
EU-EFTA Relations     306
Western Balkans     307
Ukraine and Russia     309
Mediterranean Littoral and Middle East     311
Sub-Saharan Africa     316
Asia     318
Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada     319
The United States     320
Review     325
Theoretical Observations     325
Empirical Observations     326
Key Concepts     326
Study Questions     327
Selected Readings     327
Notes      327
Evaluating European Integration     329
The Internal Dimension of European Integration     331
Preview     331
Growth of Membership     331
Intra-EU Trade and the Euro as an Official World Reserve Currency     332
EP Elections and Ratification Procedures for EC/EU Treaties     333
Public Opinion     336
Historical Data and Overall Perceptions of the European Union     337
Importance of the European Union and Support for Political Unification     337
Benefits of Membership     338
Image of and National Power in the European Union     341
Institutions and Democracy     343
Supranational Institutions     344
Intergovernmental Institutions     344
Democracy in the European Union     345
Policies of the European Union     346
Internal Market Policy and Economic Issues     346
Monetary Policy     347
Agricultural and Environmental Policies     347
Justice and Home Affairs     350
Review     351
Key Concepts     353
Study Questions     353
Notes     353
The External Dimension of European Integration      357
Preview     357
Member Governments as a Measure of EU Foreign Policy Effect     358
Public Opinion as a Measure of EU Foreign Policy Effect     359
External Political Impact as a Measure of EU Foreign Policy Effect     364
Inaction as a Measure of EU Foreign Policy Effect     366
Effects of the European Union on Multilateral Functional Issues and Organizations     367
Effects of the European Union on Multilateral Security     369
Military Crisis Management     370
Police Action     373
Rule of Law, Border Patrol, Monitoring, and Other ESDP Missions     375
Effects of the European Union on Countries and Regions     377
Europe     377
Mediterranean Basin, Africa, and Middle East     380
Asia and the Western Hemisphere     383
Review     384
Key Concepts     385
Study Questions     385
Selected Readings     386
Notes     386
Conclusions     387
The European Union's First Half-Century     387
The European Union at the Intersection of Theory and Practice     388
Demystifying the European Union     389
Constructing and Deconstructing the European Union      389
The Importance of the European Union     390
Glossary     393
Index     397
About the Author     423

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