Understanding Infrastructure or The Immigrants Guide to the American Workplace

Understanding Infrastructure: Guide for Architects and Planners

Author: George Rainer

Urban Water Infrastructure Planning, Management, and Operations Neil S. Grigg "… discusses the factors that lead to effective management of water systems in urban areas." —Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation Unique in its orientation for managers, Urban Water Infrastructure focuses on the productive management of urban water systems by laying out its discussion in terms of the system as a whole, how a system’s component elements work together, how much they cost to build and operate, and the sociopolitical forces that guide the productive operation. This easily accessible reference is aimed at engineers, planners, and managers, teaching both the theoretical and practical aspects of urban water management. 1986 (0 471-82914-5) 328 pp. A Guide to Site and Environmental Planning Third Edition Harvey M. Rubenstein "Perhaps the strongest feature of the book is the inclusive, comprehensive, and logical analysis within each of the chapters … All in all, I can highly recommend this book to anyone engaged in site planning, or interested in site plans developed by others." —Landscape Planning This Third Edition incorporates pertinent research of the past decade and presents an approach to design based on factual information that enables creative talent to be used to its utmost advantage. Chapters follow phases used in the development of a site plan and include extensive information on: site selection, resource analysis, land use, storm drainage, alignment of horizontal and vertical curves, specifications, sports facilities and play-grounds, rooftop gardens, residential development concepts, and much more. 1987 (0 471-85033-0) 410 pp.Infrastructure Engineering and Management Neil Grigg Here is the first technical and management book to focus on solutions to complex, large-scale problems involving major infrastructure projects. The wide-ranging text covers such systems as roads and streets, water and wastewater, waste management, buildings and structures, and energy facilities. Infrastructure Engineering and Management gives an in-depth knowledge of several key subjects relating technology to management: planning, programming, and budgeting; finance, organization, and private sector involvement; operations and maintenance; project management; and research needs. 1988 (0 471-84974-X) 380 pp.

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An introduction to the structure and function of such essential public works as water, power, sewage, communications, transportation, and recreation facilities. Discusses the environmental, legal, and economic aspects of both standard and innovative approaches to development and maintenance. Could be used as a textbook. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Immigrants Guide to the American Workplace: Making It In America

Author: Anna Graf Williams

This easy-to-read book helps people who want to be successful in the U.S. job market—targeting the needed life and professional skills and providing the “how to” for integrating into the American workforce. It gives concrete, prescriptive techniques for workplace success to immigrant populations and the people who mento them. Coverage includes hygiene and dress, finding and working with a mentor, dealing with culture shock, learning to understand and communicate with others, getting around, government services, housing, handling money, getting and keeping a job, on-the-job benefits, being professional, and becoming independent. For human resource managers, construction mangers, and managers and supervisors in the fields of business, technology, hotel restaurant management, hospital and home health care, career placement, childcare—and basically everything else.

Table of Contents:

1. Intro to the USA.
2. Getting Here—All about Immigration.
3. Learning the Language—How to Communicate.
4. Hygiene, Grooming, and Dress.
5. Government Services.
6. Cash and Credit.
7. Housing.
8. Transportation.
9. Shopping.
10. Dining In and Dining Out.
11. Out on Your Own.
12. Managing the Family.
13. Education.
14. Getting a Job and Keeping a Job.
15. On-the-Job Benefits.
16. Communication at Work.
17. Technology.
18. Media.
19. Mentoring.

The Marketing Research Guide or Socialization of Graduate and Professional Students in Higher Education

The Marketing Research Guide

Author: Robert E Stevens

The Marketing Research Guide carries readers step-by-step through the complete marketing research process, providing worksheets, sample proposals, questionnaires, and a copy of a final report to give insight into the tools and techniques of marketing research. It is ideal for managers who must negotiate, evaluate, and use marketing research as a part of the decision-making process; for individuals involved in the research process who need to review marketing research procedures or find examples of specific techniques; and as a college text for courses in marketing research, especially those that focus on conducting actual marketing research project. Worksheets at the end of each chapter help you develop outlines of your own marketing research projects, while the appendixes provide examples that help you visualize what your reports should look like. Another useful feature is the description of the major forecasting, sampling, and analysis techniques without the use of mathematical formulas - a quality sure to be appreciated by marketers and those ambivalent toward mathematics.

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Intended for use as a college-level textbook for courses in marketing research, as well as for managers using market research, this volume provides guidance through the marketing research process from design to execution. Includes worksheets at the end of each chapter, appendices providing an example of a final report, and ample proposals and questionnaires, as well as a description of the major forecasting, sampling, and analysis techniques without the use of mathematical formulas, for marketers and students ambivalent toward mathematics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction to marketing research	1
Ch. 2	Research designs for management decisions	25
Ch. 3	Experimentation	49
Ch. 4	Measurement	73
Ch. 5	Introduction to data collection	89
Ch. 6	Designing the data-gathering instrument	133
Ch. 7	Fielding the data-gathering instrument	155
Ch. 8	Sampling methods and sample size	181
Ch. 9	Analyzing and interpreting data for decisions	197
Ch. 10	Advanced data analysis	225
Ch. 11	The research report	249
Ch. 12	Industrial and international market research	263
Ch. 13	Mail surveys	287
Ch. 14	Concept/product testing	299

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Socialization of Graduate and Professional Students in Higher Education, Vol. 3

Author: John Weidman

Weidman addresses both curricular and dispositional aspects of the graduate and professional students' experiences in higher education as well as processes through which individual students are socialized. This report provides historical background on the study of professional socialization, compares and contrasts models of professional preparation, and addresses implications for the organization and administration of graduate and professional education programs.

Economic Geographies or Study Guide for Modern Real Estate Practice

Economic Geographies: Circuits, Flows and Spaces

Author: Ray Hudson

'The social and political power of the verity that there are no such things as economies, only economic geographies demands an analysis of the complex flows and relations implied by it. At last, here is a book -- the book - which addresses the questions central to the critical understanding of economies and their formative geographies. This is a highly creative and transformative contribution'

Roger Lee, Professor of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London

How do we conceptualise the production and re-production of social life? What are the most appropriate ways to conceptualise capitalist economies and their geographies? Economic Geographies integrates ideas of structure, agency, and practice to provide:

· a detailed overview of recent key debates in economic geography: from political-economy and Marxism to post-structuralism

· an explanation of the of relations between production, retail and consumption, governance and regulation

· a discussion of the economy in terms of circuits, flows, and spaces that systematically relates the material to the cultural

Economic Geographies is a systematic audit of related developments in economic geography and the social sciences: these include consumption; economy and nature; and culture.

The text will be required reading for upper-level undergraduates on courses in economic geography.

Table of Contents:

1	Conceptualising economies and their geographies	1
2	Flows of value, circuits of capital and social reproduction	21
3	Flows of materials, transformations of nature	38
4	Flows of knowledge, circuits of meaning	57
5	Flows of people	78
6	Spaces of regulation and governance	96
7	Spaces of produciton	118
8	Spaces of sale	145
9	Spaces of consumption, meaning and identities	167
10	From spaces of pollution and waste to sustainable spaces?	189

New interesting book: In einer Prozession gehende Mineraltechnologie: Eine Einführung in die Praktischen Aspekte der Erzbehandlung und Mineralwiederherstellung

Study Guide for Modern Real Estate Practice

Author: Filmore W Galaty

This interactive workbook helps students sharpen skills and knowledge. Designed to work in tandem with Modern Real Estate Practice and Key Point Review Audio Tapes, this reference features exercises and quizzes, which reinforce key terms. For anyone preparing to go into the real estate field or take an exam, The Study Guide offers a valuable practice tool.

Since 1967, more than 450 writers and reviewers have contributed to Modern Real Estate Practice, The Study Guide, and its state-specific versions and state-specific supplements.

Kindred Strangers or The Portal to Lean Production

Kindred Strangers: The Uneasy Relationship between Politics and Business in America

Author: David Vogel

Notwithstanding the myriad forms of government assistance to American business, the relationship of business to politics in the United States remains a highly antagonistic one, characterized by substantial mutual distrust. This adversarial relationship is both reflected and reinforced not only in American business ideology, but also in America's unique legalistic and confrontational style of regulation, the political strategies of the public interest movement, the American approach to American industrial policy, and the distinctive way Americans think about the subject of business ethics. This volume brings together more than two decades of scholarship on business and politics by one of the leading authorities on this subject.

These essays also explore a number of critical contemporary issues, including the ongoing debate over the scope and extent of business power in America, the growth of shareholder protests and consumer boycotts, the changing politics of consumer and environmental regulation, and the emergence of both public and business interest in business ethics. In addition, they place the contemporary dynamics of American business-government relations in both an historical and comparative context. Finally these essays demonstrate e the importance of integrating the study of business by political scientists with the study of politics by students of management.

Interesting book: The Radio Broadcasting Industry or Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark

The Portal to Lean Production: Principles and Practices for Doing More with Less (Series on Resource Management)

Author: John Nicholas

The Portal to Lean Production: Principles and Practices for Doing More with Less describes the steps, difficulties, and rewards of implementing lean production. The book moves beyond concepts to address practical matters. The authors provide enough information for you to begin implementing lean production within your organization. This book applies a model-the Portal to Lean Production-to illustrate principles and practices. The model reappears at the start of every chapter and serves to connect the concepts of each chapter with those in other chapters, and with basic lean production principles. This volume contains short vignettes that appear in every chapter of actual lean production implementations. Following these real-world examples, the text provides expanded coverage of topics to enable you to learn and apply concepts and principles. The authors enable you to see the context, application, and practical issues associated with lean production concepts and methods before learning details. The vignettes, based upon the work experience of co-author Avi Soni, help connect the concepts and tie them to practical examples.

Table of Contents:

1	Portal to lean production	1
2	Beginnings	15
3	First glimpse of a manufacturing cell	31
4	Gaining experience, broadening the concept	47
5	Applying the cell concept plantwide	69
6	Kanban	89
7	Total productive maintenance	113
8	Quick changeover	141
9	Standard work	161
10	Focused factories	177
11	Customer-focused quality	199
12	Employee involvement, workplace organization, kaizen	233
13	Supply-chain partnerships	251
14	The lean enterprise	271
15	Lean culture transformation	291

A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics or Engineered in Japan

A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics

Author: Martin Helander

Completely revised and updated, A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics, Second Edition presents a comprehensive introduction to the field. Building on the foundation of the first edition, titled Guide to Ergonomics of Manufacturing, the new title reflects the expanded range of coverage and applicability of the techniques you will find in the second edition. Each and every chapter contains new material and some have been entirely rewritten. Drawing on the author's experience in both teaching and industry, the book lays to rest the common myths and misconceptions that surround ergonomics.

Unlike most ergonomics and human factors books that emphasize the physical, this one gives a broad overview of cognitive as well as physical ergonomics. Written in an accessible style, it presents a systems approach to human factors and ergonomics that leads to complete understanding. The author demonstrates how to collect data on users and operators and how to convert the data to good design, and offers a practical guide to the design and analysis of systems. Design oriented, systems oriented, and results oriented, this text provides the tools needed to solve systems problems and develop adequate design solutions.

New interesting textbook: Visual QuickStart Guide or Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction

Engineered in Japan: Japanese Technology-Management Practices

Author: Jeffrey K Liker

Engineered in Japan presents a unique and comprehensive examination of technology management in the most successful Japanese companies: unique in that all chapters go beyond superficial descriptions of stylized practices to look in depth at particular issues, often contradicting or qualifying the conventional wisdom; comprehensive in that it covers the entire technology life cycle from basic R&D, to development engineering, to manufacturing processes, to learning from the Japanese.
Each chapter is based on original research by noted scholars in the field, and identifies technology management practices that have become a major source of competitive advantage for highly successful Japanese companies. Engineered in Japan documents the best practices from such companies as Toyota, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Nippondenso, and discusses how these technology management practices can be usefully adopted in other cultural contexts.
Going beyond past observations, the authors all delve below the surface of Japanese management approaches. They look more closely than has been done before at how particular methods are applied, and they identify some new practices that have not yet been highlighted in books on Japanese methods.
Presenting recent data that contradict some conventional thinking about U.S.-Japanese differences, they look at old techniques from a new perspective.
"U.S. managers can perhaps learn more from the process of creation in Japan and the organizational structures that support innovation," say the editors in their introduction, "than from the particular approaches, tools, and technologies created." A running theme throughout the book is that Japanese managers andengineers tend to think in terms of systems, focusing not just on the parts but on the connections between them. Engineered in Japan is must reading for technology managers and engineers, along with anyone interested in Japanese business, engineering, and management.

"The particular benefit of this book is that it distinguishes a technology life cycle and analyzes each of its stages: research and development, process and product development, manufacturing management and methods, technology deployment, and organizational learning."--Booklist

"In the end, the edited volume provides a smorgasbord for readers: some will try every offering, others will sample only those which are most appealing."--Journal of Product Innovation Management

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The particular genius of the Japanese has been their ability to adopt, adapt, and apply technology. In 1991, in an effort to learn from ways in which the Japanese manage technology successfully, Congress authorized $10 million for the Department of Defense to establish a cooperative program for U.S. and Japanese industry and technology management training. Part of the program required that the "best practices" in manufacturing and the management of technology be identified, and a number of universities were given grants to conduct studies. Each of this book's 17 chapters is based on original research done by the University of Michigan's Japan Technology Management Program from 1991 to 1993. The particular benefit of this book is that it distinguishes a technology life cycle and analyzes each of its stages: research and development, process and product development, manufacturing management and methods, technology deployment, and organizational learning. Offering a comprehensive overview, this book is recommended for technology and management collections.

Table of Contents:

	Contributors
1	Engineered in Japan: Introduction and Overview	3
2	Basic Research in Japanese Electronic Companies: An Attempt at Establishing New Organizational Routines	17
3	The Growth of R&D Investment and Organizational Changes by Japanese Pharmaceutical Firms, 1975-1993	40
4	Governance Structure and Technology Transfer Management in R&D Consortia in the United States and Japan	70
5	Governing United States - Japan High-Technology Alliances	93
6	Nippondenso Co. Ltd.: A Case Study of Strategic Product Design	115
7	Integrating Suppliers into Fast-Cycle Product Development	152
8	Toyota, Concurrent Engineering, and Set-Based Design	192
9	Competing in the Old-Fashioned Way: Localizing and Integrating Knowledge Resources in Fast-to-Market Competition	217
10	Producing a World-Class Automotive Body	237
11	Japan's Development of Scheduling Methods for Manufacturing Semiconductors	263
12	U.S.-Japanese Manufacturing Joint Ventures and Equity Relationships	278
13	Culture, Innovative Borrowing, and Technology Management	311
14	Does Culture Matter? Negotiating a Complementary Culture to Support Technological Innovation	321
15	Institutional Pressures and Organizational Learning: The Case of American-Owned Automotive-Parts Suppliers and Japanese Shop-Floor Production Methods	346
16	Reflections on Organizational Learning in U.S. and Japanese Industry	365
17	Managing Technology Systemically: Common Themes	380
	Index	400

Modernization from the Other Shore or Wealth and Freedom

Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development

Author: David C Engerman

From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid industrialization. Captivated by the idea of modernization, diplomats, journalists, and scholars across the political spectrum rationalized the enormous human cost of this path to progress. In a fascinating examination of this crucial era, David Engerman underscores the key role economic development played in America's understanding of Russia and explores its profound effects on U.S. policy.

American intellectuals from George Kennan to Samuel Harper to Calvin Hoover understood Russian events in terms of national character. Many of them used stereotypes of Russian passivity, backwardness, and fatalism to explain the need for—and the costs of—Soviet economic development. These costs included devastating famines that left millions starving while the government still exported grain.

This book is a stellar example of the new international history that seamlessly blends cultural and intellectual currents with policymaking and foreign relations. It offers valuable insights into the role of cultural differences and the shaping of economic policy for developing nations even today.

Foreign Affairs

This fascinating, full-blown account of how Russia was reflected in the American mind ranges from the late 1800s, across the 1917 Revolution, and into the harsh, hopeful, tragic assault of modernization in the 1930s. What began with the travel adventures of people such as the senior George Kennan by the turn of the century widened to include the founders of Russian studies in the United States, Archibald Cary Coolidge and Samuel Harper, as well as their students and wealthy well-connected patrons such as Charles Crane. They, the author argues, applied to the Russian autocracy and peasantry stereotypes of national character as surely as did their less expert forerunners and then exported these images into the Wilson, Coolidge, and Harding administrations. Their intellectual successors carried on, idealizing the modernizing model they expected the Soviet Union to be and closing their eyes to the human cost. Engerman digs deep into decades of published and unpublished writings by a broad spectrum of Russia experts and traces with skill their impact on government.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: From the Other Shore	1
Pt. I	Autocratic Russia, Lethargic Russians
1	An Empire of Climate	17
2	Endurance without Limit	28
3	Studying Our Nearest Oriental Neighbor	54
Pt. II	Revolutionary Russia, Instinctual Russians
4	Little above the Brute	69
5	Sheep without a Shepherd	84
6	Feeding the Mute Millions of Muzhiks	103
Pt. III	Modernizing Russia, Backward Russians
7	New Society, New Scholars	127
8	The Romance of Economic Development	153
9	Starving Itself Great	194
10	Scratch a Soviet and You'll Find a Russian	244
	Epilogue: Russian Expertise in an Age of Social Science	273
	Sources	289
	Abbreviations	299
	Notes	303
	Acknowledgments	381
	Index	385

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Wealth and Freedom: An Introduction to Political Economy

Author: David P Levin

Wealth and Freedom provides a comprehensive introduction to political economy for the student or other interested nonspecialist. The book explores such key issues as: the place of our economy in the larger social system, the importance of market institutions for individual autonomy, private enterprise as a system of economic development, poverty and inequality in market economies, global inequality, the limits of the market and the role of government. The book is distinctive in employing a rights-based approach to understanding and evaluating economic institutions.

Globalization and The Poor or Practical Hydraulics Handbook

Globalization and The Poor

Author: Jay R Mandl

This book represents a new viewpoint of economic globalization. Until now, the debate has been polarized between those attacking globalization (such as the demonstrators at the WTO meetings), and its defenders (mostly in the U.S. business community). Jay Mandle argues that opponents fail to understand that broadly-based benefits for the poor are latent in the economic globalization process. Simultaneously, defenders have insufficiently acknowledged that it creates innocent victims who should be the object of ameliorative policies. Mandle describes effective policies to be adopted at the national and international levels to make globalization fair.

Book review: Realização de Êxito de Pós-fusão:o Guia do Depositário de dinheiro de apostas de Diligência Devida Cultural, Avaliação, e Integração

Practical Hydraulics Handbook

Author: Barbara Hauser

The Second Edition of the Practical Hydraulics Handbook is a mustfor all those who work with water utility systems. Presented in workbook format and emphasizing practical applications, this Handbook is perfect for hydraulic engineers, technicians, operating personnel, supervisors, managers, consultants, and students.

The exceptionally well-organized chapters include information on pressurized systems and open channel flow, principles of energy and force, flow calculations and measurement, pumps, and pumping applications.

This latest edition of the Practical Hydraulics Handbook includes new exercises at the end of each chapter and detailed solutions to selected exercises. The well-chosen exercises allow readers to practice applications of the theory and to test their knowledge of the material. The solutions provide guidance and problem-solving techniques that can be used both in the field and in the lab.

Reference tables are also provided for calculations of friction loss, velocity, pipe fullness, well drawdown, English/metric conversions, power, and metered flow. These tables make calculations easier and minimize the chance for error.

In this new edition of Practical Hydraulics Handbook, all of the major principles and calculations dealing with the hydraulics of water systems are covered, and new and expanded material has been added.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Ch. 1	Mass, Density and Displacement	1
Ch. 2	Flow and Velocity	7
Ch. 3	Pressure	13
Ch. 4	Bernoulli's Theorem	27
Ch. 5	Pumping - Introduction	41
Ch. 6	Friction Loss	53
Ch. 7	Compound Pipes	63
Ch. 8	Minor Head Loss	71
Ch. 9	Open Channel Flow	79
Ch. 10	Flow Measurement I - Flow Rate Meters	91
Ch. 11	Flow Measurement II - Totalizer Meters	109
Ch. 12	Centrifugal Pumps I	121
Ch. 13	Centrifugal Pumps II	141
Ch. 14	Positive Displacement Pumps	159
	Appendix I Problem Solutions	169
	Appendix II Conversions	319
	Appendix III Important Formulas	321
	Appendix IV Formula Derivations	323
	Appendix V Numeric Tables	329
	Appendix VI Pump Troubleshooting	339
	Glossary	343
	Sources Consulted	353
	Index	357

Gift Giving in Japan or Labour Economics

Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies

Author: Katherine Rupp

“[The author] displays not only acute observation of the content of gift-giving but also sensitivity to ambiguities of motives on the part of both giver and receiver.”—Asian Studies Review
“Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies is superbly written and an inspiring work which I recommend for students, researchers, and anyone interested in understanding modern Japan and its people."—Journal of Japanese Studies

New interesting book: Maya for Games or Applied Security Visualization

Labour Economics

Author: Steven W Smith

In the six years since the appearance of the first edition of Stephen Smith's book, labour economics has become a more firmly entrenched subject on the curriculum. Previously regarded as a subsection within industrial economics, there are now very few universities that do not devote a course to it in its own right. The focus of topics covered within it has also altered - the notion of human capital has now become much more central and microeconomic considerations are now more widely studied than macroeconomic phenomena.
The 2nd edition will address these changes and give greater centrality to microeconomics to reflect current course teaching. This excellent new book is a must-see for all those involved in Labour Economics.

Table of Contents:

	Tables
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Labour supply	6
2	Labour demand and productivity	40
3	Wage determination and inequality	71
4	Personnel economics	99
5	Human capital	119
6	Labour market flexibility	244
7	Trade unions and labour markets	202
8	Labour market flexibility	244
9	Job search and vacancy analysis	285
10	Unemployment	325
11	Trade, globalisation and labour markets	379
	Notes	406
	Bibliography	424
	Index	443

Culture Change and the New Technology or Reforming Financial Systems

Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era

Author: Paul A A Shackel

Harpers Ferry was one of America's earliest and most significant industrial communities - serving as an excellent example of the changing patterns of human relations that led to dramatic progress in work life and in domestic relations in modern times. In this well-illustrated book, Paul A. Shackel investigates the historical archaeology of Harpers Ferry, revealing the culture change and influence of new technology on workers and their families. He focuses on the contributions of laborers, craftsmen, and other subordinate groups to industrial progress, and examines ethnic and interracial development in an economy that was transformed from craft-based to industrial.

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Investigates the rise of industry at Harper's Ferry, now in West Virginia, during the 19th century and its impact on working life and domestic relations. Examines the shift of the economy from craft-based to industry-based, the establishment of the national armory that was raided by abolitionist John Brown, and the contribution to economic development of laborers, craftsmen, and other subordinate groups. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction. Industry and Interpreting the Past	1
Ch. 1	"At the Mercy of the Capitalist"	17
Ch. 2	"The Most Eligible Spot on the Whole River": Harpers Ferry - The Early Years	27
Ch. 3	"Under a Malign Influence": Factory Discipline, Political Factionalism, Corruption, and the New Technology	59
Ch. 4	"Their Little Gardens": Landscapes in an Armory Town	87
Ch. 5	"Customs and Habits Interwoven with the Very Fibers of Things": Consumerism among Armory Households	111
Ch. 6	"Oh! Let Oppression's Hand Be Stay'd": The Transformation from Craft to Wage Labor	147
Ch. 7	"Home ...! Refuge from Sadness"	163
App	Interviews with Armory Workers, 1842	177
	References	191
	Index	213

Interesting book: Star Grazing in Hollywood or Diet Life Expectancy and Chronic Disease

Reforming Financial Systems: Historical Implications for Policy

Author: Gerard Caprio

This volume summarizes the key lessons of financial history for emerging market and developing economies, mostly drawn from when OECD economies themselves were industrializing and did not possess the checks, balances, and supervisory capabilities they have today. The topics include the role of central banks, debates on how to make banking secure and sound, the relative efficiency of universal banking (compared with the Anglo-American commercial banking model), and the role of savings banks, nonbanks, and securities markets in development.

Broadcasting Cable the Internet and Beyond or Plain English at Work

Broadcasting, Cable, the Internet and Beyond: An Introduction to Modern Electronic Media

Author: Joseph R Dominick

This text surveys the field of modern electronic media and beyond. Beyond, more than a word in the title, refers to the new technologies, regulations, programming, and competition that affect our world and the broadcasting industry. The authors of Broadcasting, Cable, the Internet and Beyond have three main goals for every edition: 1) to convey the excitement of the industry, 2) to provide a survey of the industry, and 3) presenting a readable text that makes even the most difficult information understandable. With new information and innovations added to an already strong foundation, this edition achieves each of these goals, again.

Book about: Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine or Armchair James Beard

Plain English at Work: A Guide to Writing and Speaking

Author: Edward P Bailey

Everyday we write countless memos, letters, and reports without a second thought. Likewise, we give presentations, both formal and informal. Often this writing and speaking gets criticized for being jargon-ridden, obscure, or long-winded - in short, for not being in "plain English." But what is plain English, and how do we go about writing, and speaking it? In Plain English at Work, Edward Bailey gives the answer, with down-to-earth tips and practical advice. Bailey, an expert in business communications, gives us a simple model for writing. Drawing on two earlier and popular books, The Plain English Approach to Business Writing and A Practical Guide for Business Speaking, this new volume has been significantly updated. It includes up-to-the-minute information on using computers, computer graphics, and typography for your writing, and on using the same technology for designing your presentations. The result is an authoritative and comprehensive single volume that will be the essential guide for everyone wishing to communicate more easily and effectively at work.

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Offers tips on writing and speaking in both formal and informal situations, emphasizing using plain English rather jargon-ridden or bureaucratic language. Applies a simple model for writing based on style, organization, and layout to writing reports, memos, and speeches, and gives advice on public speaking, using visual aids, designing computer presentations, and handling questions and answers. Includes useful checklists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	What is plain English writing?	3
2	Style: writing a readable sentence	9
3	Organization: getting to the point	25
4	Layout: adding visual impact	31
5	A model for writing	39
6	Passive voice	47
7	Abstractness	54
8	Punctuation	60
9	Blueprint	69
10	Executive summary	73
11	Typefaces	81
12	Headings	94
13	Bullets	103
14	Graphics	110
15	The writing process	117
16	Supervising writers	122
17	Designing a successful presentation	131
18	Organizing your presentation	137
19	Using examples	152
20	Remembering what to say	158
21	Choosing visual aids	169
22	Designing visual aids	182
23	Designing visual aids - further tips	200
24	Designing computer presentations	211
25	Involving your audience and using humor	219
26	Rehearsing	228
27	Setting up the room	235
28	Using effective techniques of delivery	243
29	Presenting visual aids	250
30	Handling questions and answers	263
31	Helping others speak better	271
	Appendix A: Simpler words and phrases	277
	Appendix B: Checklist for speakers	281
	Appendix C: Checklist for setting up the room	283
	Index	285

Intermediate Accounting Chapters 15 25 Working Papers or Coven Peroni and Pughs Cases and Materials on Taxation of Business Enterprises

Intermediate Accounting, Chapters 15-25, Working Papers, Vol. 2

Author: Donald E E Kieso

Revised to reflect the latest pronouncements, this is an essential resource for professionals in accounting, banking and securities and investments.

Booknews

The new, enhanced edition of a standard text includes substantial new content and new pedagogical features. Coverage begins with a chapter on financial accounting and accounting standards and continues through 24 chapters covering such topics as income statement and related information; balance sheet and statement of cash flows; valuation of inventories; depreciations, impairments, and depletion; intangible assets; long-term liabilities; income taxes; and pensions and postretirement benefits; among other topics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Financial Accounting and Accounting Standards.

Conceptual Framework Underlying Financial Accounting.

The Accounting Information System.

Income Statement and Related Information.

Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows.

Accounting and the Time Value of Money.

Cash and Receivables.

Valuation of Inventories: A Cost Basis Approach.

Inventories: Additional Valuation Issues.

Acquisition and Disposition of Property, Plant, and Equipment.

Depreciation, Impairments, and Depletion.

Intangible Assets.

Current Liabilities and Contingencies.

Long-Term Liabilities.

Stockholders' Equity: Contributed Capital.

Stockholders' Equity: Retained Earnings.

Dilutive Securities and Earnings per Share.

Investments.

Revenue Recognition.

Accounting for Income Taxes.

Accounting for Pensions and Postretirement Benefits.

Accounting for Leases.

Accounting Changes and Error Analysis.

Statement of Cash Flows.

Full Disclosure in Financial Reporting.

Appendix.

Index.

Official Accounting Pronouncements.

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Coven, Peroni and Pugh's Cases and Materials on Taxation of Business Enterprises

Author: Babette Barton

This law school casebook adopts the classic casebook approach to the study of C corporations, S corporations, partnerships, and limited-liability companies, while incorporating an expanded number of problem sets. As revised, the book is intended as a teaching tool adaptable to the newly emerging as well as more traditional law school and business school course offerings in partnership and corporate tax law. There is ample material for a three- or four-credit course on the taxation of C corporations and for a two-credit course focusing on corporate reorganizations.

Project Scheduling Handbook or The East in the West

Project Scheduling Handbook

Author: Jonathan F Hutchings

Offering real-world strategies gleaned from years of professional experience, this book contains the essential tools to prepare a well-organized, efficient, and effective working production schedule for successful construction outcomes. The only guide to address the day-to-day needs with hands-on, problem-resolution strategies, the book views the industry from an insider's perspective and depicts the integral role of a project scheduler in the design of lucrative schemes and layouts for contemporary residential, commercial, industrial, and civil construction ventures. It conveys skills for project schedulers-one of the fastest-growing career specialties in the construction industry.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
1	Construction Contract Law	1
2	Preconstruction Planning	27
3	Project Scheduling Systems	43
4	CPM - Critical Path Management	55
5	Network Scheduling	79
6	Network Diagramming	97
7	Project Operations	117
8	OSHA Project Inspections	213
9	Risk Management	249
10	Project Scheduling Contingencies	273
11	Software Program	297
App. A	Project Production Abbreviations	333
App. B	Industry Associations	349
App. C	EJCDC Table of Contract Standards	355
	Index	367

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The East in the West

Author: Jack Goody

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia, which much European history and social theory has seen as "static" or "backward." Jack Goody challenges these Eurocentric assumptions, including the notion of a special Western rationality, and differences in mercantile activity. Other factors "inhibiting" the East's development, such as the role of the family, have also been greatly exaggerated, and have contributed to a misunderstanding of both Eastern and Western history and society. This wide-ranging and provocative book begins to redress the balance.

Read Write Work or Restoring Japans Economic Growth

Read! Write! Work!

Author: Thomas Wil

This exciting new text designed for developmental composition at two year colleges is the first developmental English text to introduce students to combine the necessities of reading and writing with the world of work. Read! Write! Work! Introduces students to the principles and techniques of everyday writing and reviews the well-constructed paragraph.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Preparing Yourself. 1. Why Read? Why Write? 2. Organizing Your Writing Projects. 3. Looking Within. 4. Looking Forward. Part II: Writing Techniques. 5. Exchanging Information. 6. Identifying What¦s Important. 7. Sorting Things Out. 8. Thinking Things Up. 9. Thinking Things Through. 10. Looking Outward. Part III: Opportunities. 11. Writing a Report. 12. Writing Standards for Developmental English. 13. Computer Fundamentals.

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Restoring Japan's Economic Growth

Author: Adam S Posen

This timely report by the Institute for International Economics has received worldwide coverage in leading newspapers and magazines, including The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Business Week, Asahi Shimbun and others. The author launched his book at the Central Bank of Japan in mid-September. While it is hoped that that the book will be read at the highest echelons of Japan's government in an attempt to reverse the country's economic downslide, it is also accessible to others with an interest in the country's economy.

Adam S. Posen, Research Fellow, is a monetary economist specializing in the political economy of macroeconomic performance in the industrial democracies. He is the author or co-author of numerous works on monetary policy, comparative financial systems, and international political economy including Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience (Princeton University Press 1998) and Why Central Bank Independence Does Not Cause Low Inflation (1993). He received his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, where he was an NSF Graduate Fellow from 1989-92. Prior to joining the Institute, he was Economist in International Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1994-97), Okun Memorial Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution (1993-94), and a Bosch Foundation Fellow in Germany (1992-93).

The Financial Times - Marvin Wolf

An excellent book.

Journal of Economic Literature - Charles Yuji Horioka

Its analysis is convincing, and its policy recommendations are...sensible. I strongly recommend it to economists and policymakers alike. I...hope that Japanese policymakers have the wisdom to heed his advice.

What People Are Saying

Robert Solomon
A thorough and compelling analysis of and prescription for Japan's economic weakness.

Robert Alan Feldman
Provocative . . . A major contribution to the debate on Japanese policy. . . Even creative destructionists can agree with the Posen Program.

Matthew Miller
The doomsday scenario (scaring officials in Washington and Tokyo) is laid out . . . by Adam Posen

Isamu Miyazaki
The . . .analysis and proposals are very interesting, useful, and timely...
— (Isamu Miyazaki, Special Advisor of the Daiwa Institute of Research and former Minister of Economic Planning Agency, Japan)

Benjamin Friedman
Japan's persistent stagnation is among the most important problems confronting the world economy today, and Adam Posen's treatment of it is the best I have seen. His analysis is right on the mark, and his policy porposals bear attention at the highest level of the Japanese government.
— (Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University)

Management Gender and Race in the 21st Century or Controversies in Macroeconomics

Management, Gender, and Race in the 21st Century

Author: Margaret Foegen Foegen Karsten

Management, Gender, and Race in the 21st Century summarizes experiences of specific racial and ethnic minorities and women in leadership positions in U.S. organizations since World War II, with emphasis on the past 10 years. It explores new leadership styles and proposed changes in organizational structure to empower previously disenfranchised groups and presents evidence allowing readers to decide whether it remains only a matter of time until women run major corporations.

Table of Contents:

1	Race, gender, class, and management : an introduction	1
2	Women and racial and ethnic minorities in management : overcoming challenges	16
3	Equal employment opportunity and harassment	54
4	Diversity management : from melting pot to mosaic	91
5	Stereotyping and its impact on perceptions of leadership	121
6	Gender and race-based socialization processes	153
7	Power, politics, assertiveness, and tokenism	182
8	Career planning : a model for a diverse workforce	217
9	Mentoring and networking processes	238
10	Work/life integration	272
11	Stress and managerial women and minorities	317

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Controversies in Macroeconomics: Growth, Trade and Policy

Author: Huw David Dixon

Controversies in Macroeconomics: Growth, Trade and Policy presents debates from the world's leading researchers on some of the most important issues in economics today. Accessible to the general economics reader, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduates and graduates in intermediate macroeconomics, macroeconomic theory, development economics, growth theory and trade theory.

Globalization and the Postcolonial World or Concepts In Federal Taxation 2007 Edition

Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development

Author: Ankie Hoogvelt

Globalization is at the heart of debates about the present phase of development of the world economy. In Globalization and the Postcolonial World, Ankie Hoogvelt joins these debates to examine the ways in which globalization is affecting the countries of the developing world. Taking a new look at historical trends and theories in development studies, Hoogvelt describes the diverse impacts of globalization in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and Latin America, identifying different postcolonial responses in each of these regions.

New to this edition are sections on the new "digital" economy; the resurgence of the United States after decades of putative relative decline and the question of renewed U.S. dominance in the global system; and the volatility of the global financial markets culminating in the East Asia crisis of 1997. Part II has been thoroughly reconfigured and expanded, as have the chapters on East Asia and on Africa. Finally, the conclusions have been rethought in the light of the mushrooming cloud of antiglobalist protests.

Journal of Asian Studies - Christopher Chase-Dunn

This is a well-written textbook and a helpful review of recent theories of development . . . It formulates an innovative synthetic approach of its own and convincingly uses this approach to describe important recent changes in the Third World and in the global system.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures and Tables
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Acknowledgements
Pt. I	Historical Structures
1	The History of Capitalist Expansion
2	Neocolonialism, Modernization and Dependency
3	Crisis and Restructuring: The New International Division of Labour
Pt. II	Crisis and Transformation
4	From Expansion to Involution
5	Flexibility and Informationalism
6	Globalization
7	Global Governance: Regulation and Imperialism
Pt. III	The Postcolonial World
8	Africa: Exclusion and the Containment of Anarchy
9	Islamic Revolt
10	The Developmental States of East Asia
11	Democracy, Civil Society and Postdevelopment in Latin America
	Conclusion
	Notes and References
	Index

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Concepts In Federal Taxation, 2007 Edition (Professional Version)

Author: Kevin E Murphy

CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION is designed for a more conceptual, less detailed approach to federal taxation of individuals and corporations in an introductory taxation course. This conceptual approach presents taxation as a small number of unifying concepts, stressing the overriding principles that apply to all specific tax rules and regulations. CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION offers an excellent balance between tax concepts and the Internal Revenue Code and regulations, preparing users for a future in the business environment.

30 Second Politics or Ethics in International Business

30-Second Politics: Political Advertising in the Eighties

Author: Montague Kern

"Advertising overwhelms news coverage. That is the essence of the point Montague Kern drives home repeatedly throughout her insightful examination of political advertising in the eighties. . . . Any professional interested in political advertising would profit from reading this book. It also would be useful to an undergraduate class on political communication or advertising." Journal of Communication "Kern's work joins a spate of books published in the 1980s on the nature, production, effect, and importance of televised political advertising in US elections. Not, however, old wine in a new bottle, it makes a distinct contribution in three respects. First, other works typically focus on spot advertising in only one type of electoral contest, primarily presidential, senatorial, or gubernatorial; Kern examines political ads at all electoral levels, in representative regions, and in a variety of mass media markets. Second, Kern employs multiple data gathering techniques beyond conventional content analysis of ads or surveys of voters' responses--interviews, a Delphic panel, and selected semiotic approaches. Finally, the book addresses changes in the character and impact of televised political spots since the 1970s, arguing that documentary news styles in ads have been replaced by those of commercial strategy of 'touching someone.'" Choice

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Has Political Advertising Changed Since 1972?
Schools of Consulting: The Responsive Chord Revisited
Issues in Televised Ads and News
Hope, Pride, Reassurance and Trust: Decoding the Cues in Emotional Appeals
Negative Advertising and Affect: The Soft and Hard Sell
Democrats Reach for the Presidency: 1984 and Yet More Enduring Lessons
The Hunt-Helms Senate Race: Finding What Works in a Negative Campaign
Theory and House Practice: Ad Campaigns in the Heartland
To Make a House Race Competitive: Ads in Southern Political Cultures
Conclusion: The New Mass Media Election
Bibliography
Index

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Ethics in International Business: Decision-Making in a Global Political Economy

Author: John M Klin

Business takes place in an increasingly global environment, crossing political and cultural boundaries, and consequently ethical dilemmas arise. The central focus of this text lies in how to make and explain "best choice" judgments in international business situations.

This innovative textbook provides a topical and relevant analysis of the ethical dimensions of conducting business in a global political economy. From a starting point of applied ethics, the book introduces a common set of normative terms and analytical tools for examining and discussing real case scenarios.

Extensive real-world examples, presented in the form of exhibits, cover issues including:
* Foreign production, including sweatshops
* Export of hazardous products
* Testing and pricing of HIV-AIDS drugs
* Advertising tobacco, alcoholic beverages and infant formula
* Deceptive marketing techniques and bribery
* Religious and social discrimination
* Cultural impacts from "music, movies and malls"
*Environmental issues, including oil spills, rain forest preservation, global warming and genetically modified foods

Anyone with an interest in the ethical implications of international business, or the business implications of corporate responsibility in the global market, will find this book a thought-provoking yet balanced analysis. Clearly written, this book will be the textbook of choice in this increasingly important field.