International Marketing Data & Statistics 2002 (International Marketing Data and Statistics, 26th ed)

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The Moral Imagination How Literature and Films Can Stimulate Ethical Reflection in the Business World
Oliver F. (EDT) Williams
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An operational review is an evaluation made of management's conformity with policy and budgets. The corporation and its operations are analyzed, including appraisal of structure, controls, procedures, and processes. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the entire process. This core volume (ISBN 0471-252042) is supplemented annually.

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Among the most intractable problems in the public sector is how to train effective administrators. Nagel and the contributors to this wide-ranging investigation show how worldwide the training problem is, and how critical is the need to solve it. Included here are discussions of, among other issues, how to motivate, reward, promote, and sanction new and experienced hires, and also how to deal with them fairly and productively in other ways. They explore ways to provide training courses in colleges, government agencies, and private sector training facilities, how to teach specific subjects, such as financial administration (including taxation, spending, budgeting), and how to develop and implement public policies that are effective, efficient, and equitable. Interdisciplinary as well as cross-national, the book provides viewpoints from both academics and practitioners -- people from political science, public administration, public policy and related disciplines. It also offers a combination of liberal and conservative ideological viewpoints, and reaches into Africa, Asia, East and West Europe, Latin America and North America for its viewpoints. Among the book's features are its stress on the importance of well-trained public administrators, its coverage of the controversial aspects of public administration training, and its success at integrating the substance of public policy with administrative procedures. The result is a major source of information for public administrators and policy makers already in government service and for students in academic programs preparing them for it.

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A Soul, Mind and Heart Experience..........2006-02-03

It literally took me several months to get through this book. I study the holocuast from every aspect. Have been to the Museum in D.C. and still can't fix my mind or heart on what these people have endured. This is a heart experience. I was at the signing of this man's book and was confounded to realize after I had read it that in his eyes he looked evil in the face. I will never know how they endure these horrors of man hating man and nations hating nations. I truly believe if I could phathom this I would understand evil to this degree and God knows I don't want to understand this kind of hate. Read the book and study! I pray history never repeats itself but it does. When I looked into this man's face and then read the book my heart broke. I keep it out in the open for those around to see and hopefully they will ask. I will tell them to read it and pray. As the saying goes...For evil to succeed it takes good men to do nothing!

Excellent read, well written!.......2005-10-05

The true story of Holocaust survivor Jack Oran, aka Yakoff Skurnik in the days that he passed through the web of concentration camps that marked the baseline of WWII in Nazi Germany. Yakoff's ability to make the best of a bad situation is remarkable in itself as each moral and ethical dilemma raises its head. What allows the human being to survive man's inhumanity to man is a crucial awareness, now more than ever. When concentration camp prisoners were being fed/starved on a scientifically devised diet that actually calculated how long it would take them to starve, the ability to forage for food allowed Yakoff to stand out as a man among men. When he was able to provide warm clothing in trade for other items camp members were in need of, his importance in camp society increased. When the number tatooed on his arm spoke of his ability to outlive many, many others, he even earned the wry respect of the camp guards.

Beyond these factors, written clearly as a labor of love, is the tale of the experiment itself -- whose purpose is never explained, as it is never clearly understood. Yakoff and several others were physically and medically castrated by camp doctors, without effective anesthesia. This is really not the story of the experiment, but one man's story of how he experienced it, lived with it, and overcame it in a world where manhood is defined by what your genitals are capable of. For Yakoff, it is a loss beyond comprehension, as even his own father, beyond compassion, is humiliated in his own ego when he hears of it -- his son is no longer his son. Yakoff's father, himself facing remarkable odds and having to perform incredibly horrendous "chores" as a Kapo preparing fellow Jews for the gas chamber by reassuring them they are "only showers" so there will be no panic, cannot face his son when next their paths cross because of the shame of the castration, a shame that surpasses his own.

What makes the Nazis stand out is far beyond their physical brutality. What makes the Nazis, and others like them, stand out is their morbid focus on playing with peoples minds, hearts and souls and breaking their spirit. In many cases and in many ways they were successful, as in the case of the "musselmen" who simply caved in to death and refused to eat and waited for the inevitable. Those who made difficult choices in the name of survival do not consider themselves to be heroes. Still, they do point to the ability of the human spirit to survive in the face of adversity. Not all of us do -- but many of us can. It is all in the choices we make.

Excellent Book!.......2005-07-10

In the last few years I have read many books relating to the Holocaust, but none as detailed and well-written as this one. The book was one of the best I've read in a while, and nicely illustrates most of the aspects of the Holocaust. I would recommend this book for anyone who already knows a lot about the subject, or anyone who knows nothing. 80629: A Mengele Experiment, has made me want to read more books on the subject. This is an excellent book that I encourage you all to read.

A Mengele Experiment - Man's Inhumanity to Man Personified.......2005-01-31

`80629' A Mengele Experiment by Gene Church is the story of Yakoff Skurnik's journey through the hell that was known as Auschwitz. The horrors that are described in this book are almost beyond belief, beyond comprehension, beyond the brain's ability to register them, yet they were common place in Skurnik's world. The fact that he was able to survive any portion of this monstrous existence is a testament to his inner strength and to a great deal of luck. The book is extremely well written and the reader will find himself going through life, if one can call it that, with Skurnik as if he or she were there with him. Mr. Church should be commended for telling the story of this remarkable man and `80629' should be mandatory reading for all.

Lest We Forget ! Read It....Please !.......2003-07-28

This book is one of the most powerful Holocaust books that I have ever read and it will grip you intensely from beginning to end. It is extremely well written and will make most readers angry that innocent people can be treated in such a manner for just one reason alone. Just because they were Jewish.

This is the heartrending story of Yakoff Skurnik (Jack Oran), including his experiences as a Jew growing up in Poland and in relation to his imprisonment during the Nazi Holocaust. Yakoff's childhood/upbringing in Poland is described amongst an almost palpable anti-Semitism in what is depicted as an "inborn national pass-time" within the local/native, Polish population. Even the ancient myth of the "blood libel" still being openly taught amongst a number of other anti-Jewish prejudices which were continually being used to build generations of unjustified hostility. A hostility acted upon with violence at almost every given opportunity.

Shortly after the Nazis entered Yakoff's home town of Sierpc, the book describes how the SS & Gestapo publicly burnt down the town's oldest and largest synagogue in broad daylight. The local fire-engine was stopped at gunpoint and the synagogue allowed to burn. For their amusement the Nazis then forced the Jews to form a long line of men passing single buckets of water in an utterly hopeless attempt to quench the flames. When the men were eventually exhausted, they were then forced to `dance' around the burning synagogue at gunpoint. To further their amusement the Nazis then forced the males to strip from the waist down and crawl around the synagogue on their hands and knees. Even the elderly were not spared, indeed some elderly Jews had their beards publicly clipped for further amusement. The enormous public shame and degradation, in full view of the watching Polish civilian population who were not harassed by the Nazis, was only matched by the enthusiasm and perverse pleasure of the SS & Gestapo responsible.

The story progresses to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps and the "selection" upon arrival. Following which a long column, each individual wearing the prominent yellow, six pointed `Star of David', (including the elderly, the frail, all females, as well as children and babes in arms - including most of Yakoff's family) proceeded straight to the gas chambers. Only the males considered "able to work" were spared instant death.

The "selection" and Yakoff's other experiences described here are replete with further episodes of degradation, beatings and other sick/perverted Nazi jokes which rend the imagination as to how man can stoop to such deranged levels. Yakoff personally witnessing many fellow Jewish inmates being beaten to death in front of him by "senior prisoners", who used their heavy sticks against the heads of the victims until their skulls audibly cracked.

Another of the many slaughters involved an episode on Christmas Day itself. After the Nazi troops had attended Church, tens of thousand of only Jewish prisoners were selected to run a gauntlet along a mud filled track lined on both sides with troops carrying batons and trained German Shepherd attack dogs. Each Jewish prisoner was forced to carry a quantity of rocks and run the gauntlet whilst being beaten at every step by wooden clubs and bitten by dogs. Those who fell or slipped were beaten to death, their bodies chewed by the dogs. Thousands died.

What also pervades the described concentration camp procedures is the lengths to which the Nazi regime was prepared to go to ensure accuracy in documenting the numbers and identities of Jewish prisoners in custody and even those who were murdered. The corpses were always piled in groups of five high for ease of counting and "disposal". The left arm of each dead prisoner was pulled out and his tattooed number taken, ticked off against a list of the prisoners, before being transported to the crematoria.

In due course, Yakoff and a number of other Jewish prisoners were selected for "medical experimentation" by Nazi "medical" staff under Dr. Josef Mengele. The experiences and inhumane levels of depravity incorporated into the experiments are not suitable for mention in any review. Suffice to say that they are beyond anything previously experienced in the camps by Yakoff. The experiences described are not for the squeamish, yet to appreciate the context of the Jewish suffering and the levels of Nazi barbarity it is perhaps necessary to persevere & read the agonising accounts of Yakoff, as one who managed to survive against all the odds, whilst others who were experimented upon at the same time perished.

Yakoff's experiences are described until his liberation towards the war's end. It is difficult to comprehend the vastness of the Nazi death machine at work here. In Birkenau alone, the gas chambers/crematoriums could ruthlessly murder/dispose of over 2,000 at a time, many times a day. The casualty figures are akin to numerous "September 11" type tragedies every single day, for many years. We all owe it to ourselves to read this book and to ensure that this does not happen again. I highly recommend this book.

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