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What is the impact of globalization on texts and media? To what extent do artists and writers consciously or unconsciously build translatability into their work? Translation in a Global Market addresses these questions as well as the problems that may arise from a global market in cultural and aesthetic forms. For instance, what does a global market that increasingly rewards translation-friendly works that cross linguistic and cultural boundaries mean for publishing in non-Western languages? What are the politics of an emergent internationalized aesthetic that privileges metropolitan over vernacular genres? And why do specific cultural objects arrive and circulate in various public spheres? The essays in this volume critically investigate these questions without assuming that these objects were destined to arrive in those public spheres.
Translation in a Global Market assembles contributors from several academic disciplines as well as visual artists for a closer look at the formation of an international canon and at the kinds of texts that gain international visibility. The essays urge a shift in emphasis from global literacy—which implies the use of a standard language and a preference for translatability in texts—to transnational literacy, which places minority and diaspora literatures in direct conversation with each other rather than with Paris, London, or New York.
Contributors. Dina Al-Kassim, Emily Apter, Timothy Brennan, Elena Climent, Maryse Condé, Michael Eng, Renée Green, Rainer Ganahl, Sarah M. Hudgins, Michael North, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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In the friendly and inviting style that has become her trademark, Ilyce Glink gives you the lowdown on how to successfully navigate the often perplexing and unpredictable world of personal finance.
It's a jungle out there. Scan the personal-finance horizon, and you'll see a vast and confusing mess of terms and procedures: credit reports; universal variable life insurance; reverse mortgages; unified tax credits; dividend reinvestment plans.
Have you ever wondered:
How do I calculate my net worth? (See question #4.)
Should I buy or lease my next car? (See question #19.)
How do I develop a diversified portfolio that reflects the risk I want to take? (See question #54.)
How much money will I have when I retire? (See question #83.)
When should I draw up a will? (See question #90.)
With
100 Questions You Should Ask About Your Personal Finances, managing your financial life couldn't be easier. Step by step, bestselling author Ilyce Glink takes you through the sometimes bumpy terrain of investments, mortgages, insurance policies, retirement plans . . . and suddenly it all makes sense. It's like having a trusted friend and adviser by your side in every financial decision you make.
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Better Questions Than Answers.......2001-10-01
This book will inevitably be compared to the newer work, The Road to Wealth by Ms. Suze Orman. Ms. Glink's book has the edge in having a simpler, easier-to-use format which is supplemented by many helpful work sheets. In most other ways, Ms. Orman's book is better as well as having more up-to-date information. Ms. Orman's book has the greatest relative advantage in her section on credit cards.
Like The Road to Wealth, this book will be of most value to those in the 17-25 year-old age group. For most people past 50, this book is at best a two-star effort. You learned most of these things a number of years ago unless you have or had a spouse who kept you away from finances.
The best sections in the book are on buying or leasing a car or truck, buying insurance, determining your net worth, measuring the economic impact of having two incomes, and deciding how much to spend on a home.
I thought that the sections on setting financial goals and investing in stocks were very below par. Both give information and general guidance that miss the mark. Setting financial goals is a small section. That's the most important thing you can do, and there's not enough guidance here. In stock investing, the point is not made that you can outperform over 95 percent of all professional investors by simply buying inexpensive indexed mutual funds. Instead, you get details about all kinds of ways of investing that most people should never do. The advice on how to select professionals to help you was also substandard compared to what you need.
Ms. Glink also emphasizes writing down all of your expenditures to create more frugal habits. Very few people are going to do that. On the hand, she omits the important subject of how to develop your income through your career decisions and actions. I thought the advice was thus imbalanced and impractical. A better thing to do would be to encourage people to write down what they spend on discretionary items and services. Most people could and would do that, and the results would provide most of the benefit with only a small portion of the time investment.
Although most of Ms. Glink's questions are good ones, she occasionally gets caught up in trivia like what a stock split is.
In most of Ms. Glink's sections, the advice is much less detailed than you would get in a specialized book on that subject. So, if you plan to take action in most of these areas, you should probably seek out the top book on that subject. You will see that instantly if you compare this book to Ms. Glink's superb book on being a first-time home buyer, which I highly recommend over the home purchasing section in this book.
Integrate finances into the full fabric of your spiritual, family, and personal life in a way where each supports the others!
The Best of the Bunch.......2000-08-16
You work hard for your money, and spend it on life's necessities and frivolities. But do you know how to make your money work for you -- to manage it, keep more of it, make it grow and protect it so you can enjoy it? There's plenty of financial information available -- magazines, books, newspapers, radio, television and the Internet. There are hundreds of financial companies trying to sell you their products and services. The problem isn't finding enough information, it's finding too much.
I've checked out many books on basic financial advice and the "100 Questions You Should Ask About Your Personal Finances: And the Answers You Need to Help You Save, Invest, and Grow Your Money" by Ilyce Glink is one of the best of the bunch. For anyone looking for a readable, reliable guide to everything they want to know about their money, I'd say this is the book. And this solid book is a book of answers.
Not what I expected - Dont waste your time or money.......1999-08-23
I was very dissapointed with this book. I read the whole thing in a weekend only because I was hoping later chapters would have been worth the time and money I invested in this book. I did not learn anything new about finances and "HOW TO MAKE IT". I was hoping for tips and tricks on how to maximize my investments, retirement, and protect my estate from taxes. This is my first purchase of "Personal Finance" material and it was not a good choice. I hope I can return this book for another choice. Maybe I will wait for customer reviews before I purchase the next book on-line.
Highly Recommended.......1999-08-18
Let's face it, for most of us personal finances is not fun. Not only does it require working with figures that we'd rather not examine, but it also means taking a hard look at who we are and our relationship with money. This book understands these fears and gently helps the reader through all sorts of rough financial terrain. This book is written is a friendly, straight-forward style that doesn't overwhelm the reader. I found the author's supportive one-question-at-a-time approach to be very refreshing. The book's content is clearly divided in such a way that any reader can easily reference information that is applicable to her or his financial situation.
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Industrial espionage is a craft that has evolved over the centuries that remains persistent in its threat. History has shown us that the techniques used today are adaptations of those developed in the sixteenth century and honed through the twentieth century. Accordingly, the text focuses on the similarity of industrial spy craft through time with examples from Anglo-American history. This book will help security professionals to combat industrial (or corporate) espionage in the post-industrial information age by helping to understand its techniques. A primary goal of the book is in giving the reader a real sense of how industrial spies are persistent and clever in circumventing defenses. Another sense the book imparts to the security professional (or the student of security) is that industrial espionage creates paradoxes rather than straightforward, easy solutions. It examines both the defensive and offensive tactics necessary to fight industrial espionage. Living with paradox should be the theme for the security professional, and the book draws wisdom from political philosophers like Machiavelli to aid in that perspective. While the text examines history and discusses security doctrine, it also offers a clear plan of action in dealing with industrial espionage in a fluid, mobile, information-rich business environment. Creating new warriors against the quiet threat is its chief mission.
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In recent years, a commitment to increased accountability and improved performance has become essential in both governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations. To help managers and executives in their ongoing quest for greater accountability and improved performance Theodore H. Poister, offers a comprehensive resource for designing and implementing effective performance measurement systems at the agency level. The ideas, tools, and processes in this vital resource will help organizations develop measurement systems to support such results-oriented management approaches as strategic management, results-based budgeting, performance management, process improvement, performance contracting, and employee incentive systems. Using this book as a guide, public and nonprofit organizations can accurately measure outputs, efficiency, productivity, effectiveness, service quality, and customer satisfaction, and use the resulting data to strengthen decision-making and improve agency and program performance.
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Great book .......2007-09-09
Especially good insights into overcoming the resistence of nonprofit employees to the culture of organizational improvement - how to move them toward benchmarking and performance measurement.
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Organizational Performance and Measurement in the Public Sector: Toward Service, Effort and Accomplishment Reporting
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Legislative initiative, in response to public demands for more accountability, require public agencies at all levels of government to measure organizational performance and to report on service efforts and accomplishments (SEA). What considerations should managers use in developing performance measurement protocols? What is the experience to date in the U.S. and abroad? This collection of original articles does not represent a consensus about the one best way for developing an SEA reporting system. Rather, it aims to put performance measurement in perspective by relating it to the budgeting, auditing, and policy making processes. Towards that end, the issues managers need to consider are examined in a critical way and from various points of view. This book addresses the issues involved in developing Service Effort and Accomplishment (SEA) reports from various points of view. It addresses the context of SEA reporting and relates performance measurement to the budgeting process, auditing process, and policy making. It provides examples of successful performance measurement protocols from the U.S. and abroad.
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Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, and new technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are seeking means of improving their performance. Their quest is not new, rather, the concern with improving the performance of government organizations has existed since the Scientific Management Movement. Public Sector Performance brings together in a single volume the classic, enduring principles and processes that have defined the field of public sector performance, as written in the words of leading practitioners and scholars. Taken as a whole, this volume provides a performance compass for today's public managers, helping them to reconstruct the public's confidence in, and support of, government.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, published by University of Kansas on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 2554 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Organizational Performance and Measurement in the Public Sector: Toward Service, Effort and Accomplishment Reporting. (book reviews)
Author: William B. Tankersley
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Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: University of Kansas
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Become a competitive and successful salesperson with EFFECTIVE REAL ESTATE SALES AND MARKETING! With an overview of the relationship between marketing and sales, this real estate text provides you with the tools and information you need for success. The proven techniques discussed include insight understanding consumer behavior, effective communication, and time management. In-depth coverage of current technology trends with real world applications found throughout will equip you for today's competitive marketplace.
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Best Real Estate Sales Book EVER!.......2007-04-20
I have read many (and when I say many I mean at least 100 or more) books on real estate, and this is by far the absolute best book. It is an easy read, but do not be surprised if it takes you a long time to read it, I find myself lost in thought and the end of each chapter, figuring out ways to implement the information. There is nothing in this book that you have never heard before, but the way it is all put together is great. I would say this book takes everything good I have read from all the other books and puts it in one place. In most of the other real estate sales books I have read, I find myself being disgusted with the "sales tactics" recommended, they made me feel sleezy just thinking about using them. So far in this book I have not come across anything like that. It is refreshing to see that the old pros that write books aren't all a bit on the shady side.
A few months ago I opened my own brokerage, and when I start bringing other agents on board, I am strongly considering giving each a copy of this book to read, especially the agents new to the industry.
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Like all of James McConkey's writing, this book defies conventional definition. It deals with memory - McConkey's memory - of events and lives, politics and family, people and animals, all reconstructed as interwoven stories that are convincing, poignant, and uniquely insightful. His is a visionary journey, neither totally factual nor completely fictive. Instead, McConkey takes a transparency of the past, lays it upon the present, and creates a newly focused image. In Stories from My Life with the Other Animals, he revisits his intimate history to create a totally credible journey of the soul, a journey that sweeps the reader along by the sincerity and precision of the speaker's language, clarity, and probity.
Stories from My Life with the Other Animals forms the final volume in the author's great Court of Memory trilogy a monumental attempt to articulate a message and meaning from his life. Proust wrote, "Those who are haunted by the confused remembrance of truths they have never known are the men who are gifted; but if they never go beyond saying that they can hear a ravishing tune, they convey nothing to others. They are without talent." McConkey, bravely, brilliantly, successfully, grapples with this memory, bringing the truths of his life to light. His is an immense talent.
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When American Orthodoxy was Young.......2005-11-07
When Rabbi Eliezer Silver first came to the US the outlook for American Orthodoxy was bleak. Rabbi Silver, besides his famous life saving work on behalf of the Vaad Hahatzolah during and after WW II, was a pioneer in establishing a viable Orthodoxy outside of the east coast. Although primarily a Yiddish speaking Eastern European rabbi, he recognized the need and value of having all those commited to Torah observance work together. This approach allowed him to maintain close relationships with the "charedi" European rabbis of the Agudas Harabbonim and with their "modern" Orthodox American colleagues and work as collaborators on matters that were crucial for Orthodox survival.Its unfortunate that as Orthodoxy has flourished that spirit of collaboration seems to have withered.
Rabbi Rakeffet-Rothkoff does an excellent job of describing the state of Orthodoxy during Rabbi Silver's life.
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