The Marketer's Guide to Selling Products Abroad

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Robert Weber here offers a readable, authoritative guide to the strategies and techniques of selling to foreign markets. Intended especially for top management and sales executives in small-to medium-sized companies just beginning to contemplate an export program, The Marketer's Guide to Selling Products Abroad takes the reader sequentially from the crucial questions regarding when and how to export through the common, often frustrating, concerns of documentation, product servicing, advertising, distribution agreements, patents, trademarks, political risks, traveling the territory, and foreign trade shows. An unusally comprehensive treatment of the export process, the book offers workable solutions to such frequently encountered problems as getting paid in a timely fashion; hiring, staffing, and locating an export staff; marketing to different cultures; language difficulties; protecting industrial property rights, such patents and trademarks; and minimizing exposure to terrorism. Weber, himself an experienced exporter, covers the reasons companies should export, the government services available to exporters, alternative distribution methods, and selection of target markets. In each case, Weber offers straightforward, practical advice that can be used with profit by companies wishing to initiate a foreign sales program. Three appendixes offer helpful information about Commerce Department field offices, official languages, and abbreviations and acronyms. Numerous illustrations reinforce information contained in the text.

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Wizards of Wall Street: Market-Beating Insights and Strategies from the Worlds Top-Performing Mutual Fund Managers
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More than 63 million Americans now invest in stock mutual funds. Yet, among the thousands of available choices, less than five percent consistently beat the Standard & Poor's 500 index. The few managers able to surpass this venerable benchmark are a rare breed indeed. Wizards Of Wall Street reveals the secrets of 18 of the world's most steadfastly successful mutual fund managers-all of whom have outperformed the S&P 500 over the past five years, many for much longer.

Kirk Kazanjian, a noted investment expert and personal finance author, presents candid and telling interviews with each manager, tracing their careers and uncovering their successful stock picking strategies. Some, like David Alger, Thomas Marsico, William Miller, and Jim Oelschlager, are prominent in the press. Others, like Ronald Canakaris and William Oates, avoid the spotlight and rarely grant public interviews. Some look for growth at any price. Others keep a strict eye on value. Some buy only established giants. Others prefer small startups. All have indisputable track records, fascinating backgrounds, distinctive styles, and a wealth of knowledge to share.

The book culminates with a penetrating look at the traits these pros have in common and provides a list of ten keys to beating the market. Engaging and enlightening, Wizards of Wall Street will captivate anyone interested in investing for both pleasure and profit.

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Big Disapointment.......2004-04-04

I'm not sure I found one decent idea in this book

I would rate this a "sell".......2004-03-07

I bought this book hoping to learn some real insights. What I learned is that this author doesn't understand the business.

Very Good Book.......2002-06-18

One of the finest all-around investment books I have seen. Lots of wisdom from many excellent managers.

There are much better books out there.......2002-06-10

This wasn't one of the better books out there. It may have been one of the worst. I personally liked: "Secrets of the Wealth Makers: Top Money Managers Reveal Their Investing Wisdom."

Excellent reading and great investment tips.......2002-06-03

This book is full of great and timely investment advice from some leading investment managers. I also really enjoyed how the author took the best advice and put it all together to form specific strategies every investor can use to manage a profitable portfolio. It will be an insightful read for investors of all experience levels.

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Academic professionals are expected to restrain self-interest, promote the ideals of public service, and maintain high standards of performance, while society grants the profession autonomy to regulate itself through peer review. Hamilton conveys the need for ethical leadership from within the peer collegium--a leadership that will foster a culture of high aspiration and peer review. This book suggests that the umbrella academic organizations step forward and draft a model code of ethics for the profession of higher education. Further discussion reveals how such attempts become difficult in face of the market's relentless pressure to frame the institution-student relationship in the economic terms of provider and customer. The book also offers an analysis of academic tradition, academic freedom, and the principles of professional conduct and shared governance. Typical problems in academic life are presented, each followed by questions designed to stimulate seminar-type discussion. Appendices contain a proposed code of ethics as well as AAUP statements on the subject.

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Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management 2000 Supplement (Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management Supplement)

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Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management : 2000 Supplement
Joel G and et al Corporate Controller's HaSiegel
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Charitable giving involves a complex set of rules and regulations with high monetary stakes. This book provides comprehensive information on the laws, definitions, and forms of various charitable gifts, ranging from art to real estate and beyond.

This book is supplemented annually.

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Clear, concise answers.......2007-08-14

I rely heavily on this book in my job and I really appreciate the clear language because I am not a CPA or lawyer.

Very Useful Resource for Nonprofit Managers.......2006-09-09

Bruce Hopkins has made an industry out of advising charitable organizations on tax laws an other government regulation that affect them. This book was spun out of a much earlier edition of Hopkins' better known "The Law of Tax Exempt Organizations" (now in its 8th Edition) and focuses on the rules for donors who give and charities who receive charitable donations.

This is a technical book, aimed at larger charitable organizations and professionals - attorneys and CPAs, in particular - who advise large and small charities. While a secondary reference, it does an excellent job of explaining and directing you to applicable laws, regulations and IRS rulings. It's not a book you are likely to sit down and read cover to cover. But it is a reference that nonprofit professionals and their advisors are likely find extremely useful.

Caution: The book has not yet been supplemented for the August 2006 changes imposed by the Pension Reform Act of 2006, but otherwise it is current, thorough and authoritative. I am sure that Hopkins and Wiley will have an update out soon.

Highly recommended.

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Excellent Work on History, Migration and Irish Genealogy.......2002-12-03

Professor Wilson's book is an incredible study of history and provides a unique insight into the experiences of Irish immigrants.

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Although Jeannie Williams was not able to get cooperation from Jon Vickers for her biography of the tenor, he should hardly be displeased with the result. Whenever she touches on the big battles Vickers fought in the opera world--and there are many, from an early dispute with BBC television that simmered for decades, to touchy relations with the Bayreuth Festival that restricted Vickers's appearances to just two summers, to his famous withdrawal from engagements as Tannhäuser--Williams is scrupulous in her presentation of every aspect of the dispute. What emerges from this life story is a great artist who is surprisingly simple, true to his beliefs from the very start, and dispassionately aware of the value of his gifts. Williams gives us a man who encompasses three of opera's most demanding roles (Otello, Tristan, and Aeneas in Les Troyens) in one season at the Metropolitan Opera, then is asked to stand by for Placido Domingo as he toys with Aeneas in the Met's centennial season. Lack of respect in his native Canada is a recurring theme: the great Tristan shares the bill with Phil Silvers at the Canadian National Exposition, and a fitting farewell tour is sabotaged by the Canada Council.

Because she must rely on published interviews, Williams is constricted in her analysis of how Vickers developed his highly individual interpretations of his roles. Tellingly, a singing actress who could meet Vickers on his own terms, Teresa Stratas, offers the most revealing descriptions of how the singer worked. Through accumulation of details (Benjamin Britten twice walked out on Vickers's Peter Grimes; elsewhere we learn that Vickers found embellished Handel "old fashioned"), Williams gives us a sense of what made Vickers wild and gripping onstage. Birgit Nilsson contributed the lovely foreword. --William R. Braun

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The first biography of a legendary tenor.

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A fair and almost kind Bio by a nosey gossip columist.......2005-05-17

Folks, this man is my hero. As an artist he is near pearless. Anyone who loves great acting can find inspiration if not enjoyment in Opera from seeing or hearing the great singing actors of our history like Callas, Gobbi, and most especially Jon Vickers. Watch his live performance as Peter Grimes under Colin Davis and you will see what I mean.
Now to the subject at hand. Something should be remembered folks when you read the fact that he did not want to cooperate with this journalist from USA Today. He never really wanted full heartedly to be a 'professional singer'. He sang as a hobby why persueing a business career.
He married a lovely women and had five children with her; six mouths to feed. If he fought against overuse of his instrument, lack of quality from fellow singers and directors, and had the courage to insist for higher salaries in this most grueling of businesses, I would say the man had his reasons and one has to wonder how he made it out of this business with any sanity. How can anyone dare to judge a man's behavior when his wife of 38 years is dying from a long battle with cancer?
He says that he gave all his art to the glory of his God and that in it he found his purpose. I would say that if the stress of this self-inflicted goal made him a little difficult to be around or work with, then any of you who feel worthy to analize and judge him need to see if you could perform these works better then he.
How dare this woman not allow him to tell his story as he wishes or even force him to tell it at all. If she has the right to privacy then so does he. And don't give me any stuff about 'the people needing to know everything'. Most folks today cannot tell what is important or not. Critical thinking is the worst thing being inflicted on students and artists in today's society. This retired artist has a constantly growing following. One of the biggest in history. And the man is retired. We have his work documented. It is there for all to see. Let this man tell us his story in his own way and leave him in peace.
Have I read this book about my hero? Yes. It is more revealing than most fans realize. That is what is unfair about this. Provocative? Yes, but at the expence of an already great man by his simplicity that makes him great. View his art but leave his life to himself.

Critic's Comments.......2003-03-16

CRITICS' COMMENTS on Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life

Peter G. Davis, music critic, New York magazine, formerly of The New York Times:
""Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life ranks among the most impressive books I have ever read about an individual singer . ...If the man himself remains an intriguing enigma, that in no way lessens the achievement of this objectively written, painstakingly researched, immensely readable biography."

Antony Peattie, BBC Music Magazine:
"This major new biography gives an unusually full picture of the man, his voice, and his career ... One of the best studies of a singer that I have ever read."

Patrick J. Smith, Opera News:
"Jeannie Williams has done an excellent job in bringing back memories of an extraordinarily vivid singer."

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"In this remarkably even-handed, unauthorized account, Williams engagingly depicts the conflicting aspects of a great artist's personality and howthey shaped his career."

A biography worthy of the subject.......2001-04-28

This is one of the finest biographies of a singer I have ever read. (And I've read a lot.) Jon Vickers was one of the greatest singers of the past 50 years, the supreme Siegmund, Florestan, Tristan, Aeneas and Peter Grimes of his time. (And no slouch as Otello, Canio, Samson and Parsifal, either.) He was a singer with a unique timbre, an iconoclastic temprement, and a burning sense of his artistic mission. Like many great artists, he could sometimes act a little crazy. He was stubborn, short-tempered (he did not suffer fools at all, much less gladly) and on occasion, downright irrational and almost violent. He was also a deeply spiritual man and great artist capable of giving performances of almost transcendant beauty and intensity.

Jeannie Williams gives a comprehensive picture of the great tenor, both his abundant virtues and his manifest warts. The book is well-reasearched and remarkably complete in its account of his career, considering that Vickers refused to participate or cooperate with the author. Vickers' deep Christian beliefs and convictions are treated respectfully and recognized as an integral part of what made him the artist that he was.

The most fascinating chapters are the ones on Vickers' notorious Tannhäuser cancellation in the late 70s (which left both Covent Garden and the Met in the lurch), and on his relationship with the opera "Peter Grimes." As to the former, Vickers maintained that he could not sing Tannhäuser because his religious convictions prevented him from finding any point of connection with the character, and because he found Tannhäuser "revolting." But every single person interviewed for the book, many of them wholly sympathetic to Vickers, believed that the real reason for Vickers' cancellation was because he could not handle the vocal demands of the part. The author allows the reader to draw his or her own conclusion about the incident. As for Peter Grimes, which many consider Vickers' greatest role, Williams affirms that the composer disliked Vickers interpretation intensely and resented Vickers' unilateral (and unauthorized) rewrite of some of the text. (Vickers later claimed that Britten had sanctioned the changes and that they had been made in collaboration with conductor Colin Davis, but according to Williams, they were entirely Vickers' doing.)

This is the very best kind of operatic biography - written by someone who deeply admires the subject but who does not allow that admiration to cloud her judgment or degenerate into fan-like gush. This will no doubt remain the definitive biography of Vickers for quite some time. Highly recommended.

An interesting enigma.......2000-09-26

Reviewing this book is frustrating. As a biography, it is very well written and as close to objective as humanly possible. This is no drooling, glossy fan book altho Ms Williams is certainly a fan of Mr Vickers (as I have been for many years). The paradox comes as we read of Mr Vickers nasty temperament that hides behind a cloak of being so "religious" while showing numerous instances of public rudeness to colleagues as well as to his public by signing contracts he had no intentions of fulfilling (such as his Tannhauser). If a truly great artist and human being as Lauritz Melchior frankly admitted the role of Walther lay too uncomfortably high for him, why couldn't Vickers admit the role of Tannhauser was too difficult for him. Instead he hides behind a hypocritical excuse of "religion" or "morality." How moral is Siegmund, one of hsi signature roles, who runs off with his sister (who is married to another character) AND has a child with her? Ms Williams shows us that Vickers was quite similar to a composer her served so well, Richard Wagner - a genius but a lousy person.

Watching a street sweeper can be fascinating........2000-09-13

The other day I watched a man sweeping the street where I live and it was fascinating. He took such care, and made great attention to all the little details. I was watching a great artist at work. I doubt if there is a book about him though. My point is, [if you've got this far], should these folk, like Vickers, Callas - certainly, Joan Sutherland, and to a lesser extent Rita Hunter, et al, be examined quite so thoroughly from the point of their human attributes? I mean, I'd like to be able to sing leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, but I don't have a voice. I think I'm a nice person, though I do get hate mail for my reviews. So, again, another point, should we expect Vickers to be able to do what he did night after night and still be a nice person?

Dare I say it? I don't want to get too close to people whose performances I've enjoyed, because I have the idea that they may not be very pleasant people. Likewise, I have no real desire to read about their appalling behaviour. These people are only singers for heaven's sake. They need keeping in line, whether it's by Rudolf Bing, Joe Volpe, John Tooley or Wolfgang Wagner. Vickers had a great career, but like so many singers, including Callas, Bjoerling, di Stefano, Corelli, Christoff right down to Rita Hunter, once the personality disorder gets in the way of the talent you may as well not bother.

It's sad really, because there's no-one like Vickers around today. [I mean, I live in a city that thinks Andrea Bocelli is a great artist, but who am I among so many?] The fact that Britten walked out on Vicker's Peter Grimes tells me more about Britten than it does about Vickers. I would have taken it as a compliment.

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Acclaim for 'Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life'.......2007-06-07

Peter G. Davis (esteemed critic and author of Doubleday's "The American Opera Singer") called it "among the most impressive books I have ever read about an individual singer. ...objectively written, painstakingly researched, immensely readable...."
Andrew Porter, British critical guru, said it is "a vivid portrait of the most exciting tenor in the second half of the 20th century," and Antony Peattie of BBC Music Magazine said it's "one of the best studies of a singer that I have ever read."
Urjo Kareda said in Opera Canada, "...(Williams) has done her work lovingly and meticulously, with splendid documentation.... Vickers' is a voice for the ages, never to be forgotten. This book makes us hear him."

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