The Fast Forward MBA Pocket Reference, Second Edition

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The Fast Forward MBA Pocket Reference Second Edition - more comprehensive and convenient than ever!

When the success of your business hangs in the balance, you need reliable, authoritative information immediately. You need a resource that covers all the corporate bases-communications, management, economics, strategy, accounting, finance, marketing, and more. You need The Fast Forward MBA Pocket Reference, Second Edition. Packed with information designed to serve all your business needs, this handy, highly readable book is the ultimate companion for those moments when you need to put your finger on the right advice at the right time-now.

This updated and revised Second Edition offers clear, concise coverage of the complete range of essential business topics in a handy format. You'll find all the latest cutting-edge ideas, including new developments in technology, strategy, and branding, as well as key terms, tools, and topics in short, lively entries that give you all the information you need.

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A great introduction to business principles........1999-01-15

This book provides a great introduciton to the key elements of business. After reading it, my business vocabulary was greatly increased. I found this book a better read than "The Portable MBA." "Fast Forward," with less reading, seems to cover more (e.g., economic value added).

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This unique text has as its main themes the development of Greek regions and the impact of the structural policies of the European Union on their progress and prosperity. By analyzing the regional policy of the country during the last decades and presenting the current trends, the book provides evidence on the gradual reduction in regional disparities in Greece. Emphasis is given to the geographic and socio-economic characteristics of the 13 regions of Greece and the objectives of the Community Support Framework for the period 2000 - 2006. Separate chapters are devoted to the development prospects of the Greek islands, the big cities and the mountainous areas. Original maps, tables and graphs together with a comprehensive text make this book a valuable reading for administrators, diplomats, regional scientists, geographers, planners, economists, sociologists, as well as for students of social sciences.

The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millennium Bc: Regional Development and Cultural Interchange Between East and West (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 4)

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The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millennium Bc: Regional Development and Cultural Interchange Between East and West (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 4)

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The first millennium BC saw two great powers embracing the East-West divide: the Achaemenid and Hellenistic empires. The papers in this volume examine how their powerful new kings created palatial institutions suitable to reign subjugated lands with old monarchic traditions. The royal palace, both the building and the institution, is regarded here as a microcosmos, a sort of lens through which to view historical topics such as the relationship between conquered and conqueror, notions of kingship, the development of monarchic roles and the mutual acculturation of East and West.

Simultaneously, as the center of power and propagator of culture, the royal palace throws much light on other parts of society. For instance, the royal court played a normative role, creating buildings and social models that the aristocracy and urban upper class emulated. Moreover, just as the functionality of a particular palace says much about the type of monarchy housed therein, its geographical situation comments on the relationship its king has to his subjects.

Four major periods provide the volume with a loose chronological structure. The pre-Achaemenid section includes papers on Cyprus, Assyria and Babylon, while the Achaemenid section contains a survey of central palaces plus considerations of lesser-known peripheral establishments in Armenia and Georgia. The Hellenistic papers address palaces in Macedonia, Caucasian Iberia and Albania (often ignored despite their wealth of palatial sites), and Syria; the editor also contributes an article on the royal Macedonian gardens. Finally, a piece on the Parthian palaces of the Arsacid dynasty rounds off the collection.

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Athens: The urban ecology of transition from "developing" to "developed" status (Working paper / Institute of Urban & Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley)

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Athens: The urban ecology of transition from "developing" to "developed" status (Working paper / Institute of Urban & Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley)
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The EU compendium of spatial planning systems and policies: Greece (Regional development studies)

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New Music Book Rocks with Insider Insight description by John Darcy-Southern Dutchess News

"Almost Famous," the solid rock-writer movie, seems Hollywooden when compared with another insider's scoop on the music scene.

"Nobody Told Me" relates backroom business deals in the rock and roll world of the 1970's and '80's. It is a fast read that begins in Rockland County (New York) where author Ken Geringer, 46, grew up. While the book traces the author's experiences as musician, manager, record company president and night club owner, it really is Geringer's personal story as a 14-year old runaway, and later husband and father through trying times that is absorbing. How he almost incidentally becomes entangled with the big time while trying to make the rent and raise a family forms a compelling story.

While Geringer's plentiful tales of high times on the music scene are best left unsaid here, other behind-the-scenes stories are the grabber. Geringer's accounts of John Lennon by way of the ex-Beatle's record producer and Geringer's asscoiate, are revealing and add to the Lennon iconography. Geringer's Lennon counters the popular image of the legend as a supremely confident and outspoken artist. As he returned to music after five years' retirement, the late '70's Lennon is uncertain of his talents and abilities. He's bossed about by an autocratic Yoko Ono, a certified control freak if Lennon producer Jack Douglas, the author's friend and source of the stories, is to be believed. (Besides, this is hardly the first time Ono has been cast as a Machiavellian manipulator.)

Most disturbing is Geringer's suggestion that Lennon's eventual return to his old self while recording his comeback album, "Double Fantasy" with Douglas, may have set the stage for his murder. Some, he hints, may have been angered by Lennon's revitalized independent streak, renewed drug use and infidelity as he talks openly of wanting to end his marriage to Ono. His death, according to this line of thought, may have been designed to end all of that independence.

Lennon fans may be shocked, may want to dismiss the book as revisionist and sensationalistic; but Geringer "was there"--not during the Lennon sessions, but later as friend, confidante and managaer of record producer extraordinaire Jack Douglas. In that context, "revealing" seems closer than revisionist.

Lennon spoke freely with Douglas in the studio after the night's sessions ended, Geringer reports, and there are tapes of the talks to prove it. Douglas, who Geringer says intended to give the tapes to Lennon himself, wound up presenting them to Yoko following her husband's death.

Geringer is privy to more than just Lennon lore, given that the Douglas resume includes production or engineering work on records by Bob Dylan, the Band, the Who, Mick Jagger, Aerosmith and Cheap Trick. Other luminaries Geringer encounters along the rock road include an unknown musician who later takes Hollywood by storm. Johnny Depp was a member of The Kidds, a Florida rock band that Geringer jammed with. Depp was a good musician, Geringer observes, and his move from musical stage to movie screen is precipitated when actor Nicholas Cage catches The Kidds performing at an L.A. club.

"Nobody Told Me" borrows its title from a Lennon song of the same name; the Lennon lyric--"Nobody told me there'd be days like this"--reflects Geringer's story perfectly. No one told the author how to get into the music business; he learns the ropes through happenstance, trial and error--direct experience.

Nobody told him how to get out of trouble with thugs or the law, either, those are other stories in this book that, as Lennon sings, point to "strange days indeed..."

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Don't waste your money.......2005-04-09

I bought this book through the mail, so I did not have a chance to flip through it before I bought it. The product description above is misleading.

I bought the book thinking I was going to read many pages about John Lennon and his work with Jack Douglas. I also heard interviews with the author which made it seem as if the book was full of many juicy Lennon tidbits. I was wrong. Essentially, this book is a semi autobiography about the author and his life as a teenager, growing up, getting married, having children, etc. Apparently he worked for several years as a close associate of Jack Douglas and there is much information there, but from my point of view, who cares?

This book sucks most people in because it suggests never before released info about John Lennon. However, there are maybe 5 pages on Lennon in the entire book, much of which we have read before, and they are scattered haphazardly throughout. The book is not even organized well.

Save your money.

A Gift For Hubby.......2002-08-14

I bought Ken Geringer's Nobody Told Me as a gift for my husband, but after I heard hubby laughing all the way through it, I picked it up. And couldn't put it down.
Not what I expected-not your standard rock `n roll litany of what drugs we did on what days-but a sensitive and damn funny tale that has what most books of today lack-meaning. The author, although he did work with Lennon's people and did include much insight on John and others, opens the book with his growing up during a time when he learned it was OK to say `---- off' to racist adults, stupid teachers, and the goody-goody kids in his housing development. I am 48 years old and I remember feeling the same way he did (and still do). Nobody Told Me would still be just as great a book even if Ken never met the rock (Lennon, Aerosmith, plus) and reggae (Bob Marley) musicians he wrote about. Sure, there are drugs, but it isn't a `drug book.' My favorite story is where the author-age 15-and a friend are hitchhiking home holding a 6 foot pot plant after plucking it from where they had it growing in a state forest when a park police car pulls up. But the ranger says only-'this is a state park, boys. It's illegal to pull out our plants.' And he drives away.
Do you remember getting away with...everything? Remember hitchhiking--safely? Remember being 16 and walking down the street, unnoticed, puffing (how shocking!) a Marlboro? Remember those days of innocence and naiveté?
I passed this book onto my 17-year-old son. I want him to understand the world I once lived in, a world I couldn't begin to explain, a world he wouldn't recognize. Okay, cigarettes are bad and maybe pot isn't great either, but we had our freedom. We were free-and encouraged- not only to be ourselves, but we had freedom from fear.
Freedom is what Nobody Told Me is really about. I think we all have a lot to learn from this book (remember learning?) But it was so interesting, wild, and sorry, Ken-cute-it was the most fun I have had with a book in a long, long time. While reading it I got a lot of the same emotions I felt while seeing, reading or listening to: Almost Famous, The Graduate, Alice's Restaurant, Tom Sawyer, Catcher in the Rye, Cheech and Chong, The Smothers Brothers, Lenny Bruce, On The Road, To Kill A Mockingbird, Hair, The Woodstock Movie, To Sir With Love, Billy Jack, anything Hendrix, Dead, Beatles, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and, the Constitution of the United States.
Thanks, Ken, for painting such a vivid picture of a time not-so-long-gone that today's generation will see, understand, and maybe, be inspired to re-create.

A poignant, insider's look at the world of fame.......2002-07-06

Nobody Told Me: From Basement Band To Jack And The John Lennon Sessions is the true-to-life memoir of Ken Geringer, partner and close friend of Jack Douglas. Geringer recounts his own childhood, his introduction into the world of music, from playing drums in a band with Bob Marley's sister to working with Jack Douglas, John and Yoko, Aerosmith, The Who and much more. A poignant, insider's look at the world of fame and a special tribute to John Lennon and Jack Douglas, Nobody Told Me is very highly recommended reading.

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Mary Winstead grew up in Minneapolis, captivated by her fathers tales of his boyhood in rural Mississippi. As a child, she visited her relatives down South, and her nostalgia for that world and its people would compel her to collect her fathers stories for her own children. But Winsteads research into her family history led her to a series of horrifying revelations: about her relatives ingrained racism, their involvement with the Klan, and their connection to the infamous 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney.Writing with dignity, humility, and a profound sense of time and place, Winstead chronicles her awakening to painful truths about people she loved and thought she knew. She profiles her father, a man of remarkable charm and secretiveness. She traces her familys roots through post-Civil War poverty, Southern pride, and Jim Crow laws, exploring racism on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Most movingly, she details her own inner war, a battle between her love for her family and their untenable beliefs and practices.

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Wildly n-integrated Story.......2007-09-19

I was riveted with the stories Ms. Winstead's father told, and her trips South. For that alone, the book is worth something, also for some insights into isolation of Northern suburban living, something I could relate to, growing up in similar protected surroundings.

But the story all became confusing and I became as confused as she was, about all of the issues and it all turned into a muddle. I did not see the story lines integrated well; the jumps between her personal crises, the family stories and the stories of the murders in Neshoba County all remained separate and jarring, - not fully integrated at all. She has a lot to say about these things, but she is not saying them well, giving each half the treatment they deserve. Maybe this should really be 2 or 3 books.

Excellent personal account.......2006-08-25

Living in Minnesota, Mary Winstead becomes fascinated by her father's stories of growing up in Mississippi in the 1920s and 1930s. Deciding that she must preserve these stories, she digs a little deeper into the Southern side of her family, who reside in and near Philadelphia, Mississippi, site of the infamous 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, J.E. Chaney and Michael Schwerner.

She is welcomed warmely, until she gets close to the family secret: They are related to Edgar Ray Killen, the alleged mastermind behind the murders, who at the time of the writing (about 2001, 35 years later) had not yet faced murder charges.

Part personal memoir, part history of the murders, this book explores Winstead's travels to Mississippi and family relations, starting from her childhood, to the present day. It also delves into her personal coming to terms with her family's past and struggles with keeping and perpetuating family secrets and honoring a culture of silence that she cannot subscribe to.

I grew up in the upper midwest and now live not far from Philadelphia, MS. I think Winstead has accurately captured the attitudes of both cultures, and she has wonderfully voiced her inner struggle.

This book was written before the 2005 conviction of Killen on three counts of manslaughter. But, as Winstead said, the book isn't really about civil rights, it's about her family, so perhaps the conviction doesn't matter for the purposes of this book.

A very fine book..........2006-01-11

This was a good memior of her life
and her family history.
Mrs.Winstead's courage in writing
this book is to be applauded.
All Americans should read this book.
By the way,I got a chance to talk
to the author via phone.
She was friendly and cordial.

A waste of my precious time.......2004-05-27

I chose to read this book because I thought that Ms. Winstead was going to write about the slayings of the Civil Rights Workers (Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, and Michael Henry Schwerner). She did, but a little less than 1/3 of her book was actually about their slayings and how her great uncle was involved with the slayings.

I was really very disappointed. She talked mostly about her racist family that lived in the state of Mississippi and the 'N' word was used way too much.

If you haven't purchased this book yet, good..if you did...oh well!!!

Hint (If this book was so good, then why are so many people selling theirs?)...

Thank You.

Hard to put down.......2002-10-07

I found Back to Mississippi a book that was hard to put down, unexpectedly so. From the beginning of the book you know that the story to be told is of the murder of three civil rights' workers and a family's denial of those murders. At the same time this is a personal story of discovery and loss that really pulls the reader in. There are three themes in this memoir: the writer's Catholic upbringing in the north, the delightful discovery of a warm and loving family in the south, and the historical record of the bitter civil rights struggle in Mississippi. As the book progresses there there is an increasing feeling of foreboding of the connection between the family stories and the brutal murders of the civil rights' workers. This foreboding, good stories, and pertinent historical detail made this book more than worth the read. Also, it left me wanting to know more about this period and the concealment of the violence perpeptrated then.

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