Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing: A Model for American Companies (Corporate Leadership)
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    Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing: A Model for American Companies (Corporate Leadership)
    Brian H. Maskell
    Manufacturer: Productivity Press
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    ASIN: 0915299992

    Book Description

    If your company is adopting world class manufacturing techniques, you'll need new methods of performance measurement to control production variables. In practical terms, this book describes the new methods of performance measurement and how they are used in a changing environment. For manufacturing managers as well as cost accountants, it provides a theoretical foundation of these innovative methods supported by extensive practical examples. The book specifically addresses performance measures for delivery, process time, production flexibility, quality, and finance.

    Products Liability in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
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      Products Liability in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
      David G. Owen , and Jerry J. Phillips
      Manufacturer: West
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      ASIN: 0314155104
      Release Date: 2005-07-27

      Product Description

      Fast, reliable source on products liability. This authoritative summary shows how a rule is applied and its rationale; addresses procedure and strategy questions; and discusses common-sense issues. In addition, this text covers the definition and scope of products liability; causes of action; damages; remedies; jurisdiction; production and design defects; inadequate warnings and instructions; misrepresentation; and problems of proof.
      Products Liability in a Nutshell
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        Products Liability in a Nutshell
        Jerry J.; Noel, Dix W. Phillips
        Manufacturer: West Pub Co
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        ASIN: B000VHQCKO
        Products Liability in a Nutshell
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          Dix W., Jerry J. Phillips Noel
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          ASIN: B000W4ZYMI
          Products Liability in a Nutshell (Nutshell Ser.)
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            Manufacturer: West Publishing Company, College & School Division
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            Products liability in a nutshell (Nutshell series)
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              Dix W Noel
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              Toxic Torts in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
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                Jean MacChiaroli Eggen
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                ASIN: 0314065423

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                Toxic Tort Law blends private and public law resulting in its own set of unique problems and challenges. Because this area is gaining prominence, it's developing its own jurisprudence. Introduces the study of toxic torts and identifies the theories of liabilities, including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). Covers special defendants, defenses, causation, injuries, and damages. Text also addresses mass toxic torts and delves into the case of environmental tobacco smoke.
                Products Liability in a Nutshell
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                  Jerry J. Phillips
                  Manufacturer: WEST EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING
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                  ASIN: B000R0FV20
                  Products Liability in a Nutshell
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                    David G. Owen
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                    Products Liability: In a Nutshell
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                      Jerry J. Phillips
                      Manufacturer: West Publishing Company, College & School Division
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                      Regression Analysis: Statistical Modeling of A Response Variable
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                      • 90's Update to a Classic Procedure
                      Regression Analysis: Statistical Modeling of A Response Variable
                      William J. Wilson
                      Manufacturer: Academic Press
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                      Binding: Hardcover

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                      ASIN: 0122674758

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                      Regression Analysis provides students with the skills and techniques necessary for the intelligent statistical analysis of a response variable. The book underscores statistical concepts, de-emphasizes formulas, and incorporates real data from the most popular package at this level, SAS. Regression Analysis also covers other linear models such as analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, analysis of a binary response variable, as well as an introduction to nonlinear regression.

                      * Discusses the analysis of data including estimation, diagnostics, and remedial actions
                      * Includes examples and exercises which contain both real and simulated data
                      * Emphasizes computer implementation and methods
                      * Provides many references for related and more advanced methods
                      * Supported by instructor's manual containing data sets on disk

                      Customer Reviews:

                      5 out of 5 stars 90's Update to a Classic Procedure.......1999-03-04

                      Freund & Wilson have taken a classical statistical procedure and breathed new life into it. Covering the basics at an understandable level, the text covers all current and traditional topic areas. From Multipe Regression to PCA regression with a tinge of Ridge Regression. Traditional trouble areas are adequately dealt with. The novice reader will have no trouble in getting up to speed and not have any of the formula hemmoraging normally associated with MRA. For you mathematicians take a break and go do a derivative elsewhere. A Dummies book for the rest of us. 5 stars and 6 bottles of beer for this one. Good job fellas!
                      Regression Analysis: Statistical Modeling of a Response Variable
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                        Regression Analysis: Statistical Modeling of a Response Variable
                        Rudolf Jakob; Wilson, William J. Freund
                        Manufacturer: Academic Press
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                        Binding: Paperback
                        ASIN: B000OH1B2U

                        Traditional Recipes of Old England (Hippocrene International Cookbook Series)
                        Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
                        • Fascinating recipes, much in need of an update
                        Traditional Recipes of Old England (Hippocrene International Cookbook Series)
                        Helen M. Edden
                        Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
                        ProductGroup: Book
                        Binding: Paperback

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                        ASIN: 0781804892

                        Customer Reviews:

                        3 out of 5 stars Fascinating recipes, much in need of an update.......2001-12-29

                        I thought that many of the recipes were very interesting, including the Scots, Irish and Welsh recipes also included. I would like to try many of them out but find that the book needs some sort of an update. This book was evidently first printed in Britain about 1920, many of the terms would probably be obscure even to a present day British cook, let alone an American. I would also like more specific cooking information, no temperatures are given for anything, bake or boil until done is too vague for me.

                        Trade and politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885. An Introduction to the Economic and Political History of Nigeria
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                          Trade and politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885. An Introduction to the Economic and Political History of Nigeria
                          K. Onwuka Dike
                          Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Hardcover
                          ASIN: B0007IL6P8
                          Trade & Politics in the Niger Delta 1830-1885: An Introduction to the Economic and Political History of Nigeria
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                            Trade & Politics in the Niger Delta 1830-1885: An Introduction to the Economic and Political History of Nigeria
                            K. Onkuwa Dike
                            Manufacturer: Clarendon Press
                            ProductGroup: Book
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                            ASIN: B000JNOJF0
                            Trade and politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885: An introduction to the economic and political history of Nigeria (Oxford studies in African affairs)
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                              Trade and politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885: An introduction to the economic and political history of Nigeria (Oxford studies in African affairs)
                              K. Onwuka Dike
                              Manufacturer: The Clarendon press
                              ProductGroup: Book
                              Binding: Unknown Binding
                              ASIN: B0007JALN0

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                              Dr. Dike has made a contribution to the study of Nigeria's principal formative period by drawing on local as well as British sources for his material. He describes how the revolution in trade reacted upon the social and political systems and how the existing native governments were gradually supplanted by British sonsular power. His study ends with the recognition of the British claim to supremacy in the Niger territories at the Berlin West African Conference of 1885.

                              Otis!: The Otis Redding Story
                              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                              • No Depth
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                              Otis!: The Otis Redding Story
                              Scott Freeman
                              Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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                              ASIN: 0312302975

                              Book Description

                              Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, soul brother #1, Otis Redding exploded onto the music scene in 1963 with These Arms of Mine, which went on to hit the top twenty on the RB charts. Inspired by singers such as Sam Cooke and Little Richard, 14 more of Otiss songs hit the top twenty. His appearance in front of a predominantly white audience at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival sealed his crossover success. On December 10, 1967, only three days after recording his greatest hit ever, [Sittin On] The Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding died in a tragic plane crash. Otis! is a celebration of this legends life and musicand of the man himself.

                              Customer Reviews:

                              3 out of 5 stars No Depth.......2006-08-28

                              Don't get me wrong, it's a good biography of Otis, but it lacks a certain depth. It is somewhat one-sided and could have done with a lot more research and more interviews. As previous reviewers have already mentioned, would have been nice to hear from more people.

                              What is also completely lacking is the role that Otis played in American music, american history and what he meant for the black population. There are some hints towards it, but it is never fully explored. It could have been about any artist, there is no real sense that Otis was one of the most gifted and most important soul stars.

                              In that sense it's a little dissappointing, but to get a good overview of his life, the album is worth giving a look.

                              4 out of 5 stars The Original "Love Man".......2002-10-05

                              It was exciting to read about the Big "O".I was ... fed on his music,thanx to my mother.She was so in love with him that she received sympathy cards when he died.It was like a death in my family.......Reading about Otis's childhood was interesting..He is my favorite male vocalist of all time!!..No other male singer sings with as much emotion..Rugged and raw!!.An important fact mentioned was the racial tensions of the times,and how music and musicians were civil rights activists in their own way..I was most surprised to learn how "Satisfaction" was born..Otis sang this song like he loved it!!..And he had just learned it the day it was recorded!..A musical genius........Otis's music still gets played in regular rotation at my house......Rest In Peace "O".

                              3 out of 5 stars OTIS!.......2002-03-27

                              It was nice to hear the other side of Otis Redding's upcoming family and friends (something different) in this book.

                              However, it would have been really good to hear what Otis Redding's Stax family (1963 - 1967) really had to say about him in this book when they were working closely behind him in the studio and also to mention what do they think about him after 35yrs since his death...That part should have been added on to this book..Otis has a Stax's family too...

                              I dont think its fair to have that old little bits and bits statements that was pick up from another story from a book or magazine so long ago...that I what notice in this book called Otis!..

                              This book was clearly written on one side of the story. I am sure that there are many untold stories told about Otis Redding, in the studio that the stax family can really tell us today.

                              For example, of many...I would like to know from Issac Hayes side of the story, his memory of singing in the background song in Otis Redding's song and why it happened.. The song was called "Fa-Fa-Fa Sad Song"...stories like that should have been brought more.

                              No matter what is said, Otis Redding will live on forever.....

                              4 out of 5 stars Good Overview.......2002-03-17

                              I think that Scott Freeman did a Good Solid Job here with this Book.it captures many elements of Ottis Redding.it's a shame that a Major Film&Other things haven't been brought out to capture the Man fully.He did alot in His Short time on Earth.this Book Brings alot to life.The Man as a Artist was One of The Baddest Ever I have Heard.

                              4 out of 5 stars Freeman Does A Fine Job!.......2002-02-02

                              Everything I have ever read about Otis Redding portrays him as perfect. He was a great singer, a great performer, and everybody loved him. Scott Freeman does a good job of showing a more complete Otis Redding. Sometimes Otis is surprising. He once got in complete a gun fight! The best part of the book is the research Scott Freeman did into the music scene that Otis lived in. Freeman played guitar in an R & B band in Macon, Georgia in the 1980's while writing for the Macon Telegraph and News. Many of the old musicians were still active and would sit in with the band. Freeman interviewed many of the old timers for this book, and their memories fill in the details of those times. This is a valuable book for Otis Redding fans!
                              The Otis Redding Story.
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                                Jane Schiesel
                                Manufacturer: Doubleday
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                                ASIN: 0385023359
                                Otis! The Otis Redding Story
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                                  Freeman Scott
                                  Manufacturer: St Martin's Press
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                                  ASIN: B000UFB9TQ
                                  Otis!: The Otis Redding Story
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                                    Scott Freeman
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                                    ASIN: B000OTJ242
                                    Otis!: The Otis Redding Story.
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                                      Scott. FREEMAN
                                      Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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                                      ASIN: B000OTBXFS

                                      The Captain and the Captives: An American Child Tries To Make Sense Out Of War
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                                        The Captain and the Captives: An American Child Tries To Make Sense Out Of War
                                        Andrea Goldthwaite
                                        Manufacturer: Word Association Publishers
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                                        ASIN: 1891231731

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                                        This creative non-fictional accounting of a child's life between 1941 and 1946 offers the reader an inside look at a unique American family. The story begins with President Roosevelt's speech about the attack on Pearl Harbor and ends after the family's relatives return home as released Japanese Prisoners' of War. During the intervening years the child tries to make sense out of the war itself, the sacrifice, and the involvement of family members who were her real life heroes.

                                        The first draft of this heartwarming story was written in 1993. After retirement from the Windham, NH School System, the author spent two and a half years rewriting and editing her work. Finally, her editor, Mr. Jay Schofield of Martha's Vineyard, returned her completed manuscript to her on September 8, 2001. After the horrendous attack on September 11, Andrea wrote dozens of letters to New York editors, but to no avail.The author believes both American school children and American adults would benefit from learning about the past, as it is their lifeline to their futures. This unique story will entertain, inform, and educate those who are young at heart.

                                        My Deepest Sympathies...: Meaningful Sentiments for Condolence Notes and Conversations, Plus a Guide to Eulogies
                                        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                                        • Bereavement
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                                        My Deepest Sympathies...: Meaningful Sentiments for Condolence Notes and Conversations, Plus a Guide to Eulogies
                                        Florence Isaacs
                                        Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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                                        ASIN: 0609605658
                                        Release Date: 2000-06-13

                                        Book Description

                                        Never are we more concerned with getting it right than when writing to one who has suffered a loss. In My Deepest Sympathies--, letter-writing guru Florence Isaacs guides us through the ins and outs of offering comfort and support with short yet meaningful notes that will long be remembered by their recipients. She offers guidelines for diverse situations, with sample letters to draw on, so that it's easy to strike the appropriate tone every time.
                                                
                                        Isaacs explains that the individual circumstances help determine what's appropriate to say in a sympathy note, and she provides specific techniques for a wide range of relationships, from the death of a coworker's spouse to the loss of a friend's elderly parent from Alzheimer's. She also addresses complex situations like the death of an ex-wife, an estranged sibling, or a longtime companion. She even includes thoughtful words for the death of a pet.

                                        Whether it's for a blank note or a few extra lines on a card, Isaacs's advice runs the gamut from personal to professional. And she explains how to provide real help to the bereaved by making phone calls, running errands, or simply lending an ear. Information on funerals, memorial services, and proper etiquette when someone of a different culture has died will help readers avoid missteps in potentially awkward situations. Isaacs closes with techniques for effective eulogies, plus a special appendix of actual eulogies that illustrate ways in which readers can memorialize a loved one for family and friends.
                                                
                                        Filled with practical information, My Deepest Sympathies-- makes it simple to say and do the right thing at difficult times.

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                                        5 out of 5 stars Bereavement.......2005-10-26

                                        It is not easy to give voice to anyone who is grieving. This book offers appropriate suggestions and words in and for different situations. It helped me to compose a sympathy letter to the family of a dear friend when I couldn't think of anything that was fresh and sincere. The author has focussed on loving words as offerings of tenderness and caring for the bereaved.

                                        5 out of 5 stars An essential book for everyone.......2000-08-15

                                        For me, writing a condolence note has always been right up there with having a tooth pulled at the dentist. I never know exactly what to say, which is why Isaacs' book, "My Deepest Sympathies," is so valuable. She covers every conceivable situation (including the really tough ones, like the death of a child or suicide) and every relationship, so that you can write something personal, without worrying about sounding dumb or insensitive. When a client's wife died, it was such a relief to pull out the book, turn to the right chapter, and find tips and examples that helped me write my own appropriate words. The chapter on composing eulogies is a bonus.

                                        Tourism Signs & Symbols
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                                          Tourism Signs & Symbols

                                          Manufacturer: World Tourism Organization Pubns
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                                          Incident at San Augustine Springs (Frontier Forts and People)
                                          Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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                                          Incident at San Augustine Springs (Frontier Forts and People)
                                          Richard Wadsworth
                                          Manufacturer: Yucca Tree Press
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                                          ASIN: 1881325563

                                          Book Description

                                          On July 27, 1861, Major Isaac Lynde abandoned Fort Fillmore, marched his troops to San Augustine Springs and there surrendered without a fight. For over 140 years Lynde has borne the names of coward, traitor, doddering old fool, etc. Could an officer, a West Point graduate, with thirty-four years of honorable service on the frontier, be the person historical accounts describe? Isaac Lynde was never tried for his alleged crimes, or even given a hearing - President Abraham Lincoln and Congress ended Lynde's career without allowing him to speak. Was Isaac Lynde a traitor, or the perfect scapegoat for the battering the Federal armies were taking in the early days of the Civil War?

                                          Customer Reviews:

                                          3 out of 5 stars I'm not impressed . . ........2004-11-25

                                          Back in the late '60s, I did a master's degree in U.S. history and my research dealt with several aspects of the Texas invasion of New Mexico under Col. John Baylor and the humiliation of federal troops at Mesilla in the summer of 1861. Naturally, I've been interested ever since in anything published on the subject of the Civil War in the southwest, so I hunted down this self-published volume, even though I finally had to go through Interlibrary Loan to get it. I'm not sure I should have bothered. Maj. Lynde was an incompetent who abandoned his post under threat from a much smaller Texan force, and who then allowed his troops to string themselves out during their flight up into the Organ Mountains -- with whiskey in their canteens instead of water, though Wadsworth doesn't seem to know about that, . . and I helped dig up the empty bottles at the fort one summer. This idiotic behavior allowed Baylor to roll them up as he caught up with the straggling column with only one shot being fired. Wadsworth seems to think most of this was the fault of Lynde's superiors and subordinates, but there's plenty of blame to go around. In any case, one need only imagine the result if the two commanders had been switched -- if Baylor had been in command at Fort Fillmore. Is there any doubt the defenders of the fort would have sent their attackers packing? Or that the federal assault on the town of Mesilla would have been successful, had Baylor been the one leading it instead of resisting it, instead of the disaster it actually was for the Union troops? But interpretations aside, my biggest gripe about this exercise in special pleading is that Wadsworth seems never to have heard of the two standard books and more than a dozen journal articles on the subject written by Martin Hardwick Hall. Admittedly, the late Dr. Hall was my thesis advisor (and I was his R.A. for awhile), but his work is still important in any discussion of Baylor, Mesilla, or the Confederate Territory of Arizona.

                                          An Apple for My Teacher: Twelve Writers Tell About Teachers Who Made All the Difference
                                          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                                          • Teaching with Heart and Caring
                                          An Apple for My Teacher: Twelve Writers Tell About Teachers Who Made All the Difference

                                          Manufacturer: Algonquin Books
                                          ProductGroup: Book
                                          Binding: Paperback

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                                          ASIN: 0912697571

                                          Book Description

                                          Essays by Houston A. Baker, Jr., John Barth, Fred Chappell, John Eisenhower, George Garrett, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Nancy Hale, Alfred Kazin, Mark Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Max Steele, and Sylvia Wilkinson. "Will fascinate avid readers and teachers".--Chattanooga News-Free Press. A Writer's Digest Book Club selection.

                                          Customer Reviews:

                                          4 out of 5 stars Teaching with Heart and Caring.......2001-03-28

                                          An Apple for My Teacher is a book that helps students and teachers alike realize their importance to one another. The tweleve stories included show what makes a good teacher and how influential a figure a teacher is/can be in a student's life. I enjoyed reading about the various ways and the different types of teachers that influenced these writers. Surprisingly not all of the writers chose teachers that were a 'traditional' teacher nor did they all choose teachers who specifically taught english. The only problem with the book is that it seems dated because most of the authors went to school many years ago. It would be good to have a 'newer' version of this book. Even though the time frame is a bit old the feelings and experiences presented in this book are still relevant today.

                                          From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation
                                          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                                          • Summary: Mises was right
                                          • The ignorance of algorithms
                                          • Miscalculations and botched economies
                                          • You Won't Be Disappointed
                                          • A book of the first importance
                                          From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation
                                          David Ramsay Steele
                                          Manufacturer: Open Court
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                                          Binding: Paperback

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                                          Book Description

                                          In 1920, Ludwig von Mises proclaimed that all attempts to establish socialism would come to grief, for reasons of informational efficiency. At first, socialists and economists took Mises's argument seriously, but by the end of the Second World War, a consensus prevailed that Mises had been discredited. More recently, that consensus has been rapidly reversed: it is now widely agreed that 'Mises was right'. Yet the momentous implications of the Mises argument - for economics, politics, culture, and philosophy - remain largely unexplored. From Marx to Mises is a clear, penetrating exposition of the economic calculation debate, and a scrutiny of some of the broader issues it raises.

                                          Customer Reviews:

                                          5 out of 5 stars Summary: Mises was right.......2003-12-25

                                          But why read that from David Steele? I would almost say why even bother reading about Marx's wothless arguments? except that to demolish socialist beliefs, you need to understand them. If you're interested, I suggest you also read Mises' book "Socialism". The one negative reviewer of this book criticizes Steele for not discussing the algorithms of calculuation. I can say that standard mathematics in regards to economics is gravely flawed and quite frankly irrelevant. Human beings are individuals who can make choices, not solar bodies who's behaviour can be nearly perfectly predicted by mathematics. The only mathematics that has any hope of being relevant to economics and praxeology is chaos theory and network theory.

                                          2 out of 5 stars The ignorance of algorithms.......2002-10-24

                                          If you are a firm believer in the "free market" and know it to be the best of all possible economic organizations, both now and for ever more, then this is the perfect book to confirm your prejudices. This type of reader accounts for the five-star reviews this book has enjoyed (including glowing reviews in an academic journal or two).

                                          If you are less convinced that you are living in the best of all possible worlds, in which efficiency and welfare are maximized, and instead are looking for alternatives, then this book is like taking a cold shower: it'll make you think about the problems involved in constructing alternatives.

                                          Essentially, the book argues that it is undersirable to plan economic organization because planning is inherently inefficient compared to the operation of "free markets". From a scientific perspective the main problem with this book is methodology.

                                          The author attempts to reason about complex systems, such as market organizations, planned economies, information flow from consumers to producers, coordination problems in systems with huge numbers of degrees of freedom, and so on, with very poor tools: essentially analytical philosophy and qualitative arguments. The sophisticated reader will be surprised to find very little mathematics or analysis of computational models. This is an acute lack because the calculation debate is essentially a debate about the theoretical and practical feasibility of classes of algorithms for allocating resources. The author doesn't have the intellectual tools to get to grips with the issues. For example, the actual planning algorithms that are critiqued are not specified in sufficient detail to implement. The author derives definitive conclusions from the analysis of partially and vaguely specified objects.

                                          So for sceptics of the free market: read this critically, but take with a huge pinch of salt: remember the author is an ex-Marxist and revealed between the cracks of the often rambling prose is the desire to justify a wholesale rejection of past commitments. This motivation does not make for good science.

                                          5 out of 5 stars Miscalculations and botched economies.......2002-01-16

                                          Critiques of Marxism are too often biased and useless misunderstandings of the substance and history of its philosophy and theories, but this book points to a partial exception that is more than ideological cliches, the socialist calculation debate, and contains a thorough history of this theoretical wrangle and its arcana, exposing the core weakness of the so-called Communist economies in action. Since consevatives make a fetish of this argument, I will recommend it instead to ostrich students on the left since few seem to be even aware of domain of discourse, or else they are not telling. G. Hogdson's Economics and Utopia also contains a corrective discussion of this issue, with a summary of "Towards a New Socialism", with its provocative and amusing attempt to resolve the intractable pricing nexus with computers! This after all is partly a technical, not a philosophic, issue, in the long run. Pricing twelve million commodities was a nightmare for Stalinist bureaucracies, but a few seconds computer time these days doing an input-output matrix! Hayek the dragonslayer may find himself trumped by Moore's Law, one day. That will be the day. Ha!
                                          Important and useful book.

                                          5 out of 5 stars You Won't Be Disappointed.......2000-10-02

                                          Only a man like Steele, who was once a well-versed Marxist, and then came to appreciate the passionate and compelling anti-socialism of "the Marx of capitalism," the great Ludwig von Mises, could have produced such an insightful book.

                                          The trouble with most Marxists and Misesians is that they usually misconstrue the other side. Steele doesn't. He's one of the few writers who really understands where both sides are coming from.

                                          The result is a fascinating and pentrating analysis of the single most important debate of the last 200 years----one which actually came close to destroying Western civilization as we know it.

                                          Steele cuts through layers of irrelevancies to arrive at the crux of the controversy, and no one who reads this book will go away without a much deeper understanding of politics, economics, and intellectual history. (Example: A powerful analysis of the very idea of "property," whether public or private.) There is no thinking person that the insights of this book will not affect.

                                          5 out of 5 stars A book of the first importance.......1999-07-22

                                          This book explores the relationship between economics and politics by focusing on the idea of "social planning" of the economy. The idea has been tremendously important, both in socialist and in modern liberal countries--but is it right? Steele shows the reasons for and against the idea, and while doing so provides an excellent account of the history of economic theories. He brings clarity, intelligence, and even wit to a subject that other writers struggle to make as opaque as possible. A fascinating book, the best introduction to modern economic thought that I've ever seen.

                                          HERE WE GO AGAIN: My Life In Television (A LISA DREW BOOK)
                                          Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
                                          • THIS BOOK IS BLAH
                                          HERE WE GO AGAIN: My Life In Television (A LISA DREW BOOK)
                                          Betty White
                                          Manufacturer: Scribner
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                                          Binding: Hardcover

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                                          ASIN: 068480042X

                                          Book Description

                                          America's queen of television shares her fascinating life story!

                                          "Here is Betty White -- a woman who has been on television forever!" is generally how Betty White is introduced. And quite accurately, too, since she first appeared in 1949 when both she and television were rank beginners.

                                          Since then, she has had one of the most amazing careers in TV, winning five Emmy awards, creating such unforgettable characters as Sue Ann Nivens and Rose Nylund, and appearing in a host of television classics from 1952's Life with Elizabeth to The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls.

                                          Here We Go Again gives an overview of television's golden era, packed full of wonderful anecdotes about the many famous personalities with whom Betty has worked. It also gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at television over five decades, from her first show, Hollywood on Television which ran live five and a half hours a day six days a week (33 hours per week!), to Betty's current television work. In addition, she talks about her personal life -- how her hectic career caused strain in her relationships and how she finally found happiness with her third husband, the late talk show host Allen Ludden.

                                          As warm and funny as its author, Here We Go Again will thrill her many fans and delight all of those who are interested in the history of America's most popular form of entertainment.

                                          Customer Reviews:

                                          3 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK IS BLAH.......1997-08-13

                                          This book is light, easy reading, but really boring. Betty tells the story of her remarkable career but the book is lacking. Where is the dish? Where are the juicy parts? Betty writes as if it is one big happy press release. She likes everything and everybody. Everything is hunky-dorey. She never minded getting fired from jobs, she never minded being uprooted, she never minded long, tedious work hours. Betty drops names of some of the most famous people in the world and barely comments on them. She gives her meeting with the Queen Mother one sentence in the whole book! She was married to Allen Ludden for 18 years, but until she mentions this toward the end of the book, the reader doesn't even realize that all of their experiences took place over that length of time. She was best friends with Mary Tyler Moore and her husband Grant Tinker and although she tells of many anicdotes, nothing delves very deeply. Betty was on two classic TV shows of all times, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls", yet she glosses over these experiences and doesn't go into any details about any of it. Apparently Betty's life experience is not able to fit into one book and trying to fit it in one book makes it all seem like an outline rather than a story. Readers will look for some juicy "Mary Tyler Moore Show" stories and some backstage gossip about "The Golden Girls", but they will not find that. They will get Betty's ramblings and squeeky clean attitude about not saying anything if you dont have anything nice to say.... apparently she had nothing nice to say so she glossed over much of her life. I really would have loved to know how she truly felt about her coworkers and how they interacted on and off stage. Some funny "blooper" moments would have been great and some real life gossip would make her seem more human. I love Betty White, I just didn't get all I thought I would from this book. But Betty truly is a Golden Girl, she has done it all
                                          Here We Go Again  My Life in Television
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                                            Here We Go Again My Life in Television
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                                            Here We Go Again: My Life in Television (Here We Go Again)
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