Elsevier's Dictionary of Export Financing and Credit Insurance

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The world is changing and so are international trades in goods and services, their financing as well as their traditional forms of ensuring and guaranteeing. The second edition of this dictionary takes account of this ongoing development.

Twenty years ago, export credit insurance was, nearly exclusively, a matter of state support to the exporting industry: preferential financing facilities offered through state banks and public export credit insurance through governmental or state-near export credit agencies (ECAs). The terminology was dependent on the national legal and commercial systems of these institutions. Ten years ago, it became obvious that export credit insurance was no longer an exclusive matter of ECAs when all major private credit insurers began to offer cover for commercial risks. Today, we are at the edge of covering even political risks on the account of private credit insurance companies and their reinsurers.

These economic developments left their traces in the terminology of export financing and credit insurance and will continue to do so in the future. This dictionary may be useful to practitioners, exporters, bankers and credit insurance companies in particular, as well as to specialised translators, scholars and scientists.

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Elsevier's Dictionary of Export Financing & Credit Insurance in English/ German & French
P. Dorscheid
Manufacturer: French & European Pubns
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 082889258X

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Now, you can incorporate your business without spending hundreds of dollars in costly legal fees. Easily turn your sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, or new business into a corporation. Incorporation Made E-Z shows how E-Z it is to incorporate in any state without a lawyer.

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Good information, convoluted style.......2006-07-12

Incorporation provides a great deal of useful information and guidance to the neophyte considering incorporation. The book can be misleading, definitely has a slant toward those seeking aggressive tax protection strategies and definitely tries to sell other products. But, if you pick it up in the bargain bin as I did you may find it useful and entertaining reading during a business trip.

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How to Get What You Want and Remain True to Yourself
Doug Lennick , and Roy Geer
Manufacturer: Lerner Publications Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Simple Genius (You)

ASIN: 0967383811

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This book will examine two issues: How do I get what I want for myself and how do I get to be number one. It will help you identify what you want for yourself that you can achieve and it will help show you how to be number one.

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The best carrot cake recipes I've ever tried!

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Stir Ups
Junior Welfare League
Manufacturer: Favorite Recipes Press (FRP)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0960934006

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The best carrot cake recipes I've ever tried!.......2002-05-16

I was probably 14 when my mom bought this at a thrift store. I've kept the book now until a puppy htought it was his toy! Time to get another. They aren;t kidding when they say these recipes are full of flavor. The two carrot cake recipes are my favorite in the world. Plenty of ribbon awarded recipes you won't regret serving at your table like: Two great almost fondue like appetizer dips perfect for artisan bread, baguettes or sourdough rounds. Mushrooms Supreme, a mushroom dip with made by cooking mushrooms with bacon, then making a sort of roux then adding the sour cream and Worcestire. Hot Broccoli Dip which uses garlic and cheese and mushrooms - delicious! A Banana Dressing that you taste and think how gourmet these Great Plains are. And of course, what would a midwest cookbook be without great quickbread recipes like we remember our aunts, mom's or grandma's to make, like Pumpkin Bread, Lemon Nut Bread, Mexicali Cornbread, and Muffins by the Pail Full? There's great yeast recipes, as well, like No-fail French bread, pita bread and coffee cake. A Marinated Brisket that has soy sauce as your secret ingredient. And, of course, stuffed pork chops. There are plenty of recipes that are mouth watering without a ribbon, as well. Dutch Baby, a comfort dessert. A hummus recipe to go with the pita bread, and Chicken Breasts in Lemon Cream.

Stir Ups.......2000-04-05

This is a great, non-threatening cookbook for people who are reluctant to try new recipes. Exceptional recipes are identified by the cookbook committee and clearly marked and are, therefore, pretty safe bets for success. Berry-Best Muffins, Chicken Alberghetti, and Chicken Tetrazinni are some of our favorites. Also worth noting: a Low-Cal section, Kid's Specialties, and Easy-to-dos. There are also several full menu selections at the back of the cookbook. I recommend this cookbook to friends looking for a good resource when they start cooking.

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Big Sky Stir-ups Financial Women International

Manufacturer: G & R Publishing Co.
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Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: B000RGQ330

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Big Sky Stir-ups

Manufacturer: G & R Publishing Co.
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Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: B000RGQ46Q

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STIR UPS

Manufacturer: Junior Welfare League
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H2KXJO

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Oklahoma Junior Welfare League Of Enid
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Options: The Investor's Complete Toolkit
Robert W. Kolb
Manufacturer: New York Institute of Finance
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Binding: Paperback

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Options: The Investor's Complete Toolkit.

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Robert W. Kolb
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Manufacturer: New York Institute of Finance
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Can one idea be worth a million dollars? Advertising mogul Reiman discusses his formula for creating million-dollar ideas. A guidebook for every entrepreneur.

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Forget the book, just engage Brighthouse.......2003-11-24

Reiman is a terrific visionary, but this is an absolutely mediocre book with little in terms of substance. The material is indeed scattered. The earlier review by John Dunbar is spot on with charges that a) the book is badly organized; b) the book is edited very poorly.

The mismash arises from the fact that the book draws on unrelated areas as wide as organizational psychology in a creative firm, patent law(?), vignettes of the author's experiences, references to other people's ideas, and even (literally) food that is good for your brain(?)

The problem is that insight is lacking in the book. All the vignettes lack the 'so what' factor. He basically writes: this happens, and then it was a success. But he omits the thinking why it was a success. A typical example follows: "...Young and Tender chicken TV commercial... client wants to drive home brand-name ... idea that came up was - take a dozen 11 mth old babies and make them dance to funky chicken. Nothing is more young and tender than adorable babies". Sure I agree, but there is never an attempt to bridge that extra gap to the insightful stuff...

The only decent themes (and noted by other reviewers too) that this book actually carries through are:
1) That ideas are valuable, and one should charge as much as possible. Interestingly, this is a self-justifying comment, and the tone of the whole book is certainly very 'self-congratulatory'.
2) His reference to Csikszentmihalyi's triangle and that "C showed us that creativity is inseparable from domain."

At the end of the day, why not just read "Flow" and "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Save the pennies and engage Brighthouse instead.

Idea should have its price........2002-11-06

This book is good for people who are working in the creative business of all sorts. Be it advertising, design, marketing, PR or even media, and all the wanna-bes of course. Or simply put, this book is dedicated to all thinkers.

Since the author has advertising background, I think advertising people will find it more relevant. But in fact the points provided from the book can be applied to many different areas.

All along, most buyers, especially clients, may think ideas are cheap or should be free. That's why they are so called very demanding and request again and again the provider to submit lots of alternatives and revisions for them to choose and approve before they commit to pay. This is so wrong, right? If you feel it strongly, this book is for you.

Let's say the ideas you come up were always good and doable. But the most important thing here still is how to get them sold, not to mention in a good price. Inside the book you can find useful tips, inspirations and advises.

It'll be a lot better if the author can provide more insights and clues on how to generate more big ideas and how to protect good ideas from being killed.

Some great ideas in midst of ego-centric anecdotes.......2000-08-20

Where's the editor when you need one?

This book could have been organized better. Like... major transitions buried deep in paragraphs. Were the sub-heads put there for decoration? The egotistical patty-pat-pat's could have been edited out more. And, where's the meat?

The concept of the book is great, the author is experienced, but the book falls somewhat flat.

This book is like Doug Hall's "Jump Start Your Brain" but minus a lot of its content.

Still, there are some great ideas here. You should buy this book for its references and a few of its ideas. It's an easy read -- and that reflects it's lightness on detail.

One thing I thought was important is the concept of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the 3 areas of creativity: the expert, the domain, the judges.

Most books discuss how to improve the individual -- the expert. But there are 2 other important areas. The domain is the marketplace... with its competitors, etc. This would be the source of ideas and demand for ideas. The judges are the rewarders of new ideas. In some cases this might be the users who will purchase your product. In other cases it might be the companies that purchase your ideas. They provide value and rewards to the idea generator. We must evaluate and improve all three of these areas. Or, select those areas were there's a good match of all three.

Thankfully, Csikszentmihalyi's books are referenced and discussed. This book also discusses other references as well.

After reading the book I believe the author is a sincere and knowledgeable person. But I believe the purpose of this book was to sell his idea-generating company. Given that off-the-mark main direction, it is no wonder there were so many self-congradulatory anecdotes. The purpose of the book should be to explain his major techniques, and the by-product, or secondary objective, should be to sell his company.

Overall recommendation: buy it to fill out your creativity library. Otherwise, there are better books on this subject.

John Dunbar

"The Privilege...to Be Who You Are".......2000-01-21

This is one of the most entertaining books I have read in recent years. Reiman is widely (and justly) renowned for his creative mind. Literally, he thinks for a living. And is paid handsomely for his creative talent. This is an immensely personal book. He reviews his career, a career during which he prospered as the head of his own advertising agency and then sold it to his associates inorder to "solo" (as Harriet Rubin would describe it), freeing himself from organizational limits to concentrate on what he does best. "My occupation is thinker and that's who I am, employed at that. Frankly, I can't wait until I get my new passport application. I'll get a kick out of writing `Thinker' in the occupation section. After all, if I'm right, thinkers will be going places in the next century."

If you think about it, think carefully about it, this is an intriguing idea: Come up with terrific ideas and sell them for enormous sums of money. (That in itself is a terrific idea.) In reality, obviously, there are very few people who have the talent to "think for a living" as Reiman does. However, and this is the single greatest value of the book, literally everyone CAN learn from Reiman how to think more creatively in his or her career situation...and to think more creatively about how to improve that situation. Moreover, Reiman has some excellent insights into how to improve one's mental and spiritual health. His values are unashamedly old-fashioned. He seems totally committed to his marriage and parenthood. He seems to have a deep and abiding faith in God. He clearly agrees with Joseph Campbell who once said that "The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are."

For the sake of discussion, let's assume that you are unwilling and/or unable to make a total commitment to thinking as an occupation. I mean full-time occupation. Nevertheless, Reiman explains how his own experiences can help you to increase and enhance your creative (as opposed to analytical) skills, how to apply them more effectively to the personal as well as professional responsibilities entrusted to your care. Reiman observes, "As intellectual capital becomes of greater value to humankind than concrete capital, the world will experience dramatic changes....The measurement of success will be based on one's ability to create from within one's mind rather than outside. Idea rich will take the place of asset rich." I presume to add that ideas are now (or will soon become) the most valuable of assets. That is what "I-commerce" is really all about and it has only begun to have an impact.

Here is a brief, revealing excerpt from the final chapter: "I hope this book, in some small way, plays a role in helping to create the environment in which compassion and prayer, wisdom and kindness, humility and grace become the most powerful, unstoppable big ideas for the next century. If they do, thinking for a living, in the broadest sense of thinking for a rich life, will enrich us all."

Ideas: An Idea Whose Time Has Definitely Come.......1999-10-30

I just read this book, and every fiber of me is screaming, "Yes! Yes! Yes!" I LOVE what Joey Reiman is doing with BrightHouse and Thinking for a Living.

I am reinventing my own life and business, finding innovative ways to combine both my passion for writing and spirituality and my love for birthing great ideas, both my entrepreneurial endeavors and my "real life" as a single parent of a 6-year-old.

This book feels like the perfect fit for what I want to be about--creating great ideas that outlast me. The idea: it's an idea whose time has come. I, for one, hope it stays for awhile. Hats off to Joey Reiman for being a pioneer for the ideation corporation!

Dawn Richerson, President, Creative Revolutions, and author of From the Heart of a Child: Meditations for Everyday Living

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Outer space is in constant use. Most obviously, billions of `packets' of information travel through it every day, for the infinitely various purposes of countless people and organisations. Space platforms increasingly provide important research data for businesses, institutions, and governments. Taxation issues are inevitable. In fact, tax planners have for several years been engaged in designing tax incentives to enhance the development of space commerce. A significant focus of this extraordinary book is an in-depth evaluation of the current U.S. discussion of tax rules designed to stimulate space commerce. For the first time such a debate is placed squarely in its complete context of historic developments and constraints, prevailing tax law (in this case the U.S. internal revenue code), and the body of international and national space law that began with the 1967 Space Treaty. Valuable comparative analysis is provided by examination of corresponding schemes evolving in Canada, Japan, Australia, and France. Specific events, developments, issues, and probabilities dealt with in The Taxation of Space Commerce include the following: + the economic significance of the Challenger launch in 1986; + the value of F.J. Turner's classic "frontier" thesis for understanding the "new frontier" of space; + the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 (U.S.); + the role of the U.S. internal revenue code's foreign tax credit; + the 1979 Moon Treaty; + remote-sensing and nuclear power; + the 1998 Inter-Governmental Space Station Agreement; + case law, especially Smith v. United States; + multinational vs. unilateral taxation schemes; + benefits of space commerce for society as a whole; and + competitiveness and economic efficiency. As a major contribution to the literature of space law and tax law, The Taxation of Space Commerce fills an important need. Beyond that, it is a work of enormous value not only for taxation specialists and communications industry executives and their counsel, but for any enterprise with an eye to the not-too-distant future.

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*HE05, Administrators Solving the Problems of Practice: Decision-Making Concepts, Cases, and Consequences, Wayne K. Hoy(Rutgers University), C. John Tarter(St. John's University), H5594-0, 208 pp., 7 x 9 1/4, 0-205-15594-4, paperbound, 1995, $20.25nk, July*/ The core theme of this book is using models of decision making as useful tools in solving real problems. Each chapter begins with an explanation of a conceptual perspective, the perspective is illustrated with an actual case study, and finally a case is provided for student practice. The contingency approach to decision-making guides administrators in the selection of the appropriate decision strategy. School Administrators.

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