Fao Trade Yearbook, 1999 (Fao Trade Yearbook/Annuaire Fao Du Commerce/Anuario Fao De Comercie)

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Breaking Bread with Father Dominic

Breaking Bread With Father Dominic
Dominic Garramone
Manufacturer: KETC Channel 9
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0967465206

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THE BEST.......2004-09-08

We have a very expensive bread store in SC that sells bread for about $4 per loaf. It's wonderful stuff and though I have baked bread for a very long time (since my teen years), I have never gotten CLOSE to the quality of that bread store...that is...UNTIL NOW! Everything I have made from this book has been wonderful and at $4 per loaf I'll have this book paid for with one more recipe! LOL!!!

You just can't go wrong with this book.......2003-01-22

This is one of the best bread books I have ever used! The recipes are easy and they work. I use a stand mixer with hook attachment and the dough comes out perfect every time. The ingredients are easy to find so there is no searching for that elusive exotic ingredient. I can't say enough good things about this book. If you can only buy one bread making book this would be my first choice!

Outstanding Book.......2002-06-03

This must be the best bread baking book out there. Each recipe is accompanied by the bread machine version so there is no guessing on how it should be modified. The ingredients are easy to obtain in any market. I also love the side-bars concerning the monastic life. This makes the book a fun read on a rainy day even if you don't make any of the breads.

Breaking Bread with Father Dominic.......2000-12-14

This is a great cookbook for both beginners and experienced bread bakers. There are both traditional and bread machine recipes in this book. I have both his books and love them!!

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Heavenly Bread

Breaking Bread with Father Dominic 2
Dominic Garramone
Manufacturer: KETC Channel 9
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0967465214

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Heavenly Bread.......2001-07-22

This bread baking book comes directly from heaven. It has easy to follow receipes and fun and exciting new breads for the true gourmand to try. Spiritually uplifting as well as tasty.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide To Futures and The Laws Of Thought is a "how to" futures-market trading book which addresses the topics of higher mathematics-including Boolean Algebra-philosophy, religion and psychology. Text includes a biography of George Boole, the father of Boolean Algebra and binary logic. Author asserts Boolean ideas developed in the 19th century and actualized in the computer age will reach full fruition in the 21st century.

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Informative and HIGHLY entertaining.......1999-04-29

I have to say that The Hitchhiker¹s Guide is fascinating. From the 'stage set up' of a very intellectual introduction, to the differing but complementary approaches of fundamental and technical analysis, random theory of markets, to discussions of the great mathematicians, philosopher's and thinker's, to the universality of Boole's laws of thought, I have found all of this very stimulating and informative. I believe this book will be seminal as the resource for clear thinking about the business of trading for years to come. There is much to be gained from reading and re-reading these various chapters. I say this because much of what¹s captured in words, sprinkling Boole's logic throughout, about the mind-set of a trader, his emotions, the fear of loss, having a trading plan with undying faith, all of this I have felt. What I hadn't realized is the way floor trader's and the losers (85% of traders) actually move markets. That was an 'aha' for me.

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Don't bother with this book

Avoid Debacles

Why Decisions Fail
Paul C Nutt
Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1576751503

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Why Decisions Fail critiques 15 infamously bad decisions that became public debacles. The author examines how these mistakes could have been avoided and explains how any organization's decision-making process can be improved to prevent such failures.

Author Paul Nutt began by looking at 400 decisions made by top managers involving such topics as products and services, pricing and markets, personnel policy, technology acquisition, and strategic reorganization. Analyzing how each decision was made, he determined that two out of three decisions were based on failureprone or questionable tactics. He identifies these key errors and suggests alternatives that have proven successful.

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Don't bother with this book.......2005-10-10

This book is repetitive, boring, uninformative, and any points made in the book are simply common sense.

Did I mention it's repetitive? ad nauseum.

However, some of the stories about geat disasters stemming from idiotic decisions are interesting, but the stories themselves only constitute about five per cent of the book. The rest of the book is filled with how to avoid these horrible decisions. I'll save you the effort of 300 pages of reading and give you the lesson of the book right here: Don't be a moron!

That's right, folks: don't be a moron - don't buy this book.

Avoid Debacles.......2002-10-24

If we can accept Microsoft's statistic that more than 74 percent of the projects undertaken by business are behind schedule or result in failure, costing more than $74 billion a year, then this book is a bargain.

Ohio State University Professor Paul C. Nutt, who has spent more than 20 years studying how decision are made, says failures can be traced to three blunders and seven traps. Avoiding the blunders and the traps they set will cut one's failure rate significantly.

The blunders to avoid:
* Failure-Prone Practices
* Premature Commitments
* Wrong-Headed Investments.

These blunders lead unsuspecting managers into seven ensnaring traps:
* Failure to Reconcile Claims
* Failure to Manage the Forces Created by a Decision
* Ambiguous Directions
* Limited Search with No Innovation
* Misuse of Evaluation
* Avoidance of Ethic Questions
* Failure to Learn.

Sounds simple; yet anyone who has participated in a project recognizes these blunders and traps. In fact, most of us could supply the author with reams of case studies to add to the ones he uses to illustrate his points.

This is a great book and should be read by project managers and corporate managers alike. Microsoft's number may seem high, but there is no doubt we participate in too many projects that spiral behind schedule and over-budget. Good decision making techniques can only help improve our results.

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Worth Mulling Over

The Collaborative Enterprise: Why Links Between Business Units Often Fail and How to Make Them Work
Andrew Campbell , and Michael Goold
Manufacturer: Basic Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0738203106

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In today's highly fluid business environment, for disparate business units to work together smoothly is increasingly becoming a critical component of long-term success. Andrew Campbell and Michael Goold understand this, and in The Collaborative Enterprise, the two examine "how synergy happens, why it doesn't happen, and what managers can do about it." Using real-world examples, they first look at the difficulties inherent in such partnerships and propose solutions from three different perspectives: the parent manager, the business-unit manager, and the researcher. "Collaborative management can be a major source of advantage," they caution in conclusion. "But, for the vast majority of companies it is not just a nice ambition, it is a competitive necessity." --Howard Rothman

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The world's foremost authorities on multi-business strategy show how to overcome barriers to synergy and achieve real collaboration across the company

"The Collaborative Enterprise is a thoughtful, thorough approach to an opportunity that has long eluded many corporations. The authors use their considerable experience to create practical tools for managers at both corporate centers and business units, showing how the whole can truly become more valuable than the sum of the parts."
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School

In today's diversified companies, or those resulting from the boom in mergers, acquisitions, and alliances, synergy is touted as a great strategic advantage. But more often than not, it turns out to be a mirage, as managers haggle over turf and senior management lacks the skills or commitment to recognize, support, and sustain collaboration. In The Collaborative Enterprise, Andrew Campbell and Michael Goold offer an incisive and highly practical approach to overcoming barriers to synergy, evaluating opportunities within and outside the company, establishing appropriate roles for corporate headquarters and business units, and fostering a commitment to collaboration at all levels of the organization.

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Worth Mulling Over.......2001-02-25

This is not a book that calls for underlining and highlighting, but it definitely has value as a basis for reflecting on various aspects of collaboration, and the failure of collaboration, within enterprises.

The book is written strictly from the perspective of people and perceptions. It does not have a technical or a financial side and this was disappointing. It would have been more useful to have a book that fully integrated human, technical, and financial success stories and failure stories to present an integrated picture of collaborative work principles in a global economy using the Internet as the backbone for collaborative work.

The book is well-written, the figures are useful, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to sit quietly on an airplane and think about the authors' subtitle: why links between business units often fail, and how to make them work.

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An Essential Book for Building Collaborative Teams

Using Belbins team roles

Matching personality with tasks, and vice versa: the prequel

Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail
R. M. Belbin
Manufacturer: Halsted Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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R Meredith Belbin: team building.(discussion of Belbin's work in team role theory): An article from: Thinkers

ASIN: 0470271728

Book Description

An understanding of the importance of team-building will always be a major factor in the successful growth and development of businesses. Management Teams is one of the most widely-read, imaginative and influential books in this vital area of management research.

Over the past decade, the team roles which Dr Belbin identifies in the book have become part of everyday language in organizations all over the world.

All kinds of teams and team behaviours are covered, including: The Apollo syndrome, Creativity, Leading teams, Improving unsuccessful teams, Winning teams, Team size and physical environment, Designing a team, Teams in public affairs.

At the end of the book is a self-perception inventory so that readers can match their own personalities to particular team roles.

Management Teams is required reading for managers concerned with achieving results by getting the best from their key personnel.

One of the most widely read, imaginative and influential books on this vital area of management research
Includes a self-perception inventory so you can match your personality to particular team roles

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Moderately Pleased.......2003-04-22

R. Meredith Belbin's text, Management Teams: Why the succeed or fail is quite applicable to my studies in small group communication. However, I would not choose to read it again outside of this context. I did not enjoy the writing style or the setup of the book, yet it contained helpful information for the assignment I needed it for. The review on the back cover perfectly describes the intended audience of the text, with a line drawn from PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT that says "It should be read by all who have responsibility and authority for guiding organizations in their selection of management teams." For the purpose of writing a speech with the intended audience being a startup corporation looking to build new management teams, this text was very useful and informative. Beyond this, I did not learn much that I had not already learned, or could have surmised on my own. Without having the time to read the text from cover to cover in order from beginning to end, it was difficult to follow some of the associations drawn to other material. There were a few concepts that I did not fully understand even after reading the information, and chose to leave these things out of my speech, such as the Apollo Syndrome. Given that this text is probably not meant for use in coursework, or at least not so much in the area of communication, it was quite applicable to the study of team communication. The focus of the text is more geared toward management research, which seems to be common-sensical at times, yet I think needs to be put into print to establish general guidelines for all to follow. Overall, I would probably recommend this text to someone completing the same or similar assignment or to someone looking to get ahead in a management team. This is definitely a very directed reading and intended for a very tailored audience.

An Essential Book for Building Collaborative Teams.......2000-04-01

This extraordinary book was written by Dr. Belbin nearly 20 years ago and remains in a class by itself in providing a useful theory for building and operating effective decision-making teams. Nowhere else will the reader find a set of principles that are so soundly based on direct evaluation of competing teams, explain so much of effective and ineffective team behavior which otherwise confounds explanation, and which is so beautifully and succinctly written.

While Belbin's title suggests this book is simply about business management, the content of the book is of much wider applicability. This book is a valuable, perhaps indispensable, source for anyone involved in collaborative endeavors. The book would be useful if it merely answered the question "Why do collaborative (creative, decision-making) teams succeed or fail?" Belbin goes much further than that. He tells us how to proactively build teams that are predisposed to succeed and, equally importantly, how to adopt strategies that will lead to success on the part of teams not so fortunately constructed.

I have found this book very useful in building, and teaching the building, of software product development teams, and heartily recommend it for that purpose.

Using Belbins team roles.......2000-02-04

This book is a must for all trainers in the HR arena. It explains the background to Belbins research, it explains the roles in detail and goes on to explain what the roles mean and how to use them to optimise team performance.

The language Belbin uses is friendly and easy to read and so the book is ideal material for trainers and students alike.

A classic book which should be included on every HR Trainers bookshelf.

Matching personality with tasks, and vice versa: the prequel.......1998-10-14

This is really the story behind Belbin's Team Roles. The book show how he, through painstaking research for over twenty years, discovered nine different styles of work (which he calls "Team Roles") that are typical of individuals in teams.

His team role theory is fascinating, and has been shown to correspond with Cattell's 16PF and with the Big 5 personality taxonomy (see e.g. John's chapter in Pervin's Hanbook of Personality).

His ideas on the problems with "perfect fits" in organizations and how to discover "surprise fits" are very ingenous.

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More and more decisions have to be made in networks. Networks have no hierarchy, which precludes simple command and control-type decision making. In addition, project-based techniques are unlikely to succeed in networks, since project management presupposes that one actor, the project manager, is at the top of a hierarchy.
How to make decisions, when both command and control and project management are ineffective? This book offers decision makers operating in networks a new perspective.
If neither command and control nor project management are effective, process management offers a solution: to reach decisions, invest in a structured interaction process. This book provides an in-depth analysis of process management: how to design and manage a process and why, what risks does it pose and how can we address them?
With its crystal clear style, this book appeals to scientists, practitioners as well as students interested in the subject.

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This book contains sample payroll forms and completed tax returns, demonstrating how the church treasurer should prepare records that conform to current regulations.

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Income Tax Guide for Ministers and Religious Workers.......2000-06-18

This book is a very helpful in knowing what to expect in anticipating ministry expenses especially for ministers returning to full time ministry. It helps make decisions about tax verses non-tax issues such as parsonage expenses. The forms included in the book are great for knowing exactly what they look like and how to fill them out.

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Building upon the technical and organizational groundwork presented in the first edition, Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Business and Industry: A Practical Guide, Second Edition addresses the many aspects of risk/uncertainty (R/U) process implementation. This comprehensive volume covers four broad aspects of R/U: general concepts, implementation processes, technical aspects, and examples of application. Each section provides practical guidance, combining technical information with advice on how to implement R/U techniques and processes in real-world corporate environments. Following an examination of general principles involved in quantitatively assessing risks and their impact on value, the book describes the two main probabilistic measures of project value - Expected Value of Success (EVS) and the Expected Value for the Portfolio (EVP). The text clearly demonstrates how these metrics are used in individual-project and portfolio management. By presenting concepts in layman's terms and fully integrating advice related to technical and human characteristics of R/U-related corporate life, this book serves as a complete primer for professionals in any business environment. What's New in the Second Edition: · Provides guidance for implementation of R/U processes in modern corporations · Offers a crucial breakthrough by defining the terms "risk" and "uncertainty" in ways that can be applied in all aspects of science and business · Explores real-world impediments to process change and implementation · Addresses R/U from a corporate decision-maker's perspective, detailing how to employ R/U to set budgets, manage portfolios, value investments, and execute other critical tasks

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Great for Beginners and Intermediates!!.......2001-03-15

This book does an excellent job of laying out the basic of risk assessment, including all of the non-mathematical aspects, such as office politics and educating others in the use of risk models. It's easy to understand, even if you don't have a strong math background. I'm an English major, so I should know!

Unique book - very practical - no fluff.......1999-08-10

This is a great book for someone who is starting to practice Risk Assessment, either as a consultant, or internally. It covers the practical aspects of risk assessment studies which are usually overlooked, such as working and communicating with stakeholders. The 'softer' side of risk assessment theory is covered i.e. what does all this mean in plain english - how do you communicate the results etc.

The author has a good style, and the text does not contain the usual fluff and buzzwords often found in business-oriented books. Check it out!

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It's rare that one of the nation's income transfer programs finds favor among both liberals and conservatives, but the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has done just that. Administered by the Internal Revenue Service, the EITC rewards low- to moderate-income individuals and families with a significant refundable credit even if they owe little or no taxes. Conservatives find the EITC's work requirement appealing, while liberals see the program as a source of cash assistance for the working poor. No wonder, then, that the EITC has grown to become the centerpiece of the nation's antipoverty programs.

In Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit, Saul D. Hoffman and Laurence S. Seidman offer an up-to-date assessment of the EITC in which they analyze, evaluate, summarize, and critique the current state of the program. The authors find that, overall, the EITC works well, and that it has earned its political popularity. Yet they also uncover several problem areas that they address with specific recommendations based on their analysis.

Hoffman and Seidman point to four facets of the EITC that seem inconsistent with the intent of the program. First, it penalizes work among workers with income at the high end of the EITC schedule. Adding the EITC "phase-out" rate of 21 percent to federal income tax and the payroll tax yields a total marginal tax rate of approximately 50 percent, a rate high enough to discourage work among married couples with moderate incomes. Next, the EITC imposes substantial marriage penalties. For instance, if a full-time minimum wage worker marries a full-time minimum wage worker with two children, they suffer a penalty of more than $1,600 compared to what they would have received if they had remained single. The EITC also leaves larger families with low-wage workers stuck in poverty. A married couple with two children and a single wage earner working full-time at $6.50 per hour is still poor even after adding in their $4,000 EITC income. Finally, the EITC eligibility criteria are very complex, especially regarding whether a household has "a qualifying child" and thus is eligible for more generous benefits.

The good news, according to the authors, is that these problems are not independent of each other. In fact, they point out that a revision to improve one of the shortcomings listed above may contribute to the solution of the others. By recommending 1) a reduction in the current EITC phase-out rate for a family with two or more children, 2) the establishment of a separate, more generous EITC schedule for married couples, and 3) a new rate schedule for families with three or more children, Hoffman and Seidman feel that the nation can take a good program and make it even better.

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The economics of work and family.(Kids at Work: The Value of Employer-Sponsored On-Site Child Care Centers)(Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work ... An article from: International Labour Review
Naj, Jr. Ghosheh
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000FOQAC8
Release Date: 2007-07-27

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This digital document is an article from International Labour Review, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 2837 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The economics of work and family.(Kids at Work: The Value of Employer-Sponsored On-Site Child Care Centers)(Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life)(Telework and Social Change: How Technology Is Reshaping the Boundaries between Home and Work)(Leaving Welfare: Employment and Well-Being of the Families that left Welfare in the Post-Entitlement Era)(Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit)(Book review)
Author: Naj, Jr. Ghosheh
Publication: International Labour Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 144 Issue: 4 Page: 497(6)

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