The English East India Company : The Study of an Early Joint Stock Company, 1600-1640 : The Emergence of International Business, 1200-1800

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This volume is available individually, or as part of the 7 volume set Emergence of International Business 1200-1800 (0-415-19072-X; $910.00/Y [Can. $1365.00/Y]).

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In this source materials edition many important texts have been collected regarding international commercial law. The selection of texts consists of an extensive set of international treaties, uniform rules, regulations, model laws and codes. The collection is the only one of its kind as some texts are barely available and no similar collection exists which is equally complete. The availability of the texts in the English language is more specifically useful for those of another tongue. The selection is primarily aimed at students of international commercial law, international arbitration, comparative (or European) contract and sales law, international banking and intellectual property law. As these fields of the law are heavily influenced by legal practice, the collection also forms an indispensable desk reference guide for those business lawyers who practise international commercial law. Topics included are: - Arbitration & Mediation; - Contract Law; - Electronic Commerce; - Financial Law; - Intellectual Property; - Contractual Arrangements on Transport; - Trusts; - Insolvency; - Taxation; - Corporate Governance, Transparency, Bribery and Codes of Conduct.

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The Rules of Ruthlessness is book that confronts the problem of white-collar alienation head-on. Success is a choice, writes author James DeRossitt: we can either be ruthless and unapologetic in our pursuit of wealth and prestige or we can be lazy and complacent, the sort of uninspired drones who take orders, watch the clock and seek consolation from the TV set.

The choice is clear. For those who reject the path of safe mediocrity, and instead choose the life of the ruthless Â“power player," DeRossitt offers one hundred rules of ruthless success in the high-stakes, hardball world of business. The rules are straightforward and can benefit anyone who desires more respect, wealth and autonomy in life.

The message of this book is a humane one. To succeed in life is to admit what you want and seek it unapologeticallyÂ—and in doing so, you find your best chance at happiness.

Customer Reviews:

Read this book.......2005-08-09

I picked this book up to read on the beach, and loved it. My wife is reading it now. It's a must read for anyone in corporate America, at any level. No warm fuzzys here, just the cold hard realities of life. In business, if you want a friend buy a dog, if you want to get ahead, read this book.

Book for those who need a business attitude.......2004-01-09

This is the book for those who need a little boost to get a head in the business world. It shows you how to look out for the most important person in the business world---YOU!
Must read for those that are scared to ask for what they really want and perfect book for those who want affirmation that they know the rules of the road.

Review of James Derossitt's "Rules of Ruthlessness".......2003-10-02

Whatever your geographic location - whether you work in Austin's high-tech district, Chicago's Loop, San Jose's Silicon Valley, the supermodern, isometric towers of La Défense in Paris, or in the chalk-white highrises of Hong Kong - James Derossitt's Rules of Ruthlessness will apply to your life.
This slim, but insightful book, serves as both manifesto and motivational text, with the ghost of Machiavelli omnipresent. Still, James Derossitt makes this book his own.
Seeing a trend of cutesy business motivational books inundating the market, the author writes how he was inspired to write his own book, which cuts through the B.S.
Structured with 100 easy-to-read chapters, James Derossitt's book is perhaps best read as a daily affirmations book.
Stuck in a rut? Going nowhere in your business career? Are you an office drone addicted to TV's nightly prime-time effervescence of mind-numbing shows like "Everybody Loves Raymond"?
Well, wake up and smell the ruthlessness!
James Derossitt provides the smelling salts.
In business, it's all about self-aggrandizement and jockeying for the position, and Derossitt will help you structure your life (both business and personal) for optimum results.
James Derossitt wants to pump you up. If the author had his way with you, then you'd be embarking on a regimen of running before breakfast and working out at the gym, reading The Wall Street Journal, and scheming your next great move.
It's all about being a leader, building a personal legend, leaving one's legacy.
When you walk into the office, or into a business meeting, there's the symphonic blast of Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra", heads swivel and your entrance is noticed. You're impeccably dressed. Confident. Charismatic.You make things happen. You're a natural born leader.
But it's going to take some time to reach your Pygmalion potential. Some restrictions may apply. There might be Sisyphean stumbling blocks. Trials by fire. Rites of passage. Sacrifices might be mandatory! Friendships might be lost! A Pyrrhic victory!
Derossitt tells you how to avoid dead end jobs and whom to be friends with; he instructs you on time management in whatever timezone you're situated.
Sprinkled with cultural references, politicians and pop figures, "The Rules of Ruthlessness" is a fun read.
As the king of "betterment" Benjamin Franklin so often asked himself (in between his busy schedule of science projects, international diplomacy and fact finding missions): "What good have I done today? What have I accomplished?"
Well, reading James Derossitt's "The Rules of Ruthlessness" is a good start.
-- Alex Sydorenko, Memphis, TN., Sept 2003.

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Preparing great-tasting meals that fit into a healthy meal plan is difficult enough. Preparing them in 30 minutes or less is even more of a challenge. Diabetes cookbook author Robyn Webb introduces an all-new collection of more than 200 new quick-and-easy recipes. Readers can choose from a healthy variety of appetizers, desserts, soups, salads, or entrees.

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More Diabetic Meals in 30 Minutes--Or Less!.......2003-08-23

I got this book from the library and like it so much, I'm ordering one for myself. [A couple of weeks ago, I accidently ordered the first one, and it has its merits too, so I'm not disappointed. The first book (same title except for the word "More") has a section on tips at the beginning of the book and 5 meal menus at the end of the book.]

I love the recipes in this book, particularly the grilling recipes--I use a family size Foreman grill. Most of the recipes call for ingredients that I usually keep on hand, and the ones I have tried are very tasty.

One caveat: Check the carbohydrate count before you decide to use a recipe. Many of the desserts in particular are too high in carbohydrates for diabetics. (Most recipes are pretty good in the fat and sodium levels.)

I wish these books had more complete menus like the 5 in the first book. (This book has no menus.)

Mainly for families.......2001-07-08

Shortly after being diagnosed as a diabetic, I ordered several cookbooks including both this book and its predecessor. The recipes in both books seem to be wonderful and quick. However, we have not used either book very much because almost all recipes are for 6 or more servings. We are two people; they just don't work for us. More menus also would be helpful, especially to the newly diagnosed. Only one book (the first one) has menus, and they are mainly for entertaining.

More Diabetic Meals in 30 Minutes- or Less!.......2000-05-09

The wide variety of recipes for the Diabetic, and the health conscious takes the meal preparer from dips, through main course and dessert. All the exchanges are readable on the recipe page as well as preparation time. With this one book, I use all the different recipes, they can be presented so well, no one at my dinner table knows I am a Diabetic cooking for a Diabetic,rather that I cook tasty meals we all enjoy. Thank you

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Based on ten years of research of actual competition, this cutting-edge text helps students evaluate a firms capabilities and adopt specific action strategies that lead to success. This brief one-color text is appropriate for MBA strategy courses or as a supplement to various upper-division managerial texts. This text is part of the Wests Strategic Management Series edited by Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, and Robert E. Hoskisson, authors of Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, 2nd.

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Strategy for Action: Industry Rivalry and Coordination.......2005-09-24

Must read if you're interested in dynamic strategy.

Strategy As Action: Industry Rivalry and Coordination

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Strategy As Action: Industry Rivalry and Coordination
Curtis M.; Smith, Ken G. Grimm
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTS7PW

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Creating Dolls' House: Period Style
Lionel Barnard , and Ann Barnard
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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A Beginners' Guide to the Dolls' House Hobby: Revised and Expanded Edition

Decorate a Doll's House: Authentic Period Styles from 1630 to the Present Day

Dolls House Do-It-Yourself: Curtains (Dolls House Do-It-Yourself)

ASIN: 071531341X

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The secret to a realistic and authentic looking period dolls' house is in the fixtures and fittings - these are both the basics and the finishing touches.

Each chapter of this book deals with a different fixture or fitting, discussing how it featured in the period home, illustrated with a beautiful fully dressed miniature room set. The chapter then goes on to feature a captioned, photographic gallery of ideas, shown in chronolgical order, from Tudor and Georgian through to Victorian and even Art Deco. This will assist the model maker both in selecting a model suitable for a particular dolls' house, and in styling it. A myriad of accessories to dress each feature is also illustrated in full colour.

Finally, each chapter has a selection of step-by-step projects that show how to make or adapt some of the fixtures and fittings featured, including tips on achieving stunning finishes and decorative effects.

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There are better books around..........2006-07-16

This isn't a bad book, per se. It's great for someone just getting started with doll house design, who knows absolutely nothing and wants to gain some cursory knowledge of different period styles. For someone like me who has a significant collection of books on the hobby, there was nothing in this book that wasn't covered elsewhere (and with more detail). There are some do-it-yourself projects in here, but nothing exceptional. Many of the examples are of store-bought items.

If you're looking for a solid reference book on doll house crafting with specific period styles, I highly recommend Dollhouse Decor by Nick & Esther Forder and Making Miniatures in 1/2 Scale by Venus & Martin Dodge. For more modern furniture and accessory crafting, check out Andrea Barham's Doll's House Accessories, Fixtures & Fittings, or Freida Gray's Doll's House Furniture.

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Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American studies. But Commager's work was by no means confined to the halls of the university: a popular essayist, lecturer, and political commentator, he earned a reputation as an activist for liberal causes and waged public campaigns against McCarthyism in the 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s. As few have been able to do in the past half-century, Commager united the two worlds of scholarship and public intellectual activity.

Through Commager's life and legacy, Neil Jumonville explores a number of questions central to the intellectual history of postwar America. After considering whether Commager and his associates were really the conservative and conformist group that critics have assumed them to be, Jumonville offers a reevaluation of the liberalism of the period. Finally, he uses Commager's example to ask whether intellectual life is truly compatible with scholarly life.

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The Historian as Scholar and Intellectual.......2000-05-11

In 1950, Henry Steele Commager was one of the best-known and most widely-read historians in the United States, and he would eventually be honored with over 40 honorary degrees. Today, he is virtually unknown to the public and, I dare say, is rarely read even by professionals in his field, American intellectual history. What a difference 50 years makes in the life of a historian's reputation and influence! The explanation may lie in part in a useful distinction, drawn early by Neil Jumonville, professor of history at Florida State University, between scholars, who write for professional audiences, and intellectuals, who write for the general public. Jumonville makes clear that Commager trained to be a scholar but, notwithstanding long appointments at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College, spent a good part of his career practicing as an intellectual. As a result, he was very popular in his own time but had relatively little lasting influence on scholars in his field.

Jumonville takes Commager's life from birth to burial in this wide-ranging and solid, if not entirely stimulating, biography. The ultimate issue for any biographer of Commager is: Why did he become passé, even while he was still teaching and writing? (Commager died at the age of 95 in 1998.) Jumonville posits several explanations for Commager's quick descent from national authority to obscurity. The first is that much of Commager's scholarly work had encyclopedic breadth but lacked analytic depth; his opinions and judgments were intuitional rather than carefully deductive and simply have not withstood the test of time. Second and not unrelated, Commager clearly, if unconsciously, showed a preference for being prolific rather than profound. His insistence upon writing, lecturing, and speaking to a large audience, largely for financial reasons, enhanced his popularity but may have contributed to limiting the impact he made on his professional peers. According to Jumonville: "Commager as a popularizer was not a major influence on the direction taken by intellectual historians." Although Commager aspired to recognition for a high level of scholarship, "he was not a research scholar." Commager preferred anecdotes, biographical sketches, and narrative over searching analysis. According to Jumonville: "Many historians felt [Commager's] work lacked appropriate sophistication." Third, some historians clearly resented the "breezy manner" in which Commager wrote, although that was not necessarily a criticism. Commager believed that "history is a branch of literature," and even critics of the substance of his oeuvre tended to admire his style. Fourth and finally, I believe, is the fact that he lost his intellectual curiosity and ceased to read his professional peers, which is an essential activity for scholars in any field. In the middle decades of the century, Commager was nationally known as an activist in "liberal Left politics." In particular, Commager was an outspoken foe of McCarthyism, and this brought him into sustained conflict with conservative commentators. (William F. Buckley once inquired, puckishly if not maliciously, whether Commager's middle name was a tribute to Stalin. It was, instead, a family name.) Later, Commager was an energetic critic of the Vietnam War, and he tended to be sympathetic to the student protesters of the 1960s. One of the issues which Jumonville attempts to address is whether Commager was a consistent Jeffersonian liberal. In my opinion, Jumonville spends too much time attempting to locate Commager along the liberal-conservative political continuum, although, in fairness to the author, Commager spent a lot of time thinking about it, too. This exercise would be profitable if it were necessary to explicate hidden biases, but Commager was an outspoken liberal in most senses of the mid-20th century use of that term. Furthermore, it also must be noted that, although Commager enjoyed engaging in public discourse about contemporary issues, his scholarly books were not partisan. Is professionalism in the writing of history inconsistent with partisan advocacy in public discourse? Or, as Jumonville puts, it: Must there be a clear dividing line between "the role of the historian as a scholar and as an activist intellectual"? Commager's life indicates that the answer is: Not necessarily. But, in purely practical terms, there may simply not be enough hours in the day to perform both functions well. Time magazine criticized one of Commager's books for lacking in thoroughness and suggested that he was a dilettante. That was unfair, but the tendency to write and speak glibly, which punditry requires, does not serve the scholar well because depth of insight is what proves the professional historian's mettle. Jumonville's Commager is likeable, if somewhat eccentric. When friends were invited to his home to dine, his wife entertained them during the cocktail hour, while Commager continued to work, and, when dinner was served, Commager joined them for the meal and conversation, invariably with himself as chief conversationalist. Although he was an energetic teacher, he rarely learned the names of his students. And I especially enjoyed the anecdote during which Commager was arguing with a colleague about the author of a line of Scottish poetry; when Commager could not find the line in an anthology, he concluded that the book was incomplete and tossed it out a window. On the other hand, Jumonville's periodic discussion of Commager's long friendship and correspondence with historian Allan Nevins is interesting but not especially revealing. And Jumonville's frequent references to Commager's relations with the New York Intellectuals do little, in my opinion, to add to Jumonville's thesis. Some readers will not find this book very exciting. But to the extent that intellectual history is a spectator sport, it is more akin to golf than football. I believe this book is a major achievement, but I also suspect that there still is room for another, more searching intellectual biography of Commager, especially one which examines his scholarly output in greater detail. What I am suggesting may be the equivalent of "inside the Beltway" political analysis, and, were he alive, Commager might object to this narrow focus, but it is the standard by which every professional historian is ultimately judged.

Disappointing treatment of a man who deserves better........1999-08-12

Flatly written and repetitive, this book misses many chances to illuminate the life and work of one of the most significant public intellectuals between the 1930s and the 1980s. Jumonville keeps calling Commager a Jeffersonian liberal but seems to have no idea about the difference between Jefferson's thought and the way that thought was understood in the era of the New Deal. Also, though Jumonville stresses that Commager used history to justify political arguments, he is silent on Commager's place in the 1960s controversy about historians writing contemporary history, on which Commager wrote extensively.

The sad thing is that this book is just scholarly enough to seem to occupy the field, but not scholarly enough to be the treatment that the subject deserves

Customer Reviews:

This man is no tenderfoot.......2004-09-03

The great American writer Hemingway wrote about the "lost generation" the fellows who came back from WWI and wanted more than the nine to five grind. Enter Charles Ira Cook who headed north to Minnesota to get the wilds out of his system on the advice of his father. Charles goes up with a friend who soon enough pines for the city life and goes back. Picking up a local man for a new partner Charles is off again in a highly descriptive book that reads fast and is so enjoyable. I loved the part when Charles and his partner Bill listen in the dark as a weasel chases a mouse around the cabin rafters. The story also shows what to look out for when a weasel doesn't have anymore mice to chase. Charles plunges into these woods with an open heart and his deep love of them. The locals are sometimes over taken by his lust for life as he traps,fishes and describes everything he see's - like a pet beaver that can sit at the supper table and drink from a cup. I only wish he would have wandered futher east into Canada and bumped into Jim Vanderbeck the real life person in Stephen W Meader's book Trap Lines North one I read every year. This is a book I will read again and it comes with a fold out map in the back. If you're after a good read and an adventure this is for you.

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This text is appropriate for courses entitled `Management Science', `Quantitative Business Analysis', `Quantitative Methods', `Quantitative Modeling', or other variations of these. The book contains 17 short chapters introducing all the core quantitative tools and techniques of use in analyzing business problems along with 52 class tested cases. The book is based on the highly successful introductory MBA courses at Darden and is distinctive from the standard quantitative text in that the motivation and application of all of the techniques is driven by field-based cases from all the functional areas of business. The text and case volume could be used in a first course at the junior level (most likely as an elective), as a second course following a `traditional' survey of management science, or in introductory MBA courses.

Quantitative Business Analysis: Text and Cases

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Quantitative Business Analysis: Text and Cases
Samuel E. Bodily
Manufacturer: Richard D Irwin
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ9XOE

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