Hoover's Masterlist of Major International Companies 1998-1999 (Hoover's Masterlist of Major International Companies)

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This new resource covers the top 1,600 companies in countries around the globe and includes: *non-U.S. companies with sales greater than $5 billion *ADRs trading on the major U.S. exchanges, plus nearly 200 others traded OTC *companies on the major indexes from stock markets worldwide (FTSE 100, Nikkei 225, TSE 10 and others) *the top companies from more than 20 countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Rim

You'll get a description of operations and ownership; five years of financials including sales, net income and number of employees; address, telephone, fax and Web site; fiscal year-end; names of CEO and CFO; stock exchange; and stock symbol (if traded in the U.S.). All financial information converted to U.S. dollars. Indexed by industry and country.

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There is no free movement of companies in the EU. National authorities have been able to restrict the activities of foreign companies and it has not been possible to reincorporate under the company laws of another member state. Company law harmonization and the ECJ's case law on the right of
establishment and on services has made only limited progress. This book brings together many of the best known experts on the matter for a thorough analysis of the effects of the extension of the right of establishment.

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From the River to the Rat Race offers time-tested guidelines for navigating the often turbulent waters of the business world. Seven key principles mastered by this seasoned sternwheeler pilot have guided him to success in corporate America, and the book provides an entertaining explanation of the most important rules of the river.

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A must have for parents.......2002-05-24

From The River To The Rat Race is a well written book that every parent of teens should read and have their college bound children read. We have four sons and it has become mandatory reading before they enter college and hopefully they'll read it again before they enter the real world.

I loved the line "watch your wake" because it is the seperation from the child to the adult, when one becomes aware that everything you do truly affects others.

Great book! Great lessons! Tremendous change can occur from its wisdom!

A Book for Everyone!.......2002-03-11

This book is not just for working people; it is for everybody. It is funny, smart and eye opening. I am going to make all of my friends buy one. Patrick True is a hidden talent as a storyteller and he shows you how you can make your day to day life better with his lessons from the river. He is an incredible writer and I hope to see more from him in the future.

This is a great quick-read book!.......2002-02-16

This is a fascinating, easy-to-read book that you can't put down once you've picked it up. The writer tells wonderful short stories that I really connected with. I can apply his 7 life lessons to my personal and professional life. I bought a copy for my friend who is a small business owner. Also, my brother who is a sales manager is buying one for everyone on his team. I highly recommend it!

Better than "Who Moved My Cheese?".......2002-02-13

Each person in our company received copies of this book during a Sales Meeting. Honestly, it's the only corporate-type book I've ever actually enjoyed that gave me "take-aways" applying to work and life in general. It's an easy and enjoyable read. I'm buying one for my father, who has been in a corporate environment for 35 years and another for a friend who's just starting her career -- it applies to both.
Bottom line: True encourages you to remain a REAL person while becoming a REAL-ly effective professional. A refreshing message in today's corporate environment.

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Melnyk and Denzler have written a text that looks at operations management from a different perspective value. In this text, value is a dynamic theme that brings together the issues of performance, cost, competitive reactions, and customer expectations. By using a value-driven perspective, the authors enable students to view every activity in the operations management system in terms of its ability to enhance value. Students learn to evaluate: who current customers are and who new customers will be; what the customer wants; the degree of overlap between the current operations management system and the demands and expectations of customers; how to structure the OM system to deliver value; and, finally, how to measure performance.

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Compleat Guide: How Firms Make & Provide Goods and Services.......2000-05-24

Studying for APICS CIRM (Certification in Integrated Resource Management), I have accumulated a shelf full of books about enterprise management. "Operations Management: A Value-Driven Approach" rises above all the others. It is large book, almost 1000 pages. It covers all the operations management bases (and all the acronyms), including just-in-time, total quality, demand and supply chain, inventory and materials including MRP and MRPII, planning and scheduling, and so forth. It is a well organized and clearly written textbook, with good examples and problems throughout.

The best, however, is this book's point of view: Delivering VALUE to customers and stakeholders is the raison d'etre for the enterprise. If it doesn't do this well - compared to customer expectations and the competition - it won't survive. Moreover, delivering value is dynamic. The enterprise must constantly improve and its processes, products and services, to respond to the constantly changing needs of its customers. This book brilliantly applies this value-delivery critera throughout, putting techniques and frameworks such as JIT and TQM in proper perspective. Published in 1996, this book is becoming a bit dated in this age of the World Wide Web and virtual marketplaces. (A suggestion: revise and expand the book to cover e-Commerce, including business-to-consumer and business-to-business, to maintain, in my opinion, it solid 5-star rating.) Still, "Operations Management" does a good job anticipating new technologies and marketplaces, and the fact that the enterprise must constantly respond to these changes.

This book is a classic. It deserves to be read by every serious student - and every practicing manager - of operations.

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Study Guide for use with Operations Management: A Value Driven Approach
David R. Denzler, Lawrence P. Ettkin, Steven Melnyk Steven A. Melnyk
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ83BS

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This is complete reproduction of the official U.S. Census Bureau Statistical Abstract of the United States CD-ROM, 2002 edition released on CD-ROM form in April 2003. At only $19.95, it costs two-thirds LESS than the $60 price charged by the government when purchased through the NTIS! Our reproduction is thus an incredible bargain for one of the most valuable reference works available today.

This amazing disc contains over 1400 tables and charts, making it the best known and most popular single source of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of our great nation. The Abstract has been published since 1878 and serves as a convenient, easy-to-use reference source. It provides an extensive selection of statistics for the United States, with selected data for States, metropolitan areas, cities, and foreign countries from reports and records of government and private agencies. The Census Bureau declares that the Statistical Abstract is "the government's most important statistical factbook - great for students, libraries, research organizations, or home reference - Uncle Sam's Reference Shelf." It is truly an incredible resource for any curious mind.

The CD-ROM edition contains more years of data, more countries, and more categories of subjects than in the print edition. The CD-ROM also provides over 1,500 table-to-spreadsheet links, direct table-to-Internet site links, and search capabilities on table number and titles as well as general subjects. The Adobe Acrobat PDF software used to view the data offers the advantage of high quality printing and viewing. Tables and charts appear in color highlighting important information and adding clarity to the graphics. The Adobe Acrobat search function allows for easy searching--simply enter a keyword or phrase for a full text search of all files, including text within graphics and charts. Searching by general subjects and table numbers and titles is also supported. By using Lotus worksheet (.WK1) files or Excel (.XLS) files, you can do your own analysis of Statistical Abstract tables, state rankings, and the population of metropolitan areas. The spreadsheet files can be opened directly by clicking on a button at the bottom of each table or directly from spreadsheet software. The CD-ROM also provides more than 1,000 direct table-to-Internet site links. "With our new CD-ROM you can easily get the latest population and money income figures from our Internet links to many Federal agency sites and start your own analysis of the latest trends," says Lars Johanson of the Statistical Abstract staff. Section contents include:

Population * Vital Statistics * Health and Nutrition * Education * Law Enforcement, Courts, and Prisons * Geography and Environment * Elections * State and Local Government Finances and Employment * Federal Government Finances and Employment * National Defense and Veterans Affairs * Social Insurance and Human Services * Labor Force, Employment, and Earnings * Income, Expenditures, and Wealth * Prices * Business Enterprise * Science and Technology * Agriculture * Natural Resources * Energy and Utilities * Construction and Housing * Manufactures * Domestic Trade * Transportation * Information and Communications * Banking and Finances * Arts, Entertainment and Recreation * Accommodation, Food Services, Other Services * Foreign Commerce and Trade * Outlying Areas * Comparative International Statistics * 2000 Census Sample Data

New for 2002 - "As usual, we have updated most of the more than 1,400 tables and charts that were on the previous disc with new or more recent data. Most noteworthy are new data from the 2000 census found in a special new Section 31, entitled 2000 Census Data Sampler. The 30 new tables include data covering the resident population's migration status, educational attainment, disability status, ancestry, place of birth, and language spoken at home as well as household income, poverty, and selected housing characteristics fro

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Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2002: The National Data Book (Paper)

Manufacturer: Bureau of Census
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Statistics | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0160428173

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The official government authoritative guide for data on the economic, social, and political lives of Americans. Produced by the Census bureau, the Statistical Abstract provides exhaustive information from the 2002 Census, and gives complete up-to-date information on the United States from national, state, and regional levels.

This guide also contains more than 1,000 additional charts and tables covering every facet of American behavior, which are organized by age, state and geographical area and other variables. Information in this edition includes: population statistics by age, sex, race and metropolitan area; income, consumers expenditures and wealth distribution; vital information on births, teen births rates and infant mortality, deaths and marriages; law enforcement data including drug-related arrest rates, hate crimes, and delinquency cases, and banking and finances, debt, interest rates, and the stock and bond markets.

Statistical Abstract of the U.S., 2002: The National Data Book

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Statistical Abstract of the U.S., 2002: The National Data Book

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0756732093

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236 finely engraved ornaments, from the decorative arts of Europe and the Middle East from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. Most incorporate delicately detailed flower and leaf elements in highly formal arrangements. All royalty-free.

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Great to look at, hard to use.......2007-08-18

When I look to buy a book of design, I'm buying it to use snippets here and there to incorporate into my own computer generated designs. It's much more difficult to do with the designs in this book, since all fills are done with either lines or hashing. Too bad they couldn't have just used grayscale.

Though the designs are fabulous to look at, this one was basically a waste of my money, since there are more useful books out there with similar content.

Sourcebook of Elegant Historic Ornament (Pictorial Archive Ser.)

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Sourcebook of Elegant Historic Ornament (Pictorial Archive Ser.)
Emile; Clerget, Charles E. Leconte
Manufacturer: Dover Publications, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBSH2K

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Joseph Dorman's film Arguing the World won New York Magazine's Best New York Documentary award in 1999 as well as the Peabody Award in 1999. His work has also appeared on The Discovery Channel, CBS, and CNN, and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards.

Joseph Dorman's acclaimed documentary, Arguing the World, included stunning interviews with Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Irving Kristol, and Nathan Glazer. Now with a new preface, Dorman converted the film into this book that includes an overview of the New York Intellectuals and a chapter on the future of the public intellectual. Expertly spliced together from the film and new material, this book gives the sense that these men are still engaged in their fiery debates that targeted everything from the Depression to McCarthyism to the rise of the New Left through the Age of Reagan.

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Fine Intellectual Oral History.......2000-08-29

Dorman has taken his fascinating documentary film about the "New York intellectuals", added new material and turned it into this book. Forcing the subjects of the film to actually talk about their ideas in simple sentences makes them frequently more comprehensible and accessible than the sometimes abstuse books they write. Dorman is surprisingly sympathetic to neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol, treating him with the same respect as the other three subjects ("surprising" because like here talking with Irving Howe, he is usually denounced by the left as a traitor and "spokesman for corporate interests.") The book has an elegiac last chapter lamenting the decline of the "public intellectuals." Academia has degenerated into a group obsessed with left-wing theory and jargon: one critic says "You notice immediately they can't write, amd notice gradually they can't think either." Public intellectuals who still believe that truth can be recovered, that actually believe in the possibility of objectivity, and disinterestedness as a virtue are a vanishing breed in the age of spin and deconstruction. Get ahold of this book and find out what they were like.

Great book from a great movie.......2000-08-26

This film was a really fascinating view of these 4 guys, and the book manages to expand on the rich material that flew by on film. The voices are vivid and real and compelling, and made me feel like I was a guest at a scintillating dinner party. I read it through in one sitting.

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It would take quite a story to live up to the melodramatic title of Edward Ball's Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love. Fortunately for the reader, the bizarre and highly compelling tale of Gordon Langley Hall and his transformation into Dawn Langley Hall is quite a story indeed. Novelists couldn't have dreamed up a more fascinating central character than Hall. Born the son of British servants, Hall, as a boy, befriended Virginia Woolf and her lover Vita Sackville-West. As a young man, he made his way to New York, becoming a biographer of some society figures and endearing himself to others including heiress Isabel Whitney who left him an inheritance that allowed him to move to Charleston, South Carolina, and gain entry to the colorful world of Southern society. In 1968, Hall underwent a sex change operation, claiming that the procedure was corrective and that she had actually possessed female sexual organs all along. Further complicating matters for the people of Charleston was Dawn's marriage to a young black mechanic and the appearance of an infant daughter. Author Edward Ball (Slaves in the Family) first came into contact with Hall through a uncover more about her. Although it is a biography of Hall, Peninsula of Lies is also equal parts mystery as Ball tracks down key figures from Hall's life, attempts to separate truth from legend and find the points at which the two intersect. As the facts of her life are brought into the light, Hall's psychology and motivation become more inscrutable and we are left with more questions than answers. Edward Ball's investigative persistence is tempered by a kindness toward his interview subjects, which, combined with his rich descriptions of 1960s Southern living, make Peninsula of Lies a lively read. But it is the impression left by the enigmatic Dawn Langley Hall that is sure to linger after the book is over. --John Moe

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Peninsula of Lies is nonfiction mystery, set in a haunting gothic locale and peopled by fascinating and eccentric characters. Its hero and heroine is Dawn Langley Simmons, a British writer who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 1960s and became the center of one of the most unusual sexual scandals.

Born in England, Dawn began life as a boy named Gordon Langley Hall, the son of servants at Sissinghurst Castle, the estate of Vita Sackville-West. In his twenties he made his way to New York, where he wrote about and befriended great society ladies. A small fortune inherited from Isabel Whitney allowed him to buy and decorate a mansion in Charleston. But Gordon's world changed in 1968 when at The Johns Hopkins Hospital he underwent one of the first sexual reassignment surgeries, scandalizing the Southern community that had welcomed him. Months later Gordon shocked Charleston again. Gordon -- now Dawn -- married a young black mechanic, soon appeared to be pregnant, and shortly thereafter became the mother of a young girl.

National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball has written a detective story that unwraps Dawn's many mysteries. The result is an engrossing narrative of a person who tested every taboo, as well as the confidence of observers in their own eyes.

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Flawed.......2005-11-19

This story is a monumental one in its scope, and Ball did take a good crack at it. What annoys me is he seems to have dropped the ball in some areas, Hall's relationship with Dame Margaret Rutherford being one(mentioned, then largely ignored). The conclusions reached at the end are just flawed. Anyone who has ever tried to get a copy of their birth certificate knows you cannot obtain one in a state you were not born in. It seems like he started out with a lot of good intentions, but like some of Hall's writing, the story just fizzles and reaches "a" conclusion.

Fear and loathing in Charleston.......2004-09-23

Fame eluded Gordon Langley Hall as a writer, even though he was a prolific scribbler of memoirs and novels. When he became one of the first people to undergo sex change surgery in America, Hall's local notoriety in Charleston, South Carolina, was unpleasantly mixed with malicious gossip.Edward Ball's new book, Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love, may give Hall, now dead, the recognition that eluded him in life. Ball (author of the National Book Award winner Slaves in the Family) set out to settle two mysteries that have circled one of Charleston's most celebrated-and outrageous-personalities for decades. Was Hall, as he claimed, a hermaphrodite who was misidentified as a male at birth? And did Hall, as he also claimed, conceive and give birth to a daughter, Natasha?

Ball's quest to resolve these burning issues takes him from Charleston to England where, as a child of the servant class, Hall had few opportunities for economic and social mobility. Then the biographer tracks his subject to New York where Hall became the protege and, at least in some sense, the lover of Isabel Whitney, an heir to the cotton gin fortune. His liaison with Whitney, perhaps more than his subsequent sex change, altered Hall's life forever. When she died, his mistress made him a millionaire.

As a Charleston transplant, Hall charmed local society with his English accent. Charlestonians, Ball indicates, didn't pick up on the cockney overtones that would have made Ball's attempts to penetrate the upper classes a wash back in England.

Then, perversely, Hall throws away his tenuous new foothold in the Charleston party circuit by changing his gender from male to female and re-emerging as "Dawn." As painted by Ball, Charleston's high society was far too prudish and inflexible to get over that one. Then, having forever trespassed on good taste, Hall takes his adventure one or two steps further. He marries an African-American man and appears to bear his new husband a child.

Ball first gets a clue that Hall might be inventing fictions about himself when it turns out that Hall forged a document shaving 15 years off his age. From there, Ball is the relentless sleuth, separating fantasy from fact until he has the real story on Gordon Hall, alias Dawn Simmons. He interviews dozens of eccentric characters who knew Hall, and the tale of each informant is a story unto itself.

Echoing the formula of John Berendt's best-selling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Ball's Peninsula of Lies is a must-read for people who enjoy well-crafted Southern storytelling.

Unusual tale set in Charleston.......2004-08-01

Edward Ball's unusual story of Dawn Langley Hall, set in the charming environs of Charleston, South Carolina, will absorb your interest and leave you still wanting answers to some of the questions it raises. Written in Ball's highly personal style, in which he injects his own thoughts and feelings into the narration, the book tells of Dawn's metamorphosis from his/her birth as a poor boy, son of a servant on a large English estate, to a society woman in Charleston. When Dawn marries a black man, she loses her position in Charleston circles. Later, when she purportedly gives birth to a daughter, she sets tongues wagging all over the city.

Was she actually the mother of the baby as she claimed? This is just one of the questions that surround eccentric, enigmatic Dawn. This fascinating book, a biography of an extraordinarily colorful life, is highly recommended.

A middling biography of a marginaly enigmatic character.......2004-07-20

I picked up this book after hearing it compared to "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," and needless to say, although set in a charming Southern city, Peninsula fails to live up to this billing. I think this is largely because Gordon/Dawn, although interesting, is by no means a character able to carry an entire novel. I could see her story being delivered with great effectiveness as a Vanity Fair or New Yorker longform article, but as the basis for an entire book, thing fall flat. Imagine the typical SNL sketch... great for 5 minutes on TV, unbearable in the movies at 90. Dawn, although quirky, never seems to come across as particularly sympathetic, dynamic, or intriguing. Annoying, unstable and sad, but never compelling. In "Midnight" Dawn would have been a quirky sideline character; here she becomes the protagonist, which doesn't work.

I also found that the novel ended up on a high "duh" factor. Along the way, different theories are floated as to the truth, but they never seem that plausible. The author treats the revelations of Dawn's true nature as a fitting end to the story, whereas I found things just kind of puttered out. The story is interesting, but it's just missing that something to take it to the next level.

All together, Peninsula of Lies is just okay. When I finished reading, I didn't feel particularly sorry for Gordon/Dawn, or intrigued. I was more compelled to drive her to the pharmacy and help her pick up some anti-depressants.

Blecch!.......2004-07-07

A tired, repetitive & bitchy book about a fascinating subject. How unfortunate that this writer was the one to get to this story first.

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This book delivers invaluable up-to-date information on corporate tax issues, rules, rates, and regulations on the tax systems of over 120 countries. With insights on tax planning, foreign investment, tax reform, and much more, its the most comprehensive resource available.

Worldwide Summaries 2002-2003: Individual Taxes/Corporate Taxes (Worldwide Summaries. 2 Volume Set)

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Worldwide Summaries 2002-2003: Individual Taxes/Corporate Taxes (Worldwide Summaries. 2 Volume Set)
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Binding: Paperback

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This book has served as the recognized authority on the subject for more than a decade, the first and most respected guide of its kind. This two volume set includes Volume One: Corporate Taxes and Volume Two: Individual Taxes.

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