NAICS North American Industry Classification System : United States, 1997

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Developed by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, NAICS completely replaces the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes. This is the official manual that lists these new codes, including a table showing correspondence between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC codes.

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Amazing Text.......2003-03-06

This book changed my life...The 2002 version is even better, but you should get them both. The map to SIC in the back is a lifesaver if you are into things like that. If you buy seven of them the stack can dub as a chair.

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The birth of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its related agreements at the close of the Uruguay Round marked a profound change in the framework of principles governing world trade. The author argues that the establishment of the WTO as a unique transnational legislature in fact produced a fully integrated trade constitution capable of constructing, universalising and enforcing substantive norms of law. The changes in the world trading system amounted to a significant shift in power from the national to the supranational level, with the result that member states are now disposed to exercise their sovereignty collectively in those areas of commercial law that require global coordination. The author further argues that a significant factor in the institutional reform of the international trading system was the advent of the information economy, and the resulting imperative to protect intellectual property. In this respect the work lays the foundation for an empirical understanding of the WTO constitution as a response to the logic of intellectual property law.

From a social perspective, the book explains how the collective exercise of sovereignty in the new world order reflects the emergence of a new transnational civil society in which corporations, non-governmental organisations and voluntary associations are demanding a voice in global lawmaking. In examining the limits of the emerging trade constitution and the challenges it is likely to face, the analysis concludes that to find true legitimacy, the WTO and its institutions must find ways of conforming to the democratic principles of accountability, transparency and representation.

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Congratulations! You're A Millionaire! is education for the motivated and motivation for the educated. It is a must-read for anyone beginning a career in sales, starting or building a business, thinking of leaving an unrewarding job, and even sales pros who know that one can always learn more about how to win!

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The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria - 9th Edition
Mark Graham Brown

This handy pocket book is a quick reference guide to interpreting the criteria in the seven Baldrige categories. Whether a company is applying for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award or not, this can help employees at all levels as they work toward improving quality. Includes answers to frequently asked questions and quick tips indicating what excellent companies do in each category.

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The Small Business Pocket Guide to the Baldridge Award Criteria
Mark Graham Brown
Manufacturer: Quality Resources.
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ASIN: 0527763292

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This Handbook provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of world trade, investment and development. Data is presented in an analytical way, through the use of rank-orderings, growth rates, shares and other special calculations, and in time series dating back to 1980. This years edition includes a special study on tentative terms of trade estimates for individual developing countries and territories. Government officials, univeristy and other research specialists, and others interested in this subject will find this Handbook to be an invaluable source of international data.

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Unctad Handbook of Statistics

Manufacturer: United Nations Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9210120493

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UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2004
United Nations
Manufacturer: United Nations Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: CD-ROM

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ASIN: 9210120574

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The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development for the use of government officials, university and other research specialists. The CD-ROM, largely based on the traditional printed versions of the Handbook, presents the full-time series as its particular feature. In addition, CD-ROM tables permit simultaneous viewing of different data dimensions and users are enabled to create their own tabulations and charts in an easy and efficient way.

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UNCTAD HANDBOOK OF STATISTICS 2006-2007
United Nations Conference on Trade & Development
Manufacturer: United Nations Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9210120639

Unctad Handbook of Statistics/Manuel De Statistiques De LA Cnuced 2001 (Unctad Handbook of Statistics/Manuel De Statistiques De La Cnuced)

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Unctad Handbook of Statistics/Manuel De Statistiques De LA Cnuced 2001 (Unctad Handbook of Statistics/Manuel De Statistiques De La Cnuced)
United Nations Conference on Trade & Development
Manufacturer: United Nations Pubns
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9211125359

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Ornament -- "the art we add to art," as James Trilling defines it -- makes people happy; it stands for everything that makes life worth living. But ornament was effectively banned from our world almost a century ago, with modernismís doctrine that ornament was a betrayal of the beauty of function. Devotion to modernism stripped away our historical awareness of ornament and broke the tradition of craft that once kept ornament alive. Now that modernism is itself receding into history, ornament is again acceptable, but moving forward seems to mean reinventing the wheel. ìNot since the artists and connoisseurs of fifteenth-century Italy set out to rediscover classical antiquity has a culture been so completely on its own in relation to the past,î Trilling writes.

This engaging, generously illustrated book -- part visual guide, part cultural history -- is a wide-ranging consideration of the cultural and symbolic significance of ornament, its rejection by modernism, and its subsequent reinvention. Trilling explains how ornament works, why it has to be explained, and why it matters. His discussion of ornament -- in textiles, ceramics, metalwork, architecture, manuscripts, and books -- is enhanced by insights drawn from religion, science, ancient and modern literature, political history, and moral philosophy. The result is a resoundingly original, highly readable contribution to art history and, more broadly, to cultural and social history.

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Ornament: oh yeah........2004-04-23

Modernism never managed to kill off ornament completely, but it did cause massive trauma to the historical vocabularies of architecture. Trilling, like many, likes historical ornament, and has written this here book to talk about why ornament has for the most part gone the way of the dodo. I read the intro, skimmed the first half, and read the second half.

He focuses on analyzing the various theories and writers, along with exploring some of the pyschological reasons modernism jettisoned ornament. All in all, I found it interesting and pretty good, but thats probably because I am interested in this very specific topic. This book is probably for architectural historians and students only, though anyone interested in the history of design might find it interesting.

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Das Ornament des Blicks: Uber die Grundlagen des neuzeitlichen Sehens, die Poetik der Arabeske und Goethes "West-ostlichen Divan"
Gerhart von Graevenitz
Manufacturer: Metzler
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3476012468

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Gothic architecture applied to modern residences: Containing designs of all the important parts of a private dwelling, exhibited in elaborate perspective ... : together with large and copious details
David Henry Arnot
Manufacturer: G.S. Appleton
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008AZ56G

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not really much of a biography , however.......2006-01-29

It's a pretty good but quick treatment of Bolivar's campaigns - perhaps a good place to get started. It reads like a grad student paper.
There's a lot of excerpts of flowery writings giving a good feeling for Bolivar's feelings about who he was and who he meant to be, and what he was trying to give americans.

Still the facts are rushed, and the magnamity of what Bolivar gave to the Americas is diminished.

This great american leader requires a bit more patience and respect.

Simon Bolivar: Patriot, Warrior, Statesman, Father of Five Nations

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Simon Bolivar: Patriot, Warrior, Statesman, Father of Five Nations
Guillermo A. Sherwell
Manufacturer: Sun Book
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MBW55K

SIMÓN BOLÍVAR, the Liberator (Large Print Edition): Patriot, Warrior, Statesman Father of Five Nations

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SIMÓN BOLÍVAR, the Liberator (Large Print Edition): Patriot, Warrior, Statesman Father of Five Nations
Guillermo A. Sherwell
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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In the history of peoples, the veneration of national heroes has been one of the most powerful forces behind great deeds. National consciousness, rather than a matter of frontiers, racial strain or community of customs, is a feeling of attachment to one of those men who symbolize best the higher thoughts and aspirations of the country and most deeply impress the hearts of their fellow citizens.

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Yates applies impeccable reason to a vital management subject.

A Must Read For Practising Managers

Decision Management: How to Assure Better Decisions in Your Company
J. Frank Yates
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0787956260

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Why do the people in some companies continually dazzle us with their brilliant decisions while those in others make one blunder after another? Do they understand their businesses better? Are they just plain smarter? Or is it all a matter of luck? The answer, says J. Frank Yates, is none of the above. The real key, rarely recognized, is how the leaders manage the company's decision processes—the leaders' decision management practices. Drawing on his thirty years of research and experience as well as scholarship from psychology, economics, statistics, strategy, medicine, and other fields to explain the fundamental nature of business decision problems, Yates highlights the ten cardinal decision issues crucial to managing the decision-making process—and ultimately better company decisions. He covers problems ranging from recognizing whether a decision is actually called for to assuring that a preferred course of action will be implemented. He shows how solid decisions result when managers ensure that deciders resolve every cardinal issue effectively for every decision problem facing the company. He also reveals how, conversely, chronically poor decisions are traceable to managers allowing—or even creating—conditions that encourage deciders to fall short in how they address at least one of those critical issues.

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Yates applies impeccable reason to a vital management subject........2005-10-09

The art of making good rather than poor Decisions is the single main difference between a top organisation and a weak one; or a top manager and a poor one - yet business literature really has few excellent books that focus on how to ensure high quality decisions are consistently made in an organisation. Instead the typical management bookshelf may be populated with the Jack Welch type volumes where charisma and gut instinct are turned into heroic virtues.

Well, in an age where Gladwell's Blink is a best seller and the incredible capacity of humans to make quick judgments is being celebrated, lets not forget that gut instinct can lead to terrible mistakes also. In an organisation these can be devastating.

Both Yates and writers such as Scott Plous (author of the wonderful Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making) point out a raft of human errors where our gut can lead us into terrible choices.

J Frank Yates has worked and consulted at high levels in the USA, Beijing, Netherlands and Japan, and from his experience he has broken down decision-making into a hierarchy of 10 quite sensible questions that act as a checklist for managers. The list begins with the simple fundamental: Why are we deciding anything at all? and then asks: Who, or what, will make this decision - and how will they approach this task.

The volume then drills into the various skills required to consider the options, trade-offs, and possibilities that might arise from a decision: those "unforseen consequences" that seem all too often to surprise decision makers.

Yates peppers the book with good actual case histories (both good and bad outcomes are portrayed) and takes the time to consider how a better decision-making culture can be created in organisations.

I don't agree with all of Yates findings and recommendations - but that may be a product of my more emotive personality traits (Yates strikes me as an absolutely rational type) but this volume has proved extremely useful in providing a foundation in "decision thinking" relevant to my work in research where a key challenge is to bump research findings into the court of organisational decision-making. By considering Yates' well explained checklist we can ask more appropriate questions and help clients make more confident decisions. That's why I rate this volume highly.

A Must Read For Practising Managers.......2003-04-25

The book is based on the premise that the performance (good or bad) of a Company is largely dependent on how (well or poorly) the people within the Company decide. Therefore, this book deals with the process of improving the manner in which people in the Company make decisions. This book is about how to assure better decisions.

Essentially, Decision Management includes all aspects that a Manager needs to take into account to improve the quality of a Company's decision. Decision Management involves four tasks or responsibilities viz, influencing specific decisions, supervising decision routines, shaping decision procedures and providing decision resources.

The four key drivers to ensure good Decision Management are to recognize Decision Management as a core managerial responsibility, have a proper understanding or appreciation of decision problems and processes, understand how people in the Company decide, and finally, to learn from decision-making principles that have emerged from research and practical experience.

Every decision problem poses ten fundamental or cardinal decision issues (this is the major theme of this book and 5 full Chapters, out of 9, have been devoted to this ) These are:
« Need
« Mode
« Investment
« Options
« Possibilities
« Judgement
« Value
« Tradeoffs
« Acceptability
« Implementation

This checklist is useful to carry around when one is evaluating or going through a decision making process to ensure that no issue is overlooked.

Overall a very practical book with lots of examples to convey the underlying issues. Practicing Managers, in particular, would find it quite useful.

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The little guy's tax survival guide (A "Little guy's investment" series book)
Al Smith
Manufacturer: Cromwell Smith Investments & Services
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006ECU7Q

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