Hoover's 500: Profiles of America's Largest Business Enterprises (Hoover's 500)

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Informatively intresting.......2001-04-27

This book, profiling America's largests businesses shares history and information of some of the biggest and most popular and important businesses throughout America's history. The book is quite intersting, and informative. A great book to have around, at a great price aswell.

Hoover's 500: Profiles of America's Largest Business Enterprises (Hoover's 500)

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Hoover's 500: Profiles of America's Largest Business Enterprises (Hoover's 500)
Hoover
Manufacturer: Hoover's
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1573110299

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Developing and Administering a Child Care and Education Program, 6th Edition serves as a clear guide for new and experienced directors and emphasizes the director's responsibility for being both a program maintenance and a people maintenance leader. In keeping with the current movement to standards-based programs, the text guides directors to understanding their role in curriculum selection and development. The related issue of assessment is addressed in terms of what is appropriate for young children. Also presented are the business skills and knowledge that every director must have: funding, budgeting, selecting, training and supervising staff, housing the program, purchasing the equipment, and evaluating the program. Special features of the text include Director's Resources, including forms and documents available for the director's use on the job; a Director's Library, which provides easy access to a wide range of sources of information for busy directors; a Director's Corner feature that gives students an opportunity to learn the perspectives of working directors; and Working Papers to be used as student assignments.

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Great Resource for Directors/Owners!.......2007-08-31

This book is such a great resource for existing or future directors. This book explains everything a director has to do as well as giving you some of the forms in the book to use.

Excellent College Textbook for Program Management.......2007-01-10

This is the book if you are serious about the profession. I highly recommend this book as a student at Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix,Arizona. I have had the privilage of being able to experience some of being a director for the past year.

Blackboard Standalone Version of Developing & Administering an Early Childhood Center (Passcode for Web Access)

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Blackboard Standalone Version of Developing & Administering an Early Childhood Center (Passcode for Web Access)
Dorothy June Sciarra , and Anne G. Dorsey
Manufacturer: Delmar Thomson Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 076683932X

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The Agile Manager's Guide to Delegating Work (The Agile Manager Series)
Joseph T. Straub
Manufacturer: Velocity Business Publishing
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The Agile Manager's Guide to Delegating Work
Joseph T. Straub
Manufacturer: Gemini Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 8174390367

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The management of production is faced with ever greater challenges as global competion mounts. The problems revolve around the paradox of flexibility and productivity in the organization of production: how to compete on price while retaining the capability to respond quickly to market changes; how to develop new products faster without jeopardizing product integrity; how to increase quality while reducing costs. The recent research on lean production has explored some of these questions in the context of the motor industry. This book takes a broader audit of these issues across the full range of the metalworking sector in the United Kingdom. Focusing on the engineering/manufacturing interface, the research presented here explores how 15 leading British firms are facing up to the challenges of the 90s.

Managing Production: Engineering Change and Stability (Hardcover-1994)

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Managing Production: Engineering Change and Stability (Hardcover-1994)
Graham Wince
Manufacturer: Clarendon Press-Oxford
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000M9LKP8

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This book is the culmination of well over a decade of work on the process of technological change.

Managing Production : Engineering Change and Stability

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Managing Production : Engineering Change and Stability
Graham M. Winch
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKS90O

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The Yues join forces in their fifth nonfiction book for children to provide an absorbing overview of a familiar subject- shoes. In this comprehensive volume on the history of shoes, Charlotte and David Yue walk us through such subjects as the earliest shoe, the social and political significance of shoes in history, ancient and modern shoe design, shoe manufacturing, shoes in legend and literature, and what shoes reveal about their wearers. A complete resource on a subject with which children already are familiar.

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Charlatans or Saviours? is the first detailed analysis of professional British economists from Marshall, through Keynes and Meade to the present day. It examines the relationship between professional economists and economic policy in an attempt to answer the question: 'Can economics and professional economists be blamed for the relative decline of the British economy?'

This book provides an unrivaled account of how economic policy is made in practice. It uses examples of major policy decisions to show how policy debates develop and then assesses the subsequent balance between political, bureaucratic and economic influence. In this pathbreaking investigation Roger Middleton sheds new light on Britain's relative economic decline by examining the advice economists have given to government. He analyses whether economists are partly responsible for this decline or whether they are largely innocent and unnecessarily blamed by politicians. In discussing the rise of professional economics he demonstrates that from the time of Marshall onwards the market for economic policy advice in Britain has been unusually competitive. In addition, Roger Middleton explores the broader concern in contemporary economics, that is, the pursuit of rigor at the expense of relevance.

This in-depth study will be welcomed by economists interested in policy making, the history of economic thought, economic historians and political scientists.

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Add this book to your library now!.......2006-01-15

Amy Jorgensen, has taken what is sometimes a boring, seemingly pie in the sky topic and explained it in a short, easy to digest format. Bravo! I, like most people, am too busy to spend time reading long manuals, nor do I have the resources to pay professionals to do my marketing and advertising for me. This book is the answer for me.

The author reminds us of some very basic things in the food service business - obvious things like `take care of your customer' which we know, but sometimes forget. Thanks Amy for reminding me of my most precious asset - my customers.

Among the many things learned from this book I am most impressed with the great number of quick and easy methods we can use for marketing and advertising to increase profits. Let's face it, as much as we love the business, the bottom line is still the bottom line. This book helps us do some inexpensive things to increase profits.

Until I read this book I did not realize, for instance, that the menu itself could have such a great impact in terms of marketing. There is good information included for showing your staff how to increase sales and many other no additional cost and low cost methods to marketing the business.
I find this exciting in itself!

This book has value way beyond what its length and cost might suggest. I wish I had read this years ago.

Great Book.......2002-10-12

Great Book! I Found These step-by-step guides easy-to-read, and easy to understand! The books are packed with information. They reminded me of "cliff Notes" from my college days.The information is comprehensive without the fluff you find in so many of the more expensive books out there on the subject. The books are also packed with resources such as phone numbers and the web sites of the companies they are discussing - there is no "theory" just great information.

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Olympic sports present a vivid example of how to achieve world-class performance through a special blend of management, teamwork and individual performance.
Based on a hugely successful leadership and team development process which has been tested in over 50 organisations (and licensed by PwC), Performance Leadership aims to give leaders the world class skills and tools required to win in today's dynamic business environment.
Case examples include the inside story of how the highly successful Australian swimming team reaped their haul of medals at the Sydney Olympics.
Graham Winter was Head of Psychology Services to the 2000 Australian Olympic Team, and is a PricewaterhouseCoopers consultant. He has authored an extensive business training and development process linked to his Business Athlete concept.

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Weiss Ratings' Guide to Property and Casualty Insurers: Summer 2001 (Weiss Ratings' Guide to Property and Casualty Insurers)
Inc Weiss Ratings
Manufacturer: Weiss Ratings Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1587730154

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America's white-collar workers form the core of the nation's corporate economy and its expansive middle class. But just a century ago, white-collar jobs were new and their future anything but certain. In Company Men Clark Davis places the corporate office at the heart of American social and cultural history, examining how the nation's first generation of white-collar men created new understandings of masculinity, race, community, and success--all of which would dominate American experience for decades to come.

Company Men is set in Los Angeles, the nation's "corporate frontier" of the early twentieth century. Davis shows how this California city--often considered on the fringe of American society for the very reason that it was new and growing so rapidly--displayed in sharp contours how America's corporate culture developed. The young men who left their rural homes for southern California a century ago not only helped build one of the world's great business centers, but also redefined middle-class values and morals. Of interest to students of business history, gender studies, and twentieth-century culture, this work focuses on the "company man" as a pivotal actor in the saga of modern American history.

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Part of the Union.......2002-11-05

Clark Davis's book is a fine and cogent analysis of the rise to prominence of white collar work and life, - most especially in Los Angeles in first third or so of the twentieth century. However it is more than that. The story of the "company men" is also the story of the rise to commercial prominence of Los Angeles as the emerging power of the pacific coast and the Southwest of the nation. The story is, i think, accurately and well told with much to engage the non - specialist reader. The early organisation of commercial air travel in the United States is particularly interesting in this regard.

Company Men, White-Collar Life & Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941

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Company Men, White-Collar Life & Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941
Clark DAVIS
Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KRX9VU

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This briefer version of the successful Business Law Today: Text Summarized Cases Legal Ethical Regulatory and International Environment Fourth Edition contains edited cases in the words of the court. Provides extensive coverage of business law topics found on the AICPA exam. Many features focus on the global political ethical social environmental and cultural context of business law.

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Well Written.......2000-05-09

Business Law Today is a joy to read and is very easy to understand. I would recommend this book to any one who desires to increase his/her knowledge of the law.

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Managing in an Age of It Change: Readings Msis 505--Fall 1999 Isim University
Isim University
Manufacturer: Varsitybooks.Com
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 158593299X

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Lee Bailey's Long Weekends: Recipes for Good Food and Easy Living
Lee Bailey
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517592444
Release Date: 1994-04-12

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Easy Weekend Entertaining is an American tradition that Lee Bailey has been defining ever since Country Weekends, his award-winning and best-selling first book. Now, Lee Bailey's Long Weekends celebrates those one or two days wrapped around the weekend. They're the perfect amount of time for visiting with pals, soaking up a bit of local color, and rediscovering the pleasures of the grill and the stew pot.

In this book Lee's dropped in on friends across the country, visiting weekend haunts in Washington and California, Massachusetts and Vermont, with stops in Rhode Island, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, and New Mexico. He stops to see the sights, sure, and he shares bits of information about local history. But mostly he's there to catch up with friends and cook with them in their vacation retreats.

The recipes are Lee at his best -- food that puts local bounty to the fore. So look for meals built around salmon in the Northwest, around chiles in New Mexico, and quail in Texas. But this is also food to enjoy anywhere, anytime. There are the good old-fashioned classics like buttermilk chicken, Yankee meat-loaf and best beef stew, and monkey bread. Lee's simple and tasty uncooked tomato soup and grilled veal chop is an ideal menu for a laid-back Saturday supper. For a hearty Sunday brunch, there's beefsteak hash with an avocado and onion salad. And for an afternoon cookout, picture grilled sausages, wilted summer greens, and a meltingly smooth custard cake with fig preserves tucked away inside.

Lee's done it again! Long Weekends is filled with the food we want to cook and eat and Lee's classic ideas for good easy living. It's the companion book we'll want for every weekend all year round.

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The collapse in commodity prices since 1980 has been a major cause of the economic crisis in a large part of the Third World. This book demonstrates, using new econometric models, that the producing countries could have prevented this price collapse by appropriate supply management.

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A reliable resource for almost fifty years, Dunnan's Guide to Your Investment$ (previously released as the Dun & Bradstreet Guide to $Your Investments$) remains as valuable as ever--for both the novice investor and the financial pro.

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Good reference book but too vague for me.......2001-08-30

First of all let me say that I am in the securities business and I only bought this book because it was a required text in a class I was taking. I have some fundamental differences of opinion with the offer on some of the advice she offers. Mainly I disagree with the chapter on life insurance and stocks. The author endorses purchasing stocks and for the average investor mutual funds provide the added diversification that most people need, especially in this market with some stocks down 80% from their highs last year. She also says you should only buy annual renewable term insurance and only buy term it if you need insurance for less than 10 years and THEN buy convertible term. Why would you want to convert to cash value insurance? You buy 20-25yr level term and invest the difference if you don't smoke and are reasonably healthy you can get three times the coverage with level term for less peer month. Then you can invest the difference and be self insured by retirement. Now maybe she sells this stuff, I don't know.
I also think that it gives you a lot of information but due to the format it can't give you any sort of in depth information.

I do have to applaud the calender in the front of the book though. It is a good tool to help you keep your financial house in order.

The most comprehensive, easy-to-use book of its kind.......2000-01-27

Since becoming an investment professional in 1988, I've been purchasing this book regularly for my library since it caught my eye in the early 90's. Dunnan employs a simple, easy-to-read style in compiling an investment sourcebook that serves simultaneously as a "how-to" manual and a reference guide, without implying that the reader is some kind of dummy.

Each of the 36 chapters contains easy to understand, practical information interspersed with helpful hints and cautionary asides (denoted by a checked box and a little cannonball bomb, respectively) that add a clever dimension to the financial discourse. What impresses me most about this book is that Dunnan has no bias (unlike other noteworthy publications) when it comes to the topic of investment advice and fees. She provides encouragement and insight as to how to get the most out of your own efforts, if you feel comfortable on your own, or out of your investment professional, if you don't. Topics range from beginning to complex investment vehicles, choosing financial professionals, financing major purchases, on-line investing, and considerations related to insurance and retirement. There's even a chapter on the tax status of your investments, arranged alphabetically by subject. All throughout, there are numerous listings of alternative information sources (e.g., organizations and publications) to bolster your education. In the back of the book you'll find a decent glossary (conspicuously absent in other books) of Wall Street jargon. Unless your goal is to day-trade, this book is for everyone who has a question involving the world of money and investments.

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Dunnan's Guide to Your Investment$ 2000: The Year-Round Investment Sourcebook for Managing Your Personal Finances (Dunnan's Guide to Your Investments, 2000)
Nancy Dunnan
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This book introduces readers to several ethical theories that enable journalists to recognize, analyze, and evaluate ethical situations--and to make responsible decisions for the right reasons. Drawing on the most important media codes of conduct in South Africa, it sets out and discusses ten
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Retief, Johan. Media Ethics: An Introduction to Responsible Journalism.(Book review): An article from: Communication Research Trends

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Retief, Johan. Media Ethics: An Introduction to Responsible Journalism.(Book review): An article from: Communication Research Trends
Peter S.J. Lah
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Author: Peter S.J. Lah
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Date: March 1, 2007
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Miller Complete GAAP Library Combo: Print and CD-ROM Set, 2003 Edition
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Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers
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George Washington, a Biography, Victory with the Help of France (Volume Five 5)

Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons, NY
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Best Biography of Washington ever written

- The American Iliad -

Freeman - Real Historian

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George Washington: A Biography : Victory With the Help of France (Victory with the Help of France, 1778-83 Vol. 5)
Douglas Southall Freeman
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Best Biography of Washington ever written.......2004-07-10

This is by far the best and most definitive biography of George Washington to date. Meticulously researched with extensive and interesting footnotes, it is a must for anyone looking for an accurate account of this amazing man's life. I have read hundreds of books on Washington and this one is at the top of my list. The author won a Pulitzer Prize for this one and it is well deserved.

- The American Iliad -.......2002-06-24

Volumes 3, 4, & 5 are the essential bedrock of any respectable American's library -- the starting point from which any serious investigation of the American Revolution commences -- there is only one word to describe Freeman's achievement -- SUPERB -- to fault Freeman for his detail suggests the mind of an adolescent seeking easy crib notes for a school paper -- the footnotes (relegated to back pages of less scholarly histories) tempt the reader down little-trodden paths of historical investigation leading to new & fascinating insights -- it is the detail and Freeman's lean transcendent prose that make the difference in comparison to the abridgement -- for any American with an interest in our history -- how independence was wrested from defeat by the sheer will perserverence & determination of one man -- a man who refused to be cowed or mentally defeated by the world's great superpower or by even more insidious enemies -- those selfish conservatives who wished to find common cause with Britain to return to the status quo & maintain their perogatives without risk of loss -- how Washington overcame all odds despite the obstinate stupidity of Congress -- the incompetence of state legislatures & governors (including Jefferson) as well as the greedy selfishness & studied indifference of the propertied classes -- these volumes describe Washington's monumental achievement -- but the biography does not concern itself solely with the man himself but also with that dedicated band of true-believers inspired by his example -- some of modest talents -- some of great -- and some who proved unable to keep the faith -- but most important of all it descibes the achievements possible what a great leader can achieve with an army of starving ragamuffins & scarecrow refugees, the refuse of colonial society, unmarried men of small means representing all races, nations, & ages (& not a few women as well) bound together by hope for a better future (based on promises Congress failed to keep) and their undying love & respect for Washington -- volumes 3, 4, 5 represent the essential core of classical American history -- books I'd want along if I were marooned on a desert island -- these volumes are nothing less than the prose outline of an AMERICAN ILIAD.

Freeman - Real Historian.......2002-01-04

THE definitive biography of our first president. Freeman can only be faulted for providing too much detail. If you really desire to find out about George Washington, read this book. It should be required study material for contemporary, so called historians.

Great Detail!.......2001-05-29

Ok well I read this book for the first time, and I can say confidently that Freeman must've known Washington personally. The detail in which Freeman goes into does not leave the reader questioning anything about Washington. Everything is there in the book!! A must read for the lovers of history!

George Washington, a Biography, Vol. V: Victory with the Help of France

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George Washington, a Biography, Vol. V: Victory with the Help of France
Douglas Southall Freeman
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
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Binding: Hardcover

GEORGE WASHINGTON, A BIOGRAPHY--- Volume 5 - VICTORY WITH THE HELP OF FRANCE

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GEORGE WASHINGTON, A BIOGRAPHY--- Volume 5 - VICTORY WITH THE HELP OF FRANCE
Douglas Southall Freeman
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
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George Washington: A Biography - Volume Five - Victory with the Help of France

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George Washington: A Biography - Volume Five - Victory with the Help of France
Freeman, Douglas Southall
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Stanley K. Sandage writes a straight forward, no holds barred, accounting of his struggle, and his reaction to a diagnosis of prostate cancer.

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