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2008 Olympics: dragon in the limelight.(ASIA PACIFIC): An article from: Harvard International Review
Lin Ting Li Manufacturer: Harvard International Relations Council, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000ALOH9O Release Date: 2006-07-14 |
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This digital document is an article from Harvard International Review, published by Harvard International Relations Council, Inc. on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 853 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs
Sarah Ansari Manufacturer: University of British Columbia ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009GSBGK Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 610 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The armed forces of Russia in Asia. (Book reviews).: An article from: Pacific Affairs
Victor Zatsepine Manufacturer: University of British Columbia ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008IJZOQ Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 739 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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THE ARMED FORCES OF THE USA IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION.(Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Robin Ramcharan Manufacturer: University of British Columbia ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JCD9E Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 718 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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ASEM (The Asia-Europe Meeting): A Window of Opportunity.(Review) (book review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Christopher M. Dent Manufacturer: University of British Columbia ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008J0H24 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 599 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Asia & Pacific Review 2001/02: The Economic and Business Report (World of Information)
Manufacturer: World of Information ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 1862170339 |
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Asia & Pacific Review 2003/04: The Economic and Business Report (World of Information Regional Review: Asia & Pacific)
Kogan Page Manufacturer: Kogan Page ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0749440635 |
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* The definitive guide to the most recent economic and political trends, developments and key events in the region* Key indicators and profiles for 60 countries* Leading-edge expertise from some of the world s top journalists and regional specialists * Key facts and essential business directory information.Of interest to academic, public and corporate libraries; economic, geography and international relations specialists; professional, trade and government organizations; exporters and international investors."Asia and Pacific Review 2003/4" is the only English language publication to cover all the Asia and Pacific Region. The 21st edition provides both an analytical overview of the region and specific data for each of the 60 countries. Introductory chapters cover regional issues including: a regional review with this year s trends, developments and key events; analysis of the threat of terrorism in the region; the effects of deflation on the economy; the water crisis and its impact on the poor; the successes and failures of micro-credit in the region.The main body of the book provides comprehensive economic and business reports for each country and includes: * Political and economic surveys identifying the trends, developments, problems and solutions * Country profiles, which analyze the different economic sectors of each country, summarizes its political parties and system, and provides condensed background information on a range of other important topics including demographics, languages, and industry sectors* Key facts with vital statistics for the country being analyzed* Business guide offering practical information for visitors to the country * Key indicators setting out thecountry s key economic indicators over the last five years* Business directory listing the names and addresses of local organizations useful to visitors.
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ASIA & THE PACIFIC. Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader. Jennifer Sabbioni, Kay Schaffer, Sidonie Smith, eds.(Review): An article from: World Literature Today
John Scheckter Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098UCCO Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 553 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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ASIA AFTER THE "MIRACLE": Redefining U.S. Economic and Security Priorities.(Review) (book review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Bruce Stronach Manufacturer: University of British Columbia ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008J0H2Y Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 668 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Asia and Pacific Annual Review, 1981
Annual Review Service Manufacturer: Rand McNally & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0528845160 |
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Heinle & Heinle's Complete Guide to the TOEFL Test, CBT Edition
Bruce Rogers Manufacturer: Heinle & Heinle Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0838402348 |
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Prepare your students for the TOEFL.Customer Reviews:
Wonderful self-study guide, but expensive.......2001-10-30
The best help to this test.......2001-05-07
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Heinle's Complete Guide to the TOEFL Test, CBT Edition
Bruce Rogers Manufacturer: Delmar Thomson Learning ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0838443885 |
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Help your students achieve the best possible score on the TOEFL (R) by offering useful test-taking strategies and extensive practice for all of the new exercise types.
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Smart Negotiating: How to Make Good Deals in the Real World: Confessions from Sin City
James C. Freund Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671730274 |
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DEAL YOURSELF A WINNING HAND!
Whether you're closing a multi-million dollar acquisition or the purchase of a new family home, securing a raise from a tough minded boss or reaching an agreement with a partner, the pitfalls of negotiating are the same. Now the brilliant strategist behind some of the business world's toughest negotiations tells you how to avoid these pitfalls and achieve your goals -- without being a bully or a wimp.
Attorney James C. Freund forged hard-won victories in many of the major corporate takeover battles of the 1980s -- from TWA to Federated Department Stores. In Smart Negotiating, he offers a "game-plan" approach that will help you strike a balance between striving for advantage and compromising too quickly. You will learn how to:
* Determine in advance your realistic expectations on key bargaining issues
* Deal with bluffs and other gambits
* Motivate the other side
* Use leverage and information to your advantage
* Formulate the terms of the ultimate compromise
A fresh, straight forward audio program that brings you right into simulated negotiations with vivid real-world examples, Smart Negotiating will help you succeed at closing a deal.
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Concise, intriguing, facilitating, a little bit tedious.......1999-12-08
Useful guidelines for bargaining........1998-06-16
True to life.......1998-05-18
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Automatizacion - Con Un CD ROM
Gregory Hansen Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Empresa ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9701700589 |
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Controversies in Competitive Intelligence: The Enduring Issues
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1567205607 |
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Chosen for their clear, direct relevance to scholars and practitioners in the volatile field of competitive intelligence, the 24 issues evaluated here represent the cutting edge of CI's most pressing concerns. Current, scholarly, pragmatic, and among the first of its kind, this book presents the heart of the field in a way that even the relatively uninitiated can grasp and quickly apply. The authors cover the latest technological advances and their relation to the tools most valued by CI professionals. They also show that despite its enormous range of possibilities, CI has limits. Navigating the ever-changing organizational and marketplace environments is difficult. A key debate involves what should and shouldn't be done to maximize the beneficial power of CI. Fleisher, Blenkhorn, and the book's contributors present the crucial points of this debate. This book is perfect for practitioners seeking guidance, but also as a supplemental text for students in such courses as marketing strategy and planning, business-to-business marketing, and competitive intelligence itself.Customer Reviews:
framing and answering a variety of CI questions.......2004-02-24
Who would like this book? It is not a matter of like, but a matter of need. Frankly, I think that anyone seriously involved in or even interested in,CI, whether as an academic, an internal manager, an outside consultant, or as an official involved with SCIP, should read this. Why? Because this book affirmatively raises hard questions, and then provides an unflinching look at each.
Each chapter takes the reader through an understanding of the particular issue, sets out an approach to analyzing it, and then comes to its own conclusion on what is the right answer. That does not mean you will agree with what all of the authors have said. In fact, I cannot imagine that you would do so.
If you read every chapter, you must inevitably come to those with which you disagree, but which you must honestly acknowledge that the authors do a fine job of setting out an answer. I found that I was muttering, in more than one place, "Well yes, but..." That means that the author's approach is causing me to think about the issue. And it should cause you to think as well. And for that I give it high marks.
Excerpt from review written by John J. McGonagle, Book editor for Competitive Intelligence Magazine, published in the September/October 2003 issue by SCIP www.scip.org
Unafraid to tackle the tough matters head on.......2003-07-20
Several chapters thoroughly piqued my interest, especially the ones that dealt with avoiding over-reliance on the internet for CI work (Chapters 7, 8, and 10) - something I see far too many of my corporate clients succumbing to, the growing debate over the field itself - best demonstrated by Fleisher's chapter 5 on what to call the field and chapter 3 whether those doing it are professionals, and the chapters that deal with CI's relationship to other organizational processes such as marketing (Chapter 22 by Blenkhorn), knowledge management (Chapter 23 by Knip), MIS (Chapter 13 by Nikkel), and CRM (see the very interesting Chapter 12 by Davis). Although I viewed these as the most valuable, there were no chapters in the book that I didn't find at least somewhat interesting and thought-provoking.
The book won't provide all the answers we need to answer the questions it poses. Many of the chapters in the book could likely be treated in book length manuscripts themselves - and some of them deserve that treatment sooner rather than later. Having said that, this book is a very worthy and unique addition to the working bookshelf of any serious CI consultant or practitioner, is among the most insightful and valuable recently released in this field, and is easily worth the time to thoroughly read through its meaty 350 pages.
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Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Olivia Remie Constable Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521819180 |
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The Greek pandocheion, the Arabic funduq, and Latin fondaco were hostelries for medieval Mediterranean travellers that evolved into centers of trade between Muslim and Christian regions. Olivia Remie Constable traces the evolution of this family of institutions from the pandocheion in Late Antiquity to the arrival of European merchants in Islamic markets and the appearance of the fondaco. Constable's study demonstrates the role of common economic interests in their development.
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The Struggle over the Soul of Economics
Yuval P. Yonay Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0691034192 |
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This book provides a surprising answer to two puzzling questions that relate to the very "soul" of the professional study of economics in the late twentieth century. How did the discipline of economics come to be dominated by an approach that is heavily dependent on mathematically derived models? And what happened to other approaches to the discipline that were considered to be scientifically viable less than fifty years ago? Between the two world wars there were two well-accepted schools of thought in economics: the "neoclassical," which emerged in the last third of the nineteenth century, and the "institutionalist," which started with the works of Veblen and Commons at the end of the same century. Although the contributions of the institutionalists are nearly forgotten now, Yuval Yonay shows that their legacy lingers in the study and practice of economics today. By reconsidering their impact and by analyzing the conflicts that arose between neoclassicists and institutionalists, Yonay brings to life a hidden chapter in the history of economics.
The author is a sociologist of science who brings a unique perspective to economic history. By utilizing the actor-network approach of Bruno Latour and Michel Callon, he arrives at a deeper understanding of the nature of the changes that took place in the practice of economics. His analysis also illuminates a broader set of issues concerning the nature of scientific practice and the forces behind changes in scientific knowledge.
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This book provides a surprising answer to two puzzling questions that relate to the very "soul" of the professional study of economics in the late twentieth century. How did the discipline of economics come to be dominated by an approach that is heavily dependent on mathematically derived models? And what happened to other approaches to the discipline that were considered to be scientifically viable less than fifty years ago? Between the two world wars there were two well-accepted schools of thought in economics: the "neoclassical," which emerged in the last third of the nineteenth century, and the "institutionalist," which started with the works of Veblen and Commons at the end of the same century. Although the contributions of the institutionalists are nearly forgotten now, Yuval Yonay shows that their legacy lingers in the study and practice of economics today. By reconsidering their impact and by analyzing the conflicts that arose between neoclassicists and institutionalists, Yonay brings to life a hidden chapter in the history of economics. The author is a sociologist of science who brings a unique perspective to economic history. By utilizing the actor-network approach of Bruno Latour and Michel Callon, he arrives at a deeper understanding of the nature of the changes that took place in the practice of economics. His analysis also illuminates a broader set of issues concerning the nature of scientific practice and the forces behind changes in scientific knowledge.Customer Reviews:
Economist, know your soul.......2000-10-16
It illuminates many puzzles. Central is that of the ideas that dominated post-war Western (especially Anglo-Saxon) policy making. That is, until economists came through who could do the maths (rather than things like Edgeworth boxes) who ran the show? Why were people like Wesley C. Mitchell, Arthur Burns and others, who played dominant roles in US conomic policy-making, so very different in approach and attitude to what followed once Samuelson and others had effected the mathematical revolution.
The crucial point made is that both institutionalists and the necoclassicals they fought were swept away by the post-war mathematicisation of economics. In this sense, neo-institutionalists are no more modern-day institutionalists than neo-classicals are modern classical economists. The failed institionalist attempt to create a basis for economics that would start from a fresh examination of the massive amounts of data that was coming available sits beside the gathering evidence that modern econometrics, co-integration and all, in effect does little more. Thus the massive tensions remain, for example between the exogenous preferences assumptions that penetrate economics as taught, and the need to address such issues as the data presents them.
A great book.
Adam Fforde
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The Struggle Over the Soul of Economics: Institutionalist and Neoclassical Economists in America Between the Wars.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
Perry Mehrling Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098ZRRO Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1309 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Struggle Over the Soul of Economics: Institutionalist and Neoclassical Economists in America Between the Wars.(Review): An article from: Southern Economic Journal
Bruce J. Caldwell Manufacturer: Southern Economic Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098LKA2 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2644 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Complete Database Marketer: Second Generation Strategies and Techniques for Tapping the Power of Your Customer Database
Arthur Middleton Hughes Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1557388938 |
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The Complete Database Marketer is totally redrafted to bring it up to date with developments through 1995. Specific updates include: media selection for database marketing; the PC server and the mainframe; hardware and software for database marketing; selling the database to top management; measured marketing in retail chains.Customer Reviews:
Best ever guide to Database Marketing !.......2000-11-20
Comprehensive Guide..........1998-11-08
Very Thorough.......1997-09-28
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Distributed Decision Making
Christoph Schneeweiss Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3540402012 |
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Distributed decision making (DDM) has become of increasing importance in quantitative decision analysis. In applications like supply chain management, service operations, or managerial accounting, DDM has led to a paradigm shift. The book provides a unified approach to such seemingly diverse fields as multi-level stochastic programming, hierarchical production planning, principal agent theory, negotiations or contract theory. Different settings like multi-level one-person decision problems, multi-person antagonistic planning, and leadership situations are covered. Numerous examples and real-life planning cases illustrate the concepts. The new edition has been considerably expanded by additional chapters on supply chain management, service operations and multi-agent systems.
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Reforming Private Health Insurance
Mark A. Hall Manufacturer: Aei Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 084473862X |
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In the current death spiral of private health insurance, about 10 percent of employers are dropping health coverage each year, while less than 5 percent begin to offer coverage. Between 1987 and 1991, the portion of Americans covered by individually purchased health insurance dropped 40 percent. Yet the amount paid by employers doubled from 1987 to 1992.Despite the trend to scapegoat insurers, Mark Hall demonstrates that this disintegration of the insurance market has not resulted from price gouging. Instead, the insurance industry has been in the vanguard in structuring, pricing, and marketing its product.
From the premise that the United States will continue to rely on private financing for health care, the author explains why insurance of any sort exists and clarifies the social benefits from an efficient health insurance market. Along the way, he surveys open enrollment, continuity of coverage, managed competition, community rating, rating bands, purchasing cooperatives, tax equity, personal responsibility, biased selection, and risk adjustment.
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