Personal Financial Planning for Veterinarians

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Based on a study of a group of teachers and principals, this book details the Maine Academy for School Leaders' programme which argues that there is a direct correlation between leadership effectiveness and the improvement of student performance. The authors explore the soundness of the programme's innovative ideas by following closely the results gained by the study group.

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Great book providing valuable lessons on planning & forecast.......2003-01-28

It is a great book. It tells the stories of several planning projects that turn out to be dissaters. Hall clearly identifies the two main reasons for planning disasters: overestimation of demand and underestimation of cost. It provides both practical and theoretical background on those projects. Must be in your libarary.

Great book providing valuable lessons on planning & forecast.......1999-06-22

It is a great book. It tells the stories of planning projects that turn out to be dissaters. It clearly identifies the two main reasons for planning disasters: overestimation of demand and underestimation of cost. It provides both practical and theoretical background on those projects. Must be in your libarary. K. Mert CUBUKCU PhD Candidate The Ohio State University City & Regional Planning Department

Developing London's Docklands: Another Great Planning Disaster?

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Developing London's Docklands: Another Great Planning Disaster?
Sue Brownill
Manufacturer: Sage Publications Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1853960985

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London’s Docklands has been described as the largest redevelopment area in Western Europe. This book tells the story of that redevelopment and by doing so examines a number of critical issues concerning the regeneration of urban areas.

The author's detailed account of the LDDC era focuses on the main features of market-led regeneration; the encouragement of private investment through planning, transport and land policies as well as substantial public investment; the record on housing and employment; the impact on the local community; the response of local organizations and councils and the alternatives proposed.

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Compiled jointly by the Bureau of Reconstruction and the Tokyo Institute for Municipal Research.

Social Work In The Wake Of Disasters (Case Studies for Practice, 6)

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Social Work In The Wake Of Disasters (Case Studies for Practice, 6)
David Tumelty
Manufacturer: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1853020605

A digest of some well-known disasters (Easingwold papers)

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A digest of some well-known disasters (Easingwold papers)

Manufacturer: Emergency Planning College
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Disasters: Planning for a Caring Response

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Disasters: Planning for a Caring Response
HMSO Books
Manufacturer: Bernan Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Bead girls aren't content to shop at the mall for their glittery, glamorous jewelry and decorations. Bead girls are compelled, driven to make their own. Bead girls' fingers start twitching when they think about sparkly barrettes, outrageous toe rings, and jewel-encrusted tiaras.

Luckily, bead girl wannabes can quickly pick up the skills to create the kinds of adornments that will win them satisfying oohs and ahhs from their friends. Bead Girl is a very cool guidebook and bead kit that will make a confirmed bead girl out of every reader. A translucent cover reveals 12 multicolored clear plastic pouches of beads and beading materials. Turn the pages to embark on 25 fabulous and fun projects including a 10-minute necklace, a crystal flower napkin ring, a twisted tiara, a power ponytail tie, split-second earrings, a starlight starbright ornament, and much more. Organized into three categories--Ready to Wear, Homespun Décor, and Heads Up--the book provides "recipes" with lists of materials needed and step-by-step explanations of how to create these things of beauty. David Magnusson's beautiful photos of the finished product accompany each project, and drawings by Anne Keenan Higgins illustrate the instructions. There's also a toolbox section, with written descriptions and photographs of the basic elements needed (round-nosed pliers, split rings, twisted wire needle, etc.). The packet of supplies includes enough beads and findings to make three twinkle toe rings, three enchanted chokers, and four bracelets. After that, readers are encouraged to delve into their local bead shops to stock up and run wild with their imaginations! (Ages 8 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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Anyone can buy a beaded bangle, but a bead girl makes it herself! From jewelry to home decor, the projects in Bead Girl are simple enough for the absolute beginner, and beautiful enough for the bead connoisseur. A generous package filled with beads is bound into the book, providing plenty of materials for three Twinkle Toe Rings, three Enchanted Chokers, and four Elastlet bracelets. The beautifully illustrated book features step-by-step instructions, gorgeous color photography, and whimsical line drawings. For a fun and captivating introduction to the wonderful world of beading, Bead Girl is the definitive guide.

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okay for a newby--but............2006-04-16

The beads are cheap and there aren't very many-- the text is simple minded and not very well written. All and all not a very helpful purchase.

A-ok for beginners.......2005-09-24

This is a great book for young girls. Cute, creative ideas that are not hard to do. My daughters love it.

An excellent book!.......2003-09-04

I bought this title at Costco on a whim. It is perfect for a teenager or beginner beader, plus it includes large colour photographs, beads and some hardware and illustrations. This book was an inexpensive and a great starting point for me.

One of the best bead books yet.......2002-01-04

This is one of the best bead books that I have ever read. I enjoyed becuase it mainly because it showed you how to make things that you can use around the house like a napkin ring. Not just the traditionally necklaces and bracelets. I think that this is a great bead book to buy no matter what level you are at. I'm an advandance beader and I still found this book fun.

Bead Girl. 25 Sparkly Beading Projects from Tiaras To Toe Rings

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Bead Girl. 25 Sparkly Beading Projects from Tiaras To Toe Rings
Mikyla Bruder
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NUL0JC

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Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations.

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7 Secrets of Marketing in a Multi-Cultural World, Second Edition
G.C. Rapaille
Manufacturer: Tuxedo Production
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Binding: Hardcover
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The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do

ASIN: 0974016845

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7 Secrets of Marketing in a Multi-Cultural World offers strategies for applying cultural archetypes and "the logic of emotion" to make domestic and international marketing efforts more effective and profitable. Centering on correct cultural archetypes is the key to developing and realizing corporate marketing goals. Corporate executives, marketing managers, advertising agencies, and individual sales people need to know how to contend with an increasing array of minority cultures at home and different markets, cultures, traditions, perceptions, and customs abroad. This book explains why: Violating cultural archetypes triggers a culture's strong defensive mechanisms against your product; The key to inter-cultural communication and commerce is the ability to decode the culture; When we misunderstand cultural archetypes, we also misunderstand why sales pitches, presentations, and product offerings succeed or fail; We never have a second chance to make a first impression.

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Decoding CNA (Cultural DNA)
Great Pointers and Ideas
Perhaps Not Exactly "Secrets"

7 Secrets of Marketing in a Multi-Cultural World
G. Clotaire Rapaille
Manufacturer: Executive Excellence Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1890009741

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7 Secrets of Marketing in a Multi-Cultural World offers strategies for applying cultural archetypes and the logic of emotion to make domestics and international marketing efforts more effective and profitable.

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Decoding CNA (Cultural DNA).......2006-12-24

I have lived in several different countries throughout the world in sales, marketing and ommunications positions. G. Clotaire Rapaille has been able to bring this down to words. Wal-Mart made one of the biggest mistakes when going abroad and expanding to Europe. In Germany Wal-Mart was met with strong resistance from labor unions to consumer organizations. They lost in a very big way. Just being American and the American "Can do" mentality was not enough. The executives should have opened their minds and soul to other ways of thinking and understanding their target audience.

G. Clotaire Rapaille explains in this book how to decode the CNA (Cultural DNA) which influences the way people of a particular country or area buy.
If you are involved in international sales, marketing or communication in any way read this book before you take on the task of introducing some new product or advertising campaign to a specific country other than your own.

An example of reality. A well known Swiss department store decided to use an english language slogan, "come in and find out" well a great number of people interpreted this to mean "come in but please leave". This was a flop. They executives as well as the ad agency were at fault. They used research based on English speaking audiences and not in the home market.

Read, reflect and understand this book.

Great Pointers and Ideas.......2006-04-07

I enjoyed this fresh take on marketing. Definitely worth the money and time to read.

Perhaps Not Exactly "Secrets".......2001-04-26

As I read this excellent book, I was reminded of what Whitman once asserted: "Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes." If each human being is "large" and "contains multitudes", how difficult (if not impossible) it would be to grasp the nature and extent of the diversity within cultures such as families, communities, cities, and countries. In the Foreword, Rapaille addresses his reader directly: "This book gives you a new set of glasses to look at the way you -- and the rest of the world -- buy and sell, live and function. Just as using the microscope to see microbes changed the way we practice medicine, and breaking the code of the hieroglyphics suddenly gave us access to the incredible amount of information hidden for centuries, archetypology -- the new science of decoding cultures -- is changing the way we look at ourselves, at others, and at organizations." Here are his seven "Secrets":

1. The structure is the message: people don't buy products and services -- they buy relationships.

2. Cultures have an unconscious: cultural archetypes have the power to make or break any marketing, sales, or public relations plan.

3. Those who don't know the "code" can't open the "door": decoding the mindset of the target market opens doors of opportunity.

4. Time, space, and energy are the building blocks of all cultures: each culture has a DNA which means that any organization can encode its culture for superior marketing and sales performance.

5. Solve the right problem: Each organization must design and create new products or services to solve the right customer problems.

6. The more global, the more local: Quality is the passport to global markets, but the code for quality differs from culture to culture, market to market, person to person.

7. The Third World War is underway -- and it is cultural: cultural awareness is the key to success and to personal and collective freedom.

For whom will this book be most valuable? First, decision-makers in global organizations. Also, others who suspect that certain widely-accepted assumptions about "culture" (however defined) are either inadequate or flat-out wrong. Of greatest interest to me are those sections in which Rapaille explains how to "decode" a culture. What he calls "unconscious cultural forces" must be understood or a "cultural World War III" will be inevitable, if it is not already underway. (He thinks it is.) Those who you have read Daniel Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence will be especially interested in what Rapaille has to say about emotional imprints, emotional experiences, and the correlations between and among them. As archetype shifts occur, paradigm shifts seem certain to follow.

Throughout the book, Rapaille devotes substantial attention to examining culural realities (and their implications) in terms of their relevance to business in general, and to marketing and sales in particular. At one point he observes: "Today's high-speed changes are not as chaotic or as random as we are led to believe. There are not only distinct patterns to be found in culturally specific behaviors and attitudes, but also identifiable forces that shape members of these societies. Once we understand these forces and the way they are organized, we can deal with them strategically." Perhaps he agrees with Peter Drucker's opinion that man's greatest challenge is to manage a future which has already occurred. Rapaille's is a significant contribution to our understanding of cultural "multitudes" even as so many have yet to be revealed.

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One of the most urgent issues facing the United States today is how to establish a comprehensive health insurance program at a time when nearly one in seven Americans lack insurance and costs for health care and medical fees are increasing at about 20 percent annually. An interdisciplinary team of experts provides a unique overview of the most important current problems and speaks to the key questions of risk, allocation, and equity. This text is designed for college, university, and professional courses in health and medical policy, public policy, public administration, law and society, bioethics, nursing, science and technology, and hospital administration. This public policy study offers a general framework for assessing health insurance from many vantage points, in terms of health policy impacts, the care of the needy, health insurance implementation, and prevention and risk. Chapters assess various national health insurance proposals, current congressional action and Medicare decisions, the social impacts of health insurance policy, coverage for displaced workers, the uninsured and hospital care in the inner city, charity care and community benefits, insuring high-risk persons, preventive health care screening for older women, and medical malpractice insurance, among other subjects. These analyses with real-life examples provide a solid introduction to all who want to understand health insurance and public policy issues today.

Health Insurance and Public Policy: Risk, Allocation, and Equity

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Health Insurance and Public Policy: Risk, Allocation, and Equity
Miriam K. Mills
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTPY30

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