Trade and Payments After Soviet Disintegration (Policy Analyses in International Economics) (Policy Analyses in International Economics)

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"This is precisely what we need to get us to the next level of student success through better leadership."
—Terry Thompson, Superintendent
Wayne Township, Indianapolis, IN

“At a time when school leadership is central to the success of students, Reeves offers a comprehensive means to measure the critical elements of effective school leadership.”
—Vincent Ferrandino, Executive Director
National Association of Elementary School Principals

“Research studies increasingly support the significant impact that effective leaders have on school performance. A skilled leader is an essential component in successful school reform. This book makes a compelling case for transforming leadership evaluation from perfunctory to a focus on performance, reflection, and results.”
—Gerald N. Tirozzi, Executive Director
National Association of Secondary School Principals

"Reeves' book is not just another book on school leadership, but a blueprint for developing leaders."
—The School Administrator, December 2004

Improve teaching, learning, and leadership at every level by using a new process of leadership evaluation!

Drawing on current research, theory, and best practices of leadership, organizational performance, and personnel evaluation, this book contains the information and tools necessary to successfully evaluate all types of educational leaders and improve individual and organizational performance. Author of 17 books and numerous articles, national expert on topics of educational leadership and accountability Douglas B. Reeves provides a blueprint for creating a leader evaluation system that is fair and consistent.

Based on 10 Dimensions of Leadership, Reeves provides a scoring rubric that allows leaders, boards, and leadership trainees to compare performance that is exemplary, proficient, and progressing with performance that does not meet today’s standards. Whether your school system already has a leadership evaluation system in place or you are just starting to create one, this book will improve the way you evaluate and develop educational leaders.

Three critical conclusions at the heart of the book are:

Leadership has a dramatic impact on student achievement, equity, and staff morale
Leadership effectiveness includes both personal predispositions and acquired knowledge skills

The purpose of leadership evaluation is to improve personal and organizational performance, not merely to render an evaluation Assessing Educational Leaders demonstrates the need for a new form of leadership evaluation for all leaders in the field of education and offers a new model of leadership evaluation.

When properly implemented, a leadership evaluation system provides invaluable resources for identifying and developing future leadership talent. It paints the picture of organizational strengths and challenges that will improve teaching, learning, and leadership at every level in the educational system.

Customer Reviews:

Great Book.......2005-08-03

The book took a little longer than I expected but it came in great condition. If not for the time I would have given a 5 star.

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"It is well, well done -- I will indeed recommend it . . . this type of work has been long needed in our field."
--Robert J. Vandenberg, University of Georgia

Organizational researchers and managers have never had a single easy-to-use resource for validated measures, often relying on a selection of journal articles or improvised solutions to meet immediate needs. Taking the Measure of Work: A Guide to Validated Scales for Organizational Research and Diagnosis provides researchers, consultants, managers, and organizational development specialists validated and reliable ways to measure how employees view their work and their organization.

Whether preparing questionnaires or interviews for an employee survey, organizational assessment, dissertation or research program, this book guides users to a summary level understanding of each topic area, the measurement issues in the area, and a selection of measures to choose from. The measures cover the areas of:

Job Satisfaction
Organizational Commitment
Job Characteristics
Job Stress
Job Roles
Organizational Justice
Work-Family Conflict
Person-Organization Fit
Work Behaviors
Work Values

About the Author

Dail L. Fields (Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1994) is Associate Professor at the Regent University School of Business. His research interests include measurement of employee perspectives on work, cross-cultural management, human resource management strategies, and leadership and values in organizations. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. Prior to beginning an academic career in 1994, he was a management executive with MCI Communications Corp. and a management consultant with Touche Ross & Co.

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E-business and e-commerce have become essential to the survival of any corporation, large or small. More than ever, the need to have a Web presence is paramount to a successful business. Unfortunately, the potentially large cost of hiring an outside consultant to Web-enable business data has prevented many users from pursuing this important goal. Web Enable Your Small Business In a Weekend is a substitute for those high-priced consultants. It covers such topics as the concept of e-business and what it means to your small business, building your website framework with MS FrontPage 2000, designing a database with MS Access 2000, making your information come alive with Active Server Pages, integrating with your business data via the Web, finding an ISP, and posting your Web site. This book is perfect for those who wish to bring some component of their businesses to the Web, and want their sites to do more than static HTML.

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Up-to-date, complete and accurate...Highly Recommended.......2002-07-02

A friend recommended this book to me when I was thinking about creating a business to consumer e-commerce strategy for my business. From what I have read I like the writer's style and approach. Gosney's book brings very little fluff, just here's what you were looking for and how to do it. The practical approach walks the reader through the steps from planning to class management. It's a great help to the novice and a fine reference for those who are experienced. I highly recommend this book to any individual looking to create an online strategy to increase awareness and sales revenues.

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Only Yesterday deals with that delightful decade from the Armistice in November 1918 to the panic and depression of 1929-30. Here is the story of Woodrow Wilson's defeat, the Harding scandals, the Coolidge prosperity, the revolution in manners and morals, the bull market and its smash-up. Allen's lively narrative brings back an endless variety of half-forgotten events, fashions, crazes, and absurdities. Deftly written, with a humorous touch, Only Yesterday traces, beneath the excitements of day-to-day life in the 20s, those currents in national life and thought which are the essence of true history.

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic Book .......2007-08-27

Its a shame most writers today do not possess such an impeccable vocabulary.

Very well written.

A great reference on the 1920s!.......2007-07-08

This is a great historical book, written shortly after the 1920s was over. It gives a great overall history of the 1920s in America. The author specifically focuses on the great bull market and how that eventually caused the Great Depression to occur. It's a great read, even if it was written shortly after the 1920s was over (sometimes historians have a greater bias the closer they are to an event they are writing about). I really enjoyed this book and if you are interested in this time period, you will enjoy it too.

Forgotten Disasters Again.......2007-06-30

I have been reading a lot about the 20's for some time. Why is it that everybody mentions the Miami hurricane of 1926 but forgets the Tri-State tornado of 1925 and the Mississippi floods of 1927?

Some 625 people were killed in the tornado. It remains the single most destructive tornado in our record books. The flood displaced over 700,000 people and continued for almost six months.

Mr Allen has put together a fine narrative but it has some gaps. See...

The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America's Greatest Tornado Disaster

And...

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

Excellent reference.......2007-06-06

I purchased this book mainly as research for a novel I am writing set in the time period. I expected to wade through a lot of tedious history but what I found was a great perspective of the era written just after it occurred. Insightful, packed with useful informatin, I couldn't have asked for a better guide through the roaring 20s.

Be Careful, folks.......2007-05-05

It is mandatory that while you are reading this book you realize the time period that it was written in. I would take everything it says with a grain of salt, especially if it was something about women's history. Here is an actual quotation from the book:

"The revolution [in manners and morals] was accelerated . . . by the growing independence of the American woman. She won the suffrage in 1920. She seemed, it is true, to be very little interested in it once she had it; she voted, but mostly as the unregenerate men about her did . . . Few of the younger women could rouse themselves to even a passing interest in politics: to them it was a sordid and futile business, without flavor and without hope. Nevertheless, the winning of the suffrage had its effect. It consolidated woman's position as man's equal"

Obviously this was not true but the way it speaks of women is a good reflection of what was felt at the time. So do not read this as a reliable history text. Rather, read it as a book of its time so you can understand what was widely believed during that era. I would find a more recent and reliable book about that era to get the real facts.

ONLY YESTERDAY- AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF THE 1920'S

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ONLY YESTERDAY- AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF THE 1920'S

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ONLY YESTERDAY an Informal history of the 1920's
Frederick Lewis Allen
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Ainslie's Jockey Book: The Relationship of Jockeys to the Winning and Losing of Horse Races (Paperback)

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Only Yesterday: an Informal History of the 1920'S (Paperback)
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Only Yesterday - An Informal History of the 1920's in America in Two Volumes - Volume 1

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Only Yesterday - An Informal History of the 1920's in America in Two Volumes - Volume 1

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Only Yesterday An Informal History of the 1920's
Frederick Lewis Allen
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Only Yesterday an Informal History of the 1920's
Frederick Lewis Allen
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Only Yesterday. An Informal History of the 1920's in America.

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Only Yesterday. An Informal History of the 1920's in America.
F L Allen
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F Allen
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ONLY YESTERDAY: AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF THE 1920'S IN AMERICA: VOLUME 2.

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The City and the House of Lords.......2002-08-09

After reviewing the various theories about power relations between the City and British upper class, authors analyze history of British investments across the globe: Asia, Africa, Latin America, Canada to name a few. They show how both City and British upper aristocracy rather than the British industrialists shaped British imperial strategies.

They demonstrate how the main Imperial and Overseas investors in are the British upper class while City professionals and middle class invest mainly in Britain and Europe. The City was used to channel British old money across the globe.

Main beneficiaries of those imperial and overseas investments are people with political power, the Lords. These in turn shape British imperial policies to fit their investments, building the British Empire along it.

But all locations are not equally influenced by them. Canadian financial markets in the interwar period for instance move according to interest rate of the dollar and pound. If dollar interest rate is lower than pound interest rate, then American influence is larger in Canada. Otherwise British influence dominates.

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British imperial history can now be seen as a bridge to global history. This study tries to renew the debate on British imperialism by combining Western and Asian historiography and constructing a new global history as an aid to the understanding of globalization in the late 20th and 21st centuries. Part One takes a predominantly metropolitan view of the globalizing forces unleashed by British imperialism; Part Two focuses on the international order of East Asia and its connection with gentlemanly capitalism.

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Beyond CRM! Beyond Web Design!.......2002-02-06

Loved it! I read e-customer (this is the follow-up) and enjoyed the passion but this is a whole different league.

In terms of detail and practicality this has it all. It presents five-implementation steps for the e-customer programme from (1) how to understand your e-customer; (2) figuring out what difficult stuff he wants that you can give him; (3) getting a team together to deliver what he wants (a council of ideas); (4) delivering an end 2 end experience that delivers what he wants; to (5) keeping it fresh and stay in business.

I am sure there will be other books but this one deserves a place on the bookshelf of every business person with customers! Max appears from his web site ...to be very popular outside the USA and with a book of this quality he deserves more of your attention!

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Computing has become essential for the modeling, analysis, and optimization of systems. This book is devoted to algorithms, computational analysis, and decision models. The chapters are organized in two parts: optimization models of decisions and models of pricing and equilibria. Optimization is at the core of rational decision making. Even when the decision maker has more than one goal or there is significant uncertainty in the system, optimization provides a rational framework for efficient decisions. The Markowitz mean-variance formulation is a classical example. The first part of the book is on recent developments in optimization decision models for finance and economics. The first four chapters of this part focus directly on multi-stage problems in finance. Chapters 5-8 involve the use of worst-case robust analysis. Chapters 9-11 are devoted to portfolio optimization. The final four chapters are on transportation-inventory with stochastic demand; optimal investment with CRRA utility; hedging financial contracts; and, automatic differentiation for computational finance. The uncertainty associated with prediction and modeling constantly requires the development of improved methods and models. Similarly, as systems strive towards equilibria, the characterization and computation of equilibria assists analysis and prediction. The second part of the book is devoted to recent research in computational tools and models of equilibria, prediction, and pricing. The first three chapters of this part consider hedging issues in finance. Chapters 19-22 consider prediction and modeling methodologies. Chapters 23-26 focus on auctions and equilibria. Volatility models are investigated in chapters 27-28. The final two chapters investigate risk assessment and product pricing. Audience: Researchers working in computational issues related to economics, finance, and management science.

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Tested and designed by consumers, this guide provides a clear description of Medicare, hospital, medical, and supplemental insurance coverage. A sample bill-paying log sheet is included as are tips on how to file Medicare appeals.

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