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How to Buy the Best Phone System: Getting the Maximum Value Without Spending a Fortune
Sondra Liburd Jordan , and
Sondra Liburd Jordan
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[This] book will become the Consumer's Digest of the telecommunications business.--John Blakely, manager, public relations, BellSouth Telecommunications.
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straight forward advice on phones.......2002-10-14
short concise facts book on phones and phone systems
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Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
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The Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource for those working in the fields of special education research and practice. Featuring reviews of assessment instruments and teaching approaches, legal issues, overviews of specific learning disabilities, dozens of biographies, and more, this complete desk reference is an indispensable guide for professionals, academics, and students alike.
Named an American Library Association Top 25 Reference of the Year in its First Edition, The Concise Encyclopedia serves as an important reference for the education of handicapped and other exceptional children. Written and edited by highly regarded and respected experts in the fields of special education and psychology, this authoritative resource guide provides a reference base for educators as well as professionals in the areas of psychology, neuropsychology, medicine, health care, social work and law.
Additionally, this acclaimed reference work is essential for administrators, psychologists, diagnosticians, and school counselors, as well as parents of the handicapped themselves.
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- Comprehensive coverage of new legislation such as Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act
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- Many new entries including notable biographies, new service delivery systems, special education laws, new assessment instruments, cross-cultural issues, neuropsychology, and use of the Internet in research and service delivery.
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- Academic assessment
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Now available in an affordable paperback edition, this is a revised edition of the highly acclaimed and definitive concise reference on special education. It includes alphabetized entries that cover the gamut of special education research and practice, featuring dozens of biographies, reviews of assessment instruments and teaching approaches, legal issues, overviews of specific learning disabilities, and more.
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The Art of Negotiating: How to Become a Skilled Negotiator
Gerard I. Nierenberg
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Gerard I. Nierenberg calls negotiating an art. And as a world-renowned negotiator, he should know. The Financial Times of Canada referred to him as the "American Negotiation Guru," the Wall Street Journal observed that he makes a profession of convincing adversaries that nobody has to lose, and the editors of Fortune wrote that he "discovered the depth of interest in negotiating some years ago."
"Whenever people exchange ideas with the intention of changing relationships, whenever they confer for agreement, they are negotiating," he observes. "Yet negotiating is one of the least understood arts in human affairs." To remedy this situation, he began his pioneering efforts to define, structure and teach this critical art.
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A clear and comprehensive guide to quickly set up a cost-effective Quality Management System
Revised and expanded, the new edition of this easy-to-understand guide provides practical information on how to set up a cost-effective ISO 9001:2000 compliant Quality Management System. With comprehensive coverage of the meaning, history and requirements of the current ISO 9000 standard, the book explains how businesses can easily and efficiently satisfy customer requirements for quality control and quality assurance. Four years into the current version of ISO 9001, the new edition of this valuable book incorporates the hard-won experiences of working with the standard, together with direct, accessible and straightforward guidance that is proven to work.
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The Application of the Eight Principles of Management
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* Hands-on guidance on setting up a Quality Management System cost effectively
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ISO 9001:2000 In Brief provides practical information on how to set up an ISO 9001:2000 compliant quality management system (QMS) cost effectively. It explains the meaning of ISO 9000, its history, current status, requirements, and changes, and it covers how businesses can easily and efficiently satisfy customer requirements for quality control and quality assurance. Revised and expanded, the new edition of this easy-to-understand guide shows how to implement a QMS for the ISO 9001:2000 standard. Four years into the current version of ISO 9001, the new edition of this 'life-saving' book incorporates the hard-won experiences of actually working with the standard.
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Just what I was looking for.......2002-12-22
After ordering and returning several other ISO 9000 books, I found this book to be just what I was looking for. I find it very understandable especially for a comparative newcomer to the formal procedures of Quality Control. Having been authorized to see what ISO 9000 can do for our software engineering company, this book has provided me with a lot of enthusiasm for achieving a formal QMS.
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Title: Firms urged to use ISO 9001 for biz, 13485:200x for FDA.(new medical device quality systems standard)(Brief Article)
Author: Ellen Beck
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Foreword by Tom Peters
Internationally known management consultants Nicholas Imparato and Oren Harari connect the big picture of our changing civilizations with the specific practical actions that managers have to take to produce results today. All organizations are faced with the same challenge: the need to jump the curve to make significant, discontinuous leaps in their thinking, whether about product, technology, or management style. The alternative to follow current practices all the way to their inevitable decline is unacceptable. The authors show us that it is also unnecessary.
Drawing on numerous personal interviews with innovative leaders around the world, as well as research and first-hand observation, Imparato and Harari identify the four strategic imperatives--innovation, intelligence, coherence, and responsibility--that will enable companies to successfully jump the curve and thrive in the emerging epoch. And they show how cutting-edge companies and leaders are translating these imperatives into action.
Not since the dawn of the Modern Age some five hundred years ago has civilization undergone the kind of profound, rapid-fire changes we're experiencing today. Even organizations that are adapting, growing and innovating have the gnawing sense that obsolescence is right around the corner. Jumping the Curve offers perspective and guidance for doing business at this unique moment in time. It connects the big picture of our changing world with the practical actions managers must take now to position their organizations for success in a new epoch we can't yet fully see or understand.
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A blueprint for the Intelligent Enterprise........1998-06-28
This book is the first to explain how information flow and the management of corporate knowledge changes the nature of business. Unlike business process reengineering and other management fads which treats individuals as cogs in the business machine, this book advances the notion that the intelligence and expertise of the people in an organization define success--and that such intelligence and expertise can be amplified by information technology.
Excellent........1998-04-09
I'm a technologist, and this book is the first to adequately explain the relationship between information technology and business organization--David M. Kalman
Actions for an organization to last into the future........1997-02-21
This book is well grounded and strategically linked to the very existance
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To Hell With Paradise: A History Of The Jamaican Tourist Industry (Pitt Latin Amercian Studies)
Frank Fonda Taylor
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In the course of the nineteenth century, Jamaica transformed itself from a pestilence-ridden “white man’s graveyard” to a sun-drenched tourist paradise. Deftly combining economics with political and cultural history, Frank Fonda Taylor examines this puzzling about-face and explores the growth of the tourist industry into the 1990s. He argues that the transformations in image and reality were not accidental or due simply to nature’s bounty. They were the result of a conscious decision to develop this aspect of Jamaica’s economy.
Jamaican tourism emerged formally at an international exhibition held on the island in 1891. The international tourist industry, based on the need to take a break from stressful labor and recuperate in healthful and luxurious surroundings, was a newly awakened economic giant. A group of Jamaican entrepreneurs saw its potential and began to cultivate a tourism psychology which has led, more than one hundred years later, to an economy dependent upon the tourist industry.
The steamships that carried North American tourists to Jamaican resorts also carried U.S. prejudices against people of color. “To Hell with Paradise” illustrates the problems of founding a tourist industry for a European or U.S. clientele in a society where the mass of the population is poor, black, and with a historical experience of slavery and colonialism. By the 1990s, tourism had become the lifeblood of the Jamaican economy, but at an enormous cost: enclaves of privilege and ostentation that exclude the bulk of the local population, drug trafficking and prostitution, soaring prices, and environmental degradation. No wonder some Jamaicans regard tourism as a new kind of sugar.
Taylor explores timely issues that have not been previously addressed. Along the way, he offers a series of valuable micro histories of the Jamaican planter class, the origins of agricultural dependency (on bananas), the growth of shipping and communications links, the process of race relations, and the linking of infrastructural development to tourism. The text is illustrated with period photographs of steamships and Jamaican tourist hotels.
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This is the first book-length study of free, white craftsmen and tradesmen in the pre-Civil War South. Michele Gillespie details these workers' worlds and tells how they struggled against declining social and economic opportunities while skilled slaves increasingly took up the mechanical, building, clothing, and decorative arts trades.
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Title: Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860.
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Green Marketing & Management: A Global Perspective (GMP)
John F. Wasik
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John F. Wasik, managing director of the New Consumer Institute, believes that doing business with a real commitment to environmental concerns will ultimately reduce costs, increase productivity, and boost profits. In Green Marketing and Management: A Global Perspective, he offers a complete guide to balancing various corporate and ecological goals and provides hundreds of examples of profitable companies all over the world that already are merging the two seemingly disparate interests with great success.
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Green Marketing and Management: A Global Perspective
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An accomplished leader always owes part of his or her success to effective delegation practices. In order to know which tasks and projects to "catch" and which ones to "release," a leader must do a little planning. Like a person who excels at fishing, the leader must have a sense of latitude (the width or breadth of a project) and longitude (how much time a project will take). This new and improved 2nd edition of Catch & Release is a workbook for delegating tasks and projects. Effective delegation starts with understanding individual roles in the organization, priorities and timelines. It continues with clear communication. If your goal is "no surprises" leadership and smooth completion of projects, this book is essential.
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Betting On Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695-1775 (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain)
Geoffrey Clark
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Betting on Lives uses the early history of life insurance to examine the economic, social, cultural and intellectual history of eighteenth-century England. Illegal almost everywhere else in Europe, life insurance in England was vigorously promoted in the three decades following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. While serving as a means of prudential risk-avoidance, life insurance also appealed strongly to the gambling instincts of England's burgeoning middling sort. Life insurance consequently provided a vehicle for gambling until 1774, when parliament forbade the making of wagers on people's deaths. In these formative years, life insurance embodied the practical aspirations of Newtonian science, the improving spirit of moral reform and the zeal of a vibrant commercial society intent on protecting against loss as it created new opportunities for investment. Betting on Lives challenges conventional accounts of the sober growth of the insurance industry and reveals the troublesome philosophical issues surrounding a business that gambled on providential outcomes.
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An Impressive Work of Historical Research.......2002-04-04
Clark's book concerns the life insurance business in England, primarily in the 1700s. He's researched company records and presented very hard data about the business. Moreover, the links between life insurance, the financial industry, general business conditions, and social attitudes about insurance are well explored. The focus on England is not limiting, as England was the only country with meaningful life insurance in the 1700s. (Readers would likely also appreciate Zelizer's "Morals and Markets.") I am extremely grateful for the information in Clark's book.
Clark is a pleasure to read. It's a delight to find a book using words such as chiliasm, advowson, exiguous, and empyrean.
Kudos from a Friend.......2001-06-23
When a friend of mine recently earned his PhD (in systematic theology), a party feting his achievement called for oral excerpting from his colleagues' works whose knowledge, from many disciplines, was likewise piled higher and deeper. Geoffrey Clark's Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695-1775, particularly caught my ear, and the author was kind enough to provide me a copy of the Manchester University Press monograph. What an interesting study! Clark manages both to describe the factual development of life insurance societies and companies and - I believe more interestingly - to present the social and literary context that both described and led to this development. Clark writes very well, and his broad eye takes him beyond narrative fact by including several eighteenth-century illustrations - playing cards, advertisements for "Lottery Insurance" for both the "Elite" and "Laboring Classes" - as well as quotes from contemporary literature. Although primarily aimed at professional historians like himself, Clark's work both educated and entertained this general reader. Even were Geoffrey not a personal friend, I would recommend this insightful work.
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