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New Interchange is a multi-level series for adult and young adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level. The Teacher's Edition features page-by-page instructions directly opposite full-size, full-color reproductions of the Student's Book pages. It also contains teaching suggestions, answer keys for the Student's Book and Workbook, listening scripts, optional activities, and photocopiable Achievement Tests with their own listening scripts and answer keys.

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New Interchange is a complete revision of Interchange, one of the world's most popular and successful English courses. New Interchange is a multi-level course for adults and young adult learners of English from beginning to high-intermediate level. Level One builds on the foundations for accurate and fluent communication established in the Intro Level, extending grammatical, lexical, and functional skills. New Interchange teaches students to use English for everyday situations and purposes related to school, work, social life, and leisure. The underlying philosophy is that language learning is more rewarding, meaningful, and effective when used for authentic communication.

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A good and useful series for ESL teacher........2000-04-27

Having never used the first edition of this series, I picked up New Interchange Level 1 so that I could have a structured series to help my students learn general basic English skills. I have been pleased, and find that overall it is a good series to teach from. THE GOOD: Each chapter in New Interchange has a good variety of skills to learn and practice. Students are constantly engaged in reading, writing, listening, speaking, learning new vocabulary and practicing new grammar rules. The content isn't too heavy, and the book makes good use of color and white space so as not to overwhelm the student. I find that the structure of each chapter is constant and reliable so that the students become used to how things are done. The tapes and Teacher's Guide are invaluable! The workbook provides additional practice of concepts that the students have just learned in the student book. All of these resources combine to make it incredibly easy for me (as a teacher) to prepare and give good lessons. THE BAD: I have found that my students are often confused with the grammar exercises. What may seem like clear-cut explanations to a native English speaker obviously aren't that clear to the learners. I am also a little saddened by the fact that each chapter really doesn't go into great depth for any one skill or theme. Each skill is presented, learned and practiced in what sometimes feels like a rushed manner. I have also found it difficult to present an entire chapter in two one-and-a-half hour sessions, as the authors suggest. OVERALL: A good series with lots of skills practice. It is very useful for learners who want to study a variety of general English skills. Very nice for overworked teachers who don't have a lot of time to prepare lessons.

Getting Better!.......1998-08-31

The latest edition of "Interchange" is certainly an improvement on the original. Teachers who have been using the old book for years will be relieved to see agonizing sections from the old book removed. And the subject material and sequencing of grammar,listening and speaking activities is better too. The workbook is also vastly superior to the old workbook . However, one of the major weaknesses of the old book still remains-the Teacher's Book. The lack of an abundance of really good speaking and grammar activities forces the teacher to do a large amount of preparation work. Here's a tip- supplement Interchange with Heinemann's "Reward Resource Books".

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Drawing on historical and sociological perspectives, this book is a detailed and comprehensive critique of the claims made by change management gurus, "hero-managers", and academics.

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Designing for Quality explores a vital design technique called design of experiments (DOE). It integrates both the engineering and statistical aspects of designed experiments combining the best of Dr. Genichi Taguchi's approach with the best techniques from western design. With these designs you can: improve product performance; make product and process characteristics less sensitive to factors that cannot be controlled; reduce development, manufacturing, and use costs.

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Full factorial and fractional factorial designs for two-level experiments.
Experimental designs for factors at three and four levels.
Analysis of variance in engineering design.
Using experiments to improve processes.
Types of computer software for experimental design.

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Analyzing Manufacturing Processes "101".......2002-03-26

As a quality assurance manager whose educational background is in management rather than engineering, I had the privilege of using this book as a college text.
I cannot say how well I would have fared by using this book as a stand-alone tool, but it was a valuable tool in my college Design of Experiments course.
We use DOE to a point in my company, a plastics molder. In our business, however, many quality inspections are of the attribute properties, such as appearance, rather than actual, measurable variables. That is no fault of this book; however, it is frustrating that I am not able to utilize DOE more.
The book delivers its message fairly clearly, keeping in mind that I went through it page by page with an experienced instructor. It is not necessary to be a mathematical wizard to use this book, although an understanding of basic statistics would be helpful.
Anyone involved in a manufacturing operation with mutliple variables in the process would be advised to learn more about DOE, and this book would be a valuable resource, particularly for those with an engineering background.

A Very Practical Introduction to Design of Experiments(DOE).......1999-02-05

This book was recommended to me by a quality manager of long experience and it was a very good recommendation. Having aquired an engineering degree before DOE became very widespread, I have largely had to educate myself in DOE methodology. "Designing for Quality" is written in plain language and has easy to understand directions and tables to use both in designing your experiments and analysing the resulting data. With this book, I planned, conducted and analysed data from several experiments before I ever had the assistance of a knowlegable practitioner of DOE. When I gained such assistance, I had my results and conclusions from these experiments confirmed. I am now Quality Manager for a plant of 650 employees and when I need to teach DOE, whether to an experienced engineer or a novice technician, "Designing for Quality" is the text I always use.

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Managers and management scholars alike need operational models and concepts for dealing with core competencies within strategic management. This book provides tools for the practitioner as well as fundamental theoretical concepts to enable scholars to further build upon Drejer's work. His main argument is that understanding core competencies is key to explaining why some firms enjoy a competitive advantage over others. Drejer proposes models and means with which managers can proactively identify, design, and develop their firm's core competencies in strategic alignment. More than merely a how-to book, this work places an equal emphasis on the concepts behind competence-based strategy. The author offers the reader multiple perspectives on the background of competence-based strategy, the relationship between strategic management and the development of core competencies, and the application of competence-based strategy to praxis. He provides the tools necessary to identify, analyze, and develop the competencies of a firm, and in so doing performs a valuable service for practitioners and researchers.

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A positive step forward in the latest management debate.......2003-01-09

As a researcher in the field of management I found this book to be a breath of fresh air.

The management debate surrounding core competencies has become increasingly jargon laden and has progressively moved away from being of any use to practitioners. This book redresses the balance by providing both a critical (and exhaustive) review of the literature and practical examples of how different theories can be applied.

It's great strength is in synthesising the work of many disparate fields rather than the more common practice of highlighting the differences. This results in a complex and fragmented view of the world of strategic management that more accurately portrays the issues facing today's managers than the generic management `fads' that are adopted and then discarded with increasing aplomb.

The cases used to illustrate the theories are refreshing as they are atypical and topical. Cases such as Bang & Olufsen, the innovative hi-fi designers, and Lego, the ubiquitous toy manufacturers support Drejer's thesis that sustaining a competitive advantage through the development of core competencies is contingent upon many factors and requires different approaches at different times.

This is where the book shows a related weakness. As the real world is complex and fast changing, especially in the interaction between people and technologies, there are no `right answers'. As a result many will reject Drejer's approach of critically examining all the possible answers to allow the individual to determine the correct approach they should adopt. However this `open' approach is, in my view, the correct way to bring forward this important debate.

This book will not make the author rich, but will help numerous researchers and managers to reflect more constructively upon the very real issues that they face in their working lives.

A great read!.......2002-08-22

As a manager and MBA-graduate, I really enjoyed this book. It is of great practical value with operational tools, understandable frameworks and ready-to-use methods. But is also of great interest for those interested in theory. It embraces the strategy concept and places competence-based strategy in its prober theoretical context. There is certainly something in this book for everone - even an entrepreneur and CEO.

Of great practical value.......2002-08-01

I was looking for a book, which could provide practitioners like me with tools to proactively work with the core competencies of my company. This I found in this book written by Anders Drejer. I appreciate the way this author draws up the theoretical background and leads over to operational and useful methods and means. A lot of examples from different firms and the modern language of the book, makes it easy to understand the presented methods and means based on a genetic and quite intuitively understandable framework for competence-based strategy. I was able to transfer the lessons learned to the situation of my firm and no doubt, I will use the described tools in praxis. This book will be close to my desk and my work as a manager.

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Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation

Manufacturer: Diane Pub.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0756750318

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A historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded Amer. corp. Focuses on political, social, & institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power. Shows how the corp. started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create & administer public services & then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, & invest. banks into a mechanism for the org. of railroads. Analyzes its flowering into the realm of mfg., when at the turn of the 20th cent., many of the same giants that still dominate the Amer. econ. landscape were created. The corp. altered mfg. entities so that they were each owned by many people instead of by single individuals.

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Theory of How Corporations Grew in America

Socializing Capital
William G. Roy
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals and then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, and investment banks into a mechanism for the organization of railroads. Finally, and most particularly, he analyzes its flowering into the realm of manufacturing, when at the turn of this century, many of the same giants that still dominate the American economic landscape were created. Thus, the corporation altered manufacturing entities so that they were each owned by many people instead of by single individuals as had previously been the case.

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Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life. Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Departing from the received wisdom, which sees the big, vertically integrated corporation as the result of technological development and market growth that required greater efficiency in larger scale firms, Roy focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power. The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals and then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, and investment banks into a mechanism for the organization of railroads. Finally, and most particularly, he analyzes its flowering into the realm of manufacturing, when at the turn of this century, many of the same giants that still dominate the American economic landscape were created. Thus, the corporation altered manufacturing entities so that they were each owned by many people instead of by single individuals as had previously been the case.

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Theory of How Corporations Grew in America.......1998-09-11

Roy, William G., Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America, Princeton, 1997.

Socializing Capital examines the rise of large corporations in America. While the book focuses on the period around 1900, it examines the development of corporations from the founding of the United States until the twentieth century. Originally, corporations were chartered by state legislatures to perform needed public services especially for developing transportation through canals, turnpikes, and railroads. The economic difficulties of the 1830s and 1840s brought pressure for the separation of state control over corporations. At the same time corporations became an inalienable right rather than a privilege. According to the author, railroads were the first to develop corporations as we know them today; the Civil war being the precipitating event for the creation of the corporate infrastructure. The water shed years for incorporation were 1898 to 1904 in which most transformations occurred. Instead of individual or private owners, companies were owned by groups of investors and stockholders, which in turn led to a new type of property in which the owners actual surrender many of their rights and responsibilities in running a company. In return, they receive limited liability and other benefits of incorporation such as eminent domain and free public land. The author uses the term "socialized capital" to denote this type of property which is held in common by many instead of one or a few. Overall, the author's main thesis is that Efficiency Theory, the theory that corporations thrived because of the increased efficiency of technology and integration, fails to account for the dominance of corporations in America. Instead, the author argues that it reflects the power of business and government leaders to define the situation, a critical feature of the institutionalization process of corporations. In essence, the predominance of corporations in America can best be understood in terms of the power and influence their socialized capital was able to exert. The author tells us that it is better to understand the future of corporate America in terms of its power rather than efficiency.

The book is written on a very high level and appears to be more for a person with a background in business or sociology. It uses many technical terms in long wordy sentences. To the initiated it may prove a profound and thought provoking book. From an historical perspective it is interesting because it reveals the origins of corporate America and reveals the important transformations which it has undergone to bring it to its present day status.

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Title: The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s.(Book Review)
Author: Christopher J. Castaneda
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
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Small business owners and marketing managers must generally formulate competitive marketing while being saddled with farless- than-competitive budgets. In Hot Marketing, Cool Profits, 200 proven marketing ideas help to narrow the perception gap between the haves and have-nots. Twelve sections cover key areas relevant to small business marketers, from outlining a forceful marketing strategy to attracting free publicity, increasing marketing creativity, and more.

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For The Clueless.......2007-09-27

While the 200 "proven sales and marketing ideas" may really be proven, the author doesn't tell us that most of the tips will not be helpful to the majority of people. In fact, most of these tips are so common sense that only the clueless will benefit.

Example? Better business cards. Print business postcards. Who doesn't know that? It's just that these strategies may not yield the same mileage for all kinds of businesses. Anything good or better is often also costlier. Get students to do surveys for you?

The most interesting advice Brooksbank gives is probably this: "Write a book."! He doesn't tell us that writing and publishing a book is a business (and a very tough one)in itself. Mess things up and your money along with your good reputation will be gone.

The author also only makes cursory mention of online marketing - one of the most cost-effective means to market almost any business these days. No details. Just like the rest of the pointers. They are just very vague and general pointers. The book would have been a lot more useful if the author could elaborate on just 5 or 6 points instead of listing 200 without much elaboration.

It's still nice to read, but only the totally clueless will learn something new.

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Effective Problem-Solving: How to Understand the Process and Practice It Successfully (How to Books (Midpoint))
Steve Kneeland
Manufacturer: How to Books
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ASIN: 1857033515

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Excellent for Test Preperation!.......2000-07-27

This book is an excellent learning tool for test preparation!I took a $230 course and failed the exam. I read this book andcompleted all the work in the book and passed the test easily and confidently! buy it!

Why I passed the Life and Health Exam.......2000-04-04

Before getting this book I knew absolutely nothing about life or health insurance. After studying for 1 WEEK, I took the test and passed it. Of course I studied on average for about 7-8 hours a day and took over 100 pages of notes during that week but I was told that it would be impossible to learn all that material and pass the test in that amount of time. This book covers every detail and leaves nothing to chance. After every chapter, there is a mini-exam based on all the important information covered in that chapter, and the questions were exactly like those on the actual exam. There is even a final exam at the end of the book. Studying this book carefully, regardless of how fast or slow you want to do it, will make you 100% prepared for the exam.

PASSTRAK Life Insurance License Exam Manual

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Great Study Guide
Good at home study guide.

PASSTRAK Life Insurance License Exam Manual

Manufacturer: Dearborn a Kaplan Professional Company
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Binding: Paperback

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Great Study Guide.......2003-09-25

Very informative and through. Coverage of all topics is very well written and easy to understand, even without prior insurance experience or background. This is by far the best exam study guide I have come across because of the way it is layed out with each chapter including a "quick quiz" in the middle & an end of chapter "exam". Also at the end of this book is a full exam that covers all topics discussed, as well as sample applications and basic insurance forms. Very helpfull and will be a great addition to any agents reference collection. I highly recommend this book for the novice, expert, and soon to be life & health agents. A++

Good at home study guide........2002-07-06

Life and Health Insurance License Exam Manual

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Life and Health Insurance License Exam Manual
Kaplan Financial
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PASSTRAK Life and Health Insurance Questions & Answers, 5E (Life and Health Insurance License Exam Manual)

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Passtrack Life, Accident and health insurance
Good combination of Life & Health (Accident & Disability)

PASSTRAK Life and Health Insurance Questions & Answers, 5E (Life and Health Insurance License Exam Manual)
Dearborn Financial Institute
Manufacturer: Dearborn a Kaplan Professional Company
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Passtrack Life, Accident and health insurance.......2004-08-20

This book is typical of many text books; dry and confusing. The material is presented in a dry and boring fashion. You will NOT want to read this book for any reason other than passing the insurance exam.

Good combination of Life & Health (Accident & Disability).......2002-07-06

Combines the Dearborne Pastrack Health Insurance & Life Insurance License Exam Manuals.

Overall it is a good study guide (I passed using this book with 2 weeks of leisurely at home study), but the test section could be revamped - it did not include enough questions that were like the ones on the actual exam (I took an Experior Online state exam).

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Life Insurance License Exam Manual

Manufacturer: Kaplan Financial
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Texas Life and Health Insurance , License Exam Manual
Dearborn
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NEVADA LIFE, ACCIDENT AND DISABILITY INSURANCE [LICENSE EXAM MANUAL]
DF Institute
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North Carolina Life, Accident, and Health Insurance License Exam Manual 2nd Edition

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Series 6 License Exam Manual 2nd Edition
Kaplan Financial
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The License Exam Manual (LEM) is student friendly with shorter paragraphs for easy comprehension and exam-focused questions and content. Key features include topic TestAlerts, lesson exams, feedback for each question, and quick quizzes.

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TENNESSEE LIFE, ACCIDENT AND DISABILITY INSURANCE [LICENSE EXAM MANUAL]
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