Weiss Ratings' Guide to Bond and Money Market Mutual Funds: Spring 2002 (Weiss Ratings' Guide to Bond and Money Market Mutual Funds, 10th ed)

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This seminal work on reflective practice has been updated to help teachers become creative and innovative "agents of inquiry" in their schools and classrooms. This second edition reflects changes in American public education and society. Expanded content includes:

Leadership and the role of teacher education
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With new data and insights integrated throughout the book, it continues to be a valuable resource for professional development professionals and school principals who want to encourage reflective practice among teachers.

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" Reworking Gender is a remarkable analysis of the intersections of discourse, gender, and organizing that not only addresses contemporary metatheoretical concerns but also illuminates these issues with archival and interview data. . . . Reworking Gender systematically lays out arguments for the importance of work in our field, for communication's connections with and potential contributions to related disciplines, and for possible ways in which researchers can continue to challenge boundaries between presumably incommensurable discourses. Without a doubt, Reworking Gender will prove to be a landmark book in feminist, critical-cultural, organization studies, and organizational communication theorizing."

--Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University

Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization examines the place of gender and feminist scholarship in contemporary critical organization studies. Departing from the common view of gender as a specialized branch of organization scholarship, authors Dennis K. Mumby and Karen Lee Ashcraft reposition feminism in a communication-centered model that integrates recent developments in feminist, critical, and postmodern organizational studies. Linking theory to practical projects, the authors address many of the complex and often contradictory concerns of critical organizational scholarship, including issues of discourse, subjectivity, power, race, and class.

In a compelling and timely fashion, this important volume explores

Gendered organization studies in the wake of the discursive turn
The dynamic relationship between gender and organization
The social construction of gendered work identities
The intersection of gender, race, sexuality, and class
The dialectical relation of power and resistance

With its interdisciplinary approach, Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization will be of significant interest to scholars and graduate students in such fields as organizational communication, management and organization studies, sociology, and gender studies.

Ashcraft, K. L., & Mumby, D. K. (2004). Reworking Gender: a Feminist Communicology of Organization.(Book Review) : An article from: Women and Language

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Ashcraft, K. L., & Mumby, D. K. (2004). Reworking Gender: a Feminist Communicology of Organization.(Book Review) : An article from: Women and Language
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Title: Ashcraft, K. L., & Mumby, D. K. (2004). Reworking Gender: a Feminist Communicology of Organization.(Book Review)
Author: Patrice M. Buzzanell
Publication: Women and Language (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: George Mason University
Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Page: 63(1)

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With concern about foodborne illness increasing among consumers, it is more important than ever for restaurants and foodservice operations to be able to assure customers that the food they are eating is safe. This book teaches basic food safety concepts and prepares readers for the ServSafe® Food Protection Manager Certification Examination.

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ServSafe Essentials w/Scantron.......2005-09-23

Not as informative as ServSafe Coursebook..Be careful which book you really need! Diffent ISPN numbers only by last two. Still informative and useful for taking ServSafe exam for certificate if working in food service sector.

Very Good Reference, must buy.......2003-06-10

This book was quite helpful for my the National Servsafe test. It was a good reference, and it had excellent chapter of the microbiology of food. If you really want to know the type of questions asked on the National Servsafe Test get the following which is on amazon.com:
Study Guide for the National Servsafe Exam: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations
ISBN: 0971999678
I used both these books and passed with ease. Not to mention both these books helped me to get an "A" in my sanitation class.
Both books are must buys.

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ServSafe Essentials in Spanish without Scantron Certification Exam, Second Edition
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Europe is waking up to the challenge of technology and innovation. We see EU commitment to spend 3% of GDP on R&D, but who is thinking about how to spend? Who is thinking about technology management? Does the corporate Board have the means to manage this spending? Should some percentage of the R&D be spent on improving technology and innovation management? This is where this book makes a contribution. It brings together the latest practice, research findings and thinking, presented in a way that addresses top management requirements. The goal is to secure the economic future of the firm, in the context of a sustainable industry and society. Using the ideas and methods in this book, the Board can assess and improve its own ability to deal with the challenge of technology and innovation.

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For six years, British journalist Richard Donkin made the study of work his vocation, and in Blood, Sweat & Tears he places defining moments from its historical development into a cohesive and revealing picture. Literally starting with when humans first began perfecting recognizable employment skills, Donkin examines the critical milestones that followed and the ways they fit together. Citing sources as disparate as The Dilbert Principle and Peter Drucker's The Future of Industrial Man, he addresses the impact of slavery, organized religion, the time clock, child labor, unionization, the mid-20th-century workplace appropriations of the German and Japanese governments, women on the factory floor and in the boardroom, and current management trends. While cautioning against further interweaving of work into the "texture of our domestic existence," he notes that this transformation is but the latest in an age-old process. "The concept of revolution," he concludes, "is wholly inadequate in describing the changes in the way we live and this thing we call work." --Howard Rothman

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Blood, Sweat & Tears is a captivating history of work, from prehistoric times to the present day. It offers fascinating and intelligent analyses of the individuals, assumptions, theories, developments, and practices that have so much changed work. Based on detailed research from around the world, the author examines early societies, slavery, the guilds, the creation of trade secrets and the influence of religion on work (such as the humanist ideals of the great Quaker industrialists). Donkin also investigates the ideas of the theorists, such as F. W. Taylor, Max Weber, Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett, and W. Edwards Demming, and the impact they have had on our lives. And, controversially, the author challenges the work ethic on behalf of all those whose lives have increasingly become subsumed by the demands of employers, asking the question: Why do we do it?

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Somewhat boring and missing some key parts.......2005-07-13

This book provides a history of work and tries to examine why people work the way they do, how workplace institutions came about, how work has changed over time, and how work has in turn affected other parts of societies such as art, the government, and family life. The premise of the book is great, which is why I picked it up. The average American will probably spend about half his waking life doing something for money: work, yet so few of us ever think about how this all came about.

The book correctly covers the topics that probably come to mind first when thinking of this subject: slavery, work hours, labor movements, child labor, the assembly line, etc... The book also covers subjects related to work that the layman might not immediately think of. These include lighting and how electric lights has changed work schedules, ergonomics, workers' insurance, and pensions.

Unfortunately, the book misses more than it hits. First, it focuses primarily on work known primarily in Western civilization, in either the agricultural or industrial settings. This exclusion automatically leaves out most of Asia, the Meso-American societies, and Native Americans. This is highly unfortunate, as I am sure many people would like to know why Asians are reputed to have a better work ethic than Americans, whereas the stereotype of hispanics is the noonday siesta.

The book also focuses on activities that were sanctioned and labeled as work by the societies in which they existed. This automatically leaves out prostitution and soldering, two of the oldest "jobs" known to mankind. All in all, the book is a good introductory text to the topic, though incomplete with a lot of important omissions.

Useful cure for insomnia.......2003-06-18

As a frequent reader of all the usual business and current event magazines as well as a good number of business books of all kinds, Blood, Sweat, and Tears was a huge disapointment. If one has been in a cave their whole life and has never read a book or been part of an organization, perhaps some of the many Peter Drucker or Edwards Deming quotes may be interesting.

Beyond that, there are numerous grammatical and factual errors that give the book a feel of being written for the sake of getting something to market. For example, page 159 of the hardcover version, "The Ford hunger march on 7 March 1932 was reminiscent of that occasion back in 1812 when the Luddites marched on Rawfold's Mill in the North of England. Two hundred and twenty years later history was repeating itself." Evidently the author doesn't know how many years separates 1932 from 1812 which, considering the contents of the book, doesn't surprise me.

The Mystery of Work.......2002-02-12

I've seen it; you have too: people working under terrible bosses for low pay in abysmal conditions but loving their jobs. I've seen hundreds of engineers in a huge open office with row after row of desks, and they can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've seen men and women working for Theory X managers they hated. But nevertheless they worked hard with superb art and skill producing great and elegant products. Why? I never found a satisfactory answer.
This is the riddle Richard Donkin addresses in this remarkable book: Why do we work and why do we work so hard. Donkin is a columnist writing about work and associated subjects for the Financial Times since the mid-1990s. He came to see work as a complex economic, political, cultural, social, psychological, sociological, organizational and belief phenomenon, the qualifying hallmarks of civilization that separate man from the other animals. Now he has assembled his insights and research into a book, which unlike thousands of one-dimensional management books, has value precisely because it treats work as a complex tapestry interwoven with our lives.
Donkin's story of work starts in the Stone Age when two central aspects of work emerged: organization and earning. Fossil records show that men organized themselves for hunting hundreds of thousands of years ago. The evidence is also clear that there were workers who made stone tools beyond their own needs. Many such artifacts are found far from their mother lode, apparently carried by traders. Before they could write, people made products to sell and created the first wealth.
The earliest historic records and the observation of contemporary primitive cultures suggest that slavery was not far behind early social organizations. Slavery was one of the first experiments in the economic relationship between manager and managed, and one that was the economic engine of empires for thousands of years.
Once history leaves pervasive slavery and serfdom behind and employment emerges, the manager-managed relationship really gets interesting. Donkin gives us a guided tour of great thoughts on the social, cultural, economic, organizational and yes, religious aspects of the relationship between boss and worker. We watch Abraham Darby create cheap effective iron products from his iron smelter at Ironbridge and evolve the idea of permanent jobs. The clock rather then the steam engine is the key machine of the industrial age.
We see how the Puritan ideas of John Calvin exerted immense influence on the modern American psyche. Donkin dissects Robert Owen's Utopian enterprises at New Lanark in Scotland and New Harmony in Indiana. Donkin shows us how a century ago George Pullman's vision of mutually beneficial cooperation between capital and labor ended in a tragedy of bitter strikes that left labor and capital in suspicious and adversarial relationships that still bedevil us.
I especially enjoyed Donkin's look at industrial efficiency. Fredrick Taylor gave us the idea of breaking work into its elemental parts and analyzing them to achieve best efficiency. It was Taylor who taught the industrial world to use the then newly invented stopwatch for make necessary scientific measurements.
The story of the genius of Henry Ford and his industrial engineers in applying the ideas of interchangeability and breakdown of work to automobile assembly has freshly found insights. While Taylor designed work to the pace of the worker, Ford forced workers to the pace of his assembly line. I've seen a lot of fuzzy writing about how Ford tripled the wages of workers to an unheard of $5 a day and gave them the wealth to buy his cars and launch the US consumer economy. Donkin gives us the reality. Life on Ford's assembly line was hell. The first moving assembly line built magnetos. It went into operation on Monday, April Fools Day in 1913 and immediately delivered an astonishing 30 percent increase in productivity. Ford's engineers rushed to convert the remainder of automobile assembly to the moving line, including the famous icon of mass production, the chassis assembly line.
Ford's forced industrial march destroyed human spirits. By the end of that year, turnover approached 900%. The wage hike to $5 in early 1914 was simply a bribe to get people to work under inhuman conditions. The consumer economy was in fact a consequence of the dramatically improved productivity delivered by moving assembly lines. But what a price the consumer economy extracted - and still does.
Henry Ford said that workers don't like to think and designed an manufacturing system that didn't require it. In my view Toyota's production breakthrough was that it again harnessed the minds of the worker. Just-in-time parts, defect-free flow and Toyota's other innovations in manufacturing practices enable workers to take control of production and achieve remarkable levels of productivity and quality. I wished Donkin had given us a deeper analysis of the industrial revolution kicked off by Toyota's Tiichi Ohno, but that is a quibble. Hopefully it will be his next book.
Donkin covers the waterfront of great men of industrial efficiency, Deming, Juran, Drucker and many others. At the end, he gives us his suggestions for grappling with the problems of work. But you won't find closed solutions for the riddles and controversies of why we work and the extraordinary relationship between manager and managed. We emerge with man's best thoughts about the mysteries of work. If you tire of the deluge of how-to books on management awash with metaphysics and anecdotes, Donkin's book is for you. You'll need the wisdom he culls from millennia of human history on your journey to leadership.

Highly Recommended!.......2001-11-03

If you've ever wondered about how your workplace came to be as it is, or where the work ethic comes from, you'll love Richard Donkin's absorbing exploration of the history of work. From the caveman to the man in pinstripes, he covers it all in a journey that also includes plenty of wit and wisdom. Delving deeply into societies of every era, the book's strength lies in its context and insight. Donkin even provides a good "a-ha!" or two in each chapter, you know, those moments when you smile, nod and say, "Oh, so that's where that comes from." We [...] highly recommend this book to all workers, from hunter-gatherers to CEOs.

Getting to the heart of the matter.......2001-06-19

Neither a text book nor another stab at management theory, Richard Donkin's thought-provoking book asks 'Why do we work?' and places its emphasis on human nature, innovation and ideas. It is more readable than any other book I have come across on the same topic and provides a rich illustration of the changing nature of work throughout history. The concluding chapters leave you with a sense of enthusiasm and positivity about your role in the workplace, and your ability to pursue those pipedreams you might have given up on.

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A thoughtful exploration of economic depresion, labor unrest, and political turmoil during Britain's so-called "locust years."

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It's a simple fact of business. Even if a company has the best products or services in the world, without smart marketing, it will never reach its full profit potential.

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The dynamics of innovation are viewed in this book both from a strategic and project perspective: First, innovations might lead to a radical restructuring of a firm. Second, the necessary restructuring is only possible if highly dedicated and committed individuals cooperate to achieve the desired outcomes. Third, any successful innovation has to fit into a strategic framework. This, in itself, is difficult to identify and it is in flux, depending on changes in the technological and competitive environment as well as the mastering of the innovation process itself. The book assembles contributions from American and German researchers on dynamic aspects of strategy formation and strategic impacts on the one hand, and dynamic aspects of project management on the other hand.

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Directory to pharmacy benefit management companies, for managed care managers, pharmacy benefit managers, product managers, and pharmacists. Provides standard background and contact information about each PBM. Softcover.

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