The Association of Mbas Guide to Business Schools 1998/99

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The Inside Guide to Becoming a California Police Officer

To become a competitive candidate in law enforcement, you need to score well on the police officer exam. John Douglas, one of the nation's most respected law enforcement professionals, has created a highly effective guide to scoring well on the test and launching a successful career as a police officer. It contains everything you need to know, including:

* A comprehensive review of the California exam with hundreds of practice questions.

* Strategies to maximize your score.

* Insights and guidance from successful officers on the selection process, careers, life as a cop, and more.

The World Leader in Test Preparation

Kaplan has helped more than 3 million students achieve their educational and career goals. With 185 centers and over 1,200 classroom locations throughout the U.S. and abroad, Kaplan provides a full range of services, including test preparation courses, admissions consulting, programs for international students, professional licensing preparation, and more.

For more information, contact us at 1-800-KAP-TEST or kaptest.com (AOL keyword: kaplan)

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Not Very In Depth.......2007-01-02

This book really didn't go very deeply into the strategies that help increase your score. He spent a lot of time explaining grammar, but not so much explaining the basic ideas that went into the actual police policy sections of the practice tests. It just wasn't very helpful. I put it down after I found the second typo that changed whether I thought an answer was right or not. (In the reading section, the crime was listed as occurring at 4:30 AM, and he had listed the correct answer as the choice that contained the time as 4:30 PM, among other things.)

Doesn't help at all.......2004-08-23

This book adds nothing to the preparation for the police exam in California.

Not relevant to Australian candidates.......2003-01-23

I purchased this book with the hope that there would be more focus on the oral interviews and tackling the MMPI/ Psychology testing... but this isn't the case.
Most of the book focussed on the US written exams with 4 main question/ answer analysis and only a cursory overview of the oral stages. If you are in Australia and want information on how to tackle the face to face aspects of your police recruitment then don't bother buying this book- try and find a more specific title. There appeared to be some on the oral interviews but they were out of print. Good luck with your interview !!

Not for todays exams.......2001-01-07

This book does not help out anyone who already has a high school education. The book contains elementry practice tests that are NOT useful for tests given in this era of recruitment.

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Negotiating Tactics: Bargain Your Way to Winning
Jay Conrad Levinson
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0449900746
Release Date: 1982-04-12

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Negotiating Tactics: Bargain Your Way To Winning
Edward Levin
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N74MA4

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Computer simulation modeling, the new force in business, allows managers to see the results of a process change before committing time and resources to it. The Simulation Modeling Toolkit is vital to understanding numerous applications of this important process. Its methods and techniques will help any reader reduce time and risk in developing new products and serving customers, and the CD-ROM insert enables the user to create and run simulations from start to finish.

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Vladimir Kim.......2005-09-02

I bought this book as I was interested in simulating in simprocess. The book is not useful at all neither for an experienced modeller, nor for a beginner. This is of no use for a practical modeller, theoreist or student.

It is more of an entertainment kind of book with very generalistic sporadic examples about where simulation application was successful and funny pictures, double space 16 font text with no content.

For beginners, one should rather buy "Business Process Simulation" by Laguna, which also has a student version of soft. One can go through simulation examples and learn a lot. (I bought this two books together)

In general, if you want to waist your time and money, and read something in half an hour and learn nothing, buy it. But but does it make sense to pay for nothing and make the authors rich just because they are from GACI or Ernst and Young consultancy. Bad use of their brand to promote the sales of the bad book (but probably not so bad software)

SimProcess LIVE! on this book.......2001-03-27

I used to use ModSim by CACI on NeXT machine. Now CACI have the easier and PC-compatible, called SimProcess. This book is not only about Simulation sytem, but the great SimProcess user manual. This book is actually a geneal book of Simulation, not a Risk analysis or elses. CD-ROM, come with this book, is the SimProcess. Buy one get another free. But the software can be downloaded from the company website.

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New Strategists: Creating Leaders at All Levels
Stephen J. Wall , and Shannon Rye Wall
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Binding: Paperback

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The New Strategists: Creating Leaders at All Levels
Stephen J.; Wall, Shannon Rye Wall
Manufacturer: Free Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8T91Y

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Do events of the 1930s carry a message for the 1990s? Lessons from the Great Depression provides an integrated view of the depression, covering the experience in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. It describes the causes of the depression, why it was so widespread and prolonged, and what brought about eventual recovery.

Peter Temin also finds parallels in recent history, in the relentless deflationary course followed by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the British government in the early 1980s, and in the dogged adherence by the Reagan administration to policies generated by a discredited economic theory - supply-side economics.

Peter Temin is Professor of Economics at MIT.

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A Compelling Study of the Great Depression: The Gold Standard is Largely to Blame.......2007-07-12

Peter Temin rigorously explains the economics of the Great Depression and the lessons to be learned from the economics of the Great Depression. He explains convincingly that the gold standard was mainly to blame for the Great Depression. It was a Federal Reserve contraction of the money supply that began a recession, and then it was the gold standard that turned it into a catastrophic depression. To be specific, the gold standard imposed a severe tightening of the gold standard, and stubborn efforts by political leaders in several countries to maintain the gold standard strangled the economy further. In America, it was the Republican Party that had long supported the gold standard. It was reestablished when Calvin Coolidge was president.

The countries that left the gold standard quickly, such as Great Britain, recovered the soonest from the Great Depression.

The book praises FDR for abondoning the gold standard. Note that this is an economic history and not a political or social history. This book is for economists or general readers with a strong interest in the period. The analysis fits nicely with monetary economics but used standard equations relating to Keynesian economics.

Peter Temin established himself as one of the greatest economists of the Great Depression. That was his speciality.

Also consider "Essays on the Great Depression" by Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve and America's top economist.

Taking the long view.......2001-06-02

Temin's account of the Great Depression differs in almost every from the standard texts. Austrian business cycles, monetary tightness etc. are all passed over as the author goes for the big picture....the long view of political history in Europe.

The Great Depression was the direct result, he says, of the breakdown of peace in the first decade of the twentieth century. The international spirit of co-operation that had existed throughout most of the second half of the 19th century evaporated with the European struggles for empire. So when crisis loomed in the late 1920s all the lifeboats were full of holes. Franco-German rivallry, the demise of the British Empire and isolationism in the United States all produced paralysis when leadership was needed most.

When leadership finally did arrive, it came in the form of social democracy and labour market rigidities which put a floor under the markets but extended the depression in ways not dissimilar to Japan in the 1990s.

If you like your economics filled with Keynes and history this is for you. If Friedman or Schumpeter is more to your taste, then this is worth reading just to see what the other side thinks.

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"Globalization" is here. Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events.

James examines one of the great historical nightmares of the twentieth century: the collapse of globalism in the Great Depression. Analyzing this collapse in terms of three main components of global economics--capital flows, trade, and international migration--James argues that it was not simply a consequence of the strains of World War I but resulted from the interplay of resentments against all these elements of mobility, as well as from the policies and institutions designed to assuage the threats of globalism. Could it happen again? There are significant parallels today: highly integrated systems are inherently vulnerable to collapse, and world financial markets are vulnerable and unstable. While James does not foresee another Great Depression, his book provides a cautionary tale in which institutions meant to save the world from the consequences of globalization--think WTO and IMF, in our own time--ended by destroying both prosperity and peace.

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Brilliantly written and scary.......2002-07-05

This well written, documented and academic book reads like a novel. Author explains how the British global-led economy was structured in the 19th century, its weaknesses and how it unraveled in the 1920s and 1930s. He reviews monetary policies, banking instability in the pre- and Depression era, trade and its collapse, the rising reaction against international migration starting in the 1890s and culminating after World War I, the opposition between nationalism and capital that existed after 1929 and finally assesses if a new depression could occur again. Despite the dates, the events it describes look so familiar to us today that it sends shivers down the spine.

Written in 2001, the author was still optimistic in his conclusions saying that unlike the 1930s, nobody today was challenging global finacial orthodoxy. But since Ben Laden destroyed the World Trade Center, Argentina has collapsed like in the 1930s, Brazil is on the path to renege its debt just like in 1931, many scandals have shaken Corporate America, stocks have fallen to after-September 11 levels. Le Pen, a right-extremist was a contender to Chirac in the French presidential elections. Migrations have become a hot debate in Europe. The Bush Administration like the Hoover one puts barriers on international trade (steel), does not participate in multilateral debates (UN, Climate, International Court) damaging the system of multilateral organizations, debates and trade. These collapsed in the 1930s to be replaced by bilaterel relations with the known consequences: a global depression and a global war.

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Another year beyond the Great Depression, another lesson lost.(General News): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

Manufacturer: The Register Guard
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008G41F6
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on January 26, 2003. The length of the article is 764 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Another year beyond the Great Depression, another lesson lost.(General News)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: January 26, 2003
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: L11

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Education & the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History (History of Schools and Schooling)

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Education & the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History (History of Schools and Schooling)

Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0820471437

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Education & the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History examines the history of schools in terms of pedagogies, curricula, policies, and practices at the point of intersection with worldwide patterns of economic crisis, political instability, and social transformation. Examining the Great Depression in the historical contexts of Egypt, Turkey, Germany, Brazil, and New Zealand and in the regional contexts of the United States, including Virginia, New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, and South Carolina, this collection broadens our understanding of the scope of this crisis while also locating more familiar American examples in a global framework.

The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression. (Book Reviews).(Harold James) (book review): An article from: Finance & Development

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The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression. (Book Reviews).(Harold James) (book review): An article from: Finance & Development
Michael Bordo
Manufacturer: International Monetary Fund
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Finance & Development, published by International Monetary Fund on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 916 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression. (Book Reviews).(Harold James) (book review)
Author: Michael Bordo
Publication: Finance & Development (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Volume: 39 Issue: 1 Page: 52(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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A Forgotten World: Lessons From The Great Depression

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A Forgotten World: Lessons From The Great Depression
A. H. Blegen
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

The Great Depression, 1929-1938: Lessons for the 1980s (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

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The Great Depression, 1929-1938: Lessons for the 1980s (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
Christian Saint-Etienne
Manufacturer: Hoover Institution Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0817979824

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Economists as diverse in approach as Lord Keynes and Milton Friedman have analyzed the causes of the Great Depression, and their answers have ranged from underconsumption to failings in monetary policy. In Part 1 of the Great Depression, Christian Saint-Etienne compares these theories with economic statistics for the interwar period and adds a further explanation: a collapse in international trade initiated by the Hawley-Smoot Tariff in the United States. Part 2 studies the economic history of the 1970s and the early 1980s to assess the likelhood of a depression in the 1980s. Among the author's recommendations for preventing a recurrence are free trade, reform of the international banking system, and coordination of the monetary policies of the major industrial nations.

Lessons from the Great Depression.(Looking back): An article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal

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Lessons from the Great Depression.(Looking back): An article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Delores Myers
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000NOK90O
Release Date: 2007-02-16

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This digital document is an article from Countryside & Small Stock Journal, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2050 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lessons from the Great Depression.(Looking back)
Author: Delores Myers
Publication: Countryside & Small Stock Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 91 Issue: 2 Page: 110(3)

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Lessons learned from the Great Depression.: An article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal

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Lessons learned from the Great Depression.: An article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal
LeeAnn Wicker
Manufacturer: Countryside Publications Ltd.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Countryside & Small Stock Journal, published by Countryside Publications Ltd. on May 1, 1995. The length of the article is 590 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: People who lived through the Depression managed by helping one another and growing stronger from the experience. It may not be possible now for most people to make it through another economic depression. Homesteaders should learn to be self-sufficient and avoid falling into debt.

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Title: Lessons learned from the Great Depression.
Author: LeeAnn Wicker
Publication: Countryside & Small Stock Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1995
Publisher: Countryside Publications Ltd.
Volume: v79 Issue: n3 Page: p24(1)

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Whatdunnit? The great depression mystery.(LESSON): An article from: Social Education

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Whatdunnit? The great depression mystery.(LESSON): An article from: Social Education
Gale Reference Team
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RGZYUS
Release Date: 2007-05-30

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This digital document is an article from Social Education, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 3663 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Whatdunnit? The great depression mystery.(LESSON)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Social Education (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 71 Issue: 2 Page: 75(7)

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What exactly is sales force automation? The idea is simple - using technology to maximize sale productivity, minimize cost and enhance customer service. This "ultimate competitive weapon" can streamline the sales process, target the right customers and dramatically eliminate downtime and waste. And in today's competitive sales climate, effective time management is the key to survival. High-Impact Sales Force Automation is a hands-on guide to implementing the latest computer technology in the sales and marketing departments of your company. The author's unique background in both business and science provides a practical, yet in-depth perspective on sales force automation - from conception right through implementation. And all with a sharp focus on the backbone of your business: the customer. This book is an excellent reference for corporate managers, sales professionals, organizational planners, marketing consultants and anyone interested in improving sales, customer service and quality control. Real-life business models and concrete examples make applying these concepts to your own organization as simple as clicking on a mouse.

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High-Impact Strategy.......2005-04-06

"High-Impact Sales Force Automation: A Strategic Perspective
By Glen S. Petersen"
This media helped me make thousands of dollars from a greater margin. If you are losing money or sales, and do not know how to make a comeback, this media is guaranteed to spur your imagination.

This media contains vital information that should belong to any existing retail/service business. The info is also great for entrepreneurs who will find tools saving them time and money.

This a must read.......2001-10-21

Glen Petersen did a great job.This book covers all the aspects of SFA in a technical but readable way. Must be a required reading for consultants and users alike. I will put it in my top three list about the subject.

Possibly the best book on the market........1999-11-02

Read this one first. This is a must read for all consultants, project managers, and executives stepping into the world of sales force automation.

One of the better books on the subject of sales automation.......1997-10-19

While I've yet to find the definitive book on selecting and implementing a sales automation solution in a corporate environment, "High Impact Sales Force Automation" does provide an important piece to the puzzle. The book helps put sales automation into perspective and provides a solid background for those individuals charged with finding an automated solution for their organization. After reading this book, I was able to hold intelligent conversations with many of major providers of enterprise-wide solutions.

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Mapping the Maze: A Guide to Welfare for Elderly Immigrants
Harikrishna Majmundar
Manufacturer: Harlkrishna Majmundar
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0974568309

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Aiming to support the development of a framework for the analysis of risk in project design and economic analysis, this handbook outlines technical approaches to modeling risk. Also summarized is the nature and practice of sensitivity analysis in dealing with uncertain outcomes as well as the principles to consider in typical risk analysis situations sector by sector. Case studies are included to demonstrate the application of quantitative risk analysis using actual Asian Development Bank projects to help improve project design and quality. Handbook users will learn to identify factors that are the key determinants of project outcomes, determine the likelihood of an individual project's returns being unacceptable, and design measures to mitigate the risks arising from the identified key factors.

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