United Arab Emirates Investment & Business Guide

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Ultimate guide for conducting investment, export-import activity in the country. Strategic and business information, contacts, regulations and more. Updated annually

United Arab Emirates Foreign Policy and Government Guide

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United Arab Emirates Foreign Policy and Government Guide
Global Investment & Business Inc
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Basic information on foreign and domestic policy, national security, political system, parties and elections, government and administrative structure. Participation in international organizations, treaties and regional unions. International and foreign policy and more.

United Arab Emirates Internet And E-commerce Industry Investment And Business Guide (World Business, Investment and Government Library)

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United Arab Emirates Internet And E-commerce Industry Investment And Business Guide (World Business, Investment and Government Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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United Arab Emirates Mineral & Mining Sector Investment And Business Guide (World Business, Investment and Government Library)

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United Arab Emirates Mineral & Mining Sector Investment And Business Guide (World Business, Investment and Government Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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ASIN: 0739791001

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Provides six exams which directly simulate the actual test. Reading comprehension, vocabulary, and grammatical structure are thoroughly covered in both the questions and their subsequent explanations. For college-bound high school students.

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I use this as a Spanish learning supplement.......2005-11-08

The tests with good, detailed explantions of the answers are the core of this book.

This book is much more sensibly organized than many Spanish textbooks. For instance, the irregular verbs are concisely organized according to spelling abnormalities which allows you to more quickly learn them. The more important aspects of grammar are nicely summarized with good to-the-point examples. The exercises are very good and zero in on the key points but also try to trick you with the finer points of grammar.

I usually don't like books that have dictionaries in the back because they waste space and every student has there own, better dictionary anyway. But the dictionary here is more like a vocabulary list. There is only a punchy one or two word definition in a narrow column which allows you to very quickly scan the list looking for words that you don't know to improve your vocabulary. So, I use the "dictionary" as a vocabulary builder and not as a regular dictionary.

My only complaint is that there is no index and the table of contents has no detail in it. So, for instance, if you wanted to find the section that contrasts por and para then you would have to thumb through looking for that section. Hopefully, the next edition will have an index and then it will merit 5 stars.

Fantastic resource!.......2004-06-21

This book was an excellent resource when it came to preparing for the SAT II Spanish Exam. The easy-to-follow lessons were clear and concise for cramming instant information, and the exercises truly focused on the important details of the language. However, I found that the practice exams did not quite measure up to the difficulty of the exam itself. The grammar section of the exam was almost exactly the same as the exercises in the book, but the reading comprehension sections were much more challenging than those in the practice tests. Nevertheless, the book proved to be an excellent resource and study guide.

WOW!.......2000-05-15

After struggling in spanish for three years, this book made a world of difference. The easy to follow lesson guides and the complete guides to spanish grammar, verb conjugation and vocabulary was great. My 770 made me very happy and I recommend this book to anyone who wishes to do well on the exam.

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Results that Matter: Improving Communities by Engaging Citizens, Measuring Performance, and Getting Things Done
Paul Epstein , Paul M. Coates , Lyle D. Wray , and David Swain
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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ASIN: 0787960586

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Today's communities—whether they are currently strong, or struggling to survive—face difficult challenges if they want to be tomorrow's healthy, vibrant communities. The challenge for leaders and citizens of modern communities is not just to solve specific problems today. Their real challenge is to keep learning from their experience so they can keep improving their communities tomorrow.

Results That Matter will provide a new governance framework for using valuable tools of community improvement—especially performance measurement and citizen engagement—to empower communities to achieve the outcomes their citizens most desire. Government and nonprofit managers will learn how to combine these tools in new ways, not only to achieve one-time improvement of their organizations and communities, but to foster continual community renewal and improvement. The benefits and practicality of the framework and related practices will be reinforced by case examples from 25 communities across the country. The book will offer "how to" guidance to public and nonprofit managers, including promising practices for effective communities, and new roles for citizens, community leaders, and managers.

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Today's communities whether they are currently strong, or struggling to survive face difficult challenges if they want to be tomorrow's healthy, vibrant communities. The challenge for leaders and citizens of modern communities is not just to solve specific problems today. Their real challenge is to keep learning from their experience so they can keep improving their communities tomorrow. Results That Matter will provide a new governance framework for using valuable tools of community improvement especially performance measurement and citizen engagement to empower communities to achieve the outcomes their citizens most desire. Government and nonprofit managers will learn how to combine these tools in new ways, not only to achieve one-time improvement of their organizations and communities, but to foster continual community renewal and improvement. The benefits and practicality of the framework and related practices will be reinforced by case examples from 25 communities across the country. The book will offer ""how to"" guidance to public and nonprofit managers, including promising practices for effective communities, and new roles for citizens, community leaders, and managers.

The building blocks to governing for results.(The Bookshelf)(Results That Matter: Improving Communities by Engaging Citizens, Measuring Performance, and ... An article from: Government Finance Review

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The building blocks to governing for results.(The Bookshelf)(Results That Matter: Improving Communities by Engaging Citizens, Measuring Performance, and ... An article from: Government Finance Review
Christy Sommers
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 891 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 building blocks to governing for results.(The Bookshelf)(Results That Matter: Improving Communities by Engaging Citizens, Measuring Performance, and Getting Things Done)(Book review)
Author: Christy Sommers
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 23 Issue: 2 Page: 73(2)

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Measuring lodging-property performance: a difficult task with imperfect results.: An article from: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly

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Measuring lodging-property performance: a difficult task with imperfect results.: An article from: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly
Jan A. de Roos , and John B. Corgel
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This digital document is an article from Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly, published by Cornell University on August 1, 1996. The length of the article is 4886 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: The lack of collated and dependable data on lodging property returns is addressed by the construction of an index from existing data accessible to investors. The index is also designed to be consistent with that of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries. However, the developed index is found to be unapplicable in comparing performance measurements and in managing portfolios. Specifically, it is limited by the absence of quarterly data, lack of constant-quality property sample, reporting inconsistency and unreliability of capital-return data.

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Title: Measuring lodging-property performance: a difficult task with imperfect results.
Author: Jan A. de Roos
Publication: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1996
Publisher: Cornell University
Volume: v37 Issue: n4 Page: p20(8)

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Measuring Performance And Demonstrating Results Of Information Technology Investments

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Measuring Performance And Demonstrating Results Of Information Technology Investments
Christopher W. Hoenig
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Measuring Performance for Business Results

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Measuring Performance for Business Results
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This book shows, through the use of case studies, how measuring company performance can improve bottom line results. Performance measurement plays a crucial role in Total Quality Management. Within the overall context of TQM, the book provides a framework for undertaking and measuring performance measurement and its impact on financial results. A variety of performance measures are covered, including benchmarking, a key measure of competitiveness.

The Business Value of IT: Managing Risks, Optimizing Performance and Measuring Results

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The Business Value of IT: Managing Risks, Optimizing Performance and Measuring Results
Michael D. S. Harris , David Herron , and Stasia Iwanicki
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ASIN: 1420064746

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The Business Value of IT: Managing Risks, Optimizing Performance, and Measuring Results examines how to measure IT performance, how to put a dollar value on IT, and how to justify value of an entire IT program. It places sharp technical focus on the techniques, methods, and processes used to identify and to assess risks. Based on the authors' extensive experience in the field, this comprehensive text discusses IT from the perspective of its contribution to business, the necessity of governance, the importance of measuring performance, and changes that must be made in order to effectively measure IT.

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This is an accessible analysis of strategic theory focusing on the implementation of strategy within a firm. It moves beneath texts which relate business strategy to industrial trends and the economic environment to consider how policy within the firm in areas such as marketing and HRM can influence success. The book emphasises the importance of the implementation process, often overlooked in the strategic planning literature, and its essential role within an effective strategy process. The text is readable, accessible and practical and will be welcomed on courses seeking a broader view of strategy.

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Terse, tight and packed full of wisdom........2000-07-21

At first glance this seems like a very expensive book for such a short read. However, a quick perusal of the contents quickly reveals that the book is written in a tight style with absolutely no padding whatsoever. On the one hand this is great, because every sentence you read yields value and there is no waste. On the other hand it means that you must read this book carefully or you can easily miss key concepts. The book gives a strong history and review of strategic thinking up to publication, and is a fantastic reference work when researching issues back to the original authors. Well researched and intelligently written. It explores strategic theory under the headings of innovation, learning, structuring, leadership and culture and finally transformation and renewal. This is a companion book for a case based approach to the study of strategic management. As such it is a valuable friend to have beside you.

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The first book to document the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin retrieves a crucial lost chapter from the history of Stalinist Russia. The peasant revolt against collectivization, as reconstructed by author Lynne Viola, was the most violent and sustained resistance to the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. Conservative estimates suggest that over the course of the 1020s and early 1930s, more than 1,100 people were assassinated, more than 13,000 villages rioted, and over 2.5 million people participated in this active struggle of resistance. This book is about the men and women who tried to preserve their families, communities, and beliefs from the depredations of Stalinism. Their acts were often heroic, but these heroes were homespun, ordinary people who were driven to acts of desperation by cruel and brutal state policies. This is a study of peasant community, culture, and politics through the prism of resistance. Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including previously inaccessible OGPU (secret police) reports, Viola's work documents the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to a virtual civil war between state and peasantry. This book is must reading for scholars of Soviet history, Stalinism, popular resistance, and Russian peasant culture.

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New Insights on Peasant Rebellion.......2001-06-25

In an original new work of social history on the early Stalinist era, Lynne Viola examines an aspect of Soviet collectivization hitherto unconsidered, namely that of intense peasant resistance to the policy. Historians traditionally conceived of Stalin's policies in the countryside in purely totalitarian terms. These focused primarily or even entirely on an overbearing regime whose subjects were simply regarded as victims. Viola, in a superb example of historical revisionism, allows for the possibility of resistance by those once thought to have played little if any role during these years. In Viola's countryside the traditional victims of collectivization, the peasants of Ukraine, the Russian Volga, the Northern Caucasus, and other regions were just as influential in the events as those making and enforcing collectivization policies.

Viola focuses on nearly all aspects of peasant revolt during the years of collectivization, from the seemingly irrational mass destruction of livestock to apocalyptic rumor mongering to the more everyday forms of rebellion like undermining Soviet grain collection efforts. Very few segments of rural society are left untreated, and perhaps the most thoroughly considered are women. Women were the agents of much peasant resistance precisely because Soviet authorities gave them more leeway due to their perceived political ignorance and naivete. In other words, those who are traditionally seen as the most vulnerable were in many ways among the most influential.

For those wishing to strengthen their traditional conceptions of Stalinist society, Viola's landmark study will prove to be a serious disappointment, for it confirms very little of what was previously thought about the process of collectivization. Instead, her work challenges us with an entirely new vision. Viola meticulously utilizes an impressive collection of archival materials to fashion her arguments, and at the same time she remains open to the worthiest contributions in the fields of peasant, gender, and religious studies. Those interested in these fields as well as in Soviet history in general will gain an important perspective from one of the twentieth century's most important episodes. Viola, a leader among Western scholars of the early Soviet era, has made a most invaluable contribution to its literature.

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Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
Lynne Viola
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKJHPA

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Price theory has provided solutions to myriad problems affecting society without invoking any precepts beyond those encapsulated in the standard economic postulate. Fiscal theory, meanwhile, has been closely attentive to the political, sociological and historical circumstances that bear upon the fiscal act. This methodological duality has resulted in the development of fiscal theory in line with the political culture espoused by its originator, usually the one prevailing at home. Thus emerges the need for an analysis of the evolution of fiscal thought along national lines.

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"A fascinating insight into the lives of global teens, with clever tips and very clear steps to help any marketer find the way through to the hearts and minds of today's youth population." -Roy Edmondson, Presence and Publicity Director, Levi Strauss & Co.

"Elissa Moses's book does the best job I've ever seen of breaking down, bite by bite, a look at teen culture in a range of countries and across a range of industries. A bible for anyone doing business targeting global youth." -Marian Salzman, Worldwide Director, Brand Futures Group

"Insights from The $100 Billion Allowance have already helped Philips better connect to global youth." -Cor Boonstra, President, Royal Philips Electronics N.V.

"Anyone interested in globalization has to read The $100 Billion Allowance. Elissa Moses's new book stands alongside The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Tom Friedman as a twenty-first-century globalization guidebook." -Joseph T. Plummer, Executive Vice President, Director of Brand Strategy on Global Accounts, McCann Erickson Worldwide

"Elissa Moses is one of those rare shrinks who knows how to actively listen and exactly when to ask why . . . but she never stops there. Elissa offers the clear explanations for action that any consumer-oriented company always needs." -Gerard Dufour, Founding Partner, BLIS, former Senior Director of Marketing, Royal Philips Electronics N.V.

"Elissa Moses feels the pulse of the global teen market and finds it vibrating with energy and bursting with potential for the astute marketer." -Arthur Selkowitz, Chairman and CEO, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles

"The $100 Billion Allowance is filled with some wonderful insights for all marketers . . . and parents." -Ron Berger, Chief Executive Officer, Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer/EURO RSCG

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Fascinating and well written.......2001-04-09

Here's a book that should be on the desk of every person in marketing or advertising any place on the globe. Ms. Moses has penned a fascinating first-person account, describing the burgeoning teen market. The future for all multinationals will be trying to market into the Third World's teen market. Elissa Moses shows you how.

teenagers need to read this!.......2000-07-03

teenagers need to read this to find out just how stupid they are. we all go through this moronic period in life, when market forces prey on our immature and unsuspecting minds. it usually starts at 15, but for some it finishes at 30. we are preyed upon by a constant bombardment of commercials which subliminally discourage us from investing in our future. MTV warps our brains and we forgo our savings on overvalued and hyped up trinkets that help us conform to nonconformity. we end up with racks of CDs and a cuboard full of designer shoes, but no downpayment for our apartment when we realize that life is serious. there aught to be a law against this!

The $100 Billion Allowance: How to Get Your Share of the Global Teen Market

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The $100 Billion Allowance: How to Get Your Share of the Global Teen Market
Elissa Moses
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This unique, single volume dictionary aims to make sense of the language of generic terms, jargon, abbreviations and management buzzwords, to say nothing of the legal terms and definitions, that has grown up around the transport and logistics industries.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Transports and Logistics

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Elsevier's Dictionary of Transports and Logistics
J.P. Michaux
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Transports and Logistics contains a collection of words and expressions pertaining to the transport profession, not only transport, but also the related semantic fields, such as: accountancy, customs, insurance, handling and warehousing. Also the various branches of transport itself (road transport, rail transport, air transport, maritime transport, fluvial transport) and their inevitable companion, logistics, which is also covered by numerous items.

The manifold entries by alphabetical order are designed to render this book user-friendly. To make it a valuable time-saving tool, not only at the office, but also when working in the field abroad, whenever possible the semantic field concerned has been specified in brackets with a view to making this wide-ranging dictionary an easy-to-consult publication.

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Transportation Logistics Dictionary (A Transport Press Title)

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Transportation Logistics Dictionary (A Transport Press Title)

Manufacturer: Springer
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This is a great Resource !!!!.......1999-07-03

Being in the Transportation & Logistics Field myself. I found this book to be quite a comprehensive collection of information and terms, needed when you are in this field. I consider this a "must-have" for anyone in this field.

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This text uses cases to explain Management Information Systems concepts within an industry perspective. The cases are direct, real and written in the late '90's. Each chapter contains specific sections to thoroughly present and explain the relevant information systems and business concepts. Built upon extensive information technology sections, this text includes contextual elements such as actual financial information and analysis, the importance of data and the impact of technology on the manufacturing, marketing and distribution processes. An appropriate text for Management Information Systems.

Managing Information Systems: Using Cases within an Industry Context to Solve Business Problems with Information Technology

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David L. Anderson
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