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World Cocoa Directory 2004-2005 (World Cocoa Direc
International Cocoa Organization (ICCO)
Manufacturer: Stylus Pub Llc 01/31/2004
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5NSHY

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Finally! Practical advice from the teachers' perspective!

Learn what effective principals do to influence, motivate, and empower teachers—entirely from the teachers' perspective.

Based on an in-depth study in which teachers detail the strategies extraordinary principals used to help them become more effective in the classroom, this second edition incorporates the most up-to-date literature to keep the core study timely and provocative. Easy-to-follow guidelines are included in each chapter.

Strategies and related practices illustrate how to:

Use the power of praise
Influence by expecting and involving
Encourage professional autonomy
Lead by standing behind
Suggest rather than direct
Use formal authority positively

This book is a must-have resource for any practicing school principal or for teachers studying to be principals.

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Guias de como hacerlo para situaciones cotidianas

Aprenda las cosas basicas. Gane confianza. Explore las oportunidades. Estas son las razones por las cuales promovemos Guias Practicas. Tomese su tiempo y lea lo que necesita saber para tener exito.

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Como Trabajar y Negociar Con Los Japoneses

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Como Trabajar y Negociar Con Los Japoneses
Alison R. Lanier
Manufacturer: Legis
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El arte de negociar y persuadir
Allan Pease
Manufacturer: Gestion 2000
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Presented in this guide to success are simple, field-tested strategies for improving negotiation and persuasion skills, building a business or network, and increasing income. Included are lessons for creating powerful presentations, tips on using body language and reading signals, and techniques for generating a positive image.

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Excellent text for learning SPC practices.......2006-06-06

Quite simply the best book I have read on modern SPC practices. Unlike the other reviewers, I found the book completely approachable and an enjoyable read. I used this book as a text for a college level SPC course in 1998, and I have continued to use is a reference ever since.

While the math presentation is complete, it is not overwhelming. The authors tend to focus on the philosphophy of SPC and provide excellent case studies.

Poorly writen and edited, but modern in outlook.......2005-12-23

This text provides a modern point of view on quality. It incorporates the quality philosophy of Taguchi and the most basic of Taguchi methods. Accordingly it has a great deal to contribute to design and operations professionals.

Unfortunately a boring writing style and editing errors seriously detract from the value of the text. I may be charitable in calling some of the errors editing errors because they really are beyond what a proof-reader could be expected to catch: they are in the conceptual realm. I have not given the entire text a careful read, in part because the errors I discovered at the beginning of the text undermined my confidence in the text's presentation of subjects I knew less about.

Teachs well with boring style.......2002-08-15

This quality book consists of statistical quality analysis for the students who know probability and statistics well. The subjects are well organized and this gives a good oppotunity to begin the quality analysis. Beside these, the book is not efficent in terms of reading. The sentences and words chosen sometimes become boring. So try to look up the inside of the book before buying and then decide if possible.

Great Book for understanding the concepts of DOE Analysis.......2000-06-15

This book deals with the concepts behind quality engineering from Deming to Taguchi. The meat of the book resides in demonstrating the power of orthogonal and sequential experimentation in understanding and modeling processes. Good case studies are provided to demonstrate real world application of this powerful analysis tool.

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This book examines some of the recent and new thinking about strategic management, with particular reference to the theme of improving competitive performance. Written by a team of expert practitioners and academics in the field of strategic thinking and management this inspiring book includes articles on:

the evolution of competitive intelligence
how to identify success potential at the pre-start up stage
benchmarking for corporate improvement
whether viewing competitors as enemies can contribute to corporate success.

This new look at many aspects of strategic management is essential reading for all forward-thinking managers.

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Graeme Snooks has set himself the ambitious and original task of exploring the driving force of global change over the past 2 million years. The book outlines and explains the biological development of life, going on to develop a fully dynamic model, not just of genetic change, but of the broader process of life on earth. Snooks also provides a critical review of current interpretations about the course of history and the forces driving it. Finally, he develops an entirely new interpretation of the dynamics of human society, arguing that the rise and fall of societies is an outcome of the development and exhaustion of these strategies.

This dynamic strategy model is employed to discuss likely future outcomes for society. Controversially, Snooks argues that far from leading to ecological destruction, growth--including technological change--is both natural and necessary. The Dynamic Society demonstrates that dynamism, not stasis, is the essential condition of human society, as it is of life.

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Review by Professor Paul van der Laar, Erasmus University.......2005-06-02

In this inspiring book Graeme Donald Snooks unravels the driving force of human society. His exploration starts at the beginning of life, some 4 billion years ago. Once we are able to understand the nature of life on earth, we may comprehend the dynamics of human society. The author is not afraid to challenge modern evolutionists by his claim that the development path of life can be explained by an empirical economic model. Charles Darwin's natural selection hypothesis was, in fact, influenced by Adam Smith. Evolution is, then, an economic rather than a physical problem - the struggle by species to gain access to scarce natural resources in order to survive.

Snooks's economic model is based on the concept of 'materialist man'. The basic driving force of mankind is to maximise the probability of survival and material prosperity (accumulation and consumption of tangible goods and services) over his lifetime. Materialist man is not the homo economicus of economic theory. Snooks is very explicit about its value. Short-run equilibrium analyses contribute very little to our knowledge about long run dynamic processes.

Materialist man tries to satisfy his demands in a highly competitive world, to which end he uses dynamic strategies: family multiplication, technology, conquest, and commerce. These choices are rational, because they aim at the maximisation of material returns, given expected benefits and costs. The ambitions of materialist man in human society have resulted in three technological paradigms: the Paleolithic Revolution (some 1.6 million years ago), the Neolithic Revolution (about 10600 years ago) and the Industrial Revolution (200 years ago). These fundamental changes in economic systems were the outcome of different dynamic mechanisms and dynamic strategies . . .

At the end of his fascinating and exciting exploration, Snooks teaches the lessons of dynamic society. His evidence suggests that human nature is genetically determined, unchanging, and unchangeable. Without the materialistic drive, the survival of mankind during the past millions of years would not have been possible. The world of today is, perhaps, facing the exhaustion of the industrial paradigm, but according to Snooks the dynamic society provides an answer. In his view the stationary state, in which there is no room for further technologically based expansion, can only be laid down by ecological dictatorship. However, if we stop technological change as a dominant strategy, there is only one remaining, undesirable, strategy left over: conquest, a dangerous game in the nuclear era. Snooks believes that our environment needs protection, but we should not forget what history tells us. The dynamic society will produce a fourth paradigm shift, and it will come soon. This conclusion is based on the fact that the technological shift of the Industrial Revolution took only 100 years. It is uncertain what this will bring us. According to Snooks a substitution of solar energy for fossil-fuel energy is plausible.

This well-documented book has much to offer and is highly recommended. Why should economists, as Snooks puts it ironically, when historical process is mentioned, lose interest and return to their computers?

review by Gregory Clark, Economics Prof @ UC Davis.......2005-04-23

What is Snooks' new post-Darwinian theory of life and everything? There is at maximum one person who knows, and if he does know, he is unable to communicate it. This is not a case where I can outline the theory, and then ask how well it corresponds to what we know. What the theory is is the central mystery. For example, the theory, Snooks states, employs existential as opposed to deductive models.

The above example is the book at maximum wackiness. There are many parts, even whole pages, where the exposition is clear: the discussions of crustal formation (yes, the crust of the earth), Hitler's aims (irrational), the oxygen content of the atmosphere, aggression in men and women (as evidenced by auto accidents), the walls of Jericho, blue-green algae, Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862), sea level changes, the Holy Roman Empire, post Keynesians, the ice age, linear time, volcanic eruptions, the nuclear family, Frederick Nietzsche, Joel Mokyr, dinosaurs, dolphins, and the Domesday Book, to name a few examples. The only problem is what the connection of the episode at issue is to the big idea. I know the theory is dynamic, which is why the front cover has charging horses on it, whereas Darwin was static. Dynamism is everywhere - more than one page of the index alone is devoted to dynamism in all its varieties, including "dynamics of the earth: formation of crust." Change we learn occurs because of dynamism. I also learned that the theory is "economic," and that it involves "paradigm shifts," but the theory itself remains hidden from the view of a reviewer trapped in the prison of deductive logic.

To take a specific example, Snooks argues, with some persuasion to someone whose knowledge of the subject is limited to the New York Times, that the attempt by many scientists to explain the extinction of dinosaurs by natural catastrophes is unconvincing. But what is Snooks' alternative explanation? Dinosaurs were doomed, he assures us, by "having exhausted their dynamic strategies" and further dinosaurs "suffered from over-expansion owing to the exhaustion of their dynamic opportunities" (pp. 77-78). And that's it. With those trenchant observations, Snooks having dispatched the dinosaur issue between pages 76 and 78 as rapidly as an asteroid impact, marches quickly on to tackle the bigger problems. The survival of some organisms, largely unchanged, from long before the era of the dinosaurs is, I presume, because they did not exhaust their dynamic opportunities to not change. Aristotle, who claimed that objects fell towards the earth because it was in their nature to fall, looks like a model of positivist science compared to Snooks.

I could go on, but this is enough to convey the point. As we go about the mundane tasks of economic history, trying to prise the occasional nugget of knowledge from hard and stony ground, I am sure we will hear periodically from Graeme Snooks. He will come zooming past, gesticulating wildly and shouting excitedly about new marvelous discoveries made from the comfort of his armchair: discoveries that only he, and possibly Doug North, Herman van der Wee and Stan Engerman, can see and share.

History in the Upper Case.......2002-04-18

Professor Snooks has produced a magnum opus in "The Dynamic Society". He forwards an existential (empirical, inductive)economic model that elucidates not only the passage of human society from the beginnings, but encapsulates the rhythms of life itself.

The key elements of the model are these -

1)A dynamic actor, "materialist man" (MM) who maximizes material advantage over the course of a lifetime. Snooks is at great pains to distinguish his dynamic MM from both homo economicus (a static concept), and other forms of analytical (passive and active) agents utilized in both the social and the physical sciences. 2) The strategic demands of MM drive history. These demands manifest themselves in "dynamic strategies", which Snooks identifies as Conquest, Commerce, family multiplication and Technological Change. 3) The waxing and waning of dynamic strategies define cycles and epochs, institutional frameworks, the rise and fall of civilizations, and the level of economic growth (=GDP/capita).

The dynamic material model is a serious challenge to established modes of dialectical, idealist, material and institutional historiography. The serious practitioner and the ambitious student can hardly afford to be ignorant of the arguments of Professor Snooks.

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Whatever happened to OPEC? This book unravels the puzzle that has confounded all the experts: why did countries with such major divergences in size, population, resources, economic structures, governmental systems, culture and ethnicity all follow the same path to political and economic development, and with such wretched results? How did OPEC members benefit from their three trillion-dollar windfall? And where did all that money go? Why did the anticipated plenty, affluence, political stability and liberation all turn into austerity, deficits, debts, disappointment and decay? This is the first book which charts OPEC's rise, decline and virtual disappearance as a commercial force in the world.

Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: Middle East Policy

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Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: Middle East Policy
Suzanne Maloney
Manufacturer: Middle East Policy Council
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008IENU2
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Author: Suzanne Maloney
Publication: Middle East Policy (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: Middle East Policy Council
Volume: 8 Issue: 3 Page: 174(4)

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Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Energy Journal

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Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Energy Journal
Richard L. Gordon
Manufacturer: International Association for Energy Economics
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ASIN: B00099J1IO
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Energy Journal, published by International Association for Energy Economics on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 986 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: Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls.(Review) (book review)
Author: Richard L. Gordon
Publication: The Energy Journal (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1999
Publisher: International Association for Energy Economics
Volume: 20 Issue: 4 Page: 154(2)

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SELECTED BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF 2000

SELECTED BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF 2000

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Comprehensive, detailed, stimulating, invaluable primer.

Let Your Fingers Do the Talking : Using Word of Mouth Advertising on the Internet
Godfrey Harris
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Binding: Paperback

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Detailed program ideas on how to use word of mouth advertising—the oldest, most effective, least expensive form of market promotion—to sell products, services, places and events on the Internet. Shows how to employ the power of the worldwide web to overcome two shortcomings of word of mouth advertising to become the most efficient marketing tool available. This fourth book on word of mouth techniques by the author also includes analyses of how to convert any traditional advertising approach to a word of mouth program and how to determine what word of mouth programs work, what don't, and why.

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SELECTED BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF 2000.......2000-11-03

The editors of Business Bestsellers, a popular German/Austrian publication, has just declared Let Your Fingers Do the Talking as "one of the best 36 business books published in 2000!" Business Bestsellers is a subscription publication that is sent to hundreds of thousands of European business executives.

SELECTED BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF 2000.......2000-11-03

Using eMail Virally.......2000-09-26

The Word-of-Mouth-Advertising champion and chronicler applies his proven techniques to the Internet. Godfrey Harris combines the least expensive form of advertising with the most efficient method of spreading the message: Drafting email messages that recipients want to forward to friends. Harris shares secrets, provides figures and cites case studies to show you how to get more bang for your promotion buck. Glossary and index. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com

Comprehensive, detailed, stimulating, invaluable primer........2000-09-08

In Let Your Fingers Do The Talking: Using Word Of Mouth Advertising On The Internet, author, public policy consultant, and marketing analyst Godfrey Harris presents a comprehensive discussion, along with detailed program ideas, on stimulating word of mouth comments on the Internet about products, services, places, and events to expand e- commerce sales. An invaluable, highly recommended primer for on-line entrepreneurs and corporate marketing directors, Let Your Fingers Do The Talking also includes analyses of how to convert any traditional advertising approach to a word of mouth program and how to determine what works in terms of word of mouth, what doesn't, and why.

Promocion Por Internet/ Let Your Fingers Do The Talking: Using Word of Mouth Advertising on the Internet

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Promocion Por Internet/ Let Your Fingers Do The Talking: Using Word of Mouth Advertising on the Internet
Godrey Hadras
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ASIN: 9683814875

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Business Strategy is becoming increasingly 'pluralist', drawing on the insights of different disciplines, and business practice in different parts of the world. This book brings together the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the field under three main headings Technology, Strategy and Organization, and Regions. The purpose of the book is to explore from different perspectives the dynamic interplay between the technology of a firm; its strategies; organizational choices; and issues of place, region, and location. The contributors are Peter Hagstrom, Alfred Chandler, Takahiro Fujimoto, Richard Nelson, Nathan Rosenberg, Erik von Hippel, Cristiano Antonelli, Giovanni Dosi, Benjamin Coriat, David Teece, Gunnar Hedlund, Pari Patel, Keith Pavitt, Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Lars-Gunnar Mattsson, John Cantwell, John Dunning, Michael Enright, Masahisa Fujita, Ryoichi Ishii, Allen Scott, Orjan Solvell, Ivo Zander, J-C Spender, and Michael Porter. Together they address the challenge of explaining the long-run competitiveness of firms in an ever more global world. This book will be a benchmark for anybody wanting to keep abreast of leading edge strategic thinking.

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Good for textbook.......2001-07-21

First of all, this edited book is designed to bring together multi-displinary academic areas, not least business studies, economics and economic geography, which are interested in the dynamics of the firm. It is nice and well structured in terms of economics of the firm. However, from a viewpoint of an economic geographer, some of papers which talk about economic geography of the corporate organisation are too plain, old fashioned. Nevertheless, it is recommended that this book illustrates excellent combination of attempts to understand the firm as a container, seeker and creater of competence itself.

above average book.......2000-07-26

Sound and understandable book, but not excellent at all

The Dynamic Firm : The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions

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The Dynamic Firm : The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions
Alfred D. Chandler
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OL9JM0

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Renowned IT project management expert, Joseph Phillips, again delivers an authoritative, easy-to-understand guide that delves into all CompTIA IT Project+ certification objectives. The “Inside the Exam” sections focus on the necessary topics to pass the new CompTIA exam. Each chapter features an end-of-chapter review, and the CD-ROM includes an IT Project+ practice test, plus templates and worksheets to use when managing a project. The included real-world examples that provide on-the-job insight from practicing project management professionals, and tie discussed theory to practice, make this comprehensive reference a must-have for IT staff.

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Excelent.......2007-07-03

This book is the ideal one to people that have to understand the principles of project management, but with focus in IT. Even though it can not give you a complete overview of project management principles (for this, you have to use PMBOK, from PMI), here you can find all the information necessary to manage IT projects.

Where Are the Files?.......2007-03-27

I am currently on Chapter 8 of this twelve chapter book. So far, it's a clearly written review of IT Project Management with usefull apendices for connecting the subject matter to Comp TIA Project+ certification. The bad news is the publishers and author did not review the enclosed CD to assure that all of the files the author refers to are on the CD. So far, I have found four missing files, two of them are needed for completing review exercises at the end of chapters. I searched both McGraw Hill/Osborne and Joseph Philip's websites for the missing files, but could not find them.

The text itself is a good selection for anyone studying for the Project+ certificate, but I cannot give an above average rating to a project management product that does not deliver all promised deliverables.

IT Project Management.......2006-03-10

Ce livre est idéal pour l'apprentissage de la gestion de projet. Il aborde d'une façon proche de la pratique et néanmoins avec une bonne base théorique l'art de jongler entre temps, finances resources humaines.
Ai particulièrement apprécié le chapitre "completing the project" très souvent négligé ou bâclé dans le monde réel.
Personnellement (et à ma propre surprise!), les 2 premiers chapitres (Starting & Researching the Project) m'ont étés les plus informatifs.

gives numerous specific tasks for you to manage.......2006-03-04

This text is for the technical manager. It breaks down your project management duties into narrower, more specific tasks. Like putting together a project team. Which involves determining what tasks need to be tackled, and finding those people qualified to do so.

Project planning is shown using various graphical approaches like network diagrams. These and other types of graphs are vital in letting you plan a schedule and then measure adherence to it.

Quality is also prominently discussed. There are suggestions on how to measure these in the deliverables. Unlike manufacturing, this can be difficult. The book only touches upon the complexities here. You should look elsewhere for a more thorough analysis of quality measurement.

Very Good Exam Prep and Fundamental PM knowledge.......2005-10-12

I used this text and the SelfTest Test Engine (PKO-002) - I took the Project+ exam today (10/11/2005) and passed - No Problem! I'm definetly adding this book to my reference shelf. Thanks for an excellent treatment of the subject matter and subject exam Mr. Phillips.

IT Project Management: On Track from Start to Finish, Second Edition

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IT Project Management: On Track from Start to Finish, Second Edition
Joseph Phillips
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
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ASIN: B000OFHEZ0

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