Directory Of Grants In The Humanities, 2000/2001: 14th Edition (Directory of Grants in the Humanities)

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The Directory provides the most accurate and current data on funds available to individuals and organizations from corporations, foundations, and professional associations as well as from the NEA, NEH, and state and local arts and humanities councils. Completely updated facts are presented on more than 3,600 funding sources, including more than 200 programs identified for the first time.

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"At a time when student testing is at an all-time high, Kate Thomsen reminds us that as educators we are in the human potential business. This user-friendly book provides an overview of key educational trends, so teachers can easily incorporate the best of what works."
Rob Bocchino, Co-founder
Heart of Change; Change of Heart Associates
Author, Emotional Literacy

"Kate Thomsen’s book is a must-read for every educator. She has synthesized the wisdom from educational megatrends of the past decades and shows us how to foster healthier, safer, and more resilient student by integrating these major learnings into what we already do. I love this book!"
Beverly Title, Co-founder
Teaching Peace
Hygiene, CO

Create a nurturing, supportive environment where students can nurture their own resiliency!

What makes one student overcome obstacles, while another cannot seem to cope? What makes one student rise above difficult circumstances, while another flounders? Identifying the attributes of the resilient student is the first step in building resiliency in all of your students. This resource provides busy teachers with practical, concrete applications and activities for reframing the actions of even the most at-risk students, changing the focus from problems to solutions, from deficits to strengths.

Building Resilient Students connects resiliency to five major educational megatrends—character education, multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence, service learning, and violence prevention—and gives educators proven strategies for incorporating the "resiliency attitude" into everyday classroom experiences.

Thomsen identifies a myriad of easy, yet innovative applications through six resiliency-building strategies:

Care and support through meaningful relationships
Opportunities to participate and contribute in meaningful ways
High expectations, knowing that others believe they can be successful
Pro-social bonding through positive connections with peers and adults
Clear boundaries and expectations that are fair and consistent
Life skills such as decision making, effective communication, and stress and conflict management

There are seeds of resiliency in all of us. We can nurture those seeds in all students, giving them the life skills they need to become competent, healthy adults.

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Useful, readable how to without being boring!.......2002-11-06

This book is deceptive-it's an easy read that you'll find extremely helpful and empowering. Ms. Thomsen has taken all the research for various 'new' teaching techniques and made them relevant to today's overworked and overwhelmed teachers,helping them to help their students become better people. As she indicates, stable and emotionally healthy students can become involved and capable students,who can then learn. The concept is not new, but the easy to read format shows how to make it applicable in every classroom.
Teachers will find themselves saying "oh, I do that" and "oh, that would be easy to incorporate in my classroom" over and over as they read this book. Buy it for that favorite teacher- -and for the parent who may be struggling with their own child's inability to connect effectively with adults and teachers and others. Read her dandelion story, and see how many people you know who fall in to it.
Lovely book-a great find!

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By blasting apart outdated perceptions and focusing on new value-adding strategies, Measures of Quality & High Performance explains the operating secrets of top companies.

Based on extensive research with 19 organizations that have received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the book explains how each broke free of old strangleholds to achieve breakthrough results. And it contains new findings, such as: increasing quality actually drives overall expenses down; small, continuous improvements (kaizen) are no longer adequate for reaching world-class status; and reducing the time to do things actually increases quality.

The book helps readers assess their own companies by asking three crucial questions: Has your organization recognized the new methods that are replacing old habits? Does it employ customer value-added concepts? Is training a key element in the overall strategy?

Customer Reviews:

Ugh!.......2007-05-13

Not exactly what I needed, but I had to get it for work. UGH!

FILLED WITH INFO, INSIGHTS, EXAMPLES AND ACTUAL PRACTICES........1999-04-13

Based on an examination of 19 Baldrige winners, reveals 20 basic lessons, each discussed in separate chapters. Makes you aware of how a world-class organization measures quality and achieves high performance, and familiarizes you with current techniques. Filled with insights, examples, and actual practices; recommended. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates, author of Stern's Sourcefinder: The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and Stern's Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.

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`I found myself questioning my current views on globalization and international competition. In so doing, I have come to a fuller understanding of the dynamics of the process and have enjoyed a unique view into the minds of the decision makers' - Organization Studies

`This book is an unusual and valuable addition to the literatures of international business' - International Business Review

`The first interesting feature of this study is the selection of industries.... The book provides some valuable insight into the geographic distribution of the world in the mind of the chief executives… a matter of interest not only to industry and academia, but also to policy makers.... The classification of international strategies deducted from the interview data is another contribution that book makes.... The book has achieved its main goal of linking theory and practical experience [and] provides interesting reading.... The book translates the logic of the industry world into a nice theory leaving it up to the reader to accept or reject the accompanying business ethics and values' - Prometheus

`A highly effective analysis of the changing patterns of competition viewed from an international perspective. There is a plethora of books on globalization and internationalization of industries, but most are long on words and speculation, but short on hard evidence and perspective. Here, the approach of the authors is not to argue that the world is becoming more (or less) global, but to provide a valuable insight into just how these forces are shaping industries, whether managers can influence these forces and what they might mean for those involve'- Charles Baden-Fuller, City Business School, Series Editor

This book uses in-depth current data from a range of international business, and provides an important new framework for understanding international competitive systems and formulating international business strategy.

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Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England
E. A. Wrigley
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Economic History | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0521396573

Book Description

The Industrial Revolution produced the modern world, a world of increased affluence, longevity, urbanization, and travel. This book illuminates how the great surge of economic growth that determined these changes was not expected, and often went unnoticed. The author begins by discussing the kind of substantial economic growth that was predicted at the time, and goes on to cover the growth that was unexpected. The link between these two types of growth is presented in the context of English economic growth between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries and leads the author to challenge convincingly the conventional view that the Industrial Revolution was a simple, unitary, and consciously progressive phenomenon. .E.A. Wrigley is Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University. He is the author of several books, among them, Population and History (McGraw-Hill) The Population History of England (CUP) and Continuity, Chance and Change (CUP).

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The essays in this volume describe, analyze and compare the achievements and the failures of societies that adopted market-based economies within a democratic polity after a long period of communist rule (Russia and Eastern Europe) or military authoritarianism (Latin America). Together, they also trace the rocky course of liberal economic policies over the whole twentieth century.

Area experts from various disciplines seek to establish the extent to which the historical experience of the several countries explains successful transitions as well as the less successful efforts to adapt institutions to the needs of a market economy. The papers further show the dilemmas faced in both Eastern Europe and Latin America in reconciling the efficiency benefits of market economies and the need to achieve or maintain socially acceptable patterns of income distribution among the strata of income receivers. In addition to the essays themselves, comments are provided to further explore specific issues.

Researchers and students in economics, economic history, political science and regional studies, and others interested in the economics of transition to a market system will find this comprehensive collection an invaluable resource.

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A comprehensive handbook for advertising and marketing managers, this volume shows how advertisers can effectively control agency costs without sacrificing creativity. Ron Harding profiles companies that have effectively enforced accountability on their agencies and demonstrates proven internal systems for controlling the advertising process--and its associated costs--from the initial spending plan through the final examination of actual expenditures. He also offers a pragmatic discussion of the procedures, timetables, and contracts managers need to put in place to ensure that all sectors of the agency--account, creative, legal, production, and business affairs--act in the best interest of their client and at the highest levels of their capability. All major categories of spending receive thorough coverage: television, print, talent, and media. After an introduction which highlights the problems of runaway costs and mismanagement that plague many advertisers today, Harding presents a step-by-step guide to controlling advertising expenditures. Among the topics addressed are: how to create realistic spending plans and make them strict buying guides for the agency; how to spot successful advertising; how to make creative groups accountable; how to run a successful copy meeting; how to stop cost overruns in television and print; and how to streamline and strengthen the brand management system. Harding fully reviews how to cut costs at each stage--from the project initiation form, through copy and storyboards, to editing and final production. Written in clear, conversational style, the book focuses throughout on a pragmatic approach to advertising management while recognizing the central importance of creativity. In fact, Harding argues, by understanding the creative-cost equation and how to manipulate its variables, advertisers will necessarily reap the benefits of better advertising.

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Quick Service Restaurants, Franchising, and Multi-Unit Chain.......2003-06-18

Loaded with case studies and statistics.
Little or no practical applications.

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The vision of the MIT Process Handbook Project is the creation of a systematic and powerful method of organizing and sharing business knowledge. Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook presents the key findings of a multidisciplinary research group at MIT’s Sloan School of Management that has worked for over a decade to lay the foundation for just such a comprehensive system. It does so by focusing on the process itself. The book proposes a set of fundamental concepts to guide analysis and a classification framework for organizing knowledge, and describes the publicly available online knowledge base developed by the project, which includes a set of representative templates and specific case examples as well as a set of software tools for organizing and sharing knowledge.

Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook includes twenty-one papers, some previously published and some appearing for the first time, that have come out of this decade-long project. Together, they form a comprehensive and coherent vision of the future of knowledge organization. The Handbook is organized into five parts: an introduction and overview; the presentation of a theory of process representation; "Contents of the Process Repository"; "Process Repository Uses," which gives examples from both research and practice; and a conclusion, which maps the progress so far and the challenges ahead.

Organizing Business Knowledge: The Mit Process Handbook

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Organizing Business Knowledge: The Mit Process Handbook
Thomas W. (EDT) / Crowston, Kevin (EDT) / Herman, George A. (EDT) Malone
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQH288

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An in-depth understanding of international business is a requirement for any player in today's business world. To excel, one must also possess the ability to understand respond to, and use change effectively. Trends in International Business: Critical Perspectives is designed to provide the right contexts for successful strategy development. The text presents a leading-edge analysis of the central components of international business strategy and their effects. Readers gain valuable exposure to the macro shifts which are redefining the parameters of business, as well as insights into the strategies which firms can adopt to respond to these changes. To help readers improve their ability to analyze the key issues and concerns in the international business field, the editors have adopted a unique approach. Issues are explored from the vantage points of policy makers, business executives, and researchers from the United States, Asia, and Europe. The text's unique approach and emphasis on effective use makes Trends in International Business: Critical Perspectives a valuable resource. Readers will be delighted by improved results.

Trends in International Business: Critical Perspectives.

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Trends in International Business: Critical Perspectives.
Michael R. Czinkota
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UYA4HK

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Terrific for Setting Directions for Your Business

AWESOME!

Informative and easy to understand

A Guidepost for Beginners

Very Interesting and Helpful

Product Idea to Product Success: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making Money from Your Idea
Matthew Yubas
Manufacturer: Broadword Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Marketing | Marketing & Sales | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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Launch It! : How to Turn Good Ideas Into Great Products That Sell

ASIN: 0972552103

Book Description

Whether it's a new product idea or service, inventions abound. Coming up with the idea is one thing, getting it to fly is another. In his new book, Product Idea to Product Success: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making Money from Your Idea, author Matthew Yubas offers readers a comprehensive, complete, practical, and easy-to-understand guide to the process of bringing an invention to market.

Anyone with a great idea for a new product or service can benefit from this book. In an engaging and conversational style, Product Idea to Product Success is filled with examples and real-world advice as Yubas takes readers through a step-by-step process to get from idea to finished product. Yubas even provides a method for determining whether a market exists before investing time and money on a product or service and then gives readers ways to brainstorm new ideas for future inventions. Product Idea to Product Success is an educational and thought-provoking mix of quizzes, surveys, marketing plans formats, and everything else readers will need to launch their ideas. Yubas fills Product Idea to Product Success with sound advice and cost-effective solutions which, if followed carefully, are almost guaranteed to produce success. This book will become a valued guide to new and experienced inventors and entrepreneurs alike.

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Terrific for Setting Directions for Your Business.......2007-10-08

Excellent for starting up a business. This book is an invaluable asset to anyone who needs a guidepost to determine elements to consider when trying to bring a product to market. Definitely worth every cent...

AWESOME!.......2007-03-29

This is a great book for anyone who is lost and confused like I was on a subject that was very foreign to me. It truely walks you through step by step!

Informative and easy to understand.......2007-01-19

Product Idea to Product Success gives a step by step approach to what you need to know to bring an idea from just an idea to reality. If you are willing to follow the steps you can become successful in every indeaver that you undertake.

A Guidepost for Beginners.......2004-03-13

I am glad I purchased the book "Product Idea to Product Success."
It is a must read for anyone considering marketing a product.
I am thankful Matt Yubas decided to share his expertise with the world.
I never imagined how much research is necessary prior to marketing an idea
or product. This book is definitely the roadmap for getting started. I will refer to this book often as I sift through the details of my project.

Very Interesting and Helpful.......2004-03-12

I purchased this book via the internet, and I found out that it is full of usefull information which a new inventor or even an average guy with an idea which he seeks to possibly market .These information were explained in a manner that they are easily understood. Even the author is so helpful that he returned my email quickly when I was seeking his advice. I am giving this book 5 stars and would recommend it to anybody who has an idrea that they wish to market...yours truly Arnold Avillanoza

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A Primer for Us Working Souls - They Delivered and So Will We contains a monologue about growing up, an old manOs classroom speech about how he became a millionnaire, a managerOs lecture about what it takes to be a manager, a sermon by an itinerant minister, 12 original work-related songs with lyrics and modified sheet music, and many quotable reminders that glorify what most of us do to justify our existence.

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This book has been designed as a full programme of study for the most popular mechanical engineering option units followed by students on Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Operations and Maintenance BTEC National Certificate and National Diploma courses. The author has structured the material so that manageable sections of text are complemented by in-text questions and features such as Test Your Knowledge, Key Points and Activity panels, making this an ideal book for student-centred classroom learning and independent study.

Written for the 2002 BTEC National specifications, this book will also be useful as an option unit resource for AVCE.

Alan Darbyshire is a practising FE lecturer and experienced author of textbooks for Intermediate GNVQ and AVCE. As a member of the Edexcel team he drafted several of the mechanical engineering units for the new BTEC National specifications.

* Full coverage of the key BTEC National Mechanical Engineering units together in one book
* Written specifically for the new BTEC specifications
* Interactive, student-centred learning ideal for classroom and independent study

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The Big Book of Whittling and Woodcarving
E. J. Tangerman
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486261719

Book Description

Comprehensive sourcebook of ideas and designs ranging from simple projects (charms, pendants) to more elaborate objects (stylized birds, caricatures, rocking horse). Over 1,000 illustrations and photographs, plus useful suggestions help beginners and experienced woodworkers create Noah's ark, nativity scene, masks and hundreds of other items.

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This is a book about bubble prices, and their consequences, in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest from 1979-1984. Bubble prices--unusual and rapid rises (and eventual drops) in the prices of a commodity--have been of theoretical interest to economists for many years. This study examines the unusual movements in the price of federal timber and the subsequent recession in the Northwest when timber buyers delayed harvests in order to postpone the realization of their losses on the contracts. Mattey argues that it was not so much the actions of the Federal Reserve, which had been widely blamed for the crisis, but rather the actions of the buyers themselves that caused the recession.

Customer Reviews:

The Timber Bubble That Burst : Government Policy and the Bai.......2000-04-06

Increadable Amasing Futureistic my joy at reading goverment policy great magic inspiring I know things I never new before. Beutifull cover inspireing pages. Bright spitful interactive we are all hope full for a better future

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Highly Recommended!

Good but can improve...

Loyalty.com

Loyalty and Profits

Repackaged Database Marketing

loyalty.com : Customer Relationship Management in the New Era of Internet Marketing
Frederick Newell
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback

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Amazon.com

A few years ago, everybody with a product to sell got a dose of the same religion. In marketing circles, it's called customer relationship management, or CRM. In your house, it's probably called "How the hell did I end up with all these plastic cards in my wallet?" Your grocery store offers you special discounts if you bring one of those cards to wave over the scanner. If you travel, you probably have "loyalty cards" from airlines, hotel chains, and car-rental companies. All these discount and loyalty programs allow the companies to built substantial databases about you--your preferences and patterns--but they also depend on you to do the work, to lug those plastic cards around, keep track of your points and miles, and so on.

There are better ways to build customer relationships, argues Newell. He caused a stir in 1997 with The New Rules of Marketing, and now with Loyalty.com, he wants to cause another one by declaring that most companies attempting to create customer loyalty are going about it all wrong. In fact, he shows that areas with the most aggressive loyalty programs tend to have the least loyal customers--and vice versa. Today, writes Newell, the Internet has made market research cheaper and faster than ever. Software can be designed to predict what a customer will want before she knows she wants it, and the company can go straight to that particular customer to suggest she buy that particular product, rather than showering millions of potential customers with hundreds of product solicitations. It's not easy, and pitfalls abound, as Loyalty.com shows (the issue of customer privacy alone will be the subject of endless legislation in coming years). But the company that masters customer relations will be rewarded with both loyalty and profits. --Lou Schuler

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"If Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton were alive and heavily involved in the Internet, this is the kind of book he might write."Los Angeles Times

Packed with case studies and real-world examples, Loyalty.com reveals what the latest technology shifts mean to marketers in every fieldand outlines the fundamentals needed to build customer loyalty that will last.

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Loyalty.com shows companies how to shift their focus from impersonal database marketing to true customer relationship management (CRM), blending CRM and Web strategies to outline a program for lasting customer relationships.

Customer Reviews:

Highly Recommended!.......2001-04-18

This book is a delightful result of Frederick Newell's recent indoctrination in marketing through the World Wide Web. Newell is an internationally acclaimed professional and part-time academic who specializes in database marketing. He admits in his preface that he's a bit of a "geezer" - because his 1997 book, The New Rules of Marketing, lacked a Web component, which undermined its newness. In an effort to rectify that, he reconciles the impressive database-mining and customer relationship concepts from his earlier book with today's rapidly changing cyber-marketing theories and practices. Newell clearly is excited by what he has belatedly learned about the Web's potential, and provides on-target case studies to support his points. We [...] recommend this book to all marketers - especially to those in retail. Those who are new to Web business will find it particularly useful.

Good but can improve..........2001-03-10

Excellent to understand insides on internet crm and loyalty. The message is: understand your customer by it self, dont give them disccounts.. give them good service, give them what they want. Lots of examples will help you reconfirm your pre-done thoughts.

Liked the valuation chapter.. not to deep (lack of examples) but perfect for a good start.

The case studies are very interesting but they do not give you the final flavor : "What happened? does this CRM initiative was really successful??"

I think you have to buy this book: it really can help you find a path.

Loyalty.com.......2001-02-23

This book is a must have for all business professionals. Newell brightly explains the fundamentals of CRM in an eye opening way, giving the reader lots of valuable points to use in your own business/career.

Loyalty and Profits.......2000-12-10

Loyalty.com explains how customer loyalty can increase the company profits. Companies must focus on building relationships with their customers. Loyalty is the last level of a customer relationship. The importance of this relationship is finely presented by the author.

Repackaged Database Marketing.......2000-11-15

The book is chock full of examples and anecdotes but really has no new worthwhile conceptualizations or insights to make it worth reading. If you don't know anything about database marketing, then you will get something out of this book. If you are familiar with the basic concepts of customer database analysis, loyalty programs and relationship marketing, there is nothing new here. In fact a much better introduction to all those concepts is The Loyalty Effect by Reichenheld or Customer Connections by Wayland and Cole. The subtitle mentions the dot com world, but the book has little to say about the Internet. The book really does not cover CRMs (as oppsed to database marketing) in that it fails describe how CRM systems work and what database, modeling and communications platforms are required to implement them.

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Loyalty.com: Customer Relationship Management in the New Era of Internet Marketing
Frederick Newell
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Web Marketing | Business & Culture | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000OG9N8A

Customer Reviews:

Passion, conviction and integrity.......2001-01-03

This book is written in a down-to-earth style and with humor. The author doesn't claim to be a management "guru". He doesn't over-complicate things - he is not trying to sell a complex management process, and so states things clearly and in simple terms.

Although it is possible to make money through fear and deception (witness the large-scale criminal gangs), it does not bring much joy to any of the participants, and it subtracts from rather than adds to the sum total of technological, intellectual and spiritual capital in the world.

The best organisations (and the ones that in the longer term are the most successful) are those that deal with customers and employees with honesty and integrity. They try to produce what the customer wants, at an appropriate price. They provide good service. They know that loyal customers are cheaper to keep and will spend more with them.

It's about passion, conviction and integrity. If you ain't got it, you can't fake it.

Chapter headings:

1. The Fear Factor

2. Learn To Re-Think

3. Change Through Process Management

4. Change Through Systematic Correction

5. Think Change Techniques

6. Change Through Quality Systems

7. Change Through Customers

8. The Cultural Dimension

9. Making It Happen

10. Consulting Consultants

11. Training Your Trainers

12. Does It Work In practice?

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