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A very helpful book.......2007-01-27

This book is an overview of the engineering profession like I've never seen before. Although it seems primarily written for high school and college students (and their parents), it also contains important tips for middle-school and elementary students. It belongs in every middle school, high school and college library and guidance office. Although it quotes some of the nation's top engineers and teachers, as well as engineering students, it isn't stodgy at all. Instead, it offers entertaining and easy-to-read advice on preparing for college and succeeding on campus and in the workplace, and also looks at salaries, employment trends, and fun things to do in the many engineering disciplines. It's a must-read for any student thinking about engineering as a career.

A great guide.......2006-11-29

There's a critical shortage of engineers these days--and especially a shortage of women engineers--and this is a great guide for kids who might be considering the field or wondering exactly what being an engineer means. I got this for my daughter and several of her friends, and donated it to the career office at their school. The book includes descriptions of different engineering fields, the type of work you'd be doing, the salary you can expect--plus suggestions on which high school classes and extracurricular activities would be good to get a student ready to study engineering in college. The authors interviewed many engineers for realistic details and included info on innovative career paths, including Engineers Without Borders. Best of all--the book is easy to read and interesting.

Student Study Guide for the Future of Business

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Student Study Guide for the Future of Business
Lawrence J. Gitman , and Carl McDaniel
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Student Study Guide for the Future of Business
Carl McDaniel Lawrence J. Gitman
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUEHOG

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This book must be judged in the light of its limited objective. It is not the product of the study, either literally or metaphorically. It was written in the spare moments of a busy business life, and it deliberately avoids any abstruse discussion of economic and statistical problems. What Mr. Wallace attempted to do was to act as a liaison officer between the academic and the business worlds. He sought to describe in homely terms those complex theories relating to the trade cycle, upon which general trade forecasting is primarily based; and to show in as concrete a manner as possible how far existing knowledge on trade forecasting can be used by the business man in the practical conduct of his affairs.

Scientific forecasting;: Its methods and application to practical business and to stock market operations,

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Scientific forecasting;: Its methods and application to practical business and to stock market operations,
Karl G Karsten
Manufacturer: Greenberg
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The report affirms that knowledge can help the region to expand the scope of human freedoms, enhance the capacity to guarantee those freedoms through good governance and achieve the higher moral human goals of justice and human dignity. It also underlies the importance of knowledge to Arab countries as a powerful driver of economic groeth through higher productivity. It's closing section puts forward a strategic vision for creating knowledge societies on the Arab world built on five pillars: 1. Guaranteeing the key freedoms of opinion, speech and assembly through good governance bounded by the law. 2. Disseminating high quality education for all. 3. Embedding and ingraining science and building and broadening the capacity for research and development across society. 4. Shifting rapidly towards knowledge-based production in Arab socioeconomic structures. 5. Developing an authentic, broadminded and enlightened Arab knowledge model. AHDR 2003 makes it clear that, in the Arab civilization, the pursuit of knowledge is prompted by religion, culture, history and the human will to achieve success. Obstructions to this quest are the defective structures created by human beings - social, economic and above all political. Arabs must remove or reform these structures in order to take the place they deserve in the world of knowledge at the beginning of the knowledge millennium.

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Key issue downplayed.......2005-06-14

There is a great deal of value in this report. However, it does not squarely face the profound problems caused by Arabic diglossia i.e. using Modern Standard Arabic for writing and formal speech and the numerous Arabic "dialects" for normal conversation.

Modern Standard Arabic is based on the Arabic of the Quran and has the same relationship to the spoken forms of Arabic as Classical Latin has to modern French or Italian. The prestige of the language of the Quran in Islam, and the fact that Modern Standard Arabic is similar throughout the Arab world, have combined to support the opinion among many Arabic speakers that their native spoken language is "bad Arabic". Of course, Modern Egyptian or Moroccan Arabic is no more "bad Arabic" than the language of Madrid is bad Latin. The tremendous barrier to education and modernization of diglossia is described in "Language Education and Human Development Arabic diglossia and its impact on the quality of education in the Arab region" http://literacy.org/products/ili/pdf/OP0002.pdf.

An analogous situation was overcome in Europe during the renaissance by the development of the vernaculars as literary vehicles. In all likelihood, something similar will have to happen in the Arab world by either adopting educated spoken Egyptian Arabic as a universal standard or by the development of a few regional standards based on the educated speech of major regional cities.

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Critical assessmet of what makes a good game or simulation........1998-05-03

Whatever your views are on the validity of games and simulations within a training or education environment, this book helps the reader to vet the game or simulation being examined, to ensure it delivers valid educational outcomes. The author catagorizes games and simulations and then critically discusses the desired outcomes and repercusions. Even if you may disagree with some of the authors findings, it forces the reader to examine the the structure and context of the game or simulation. For authors of games and simulations it provides a reality check of outcomes, answering the question: is the game or simulation delivering what it is designed to?

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In this book F. M. L. Thompson makes an incisive contribution to the longstanding debate over gentrification and entrepreneurialism in Britain. He provides an expert analysis of the links between economic performance and the penetration of industrial wealth into landed society.

Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review): An article from: Albion

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Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review): An article from: Albion
Marc Baer
Manufacturer: North American Conference on British Studies
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Albion, published by North American Conference on British Studies on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 859 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: Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
Author: Marc Baer
Publication: Albion (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: North American Conference on British Studies
Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Page: 497(2)

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Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980
F. M. Thompson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLC9RC

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Royalty Free - ReadySetPresent (Inspirational Quotes): Keep your audience focused and engaged by using our carefully selected collection of thoughtful, witty and humorous quotes. Use in a presentation with an LCD projector, make handouts, and create overheads. This topic includes 25 quotes, slide transitions, clipart and animation. It is a must-have supplement for anyone interested in presenting on these or related topics. Packaged on 3.5" floppy disk/s. PC compatible. You may use this product over and over again.

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Written for the ordinary consumer as well as for advertisers and trade regulators, this book aims to demonstrate how advertising can better serve its audience. Ivan Preston takes us down the slippery slope, from the high ground of honest product information to the unscrupulous bottom-of-the-barrel claims that are wholly false. Along the way he documents the subtle misrepresentations, half and lesser truths, and exploitations of our gullibility that abound in contemporary advertising. From reviews of the first edition

In this fascinating examination of contemporary ad-speak, Preston reveals the logical tricks behind familiar ads and reviews their legal status. He then goes on to argue for a revolutionary new standard for advertising, saying that ads should be constructed in such a way that consumers can rely on their content.Robert Herrmann, former President, American Council on Consumer Interest [Preston] meticulously dismantles advertisers arsenal of dirty tricks: implied but spurious claims, minimal facts promoted as significant, puffery, infomercials disguised as news programs, and empty nonfacts vaunting a brands superiority over all others. . . . A potent handbook for consumers awash in misinformation.Publishers Weekly A powerful analysis of whats wrong with advertising, how regulation sanctions deception, and what reforms are necessary. Advocates, educators, and regulators will find the book both provocative and useful.Stephen Brobeck, Executive Director, Consumer Federation of America Preston discusses the tools of the advertising trade and what the law will and will not allow, citing several memorable cases, involving Sears, Volvo, and Heileman Brewing and its PowerMaster malt liquor, among others. . . . So whats a little, or maybe more than a little, deception, or image-building, in love and competition? Everybody, or almost everybody, does it. And consumers dont really believe all they see and hear, anyway. Preston begs to differ, and he does so strongly and effectively.Chuck Hutchcraft, Chicago Tribune

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The Tangled Web They Weave Truth, Falsity and Advertisers
Ivan L. Preston
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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ASIN: B000ORYGAY

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Introduction to In-house web site building:

Finally, clear HTML recipes with explanations!

Great resource for new and experienced development teams

The Visual Learner's Guide to Managing Web Projects

A great way to learn about web page development!

The Visual Learner's Guide to Managing Web Projects
Chris Charuhas
Manufacturer: Laxmi Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 8170083605

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Goes beyond the nuts-and-bolts of site-building to show the process and principles behind effective Web sites. 124 diagrams and photos show how to:

-Plan a Web site so it delivers what users want -Train staff to be skilled site-builders -Organize sites to be user-friendly -Build exactly the site desired -Maintain a site so it stays consistent

Includes an illustrated scenario tracing the progress of a sample project, and a site-building checklist for creating new sites.

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Introduction to In-house web site building:.......2002-01-12

If you are planning to manage to build your small business web site with the help of your own staff, this may be the first book for the introduction to the subject. It may be the last if you decide not to get involved. There are lots of pictures, drawings, tables, windows in this book and very brief information is written down, definitely a visual book. There are base data given for the time to be allocated, costs involved and the description of core personnel for the in-house web building team. Team building and decision-making strategies are examined briefly. Major web building and graphics programs are compared. There is also a training program proposed for a green in-house web building team. An introductory web site plan and its implementation process is briefly explained. Some 30 odd pages are also spared for an in-house mock web project scenario that adds nothing to the content of the book but repetitions with half-empty pages. You may just skim through this book in order to have some vague idea about your in-house web site building project for your company. If you decide to proceed with the idea, you definitely need to look for other competent sources that cover this subject.

Finally, clear HTML recipes with explanations!.......2001-07-17

Finally, an HTML workbook that is clear, fun and eminently useful for people who not only want to learn the code, but to understand WHY the tag creates the look. After working with HTML editors and page creating programs, and becoming very frustrated because these programs don't always do what I want, I thought it would be fun to try to create a web site that looks sophisticated and learn the language at the same time. Well, I did it following the step-by-step instructions of this wonderful book. Each section has a minimum of text, clear examples, short exercises and quiz questions to reassure you that you actually know what you're doing, and it's all so simple! Anyone with interest and a little patience can easily create a well-designed web site with tables, graphics, and even forms. Useful additional files are freely available on the Visibooks web site. I recommend this book to the novice as well as the more experienced web page designer-to anyone interested in mastering the basics of HTML while understanding what they're doing!

Great resource for new and experienced development teams.......2001-06-19

I found this book a great resource for communicating with clients that have no clue about IT development as well as a refresher in the right way to plan and execute website developmnet that is often rushed and overlooked.

It is a good reminder of how to alter one's language when working with non-technical clients as well as explain what to expect. It gives an easy to understand overview of the steps in the process to create a website so that everyone is on the same page (no pun intended).

It is well worth having in one's library!

The Visual Learner's Guide to Managing Web Projects.......2001-06-16

I really loved this book, especially since I'm new to Web development. I am a "visual learner," and I appreciate text that's adapted to my style. Good book!

A great way to learn about web page development!.......2001-06-08

As a visual learner, this book is exactly what I was looking for in teaching me how to build a web site. It is clear and easy to follow with helpful illustrations and a checklist to help users along the way. Anyone trying to develop a user friendly and efficient web page should be pleased with this book.

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Inside the Minds: Security Matters is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the ins and outs of the security industry and the future of the business, on a global scale. Featuring CEOs, Presidents, and Chief Information Security Officers, all representing some of the nation's top companies, this book provides a broad, yet comprehensive overview of the current shape and future state of security - corporate, network, and personal. As they raise critical points around the sheer vulnerability of companies and individuals to security breaches, and other disruptive - or potentially destructive - measures, these authorities offer practical and adaptable strategies for protecting one's most valuable assets. From the processes involved in choosing and employing the latest products and solutions, to viable methods for any company to establish an appropriate and effective security plan, industry leaders articulate the finer points around security now, and what will hold true into the future. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great strategic minds of today, as experts offer up their thoughts around how to live, operate, and function - securely.

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This valuable resource contains descriptive profiles along with historical performance data on 300 of the world's leading global, regional, and local securities market indices and subindices covering 10 asset classes.

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"Just the kind of bridge we need to span the ideological wars and make schools work for teachers and their students."
Ann Lieberman
Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Visiting Professor, Stanford University

"In her supremely well-written and useful book, Dr. Solomon has woven together historical perspective, research, and her own considerable experience to address reforming schools in the 21st Century. After defining the problem (productive change), Dr. Solomon has examined ‘old’ solutions and conceptualized new ones to create better schools for students."
Nancy Goldman, Director of Curriculum
Pearl River School District
Pearl River, NY

"Standards and implementation of the learning process go hand in hand. The Assessment Bridge makes us clearly aware of the present need for a bridge between the two so that standards may not create greater failure and the rejection of formal education by many children."
Matthew Foley, Pastor
Epiphany Roman Catholic Church

We must ensure that tests serve the needs of education—not force education to fulfill needs of test creators.

The Assessment Bridge is award-winning educator Pearl Solomon’s penetrating and cogent examination of today’s high-stakes standards-based testing movement, which seems to compromise effective teaching and learning rather than improve it. Committed teachers know the importance of student assessment as a guide to classroom instruction. Restoring assessment to its proper place in the curriculum is the goal of this clear-headed analysis. Chapters cover:

The origins and history of the current testing movement
How good tests guide teaching and learning
How to balance standardized tests, curriculum standards, and critical local variables such as class size, socioeconomics, and teacher attitudes
How to build bridges from test anxiety to improved student learning, teacher training, curriculum and instruction, and school administration and leadership
How to recruit, train, and nurture a new generation of talented, committed, and effective teachers

Emphasizing the positive at all times, Solomon guides us toward creation of better schools where the best teachers and school leaders link tests to standards, curriculum, and improved student learning.

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The main focus of this book is how to use tools and techniques in an effective and efficient manner. What sets this book apart from others is that it covers a range of tools and techniques focusing not only on their description and construction but on the difficulties, both general and specific, in use and application. It neither ignores nor trivializes the underlying issues that influence their use and application. It also gives guidelines to the user to overcome the typical difficulties encountered.Case histories of good and best practice are outlined throughout the various chapters of the book. Another unique feature of the text is the provision of a methodology, which can be used in self-assessment mode, to assess the strengths and areas of improvement relating to the use and application of tools and techniques. The methodology was developed from research and has been used with considerable success in a number of organizations both in the UK and continental Europe.The book is targeted at the user of tools and techniques in manufacturing, commercial, utilities, public sector and service organizations. In this respect management at all levels of the organizational hierarchy will find something of value in the book as well as the more technical and engineering based personnel. Irrespective of the approach taken by an organization to business improvement they will need to use a selection of tools and techniques. All the evidence we have collected is that the use and application of tools and techniques is fraught with problems. Any management team interested in making best use of tools and techniques would benefit from studying the contents of this book. A conscious effort has been made to produce the text in language which is free from jargon.

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This digital document is an article from SAM Advanced Management Journal, published by Society for the Advancement of Management on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 4272 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: Virtual venturing and entry barriers: Redefining the strategic landscape.
Author: William M. Fitzpatrick
Publication: SAM Advanced Management Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2001
Publisher: Society for the Advancement of Management
Volume: 66 Issue: 4 Page: 22(7)

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Strategic groups, entry barriers and competitive behavior in grocery retailing (Working paper series / N.C. Project 117)

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Strategic groups, entry barriers and competitive behavior in grocery retailing (Working paper series / N.C. Project 117)
Bruce W Marion
Manufacturer: N.C. Project 117
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00070NIRK

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This volume comprises a collection of manuscripts by or relating to T.R. Malthus--recently discovered and previously unpublished--consisting of correspondence, sermons, essays and lecture notes on political economy and history. The manuscripts provide insights into Malthus' personal life--especially his relationships with his parents and his tutors, and also suggest hitherto unknown influences on his intellectual development. They represent a remarkable discovery, more than 150 years after Malthus' death.

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In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts—from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars—Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a form of personal expressiveness that indicated not only a woman’s wealth and taste but also her race, class, morality, and civic values. The discursive production of this new subjectivity—the feminine consumer—was remarkably influential, helping to shape American capitalism, culture, and nation building.
The phenomenon of female consumption was capitalism’s complement to male production: It created what Merish calls the “Other Protestant Ethic,”a feminine and sentimental counterpart to Max Weber’s ethic of hard work, economic rationality, and self-control. In addition, driven by the culture’s effort to civilize the “cannibalistic” practices of ethnic, class, and national otherness, appropriate female consumerism, marked by taste and refinement, identified certain women and their families as proper citizens of the United States. The public nature of consumption, however, had curiously conflicting effects: While the achievement of cultured material circumstances facilitated women’s civic agency, it also reinforced stereotypes of domestic womanhood.
Sentimental Materialism’s inquiry into middle-class consumption and accompanying ideals of womanhood will appeal to readers in a variety of disciplines, including American studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and cultural history.

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The growing use of the internet by businesses and consumers is rapidly changing the structure, conduct, and performance of different sectors of the global economy. This ten chapter volume on organizing the "new economy" documents some of these changes, and examines the ramifications for business strategy and public policy.

Chapters in this volume explain how the Internet has altered the conduct of firms competing in "new economy" markets (such as the online market for air travel information), changed the competitive and technological structure of a host of industries, and has impacted the valuation and performance of businesses (including online-retailers). In addition, contributors to this volume document that online price dispersion is ubiquitous worldwide, quantify the value of reputation in online auction markets, and explain optimal business behavior in "new economy" settings where network effects, product compatibility, and market dynamics are important.

The breadth of topics in this volume, coupled with the expertise and diverse backgrounds of its contributors, make Organizing the New Industrial Economy a unique and valuable addition to the growing literature in the area. This volume is part of Elsevier's Advances in Applied Microeconomics series - an annual research volume that disseminates frontier research well in advance of journals and other outlets. For additional information about Internet-related projects, or for more information about this series and planned future volumes, please visit the editor's site at http://www.nash-equilibrium.com http://www.nash-equilibrium.com

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Information Economics

Great Book

Classic book for IT value

MBA

Information Economics: Linking Business Performance to Information Technology
Marilyn M. Parker , and Robert J. Benson
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0134645952

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Information Economics.......2002-07-12

I was happy when I read Information Economic by Marilyn M. Parker. I will be happy if I can discuss Information Economics with Mr. Marilyn M. Parker. Althaugh, I get new knowledge form the book, but I want to learn Information Economic more. Because I was very intersted to the topics. Thank

Great Book.......2001-12-14

This book presents a concise approach to evaluating IT technology projects. Though the examples cited are definitely not "up to date", the concepts and approaches ring truer today than in the 1980s when this was published.

Classic book for IT value.......1998-11-25

After my MBA final work, I comment the Parker book is a classical source of knowledge that most students must access concerning IT value. However, other updated books with new perceptions are needed as well.

MBA.......1997-09-09

I'm using this book as a main part of my Master Business Administration final work. I'd like to know the authors or people to exchange some info concerning the subject

Information Strategy and Economics: Linking Information Systems Strategy to Business Performance

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Information Strategy and Economics: Linking Information Systems Strategy to Business Performance
Marilyn M. Parker , H. Edgar Trainor , and Robert J. Benson
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback

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