Ward's Business Directory 2004: State Rankings by Sales Within 4-Digit Sic

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This edition of Introduction to Early Childhood Education, 4E offers readers an updated, research-based understanding of early brain development, emergent curriculum with the Reggio Emilia approach, and early childhood programming in developmentally appropriate practice in addition to evaluating the essentials of early childhood education. Sound theoretical rationales for early childhood education are clearly presented and exemplified by actual experiences of teachers who work with children and provide a realistic framework for readers to build upon. Key terms highlighted in the text are defined in the margin for easy reference. Web site links that contain relevant information to chapter topics are also included. With all the resources to comprehend the scope of early childhood education, this is one book professionals in early childhood shouldn't be without.

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Excellent Intro Book.......2006-12-23

It's a little bit pricey, but you get excellent overview of the field in Essa's book.

She strives for economy over quantity, so you get reviews of Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Malsow, and the other names that influence early childhood in a concise but informative format.

It's a great companion after J.A. Brewer's, Feeny/Moracik's, and G.S. Morrison's introductory early childhood texts.

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Getting Down to Business: A Practical Action Guide to Building a Sustainable Business
The Coaching Group
Manufacturer: The Coaching Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

Planning & Forecasting | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
New Business Enterprises | Small Business & Entrepreneurship | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0971323216

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Starting a business is a great deal like building a structure; if there is a strong foundation to build on, the likelihood of the floors being able to withstand the storm is excellent. Using good materials, quality tools, skilled labor and experienced advisors is necessary to develop a strong plan and structure for the success of your project. This workbook is about building this foundation, by creating a plan and structure, while identifying the best tools required to get started in building and growing a business.

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Providing an introduction to modern data analysis techniques, these casebooks can be used as the primary or secondary text for elementary business statistics courses. Statistics has the reputation of being a boring, complicated, and confusing mix of mathematical formulas accompanied by computers used to do something. This casebook nad its companion volume Business Analysis Usuing Regression change that impression by showing how statistics gives insights and ansswers interesting business questions. The material is organized into classes of related case studies that develop a single key idea of statistics. The authors begin by discussing an application that motivates the key idea. Students are then shown how to analyze a data set. The emphasis of the analysis is to answer important business questions with statistics rather than talk about statistics. Basic Business Statistics introduces ideas often not emphasized in elementary texts such as issues of robustness, the use of transformations to simplify problems, sampling bias, confounding, kernel density, quality control, and scatterplot matrices. Business Analysis with Regression includes a discussion of scatterplot smoothing, prediction intervals for new observations, collinearity, logistic regression, nonlinear models, and multiple comparisons in regression. The text includes directions for data analyses with JMP and an appendix with Minitab commands. Professors Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, and Richard P. Waterman are members of the Department of Statistics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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GOOD FOCUS, POORLY PRESENTED.......2003-03-20

This book has an interesting premise of focusing statistics for business at the mid-level using the JMP software. The concepts addressed are the right ones, even the order is good.

However, on the downside, it is very difficult to read. The cases are not well explained. This book is used at Wharton's 1st year core course in statistics and the general agreement is that it is very hard to comprehend it. I recommend an editor to the authors.

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The US Department of Commerce estimates that nearly 10% of the US's $9 trillion GDP is exposed to weather risk. All over the world providers and end users are recognizing this fact and are turning their attention to ways of protecting against or taking advantage of changes in the weather. This book explores a market that is expected to expand rapidly and is one of the fastest areas of growth in the financial arena.

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The Establishment of English colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century opened new opportunities for trade. Conspicuous among the families who used these opportunities to gain mercantile and social importance was the Perry family of Devon, who created Perry and Lane, by the end of the century the most important London firm trading to the Chesapeake and other parts of North America.

Jacob Price traces the family from Devon to Spain, Ireland, Scotland, the Chesapeake, New England, and London. He describes their relationships with Chesapeake society, from the Byrds and Carters to humble planters. In London, the firm's patronage gave the family high standing among fellow businessmen, a position the founder's grandson utilized to become a member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London. In the end, the grandson's political success as an antiministerialist brought the family the enmity of the prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and contributed to the downfall of their firm.

The Perrys' story reveals the interrelatedness of social, commercial, and political history. It offers an important contribution to our understanding of the nature of the Chesapeake trade and the forces shaping the success and failure of English mercantile enterprise in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Historical Studies in International Corporate Business

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Historical Studies in International Corporate Business

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Economic History | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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General | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0521528690

Book Description

In this sequel to Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective (1986) the same editorial team continues the historical explanation of a vital but often misconstrued commercial phenomenon. The contributory essays, each written by an authority in the field and based on original historical research, raise further theoretical questions on the idea of the firm, on periodization, and on research and development, and examine the international financial operations of worldwide corporate business. The discussion is extended to include the production of mass consumer goods and the regions of China, Japan, and Latin America.

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Historical studies in international corporate business
Alice et al, eds. Teichova
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IY7ATW

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A detailed manual for diversity trainers including sections on trainer readiness, self-assessment, managing personal hot buttons, working effectively in a diverse training team, design theory and models, elements of a one-day workshop, lecturettes, exercises, hard copy for transparencies, a sample participant hand-outs, extensive references to resource materials (training tools, videos, exercises, and simulations), and a bibliography.

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This is a fascinating analysis of one of the most challenging marketing concepts of the decade--relationship marketing. In a five-year "fly on the wall" case study, Aino Halinen explores the relationship between a Helsinki advertising agency and its international client. Written with clarity and insight, this book yields a rich topical harvest for advertising and other professional service sectors and will be an excellent source book for business school academics and advanced marketing students interested in processual research.

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Excellent study on buyer-seller relationships.......1998-08-11

Aino Halinen's doctoral disseration from the Turku School of Economics, Finland, has now also been published by Routledge. The study is a pioneering piece of work on the development of buyer-seller relationships in professional services, mainly building on the theoretical work by the IMP group interaction/network studies. The study also interestingly reflects the recent "relational turn" in marketing research in general. The longitudinal case study described and analysed in the book also gives the reader a good example of how an interpretative research method can provide thorough theoretical insights and meaningful managerial implications. The book can be characterized as "obligatory" readings for any M.Sc. or doctoral student in marketing interested in interorganizational relationships and networks.

Relationship Marketing in Professional Services: A Study of Agency-Client Dynamics in the Advertising Sector

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Relationship Marketing in Professional Services: A Study of Agency-Client Dynamics in the Advertising Sector
Aino Halinen
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBR1FO

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"This is a much-needed guide for entrepreneurs to learn how to transform their businesses with technology. This book, quite literally, builds a bridge across the digital divide."
-William E. Kennard, former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Embrace new technology and empower your small business!

Black Enterprise Guide to Technology for Entrepreneurs presents step-by-step strategies for effectively and productively integrating new technologies into your business. An expert in information technology and Internet business, Bernadette Williams provides a framework for successfully promoting your products and services on the Internet, with heavy emphasis on developing an integrated strategy that combines both traditional and online methods. She reveals how other African American—owned companies have utilized new technologies to increase profits, reach a global network of customers, and streamline internal operations. You get the tools you need to:

Hire and retain information technology personnel and choose technology vendors
Target your market and project the right corporate image
Incorporate e-commerce into your Web strategy
Form powerful alliances and attract an array of customers
Prepare for the future by positioning your business for growth

Take the next step and incorporate all that the Web and new technology have to offer to small businesses with Black Enterprise Guide to Technology for Entrepreneurs.

Special Bonus

To keep you abreast of the latest business and money management information,

Black Enterprise is pleased to offer:

A free issue of Black Enterprise magazine
A free Wealth Building Kit

(See inside coupons for details.)

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Delivers On Its Title.......2003-03-02

I found this book particularly well done and interesting in two aspects. First, I was impressed that this was truly a book for the African American and for the "Black Enterprise" population internationally. So much research is incorporated, without making it hard to read. I felt I had a much better understanding of the needs as well as the contributions of that population after reading the book.

Secondly, this was a great practical book on technology and how to use it to further a business. I am not a tech person, but I had no trouble understanding any of it, and I learned a lot I didn't know about how to use technology in ways that will enhance the profit potential of my business. I particularly liked the chapter on Improving Your Company's Internet ROI which covers planning for your site step-by-step.

There are also over 20 pages of web sites of interest to African American entrepreneurs, and the numerous appendices including a tremendous glossary are worth the price of the book alone.

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Y2K lessons learned
A Guide to Better Information Technology Management

The Y2K worldwide computing crisis, arising from a largely preventable problem, appears to have been averted. This happened as a result of unprecedented cooperation, executive-level leadership, international mobilization, the exhaustive efforts of innumerable people, and the expenditure, in the United States alone, of over $100 billion.

Whether, of course, a crisis-management approach such as this is the desirable model for insuring the success of twenty-first-century information technology (IT) initiatives is questionable. A more effective method is the preventive approach this book addresses in detail.

In this timely guide, author Timothy Braithwaite argues that companies that struggled to resolve their Y2K problem did so because they had failed historically to adequately manage their use of information technology and the ways in which IT software and systems were built.

Y2K Lessons Learned chronicles IT industry conditions and those preventable IT management and system development deficiencies that created not only the Y2K problem and crisis but most other IT problems with which many organizations are all too familiar. Unless taken seriously and acted upon, these conditions and deficiencies will continue to plague future IT endeavors.

This accessible and highly informative book delivers practical problem-prevention guidance for the successful integration of IT into business and government systems. Specific IT management recommendations and systems development "best practices" are suggested that will substantially reduce the risk of a Y2K-like problem occurring in the future, such as security breaches. Many of these suggestions will require greater executive-level participation in IT decision-making. Multiple checklists and detailed management review guides are provided to facilitate this participation.

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This book is perfect for practicing elementary and middle school teachers who want to learn more about integrated curriculum. With the book's integrated lesson plan structure, teachers can see how their classes in an integrated setting actually occur. Tips on how to get integrated methods started and how to recognize and solve potential problems are also discussed.

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This book provides the reader with a detailed understanding of the diverse advantages offshore financial centers offer in today's global economy. The writer has focused this attention on the usage of offshore financial centers by companies and individuals with a European connection. It is divided into three sections. Section One focuses on the general elements comprising the offshore finance system: the various techniques, structures and advantages available, as well as the importance that offshore finance centers play in international business. Section Two is a more specific discussion of the representative offshore finance centers (and tax havens) and their attributes. A graphical overview serves to immediately introduce the reader to the latest trends and growth among the leading offshore centers. Section Three examines the effect of the European Community in international tax planning and how this might effect the use of offshore financial centers. This book is designed not only for tax practitioners, but for international financiers, investment bankers, international economists and students.

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21st Century Terrorism: Planning for the Unthinkable, A Comprehensive Federal Guidebook on Terrorism and Public Health Emergencies
U.S. Government
Manufacturer: Progressive Management
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: 142200614X

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This is a unique and important publication from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Terrorism and Other Public Health Emergencies, A Reference Guide. It is a comprehensive yet understandable guidebook which covers all major aspects of terrorism and the threats posed by biological, chemical, and radiation agents. This incredible document serves as a press kit of useful and authoritative information suitable for all audiences. Contents include: · Planning For The Unthinkable: Preparation And Response In Public Health BioSense, Investigating an Outbreak, Laboratory Testing, Chem-LRN, Strategic National Stockpile, Vaccination Strategies, BioShield, NDMS · Biological Agents Category A agents, Category B agents, toxins, anthrax, botulinum toxin, plague, smallpox, tularemia, viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs), brucellosis, epsilon toxin, food safety threats, glanders, melioidosis, psittacosis, Q fever, ricin toxin, staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), typhus fever (epidemic or louse-borne typhus), viral encephalitis, water safety threats · Chemical Agents blister (mustards), blood (cyanides), choking (chlorine), nerve (sarin, VX agents) · Radiation Emergencies nuclear power plant attack, radiological dispersal device (RDD), improvised nuclear device (IND), nuclear weapon, radiation-emitting device (RED). Shelter in Place Supply List. · Terrorism And The Food Supply Pulsenet, Tampering and Recall · Environmental Safety And Testing Water Supply, BioWatch · The Role Of The Federal Government · Self-Care Physical Care, Standards of Safety, Personal Protective Equipment, Protecting Important Documents · Range Of Public Reactions · Risk Communications During A Terrorist Attack Or Other Public Health Emergency · History Of Biological, Chemical, And Radiation Emergencies · Acronyms · Selected Web Sites · Epidemiology Glossary · Descriptions of Selected Sections of Acts Related to Public Health Emergencies · Family Disaster PlanningFive Steps to Safety · Disaster Supplies Kit · Personal Workplace Disaster Supplies Kit · Self-Monitoring Checklist · Reducing Stress and Renewing Energy · Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters The introduction states: This guide is... intended to provide information about how the public health system is preparing for and will respond to previously unthinkable events, such as September 11. More specifically, the guides intent is to offer the best possible information about the worst-case scenarios. The efforts of public health agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to prepare for what could happen in the future are largely invisible until there is an emerging threat, such as the recent SARS outbreak, or a dramatic event, such as the anthrax attacks of 2001. Through this effort, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to provide the best available and most essential up-to-date health-related facts and background information that will be needed in the event of a terrorist attack or public health emergency. The goal of this guide... is to serve as a resource at the time of an event and to provide guidance about what may be some of the most important stories ever written... The intention is to meet the need for credible source material on terrorism and other very real public health threats. The reports and images that would shape peoples view of a possible terror attack or other health crisis would have an extraordinary impact not only on the readers, listeners, and viewers but also the writers of those stories. This tool will be most useful in the early phase of a terrorism event or major public health emergency but also has relevance for other public health events, such as disease outbreaks.

Comprehensive Planning for the 21st Century: General Theory and Principles

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Comprehensive Planning for the 21st Century: General Theory and Principles
Melville C. Branch
Manufacturer: Praeger Paperback
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0275961818

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Planning by civil governments, businesses, and the military services has been considered separately in both theory and practice. Those concerned with each of these applications have had little contact with those in the others, despite the common concerns and characteristics of their respective practices. A leading figure in the research and education in planning, Branch draws upon his experience in civil, corporate, and military planning to provide a comprehensive guide to the key aspects of planning. This text is invaluable to those engaged in governmental and business planning and to students working toward careers in urban and regional planning, public administration, business management, and other fields concerned with planning.

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Comprehensive Planning for the 21st Century: General Theory and Principles
Melville C. Branch
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OROGYK

Comprehensive program planning for the integration of 21st century learning center after-school programs with regular day programs and community partners (SuDoc ED 1.310/2:439507)

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Comprehensive program planning for the integration of 21st century learning center after-school programs with regular day programs and community partners (SuDoc ED 1.310/2:439507)
Judy Caplan
Manufacturer: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory [Washington, D.C.] U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B000114Q44

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The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, how artisans and labourers perceived and lived their work are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. Hitherto, historians have been too concerned with the emerging features of the modern industrial capitalist order to seek to understand how another and different economy and community worked in its own terms. The essays in this book are intended to begin to remedy this neglect.

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Great for First Timers

What fun!

Not the best reference you can buy

Meant for new or occasional trainers only

Blank paper would be worth more

101 Stupid Things Trainers Do To Sabotage Success
Nancy B. Stern , and Maggi Payment
Manufacturer: Richard Chang Assoc Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Training | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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The First-Time Trainer: A Step-By-Step Quick Guide for Managers, Supervisors, and New Training Professionals

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The Trainer's Tool Kit

ASIN: 1883553938

Book Description

Have you ever noticed that some trainers put a great deal of time and effort into their training programs, only to end up unintentionally sabotaging their success with one little slip-up? As experienced trainers, presenters, and speakers know, an audience can be very unforgiving. Great program delivery takes practice as well as learning how to cover all your bases well. This creative and entertaining book captures the experience of dozens of professionals and shows you how to avoid common mistakes and turn potential bombshells into strategies for success.

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Great for First Timers.......2003-09-21

Never having been in front of an audience before, I found this book to be very helpful. It is loaded with practical tips for beginning trainers. It's easy to read, too.

What fun!.......2003-05-23

I thoroughly enjoyed this little book. It's easy to read and reminds us what not to do. Very good for people just starting out in the field.

Not the best reference you can buy.......2002-02-10

Good presentation, interesting ideas, but some of these `things' are downright ridiculous - probably put there to complete the count for the title. For example, 'forgetting your glasses' and `too tight shoes' are aptly put under a special section for `Other Stupid Stuff' and the book would probably have been better off without that section altogether.

Having said that, however, some of the problems and the solutions are quite valid and useful especially for the beginning trainer. The book would have a lot better if the problems were chosen based on quality rather than quantity and the solutions explored in greater depth.

The Book deals with 7 categories of problems:
1) Places you go.
2) How you Look and Act.
3) Things you Say or Hear.
4) Methods & Materials you Use.
5) Media and Equipment you depend on.
6) Its about Time
7) Other Stupid Stuff.

Meant for new or occasional trainers only.......2001-10-12

I was a little disappointed with this book. While it contains a few helpful reminders of what you should and shouldn't do, anyone who is a professional trainer (or a business professional with public speaking experience in general) won't find much new here.
I can't say there isn't anything of value, becuase it does contain some good pointers on improving your visual aids, how not to overdo class interaction, etc.
A good "reminder" checklist for folks just getting into public speaking & training.

Blank paper would be worth more.......2001-07-10

This is THE WORST book I have ever bought. Wonder if the two 5-star reviewers know the writers? One of them say the book is easy to comprehend - yes - there is nothing to comprehend. And easy to apply - yes - theres nothing to apply either. A few stupid things:

#17 Being clumsy: Basicly their adwise is - Don't be ;-)

#100 Forgetting Your Glasses: One of their adwises - Have corrective eye surgery...

Well they had to make it to 101 advices! My advice #1 on writing books - don't let form be more important than information.

The book is stupid, useless, and not funny - AT ALL!!!

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Professional Selling: A Relationship Approach
David L. Kurtz , H. Robert Dodge , Sam D. Fullerton , and Joseph L. Braden
Manufacturer: Dame Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0873934318

Book Description

This new edition continues in the strengths of previous editions. The text explains what it is like to function as a professional salesperson in different types of selling situations. The core text provides a logical presentation of the "nuts and bolts" of the sales process. Students will discover an easy-to-read and an example-oriented writing style.

Professional Selling: A Relationship Approach

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This is Sales education at its finest!

Professional Selling: A Relationship Approach
Maurice G. Clabaugh , and Jessie L. Forbes
Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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This is Sales education at its finest!.......2003-03-17

This text book deals with what it takes to sell in the real world, not the classroom. The examples provide the preparation that young adults need to be successful after graduation.

I highly recommend this to any school or institution.

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Our Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward. The authors argue that the length of the working day or week historically has been the central issue raised by the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of organization. Beginning with a picture of working hours in colonial America and the early republic, Roediger and Foner then analyze the ideology of the movement for a ten-hour workday in the early nineteenth century. They demonstrate that the ten-hour issue was a key to the dynamism of the Jacksonian labor movement as well as to the unity of male artisans and female factory workers in the 1840s. The authors proceed to examine the subsequent demands for an eight-hour day, which helped to produce the mass labor struggles of the late nineteenth century and established the American Federation of Labor as the dominant force in American trade unionism. Chapters on labor movement defeats following World War I, on the depression years, and on the lack of progress over the last half-century complete the study. Our Own Time will be an ideal supplemental text for courses in U.S. labor and economic history.

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Many organizations have begun to have a more focused approach to disaster planning. But in today's perilous climate which not only includes terrorist attacks, but also the usual never-ending onslaught of hackers, crackers, computer viruses, 'tele-thieves,

This book explores strategies and solutions for disaster planning, mitigation, response and recovery for data and telecom systems and networks. It covers technologies that help keep connections up with the outside world, as well as how to use communications itself to prevent employees from physically getting in harm's way, such as using audio and video conferencing to reduce the need for travel.

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