Transport and Environment: In Search of Sustainable Solutions (Transport Economics, Management and Policy Series)

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The impact of transport on the environment is a major issue of worldwide concern. This important new book presents state-of-the-art contributions on spatial and technological aspects of transport in relation to environmental degradation, together with analysis of sustainable transport policy.

The first part of the book focuses on policy analysis. A sustainable transport strategy should include all elements of the transport sector, transcend the usual time and space constraints and address economic and equity concerns, in addition to the environmental targets it is often designed to meet. The second part concerns technological issues. The authors do not simply describe technological possibilities, but are instead concerned with broader issues such as scenario development and implementation strategies. The third part concerns spatial aspects, including an increasing spatial level in discussing sustainable transport issues, from the local and urban level to global aspects of sustainable transport. Transport and Environment thus offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on the multifaceted field of sustainable transport.

The distinguished array of contributors and broad scope of the work will ensure this book is essential reading for scholars of transport and environmental economics, policymakers and those involved in urban and transport planning.

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Manager, published by Canadian Institute of Management on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1530 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: Talk is not cheap: fuelling knowledge creation and innovation through conversation.
Author: Cheryl Zurawski
Publication: Canadian Manager (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Canadian Institute of Management
Volume: 29 Issue: 2 Page: 20(3)

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This volume presents further material generated by the World Bank/ISNAR/Australian government biotechnology study. It covers the present status and future prospects for the application of biotechnology to solve agricultural and environmental problems in a number of countries including, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Thailand and Mexico.

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Small Business Management: An Entrepreneur's Guidebook, 4e, takes a practical, down-to-earth approach to planning, organizing, and managing a small business. While based on current research, theory, and practice, the material is presented from a “how-to” perspective, with many practical examples and applications from the business world. This text also explores arguments both for and against owning a small business. All three authors, Megginson, Byrd and Megginson, have had meaningful experience in the “real world” as an owner, manager or employee of one or more small businesses.inesses.

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no cd.......2005-10-03

I love this book. the service was great delivery was on time but no cd caame with the book this should have been stated in the description that no cd would be included. that was a big disappointment.

What a rip off.......2005-05-22

This book is not only extrememly overpriced, but it is also poorly written, full of typos, and the graphs, charts, pictures etc. aren't very useful or relevant. Unfortunately, it was a required textbook for a college course I took a couple of semesters ago. I strongly advised the instructor to find a different text that was better written and lower priced.

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Tensions of Economic Development in South-east Asia

Manufacturer: Allied
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HNMXZ0

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Tensions of Economic Development in South-east Asia.:

Manufacturer: A Greenwood Press Reprint
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0837173213

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"Information age" marketing power tools let you sell your products and services 24 hours a day on the World Wide Web-faster, at lower cost, and with greater profits. Selling on the Web Made E-Z is crammed full of invaluable, time-sensitve information, including all the latest tips, tricks, and tactics developed by the world's most successful e-commerce strategists. Here's everything you wanted to know about profitable e-commerce marketing but didn't know whom to ask.

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Should not be titled "selling on the web".......2003-02-16

Why is the name of this book "Selling on the Web?"

75% of the book is devoted to non web selling-placing ads in newspapers for catalogs and other non-web selling instruments. Finally, late in the second half of the book, the author says, "oops, this is about selling on the web." and finally puts web related selling info in.
There is nothing about using things like targeted marketing through purchasing keywords at services like ... Amazon.com stores. Anyone who is not experienced with selling on the web would FAIL AT IT--MISERABLY!!
If it was possible to give this book no stars I would!!

How to do everything but sell on the web........2002-05-17

Selling on the web (E-Commerce) has one very big problem; selling on the web.
The author starts the book out with traditional non-online selling information that may be beneficial for people trying to reach a smaller group of people, such as go to the newspapers in your area, how to write headlines for ads and copyrighting.
It isn't until chapter 2 that the author even mentions the web and then not until the fourth section of the chater. Then when he does, he starts out by insinuating that the reader has the mentality of a newborn by explaining what the difference is between the internet and the web and what email is. Unless you have been living on Pluto the last ten years, you should know this. Each subsequent chapter only has one or two sections that touch on the internet, almost as if this is an afterthought. He touches on advertising on newsgroups and bulletin boards. He expains what search engines and directories are but doesn't explain how to get the optimum use out of them.

The only good section of the book is the resource listings that the author gives you at the end.
The publisher E-Z Guides also has a book available called Internet Marketing Made EZ. Does it have everything that should have been in this book or is it about plumbing?

I would recommend Starting an ebay business for dummies for good information on web selling.

Enhance Web-Selling Opportunities And Create New Ones!.......2001-10-02

Selling on the Web by Paul Galloway reads like a short course primer on Web development, Website promotion, copywriting, advertising, marketing, and selling. Galloway provides concise instruction on these topics as they directly relate to successful online selling.

Readers will learn about important Website design considerations that will help them get sales, how to write content specifically for the Web, how to market online with Websites, e-mail, newsgroups, chat rooms, search engines, and how to market offline by using traditional broadcast, printed, and direct mail campaigns.

Galloway illustrates throughout most of the book the power of the written word - words used in copywriting to get sales. He illustrates how to legitimately play upon the emotions of people - fear, greed, guilt, pride, and love to get sales. He will also help his readers to write to gain their prospect's attention, to capture their interest, to arousing their desires, and to move them to take action.

Paul Galloway offers beginners an excellent opportunity to go online and to make the best of it. This concise guide to Web selling is packed with excellent information and instruction. The book is written in an extremely easy-to-read style anyone should appreciate - short paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, tips and notes, and a wealth of resources that are easily accessible and can be put to immediate use to generate an income. Convenient listings of books, services, and Websites are provided.

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Paperback: 330 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 8.98 x 6.08 Publisher: Made E-Z Products; (November 1, 2001) ISBN: 1563825104 Utilize little-known Internet tools to save you time and money! Learn the secrets of master Web developers, and expertly develop and manage your own Web site.

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E-Commerce Made E-Z (Made E-Z Guides)
Paul Galloway
Manufacturer: Made E-Z Products
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ASIN: 1563824434

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Himalayan Hermitess is a vivid account of the life and times of a Buddhist nun living on the borderlands of Tibetan culture. Orgyan Chokyi (1675-1729) spent her life in Dolpo, the highest inhabited region of the Nepal Himalayas. Illiterate and expressly forbidden by her master to write her own life story, Orgyan Chokyi received divine inspiration, defied tradition, and composed one of the most engaging autobiographies of the Tibetan literary tradition. The Life of Orgyan Chokyi is the oldest known autobiography authored by a Tibetan woman, and thus holds a critical place in both Tibetan and Buddhist literature. In it she tells of the sufferings of her youth, the struggle to escape menial labor and become a hermitess, her dreams and visionary experiences, her relationships with other nuns, the painstaking work of contemplative practice, and her hard-won social autonomy and high-mountain solitude. In process it develops a compelling vision of the relation between gender, the body, and suffering from a female Buddhist practitioner's perspective. Part One of Himalayan Hermitess presents a religious history of Orgyan Chokyi's Himalayan world, the Life of Orgyan Chokyi as a work of literature, its portrayal of sorrow and joy, its perspectives on suffering and gender, as well as the diverse religious practices found throughout the work. Part Two offers a full translation of the Life of Orgyan Chokyi. Based almost entirely upon Tibetan documents never before translated, Himalayan Hermitess is an accessible introduction to Buddhism in the premodern Himalayas.

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Life of a Buddhist nun.......2007-03-08

The beginning of this book is a bit academic, but the story of her life is a very touching and moving story. It is a valuable insight into the life of a very advanced practitioner in the late 1600s and is well worth reading.

Warning - scholarly.......2006-12-03

I am sorry to have to write what may be a slightly negative review. However, as there were no reviews when I looked at this book here on Amazon, I bought it rather blindly. So I will now let you know what I think of it.

Firstly I was getting ready for a lovely life story. There are excellant life stories written, such as the life of Milarepa, and the life of Marpa. However, this book is quite different. For a start, even though it is 220 pages long, the actual Life story only takes 51 pages (a fair amount of which is empty space, so actually a good deal fewer true pages than that).

Coming to the Life story then, we encounter quite a strange writing style. Here is an example of a sentance: "Some bad person took [them] away, and [I] wept a great deal."
This makes me thing, who is Mr Schaeffer writting for? If it were a paper he was writing as a translation assignment for a university course, I could understand. But for the public? It is cryptic scholar writing, and there is surely no need for this. It serves no benefit to write in that way.

Then there are occasions when the text makes no sense. Here is an example:
"Dirt got in my mouth and my hair, and then a rock went down my mouth." What does that mean? And Mr Schaeffer puts a note. If you look up the note in the back, it says "translation tentative". There are 8 such examples.

So I thought, how is it possible that he studied this text (i.e. studied under a master) and could not get to grips with the meaning? So I turned to the Acknowledgments. There he seems to imply that he did not study this text with anyone, from what I can understand. In fact, the only Tibetan person he mentions at all in the acknowledgments is the fellow who painted the picture for the book cover.

It may also be worthy to note the dedication. It is very nice. Mr Schaeffer dedicates the book to his mother, father, wife and daughter. That's very nice. However let's take another example. Let's take "Repeating the Words of the Buddha", and book by Tulku Urgen Rinpoche. The dedication for that book reads "This book is dedicated to the Buddhadharma and all sentient beings. It is said that when the teachings of the Buddha flourish, there will be happiness for all beings in this life, in the bardo, and in following lives."

The point seems to me to be, the former book (Himalayan Hermitess) seems to me to be a book about Buddhism, by a scholar perhaps, for students perhaps, or maybe anthropologists? The latter (Repeating the Words of the Buddha) seems to be a Buddhist book, by a Buddhist, for Buddhists.

If you lie in the latter category, I highly recommend the latter book, or any by Tulku Urgen, or Chogyam Trungpa, or if you want to read something systematic, please see Reginal Ray's two volume Indestructible Truth and Sectrets of the Vajra World.

If this upsets anyone I do appologise. I do wish you find what will help you.

Himalayan Hermitess: The Life Of A Tibetan Buddhist Nun

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Himalayan Hermitess: The Life Of A Tibetan Buddhist Nun
Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKQ9FG

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Today's global economy is genuinely borderless. Information, capital, and innovation flow all over the world at top speed, enabled by technology and fueled by consumers' desires for access to the best and least expensive products. This instant migration of ideas and resources has rendered assumptions about international competition obsolete. In its wake, policymakers and managers have had to accept the legitimacy of many forms of capitalism, rework the mechanics of trade and trade policy, and redefine the objectives and responsibilites of top-level management.

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Globalization is one of today's most powerful and pervasive ideas – for some a welcome dream, for others a nightmare. The term is used in the popular press as a sort of shorthand for the notion that all parts of the world are becoming more alike. It is also used as a marketing concept to sell goods, commodities and services. "Going global" has become the mantra for a whole range of companies, business gurus and institutions. John Rennie Short disagrees with this interpretation, arguing that the world today actually thrives on local differences and that a global polity tends to reinforce – not repress – the power of individual nation-states. He insists that globalization is not so much replacing difference with sameness as providing opportunities for new interactions between spaces and locations, new connections between the global and the local, new social landscapes and more diversity rather than less.

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some important data is missed in this book!.......2004-05-15

I have read the direction of trade statistics yearbook 2003 for my dissertation and I've a problem of incomplete data in this book. In page 452, Singapore 576, there is no Indonesia Exports and Imports data. I'm hurry to finish my research, so could you please help me to find this data? Thank you very much

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Input-Output Analysis contains new contributions to inter-industry economics by a set of internationally respected authors. The first part sketches the current state-of-the-art and explores the frontiers for traditional topics in input-output analysis such as inter-industry linkages, feedback effects, and the composition of economic changes. The second part crosses the borders of traditional input-output analysis, covering issues that change the visualization of economic structures, the application of generalized cost functions, and the adoption of alternative modeling frameworks.

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Through in-depth "how-to" case studies, over 100 "take-away" exhibits, and research from the world's foremost organizations, this best practice handbook provides practical, easy-to-apply training, models, tools, research and other essential elements for designing, delivering, evaluating and learning successful KM/OL programs. Included in the handbook are: Microsoft, AT&T, Hewlett Packard, Shell Oil Company, Ernst & Young, the World Bank, Buckman Labs, Norske Skog Flooring and more! The "how-to" case studies define KM/OL lexicon, evaluate return on investment, explain how to create a business case for KM/OL, and detail all stages of the KM/OL process.

What You'll Find Inside:

"How-to" Case Studies: Learn how world-class organizations made effective use of knowledge and reinforced learning to create a lasting change in corporate culture and organizational performance including Buckman Labs' 20-year KM/OL program, Microsoft's taxonomy management system, and Hewlett Packard's integrated KM/OL system.

Models: Benchmark against specific KM/OL models, including: Microsoft's Knowledge Management Architecture; AT&T's Information Knowledge Enterprise; Hewlett Packard's learning community; and the World Bank's Pillars of Knowledge Sharing.

Tools: Learn how to implement cutting-edge KM/OL tools, including: Massachusetts General Hospital's causal-loop diagrams; Microsoft's stakeholder survey; Ernst & Young's balanced scorecard for performance evaluation; and the World Bank's thematic self-assessment and KM action tool.

Training: Choose among best practice training interventions, including Norske Skog Flooring's experiential learning; InFocus' Fusion Workshops; Ernst & Young's Center for Business Knowledge; Shell Oil's communities of practice.

Research: Apply trends and findings from this book to build a businesscase within your organization. Learn about: top critical success factors for designing and delivering KM/OL initiatives; most popular evaluation methods; technologies needed; budgets required; and more!

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Arthropods are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet, and the tropical rainforests represent the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. This volume provides an overview of data collected during recent studies in Australia, Africa, Asia, and South America. The contributions focus on the distribution of arthropods and their use of resources in the rainforest canopies, providing a basis for comparison between the forest ecosystems of the main biogeographical regions. The temporal dynamics of arthropod communities, habitats and food selection are examined within and among tropical tree crowns, as are the effects of forest disturbance.

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The wide variety of reference sources include not only books and journals, but also annual reports, directories, statistics, unpublished documents, computerized data bases, authors, and organizations active in the field. Special attention is paid to sources providing information on the impact of Middle-Eastern oil-generated investment on the major economies of the Western world.

The Middle East : Its Oil, Economies, and Investment Policies: A Guide to Sources of Financial Information

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The Middle East : Its Oil, Economies, and Investment Policies: A Guide to Sources of Financial Information
David Nicholas
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTLBV4

Middle East: Its Oil, Economies and Investment Policies - Guide to Sources of Financial Information

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Middle East: Its Oil, Economies and Investment Policies - Guide to Sources of Financial Information

Manufacturer: Mansell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0720109078

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The use of e-mail, Web conferencing and streaming media in corporate sales and marketing has helped thousands of businesses significantly increase sales at considerably lower customer acquisition costs in the past year. This report analyzes the key vendors and service providers for e-mail, Web conferencing and streaming media communications. It also examines how enterprises use these communications tools in their sales and marketing efforts and outlines several examples and case studies. Actual case study results presented in this report include a 77 percent reduction in sales lead generation costs by an enterprise software company; 10 to 15 percent increases in conversion rates by an online retailer and a 50 percent reduction in sales cycle times by an equipment financing company. The markets for each of the three technologies are expanding significantly. Enterprises implementing marketing solutions correctly are achieving impressive results in generating new sales leads and converting them into customers. Exhibit 1 shows the primary objectives pursued through e-mail marketing, Web conferencing and streaming media solutions.

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How many of today's leading corporations are successfully winning back old customers and attracting new ones

The new purchasing patterns of disenchanted customers and the demise of brand loyalty have compelled many endangered corporate giants to radically alter their thinking about product design and marketing. This book describes how leading companies such as IBM, Nestle, Dupont, AT&T, and Panasonic have stopped creating products for "buyers" and have started considering the long-term needs of users.

* Packed with real-world cases which demonstrate crucial ideas, tools, and techniques in action at leading firms

SANDRA VANDERMERWE (London, England) holds a chair in Management at the Management School Imperial College, London. Her latest book is Tin Soldiers to Russian Dolls.

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Has Globalization Gone far Enough: The Costs of Fragmented Markets
Scott Bradford , and Robert Z. Lawrence
Manufacturer: Peterson Institute
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How important are the remaining barriers to integration in international goods markets and how would eliminating them affect global and individual countries' welfare? Major current initiatives, such as multilateral trade liberalization in the Doha Round and the efforts to complete the European Common Market, imply that additional integration is highly desirable, while the widespread use of the term "globalization" to describe our era suggests that it is already almost complete.

Has Globalization Gone Far Enough: The Cost of Fragmented Markets studies these questions using the most comprehensive price data available. The authors, Scott C. Bradford and Robert Z. Lawrence find that there is considerable international market fragmentation among industrial countries—this, firms charging different prices for similar productions in different national markets—even among countries with low tariff barriers.

Bradford and Lawrence estimate that integration among the eight countries in their sample—Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the Untied States—would raise global GDP by more than $500 billion. This would increase the size of the world economy by over 2 percent. Remarkably, almost half the global gain in these eight countries could be reaped if Japan alone eliminated its international fragmentation.

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