Job Searching Fast and Easy or Conse Ency of Mngt

Job Searching Fast and Easy

Author: J Michael Farr

Authored by one of the top career and job search authors in the country, this concise book covers all major career planning and job search topics in one book. Designed for a career development course or workshop, Job Searching Fast and Easy helps the reader define goals, identify skills, and plan for a career. It presents proven job search methods and techniques and provides advice and information on resume preparation and cover letter writing. Topics of interest include answering problem interview questions, identifying and emphasizing skills in an interview, finding jobs in the hidden job market, and tips for long-term career success. Instructional support materials to accompany the text include an Instructor's Guide complete with tips for course preparation, course structure, subject matter presentation, and additional activities.

Table of Contents:

A Brief Introduction to Using This Book. Step
1: Identify Your Key Skills-and Develop a Powerful New Skills Language to Describe Yourself Step
2: Set a Specific Job Objective before you go Looking Step
3: Use the Most Effective Methods to Get A Better Job In Less Time Step
4: Write a Simple Resume Now and a Better One Later Step
5: Redefine What Counts as an Interview, Then Organize Your Time to get Two a Day Step
6: Dramatically Improve Your Interviewing Skills Step
7: Follow Up on all Job Leads
Appendix A: The Essential Job Search Data Worksheet
Appendix B: Sample Job Description from the Occupational Handbook Index

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Conse Ency of Mngt

Author: Hoel Cooper

For the student of business and management, the Concise Encyclopaedia will be an essential vade mecum for their studies; for the specialist, it offers insights from leading researchers; for the working manager it will be a one stop guide to today's management theory.

Police Officer Stress or Intro to Business

Police Officer Stress: Sources and Solutions

Author: Dennis Stevens

It can be said that those who analyze the present can easily make mistakes, but those who ignore the past can be swallowed so deep by stressful lives that even their loved ones abandon them.

 

This is an analysis of police officer stress, where it comes from and what to do about it. Two assumptions drive this work: current events in American history are changing police work forever and that officer stress is actually a symptom of an antiquated police organization that must be retooled to meet these challenges. This work explains both the officer’s and the organization’s contribution toward stress and makes practical recommendations towards resolution. 

 

“This text is really a major step forward in a very important field”

 

-         Nicholas Irons

County College of Morris, NJ

 

“This text may very well be the first ‘truly’ objective examination of the current keystones of policing”

 

-         Roger Pennel

Central Missouri State University

Interesting book: Principles of Food Beverage and Labor Cost Controls or The Fragrance of Basil

Intro to Business

Author: Steven A A Eggland

Intro to Business 5E allows students to discover how a business works and how it impacts lives on a daily basis. With extended coverage on marketing, management, the Internet, as well as updated content, computer applications, and new web site, Intro to Business 5e provides everything needed to prepare for success in future careers!

Table of Contents:

Unit 1 Our Economic Environment Unit 2 Business Operations Unit 3 Business and Government in Our Global Economy Unit 4 Small-Business Management Unit 5 Technology for Business Decisions Unit 6 Careers in Our Global Economy Unit 7 Consumers in the Economy Unit 8 Financial Institutions and Banking Services Unit 9 Credit in Our Economy Unit 10 Savings and Investment Strategies Unit 11 Risk Management Unit 12 Personal Financial Management

Geodemographics GIS and Neighbourhood Targeting or Nothing But the Truth

Geodemographics, GIS and Neighbourhood Targeting

Author: Peter Sleight

Geodemographic classification is ‘big business’ in the marketing and service sector industries, and in public policy there has also been a resurgence of interest in neighbourhood initiatives and targeting. As an increasing number of professionals realise the potential of geographic analysis for their business or organisation, there exists a timely gap in the market for a focussed book on geodemographics and GIS.

Geodemographics: neighbourhood targeting and GIS provides both an introduction to and overview of the methods, theory and classification techniques that provide the foundation of neighbourhood analysis and commercial geodemographic products. Particular focus is given to the presentation and use of neighbourhood classification in GIS.

• Authored by leading marketing professionals and a prominent academic, this book presents methods, theory and classification techniques in a reader-friendly manner

• Supported by private and public sector case studies and vignettes

• The applied ‘how to’ sections will specifically appeal to the intended audience at work in business and service planning

• Includes information on the recent UK and US Census products and resulting neighbourhood classifications

Table of Contents:

1	Introducing geodemographics	1
2	London to Chicago and back again! : the origins of geodemographics	29
3	The evolution of geodemographics and the market today	53
4	Geodemographics and GIS	77
5	Geodemographic information systems and analysis	109
6	How geodemographic classifications are built	147
7	Geodemographics around the world	185
8	'But does it work?' : geodemographics in the dock	207
9	New data, new approaches : from geodemographics to geolifestyles	243
10	Postscript : there are three Is in geodemographics!	273

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Nothing But the Truth: Telling True and Powerful Stories from Market Research Data

Author: D V L Smith

The Art and Science of Interpreting Market Research Evidence offers a complete account of the way today's researchers interpret evidence and apply it to decision making. David Smith and Jonathan Fletcher show how to assess your current deciphering processes, and present an innovative framework integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches for analysing complex data-sets. With its holistic approach to interpretation and its 10-step process for making it work in practice, this book will equip you with a deep understanding of data analysis and ultimately improve your judgment to produce better business decisions.

"This is modern commercial research, where the mind of the researcher is finally acknowledged as admissible data. Prior knowledge, pragmatism, experience are all robust grist to the 'holistic' research mill. A must-read for anyone getting to grips with 21st century market research." Virginia Valentine, Semiotic Solutions

Estimating how the Macroeconomy Works or The Making of Urban Europe 1000 1994

Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works

Author: Ray Fair

Macroeconomics tries to describe and explain the economywide movement of prices, output, and unemployment. The field has been sharply divided among various schools, including Keynesian, monetarist, new classical, and others. It has also been split between theorists and empiricists. Ray Fair is a resolute empiricist, developing and refining methods for testing theories and models. The field cannot advance without the discipline of testing how well the models approximate the data. Using a multicountry econometric model, he examines several important questions, including what causes inflation, how monetary authorities behave and what are their stabilization limits, how large is the wealth effect on aggregate consumption, whether European monetary policy has been too restrictive, and how large are the stabilization costs to Europe of adopting the euro. He finds, among other things, little evidence for the rational expectations hypothesis and for the so-called non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) hypothesis. He also shows that the U.S. economy in the last half of the 1990s was not a "new age" economy.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	The MC model	16
3	Interest rate effects	61
4	Testing the NAIRU model	67
5	U.S. wealth effects	80
6	Testing for a new economy in the 1990s	85
7	A "modern" view of macroeconomics	101
8	Estimated European inflation costs	108
9	Stochastic simulation and bootstrapping	114
10	Certainty equivalence	130
11	Evaluating policy rules	134
12	EMU stabilization costs	147
13	RE models	154
14	Model comparisons	163
15	Conclusion	173
App. A	The US model	179
App. B	The ROW model	239

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The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994

Author: Paul M Hohenberg

Europe became a land of cities during the last millennium. The story told in this book begins with North Sea and Mediterranean traders sailing away from Dorestad and Amalfi, and with warrior kings building castles to fortify their conquests. It tells of the dynamism of textile towns in Flanders and Ireland. While London and Hamburg flourished by reaching out to the world and once vibrant Spanish cities slid into somnlence, a Russian urban network slowly grew to rival that of the West. Later as the tide of industrialization swept over Europe, the most intense urban striving and then settled back into the merchant cities and baroque capitals of an earlier era.

By tracing the large-scale precesses of social, economic, and political change within cities, as well as the evolving relationships between town and country and between city and city, the authors present an original synthsis of European urbanization within a global context. They divide their study into three time periods, making the early modern era much more than a mere transition from preindustrial to industrial economies. Through both general analyzes and incisive case studies, Hohenberg and Lees show how cities originated and what conditioned their early development and later growth. How did urban activity respond to demographic and techological changes? Did the social consequences of urban life begin degradation or inspire integration and cultural renewal? New analytical tools suggested by a systems view of urban relations yield a vivid dual picture of cities both as elements in a regional and national heirarchy of central places and also as junctions in a transnational network for the exchange of goods,information, and influence.

A lucid text is supplemented by numerous maps, illustrations, figures, and tables, and by substantial bibliography. Both a general and a scholarly audience will find this book engrossing reading.

Law Office Skills or Interpreting the National Electrical Code

Law Office Skills

Author: Linda L Edwards

This book is a survival kit for anyone new to the legal arena. It teaches students what it means to dress, act, and behave professionally. How to use the phone, voice mail, and e-mail effectively and professionally. It explains how to efficiently manage their time. Demonstrates common billing practices and the mechanics of timekeeping, the mechanics of opening and organizing files, the mechanics of organizing documents, and the mechanics of docket control systems. Teaches how to cope with the realities of office politics and how to work effectively with "challenging" clients, attorneys, and staff. Practicality is the cornerstone of this text. Students who use this text should be better prepared to work as paralegals and generally more useful to employers than those who do not.

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Interpreting the National Electrical Code: Based on the 2005 National Electric Code

Author: Truman Surbrook

Extraordinarily comprehensive, this book is completely updated to the 2005 National Electrical Code® and continues to offer valuable insight into the Code® articles. Explanations are provided for each article in detail, with thorough discussions and practical examples that clearly illustrate how the Code® and its most recent changes are applied. Discussions are logically organized into coherent subject groupings, allowing readers to navigate easily through 2005 NEC® requirements as well as changes since the last edition. Through this approach, the book also integrates essential information into the 7th Edition that is not directly addressed in the NEC but is extremely useful to electricians.

Table of Contents:

Unit 1	General wiring and fundamentals	1
Unit 2	Wire, raceway, and box sizing	51
Unit 3	Outlets, lighting, appliances, and heating	97
Unit 4	Services and feeder calculations	135
Unit 5	Grounding and bonding	167
Unit 6	Overcurrent protection	205
Unit 7	Motor-circuit wiring	241
Unit 8	Transformers	279
Unit 9	Hazardous location wiring	315
Unit 10	Health care facilities	343
Unit 11	Emergency and alternate power systems	363
Unit 12	Industrial electrical applications	403
Unit 13	Commercial wiring applications	433
Unit 14	Special applications wiring	461
Unit 15	Review	487

Business in Asia Pacific or Strategic Marketing

Business in Asia-Pacific: Text and Cases

Author: Sonia El Kahal

This book synthesizes an account of the Asia Pacific business environment with an analysis of management styles and decision-making techniques. The writing style is clear and easy to read throughout, and the author employs a variety of teaching and learning aids including case material, learning objectives, and chapter exercises which will help the student to take a more active approach to studying this popular topic on business and management courses.

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Strategic Marketing: Creating Competitive Advantage

Author: Douglas West

Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate marketing students, Strategic Marketing examines the key aspects of traditional marketing strategy topics and presents an assessment and synthesis of recent thinking.

Hispanics and the Future of America or Slavery and the British Empire

Hispanics and the Future of America

Author: Marta Tienda

Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a population that varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status, and generation. The papers in this volume draw on a wide variety of data sources to describe the contours of this population, from the perspectives of history, demography, geography, education, family, employment, economic well-being, health, and political engagement. They provide a source of information for researchers, policy makers, and others who want to better understand the fast-growing and diverse population that we call "Hispanic."

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction : E Pluribus Plures or E Pluribus Unum?	1
2	The making of a people	16
3	The demographic foundations of the Latino population	66
4	Redrawing spatial color lines : Hispanic metropolitan dispersal, segregation, and economic opportunity	100
5	Hispanic families in the United States : family structure and process in an era of family change	138
6	Barriers to educational opportunities for Hispanics in the United States	179
7	Hispanics in the U.S. labor market	228
8	Economic well-being	291
9	The health status and health behaviors of Hispanics	362
10	Access to and quality of health care	410
11	Latino civic and political participation	447
App	Contents : multiple origins, uncertain destinies : Hispanics and the American future	481

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Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America

Author: Oxford University Press

Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards.

Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834.

As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.

Dilemmas of Development Assistance or Color Class Identity

Dilemmas of Development Assistance: The What, Why, and Who of Foreign Aid

Author: Sarah J Tisch

Development and foreign aid are emerging as new focal points in post–Cold War international relations. Never before have economics figured so prominently in the politics among nations; never before have individuals and nongovernmental organizations had such an opportunity to influence the success of politics in the international arena. Here, a political scientist and an economist, both with significant development experience, bring an interdisciplinary approach to the dilemmas posed by the giving and receiving of financial and technical assistance. They answer basic questions—What is development? Why do countries help each other develop? Who should implement development?—while illuminating the nuances of relationships between national and expatriate development professionals, donor and recipient countries, and Western and alternative views of development goals. Liberally illustrated, thoroughly documented, and filled with personal anecdotes as well as cross-national examples, the text of Dilemmas of Development Assistance is amplified by suggested readings, recommended media resources, and an extensive chronology of events marking progress in the history of development aid.

Look this: The Opposable Mind or The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Color, Class, Identity: The New Politics of Race

Author: John Arthur

Three recent and highly dramatic national events have shattered the complacency of many Americans about progress, however fitful, in race relations in America. The Clarence Thomas–Anita Hill hearings, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the Million Man March of Louis Farrakhan have forced everyone to reconsider their assumptions about race and racial relations.The Thomas-Hill hearings exposed the complexity and volatility of perceptions about race and gender. The sight of jubilant Blacks and despondent Whites reacting to the O.J. Simpson verdict shook our confidence in shared assumptions about equal protection under the law. The image of hundreds of thousands of Black men gathering in Washington in defense of their racial and cultural identity angered millions of Whites and exposed divisions within the Black community.These events were unfolding at a time when there seemed to be considerable progress in fighting racial discrimination. On the legal side, discrimination has been eliminated in more and more arenas, in theory if not always in practice. Economically, more and more blacks have moved into the middle class, albeit while larger numbers have slipped further back into poverty. Intellectually, figures like Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Patricia J. Williams are playing a central role as public intellectuals.In the face of these disparate trends, it is clear that Americans need to rethink their assumptions about race, racial relations, and inter-racial communication. Color * Class * Identity is the ideal tool to facilitate this process. It provides a richly textured selection of readings from Du Bois, Cornel West, Derrick Bell, and others, as well as a range ofresponses to the particular controversies that are now dividing us.Color * Class * Identity furthers these debates, showing that the racial question is far more complex than it used to be; it is no longer a simple matter of Black versus White and racial mistrust. A landmark anthology that will help advance understanding of the present unease, not just between Black and White, but within each community, this book will be useful in a broad range of courses on contemporary U.S. society.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man	11
2	I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent?	24
3	The Scar of Race	44
4	The Paradox of Integration: Why Blacks and Whites Seem So Divided	65
5	One Man's March	73
6	Victims and Heroes in the "Benevolent State"	79
7	Clarence X	88
8	The Chronicle of the Slave Scrolls	98
9	Who Shot Johnny?	105
10	The Truly Disadvantaged	109
11	All in the Family: Illegitimacy and Welfare Dependence	123
12	Counting Asians	133
13	American Apartheid: The Perpetuation of the Underclass	137
14	The Souls of Black Folk	163
15	Race Matters	169
16	Group Autonomy and Narrative Identity	179
17	Ethnic Transgressions	191
18	The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society	199
19	A Different Mirror	213
	List of Credits	225
	About the Book and Editors	227
	About the Contributors	229

Ventilation for Control of the Work Environment or Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety

Ventilation for Control of the Work Environment

Author: Michael J Ellenbecker

The second edition of Ventilation Control of the Work Environment incorporates changes in the field of industrial hygiene since the first edition was published in 1982. Integrating feedback from students and professionals, the new edition includes problems sets for each chapter and updated information on the modeling of exhaust ventilation systems, and thus assures the continuation of the book's role as the primary industry textbook.
This revised text includes a large amount of material on HVAC systems, and has been updated to reflect the changes in the Ventilation Manual published by ACGIH. It uses both English and metric units, and each chapter concludes with a problem set.

Table of Contents:

1	Ventilation for control	1
2	Principles of airflow	12
3	Airflow measurement techniques	43
4	General exhaust ventilation	90
5	Hood design	108
6	Hood designs for specific applications	151
7	Chemical laboratory ventilation	204
8	Design of single-hood systems	232
9	Design of multiple-hood systems	254
10	Fans and blowers	282
11	Air-cleaning devices	311
12	Replacement-air systems	338
13	Quantification of hood performance	358
14	Application of computational fluid dynamics to ventilation system design	374
15	Reentry	391

Look this: Licensed to Kill or Fire Breathing Liberal

Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety

Author: R Scott Scott Stricoff

This new edition of the critically acclaimed Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety was designed to help safety officers, laboratory managers, principal investigators, and laboratory workers bring lab health and safety into the twenty-first century. It does this by presenting a timely, complete, and easy-to-implement approach to ensuring a workplace that is safe for its workers as well as the surrounding community. Further, the handbook lays out guidelines to help laboratories comply with the requirements set by OSHA, the EPA, FDA, DOT, DEA, and other relevant regulatory agencies.

While the overall philosophy that made the first edition so successful has remained the same, the book has been extensively revised and updated to reflect all new regulations and technical advances that have occurred in the field over the past five years. In addition, this Second Edition now features a multitude of sample forms, checklists, protocols, and other valuable documents that will become an indispensable part of any laboratory health and safety management program.

A valuable reference tool for those seeking detailed information and guidance on specific safety and health issues, Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety, Second Edition is also much more. By providing a set of clear, easy-to-follow guidelines that serve as a rational framework for creating site-specific health and safety requirements, it, in effect, arms laboratory managers with a solid foundation upon which to build—or reengineer—a comprehensive program for identifying, managing, and controlling health and safety hazards in the laboratory. All of the authors' recommended guidelines are clearly presented in thesection entitled "Suggested Laboratory Health and Safety Guidelines." Each chapter of the handbook refers to the relevant sections of the Suggested Guidelines, explains the basis for the recommendations, and provides guidance on how to comply. Offering a feasible, easily implemented approach to designing and maintaining a safe workplace, Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety is an indispensable tool for all those responsible for safeguarding the health and safety of lab workers and the residents of the ambient community.

"R. Scott Stricoff...and Douglas B. Walters...have assembled information from a variety of sources that is not easily available elsewhere....This is a useful book." — Chemical & Engineering News

"...provides a useful contribution and will be a welcome addition to the laboratory safety adviser's library....the authors' breadth of knowledge and expertise gives a genuine sense of authority to the information given." — Chemistry and Industry

"...useful for laboratory managers and safety officers who are in charge of the safety of workplaces, but it is also useful for laboratory architects and designers, supervisors, and others in charge of planning safe laboratories. Employees will also find information on the handling of toxic samples and chemicals....Although the book follows American standards and regulations, its interest may be considered worldwide. The book is especially useful in practical safety work because it explains thoroughly how to build a safe and pleasant laboratory and how to maintain its safety." — Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment and Health

Women in China s Long Twentieth Century or Essentials of Contemporary Advertising

Women in Chinaїs Long Twentieth Century

Author: Gail Hershatter

This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.

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Essentials of Contemporary Advertising

Author: William F Arens

Essentials of Contemporary Advertising, 1/e by William Arens and David Schaefer explores the core principles that drive advertising, using a lively voice that goes beyond academic theory. The authors' goal was to present advertising as it is actually practiced and make the fundamentals accessible and relevant to the student's "real life." This approach truly transcends the conceptual and propels students into an exciting and practical dimension.

Varieties of Capitalism or Electronic Media

Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

Author: Peter A Ed Hall

What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows that there is more than one path to economic success. The book sets a new intellectual agenda for everyone interested in relations between politics, economics, and business.

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Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later

Author: Barbara K Kay

With a unique focus on technology and the Internet, Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later keeps students abreast of emerging changes in the broadcasting field today.

This text connects the broadcasting developments of yesterday with the exciting technological innovations of today and speculates on future trends in the broadcasting industry by using a unique "See It Then, See It Now, See It Later" chapter structure. Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later focuses on contemporary issues and trends in technology and has one of the best and most understandable discussions of the ratings process in the field today.

Features

• Includes an entire chapter about corporate, institutional, and educational electronic media (Chapter 11), which informs students of career opportunities they might otherwise not have considered.
• Features a running factoid quiz at the bottom of each page providing students with interesting and relevant facts to test their knowledge of the broadcasting industry in a fun manner.
• Offers a frequently updated Companion Website (ablongman.com/medoffkaye1e) that provides graphic and animated depictions of how communication technologies work and interactive games to be used in and out of the classroom.
• Includes Career Tracks features in which experts in the field share the experiences that led them to their current jobs and give tips for getting started in this challenging industry.

Praise for Electronic Media

“I liked the dispersal of the new technology information in each chapter as opposed to adding a new chapter with updated material init. This material is more properly placed with its relevant topic than in a separate chapter.”
—Stewart Blakley, Brenau University

“The focus of this text is very good for a basic electronic media-type course. I particularly like the then, now, and future approach. It covers the basic concepts of such a class in a clear and organized way.”
—William J. Adams, Kansas State University

“The authors use appropriate language for an introductory survey class text. They provide simple, useful explanations and examples to enhance the understanding of some complex issues. Students will be able to easily read the text.”
—Douglas L. Sudoff, Northwest Missouri State University

“The chapter on Audience Measurement and Sales has the best history of ratings systems in any survey media book I have read in a teaching/professional career that dates back to 1954…”
—Bennett Strange, Louisiana College

Table of Contents:

 1. Electronic Media in a Changing Environment.

 2. Tuning into Radio.

 3. Turning on the Television.

 4. Exploring Cable, Satellite, and Other Delivery Systems.

 5. Logging onto the Internet.

 6. The Pitch about Programming.

 7. All About Advertising.

 8. Connecting Audience Measurement to Sales.

 9. Buying into Electronic Media Business and Ownership.

10. Behind the Scenes of Station Operations, Promotions, and Production.

11. Zooming into Corporate, Institutional, and Educational Electronic Media.

12. Courting Regulation, Legal Issues, and Ethics.

13. The Influences and Effects of Mass Media.

14. New Technologies, New Uses, New Lifestyle.

Personnel Management in Government or The Retailers Guide to Loss Prevention and Security

Personnel Management in Government: Politics and Process

Author: Norma M Riccucci

Personnel Management in Government: Politics and Process highlights the rapid developments in public personnel administration and management. As one of the bestselling textbooks in the field, this sixth edition reflects the major changes that have occurred in government personnel administration, including the authorization of the new Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop their own personnel management systems. Addressing reforms in federal and state governments to illustrate the employment scene in government workforces, it continues to provide updated information on the political, legal, and managerial aspects of public personnel systems and policies.

Table of Contents:

Preface     xv
Acknowledgments     xvii
Introduction: Why This Book?     xix
About the Authors     xxiii
The History and Environment of Public Personnel Management
The First Century of Civil Service Reform     3
Prologue: President Garfield's Assassination and the Origins of the Merit System     3
A Historical Perspective: Enter the Spoils System     4
The Motivation for Civil Service Reform     8
The Impetus for Reform     11
The Pendleton Act     16
The Development of the Central Personnel Agency     18
Policing     19
Scientific Management     19
Centralization     21
The Decentralization of Personnel Operations     21
The Demise of the Civil Service Commission     24
Reform     26
State and Local Institutional Arrangements: A History in Parallel     33
Civil Service Reform and the Decline of the Commission Format     38
A Summary Note on the Merits of Reform     41
Bibliography     41
Cases     44
Civil Service Reform in the Postreform Era (1979-2000)     45
Prologue: The Demise of Civil Service Protections in the Federal Government     45
The Aftermath of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978     51
Overture for Postreform: The Volcker Commission     57
The National Performance Review and Federal Workforce Restructuring     58
Civil Service Reform in Clinton's Second Term     65
The "Flight of the Bumblebee": Civil Service Reform during the Bush Administration     68
Competitive Sourcing     70
Strategic Management of Human Capital     72
The "Freedom to Manage" and "Managerial Flexibility" Acts     74
Working for America Act     75
Civil Service Reform at the State and Local Level     79
Bibliography     89
The Legal Framework of Public Personnel Management     95
Prologue: Elrod v. Burns (1976)     95
Comparing the Legal and Managerial Frameworks of Government     98
Merit Principles and Civil Service     99
Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Law     105
Ethics Law     106
Labor Relations     107
Enforcement     107
The Constitutional Law of Public Employment     108
The Individualized Rights Approach     110
The Public Service Model     112
Freedom of Expression: Nonpartisan Speech      112
Political Neutrality     114
Freedom of Association     117
Liberty     118
Equal Protection     122
The Right to a Hearing     123
Fourth Amendment Privacy     126
The Right to Disobey     128
Privatization     129
Conclusion: Know Your Law     131
Bibliography     132
Cases     133
The Processes of Human Resources Management
Human Resources Planning     137
Prologue: Are There Any Translators in the House?     137
The Environment for Human Resources Planning     138
Human Resources Planning in an Era of Downsizing     142
Recent Trends in Workforce Planning     147
A Historical Overview of Human Resources Planning     153
Workforce Planning     154
Forecasting Human Resources Supply     159
Forecasting Organizational Demands     160
Strategic Human Resources Planning: Future Prospects     162
Bibliography     166
Classification and Compensation     171
Prologue: The FAA's Experience with Pay for Performance     171
The Evolution of Position Classification: The Ascendancy of Scientific Management      175
After the War: "The Triumph of Techniques over Purpose"     185
The 1970s and the Behavioralist Critique     188
The System Response: Factor Evaluation in the 1970s     189
The Reform Initiative of the 1990s - Broadbanding?     205
Pay Administration in Government     208
Federal Pay Reform in the 1990s     213
Class and Comp Reform in the 21st Century: Pay for Performance Redux     214
State and Local Class and Comp Developments     223
Bibliography     234
Recruitment and Selection     239
Prologue: Brenda Berkman and the New York City Fire Department     239
The Importance of Public Employment     242
Personal Rank versus Position Rank     247
Essentials of the Employment Process     249
The Legal Environment of Public Sector Selection     252
The Development (and Decline) of the Uniform Guidelines     257
Examinations and Validation     262
A Federal Case History from PACE to ACWA to Others     268
Human Capital in Government: The Next Frontier     280
Bibliography     284
Cases     288
Performance Appraisal     289
Prologue: Performance Management in the IRS      289
The Problem of Performance Appraisal     293
The Traditional Approach to Performance Appraisal     297
Performance Management in the 1990s and Beyond     305
Pay for Performance     308
Some State Government Perspectives on Merit Pay     318
Other Alternatives: Assessment Centers and Assessments of Multisource Appraisals     319
Bibliography     325
Training and Development     329
Prologue: Developing Effective Training Programs in the Federal Government     329
Planning/Front-End Analysis     331
Design and Development     333
Implementation     333
Evaluation     334
The Evolution of Training and Development     336
Training and Personnel Relationships     339
Methods of Training: The Design Issue     343
Career Development and the Employee     345
On Planning Training: The Strategy Issue     353
On Assessing Training: The Evaluation Issue     356
Training and Development and Technology: The Issue of Choice     361
Bibliography     363
Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Diversity in Government
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action      369
Prologue: From Bakke to Grutter     369
The Difference between Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action     373
Abuses of the Past     373
The Development of EEO     379
The Nature of Unequal Treatment in Today's Workplace     391
Stereotypes     393
Glass Ceilings     394
Subjective Discrimination     396
Other Disparities     397
The Power of Subtle Differences     399
The Organization of EEO     400
The Managerial Aspects of Affirmative Action     400
Developing a Plan     400
Monitoring the Plan     408
Sexual Harassment     411
Comparable Worth and Pay Equity     415
The Gender Pay Gap: Causes and Cures     418
Legal and Judicial Developments around Comparable Worth     419
Additional EEO Concerns     420
Age Discrimination     421
Disability Discrimination     423
Discrimination Based on HIV/AIDS     424
The Future of EEO and Affirmative Action     425
Bibliography     426
Cases     428
Diversity in the Workforce     431
Prologue: Leading Diversity Practices in the Federal Government     431
The Importance of Promoting Diversity Measures     437
Workforce 2020     437
The Importance of a Representative Bureaucracy     439
Diversity within and across Occupations     440
Measurement Issues     443
Strategies for Greater Inclusion     447
Change Organizational Structures and Work Processes     448
Leadership and Accountability     449
Ensuring Effective Communication and Feedback     452
Reorienting Personnel Policies and Processes     453
Data Collection and Training     461
Diversity Measures beyond the Organization     464
Bibliography     465
Cases     470
Unions and Employee Relations in Government
Labor-Management Relations     473
Prologue: The New York City Transit Strike of 2005     473
The Development of Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector     477
Differences between the Public and Private Sectors     480
Adapting Collective Bargaining for the Public Sector     482
Early History     483
Early Change     488
Maturation and Change in the Federal Sector     488
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978      489
Labor-Management Partnerships and the NPR     493
Labor Reforms in the 21st Century     496
State and Local Arrangements     497
The Nuts and Bolts of Organizing     502
Unit Determination     502
Supervisors     503
The Scope of Bargaining     504
Impasse Resolution     505
Strikes     508
The Union's Role in Grievance Procedures     512
Conclusion     515
Glossary of Federal-Sector Labor-Management Relations Terms     516
Bibliography     533
Cases     535
Employee Relations     537
Prologue: Workplace Violence against Health Care and Social Service Workers     537
Defining Employee Relations     542
Formal Dispute Resolution Mechanisms     542
Employee Discipline     545
Traditional Adjudicatory Systems     546
Alternative Dispute Resolution Approaches     551
Job Safety and Health     551
Substance Abuse in the Workplace     556
Drug Testing     557
Employee Assistance Programs     561
Bibliography     568
Cases      570
Index     571

Go to: Good Housekeeping Pasta or Starting with Ingredients

The Retailer's Guide to Loss Prevention and Security

Author: Donald J Horan

The Retailer's Guide to Loss Prevention and Security is an introduction to retail security. The author's vast experience in the retail business forms the background for this book, which is filled with all the tips, strategies, and procedures you need to create an effective loss prevention program. Full of techniques and examples, explanations and descriptions, rules-of-thumb and advice, recommendations and ideas, pros and cons, The Retailer's Guide to Loss Prevention and Security is an essential "how to" guide for anyone on the front line of retail theft control.

Manufacturing Process and Equipment or Beyond Chaos

Manufacturing Process and Equipment

Author: George Tlusty

Manufacturing Processes and Equipment by George Tlusty describes and explains existing production processes and machinery. More importantly, it uses the powerful analytical tools of machine science (heat transfer, vibrations, control theory) and applies them to the solution of manufacturing problems. There is more emphasis on the analytical development and application of engineering theory to manufacturing problems and students are encouraged to generate their own computer solutions to gain understanding.

Unique features

• Integrates analytical tools from other machine science subjects (e.g., heat transfer, vibrations, control theory) and applies them to manufacturing processes
• Includes chapters on machine tools and other production equipment, discussing the aspects of performance and design drives, structures, and controls
• Emphasizes understanding of production machinery, its improvement and automation, so students are able to specify, select, install, and use new equipment
• Presents analytical development and necessary derivations in some detail and encourages students to develop their own computer programs to solve problems

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This textbook for a senior level course in the mechanical and industrial engineering curriculum concentrates on the traditional processes of forming, cutting, assembly, and welding and the corresponding equipment before concluding with a chapter on the more specialized nontraditional processes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1. Manufacturing Management.

2. Engineering Materials and Their Properties.

3. Primary Metalworking.

4. Metal Forming Technology.

5. Metal Forming Mechanics.

6. Processing of Polymers.

7. Cutting Technology.

8. Cutting Mechanics.

9. Design of Machine Tools: Drives, and Structures.

10. Automation.

11. Assembly: Material Handling and Welding.

12. Non-Traditional Processes.

Interesting book: Body Mind Balancing or La dieta South Beach

Beyond Chaos: The Expert Edge in Managing Software Development

Author: Larry L L Constantin

"In Beyond Chaos, the keenest contributions to the Management Forum have been incorporated into a single volume to reveal best practices in managing software projects and organizations. The forty-five essays contained in this book are written by many of the leading names in software development, software engineering, and technical management. Each piece has been selected and edited to provide highly focused ideas and suggestions that can be translated into immediate practice. Pragmatic and provocative, they address key management concerns involving people, planning and productivity, coping under pressure, quality, development processes, and leadership and teamwork."--BOOK JACKET.

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Reprints 45 essays originally published in the Management Forum of magazine. The authors, who are working managers and consultants in the software industry, discuss dealing with difficult people, managing from the bottom-up, coping with project failure, sustaining teamwork, and building software to throw away. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Aid to Africa So Much to Do So Little Done or Marginal Gains

Aid to Africa: So Much to Do, So Little Done

Author: Carol Lancaster

Why, despite decades of high levels of foreign aid, has development been so disappointing in most of Sub-Saharan Africa, leading to rising numbers of poor and fueling political instabilities? While not ignoring the culpability of Africans in these problems, Carol Lancaster finds that much of the responsibility is in the hands of the governments and international aid agencies that provide assistance to the region. The first examination of its kind, Aid to Africa investigates the impact of bureaucratic politics, special interest groups, and public opinion in aid-giving countries and agencies. She finds that aid agencies in Africa often misdiagnosed problems, had difficulty designing appropriate programs that addressed the local political environment, and failed to coordinate their efforts effectively.

This balanced but tough-minded analysis does not reject the potential usefulness of foreign aid but does offer recommendations for fundamental changes in how governments and multilateral aid agencies can operate more effectively.

What People Are Saying

Anthony Lake
This is an informative blend of scolarship and analysis of and increasingly troubling problem: why development has lagged in Africa despite the relatively large flow of aid to the region. This is the first extended study to focus squarely on the performance of the governments and international institutions providing the aid as a key part of the answer.
— Anthony Lake, Former U.S. National Security Advisor

Oulid Abdallah
In this fresh and comprehensive contribution to the debate on official aid, Carol Lancaster presents us with a lucid and enlightening account of the hope, challenge, and reality of development assistance, one of the cold war era's greatest economic, political, and human adventures.
— Oulid Abdallah, Global Coalition for Africa

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Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa

Author: Jane I Guyer

In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it's issued. What happens when two such radically different economies meet and mingle, as they have for centuries in Atlantic Africa?
The answer is a rich diversity of economic practices responsive to both local and global circumstances. In Marginal Gains, Jane I. Guyer explores and explains these often bewildering practices, including trade with coastal capitalism and across indigenous currency zones, and within the modern popular economy. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, Guyer demonstrates that the region shares a coherent, if loosely knit, commercial culture. She shows how that culture actually works in daily practice, addressing both its differing scales of value and the many settings in which it operates, from crisis conditions to ordinary household budgets. The result is a landmark study that reveals not just how popular economic systems work in Africa, but possibly elsewhere in the Third World.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
1	Introduction: Diversity, Bewilderment, and the Multiplicity of African Money	3
2	Conversions: Asymmetrical Transactions	27
3	Calculation: Number and Asymmetry	51
4	Rank: People and Money	68
5	Quality: Commodities and Price	83
6	Volatility: A Performance in Modern Nigeria	101
7	Institutions: Repertoires of Financial Option	115
8	Balance: Household Budgets in a Ghanaian Study	131
9	Formalities: Fixing Debt and Delay	155
10	Bewilderment Revisited	170
	Appendix	177
	References	181
	Index	197

Consumer Behavior or Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe

Consumer Behavior: Building Marketing Strategy (with DDB Needham Data Disk)

Author: Delbert I Hawkins

Hawkins offers balanced coverage of consumer behavior including psychological, social, and managerial implications. The new edition offers exciting and extremely current examples. This author team is best known for their ability to tie the topics back to marketing decision making and strategic planning.

Interesting textbook: Carb Conscious Vegetarian or The Atkins Essentials CD

Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe

Author: Miles Corak

What economic regimes offer children born into poor families the best hope of moving into higher income groups? This study analyzes and contrasts the experience of the more free market based North American and British economies with the more corporate state models of continental Europe. Written by leading economists from North America and Europe, the book combines innovative methodology with surprising conclusions. It ends with two more policy-oriented chapters which consider intergenerational mobility in a broader perspective.

Table of Contents:

1	Generational income mobility in North America and Europe : an introduction	1
2	A model of intergenerational mobility variation over time and place	38
3	Equal opportunity and intergenerational mobility : going beyond intergenerational income transition matrices	48
4	Intergenerational mobility for whom? The experience of high- and low-earning sons in international perspective	58
5	What do trends in the intergenerational economic mobility of sons and daughters in the United States mean?	90
6	Changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain	122
7	Intergenerational mobility in Britain : new evidence from the British household panel survey	147
8	Non-linear patterns of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States	190
9	Family structure and labor market success : the influence of siblings and birth order on the earnings of young adults in Norway, Finland, and Sweden	207
10	New evidence on the intergenerational correlation in welfare participation	226
11	Intergenerational influences on the receipt of unemployment insurance in Canada and Sweden	245
12	Unequal opportunities and the mechanisms of social inheritance	289

Risk Managers Desk Reference or Modern Real Estate Practice in Ohio

Risk Manager's Desk Reference

Author: Barbara J Youngberg

The Risk Manager's Desk Reference, Second Edition is the definitive guide to ensure quality in your organization and save thousands of dollars in costly lawsuits. It puts at your fingertips the information you need on integrating quality assurance and risk management, understanding risk management in a managed care environment, and program development. With this book you learn how to integrate patient support services and facilitate physician participation. This handy reference offers concise information on your most challenging issues and various ethical issues.

Table of Contents:

	Contributors
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Introduction to Risk Management	1
Ch. 2	Risk Management in Managed Care	5
Ch. 3	The Risk Manager's Role in the Integrated Delivery System	19
Ch. 4	Integrating Risk Management, Utilization Management, and Quality Management: Maximizing Benefit through Integration	27
Ch. 5	Incorporating Quality Improvement Strategies and Benchmarking into Risk Management	43
Ch. 6	Benchmarking in Risk Management	56
Ch. 7	Risk Management Strategic Planning for a Changed Health Care Delivery System	61
Ch. 8	Developing Tools To Identify and Manage the Risks of Managed Care	72
Ch. 9	Setting Up a Risk Management Department	88
Ch. 10	Understanding the Need for a Corporate Compliance Program	107
Ch. 11	Developing a Risk Management Manual	121
Ch. 12	Risk Management Program Development	130
Ch. 13	The Risk Manager's Responsibility for Off-Premises Locations	152
Ch. 14	Managing the Data Needs of Managed Care	164
Ch. 15	Education As a Valuable Risk Management Tool	182
Ch. 16	Consent Issues in the Medical Environment	190
Ch. 17	A Basic Insurance Primer	202
Ch. 18	Understanding Provider Excess and Stop-Loss Insurance	215
Ch. 19	Insurance Products To Minimize the Financial Risks of Managed Care	220
Ch. 20	Risk Financing: An Important Risk Management Function	232
Ch. 21	Risk Financing Issues Facing Medical Providers	245
Ch. 22	Guidelines for In-House Claims Management	253
Ch. 23	Risk Management Issues Associated with Anesthesia	266
Ch. 24	Developing a Comprehensive Risk Management Program in Obstetrics	280
Ch. 25	Risk Management Issues in the Emergency Department	295
Ch. 26	Risk Management in the Pediatric Setting	305
Ch. 27	Risk Management in the Psychiatric Setting	328
Ch. 28	Managing the Risks Associated with Clinical Research	341
Ch. 29	Managing the Risks Associated with Telemedicine	363
Ch. 30	Managing the Risks of Home Health Care	380
Ch. 31	Legal Issues Associated with the Use and Development of Practice Guidelines	384
Ch. 32	Managing the Risks of Workers' Compensation	399
Ch. 33	Credentialing Issues and Managed Care	414
Ch. 34	The Physician As Gatekeeper - What Are the Risks?	426
Ch. 35	Ethics, Accreditation, and Managed Care: A Guide for Risk Managers	435
Ch. 36	Legislative and Regulatory Issues	445
Ch. 37	COBRA Risks and Managed Care	461
Ch. 38	Managed Care Contracting	477
	Index	503

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Modern Real Estate Practice in Ohio

Author: Fillmore W W Galaty

From agency to zoning, this new edition covers everything an aspiring agent needs to know. Fully updated with the latest legislative changes to state agency law, this text features multiple learning tools, including key terms, margin notes, and a math appendix.

Law for Business or Cost Control in the Hospitality Industry

Law for Business

Author: John Ashcroft

The basic business law concepts are covered without extensive theory, thus making the law more approachable. The substantial breadth of this text, laden with examples and cases, provides an effective introduction to a variety of legal topics.

Table of Contents:

PART I: THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS. 1. Introduction to Law. 2. Courts and Court Procedure. 3. Business Torts and Crimes. 4. Government Regulation of Business. PART II: CONTRACTS. 5. Nature and Classes of Contracts. 6. Offer and Acceptance. 7. Capacity to Contract. 8. Consideration. 9. Defective Agreements. 10. Illegal Agreements. 11. Written Contracts. 12. Third Parties and Contracts. 13. Termination of Contracts. PART III: PERSONAL PROPERTY. 14. Nature of Personal Property. 15. Special Bailments. PART IV: SALES. 16. Sales of Personal Property. 17. Formalities of a Sale. 18. Transfer of Title and Risk in Sales Contracts. 19. Warranties, Product Liability, and Consumer Protection. PART V: NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS. 20. Nature of Negotiable Instruments. 21. Essentials of Negotiability. 22. Promissory Notes and Drafts. 23. Negotiation and Discharge. 24. Liabilities of Parties and Holders in Due Course. 25. Defenses. PART VI: AGENCY AND EMPLOYMENT. 26. Nature and Creation of an Agency. 27. Operation and Termination of an Agency. 28. Employer and Employee Relations. 29. Employees' Rights. 30. Labor Legislation. PART VII: BUSINESS ORGANIZATION. 31. Introduction to Business Organization. 32. Creation and Operation of a Partnership. 33. Dissolution of a Partnership. 34. Nature of a Corporation. 35. Ownership of a Corporation. 36. Management and Dissolution of a Corporation. PART VIII: RISK-BEARING DEVICES. 37. Principles of Insurance. 38. Types of Insurance. 39. Security Devices. 40. Bankruptcy. PART IX: REAL PROPERTY. 41. Nature of Real Property. 42. Transfer of Real Property. 43. Real Estate Mortgages. 44. Landlord and Tenant.45. Wills, Inheritances and Trusts.

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Cost Control in the Hospitality Industry

Author: Agnes L Defranco

This book is ideal for professionals in the hospitality fields who may be looking for answers to cost containment beyond traditional discussions of cost control. The book offers a realistic view of the activities of cost containment factors, which may have been overlooked by other authors. The authors have re-assessed the methods of cost control to address and compensate for the significant waste and theft in the areas of purchasing, receiving, storage, production, and service. For restaurant/hotel managers, food and beverage managers, casino personnel who want to keep up with current thinking.

The Politics of Power or Probability Models for Economic Decisions

The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government

Author: Ira Katznelson

THE POLITICS OF POWER provides a lively, comprehensive, critical perspective of the American political system by highlighting how political conflicts, institutions, and processes are influenced by deep inequalities generated by the country's political economy. Building on the coverage of all of the major topics typical of an American Government course the critical analysis in this text is based on the theme that American democracy is limited by fundamental inequalities in power and economic resources. Respected for its critical theme, THE POLITICS OF POWER also strives to be direct without being simplistic, engaging without being flippant, and critical without being cynical.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1	Democracy's Challenge	1
	Introduction	1
	Titanic Inequalities	4
	Democracy and Capitalism	8
	Standards of Democracy	10
	Change, and More Change	14
	Conclusion	18
Part I	Introduction to American Political Economy	21
Chapter 2	Global Capitalism and American Politics	27
	Introduction	27
	The System of Capitalism	28
	The Mobilization of Bias	35
	Corporate Capitalism	39
	Who Owns America's Private Government?	44
	The Professionalization of Capital	45
	The Structure of Employment	48
	Conflict and Cohesion	51
	The Unstable Character of Capitalism	54
	The Current Situation	56
	Conclusion	59
Chapter 3	The American State and Corporate Capitalism	61
	Introduction	61
	The First Wave of Expansion	64
	Stagnation and Challenge	65
	The Second Wave of Expansion	67
	Corporate Capitalism Unravels	68
	A New Deal	70
	The Road Not Taken	72
	Conservative Keynesianism	74
	The Golden Age of Capitalism	75
	Economic Policy Making	7
	Fiscal Policy	78
	The Budget Process	81
	Monetary Policy	84
	The End of the Golden Age of Capitalism	87
	Reaganomics	88
	Clintonomics	90
	The Global Marketplace	92
	Conclusion	95
Part II	The Many Faces of Political Participation	99
Chapter 4	Movement for Change: Workers and Work	101
	Introduction	101
	Work Transformed: The Decline of the Independent Middle Class	104
	Creating Unions	107
	The Growth and Decline of Unions	112
	Future Labor Prospects	122
	Social Movements and Democratic Citizenship	126
	Conclusion	130
Chapter 5	Political Parties, Elections, and Movements	133
	Introduction	133
	The Disappearing American Voter	135
	Party Systems	138
	A Two-Party System	139
	Critical Elections	141
	Party Decay	142
	The Decline of Party Organization	144
	Party Structure and Orientation	145
	Money and Elections	148
	The PAC Phenomenon	153
	Media and Elections	156
	Political Consultants	158
	The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Coalition	160
	A New Republican Party	162
	A Magical Mystery Tour: the 2000 Presidential Election	164
	Contemporary Party Coalitions	168
	A Postelectoral Era?	172
	Conclusion	174
Part III	Political Institutions	177
Chapter 6	The Presidency: Imperial or Imperiled?	181
	Introduction	181
	The Historical Presidency	185
	The Imperial President?	188
	The Imperiled President	193
	Presidential Styles	196
	Bill Clinton as President	198
	The Exercise of Presidential Power	200
	The President's Response: End-Running the Bureaucracy	211
	Behind the Velvet Glove	214
	Conclusion	215
Chapter 7	Congress	217
	Introduction	217
	The Origins of Congress	220
	The Historical Congress	228
	Congress as a Career	232
	Money and Congressional Elections	233
	Safe Seats and Turnover	235
	Members of Congress	237
	The Legislative Process	242
	How a Bill Becomes Law	243
	The Senate	247
	The House of Representatives	253
	Congress, the Bureaucracy, and Interest Groups	259
	Lobbying and Congress	261
	Conclusion	263
Chapter 8	The Judiciary	265
	Introduction	265
	Politics and the Law	269
	A Dual Court System	270
	The Law and the Development of American Capitalism	278
	The Supreme Court in History	280
	The Modern Court: From Warren to Rehnquist	285
	Politics by Lawsuit	292
	Conclusion	294
Part IV	Public Policy	297
Chapter 9	Corporate Capitalism, Foreign Policy, and the Global Political Economy	299
	Introduction	299
	American Foreign Policy Before World War II	302
	Cold War Rivalry	304
	Global Expansion and the Invisible Empire	306
	A New Era of Globalization?	308
	Globalization and Multinational Corporations	311
	Multinational Corporations	315
	The Military Establishment	316
	Political and Economic Influence	319
	The Military-Industrial Complex	319
	Foreign Policy in the Post--Cold War Era	323
	Rationalizing and Restructuring American Military Dominance	325
	The New Global Economy: Whose Globalization?	328
	Promoting Democracy Abroad	332
	Conclusion	334
Chapter 10	The Welfare State	335
	Introduction	335
	The Historical Welfare State	342
	The New Deal	343
	Conservative and Liberal Welfare States	347
	Beyond the New Deal	349
	The Great Society and Its Backlash	355
	Clinton Democrats and the Welfare State	361
	Conclusion	364
Chapter 11	Conclusion: American Politics, Past, Present, and Future	367
	Introduction	367
	The Reagan Revolution?	369
	The New Politics of Inequality	370
	The Clinton-Gore Administration: Bold Centrism or Broken Compact?	372
	The Compassionate Conservatism of the Bush Presidency	381
	Conclusion	384
	Credits	385
	Index	387

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Probability Models for Economic Decisions (with CD-ROM)

Author: Roger Myerson

This book is an introduction to the use of probability models for analyzing risks and economic decisions. Throughout this book, author Roger Myerson focuses on showing students how to use probability in complex realistic situations. All the analytical work in this book is done in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. As a result of the emphasis on spreadsheet modeling, students will also develop sophisticated spreadsheet skills. However, the main goals of the book are to make the practical power of probability analysis accessible to students and to demonstrate how to apply these concepts in the real world.

Ethics for the Professions or Economic Nature of the Firm

Ethics for the Professions

Author: John R Rowan

This new text provides students with the tools necessary to make ethically sound decisions in the professions they choose for themselves. The text combines lucid explanations of leading philosophical moral theories with detailed discussion of how those theories are to be applied. Each chapter concludes with short cases and questions to engage students in solving perplexing professional ethics issues.

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Ethics stem from the concepts of role-related obligations and moral vision, per Rowan and Zinaich (Purdue U. Calumet.) In the initial scan across professions, contributors in 51 reprinted papers discuss moral theories, perspectives on professional ethics, employee rights (including a call to focus on work rather than sex in regard to workplace harassment), and professional-client relations. Area- specific issues are then treated in business, engineering, health care, counseling, law, journalism, and education. Chapters include editors' introductions, discussion questions, and cases. Dated papers are from 1971-2000, but not all bear dates. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Economic Nature of the Firm: A Reader

Author: Louis Putterman

This book brings together classic writings on the economic nature and organization of firms, including works by Ronald Coase, Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz, Michael Jensen and William Meckling, and Oliver Williamson, as well as more recent contributions by Paul Milgrom and John Roberts, Bengt Holmstrom, and Oliver Hart.

Part I explores the general theme of the firm's economic nature and its place in the market system;

Part II covers the scope of the firm;

Part III examines internal organization and the human factor; and

Part IV ties the firm's organization and behavior to issues of financing and ownership. This second edition has twelve new selections and an introductory essay that surveys the new institutional economics of the firm.

Table of Contents:

	Editor's preface
	The economic nature of the firm: a new introduction	1
1	From The Wealth of Nations	35
2	From Capital	46
3	From Risk, Uncertainty and Profit	60
4	The use of knowledge in society	66
5	Relational exchange: economics and complex contracts	72
6	From The Visible Hand	78
7	The nature of the firm	89
8	Vertical integration, appropriable rents, and the competitive contracting process	105
9	The governance of contractual relations	125
10	The organization of industry	136
11	The limits of firms: incentive and bureaucratic features	146
12	Bargaining costs, influence costs, and the organization of economic activity	162
13	Towards an economic theory of the multiproduct firm	175
14	Production, information costs, and economic organization	193
15	Contested exchange: new microfoundations for the political economy of capitalism	217
16	Understanding the employment relation: the analysis of idiosyncratic exchange	233
17	Multitask principal - agent analyses: incentive contracts, asset ownership, and job design	254
18	The prisoners' dilemma in the invisible hand: an analysis of intrafirm productivity	267
19	Labor contracts as partial gift exchange	276
20	Profit sharing and productivity	288
21	Mergers and the market for corporate control	299
22	Agency problems and the theory of the firm	302
23	Theory of the firm: managerial behavior, agency costs, and ownership structure	315
24	Organizational forms and investment decisions	336
25	The structure of ownership and the theory of the firm	345
26	An ecomomist's perspective on the theory of the firm	000
27	Ownership and the nature of the firm	000
	References	000