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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds or Speak with Confidence

Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds: Inside Secrets to Achieving Financial Success in Television and Radio Commercials

Author: Batt Johnson

Inside secrets to achieving financial success in television and radio commercials.

Gain financial success in television and radio commercials and modeling.

Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds is filled with inside secrets and in-depth interviews with successful actors, teachers, agents, and casting directors. Special chapters on broadcasting, modeling, and kids in commercials.

New interesting book: Economic Sociology of Capitalism or Digital Music Wars

Speak with Confidence: A Practical Guide

Author: Albert J Vasil

Speak with Confidence: A Practical Guide, 10/e

Albert J. Vasile, Bunker Hill Community College

Speak with Confidence gives students the skills they need to communicate quickly, confidently, and effectively.

Filled with engaging anecdotes, cartoons, and examples, Speak with Confidence is a practical and approachable public speaking text that both engages students in the material and also teaches them important speech lessons. Using a down-to-earth, conversational style that speaks to students and not at them, this text builds students' speechmaking confidence and offers all of the necessary skills for communicating effectively.

New Features:

Expands sections on important topics such as Plagiarism, Speech Apprehension, Appearance, Body Movement, Color, Vocalized Pauses, Audiovisual Aids, and Converging Technologies to improve students’ preparation and delivery of speeches.
Features new speeches to keep students engaged in the material.
Addresses important ethical considerations for students in a new section on Speaker Ethics.
Develops the unique concept of oral visualization throughout the text to help students communicate deeper meaning to audiences.
Contains a new Speech Guide for International Students to providefurther assistance to non-native English speakers.
Emphasizes important verbal and non-verbal aspects of interviewing to provide students with the skills needed for successful job interviews.
Includes new “Vitalize Your Vocabulary” listings such as oxymorons and legal terms to help spark class discussions and ideas for speech topics.

Reviewer Quotations:

“The text provides excellent suggestions for increasing confidence and assertiveness in daily interactions and applying this skill to public speaking situations. In comparison to our current text, Vasile’s text is clear and organized and written so that a student can understand and identify with the content.” — Julie Raplee, St. Joseph’s College

“I love this chapter [Saying a Few Words] — this is the communication student’s biggest need — not necessarily how to give a formal public speech, but rather to communicate and speak daily on a wide variety of impromptu topics. Well done!” — Heather Dorsey, University of Minnesota

“My goal for the course is the same goal as Vasile’s book: to help students speak with confidence one-on-one, in the small group, and before large groups.” -- Rich M. Breiner, University of Great Falls

The Strategy Pathfinder or Creating a Strategic Human Resources Organization

The Strategy Pathfinder: Core Concepts and Micro-Cases

Author: Chris Smith

The Strategy Pathfinder is built around micro-cases of real-life problems faced by companies and executives. These micro-cases help readers to engage with the kinds of situations they will encounter in their working lives while provoking discussions about key theoretical themes. Original presentation and design makes this an essential companion for both the business-school classroom and the executive briefcase. The Strategy Pathfinder brings experienced and potential executives alike an instant guide to the concepts and techniques they need to know.

An innovative introduction to strategy.

Makes readers active “producers” of strategy, rather than passive recipients of received wisdom.

Presents essential pathways through the strategy jungle.

Each case provokes discussion about a key theoretical theme.

Encourages readers to form a view themselves, and then test it against the views of others, before offering recommendations about how best to proceed.

Cases are drawn from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

Supported by online lecturer supplements, available at blackwellpublishing.com/angwin.

The Strategy Pathfinder User’s Guide.
Strategic Pathsways.
The Strategy Paths Combined.
1. Macro-Shocks.
2. Movers & Shakers.
3. Industry Terrain.
4. The Big Picture.
5. Perfect Positioning.
6. Living Strategy.
7. Corporate Character.
8. Crossing Borders.
9. Guiding Change.
10. Sustain Ability.
11. Maverick Strategies.
Notes.
References.
Primary Chapter and Case Authors.
Acknowledgements.
Index.

New interesting book: VisualBasic NET For Dummies or Art of 3 D Computer Animation and Effects Third Edition

Creating a Strategic Human Resources Organization: An Assessment of Trends and New Directions

Author: Edward E Lawler

Corporations are undergoing dramatic changes that have significant implications for how human resources are best managed and organized. There is growing consensus that human capital is critical to an organization’s success. But how should the HR function itself be organized? Is change in HR keeping pace with organizational change overall?

Creating a Strategic Human Resources Organization reports the findings from a 6-year longitudinal study of whether and how the HR functions in large corporations are responding to the challenges and opportunities posed by the changing business environment. The book identifies the changes that will be required in order for HR to become a true strategic partner, and suggests why, in too many companies, this transition is not occurring. It examines the paradoxical roles played in this transition by the focus on talent management and the application of IT capabilities, and proposes a new way of conceptualizing HR as providing three service lines. It finds that the most effective HR teams are substantially changing their mix of activities to become knowledge-based contributors to organizational strategy and effectiveness.

The authors conclude that HR is at a crossroads, and will either have to face up to these challenges or become a marginal contributor to corporate success.

The study was carried out at the Center for Effective Organizations in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and was funded by the Human Resource Planning Society and the corporate sponsors of the Center for Effective Organizations.

Individual Psychological Assessment or The Art of Trusteeship

Individual Psychological Assessment: Predicting Behavior in Organizational Settings, Vol. 8

Author: Richard Jeanneret

A Unique Resource for a State-of-the-Art Practice
Presented by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, this is the first and only work to offer readers a comprehensive look at individual psychological assessment as currently practiced in business environments. Here, you will examine the best methods and techniques now in use. You will see how assessment is being used to alter organizational cultures and achieve specific business goals. You will discover a framework you can use to make your own practice state-of-the-art. And you will benefit from thought-provoking discussions on issues vital to the field's continued success as well as informed predictions for its future. All of which makes this an essential resource any person concerned with individual psychological assessment should possess.

Booknews

Explores the best practices for using individual psychological assessment to choose a top executive for a business. Provides a framework for a sound assessment practice, and specifics on a number of assessment processes, including how they are designed and conducted and how results are interpreted and communicated. Also explores how assessment can fit into strategic business plans and respond to the requirements of new leadership models. Readers are assumed to be professional or student psychologists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Interesting book: World Religions Cookbook or Catering Solutions

The Art of Trusteeship: The Nonprofit Board Members Guide to Effective Governance

Author: Susan Houchin

The well-being of any nonprofit organization rests first with its volunteer board of directors. This book offers board members the guidance they need to successfully govern their organizations--no matter what type or size of nonprofit they may lead.

Written by Candace Widmer and Susan Houchin, The Art of Trusteeship shows you how to fulfill ten key trustee responsibilities and includes much-needed detail on defining mission, strategic planning, executive selection and evaluation, fundraising, financial oversight, and board self-assessment. This hands-on guide is filled with illustrative case studies and real-life examples that clearly show how a variety of creative boards have tackled challenges and strengthened their organizations.

"At last, a book that doesn't take a one-size-fits-all approach! The authors recognize that the huge diversity among nonprofits calls for multiple ways of fulfilling basic board responsibilities. The book allows a board member to dive in at any point and find a concise, clear set of options for handling the challenges of trusteeship. It will help even first-time board members find firm footing on the path to effective governance."
--Sara L. Engelhardt, president, The Foundation Center

Booknews

In spite of the variety of sizes, memberships, and missions of nonprofit organizations, they are all entrusted to the care and direction of a board of directors. This volume provides clear guidance to nonprofit board members who take their work seriously, from basic mission questions to money and management issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Authors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: The Art of Trusteeship.
THE BOARD'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR MISSION.
Establishing the Organization's Mission.
Engaging in Strategic Planning.
Overseeing Programs.
Helping the Organization Communicate Effectively.
THE BOARD'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR MONEY.
Overseeing the Organization's Finances.
Developing Funds.
Ensuring Sound Risk Management Policies.
THE BOARD'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANAGEMENT.
Selecting and Supporting the Chief Executive Officer.
Selecting and Educating Trustees.
Managing the Work of the Board.
Conclusion: The Challenge of Trusteeship.
References.
Additional Resources.
Index.

Friday, January 2, 2009

International Intellectual Property or World Trade and Payments

International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, and Materials

Author: Daniel C K Chow

This new international intellectual property casebook covers, in a very accessible and student friendly format, all the major international treaties and today's cutting edge topics, such as biopiracy and traditional knowledge, commercial piracy, access to medicines, database protection, GIs, and patents for business methods and computer software.

Among its features, the casebook:
Is suitable for students with all levels of background in intellectual property (IP) law, including students who have had no prior course in IP Focuses on the key international IP treaties and conventions, such as TRIPs Includes substantial amounts of introductory and explanatory text written by the case book authors for each topic covered Examines the growing importance of intellectual property in economic development and international business Devotes substantial coverage to issues important to developing and non-Western countries Includes cases, materials, and excerpts from authors originating from the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, Canada, and Latin America Contains much practical knowledge essential for students who wish to practice in IP, such as securing trademarks under the Madrid Protocol and patents under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and enforcing IP rights internationally Contains many short problems that can serve as a basis of classroom discussion Is of a manageable length but still provides flexibility to professors on coverage

New interesting textbook: Business Law Today The Essentials 2006 Business Law and Legal Environment Texts or Texas Real Estate

World Trade and Payments: An Introduction

Author: Richard E Caves

Renowned for its precise, in-depth coverage of international trade and finance, this classic text features a balance of the latest research, critical policy issues, and sophisticated economic analysis.

Booknews

Covers a conventional line of topics and can serve with some additional material as the basis for a full-year course at the undergraduate level or for separate semester (quarter) courses on the real and financial aspects of international trade. This edition includes revised treatment of regional economic integration, tariff reduction, unemployment, international trade in developing countries, and multinational enterprise. No flashy illustrations, color or otherwise. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Manufacturing Advantage or Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty First Century

Manufacturing Advantage: Why High Performance Work Systems Pay Off

Author: Eileen Appelbaum

Much of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has not been established that those employee involvement strategies amount to anything more than another series of management fads or ruses designed to get more out of workers without giving them anything in return. This revelatory book, written by some of the skeptics, lays some of the suspicion to rest.

Based on their visits to 44 plants and surveys of more than 4,000 employees, Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg, and Arne L. Kalleberg concluded that companies are indeed more successful when managers share knowledge and power with workers and when workers assume increased responsibility and discretion.

The study of steel, apparel, and medical electronics and imaging plants revealed much. In self-directed teams, workers were able to eliminate bottlenecks and coordinate the work process. In task forces created to improve quality, they communicated with individuals outside their own work groups and were able to solve problems. Expensive equipment in steel mills operated with fewer interruptions, turnaround and labor costs were cut in apparel factories, and costly inventories of components and medical equipment were reduced.

And what did the employees think? The worker survey showed that jobs in participatory work systems often provide more challenging tasks and more opportunities for creativity. Employees in apparel had higher hourly earnings; those in steel had both higher hourly earnings and higher job satisfaction. Workers in more participatory settings were no more likely than others to report heavy workloads or excessive demands on their time. They were, however, less likely to report involuntary overtime or conflict with co-workers, and were more likely to be satisfied with their surroundings.

Manufacturing Advantage provides the best assessment available of the effectiveness of high-performance work systems. Freestanding chapters near the end of the book provide full documentation of research data without interrupting the narrative flow.

About the Authors:
Eileen Appelbaum is Research Director at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Formerly Professor of Economics at Temple University, she is author or coauthor of several books including The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States, also from Cornell.

An expert on the apparel industry, Thomas Bailey is Professor of Economics of Education and Director of the Institute on Education and the Economy at Columbia University. He is author or coauthor of three books, most recently Learning to Work.

Peter Berg, formerly a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute, is Assistant Professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University.

Arne L. Kalleberg is Kenan Professor of Sociology and Chair of the department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has coauthored or edited four books, the most recent of which (coauthored with David Knoke, Peter Marsden, and Joe Spaeth) is Organizations in America: A Portrait of Their Structures and Human Resource Practices.

Choice

In high performance work teams, managers provide opportunities for substantive participation in decisions, incorporate appropriate incentives, and establish training and development policies that ensure an appropriately skilled workforce. The authors investigate how successful these work teams are in the steel, apparel, and medical electronics industries in the U.S.

(Booklist) - David Rouse

[This] study analyzes productivity improvement and the effects fo workplace practices within high-performance work systems (HPWS) on trust, intrinsic rewards, stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment among workers in the steel, apparel, and medical electronics industries. . . . EPI's conclusion here that HPWS will help U.S. manufacturing companies meet competitive challenges should stimulate discussions between labor and management.

(Financial Times) - Robert Taylor

[Manufacturing Advantage] seeks to focus on what may sound an unfashionable topic nowadays—the future of US manufacturing in a competitive global economy...What this impressive book demonstrates is that manufacturing and information technology, far from being separate sectors, are in fact firmly interrelated.

EPI Journal

Manufacturing Advantage provides the best assessment available of the effectiveness of high-performance work systems.

What People Are Saying

Jeffrey Pfeffer
Manufacturing Advantage is a splendid book—well written, well referenced, filled with data and insight. If high-performance work practices make a difference, can we really just rely on evolutionary processes for their diffusion?
—(Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor, Stanford Business School and author of The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First)

Paul Osterman
Manufacturing Advantage is essential reading for anyone interested in work organization in the United States. It is unique in its combination of establishment and employee data and its power is enhanced by its research across three quite different industries. Its findings are important and persuasive—a terrific book.
—(Paul Osterman, MIT, Sloan School)

Thomas Kochan
Manufacturing Advantage is a very thorough, technically sound, original contribution to our understanding of the role that high performance work systems are playing in manufacturing.
—(Thomas Kochan, MIT, and President, Industrial Relations Research Association)

Harry Katz
This is an excellent piece of research that will be of interest to a large audience in both academic and public policy circles.
—(Harry Katz, Cornell University)

Charles Derber
Fresh and surprising evidence for the idea that employee empowerment and shop-floor participation are not only good for workers but a major source of competitive advantage. Skeptics in management and labor will have to come to terms with this book.
—(Charles Derber, author of Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking Over Our Lives and What We Can Do About It)

Book review: Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family or Sport Physiology for Coaches

Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: Resources, Consumption, and Sustainable Solutions

Author: David E Lorey

The most serious environmental problems of the twenty-first century have the potential to alter the course of life on this planet. Global warming, toxic waste, water and air pollution, acid rain, and shrinking energy supplies are frightening challenges that may threaten our future if we do not face up to them. Global Environmental Challenges provides important information and gives us hope about the environment. This book first helps us to grasp these difficulties, then shows us the choices we can make. How long to leave a light on, whether to take the car, the train, or bicycle to work, whether to recycle or throw away, whether to vote to curb continued suburban sprawl-all of these decisions can make a difference. This collection of some of the best essays and articles on the environment comes from a variety of sources, including journals, magazines, websites of ecological/conservation organizations, and other publications. Five major sections investigate the interaction of population growth, consumption, and environment; the emerging crisis in freshwater around the globe; global climate and atmosphere (including global warming); biodiversity loss; and the concept of sustainable development-using natural resources to place future human development on a sustainable path. The final section on sustainable development reveals how we can take action. As individuals, we can make a difference readily and easily without making huge personal sacrifices. As societies, we can work together in a global community of interest to sustain the earth. This valuable resource offers readers a better understanding of our environmental problems and presents solutions to improving the health of theplanet.

	Introduction
	Driving Forces
1	Environment and Health: Population, Consumption, and the Environment	1
2	Food Security, Population, and Environment	15
3	Population and Consumption: What We Know, What We Need to Know	37
	Water
4	Water for Food Production: Will There Be Enough in 2025?	51
5	Water Wars	71
6	Water and Conflict in Asia?	87
7	Life - or Death - for the Salton Sea?	103
	Global Climate and Atmosphere
8	Synthesis of Scientific-Technical Information Relevant to Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention	113
9	Shadows of the Climate Future	131
10	Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Causes and Consequences	143
	Biodiversity
11	Losing Strands in the Web of Life	159
12	Riches from the Rainforest	185
13	Dying Seas	191
	Sustainable Solutions
14	Easter Island's End	205
15	Neotropical Restoration Biology	215
16	What Are Ecosystem Services?	227
17	Marine Ecosystem Services	233
18	Environmentally Sustainable Business Practices	251
19	NGOs and the Environment: From Knowledge to Action	269
20	The Real Impacts of Household Consumption	289
	Suggested Readings	311

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Competitive Solutions or Best Practices in Organization Development and Change

Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit

Author: R Preston McAfe

Competitive Solutions is an entertaining and wideranging introduction to successful business methods applied to a variety of real-world situations. Rejecting the one-size-fits-all premise that underlies so many guides to business strategy, Preston McAfee develops the intellectual tools and insights needed to confront many marketplace problems. Drawing on his broad experience as a consultant for major U.S. companies, as well as extensive research, McAfee emphasizes cooperation, pricing, litigation, and antitrust as vital to a firm's competitive posture--and focuses more attention on these elements than do most business strategy accounts.

McAfee begins by considering strategy as successfully applied by America OnLine, an example that introduces many of the tools discussed in greater depth throughout the book. From here he moves to industry analysis: By examining the context for developing a strategy, he points out uses of positioning and differentiation that enable a firm to weaken price competition and deter rivals from stealing customers. McAfee's exploration of a product's life cycle proves an invaluable guide to positioning new technology in order to maximize the potential for future customers.

In the centerpiece of the book, McAfee lays out a how-to manual for cooperation, providing tactics crucial for setting standards, lobbying the government, and fostering industry growth. Writing in a conversational manner, McAfee also addresses such deep topics as organizational design and employee compensation and incentives. More detailed discussions examine antitrust enforcement, which is an increasingly important constraint on strategy, as well as strategies for pricing,bidding, signaling, and bargaining.

This book is a fascinating examination of modern business strategy and its application in many different settings. Students of business and economics--as well as executives and managers--will recognize Competitive Solutions as an indispensable resource as well as a definitive vision of the strategic firm: one in which each element of company strategy reinforces the other elements.

Best Practices in Organization Development and Change: Culture, Leadership, Retention, Performance, Coaching

Author: David Giber

Learn from experts at the world's top organizations!

Best Practices in Organization Development and Change is a state-of-the-art resource that presents the most important ideas and effective strategies from experts and top companies in the field. Comprehensive in scope, the book addresses the five most important organization development or human resource development (OD/HRD) topics--organization development and change, leadership development, recruitment and retention, performance management, and coaching and mentoring--and offers a practical framework for design, implementation, and evaluation. It includes best-practice case studies from seventeen leading organizations that have achieved their change objectives.

The case studies will help you:

• Analyze the need for the specific OD/HRD initiative

• Build a solid business case for OD/HRD

• Identify the audience for the initiative

• Design an effective OD/HRD initiative

• Implement a successful design of the initiative

• Evaluate the effectiveness of the initiative

You'll benefit from expertise at trend-setting companies such as: Kraft Foods * Smithkline Beecham * Westinghouse * Sun Microsystems . . . and many more!

"An extremely important volume with useful contextual perspectives plus vivid and important case studies of companies that know what they're doing to lead change."

--Warren Bennis, author, On Becoming a Leader and Organizing Genius

Recruitment and Selection or Risk Neutral Valuation

Recruitment and Selection: A Framework for Success: Psychology @ Work Series

Author: Dominic Cooper

The emphasis on high quality personnel recruitment is fast becoming a key concern in today's business environment. Organizations are moving away from what was traditionally a lottery when recruiting staff. Drawing on the latest scientific research this guide offers a 'framework for action' to assist selectors, and students studying in this field, in this difficult task. The framework covers topics such as identifying customer needs, setting decision-making standards, developing ideas for continuous improvements and optimizing the design and return on investment of selection procedures. This framework enables the selector to predict future job performances with much greater accuracy, while helping their company to survive, prosper and grow. In addition to managers and HR professionals, students of management and occupational psychology at undergraduate and MBA level will benefit from the clear and concise coverage of this important topic.

Risk-Neutral Valuation (Springer Finance Series): Pricing and Hedging of Financial Derivatives

Author: Nicholas H Bingham

Since its introduction in the early 80s, the risk-neutral valuation principle has proved to be an important tool in the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. This book provides a self-contained treatment of the probabilistic theory behind the risk-neutral valuation principle and its application to the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. On the probabilistic side, both discrete- and continuous-time stochastic processes are treated.These foundation and general principles of modern stochastic finance are established in the first six chapters, which are essentially revised and updated versions of the corresponding chapters in the first edition. Chapters 7 and 8, which treat incomplete markets and interest rate theory, are completely restructured and greatly expanded in order to include recent developments. A new ninth chapter discusses aspects of modelling credit risk.

	Preface to the second edition
	Preface to the first edition
1	Derivative background	1
2	Probability background	29
3	Stochastic processes in discrete time	75
4	Mathematical finance in discrete time	101
5	Stochastic processes in continuous time	153
6	Mathematical finance in continuous time	229
7	Incomplete markets	28д
8	Interest rate theory	327
9	Credit risk	375
A	Hilbert space	409
B	Projections and conditional expectations	411
C	The separating hyperplane theorem	415
	Bibliography	417
	Index	433

1	Introduction	1
2	Industry analysis	9
3	Firm strategies	36
4	Differentiation	61
5	Product life cycle	91
6	Cooperation	113
7	Organizational scope	148
8	Incentives	187
9	Antitrust	204
10	Elementary statistics	225
11	Pricing	260
12	Auctions	303
13	Signaling	324
14	Bargaining	353
15	Last words	379

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds: Inside Secrets to Achieving Financial Success in Television and Radio Commercials

Speak with Confidence: A Practical Guide

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The Strategy Pathfinder: Core Concepts and Micro-Cases

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Creating a Strategic Human Resources Organization: An Assessment of Trends and New Directions

Individual Psychological Assessment: Predicting Behavior in Organizational Settings, Vol. 8

Booknews

The Art of Trusteeship: The Nonprofit Board Members Guide to Effective Governance

Booknews

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Friday, January 2, 2009

International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, and Materials

World Trade and Payments: An Introduction

Booknews

Manufacturing Advantage: Why High Performance Work Systems Pay Off

Choice

(Booklist) - David Rouse

(Financial Times) - Robert Taylor

EPI Journal

What People Are Saying

Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: Resources, Consumption, and Sustainable Solutions

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit

Table of Contents:

Best Practices in Organization Development and Change: Culture, Leadership, Retention, Performance, Coaching

Recruitment and Selection: A Framework for Success: Psychology @ Work Series

Risk-Neutral Valuation (Springer Finance Series): Pricing and Hedging of Financial Derivatives

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