Preventing Job Burnout or Introduction to Foodservice

Preventing Job Burnout: Transforming Work Pressures Into Productivity

Author: Beverly A Potter

Introducing eight proven strategies for beating job burnout, this newly revised edition also contains expanded information on networking, growing your social support system, and personal goal setting.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: What Is Job Burnout? Part 2: Motivational Nutrients Part 3: Increasing Motivation Through Personal Power Part 4: Managing Yourself: The First Path to Personal Power Part 5: Managing Stress: The Second Path to Personal Power Part 6: Building Social Support: The Third Path to Personal Power Part 7: Skill Building: The Fourth Path to Personal Power Part 8: Tailoring the Job: The Fifth Path to Personal Power Part 9: Changing Jobs: The Sixth Path to Personal Power Part 10: Thinking Powerfully: The Seventh Path to Personal Power Part 11: Detached Concern: The Eighth Path to Personal Power

Interesting textbook: Skinny Bitch or Warming and Welcoming Big Soups

Introduction to Foodservice

Author: June Payne Palacio

Introduction to Foodservice, Tenth Edition is a practice-based textbook designed specifically for students studying foodservice management in four-year degree programs or technical colleges. The material is appropriate for higher education programs in dietetics, foodservice administration, and hospitality management. The text includes the essential information to understand and manage any type of foodservice operation in both the commercial and noncommercial sectors of the foodservice industry.

The book is organized into five parts. Part 1 provides an informative, historical overview of the foodservice industry and a review of foodservice as a system. Part 2 presents the fundamentals of foodservice that form the foundation of any operation. Included are chapters on food safety and menu planning. Part 3 serves as the heart of the text by providing a description of each functional operation of a foodservice operation in relation to the systems model. Part 4 emphasizes the physical plant and covers facility design, equipment, and environmental management. The book concludes with Part 5, which is a presentation of the linking processes used to manage foodservice operations. Included here are chapters on leadership, performance improvement, and marketing.

Unique features of this book include:

• Integration of the systems model into each chapter
• The latest information on food safety and HACCP
• A progressive case study with critical thinking questions for practical application of chapter contents
• A list of review questions at the end of each chapter
• A runningglossary for easy access to word definitions
• A 16-page four color insert

Booknews

A text on all aspects of both noncommercial and commercial foodservice, for introductory courses in food service management. Coverage encompasses foodservice organizations, quantity food production and service, physical facilities, and organization and administration. Learning features include detailed key concepts, summaries, and review questions, plus a glossary, b&w photos, and appendices on cooking methods and equipment. This eighth edition contains new material on food safety, facilities management, and quality management, and comes with a new instructor's manual. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Real Analysis with Economic Applications or Sarbanes Oxley and the New Internal Auditing Rules

Real Analysis with Economic Applications

Author: Efe A Ok

There are many mathematics textbooks on real analysis, but they focus on topics not readily helpful for studying economic theory or they are inaccessible to most graduate students of economics. Real Analysis with Economic Applications aims to fill this gap by providing an ideal textbook and reference on real analysis tailored specifically to the concerns of such students.

The emphasis throughout is on topics directly relevant to economic theory. In addition to addressing the usual topics of real analysis, this book discusses the elements of order theory, convex analysis, optimization, correspondences, linear and nonlinear functional analysis, fixed-point theory, dynamic programming, and calculus of variations. Efe Ok complements the mathematical development with applications that provide concise introductions to various topics from economic theory, including individual decision theory and games, welfare economics, information theory, general equilibrium and finance, and intertemporal economics. Moreover, apart from direct applications to economic theory, his book includes numerous fixed point theorems and applications to functional equations and optimization theory.

The book is rigorous, but accessible to those who are relatively new to the ways of real analysis. The formal exposition is accompanied by discussions that describe the basic ideas in relatively heuristic terms, and by more than 1,000 exercises of varying difficulty.

This book will be an indispensable resource in courses on mathematics for economists and as a reference for graduate students working on economic theory.

Table of Contents:

Preface xvii
Prerequisites xxvii
Basic Conventions xxix

Part I: SET THEORY 1

Chapter A: Preliminaries of Real Analysis 3
A.1 Elements of Set Theory 4
A.1.1 Sets 4
A.1.2 Relations 9
A.1.3 Equivalence Relations 11
A.1.4 Order Relations 14
A.1.5 Functions 20
A.1.6 Sequences, Vectors, and Matrices 27
A.1.7* A Glimpse of Advanced Set Theory: The Axiom of Choice 29

A.2 Real Numbers 33
A.2.1 Ordered Fields 33
A.2.2 Natural Numbers, Integers, and Rationals 37
A.2.3 Real Numbers 39
A.2.4 Intervals and R 44

A.3 Real Sequences 46
A.3.1 Convergent Sequences 46
A.3.2 Monotonic Sequences 50
A.3.3 Subsequential Limits 53
A.3.4 Infinite Series 56
A.3.5 Rearrangement of Infinite Series 59
A.3.6 Infinite Products 61

A.4 Real Functions 62
A.4.1 Basic Definitions 62
A.4.2 Limits, Continuity, and Differentiation 64
A.4.3 Riemann Integration 69
A.4.4 Exponential, Logarithmic, and Trigonometric Functions 74
A.4.5 Concave and Convex Functions 77
A.4.6 Quasiconcave and Quasiconvex Functions 80

Chapter B: Countability 82
B.1 Countable and Uncountable Sets 82
B.2 Losets and Q 90

B.3 Some More Advanced Set Theory 93
B.3.1 The Cardinality Ordering 93
B.3.2* The Well-Ordering Principle 98

B.4 Application: Ordinal Utility Theory 99
B.4.1 Preference Relations 100
B.4.2 Utility Representation of Complete Preference Relations 102
B.4.3* Utility Representation of Incomplete Preference Relations 107

Part II: ANALYSIS ON METRIC SPACES 115

Chapter C: Metric Spaces 117
C.1 Basic Notions 118
C.1.1 Metric Spaces: Definitionand Examples 119
C.1.2 Open and Closed Sets 127
C.1.3 Convergent Sequences 132
C.1.4 Sequential Characterization of Closed Sets 134
C.1.5 Equivalence of Metrics 136

C.2 Connectedness and Separability 138
C.2.1 Connected Metric Spaces 138
C.2.2 Separable Metric Spaces 140
C.2.3 Applications to Utility Theory 145

C.3 Compactness 147
C.3.1 Basic Definitions and the Heine-Borel Theorem 148
C.3.2 Compactness as a Finite Structure 151
C.3.3 Closed and Bounded Sets 154

C.4 Sequential Compactness 157
C.5 Completeness 161
C.5.1 Cauchy Sequences 161
C.5.2 Complete Metric Spaces: Definition and Examples 163
C.5.3 Completeness versus Closedness 167
C.5.4 Completeness versus Compactness 171

C.6 Fixed Point Theory I 172
C.6.1 Contractions 172
C.6.2 The Banach Fixed Point Theorem 175
C.6.3* Generalizations of the Banach Fixed Point Theorem 179

C.7 Applications to Functional Equations 183
C.7.1 Solutions of Functional Equations 183
C.7.2 Picard's Existence Theorems 187

C.8 Products of Metric Spaces 192
C.8.1 Finite Products 192
C.8.2 Countably Infinite Products 193

Chapter D: Continuity I 200
D.1 Continuity of Functions 201
D.1.1 Definitions and Examples 201
D.1.2 Uniform Continuity 208
D.1.3 Other Continuity Concepts 210
D.1.4* Remarks on the Differentiability of Real Functions 212
D.1.5 A Fundamental Characterization of Continuity 213
D.1.6 Homeomorphisms 216

D.2 Continuity and Connectedness 218
D.3 Continuity and Compactness 222
D.3.1 Continuous Image of a Compact Set 222
D.3.2 The Local-to-Global Method 223
D.3.3 Weierstrass' Theorem 225
D.4 Semicontinuity 229

D.5 Applications 237
D.5.1* Caristi's Fixed Point Theorem 238
D.5.2 Continuous Representation of a Preference Relation 239
D.5.3* Cauchy's Functional Equations: Additivity on Rn 242
D.5.4* Representation of Additive Preferences 247

D.6 CB(T) and Uniform Convergence 249
D.6.1 The Basic Metric Structure of CB(T) 249
D.6.2 Uniform Convergence 250
D.6.3* The Stone-Weierstrass Theorem and Separability of C(T) 257
D.6.4* The Arzelà-Ascoli Theorem 262
D.7* Extension of Continuous Functions 266

D.8 Fixed Point Theory II 272
D.8.1 The Fixed Point Property 273
D.8.2 Retracts 274
D.8.3 The Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem 277
D.8.4 Applications 280

Chapter E: Continuity II 283
E.1 Correspondences 284
E.2 Continuity of Correspondences 287
E.2.1 Upper Hemicontinuity 287
E.2.2 The Closed Graph Property 294
E.2.3 Lower Hemicontinuity 297
E.2.4 Continuous Correspondences 300
E.2.5* The Hausdorff Metric and Continuity 302
E.3 The Maximum Theorem 306

E.4 Application: Stationary Dynamic Programming 311
E.4.1 The Standard Dynamic Programming Problem 312
E.4.2 The Principle of Optimality 315
E.4.3 Existence and Uniqueness of an Optimal Solution 320
E.4.4 Application: The Optimal Growth Model 324

E.5 Fixed Point Theory III 330
E.5.1 Kakutani's Fixed Point Theorem 331
E.5.2* Michael's Selection Theorem 333
E.5.3* Proof of Kakutani's Fixed Point Theorem 339
E.5.4* Contractive Correspondences 341

E.6 Application: The Nash Equilibrium 343
E.6.1 Strategic Games 343
E.6.2 The Nash Equilibrium 346
E.6.3* Remarks on the Equilibria of Discontinuous Games 351

Part III: ANALYSIS ON LINEAR SPACES 355

Chapter F: Linear Spaces 357
F.1 Linear Spaces 358
F.1.1 Abelian Groups 358
F.1.2 Linear Spaces: Definition and Examples 360
F.1.3 Linear Subspaces, Affine Manifolds, and Hyperplanes 364
F.1.4 Span and Affine Hull of a Set 368
F.1.5 Linear and Affine Independence 370
F.1.6 Bases and Dimension 375

F.2 Linear Operators and Functionals 382
F.2.1 Definitions and Examples 382
F.2.2 Linear and Affine Functions 386
F.2.3 Linear Isomorphisms 389
F.2.4 Hyperplanes, Revisited 392

F.3 Application: Expected Utility Theory 395
F.3.1 The Expected Utility Theorem 395
F.3.2 Utility Theory under Uncertainty 403

F.4* Application: Capacities and the Shapley Value 409
F.4.1 Capacities and Coalitional Games 410
F.4.2 The Linear Space of Capacities 412
F.4.3 The Shapley Value 415

Chapter G: Convexity 422
G.1 Convex Sets 423
G.1.1 Basic Definitions and Examples 423
G.1.2 Convex Cones 428
G.1.3 Ordered Linear Spaces 432
G.1.4 Algebraic and Relative Interior of a Set 436
G.1.5 Algebraic Closure of a Set 447
G.1.6 Finitely Generated Cones 450

G.2 Separation and Extension in Linear Spaces 454
G.2.1 Extension of Linear Functionals 455
G.2.2 Extension of Positive Linear Functionals 460
G.2.3 Separation of Convex Sets by Hyperplanes 462
G.2.4 The External Characterization of Algebraically Closed and Convex Sets 471
G.2.5 Supporting Hyperplanes 473
G.2.6* Superlinear Maps 476

G.3 Reflections on Rn 480
G.3.1 Separation in Rn 480
G.3.2 Support in Rn 486
G.3.3 The Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality 488
G.3.4 Best Approximation from a Convex Set in Rn 489
G.3.5 Orthogonal Complements 492
G.3.6 Extension of Positive Linear Functionals, Revisited 496

Chapter H: Economic Applications 498
H.1 Applications to Expected Utility Theory 499
H.1.1 The Expected Multi-Utility Theorem 499
H.1.2* Knightian Uncertainty 505
H.1.3* The Gilboa-Schmeidler Multi-Prior Model 509

H.2 Applications to Welfare Economics 521
H.2.1 The Second Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics 521
H.2.2 Characterization of Pareto Optima 525
H.2.3* Harsanyi's Utilitarianism Theorem 526

H.3 An Application to Information Theory 528
H.4 Applications to Financial Economics 535
H.4.1 Viability and Arbitrage-Free Price Functionals 535
H.4.2 The No-Arbitrage Theorem 539
H.5 Applications to Cooperative Games 542
H.5.1 The Nash Bargaining Solution 542
H.5.2* Coalitional Games without Side Payments 546

Part IV: ANALYSIS ON METRIC/NORMED LINEAR SPACES 551

Chapter I: Metric Linear Spaces 553
I.1 Metric Linear Spaces 554
I.2 Continuous Linear Operators and Functionals 561
I.2.1 Examples of (Dis-)Continuous Linear Operators 561
I.2.2 Continuity of Positive Linear Functionals 567
I.2.3 Closed versus Dense Hyperplanes 569
I.2.4 Digression: On the Continuity of Concave Functions 573
I.3 Finite-Dimensional Metric Linear Spaces 577
I.4* Compact Sets in Metric Linear Spaces 582
I.5 Convex Analysis in Metric Linear Spaces 587
I.5.1 Closure and Interior of a Convex Set 587
I.5.2 Interior versus Algebraic Interior of a Convex Set 590
I.5.3 Extension of Positive Linear Functionals, Revisited 594
I.5.4 Separation by Closed Hyperplanes 594
I.5.5* Interior versus Algebraic Interior of a Closed and Convex Set 597

Chapter J: Normed Linear Spaces 601
J.1 Normed Linear Spaces 602
J.1.1 A Geometric Motivation 602
J.1.2 Normed Linear Spaces 605
J.1.3 Examples of Normed Linear Spaces 607
J.1.4 Metric versus Normed Linear Spaces 611
J.1.5 Digression: The Lipschitz Continuity of Concave Maps 614

J.2 Banach Spaces 616
J.2.1 Definition and Examples 616
J.2.2 Infinite Series in Banach Spaces 618
J.2.3* On the "Size" of Banach Spaces 620

J.3 Fixed Point Theory IV 623
J.3.1 The Glicksberg-Fan Fixed Point Theorem 623
J.3.2 Application: Existence of the Nash Equilibrium, Revisited 625
J.3.3* The Schauder Fixed Point Theorems 626
J.3.4* Some Consequences of Schauder's Theorems 630
J.3.5* Applications to Functional Equations 634

J.4 Bounded Linear Operators and Functionals 638
J.4.1 Definitions and Examples 638
J.4.2 Linear Homeomorphisms, Revisited 642
J.4.3 The Operator Norm 644
J.4.4 Dual Spaces 648
J.4.5* Discontinuous Linear Functionals, Revisited 649

J.5 Convex Analysis in Normed Linear Spaces 650
J.5.1 Separation by Closed Hyperplanes, Revisited 650
J.5.2* Best Approximation from a Convex Set 652
J.5.3 Extreme Points 654

J.6 Extension in Normed Linear Spaces 661
J.6.1 Extension of Continuous Linear Functionals 661
J.6.2* Infinite-Dimensional Normed Linear Spaces 663
J.7* The Uniform Boundedness Principle 665

Chapter K: Differential Calculus 670
K.1 Fréchet Differentiation 671
K.1.1 Limits of Functions and Tangency 671
K.1.2 What Is a Derivative? 672
K.1.3 The Fréchet Derivative 675
K.1.4 Examples 679
K.1.5 Rules of Differentiation 686
K.1.6 The Second Fréchet Derivative of a Real Function 690
K.1.7 Differentiation on Relatively Open Sets 694

K.2 Generalizations of the Mean Value Theorem 698
K.2.1 The Generalized Mean Value Theorem 698
K.2.2* The Mean Value Inequality 701

K.3 Fréchet Differentiation and Concave Maps 704
K.3.1 Remarks on the Differentiability of Concave Maps 704
K.3.2 Fréchet Differentiable Concave Maps 706

K.4 Optimization 712
K.4.1 Local Extrema of Real Maps 712
K.4.2 Optimization of Concave Maps 716

K.5 Calculus of Variations 718
K.5.1 Finite-Horizon Variational Problems 718
K.5.2 The Euler-Lagrange Equation 721
K.5.3* More on the Sufficiency of the Euler-Lagrange Equation 733
K.5.4 Infinite-Horizon Variational Problems 736
K.5.5 Application: The Optimal Investment Problem 738
K.5.6 Application: The Optimal Growth Problem 740
K.5.7* Application: The Poincaré-Wirtinger Inequality 743

Hints for Selected Exercises 747
References 777
Glossary of Selected Symbols 789
Index 793

Interesting textbook: Macroeconomics or Nonprofit Strategic Positioning

Sarbanes-Oxley and the New Internal Auditing Rules

Author: Robert Moeller

Sarbanes-Oxley and the New Internal Auditing Rules thoroughly and clearly explains the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, how it impacts auditors, and how internal auditing can help with its requirements, such as launching an ethics and whistle-blower program or performing effective internal controls reviews under the COSO framework. With ample coverage of emerging rules that have yet to be issued and other matters subject to change, this book outlines fundamental blueprints of the new rules, technological developments, and evolving trends that impact internal audit professionals.

Order your copy today!

Long Term Care or HR Strategy Focused Individually Centred

Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum

Author: John R Pratt

Even as you read this, the field of long—term care is undergoing a rapid redefinition of both its institutional and community—based providers.

Public policy makers are working to add much—needed alternative modes of delivery to traditional long—term institutional care. New rules, new levels, and new kinds of care are constantly being created. As a result, tomorrow's long—term care administrators will have to be flexible enough to adapt to different management settings, and to oversee an ever—expanding variety of services. They will need the skills essential to managing larger organizations, likely to include multiple aspects of long—term care. Long—Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum provides a solid, realistic foundation on which to build your expertise. You will understand the differences and similarities among the many long—term care services... how the various segments of long—term care fit together to form an overall system ...and the skills you will need to succeed in that system in the future.

Lori L. Popejoy

This book offers an overview of the long-term industry including discussions on types of services available, financing of services, consumers' roles, state and federal regulations, and quality assessment. The purpose is to offer a broad overview of information about long-term care. It is designed to be a practical, usable resource for managers in long-term care. This book is written as a reference for long-term care managers as well as a textbook for management students. It is written in distinct chapters about subjects related to long-term care. The editor discusses some important but controversial changes in the industry such as reimbursement, effects of consumer demands, and state regulations regarding service settings. Challenging issues such as technology, information management, and ethics are reviewed. Case studies are presented at the end of some of the chapters to help illustrate the benefits of different care settings such as nursing home services, homecare, subacute care, and adult day care. The editor covered this complex topic very comprehensively. This would be an excellent textbook for students of management and a valuable resource for managers in long-term care.

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Reviewer: Lori L. Popejoy, MSN, RN, CS (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Description: This book offers an overview of the long-term industry including discussions on types of services available, financing of services, consumers' roles, state and federal regulations, and quality assessment.
Purpose: The purpose is to offer a broad overview of information about long-term care. It is designed to be a practical, usable resource for managers in long-term care.
Audience: This book is written as a reference for long-term care managers as well as a textbook for management students.
Features: It is written in distinct chapters about subjects related to long-term care. The editor discusses some important but controversial changes in the industry such as reimbursement, effects of consumer demands, and state regulations regarding service settings. Challenging issues such as technology, information management, and ethics are reviewed. Case studies are presented at the end of some of the chapters to help illustrate the benefits of different care settings such as nursing home services, homecare, subacute care, and adult day care.
Assessment: The editor covered this complex topic very comprehensively. This would be an excellent textbook for students of management and a valuable resource for managers in long-term care.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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HR Strategy Focused Individually Centred: The Art of Getting Best Value Out of People

Author: Paul Kearns

HR Strategy: Business Focused Individually Centred addresses the two key themes of translating business strategy into a workable, measurable HR strategy while simultaneously tapping into the needs and motivational patterns of individual employees in order to unleash their maximum value. The ultimate aim of any HR strategy is to design the highest value organization.

Strategy may be a notoriously difficult topic to pin down but the author produces both a wide-angle view and specific examples of what a real HR strategy looks like in different organizational contexts. This is a book that covers the theory but swiftly moves on to the question of how anyone might actually start to develop a high value HR strategy. It shows the key ingredients and practical steps involved in implementation.

* Provides a total re-appraisal and critique of the theory and practice of HR strategy
* Incorporates references to companies such as British Airways, GE, Microsoft, Sears, Siebel, Toyota and Verizon
* Demonstrates how different organizations have to develop their own unique HR strategies

Table of Contents:

	About the author
	Introduction
1	What is a strategy?	3
2	HR strategy starts with a business strategy	15
3	Why is strategy so important in HR?	26
4	What makes an HR 'strategy' a strategy?	31
5	HR theories need to be revisited	55
6	Are organizations ready for strategic HR?	71
7	An introduction to true HR strategy	87
8	Who will develop the HR strategy?	110
9	HR strategy and change management	118
10	First steps towards HR strategy	129
11	What factors influence the choice of HR strategy?	144
12	Strategic tools and the use of measures	159
13	Designing the high value organization	179
14	The future for HR strategy?	194
App. 1	How much is a good HR strategy worth?	203
App. 2	Are you engaged by your organization?	205
App. 3	Do you have an HR strategy or just a series of policies?	208
App. 4	A strategic dialogue between the HR strategist and the CEO	210
App. 5	Some strategic HR insights using a case study	213
App. 6	A statement of employer and employee commitment	216
App. 7	Spot the strategic HR decision	218
App. 8	Strategic HR at MAFF?	220
	Bibliography	223
	Index	225

The Moral Leader or Organization Theory

The Moral Leader

Author: Sandra J Sucher

Successful leaders - at any level and in any arena - are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in moral analysis and judgment, and to come to terms with their own definition of moral leadership and how it can be translated into action. Drawing on the inspiration of major literary and historical figures such as Machiavelli, Conrad, Shackleton and Achebe, and based upon an impressive array of literary sources, including novels, plays, history and biography, the book centers on four questions implicitly asked of all leaders:

• What is the nature of a moral challenge?
• How do people 'reason morally'?
• How do leaders contend with the moral choices they face?
• How is moral leadership different from leadership in general?

The Moral Leader is based upon the renowned course of the same name taught at Harvard Business School for over two decades. With an emphasis on decision-making and action, students learn to identify moral problems, to address them systematically, and to develop skills that aid them throughout their studies and their professional lives. At times challenging, insightful, and always illuminating, this book is essential reading for all serious students of leadership, management, business ethics or policy.

Book about: Lactose free Cookbook or Stop the Chaos

Organization Theory: A Public and Non-Profit Perspective

Author: Harold F Gortner

Master organizational theory with ORGANIZATION THEORY: A PUBLIC AND NON-PROFIT PERSPECTIVE! With coverage of how organizational theories relate to both government and nonprofits, this political science text provides you with information that is vital for your future career. A book specific website provides case studies, review materials, and links for further exploration that help you discover how theory applies to real-life. Studying is made easy with tools found throughout the text such as review questions, a glossary of important terms, ethical considerations, and the impact of technology on government and nonprofit organizations.

Table of Contents:

Preface. 1. Organization Research and Theory. 2. Blurring Sectors: Public and Private. 3. Pivotal Controversies. 4. Structure. 5. Communication. 6. Accountability and Transparency. 7. Decisionmaking. 8. Motivation and Culture. 9. Leadership. 10. Change and Stability. Glossary. Index (an author index and a subject index).

Global Financial Markets or Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State

Global Financial Markets

Author: Ian Giddy

This text explores foreign exchange options theory and trading, equity markets, commodity markets, swap financing techniques, and financial innovations in international corporate financing such as hybrid Eurobonds. Its hands-on approach features end-of-chapter conceptual questions and extended applications with data drawn from real corporate and banking situations. Over 30 applied cases are included.

Look this: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics or East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State

Author: Miguel Glatzer

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the global political economy has undergone a profound transformation. Democracy has swept the globe, and both rich and developing nations must compete in an increasingly integrated world economy.



How are social welfare policies being affected by this wave of economic globalization? Leading researchers explore the complex question in this new comparative study. Shifting their focus from the more commonly studied, established welfare states of northwestern Europe, the authors of Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State examine policy development in the middle-income countries of southern and eastern Europe, Latin America, Russia, and East Asia.



Previous investigations into the effects of globalization on welfare states have generally come to one of two conclusions. The first is that a global economy undermines existing welfare states and obstructs new developments in social policy, as generous provisions place a burden on a nation's resources and its ability to compete in the international marketplace. In contrast, the second builds on the finding that economic openness is positively correlated with greater social spending, which suggests that globalization and welfare states can be mutually reinforcing.



Here the authors find that globalization and the success of the welfare state are by no means as incompatible as the first view implies. The developing countries analyzed demonstrate that although there is great variability across countries and regions, domestic political processes and institutions play key roles in managing the disruptions wrought by globalization.

Table of Contents:

1	An introduction to the problem	1
2	Globalization, democratization, and government spending in middle-income countries	23
3	Economic internationalization and domestic compensation : Northwestern Europe in comparative perspective	49
4	Globalization and social policy developments in Latin America	75
5	Revisiting "embedded liberalism" : globalization and the welfare state in Spain and Portugal	106
6	Globalization and the future of welfare states in post-communist East-Central European countries	130
7	Globalization and the politics of welfare state reform in Russia	153
8	Globalization and social policy in South Korea	179
9	Conclusion : politics matters	203

Economics of Banking or Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling

Economics of Banking

Author: Kent Matthews

The Economics of Banking describes and explains trends and operations in banking within an accessible microeconomic framework. It incorporates theory with the practical aspects of banking so as to set banking within the economics paradigm. A primary section on trends within banking leads on to chapters on the microeconomics of banking, market structure and regulation. The overall objective is to provide a mathematically accessible microeconomic context that will help students understand and analyze trends and operations in banking.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 Trends in Domestic and International Banking 1

Ch. 2 Financial Intermediation: The Impact of the Capital Market 21

Ch. 3 Banks and Financial Intermediation 35

Ch. 4 Banking Typology 51

Ch. 5 International Banking 61

Ch. 6 The Theory of the Banking Firm 77

Ch. 7 Models of Banking Behaviour 93

Ch. 8 Credit Rationing 115

Ch. 9 Securitization 131

Ch. 10 Banking Efficiency and the Structure of Banking 147

Ch. 11 Banking Competition 171

Ch. 12 Bank Regulation 187

Ch. 13 Risk Management 209

Ch. 14 The Macroeconomics of Banking 243

References 265

Index 273

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Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling

Author: Thomas A Ho

The essential premise of this book is that theory and practice are equally important in describing financial modeling. In it the authors try to strike a balance in their discussions between theories that provide foundations for financial models and the institutional details that provide the context for applications of the models. The book presents the financial models of stock and bond options, exotic options, investment grade and high-yield bonds, convertible bonds, mortgage-backed securities, liabilities of financial institutions -- the business model and the corporate model. It also describes the applications of the models to corporate finance. Furthermore, it relates the models to financial statements, risk management for an enterprise, and asset/liability management with illiquid instruments. The financial models are progressively presented from option pricing in the securities markets to firm valuation in corporate finance, following a format to emphasize the three aspects of a model: the set of assumptions, the model specification, and the model applications. Generally, financial modeling books segment the world of finance as "investments," "financial institutions," "corporate finance," and "securities analysis," and in so doing they rarely emphasize the relationships between the subjects. This unique book successfully ties the thought processes and applications of the financial models together and describes them as one process that provides business solutions. Created as a companion website to the book readers can visit thomasho.com to gain deeper understanding of the book's financial models. Interested readers can build and test the models described in the book usingExcel, and they can submit their models to the site. Readers can also use the site's forum to discuss the models and can browse server based models to gain insights into the applications of the models. For those using the book in meetings or class settings the site provides Power Point descriptions of the chapters. Students can use available question banks on the chapters for studying.

ISO 14000 or The Political Economy of American Monetary Policy

ISO 14000: Environmental Management

Author: David L Goetsch

ISO 14000: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT covers the background and component parts of the ISO 14000 standard. It clearly describes the requirements of the standard, the documentation required, and ways to prepare for and complete the registration audit. The content and approach of this text make it a valuable classroom text as well as a practical hands-on manual for implementing an environmental management system conforming to ISO 14000.

Some of the features that highlight the value of this text include:

Boxed highlights of information (ISO 14000 Info) about the standard, its background and application

Chapter ending summaries and key concept lists

Factual Review Questions and Critical Thinking Problems for each chapter

A list of ISO Member Bodies (full members)

Table of Contents:

(NOTE: Each chapter includes a summary, list of key concepts, review questions, critical thinking problems and discussion cases with related questions.)

1. Background of ISO 14000 and Why It Exists.


2. Decoding ISO 14000.


3. Requirements of ISO 14000.


4. The Environmental Management System (EMS).


5. EMS Documentation.


6. Registration and the Audit Process.


7. EMS Performance Improvement.


8. Implementing ISO 14000: Steps to Registration.


9. Other ISO Standards, Issues, and Developments.


10. ISO 14000 Checklist.


Appendix A: ISO Member Body Roll (Full Members).


Index.

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The Political Economy of American Monetary Policy

Author: Thomas Mayer

This collection of essays examines the institutional framework in which monetary policy is made. The essays consider two questions: How free is the Fed to set monetary policy and to what extent do organizational problems affect the choice of that monetary policy? Topics covered include the Fed's response to movements on its goals, Congressional and presidential pressures on the Fed, the existence of political business cycles operating through monetary policy, and the extent to which monetary policy may be explained by the Fed's own interests. A final section examines the claim that the Federal Reserve follows countercyclical policy and evaluates its performance as a lender to banks both in normal times and as a lender of last resort.

Redeveloping Communication for Social Change or Information Security Management Handbook Fourth Edition Volume 2

Redeveloping Communication for Social Change: Theory, Practice, and Power

Author: Karin G Wilkins

To reshape the field of development communication, "Redeveloping Communication for Social Change" proposes situating theory and practice within contexts of power, recognizing both the ability of dominant groups to control and the potential for marginal communities to resist. Contributors from communication and anthropology explore the global and institutional structures within which agencies construct social problems and interventions, the discourse guiding the normative climate for conceiving and implementing projects, and the practice of strategic interventions for social change. Examining early and emerging models of development, power dynamics, ethnographic approaches, gender issues, and information technologies, they speculate how a framework accounting for power might contribute toward new directions and applications in the field. Instead of mourning the demise of development communication, this volume should provoke critical debate that will help us change our approaches to meet new challenges.

Author Biography: Karin Gwinn Wilkins is assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, with joint appointments in the Center for Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Population Research Center.

Interesting textbook: Student Study Guide to Accompany Contemporary Management or Transnational Management

Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume 2

Author: Harold F Tipton

The runaway growth of computer viruses and worms and the ongoing nuisance posed by malicious hackers and employees who exploit the security vulnerabilities of open network protocols make the tightness of an organization's security system an issue of prime importance. And information systems technology is advancing at a frenetic pace. Against this background, the challenges facing information security professionals are increasing rapidly.Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume 2 is an essential reference for anyone involved in the security of information systems.

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In response to new developments in information technologies, this second volume supplements the fourth edition with new information, covering access control issues; authentication services; network security<-->which includes ATM, frame relay, remote access, network monitoring, and TCP/IP; intrusion detection; penetration testing; secure voice communications; cryptography; security architecture and models; operations security; business continuity planning; and law and ethics. The format continues to follow the standard for Certified Information Systems Security (CISSP) professional certification examination. Contributors are all specialists in computer security systems for various corporations, and/or are associated with CISSP. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Access Control Systems and Methodology

Access Control Issues

Access Control Administration

Telecommunications and Network Security

Network Security

Internet, Intranet, and Extranet Security

Voice Communications

Security Management Practices

Security Awareness

Policies, Standards, Procedures, and Guidelines

Risk Management

Applications and Systems Development Security

Application Security

System Security

Cryptography

Crypto Technology and Implementations

Security Architecture and Models

Microcomputer and LAN Security

Systems Architecture and Design

Operations Security

Threats

Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning

Business Continuity Planning

Law, Investigations, and Ethics

Investigation

Generalized Method of Moments Estimation or Cognition and Communication at Work

Generalized Method of Moments Estimation

Author: Laszlo Matyas

The generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation has emerged over the past decade as providing a ready to use, flexible tool of application to a large number of econometric and economic models by relying on mild, plausible assumptions. The principal objective of this volume, the first devoted entirely to the GMM methodology, is to offer a complete and up to date presentation of the theory of GMM estimation as well as insights into the use of these methods in empirical studies. It is also designed to serve as a unified framework for teaching estimation theory in econometrics. Contributors to the volume include well-known authorities in the field based in North America, the UK/Europe, and Australia.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	1
1	Introduction to the Generalized Method of Moments Estimation	3
2	GMM Estimation Techniques	31
3	Covariance Matrix Estimation	63
4	Hypothesis Testing in Models Estimated by GMM	96
5	Finite Sample Properties of GMM estimators and Tests	128
6	GMM Estimation of Time Series Models	149
7	Reduced Rank Regression Using GMM	171
8	Estimation of Linear Panel Data Models Using GMM	211
9	Alternative GMM Methods for Nonlinear Panel Data Models	248
10	Simulation Based Method of Moments	275
11	Logically Inconsistent Limited Dependent Variables Models	301
	Index	313

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Cognition and Communication at Work

Author: Yrjo Engestrom

This book brings together contributions from researchers within various social science disciplines who seek to redefine the methods and topics that constitute the study of work. They investigate work activity in ways that do not reduce it to a "psychology" of individual cognition or to a "sociology" of societal structures and communication. A key theme in the material is the relationship between theory and practice. Mindful practices and communicative interaction are examined as situated issues at work in the reproduction of communities of practice in a variety of settings including: courts of law, computer software design, the piloting of airliners, the coordination of air traffic control, and traffic management in underground railway systems.

The World Trade Organization or The Substantive Law of the EU

The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice, and Policy

Author: Mitsuo Matsushita

The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood. This comprehensively updated new edition of the acclaimed book by an outstanding team of WTO law specialists, provides a complete overview of the law and practice of the WTO. The authors explain the origins and development, via the GATT, of all of the substantive legal areas covered by the WTO, as well as the sources of law and remedies of the Dispute Settlement system.

Table of Contents:

1. The World Trade Organization

2. Dispute Settlement

3. Sources of Law

4. Remedies

5. The WTO and Domestic Law

6. Tariffs, Quotas and Other Barriers to Market Access

7. Agricultural Trade

8. The Most Favoured Nation Principle

9. The National Treatment Principle

10. Government Procurement

11. Safeguards

12. Export Controls and National Security

13. Trade in Services

14. Subsidies and Countervailing Duties

15. Antidumping

16. Regional Trade Agreements

17. Developing Countries

18. Intellectual Property

19. Environmental Protection and Trade

20. Technical Barriers, Standards, Trade and Health

21. Trade and Investment

22. Competition Policy and Trade

23. Future Challenges

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The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms

Author: Catherine Barnard

This book focuses on the substantive law of the EU with regard to the free movement of goods, persons, services, and capital. An introductory chapter outlines the background to EU law in this sphere; the role of free trade theory, the development of economic integration until the present day, and the fundamental principles underpinning this development. The author makes judicious use of case studies to illustrate and develop central issues, diagrams and flowcharts to clarify the more complex areas of this sphere of EU law.
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Brief Treatment in Clinical Social Work Practice or Essentials of Business Statistics

Brief Treatment in Clinical Social Work Practice

Author: Corwin

Author Maria Corwin offers a text that addresses the current concerns that professionals may have regarding shorter treatment programs. As stated in her preface, her goal is to "help students and clinical workers gain a sense of competency and confidence in doing time-limited work."

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In seeking to help clinicians and students gain a sense of competency in learning/applying existing behavioral health care skills in the time-limited treatment environment required by managed care, Corwin (Bryn Mawr College) addresses concerns about, the specific tasks and theoretical foundation of such therapy with diverse clients in diverse settings. Chapters include case examples, assessment-intervention exercises with an answer key, and recommended reading. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Brief Treatment in Clinical Social Work Practice: Context and Rationale	1
Ch. 2	Brief Treatment Principles and Techniques: Theoretical Foundation	13
Ch. 3	Levels of Intervention: The Engagement and Assessment Process	27
Ch. 4	Levels of Intervention: Case Conceptualization and Treatment Plan	55
Ch. 5	The Intervention Phase	75
Ch. 6	Brief Treatment with Children and Families: Family Service Agencies	110
Ch. 7	Working Briefly with Complex Clinical Problems: Community Mental Health Care	146
Ch. 8	Brief Social Work Practice in Health Care	181
Ch. 9	Brief Treatment in Health Maintenance Organizations and Employee Assistance Programs	211
	Afterword: Principled Practice	237
	App.: Answers to Case Exercises	241
	References	247
	Index	261

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Essentials of Business Statistics (with CD-ROM)

Author: Ronald M Weiers

ESSENTIALS OF BUSINESS STATISTICS is a select subset of the core chapters from the renowned INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS STATISTICS. Highly praised for its clarity and great examples, Ronald Weiers' text takes an informal, student-oriented approach to presenting fundamental statistical concepts. Non-technical terminology and outstanding illustrations explain statistical concepts in the context of contemporary applications. Weiers puts business students at ease with the material by providing numerous learning aids and interesting applications drawn from students' real-world experience.

Risk Management for Computer Security or Foundations and Public Policy

Risk Management for Computer Security: Protecting Your Network and Information Assets

Author: Andy Jones

The information systems security (InfoSec) profession remains one of the fastest growing professions in the world today. With the advent of the Internet and its use as a method of conducting business, even more emphasis is being placed on InfoSec. However, there is an expanded field of threats that must be addressed by today's InfoSec and information assurance (IA) professionals.
Operating within a global business environment with elements of a virtual workforce can create problems not experienced in the past. How do you assess the risk to the organization when information can be accessed, remotely, by employees in the field or while they are traveling internationally? How do you assess the risk to employees who are not working on company premises and are often thousands of miles from the office? How do you assess the risk to your organization and its assets when you have offices or facilities in a nation whose government may be supporting the theft of the corporate "crown jewels" in order to assist their own nationally owned or supported corporations? If your risk assessment and management program is to be effective, then these issues must be assessed.
Personnel involved in the risk assessment and management process face a much more complex environment today than they have ever encountered before.
This book covers more than just the fundamental elements that make up a good risk program. It provides an integrated "how to" approach to implementing a corporate program, complete with tested methods and processes; flowcharts; and checklists that can be used by the reader and immediately implemented into a computer and overall corporate security program. The challenges are manyand this book will help professionals in meeting their challenges as we progress through the 21st Century.

*Presents material in an engaging, easy-to-follow manner that will appeal to both advanced INFOSEC career professionals and network administrators entering the information security profession
*Addresses the needs of both the individuals who are new to the subject as well as of experienced professionals
*Provides insight into the factors that need to be considered & fully explains the numerous methods, processes & procedures of risk management

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Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism

Author: Joan Roelofs

Documents how even progressive foundations serve to reinforce the political staus quo.

In this pathbreaking study of foundation influence, author Joan Roelofs produces a comprehensive picture of philanthropy's critical role in society. She shows how a vast number of policy innovations have arisen from the most important foundations, lessening the destructive impact of global marketization. Conversely, groups and movements that might challenge the status quo are nudged into line with grants and technical assistance, and foundations also have considerable power to shape such things as public opinion, higher education, and elite ideology. The cumulative effect is that foundations, despite their progressive goals, have a depoliticizing effect, one that preserves the hegemony of neoliberal institutions.

Author Biography: Joan Roelofs is Professor of Political Science at Keene State College. She is the author of Greening Cities: Building Just and Sustainable Communities.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	What Are Foundations?	7
3	Ideology and Information	27
4	Reforming Government	65
5	Market Supplement: Arts and Culture	81
6	Market Supplement: Social Welfare and the Economy	89
7	Foundations and the Legal System	101
8	Social Change Organizations	121
9	International Activities	157
10	Conclusions and Questions for Further Research	197
App. A	Inquiry Letter for Haymarket Research	211
App. B	Haymarket Research Questionnaire	213
App. C	Selected Groups Funded by Haymarket 1974-1978	215
	Notes	219
	Select Bibliography	249
	Index	259

A Hazardous Inquiry or Happiness and Hardship

A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal

Author: Allan Mazur

Love Canal. We hear these words and quickly recoil, remembering a community poisoned by toxic waste. Twenty years after the incident, Allan Mazur reexamines the circumstances that made this upstate New York neighborhood synonymous with ecological catastrophe and triggered federal "Superfund" legislation to clean up the nation's thousands of hazardous waste sites.

But is there only one true story of Love Canal? Borrowing the multi-viewpoint technique of the classic Japanese film Rashomon, Mazur's book reveals that there are many—often conflicting versions of what occurred at Love Canal. Hooker Chemical Company, which deposited the toxic wastes, explains why it subsequently donated the dump as the site for a new school. Lois Gibbs, whose son attended the school, tells of organizing the community to fight both the chemical threat and the uncaring state bureaucracy. Then there is the story of David Axelrod, New York's embattled commissioner of health, at odds with the homeowners over their assessment of the hazards and the proper extent of the state's response. We also hear from Michael Brown, the young reporter who developed the story in the Niagara Gazette and eventually brought the problem of toxic waste to national attention.

If A Hazardous Inquiry succeeded only in making us understand why one version of the events at Love Canal gained precedence over all others, it would be invaluable to policy makers, journalists, scientists, environmentalists, lawyers, and to citizens caught up in technical controversies that get played out (for better or worse) in the public arena. But the book moves beyond that to evaluate and reconcile the conflictingaccounts of Love Canal, giving us a fuller, if more complex, picture than ever before. Through gripping personal tales, A Hazardous Inquiry tells how politics and journalism and epidemiology sometimes mesh, but often clash, when confronting a potential community disaster.

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Dorothy Nelkin
An excellent book...Allan Mazur has contributed significantly to the understanding of policy controversies.

John D. Graham
A revealing and disturbing account of how the Love Canal episode was bungled, with ordinary homeowners getting the short end of the stick! Beautifully written and meticulously documented.

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Happiness and Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies

Author: Carol Graham

Why are some societies able to weather significant economic hardship and still maintain political and social stability, while others break apart in the face of even minor economic declines? Why do some societies with high levels of income inequality broadly support market policies, while those with fewer disparities are harsh critics of such policies and their implications for income distribution? In Happiness and Hardship, Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato argue that the political sustainability of market-oriented growth is determined as much by relative income levels and trends as by absolute ones, as much by opportunity and mobility over time as by current distribution patterns. They believe that subjective assessments of, and expectations for, economic progress importantly affect individual responses to economic incentives and attitudes to market policies.

Subjective well-being has long been the province of the behavioral sciences, but Graham and Pettinato illustrate how this literature also has great relevance to economists and political scientists, calling into question standard assumptions about the role of rational, material self-interest in determining economic behavior. Using data from seventeen Latin American countries -- including their own detailed survey data on mobility and subjective well-being in Peru -- and from Russia, they analyze the relationship between objective economic conditions and perceived well-being and explore possible links between these findings and attitudes about market policies and democracy. This path-breaking book provides a new conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between subjective well-being, or happiness, and the political sustainability of market-oriented growth in countries where markets are newly emerging.

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Attempting to bring subjective well-being (or happiness) into examinations of political and economic stability in societies, Graham and Pettinato (both of the Brookings Institution) identify variables that influence happiness and suggest policies for influencing people's subjective well-being. Focusing on Latin America and Russia, they explore how people perceive their own economic mobility and their relationship to income distribution differences. They suggest that the level of macroeconomic volatility is a primary factor in individuals' happiness and relate these findings to individuals' support or rejection of economic policies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	New Approaches to Old Inequities: Mobility, Opportunity, and Subjective Well-Being	1
2	Mobility, Subjective Well-Being, and Public Perceptions: Stuck in the Tunnel or Moving Up the Ladder?	13
3	Concepts and Trends in Income Mobility	36
4	Happiness, Markets, and Democracy: Latin America, Russia, and the United States	71
5	Frustrated Achievers: Mobility Trends and Subjective Well-Being in Peru and Russia	101
6	Frustrated Achievers in a Global Economy: Challenges for Policy and Future Research	137
	References	155
	Index	167

Reading Economic Geography or Transnational Urbanism

Reading Economic Geography

Author: Trevor J Barnes

This reader introduces students to examples of the most important research in the field of economic geography.

• Brings together the most important research contributions to economic geography.

• Editorial commentary makes the material accessible for students.

• The editors are highly respected in their field.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Reading Economic Geography	1
Pt. I	Worlds of Economic Geography	11
	Introduction: Paradigms Lost	13
1	The Difference a Generation Makes	19
2	Industry and Space: A Sympathetic Critique of Radical Research	29
3	An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development	48
4	Refiguring the Economic in Economic Geography	59
5	The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse and the Body Economic	72
Pt. II	Realms of Production	89
	Introduction: Problematizing Production	91
6	Is There a Service Economy? The Changing Capitalist Division of Labor	97
7	Uneven Development: Social Change and Spatial Divisions of Labor	111
8	Flexible Production Systems and Regional Development: The Rise of New Industrial Spaces in North America and Western Europe	125
9	Global-Local Tensions: Firms and States in the Global Space-Economy	137
10	The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora	151
Pt. III	Resource Worlds	167
	Introduction: Producing Nature	169
11	Nature, Economy, and the Cultural Politics of Theory: The "War Against the Seals" in the Bering Sea, 1870-1911	175
12	Modernity and Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890-1930	189
13	Oil as Money: The Devil's Excrement and the Spectacle of Black Gold	205
14	Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in The Gambia	220
15	Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food	235
Pt. IV	Social Worlds	249
	Introduction: Bringing in the Social	251
16	Bringing the Qualitative State back into Economic Geography	257
17	Territories, Flows, and Hierarchies in the Global Economy	271
18	Contesting Works Closures in Western Europe's Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place or Betraying Class?	290
19	Class and Gender Relations in the Local Labor Market and the Local State	304
20	Thinking through Work: Gender, Power, and Space	315
Pt. V	Spaces of Circulation	329
	Introduction: From Distance to Connectivity	331
21	The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place, and Information Technology	336
22	Best Practice? Geography, Learning, and the Institutional Limits to Strong Convergence	350
23	Blood, Thicker than Water: Interpersonal Relations and Taiwanese Investment in Southern China	362
24	From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny: Discursive Geographies of Filipina Domestic Workers in Vancouver, BC	375
25	Discourse and Practice in Human Geography	389
	Consolidated bibliography	403
	Index	439

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Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization

Author: Michael Peter Smith

Transnational Urbanism is a profound work of theoretical synthesis by internationally renowned urban theorist Michael Peter Smith. Moving deftly across disciplines and discursive terrains, Smith forges original and stimulating connections between urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies. With original and extraordinary insight, he addresses the central question of how and why immigrants, refugees, political activists, and institutions locate and maintain social relations in light of transnational urbanism.

• Brings a concrete, historically informed discussion of globalization and transnationalism applied to urban studies.

• Offers a blueprint for reconstructing urban theory itself .

• Forges stimulating connections between the field of urban studies and the emerging field of transnational studies .

Applied Statistical Decision Theory or Global Operations and Logistics

Applied Statistical Decision Theory

Author: Robert Schlaifer

"In the field of statistical decision theory, Raiffa and Schlaifer have sought to develop new analytic techniques by which the modern theory of utility and subjective probability can actually be applied to the economic analysis of typical sampling problems."--From the foreword to their classic work Applied Statistical Decision Theory. First published in the 1960s through Harvard University and MIT Press, the book is now offered in a new paperback edition from Wiley.

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Addressed to those who are interested in using statistics as a tool in practical problems of decision making under conditions of uncertainty and who also have the necessary training in mathematics and statistics to employ these analytical techniques. The underlying principle of the material outlined in the book is the Bayesian approach which provides a formal mechanism for taking account of preferences and weights rather than leaving it up to the decision maker's intuition. Topics covered include sufficient statistics and noninformative stopping, conjugate prior distributions, additive utility and opportunity loss, linear terminal analysis, selection of processes, problems in which the act and state spaces coincide, multivariate normalized density functions, Bernoulli process, Poisson process, independent normal process, and normal regression process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

EXPERIMENTATION AND DECISION: GENERAL THEORY.

The Problem and the Two Basic Modes of Analysis.

Sufficient Statistics and Noninformative Stopping.

Conjugate Prior Distributions.

EXTENSIVE-FORM ANALYSIS WHEN SAMPLING AND TERMINAL UTILITIES ARE ADDITIVE.

Additive Utility, Opportunity Loss, and the Value of Information: Introduction to Part II.

Linear Terminal Analysis.

Selection of the Best of Several Processes.

Problems in Which the Act and State Spaces Coincide.

DISTRIBUTION THEORY.

Univariate Normalized Mass and Density Functions.

Multivariate Normalized Density Functions.

Bernoulli Process.

Poisson Process.

Independent Normal Process.

Independent Multinormal Process.

Normal Regression Process.

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Global Operations and Logistics: Text and Cases

Author: Michel Fender

This book addresses the process of global operations management-from strategic thinking all the way through planning and execution. It demonstrates the implications for the different functional areas involved like operations, marketing, and information systems and contains numerous cases from Europe, the U.S., Latin America, and Asia.

Statistical Analysis of Financial Data in S Plus or Global Exchange

Statistical Analysis of Financial Data in S-Plus (Springer Texts in Statistics)

Author: Rene A Carmona

This book introduces students to modern day analysis techniques, with an emphasis on a domain of applications of interest to financial engineering. It is both computational and mathematical in nature. Most problems considered are formulated in a rigorous manner. The book is divided in to three parts; Part I: Exploratory Data Analysis, Part II: Regression, and Part III: Time Series and State Space Models.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Data Exploration, Estimation and Simulation
1	Univariate Exploratory Data Analysis	3
2	Multivariate Data Exploration	49
Pt. II	Regression
3	Parametric Regression	105
4	Local & Nonparametric Regression	175
Pt. III	Time Series & State Space Models
5	Time Series Models: AR, MA, ARMA, & All That	239
6	Multivariate Time Series, Linear Systems & Kalman Filtering	311
7	Nonlinear Time Series: Models and Simulation	353
App	An Introduction to s and s-Plus	411
	References	429
	Notation Index	433
	Data Set Index	435
	S-Plus Index	437
	Author Index	441
	Subject Index	445

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Global Exchange: Reading and Writing in a World Context

Author: Ann Watters

Expand your perceptions and challenge your ideas.

To reflect critically on the events of our times, we benefit from moving beyond our traditional means of obtaining information and exchanging ideas. Global Exchange helps you have a clearer understanding of our international context and of non-U.S. perspectives; encourages you to take discussions outward and to pursue more information and other viewpoints; and allows you to test your own ideas and your ability to communicate across cultures.

Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England or Americas Inadvertent Empire

Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development

Author: Joseph E Inikori

Drawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical advances on the connection between expanding markets and technological developments, this book reveals the critical role of the expansion of Atlantic commerce in the successful completion of England's industrialization from 1650-1850. The volume is the first detailed study of the role of overseas trade in the Industrial Revolution. It revises other explanations that have recently dominated the field and shifts the assessment of African contribution away from the debate on profits.

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Arguing that private enterprise, market-based models of industrialization are only possible with an intensive involvement in international trade, Inikori (history, U. of Rochester) links the industrialization process in England (specifically, the completion of the mechanization of cotton textiles) to the role of the African Diaspora in the production of cotton as a commodity in the Americas. He argues that Atlantic trade was the central driving force behind England's industrialization and that this would not have been possible without the forced labor of African commodity production. The economies of scale of slave labor allowed prices on trade to be kept low enough that textile products were brought within reach of all of England's social classes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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America's Inadvertent Empire

Author: William E Odom

The United States finds itself at the center of a historically unparalleled empire, one that is wealth-generating and voluntary rather than imperialistic, say the authors of this compelling book. William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric examine America’s unprecedented power within the international arenas of politics, economics, demographics, education, science, and culture. They argue persuasively that the major threat to this unique empire is ineffective U.S. leadership, not a rising rival power center.
America cannot simply behave as an ordinary sovereign state, Odom and Dujarric contend. They describe the responsibilities that accompany staggering power advantages and explain that resorting to unilateralism makes sense only when it becomes necessary to overcome paralysis in multilateral organizations. The authors also offer insights into the importance of liberal international institutions as a source of power, why international cooperation pays, and why spreading democracy often inhibits the spread of constitutional order. If the United States uses its own power constructively, the authors conclude, the American empire will flourish for a long time.

Publishers Weekly

Like Jim Garrison (see above), these two policy experts recognize that the United States has risen to such unprecedented levels on all fronts that no other nation or even alliance of nations can counterbalance its power. But unlike Garrison, who wants the U.S. to create a global society, Odom (former head of the National Security Agency) and Dujarric (a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations) envision "strong prospects for sustaining the American empire for a very long time." The tone is cautiously pragmatic, calling for the preservation of Liberal (with a capital L) institutions that will propagate American values and urging political leaders not to overreact to terrorism, which they deem "a tactic, not an enemy." (Mar.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Foreign Affairs

How durable is U.S. power? The authors of this thoughtful, well-researched study offer mostly optimistic answers. Looking at sources of power ranging from military strength to academic institutions and scientific accomplishments, Odom and Dujarric conclude that the current position of the United States could last for decades — if not longer. Their basic argument is that the United States is strong because it has a depth and breadth of liberal practices and institutions that other societies cannot match — and that because liberal institutions generally reflect long-term cultural habits and trends, they will not soon catch up. This case is a sort of synthesis between Francis Fukuyama's end of history and Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations: liberal values lead to success, but not everyone can get there.

The most important warning the authors offer is that, because of poor leadership (they point to examples in both the Clinton and Bush administrations), the United States could adopt bad policies that cause others to band together against its power. This claim seems a little inconsistent; surely a society as well ordered as the liberal one they describe would do a reasonably decent job of choosing national leaders. In any case, the authors leave themselves a realistic if inelegant escape hatch: Bush's unilateral, confrontational policies are dangerous and poorly conceived — unless they turn out well.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables and Figures
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Sources of American Power	11
2	An Empire of a New Type	36
3	The Military Power Gap	64
4	The Demography Gap	97
5	The Economic Performance Gap	124
6	The University Gap	161
7	The Science Gap	188
8	The Media and Mass Culture Gaps	196
	Conclusion	204
App	The Debate to Date	219
	Notes	225
	Bibliography	257
	Index	277

Merchandise Buying 5th Edition or Developing Practical Wireless Applications

Merchandise Buying, 5th Edition

Author: Maryanne Smith Bohlinger

Currently in its fifth edition, Merchandise Buying is a comprehensive text for students interested in the art and process behind retail merchandise buying. A standard in the field, this book also works well as a review of basic buying and merchandising principles for the practitioner and those already in business wishing to strengthen their entrepreneurial and managerial skills. Each section contains mini-cases that reinforce text material by presenting typical retail situations that students can relate to. Touching on the current state of buying, including diversification and mergers, socioeconomic forces, and the globalization of retailing, Bohlinger, a recognized name in the field, provides practical information in a clear and engaging fashion for students to use in determining their career goals.

Table of Contents:

• The Buyer's Role in the Retailing Environment
• The Buyer's Role in Forecasting Consumer Wants and Needs
• The Buyer's Role in Merchandising Management: Planning and Controlling
• The Buyer's Role in Locating Merchandise Resources
• The Buyer's Role in Preparing Merchandise for Sale

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Developing Practical Wireless Applications

Author: Dean A Gratton

"A valuable insight. Developing Practical Wireless Applications offers a great deal more than that found in the numerous specifications; it has a rich content that surpasses other technical books." — Thomas Eve-Matthews B.Sc., M.Sc., Software Engineer

"Incredibly raw and passionate. Developing Practical Wireless Applications provides a unique critique on a number of wireless technologies whilst remaining realistic about the ordinary consumer." — Christopher Allen B.Sc., Product Manager

"Nothing but the truth! Developing Practical Wireless Applications approaches wireless product development from an unexpected angle and challenges our fundamental beliefs." — Andrew D. Barry Ph.D., Senior Applications Architect

KEY FEATURES:
*Explores techniques used to attack wireless networks including WarXing, WarChalking, BlueJacking, and BlueSnarfing
*Discusses applications utilizing ZigBee, NFC, RFID, Ultra-Wideband and WirelessUSB (WiMedia)
*Details Bluetooth 2.x +EDR and introduces the v3.0 (BToverUWB) specification
*Includes fundamental introductions to WiFi, namely 802.11i, 802.11p and 802.11n
*Compares personal-area and wide-area communications including 3G, HSDPA, 4G, and WiMAX, as well as introducing Wireless Convergence

Developing Practical Wireless Applications will help administrators and developers decide which technology and solutions are the best choice for a project. Wireless application manufacturers have a diverse collection of standardized and proprietary solutions available when developing and designing a wireless application; this book compares and contrasts these solutions guiding the practitioner to thebest option. A comprehensive understanding of how wireless technologies operate including an examination of how these technologies overlap, complement, and compete is presented.

The practicality of a wireless world is discussed in an attempt to better understand wireless application audiences and specific demographic groups. A richer understanding of the wireless consumer, along with complete knowledge of wireless technology solutions, provides the confidence needed to target and effectively lead new wireless products to market.

Dean Anthony Gratton is the co-founder of whatiswireless.co.uk and the author of several patents and best-selling books. He has worked within the telecommunications industry for over ten years and provides consultancy to a number of high profile companies.


Developing Practical Wireless Applications will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of how each technology works, coupled with an exploration into overlapping, complementary and competing technologies. In establishing this foundation, we will explore wireless applications in their context and address their suitability. In contrast, the book also considers the practicality of a wireless world in an attempt to better understand our audience and specific demographic groups. Coupled with a richer understanding of our consumers, along with our technology make-up we can indeed target wireless products more effectively.

Supervisory Management or Accounting

Supervisory Management

Author: Donald C Mosley

Supervisory Management, 5e blends skill-building, "hands-on" techniques and traditional management principles in preparation for today's business world. This text emphasizes that supervision is working with people to develop and empower them to become better and more effective in their working roles.

Table of Contents:

1	The Role of Supervisory Management	2
Pt. I	Planning	33
2	Fundamentals of Planning	34
3	Decisions Making and Problem Solving	64
Pt. II	Organizing	95
4	Fundamentals of Organizing	96
5	Delegating Authority	128
Pt. III	Leading	159
6	Communication	160
7	Group Dynamics and Meetings	194
8	Motivation	224
9	Leadership	256
10	Team Building and Total Quality Management	288
Pt. IV	Managing Human Resources	327
11	Selecting and Training Employees	328
12	Appraising and Compensating Employees	360
13	Counseling Employees	390
14	Handling Disciplinary Problems	418
15	The Supervisor and Labor Relations	446
Pt. V	Controlling	481
16	Exercising Control	482
17	Controlling Productivity, Quality, and Safety	504
18	Management Information Systems and the Computer	538
Pt. VI	Current Challenges and Opportunities	565
19	Stress and Time Management	566
20	Careers in Supervisory Management	598
	Glossary	629
	Index	649

New interesting textbook: Le Repertoire de la Cuisine or Slow Cooker Magic in Minutes

Accounting

Author: Carl Warren

Understand what accounting is all about and its evolving role in business with Warren and Reeve's ACCOUNTING, the most successful higher education accounting text of all time. You'll use the preparation of financial statements as a framemark work for understand accounting and concepts and in the rocess you'll see how to use accounting to understand business.

Nursing Home Administration or Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America 1925 1945

Nursing Home Administration: Fourth Edition

Author: James E Allen

This highly readable new edition contains the knowledge essential to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. The author uses the format of the licensing examination and the guidelines of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators as the basis for the text.

The fifth edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the wealth of new legislation and regulations passed since the publication of the last edition in 2002; offers compelling new data on a wide array of topics ranging from websites, departmental area trends, and diet data, to risk management, major organizations in the field, drug lists, and information on diseases and disability.

New sections on:

• Distinguishing delirium from dementia
• Psychosis from agitation
• GERD
• Glycemic control
• Hand washing data

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Katy T. Nguyen, MSN(University of Missouri-Columbia)
Description:This book covers the information necessary to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator.
Purpose:The purpose is to help new candidates in their preparation to take the NBA (national exam) for nursing administrator as well as to help new administrators understand the clinical management and regulations in the industry which help facilitate their role as leaders in long-term care facilities.
Audience:It is written for nursing home administrator candidates taking the national exam for nursing home administrator as well as for new administrators working in nursing homes.
Features:This is a good review of the area of gerontology and is an excellent guide to better practice in nursing home administration. Part one describes management and leadership; part two covers all aspects of human resources; part three explains finance and business accounting; part four addresses regulations, laws, and environment; and part five discusses resident care including nursing care and the aging process.
Assessment:This book would satisfy the learning needs of the entry-level administrator because it addresses the operation of a long-term care facility including management, clinical care, and regulatory requirements. It will strengthen the administrator's ability to meet the demands of a successful nursing home operation. In addition, it is valuable for those preparing to become licensed nursing home administrators.

Booknews

Allen (Health policy and administration, U. of North Carolina) has revised his textbook to keep as close as possible to current practice in a field experiencing explosive change. On general administration, budgeting and finance, law, patient care, and marketing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book about: The New Consumers or Project Managing E Learning

Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945

Author: Beth Tompkins Bates

Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics—which was grounded in making demands and backing them up with collective action—by focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) to form a union in Chicago, headquarters of the Pullman Company.

Bates shows how the BSCP overcame initial opposition from most of Chicago's black leaders by linking its union message with the broader social movement for racial equality. As members of BSCP protest networks mobilized the black community around the quest for manhood rights and economic freedom, they broke down resistance to organized labor even as they expanded the boundaries of citizenship to include equal economic opportunity. By the mid-1930s, BSCP protest networks gained platforms at the national level, fusing Brotherhood activities first with those of the National Negro Congress and later with the March on Washington Movement. Lessons learned during this era guided the next generation of activists, who carried the black freedom struggle forward after World War II.

Author Biography: Beth Tompkins Bates is assistant professor of history in the Department of Africana Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Chicago Tribune

[A] splendid study. . . . By skillfully placing the union efforts of anonymous railway workers in their proper place at the forefront of the 20th Century struggle for black civil rights, Beth Tompkins Bates has given us a book of inspiring vision. This is an American story worth remembering and celebrating.

Eric Arnesen

An indispensable contribution to African American, labor, and political history, this study recasts our understanding of the history of the modern struggle for civil rights.

Choice

This well-documented study provides a valuable and needed reexamination of a largely underappreciated organization that helped lay the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement.

Robin D. G. Kelley

As Bates so eloquently demonstrates, the Pullman Porters emerged as a beacon of the black freedom movement.

Tera W. Hunter

This is an excellent piece of scholarship.

Quarterly Book Review

Bates allows her readers to gain a thorough knowledge of the racial climate in America through her flawlessly adept book that chronicles the politics of race in black America from the New Negro Movement of the Reconstruction era through World War II.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	3
1	No More Servants in the House: Pullman Porters Strive for Full-Fledged Citizenship	17
2	The Politics of Paternalism and Patronage in Black Chicago	40
3	Biting the Hand That Feeds Us: The BSCP Battles Pullman Paternalism, 1925-1927	63
4	Launching a Social Movement, 1928-1930	87
5	Forging Alliances: New-Crowd Protest Networks, 1930-1935	107
6	New-Crowd Networks and the Course of Protest Politics, 1935-1940	126
7	We Are Americans, Too: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1943	148
8	Protest Politics Comes of Age	175
	Notes	189
	Bibliography	243
	Index	265