Herman Miller: The Purpose of Design

Herman Miller: The Purpose of Design
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Herman Miller: The Purpose of Design
John Berry
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The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention

ASIN: 0847826546
Release Date: 2004-11-27

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In 1936, Herman Miller Inc. founder D. J. De Pree committed Herman Miller to "modern" furniture. The rest is history: their continuing collaboration with some of the giants of modern design has made Herman Miller synonymous with quality in design. Herman Miller examines the company's powerful contributions by looking at the problems that design can solve and how creative thinking can benefit the world. Aside from having produced icons of modern furniture, Herman Miller has revolutionized office systems and furniture in the workplace.
A definitive history of design and the company's work since its founding, Herman Miller features the legendary designs of Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Gilbert Rohde, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, and many more. It is a must-read for collectors, designers, professionals, students, and anyone with an interest in design.

We Are All Normal: And We Want Our Freedom
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We Are All Normal: And We Want Our Freedom
Katya Sander , and Simon Sheikh
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Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium (Cowles Foundation Monographs Series)
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The canonical Book on General Equilibrium Analysis

A classical book.

Difficult, but it's best !

Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium (Cowles Foundation Monographs Series)
Gerard Debreu
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The canonical Book on General Equilibrium Analysis.......2004-02-06

This short book (roughly 100 pages) gives a clear exposition of the basic elements of axiomatic general equilibrium analysis. The first chapter introduces all (sic!) mathematics used in this book, mainly some topology of euclidean space and basic facts about convex sets. In principle only knowledge about counting is necessary, but some "mathematical maturity" is clearly required. I would advise the reader to learn the relevant topology elsewhere ("Introduction to Analysis" by M. Rosenlicht suffices) and use the first chapter only for reference.

The main text covers the Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie-model and its interpretation, proves its logcial consistency (existence) and investigates its efficiency properties. The formal model is clearly distinguished from its interpretation, which allows Debreu to introduce uncertainty in the model by a simple reinterpretation of the commodity space. The whole approach is axiomatic, which wasn't that usual when Debreu wrote the book in 1959. This book has changed the standards of mathematical rigor in economic theory.

This book is still used as a reference and deserves a place on every economic theorists bookshelf.

A classical book........2001-04-25

This book is a classical. It's important you'll buy for your library.

Difficult, but it's best !.......2000-04-15

This is not an easy book. The mathematics are very rigorous, but everything is well defined, and it is self-contained. However, it pays to read this short book. If you want to understand the foundations of the modern economic analysis, this the place to look

Theory of Value : An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium

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THEORY OF VALUE. AN AXIOMATIC ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC EQUILIBRIUM. (Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University)

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Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium
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The central theme of this book is that an economic framework--incorporating such concepts as information asymmetry, moral hazard, and adaptation to changed circumstances--is appropriate for contract interpretation, analyzing contract disputes, and developing contract doctrine. The value of the approach is demonstrated through the close analysis of major contract cases. In many of the cases, had the court (and the litigators) understood the economic context, the analysis and results would have been very different. Topics and some representative cases include consideration (Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon), interpretation (Bloor v. Falstaff and Columbia Nitrogen v. Royster), remedies (Campbell v. Wentz, Tongish v. Thomas, and Parker v. Twentieth Century Fox), and excuse (Alcoa v. Essex).

Psychological Contracts in Employment: Cross-National Perspectives

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The relationships between workers and firms are changing worldwide. Nowhere is this more evident than in the psychological contracts of employment - that is, the obligations workers owe to their employer, and vice versa. Psychological Contracts In Employment contains the cross-national perspectives of organizational scholars from 13 countries to examine how societies differ in the nature of psychological contracts in employment and how global business initiatives are bridging these differences.

The author team assembled by Editors Denise Rousseau and René Schalk includes social scientists with deep knowledge of the particular societies they describe, and whose personal scholarship involves psychological contract phenomena locally as well as abroad. Readers of Denise Rousseau’s award-winning book Psychological Contracts in Organizations (Sage, 1995), will welcome the extension of this ground-breaking work into the global arena. Both the introductory and concluding chapters, written by the editors, provide several themes to structure and frame the book’s content. Every chapter in this volume maintains a clear focus on the importance of a cross-cultural perspective on psychological contracts for today’s managers, social scientists, and public policy makers.

Institutions, Contracts and Organizations: Perspectives from New Institutional Economics

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This outstanding book, now available in paperback, presents new original contributions from some of the world's leading economists including Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Masahiko Aoki, Oliver E. Williamson and Harold Demsetz. It demonstrates the extent and depth of the New Institutional Economics research program which is having a worldwide impact on the economics profession.

The contributors lay out the fundamental dimensions of the research program with special emphasis on the interaction between institutional factors, both formal and informal, and the performance of different arrangements that organize transactions. After examining the foundations of New Institutional Economics and honoring Ronald Coase's contribution to the field, they present controversial and conflicting views on the sources of growth. They place special emphasis on organizations and transactions, focusing on issues of trust, corruption, enforcement of contracts and modes of organization. Written by an eminent group of scholars, Institutions, Contracts and Organizations is an important landmark in the development of New Institutional Economics.

Freedom in Constitutional Contract: Perspectives of a Political Economist (Economics Ser)
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Banks originating large loans or other financial assets may form a syndicate to mitigate the risk of those assets by allowing other syndicate members to assume a beneficial interest in that asset. Participating financial institutions do so because of the favorable risk-adjusted return offered. Similarly, banks originating financial assets may package those assets in securitized pools to lessen their risk exposure allowing other financial institutions to purchase beneficial interests in those pools to earn a favorable risk-adjusted return. Once distinct and relatively straightforward, the two processes have become increasingly intertwined and complex. As these investment vehicles become increasingly sophisticated, the risks to all participants in the process have become more difficult to evaluate. Clarifying the risks to the various participants in these processes is the subject matter of this book.

Risk management for banks and other financial institutions has become increasingly more difficult and complex as a result of the continuing evolution of new classes of capital assets and the changing structure of capital markets. Banks have played a role in this evolutionary process both as creators and consumers of these assets. In creating such assets, banks have exposed themselves to new types of risks: capital markets risk, securitization risks, default risks, regulatory and accounting risks, special purpose vehicle risk, and international risk.

As consumers of such assets, banks have exposed themselves to highly volatile securities that respond to interest rate and other economic changes in unexpected ways. The sudden loss of liquidity and the explosion in risk premiums that occurred in the Summer and Fall of 1998 as a result of the Long Term Capital Management fiasco, the Russian devaluation and continuing troubles in Asia illustrated the sensitivity of domestic financial conditions to what would have once been considered unrelated events. The risks to banks and other financial institutions from this volatility can only be expected to increase.

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A Company Policy and Personnel Workbook, 4th Edition (Company Policy and Personnel Workbook)
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This book will save many costly hours in creating or updating company policy manuals. In layperson language, this book explains the legal ramifications of employer-employee relationships. Further, this easy-to-use manual simplifies the policy manual process by giving your pre-written model policies and alternates from which to choose. They can used verbatim or can be modified to address issues such as:

Arbitration of Employee Disputes
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Extremely helpful.......2000-02-08

Clear and concise, with many written samples that can be incorporated directly with some changes to produce a basic personnel policy for your company. Addresses issues of deciding policy as well as how to write the plan itself

An outstanding first book on HRM.......1998-09-19

As a new practitioner of human resouces management in our company I have found this book particularly valuable. It provides the human resource manager with an essential check list of issues and responsibilities that are an integral part of managing, overseeing, interviewing, and trouble-shooting employee matters.

The authors discuss and explain a wide range of systems that must be in place for a company, large and small, to operate within the parameters of acceptable pactice and to provide the policy protection that the law requires. Forms are provided, interview check lists, sample policy approaches and professional standards are all a part of this valuable workbook.

I would have wanted to see what a personnel file would contain, though I guess the authors expected the readers to do a little work on their own.

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Peaceful Pregnancy Meditations: A Diary for Expectant Mothers
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Wonderful Way to Express Your Thoughts

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Wonderful Way to Express Your Thoughts.......2000-06-16

This book has helped many of my friends through their first, and even second or third, pregnancies. It was written with the idea that your feelings, as strange and new as they are, are normal. Better yet, it was written by a woman who was experiencing it all as she wrote. It's been a wonderful way to understand and express the joys, the sorrows, the fears and the curiosity you feel during those nine months. I highly recommend this book to any first time Mom-to-be! It's a great early baby shower gift!

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