Jurgen Schrempp: And the Making of an Auto Dynasty

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A revealing look at the next King of the Auto Industry--with full coverage of the final Daimler-Chrysler merger. He masterminded the $54 billion DaimlerChrysler merger--the largest corporate merger in history. He's been called "Neutron Jurgen" (after GE's Neutron Jack Welch) and "Rambo in pinstripes." Now Jurgen Schrempp sits poised to take over sole control of the world's fourth largest automotive company, with his sights set on #1 GM--and the world's sights fixed on him. A highly acclaimed best seller in Europe, this hard-hitting biography pierces Schrempp's carefully composed mask to reveal his psychology, motives, and strategies. What makes Schrempp tick? How did he propel himself from lowly mechanic to corporate kingpin? He's already changed Chrysler; how else will his empire-building affect America? In this fascinating portrait of the man behind the public persona, journalist/author-Graesslin delivers the goods on a brilliant man that business readers can't ignore.

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Jurgen Schrempp's DaimlerChrysler.......2000-07-10

Here is an excellent book on the man who heads DaimlerChrysler. The book tracks his systematic rise from an apprentice at DaimlerChrysler to its CEO. The book gives an excellent insight into the experiences, hard work and the lucky breaks that shaped the future of Schrempp.

The book is very informative but at times one feels that the continuity from one chapter to another is rather disjointed. While the book is packed with annecdotes and insights it lacks the page turning ability of the other book on DaimlerChrysler by Bill Vlasic.

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Jurgen Schrempp: And the Making of an Auto Dynasty
Jurgen Graesslin Jurgen Grasslin
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFXOZY

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This book is a practitioner's guide for readers who already have a basic understanding of risk management. Statistical ideas are presented by detailing the necessary concepts and outlining how these methods can be implemented. The book differentiates itself from other energy risk books on the market by providing practical examples of how statistical methods are used to solve issues faced in energy risk management.

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A groundbreaking contribution to the literature of constitutional law, Taking Liberties is the first book to explore the ways domestic policies deny U.S. citizens access to international sources of information. Author Elizabeth Hull argues that such policies--which include limiting Americans' right to travel, censoring foreign documentaries, suppressing foreign literature considered politically objectionable, preventing controversial aliens from visiting the country, and restricting international scientific exchange--contravene the Constitution's First Amendment, which was designed to prevent government authorities from suppressing information bearing on public affairs. Hull challenges traditional judicial interpretations of First Amendment protection, asserting that in an era of global problems, constitutional protection must be extended to international sources of information that bear upon public issues. Written with a minimum of legal jargon, the volume is an ideal supplemental text for graduate and undergraduate courses in constitutional law. Among the specific topics Hull addresses are Supreme Court rulings on the rights of noncitizens, the enactment of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and its effects in the 1980s, the handling of classified information and assessments by the American Bar Association, and restrictions on the press. She concludes that policies that act to restrict Americans' access to international sources of information jeopardize national welfare because almost every significant problem confronting Americans today--from drugs to the deficit--is global in character. Throughout her work, Hull defines the relevant constitutional issues and discusses legal cases within a larger social and political context. Ample explanatory information is provided for the reader who lacks an extensive legal background.

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Hydrologists, climatologists, soil scientists and environmental engineers are frequently asked to analyse complex environmental problems. It is becoming increasingly apparent that these problems usually involve feedbacks between atmospheric, ecological, and hydrological systems, as well as human society. It is often the feedbacks between systems that are of greatest interest because they may produce unanticipated responses. That is why coupling of different compartments of the Earth system has emerged as a general challenge to the modelling community. This book considers an array of state-of-the-art coupling and modelling concepts. First the relevant Earth system cycles are presented, followed by a discussion on scale issues and multiple equilibria. Inter- and intra-compartmental coupling is addressed, along with a debate on non-linearities and questions of parameterisation. Several applications are presented, where a focus is on cases where the hydrological cycle plays a central role.

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Leading research, perspectives, and analysis of dynamical systems and irreversibility

Edited by Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine and renowned authority Stuart A. Rice, the Advances in Chemical Physics series provides a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations in every area of the discipline. In a format that encourages the expression of individual points of view, experts in the field present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest. Volume 122 collects papers from the XXI Solvay Conference on Physics, dedicated to the exploration of "Dynamical Systems and Irreversibility." Ioannis Antoniou, Deputy Director of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, edits and assembles this cutting-edge research, including articles such as "Non-Markovian Effects in the Standard Map," "Harmonic Analysis of Unstable Systems," "Age and Age Fluctuations in an Unstable Quantum System," and discussion of many more subjects. Advances in Chemical Physics remains the premier venue for presentations of new findings in its field.

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Opposites attract - down to earth, sexy, great ensemble cast.

Snappy dialog, humor, sunsuality... what more could a Crusie fan ask for?

Still Good

I never want to be without this book

Cindertess meets Prince Nick - a classic

Strange Bedpersons (MIRA)
Jennifer Crusie
Manufacturer: Mira
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson isn't the right guy for her. He's caviar and champagne, she's take-out Chinese pot stickers. He's an uptight Republican lawyer, she was raised in a commune and thinks Cinderella is politically incorrect. He wants to get ahead in business, she just wants . . . him -- only not the social-climbing Nick, but the sweet, caring, unbuttoned-down Nick.

And Nick wants her, too, but there's no way Tess is about to play second fiddle to his obsession to make partner. Yet somehow she finds herself agreeing to play his fiancée for a weekend business trip that could make or break Nick's career. And while he's wrapped up in convincing Tess that he needs her in his respectable world, Tess is doing her best to keep her left-wing opinions to herself and her hands off Nick.

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Opposites attract - down to earth, sexy, great ensemble cast........2006-09-22

Jennifer Crusie's been getting a lot of press lately as a new star of romance writing, and Strange Bedpersons sounded interesting enough - and short enough - that I thought I'd give it a spin.

It's a typical opposites attract sort of plotline - Tess is a do-gooder raised on a commune, Nick is a lawyer who grew up poor and decided he wasn't going to grow old poor.

I liked Nick wholeheartedly. He's ambitious, which I think is sexy, but he's a really nice guy. His banter with his secretary is priceless, and although he can be a little clueless he's adorably soft on Tess and really appreciates her for who she is. He likes the whole package - messy, disorganized, idealistic, passionate, spontaneous.

Tess I was a little bit iffy about. This isn't the first book I've read where do-gooder translates to well-meaning but ineffectual...or where idealism is hard to separate from immaturity. And she kept wanting to just love part of Nick, the things she liked, instead of all of him - she didn't want to accept the good with the bad.

Tess dumped Nick initially, before the book began, because he wouldn't have sex with her in a parking lot. At one key scene in the book she practically throws a tantrum because he won't have sex with her in public at a work function where if he were caught he'd lose his job and his reputation. She think that it's a crime he won't be spontaneous and risky. I wondered how she could be so selfish and oblivious. Yeah, it was insensitive of Nick to throw away some of Tess' favorite old clothes and replace them with newer, more expensive versions; but that's a long ways away from trying to sabotage her career (he's actually very supportive of her career and does everything he can to help her along the way).

OK, all that being said, it was still a really enjoyable book to read. Crusie has a great ear for dialogue, and she stages a lot of group scenes where there are tons of people talking and it's hilarious and easy to follow. Her characters are distinct, vivid, very alive; the book is a real page turner, and I read it all in one sitting. Frankly, I loved it but for the political qualms I had to do with Tess' character.

Snappy dialog, humor, sunsuality... what more could a Crusie fan ask for?.......2006-05-04

Tess and Nick are as opposite as two people can get. She is a free spirit who furnishes her home and closet with thrift store bargains; he is on the partner track at his law firm. So it is no wonder why they broke off their relationship. When Nick shows up at her door with a proposition she should refuse - to pose as his fianc? so he can nail a partnership - she begrudgingly takes him up on it. Mostly because she has no other option, as her dilapidated apartment building keeps getting vandalized. Soon she is also moving into his bedroom and his heart, as these opposites realize their magnetic attraction to each other. But can attraction lead to forever after?

Penned in 1994, this light tale, while not as developed as later Crusie novels, contains the requisite snappy dialog, humor, sensuality, and engaging secondary characters we come to expect from Crusie. You won't be disappointed.

Still Good.......2006-01-16

This wasn't one of my favorite books by Ms. Crusie. It is good so please do read it but there seemed to be something missing from this one. The characters interacted well, and the scenes were believeable but I didn't get the connection with the characters as I have with her previous books. Still a good read I would recommend it.

I never want to be without this book .......2005-10-14

This is perhaps my favorite modern novel. Unlike Crusie's later works, it's basically just fun - no underlying explorations of the pain of divorce or the masks we wear - just fun. As always Crusie isn't afraid we won't love her imperfect characters, who learn to accept each other's imperfections, also. Nick and Tess bounce through the early pages of the book like pinballs - attracted and repelled by each other simultaneously - until they work through their problems. They are surrounded by richly realized family and friends. Few romances have as satisfying a mystery subplot. As with all Crusie novels, there are sentences that must be rolled around on the tongue and savored.

And you can make a meal off the meals in the book, from the jittery house party dinner that sets the mystery in motion to the hilarious evening at the pretentious restaurant that "reveals all," with plenty of take out Chinese in between.

Like the characters, the book has some flaws. It needs a prequel to explain how Tess and Nick kept their friendship going and provide more evidence of Nick's career obsession. And, trust me on this, no liberal, no one who lived in a low-income neighborhood and worked with semi-delinquent youth, would suggest becoming a district attorney as a first choice for a good-guy lawyer - child support enforcement, public defender or environmental law are much more likely.

Sadly, in today's polarized politics, the likelihood of two people bridging the red state-blue state divide is even smaller than in 1994 when this book was published.

Give this book a try, and then read, What the Lady Wants, which is nearly as funny and fun.

Cindertess meets Prince Nick - a classic.......2005-06-18

This was nice short story (249 pages) of fun, great sex and intense rich people. This is like a sampler to the great books that Jennifer Cruise wrote later in her career. I would pick-up this book and all of Cruise's books and just enjoy.

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Strange Bedpersons
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ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O7X8F8

Strange Bedpersons (Harlequin Temptation #520)

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Strange Bedpersons (Harlequin Temptation #520)
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5 Titles By Jennifer Crusie - Strange Bedpersons - Charlie All Night - What the Lady Wants - Tell Me Lies - Crazy for You

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5 Titles By Jennifer Crusie - Strange Bedpersons - Charlie All Night - What the Lady Wants - Tell Me Lies - Crazy for You
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Jennifer Crusie
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The conflict that Americans call the "Vietnam War" was only one of many incursions into Vietnam by foreign powers. However, it has had a profound effect on the Vietnamese people who left their homeland in the years following the fall of Saigon in 1975. Collected here are fifteen first-person narratives written by refugees who left Vietnam as children and later enrolled as students at the University of California, where they studied with the well-known scholar and teacher Sucheng Chan. She has provided a comprehensive introduction to their autobiographical accounts, which succinctly encompasses more than a thousand years of Vietnamese history. The volume concludes with a thorough bibliography and videography compiled by the editor.

While the volume is designed specifically for today's college students, its compelling stories and useful history will appeal to all readers who want to know more about Vietnam and especially about the fates of children who emigrated to the U.S.

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Refugee Lives .......2006-11-30

The sub-title of this book is "Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings." That about sums it up. Sucheng Chan, a well-known Southeast Asian scholar, edited the book which consists mostly of contributions by her Vietnamese students at the University of California in Santa Barbara. The book begins with 100 pages covering briefly the history of Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and the refugee crisis in its aftermath. We then have 150 pages of personal accounts by 15 Vietnamese American students of their escapes from Vietnam and and lives in America.

The book is hardly unique as rooms could be filled with books about the Vietnam War and about Vietnamese living in the U.S., and quite a few of them have delved more deeply than this one. The virtues of "The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation" are a good introduction, well written background chapters, an epilog by the editor --a former refugee -- good notes and a good bibliography. The concept of a collaboration between students and teacher is also interesting and is fully explained in the introduction.

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This brief, inexpensive, hands-on, comprehensive,and easy-to-use overview of the Internet for educators includes abundant, relevant Web sites for all areas within Education. The guidebook lists the Internet sites (e-mail, gopher, and World Wide Web) most relevant to K-12 teachers for lesson planning, collaborative projects with other schools, and general references.

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