Electronic Commerce: Principles and Practice

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This four-part overview of electronic commerce offers a more thorough and technical view of the subject than many recent books on the subject. The book provides a balance of theories, applications, and hands-on material. It is divided into four parts: Electronic Commerce Basics, Electronic Commerce Supporting Activities, Implementation and Management Issues in Electronic Commerce, and Appendix and Glossary.
The book's chapters begin with introductions of leading companies with significant e-commerce expertise and at least two small case studies. They include 10 or more hands-on exercises, encouraging readers to explore and analyze sites, and a list of key terms and bibliographic citations. They conclude with 25-30 review questions and 6-10 projects for further investigation.

*Offers a generalist's overview of the field and its major players for people with little or no technical background
*Every chapter starts with an industry profile and two information boxes, which serve as case studies and point to practical applications
*Projects and hands-on exercises conclude each chapter

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An invaluable, basic primer.......2001-11-09

Hossein Bidgoli's Electronic Commerce: Principles and Practice is a comprehensive reference and analysis of a phenomenon that has globally revolutionized economics as we know it: e-commerce, the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet, potentially to anywhere in the world. Among the many specific issues addressed by this fantastic guide are marketing and advertising on the World Wide Web, security issues, legal and tax issues, and how to build a successful e-commerce site. Projects and exercises to test your understanding conclude each chapter. The text's wording is straightforward, deliberately geared toward people who have had little or no experience with the Internet, and clear enough for the lay person to easily understand; anyone with a little spare time can use Electronic Commerce to teach themselves the same basic knowledge offered in entry-level seminars for hundreds of dollars of tuition. Electronic Commerce covers everything except how to create a webpage in HTML or write programs with specific computer languages/softwares, and is an invaluable, basic primer for anyone who is new to the art and skill of doing business over the Internet!

e-business Principles and Practices (Univ. of Phoenix)

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e-business Principles and Practices (Univ. of Phoenix)
Taken from:Electronic Commerce 2002: A Managerial Prespective
Manufacturer: Pearson Custom Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0536688524

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Huge "like-new" text on all the facets of the e-commerce world. No highlighting or writing. This is a custom edition for the Univ. of Phoenix.

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E-Business: Principles and Practice
Jennifer Rowley
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0333949137

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This book offers an accessible overview of key concepts in e-business at an introductory level, illustrated with case studies throughout. It combines this accessibility with rigour and is informed by research and practice frommarketing, information technology, strategy and organisational studies.Electronic business as a discipline is still in its infancy. E-Business has been designed to develop in the student the necessary analytical skills to evaluate e-business models and issues which will enable them to identify, analyse and evaluate future technologies whatever those may be.

Electronic Commerce: Principles and Practice

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Electronic Commerce: Principles and Practice
Hossein Bidgoli
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHFPG8

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This volume demonstrates how monetary and financial organizations in the United States and abroad can be improved through a new addition to traditional monetary policy. Cooperation theory, a system developed from games theory, is shown to provide an appropriate action/reaction approach that can lead to cooperation without abandoning the free market. Institutional, theoretical, and empirical results of game theory, computer simulation, monetary theory, and policy analysis are woven together so that each reinforces the other. The text clearly stresses that although unilateral, noncooperative action may result in short-term advantage for an organization, it ultimately leads to long-term losses for all in the economic system. Monetary Reform and Cooperation Theory opens with a discussion of cooperation theory. It goes on to address improving the monetary financial organization. Bureaucracy and philosophy are analyzed, along with reform in the banking industry and banking in other countries. The book concludes with issues of international creditors and debtors. This work is full of useful information for the general economist, political scientist, and layman on the complex issue of monetary reform and the positive role cooperation theory can play in this vital process.

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Monetary Reform and Cooperation Theory
George Macesich
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OREWRQ

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Boot camps for adult and juvenile offenders : overview and update (SuDoc J 28.24/3:C 15)
Roberta C. Cronin
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00010L1X4

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Boot Camps for Adult and Juvenile Offenders: Overview and Update
BPI Information Services
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1579791948

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Boot camps for adult and juvenile offenders: Overview and update (Research report)
Roberta C Cronin
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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The exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and biosphere is an important factor in controlling global warming and climate change. Consequently, it is important to examine how carbon flows between different pools and how carbon stocks change in response to afforestation, reforestation, and deforestation, and other land-use activities. This IPCC Special Report is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the scientific and technical implications of carbon sequestration and the global carbon cycle. It also examines environmental and socioeconomic issues, conservation, sustainable resource management, and development issues in relation to carbon sequestration. The volume will be invaluable for government policymakers, business/industry analysts and officials, environmental groups, and researchers in global change, atmospheric chemistry, soil science, and economics.

Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry: A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry: A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Robert T. Watson
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MHG1Q8

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A comprehensive, up-to-date reference to synthetic applications of organosilicon chemistry Organic, organometallic, and polymer chemistry as well as materials science all utilize silicon in various forms, yet there is little cross-fertilization of ideas and applications among the disciplines. This book presents a much-needed overview of silicon chemistry, allowing fundamental and applied scientists to take full advantage of progress made within and outside their primary fields of expertise. With an emphasis on the preparation and reactivity of silicon compounds in organic, organometallic, and polymer chemistry, the author examines a broad range of useful topics-from mechanisms to syntheses of and syntheses using different organofunctional silanes. Numerous schemes as well as up-to-date examples from academia and industry will help readers to solve current synthetic problems and explore ideas for future research. Clear, concise coverage includes:
* The mechanistic basis for the development of new silicon-based reactions
* Formation and cleavage of silane reagents and functional siliconheteroatom compounds
* Silicones, silica, polysilanes, and other silicon-containing polymers
* Properties of molecules containing silicon, including bioactivity
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* Silicon in organic synthesis
* An extensive functional group index for easy access to functional group transformations

Silicon in Organic, Organometallic and Polymer Chemistry

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Silicon in Organic, Organometallic and Polymer Chemistry
Michael A. Brook
Manufacturer: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUXHFI

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This is a book that sings about the beauty of the fundamental laws of nature. Clear, accurate descriptions for general science readers (no equations in sight!) are punctuated with original, scintillating verses. The reader is taken on a journey through the contemporary understanding of the building blocks of nature and their interactions — the current status of that age-old, intriguing quest. The central role of symmetry is explained in a manner suitable for general science readers, and its splendor is celebrated in verse. The book facilitates understanding of the background and significance of today's scientific discoveries in atomic, nuclear and particle physics. Many of the poems appear as interludes that reinforce the discussions as they amuse the reader, making this informative book a delight to read.

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The poetry of elementary particles.......2004-05-01

It is not often that one can find a book dealing with a technical subject that is a pure delight to read, but the "Remnants of the Fall" is just such a book. The technical subject is elementary particle physics (which is written at a level for the non-expert). Liberally sprinkled throughout the book are poems about the subject matter being discussed - a style that is certainly unique and delightful.

A Mind Opener.......2004-02-21

Wow! What beauty and clarity too! Now I know the underlying ideas of particle physics and can appreciate their beauty. The delightful poetry fits so seamlessly with the explanations that I was completely charmed as I read and learned.

A Masterpiece.......2004-02-17

I am not a scientist. It has been over 40 years since I took my last science class; highschool Biology. I certainly avoided taking any science classes in college, because I was more than afraid of the grade I would get. I have been rewarded for opening my mind and trying to read this book, because it is both artistic in style and interesting in content. I never felt I would be able to understand a subject as difficult as Physics, and I am not pretending to have understood this entire book. I am saying I understood most of it. The author has written poetry that not only helps to explain many of the concepts, but is joyfull and fun to read. He clearly expresses his own love for the subject through his style of writing. It is a book well worth reading.

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“I'm not guilty. I'm not!” This phrase has become Matty Buhrmann's mantra since her terrifying car accident on the Washington D.C. beltway resulted in a woman's death. Despite her acquittal, fearfulness and guilt continue to undermine her happiness, her work as a property manager and her marriage.

When a psychiatrist recommends a vacation spot that he calls “magic,” Matty eagerly packs her computer and a box of paperwork and heads west into the peaceful countryside that was once the site of a Civil War battle. But her psychological problems only become worse until, as she sits crying, the hand of a pretty young girl reaches out to her. After the shock of the first appearance, Matty finds the presence of this child who died 150 years ago to be both troubling and promising. Is there some form of existence after death, or is she hallucinating?

Her psychiatrist diagnoses a psychotic break, but Matty believes that the peculiar residents who inhabit the mountain area and Civil War history prove that the girl once existed, something Matty feels compelled to confirm for her own sanity. Finally, both physically and emotionally exhausted from frightening incidents and humorous encounters, Matty stumbles upon a truth neither she nor her doctor could have predicted.

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'I'm not guilty. I'm not!" This phrase has become Matty Buhrmann's mantra since her terrifying car accident on the Washington D.C. beltway resulted in a woman's death. Despite her acquittal, fearfulness and guilt continue to undermine her happiness, her work as a property manager and her marriage.

When a psychiatrist recommends a vacation spot that he calls 'magic," Matty eagerly packs her computer and a box of paperwork and heads west into the peaceful countryside that was once the site of a Civil War battle. But her psychological problems only become worse until, as she sits crying, the hand of a pretty young girl reaches out to her. After the shock of the first appearance, Matty finds the presence of this child who died 150 years ago to be both troubling and promising. Is there some form of existence after death, or is she hallucinating?

Her psychiatrist diagnoses a psychotic breakdown, but Matty believes that the peculiar residents who inhabit the mountain area and Civil War history prove that the girl once existed, something Matty feels compelled to confirm for her own sanity. Finally, both physically and emotionally exhausted from frightening incidents and humorous encounters, Matty stumbles upon a truth neither she nor her doctor could have predicted.

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Covers 19th century events that led to Nazi Germany, Prussian militarism, the nationalism that led to a unified Germany in 1871, and the road to World War I.

Follows Hitler's formative political years and imprisonment, the growing political unrest during the Great Depression, the Nazi seizure of power and arming of the German state.

A comprehensive guide to the Third Reich, this book chronicles the events leading up to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to the downfall of both.

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Really good intro to the subject.......2005-11-09

If you're looking to learn about Nazi Germany this book is a great introduction. Clear and easy to read without being dumbed down. Treats the subject very thoroughly, for example starting with German history in the 1800s and relating how this helped lead to the Nazis. A lot of information is covered but the treatment is lively and not dry. For the non-expert, this is highly recommended.

hail to a great book!.......2005-04-06

this is an excellent introduction to nazi germany for the novice. there are so many books on the subject that someone who wants to start learning this can be overwhelmed. well, you don't need to be! start here! this book starts off as to how germany became a country and little wars here and there. next, it carries you into world war one. then, you really get into the nazi germany information. the book carries you into world war 2 and to the downfall of the nazis. finally, it closes with the nurenberg trials. these chapters and in manageable chunks. there, you'll get a basic, overall theme of the beginnings of germany and nazi germany. plus, you get maps! unlike the idiots guide to world war 1, which is another excellent overview of that war. that is recommended as well.

A quick history of the Nazis.......2005-01-01

This book is excellent for someone who might be interested in Nazi history, but is unsure of where to start. First of all, I have to say that I like the "Complete Idiot's Guide" books, they are always very entertaining and extreamly informitive for what ever subject you may be interested. As for this one, "Nazi Germany", it actually starts at the ed of the Napoleonic Wars in the late Eighteenth and early Ninteenth Centerys. It progreeses the Germanic people's almost accidental rise to nationhood, and the series of events that led to WWI, and how all of those events helped make national atmosphere ripe for Hitler and his new regime, the Nazis. It also covers the Nazi party in it's early years as a beer hall movement; then how through a series of manipulation and just strange coincidence it rose to the National Party. And then how it became a dictatorship. The book also details how the Third Reich fell through the arrogence and insainity of it's leaders (and not just Hitler). It also chronicals the sad progression of the Holocaust from simple expusion of Jews to full scale genocide. This is a great start to studying the Nazis; but it is just that, a start. This book is just a thorough once over and is not the end all statement in Nazi history. But it dose serve it's purpose, and I like it.

Presented what I expected.......2004-02-25

This is a very complete summary for anyone interested in pursuing a study in Nazi Germany. It covers a lot of ground with a small number of pages. Important dates and events are all summarized as well as major characters in history. The only problem with this book is that the levels of detail regarding really important scenes in history are only touched on briefly. However, this is understandable since the author had to cover numerous events with a small number of pages. The book serves as a solid work that gives you a complete but general idea as to what happened in Nazi Germany. Serious historians or readers are encouraged to pick up books and other references that focus on specific aspects of history mentioned briefly here. You will know after reading this book whether or not you would like to pursue your studies in this field and what specific areas you may want to focus your studies on.

Hitler persecuting Jews and Christians.......2003-12-06

Excellent and fair treatment. Shows how Hitler persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and killed not only Jews, but also Christians.

Hitler despised Christianity and Christian morals--far preferring the warlike Islam, Japan's emperor worship, and pre-Christian germanic paganism. Although he himself did not believe in any religion, he wished to utilize religion in his pograms and even tried to create a new cult with himself as the object of worship.

Atheist/Socialist/Humanist/Darwinist leaders were responsible for more deaths during the past century than all of the so-called "religious wars" of all previous centuries combined.

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Complete Idiots Guide to Nazi Germany
Thompson Robert Smith
Manufacturer: Alpha
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8WY0W

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An in-depth analysis focuses on the military's ties to four subarenas--national strategic objectives, foreign policy, defense policy, defense policy, and military and civilian research, analysis and intelligence.

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Unveiling The Edge Of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, and Worm Holes
John Gribbin
Manufacturer: Harmony
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 051758591X
Release Date: 1992-09-29

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Nice job.......2002-02-16

Written for the "popular audience", this book has no doubt inspired many who have read it to further their studies in science or even to specialize in gravitational physics. The book is easy to follow, and the author injects a lot of history, making the book even more interesting. Examples of this include the Cavendish torsion-balance experiments, the 1670 measurement of the speed of light, and the discussions in 1796 of "dark-stars". And, considering there is no mathematics used in the book, the author does a good job of explaining curvature of spacetime and geodesics. The physics of neutron stars, pulsars, and white dwarfs, is also given adequate explanation, and the author emphasizes the use of computers in determining their dynamics. Penrose diagrams are used effectively to illustrate the properties of black holes, a fairly lengthy discussion, the result of which is to make what use to be the playful fantasies of science fiction writers become accepted science. Wormhole engineering and time machine constructions are unshamedly expounded upon, with careful caution by the author that such ideas are not yet practical......not yet.

Best Book I have ever read!.......1999-09-24

This is a very informative and interesting book. It is fun to read and you can learn alot from it. I would definitely suggest buying it.

Read it! You'll like it!.......1999-04-14

This is my all time favorite popular book written by a real physicist. In my opinion, it's better than Hawking's "Brief History of Time" because it not only explains the pretty well known areas of physics (black holes and such), but goes beyond this into such abstract ideas as wormholes and several interesting ways that nature might just allow time travel. It plays with your imagination the whole way through.

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