Performance Measurement and Control Systems for Implementing Strategy Text and Cases

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Provides and integrated, action-oriented roadmap to all the control system tools and techniques that are needed to manage a business effectively. New accounting techniques including profit wheel analysis, and Strategic profitability analysis. Provides the most comprehensive presentation of the Balances scorecard approach by one of its originators. A carefully integrated structure. For managers and MBAs who are interested in learning more about Management Control Systems.

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Excellent Book, the best book I've ever read.......2007-02-12

The five stars rating is not enough. No need to say more words after all the previous reviews.

Excelent book.......2007-01-11

An excelent help for managing a business. Very practical, proven in real businesses and related with high level strategy

Absolutely Fantastic.......2004-03-02

WITHOUT QUESTION this book is the best practical business text I have ever read. Thank you Robert for unequivocally adding value - in a meaningful and tangible way that can be taken to the market and capitalised on. It's books like this that inspire me to invest (what would otherwise be leisure) time in learning & continuing my education.

The book is clear, concise, comprehensive & practical, and helped wrap together many general strategy concepts into an effective action based set of implementation tools. VERY, VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Comprehensive Integration with Strategy, Easy to Implement.......2000-03-10

I rarely get excited about textbooks, but this particular treatment of strategy, balancing leading and lagging indicators with a view of past, present and future, was enlightening. This book should be a "must read" for any mid- or senior- level manager. It shows how to make your decisions more fact-based and less 'art'. With the coming of age of "management of knowledge" this is a great tool to use to improve business processes. Definitely worth every single penny spent - but especially if you are interested in learning tangible methods!

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The European Tort Law Yearbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in tort law in Europe. It contains reports on the developments in most EU Member States, including the new Member States the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia – as well as Norway and Switzerland. Furthermore, an overview of the developments in the field of EU law is provided. In conclusion, a comparative report reviews the essential aspects of all reports. The reports are written by scholars from the respective jurisdictions. Focusing on the year 2004, the authors critically report on important court decisions, present new legislation and provide a literature overview. In addition to the national reports, several essays on key topics in the field of tort law are included, most of which focus on questions of strict liability.

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European Tort Law 2004.
Helmut (EDT)/ Steininger, Barbara C. (EDT). Koziol
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N68972

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A provocative history of the people behind the greatest discoveries in chemistry.

In this fascinating history, Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite celebrate not only chemistry's theories and breakthroughs but also the provocative times and personalities that shaped this amazing science and brought it to life. Throughout the book, the reader will meet the hedonists and swindlers, monks and heretics, and men and women laboring in garages and over kitchen sinks who expanded our understanding of the elements and discovered such new substances as plastic, rubber, and aspirin. Creations of Fire expands our vision of the meaning of chemistry and reveals the oddballs and academics who have helped shape our world.

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The Best History of Chemistry in Print!.......2006-11-13

I have always liked the science of chemistry. It was, in fact, a hobby of mine when I was in my teens, but I eventually chose to go into biology. I still had to minor in chemistry and physics, and while I struggled in physics, chemistry was my cup of tea!

One of the reasons for this was my fascination with the history of the science and I was much influenced by "Crucibles" by Bernard Jaffe. This was (and still is) a very interesting and informative book, but I think now much improved upon by "Creations of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age" by Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite. In this current volume the authors include a number of researchers only mentioned in passing or not at all by Jaffe. In addition they have placed chemical advances in the perspective of the time in which they occurred. This is science history as it should be written! I always think that the history of any subject, be it science, literature, art or religion, better informs the student than presenting only the current thinking in the given field. I know that I understand the structure of modern chemistry better when I also understand the steps that led to it.

I highly recommend this excellent history of chemical thought to student and professional alike, as well as anyone who wants to understand how scientists got Avogadro's law, atomic theory, or discovered the elements and the periodic table. Hint: they all took a lot of work and determination and were understood only after a lot of blind alleys and conflict. Nothing was self evident or handed down on a platter!

excellent read.......2006-03-04

Excellent read. Wonderful bits of history and science made fun and accessible wrapped up in one great storytelling package. Highly recommend this book.

A chemistry book that's fun to read!.......2005-12-30

I checked this out from my local library a couple of years ago, as the subject matter was faintly related to a project I was researching at the time. I was much surprised at this gay jaunt through history and the down to earth manner in which it layed out the evolution of science and learning.
I find, 2 years later, that a few too many of these fascinating historical antecdotes have slipped from my memory, so now I must aquire my very own copy of this fine work. Creations of Fire is one reference book that should serve me well the rest of my life.

key tale told well.......2004-02-25

If you have to own one chemistry book, this should be the one. It explains the concepts, frames the drama, and avoids the nomenclature and exasperating detail. Chemistry forms the basis of the material world, and the future of many technologies, ranging from medicine and electronics to materials and environmental science. The approach to chemistry, over the millennia, has defined scientific method and ultimately, philosophy of science. From this book, one can grasp the dramatic outline, with all explanations easily digested, and the dramatic highpoints presented with just the right flourish. These two writers do not come from Oxford but rather a state school in California, and they tell the tale with a simplicity and directness that most anybody can appreciate.

Entertaining, the most to say........2003-06-26

I suspect Cathy Cobb must be a very amusing person. Her historical gleanings about the history of chemistry merit consideration on the basis of what Cathy Cobb has to say about what is an unusually dry subject. As long as rigorous inspection is not your thing, the anecdotes she relates are amusing or are amusing interpretations of not always amusing people and events. I would like to sit in on her classes just to see how students react to her, not her facts. She must be anathema to some of the unenlightened academics that she so outrages by tripping through the hallowed shiboliths and the embalmed reputations of the "leaders in the field' of the history of chemistry.

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The GRNS has been colecting detailed seismic data over the past ten years. These results have been gathered, analyzed, and collected in this single volume.

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Uninspiring!.......2005-01-20

The book is selective in its contents with many glaring omissions and simply appears to be a piece of propaganda for American science. It reads like a Hollywood film script, except this time America doesn't save the world, they invent it! This is probably a reflection of the number of US government sponsors involved with the study. The introduction even mentions threats to US national security, economic strength and

WTEC Panel Report on Tissue Engineering Research

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WTEC Panel Report on Tissue Engineering Research
Larry V. McIntire
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHTO0G

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In the collegiate teaching environment, you meet many interesting teachers, students, and administrators. Situations arise that can be happy, sad (even, tragic), confrontational, sexual (explicit, mostly), and surprising, sometimes all at once!

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Life Sketches of a College Teacher: Growing Up in a Small Town Tales from the Asylum (School) Guess What Happened at Work Today?

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Life Sketches of a College Teacher: Growing Up in a Small Town Tales from the Asylum (School) Guess What Happened at Work Today?
Ralph Bonner
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595333079

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True short stories about the antics and situations of college students and teachers. Guess What Happened at School Today! examines the humor, sadness, success, failure, and sexuality in a University. Read the chapter on "Sexuality" while sitting down. You're going to be laughing so hard you might injure yourself otherwise! Perhaps you'll also discover what the feather means on the front cover!

Tales from the Asylum (School) expands the story to other colleges Ralph Bonner has taught in North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas. Since most students are in the "sexually active age group", there is considerable sexual tension around! The first two books evoke much of interest to the prospective teacher.

Growing Up in a Small Town is Ralph Bonner as a student (with many misadventures!) through college and work in industry. This laid the fondation for future teaching success.

As an Aquarius, Ralph Bonner is interested in what makes people "tick"! Older people like the last book because of its nostalgia: "That's the way we were!" The psychological exposition is better here since I knew these people well. Sexuality is a constant background thread here, because that's the way people are!

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GUESS WHAT HAPPENED AT SCHOOL TODAY
JEZ ALBOROUGH
Manufacturer: Picture Lions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8KSHS

Guess What Happened at School Today: A Playground Full of Rhythm and Rhyme

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Guess What Happened at School Today: A Playground Full of Rhythm and Rhyme

Manufacturer: Parklane Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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GUESS WHAT HAPPENED AT SCHOOL TODAY?
JEZ ALBOROUGH
Manufacturer: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8OWRK

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This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War--all of which involved China as a central actor--represented the only major "hot" conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington fundamentally transformed the international balance of power, argues Chen, eventually leading to the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the decline of international communism.

Based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents, the book offers pathbreaking insights into the course and outcome of the Cold War.

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A pathbreaking piece of scholarship.......2007-03-23

Chen Jian's book for a number of years has been the standard "must read" text for any student of modern Chinese history. An excellent example of "new Cold War" scholarship, the book makes excellent use of newly available Chinese primary sources and secondary materials to explain policy making of the PRC leadership. The book's central argument is that Mao's endless pursuit of "continous revolution" in China defined his priorities in foreign policy, so that essentially a confrontational foreign policy became a necessary backdrop to domestic political developments. The argument has its own critics; one may argue, for instance, that the domestic politics first approach is unduly Sino-centric, and ignores the dynamic of China's relationship with other powers, notably the US and the USSR. But for better or worse, Chen Jian's argument cannot be ignored. The book is nicely written, and I had my undergraduate students digest it with apparent ease. Highly recommended.

View of the Cold War years from a different perspective.......2002-05-07

Chen presents the Cold War from a Chinese perspective and he details Chairman Mao's rise to power and his complete control of the party till his death in 1976. His discussion on the internal political struggles within the Chinese Communist Party is fascinating. I found the book helpful in understanding the underlying communist thoughts and policies as related to the Korean War and the Vietnam War. I also really enjoyed Chen's closing thoughts on the future of communism in China. The book is quite insightful and an enjoyable read.

Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948-1953 (Harvard Cold War Studies Book)

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Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948-1953 (Harvard Cold War Studies Book)
Hua-yu Li
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0742540537

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In the first systematic study of its kind, Hua-yu Li explains why, in 1953, Mao suddenly changed direction in economic policy and launched China on a Stalinist road to socialism. In so doing, he profoundly changed the country's economic and political land

La China de Mao y la guerra fria/ Mao's China And the Cold War

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La China de Mao y la guerra fria/ Mao's China And the Cold War
Chen Jian
Manufacturer: Ediciones Paidos Iberica
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Mao's China and the Cold War.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian

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Mao's China and the Cold War.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Peter Worthing
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 518 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mao's China and the Cold War.(Book Review)
Author: Peter Worthing
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 65 Issue: 3 Page: 735(2)

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Trends in China's "cold war": After Mao and the gang of four (Military issues research memorandum)

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Trends in China's "cold war": After Mao and the gang of four (Military issues research memorandum)
Joseph S Curran
Manufacturer: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006WT7UG

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on October 1, 1992. The length of the article is 1020 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times. (book reviews)
Author: James Jankowski
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1992
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: v112 Issue: n4 Page: p718(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen
Eric Croddy , Clarisa Perez-Armendariz , and John Hart
Manufacturer: Coppernicus Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SJ2BFK

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