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Entrepreneurial processes are relevant not only to start up businesses but also to every stage of business development and growth. Mastering Business in Asia: Entrepreneurship is designed to provide insight into issues and themes in Asian businesses which are relevant not only to Asian entrepreneurs of all stages of business development, but also to those doing business with Asian companies. The combination of in-depth discussions with Asian entrepreneurs, together with the insight provided by the authors and their advisers, provides a new approach to understanding the key issues of this important subject.

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Covers the optimal conditions for converting plant and animal wastes into compost by balancing the correct ratio of raw materials, using the correct microorganisms and moisture content, proper pile or windrow construction, and efficient mixing. Fletcher Sims has elevated the "art" of good composting to a "science." Explains not only the complexities of commercial-scale compost production, but also the benefits of the use of this gentle fertilizer. A book that really draws you in, it is a combination of a biography and technical guide.

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An invitation to the ultimate golfing journey, this new addition to Abrams' highly successful 365 Days series takes the reader around the globe to visit 365 of the most sensational courses ever created. Stunning photographs by the world's leading golf photographers capture the spectacular scenery and signature views of each course, while informative texts discuss their history, natural setting, design, notable holes, and native vegetation. The vast array of distinctive layouts shows golf's enduring ability to adapt to every type of terrain or ecosystem, and Golf Courses of the World: 365 Days covers them all.

The book includes renowned courses in golf strongholds such as Pebble Beach in the U.S., Royal Melbourne in Australia, and St. Andrews in Scotland, as well as hidden gems in exotic locales like Indonesia, Nepal, Dubai, Kenya, and Brazil. For everyone from armchair golfers to serious players who want to add a little variety to their game, this sumptuous volume is the ultimate golfing companion and dreambook. AUTHOR BIO: Robert Sidorsky has written about golf for The New York Times since 1993 and is a regular contributor to Links magazine and other publications. He is an attorney who lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews:

A Gift.......2007-03-24

I got this for a golf fanatic friend of ours and he loves it. Small size but lots of pages of wonderful golf courses. A great gift for any golf nut.

BEAUTIFUL.......2007-01-18

I bought this gift for my father-in-law for Christmas. It is an absolutely beautiful book and looks a lot more expensive that what I paid for it. It is well worth the price.

Gorgeous Book.......2007-01-12

This book is gorgeous and the pictures of the courses are breathtakingly beautiful. When I gave this book to my boyfriend's parents I got to see his Dad smile for the first time! Great coffee table book :)

Prizes well received.......2006-11-06

I purchased Golf of the World: 365 Days as prizes for our recent Ladies Open Day not only did they look fabulous on the trophy table they were the most sort after prizes on the day! The ladies who won them were delighted and have since contacted me telling me of the enjoyment they have given them (with photos to die for and destinations to dream about!) In all cases they are taking pride of place on their coffee tables with the added bonus of being able to visit a beautiful course whenever they wish at the mere flip of a page.
Wendy
Australia

Spectacular!.......2005-12-28

Actually, I am not a golfer. But I purchased this book as a Christmas present for my aunt and uncle who are recreational golfers. And spectacular is the word they both used to describe it. The photographs are beautiful and there is a short description of each place that is photographed. My aunt particularly liked that the descriptions were short. She said it was just enough information about each place. And now, maybe, they are planning to visit some of these places and play a round...

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National Geographic's Guide to America's Historic Places (National Geographic Guide to America's Historic Places)
Thomas Schmidt
Manufacturer: National Geographic Society
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0792234146

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National Geographic sent 14 researchers to assess America's historic and prehistoric sites, culminating in more than 2,500 restorations, battlefields, colonial villages, and other relics of the country's glorious and notorious past--with directions, maps, driving and walking tours, and 250 sensational pictures. The sites include standards (Lincoln Memorial, sculpted by Daniel Chester French in 1922, for instance) and lesser-known secrets (such as Mary Todd Lincoln's House in Lexington, Kentucky, where she lived from 1832-1839). This volume is an uncharted national treasure for the vacationing history buff, and is also a fine pictorial reference for the desk-bound student.

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Exploring America's Historic Places
Leslie Allen , K. M. Kostyal , and Scott Thybony
Manufacturer: National Geographic Society
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National Geographic Guide to America's Historic Places
Thomas Schmidt
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For Amy Pederson, nothing is more important than reaching her goal of becoming a top figure skater. But just as things are looking promising, Amy's father is disabled in an accident and her family is forced to move to Texas to be near her grandparents. What follows is a story filled with encouragement and a growing faith in God who Amy doesn't yet know. The book ends with Amy accepting Christ with the support of her new found friend, Kristen.

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Review for A Perfect Landing.......1998-06-22

I just recently read this book from the winning edge series. It is an excellent representation of the figure skating world and the troubles young teens go through. It is extrememly well written and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys watching skating or who is a skater themself. I will definately be following this series as it grows!

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The pursuit of health and wellness has become a fundamental and familiar part of everyday life in America. We are surrounded by an enticing world of products, practices, and promotions assuring health and happiness--cereal boxes claim that their contents can reduce the risk of heart disease, bars of aromatherapy soap seek to wash away our stresses, newspapers celebrate the wonders of the latest superfoods and herbal remedies. No longer confined to the domain of Western medicine, suggestions for healthy living often turn to alternatives originating in distant times and places, in cultures very different from our own. Diets from ancient or remote groups are presented as cures for everything from colds to cancer; exercise regimens based on Eastern philosophies are heralded as paths to physical health and spiritual wellbeing.

In New Age Capitalism, Kimberly Lau examines the ideological work that has created this billion-dollar business and allowed "Eastern" and other non-Western traditions to be coopted by Western capitalism. Extending the orientalist logic to the business of health and wellness, American companies have created a lucrative and competitive market for their products, encouraging consumers to believe that they are making the right choices for personal as well as planetary health. In reality, alternative health practices have been commodified for an American public longing not only for health and wellness but also for authenticity, tradition, and a connection to the cultures of an imagined Edenic past. Although consumers might prefer to buy into "authentic" non-Western therapies, New Age Capitalism argues that the market economy makes this goal unattainable.

Customer Reviews:

A snooze.......2001-03-21

This deals with a fascinating subject; unfortunately, the author claims an importance for her approach and analysis that simply can't be justified: she takes a few snippets from theorists of taste, commodification, and trans-cultural exchange, treats them as gospel rather than engaging critically with them, and applies them to material that (in her view) accedes so readily to the theories as to raise no challenging questions at all. Moreoever, the prose is the blue boiler-plate special: jargon-laden and warmed over, with no sense that writing must be digestable.

A tepid polemic.......2001-03-20

This book uses a canon to kill a flea. Sympathetic as I am to the rhetorical and discursive analysis of cultural formations, such a project requires depth and context to be intelligible: this book lacks both. It provides quick parachute drops into various aspects of discursively mediated marketeering strategies touching on discourse touching on the body, and then hurries on to another example or arena without working through the consequences of the argument. Morever, the style is ponderous enough to kill a child with lead poisoning. Since the author never bothers to ask who reads (let alone who is persuaded by) the discursive constructs that she so rapidly catalogues, one wonders why she has devoted all this energy to debunking notions that are probably believed by virtually no one.

An Interesting and Entertaining Read.......2001-03-16

"New Age Capitalism" is an insightful look at a burgeoning part of the economy that has gone overlooked for too long. Lau grabs our attention early on by showing that this cottage industry of Eastern culture is actually hundreds of millions of dollars a year and growing fast. From there she takes us on a fascinating look at not only the historical origins of the most well-known manifestations of Eastern culture (e.g. yoga), but also the particular ways in which they have been adapted and marketed to Western cultures.

The juxtaposition between the two (the purportedly ancient and mystical roots vs. the hard-nosed Western marketing) is stark at first, but the two slowly start to blend together as Lau shows that even the most non-traditional elements of other cultures can be packaged to enforce our existing social norms. The analysis will at times make you laugh, as when Lau highlights the yoga tag line, "Less Inner Thigh, More Inner Piece." At other times it will make you shake your head in frustration, as Lau illustrates how the bastardization of ancient customs is used to promulgate dangerous stereotypes and images.

The common thread throughout her analysis is that we are taught that these products are not only good for us, but good for society and the environment as well. Whether or not this is true is debatable and largely beside the point (I found myself sharing Lau's cynicism). But what is important is the perception that these products are good for society and the environment. Lau concludes with the worrisome thought that if this perception becomes prevalent, then individuals will replace political action and personal responsibility with consumerism. Why do I have to worry about global warming, I only use aromatherapy products.

Perhaps best of all, Lau presents this all in an academically rigorous fashion that is still digestible for the casual reader....or casual macrobiotic consumer.

undertheorized and underanalyzed.......2001-02-10

I was looking forward to reading this book, based on the review on Amazon.com, but was sorely disappointed. It's really nothing more than a cobbling together of a variety of already well-known theories of commoditization, globalization, and the diffusion of cultural meaning. Lau stitches together brief summaries of various stars, adding nothing of her own but merely parroting their views without critique, analysis, or qualification in any way that suggests that she has an original view to contribute. Then she declares that what all these thinkers have failed to consider is the significance of their theories for . . . the body! Not only is this ludicrously wrong, but in fact what she turns out to mean by "the body" is so vague and unconnected to the physical body as to make one wonder why she even uses this term to frame the project. In effect, she means something like "cultural discourse concerning products somehow related to the body." If she provided that definition, it would at least explain her decision to focus on such matters as aromatherapy. But in fact even that characterization gives her more credit than she deserves, since she completely ignores such topics as tattooing, which one would think is vital for the project as she frames it. Finally, even those phenomena she does discuss are subjected to an analysis so blunt, obvious, and thoughtless that again the point of the project is hard to identify. In essence, we are told that various cultural products designed for bodily use are often given mystical, "oriental" genealogies by marketers who hope to appeal to consumers' desire for the same. Hence the book consists in large part of readings of the packaging of such products, inevitably concluding with the news that these products are *not* from the East and are merely imperializing, ethnocentric gestures that condescend to the cultures they purport to preserve. This is news?

The one element that might save the project as an empirical study is also missing: Lau doesn't bother to notice that many people purchase loofahs and other such products without even bothering to look at the packaging. Thus Lau might, at least, have tried to determine what effect the marketers' discourse has on consumers, but instead she takes it for granted that these effects are overwhelming and determinative, rather than making any sort of argument about the subject at all.

Anyone who had spent five minutes contemplating the issue on their own could have come up the with the findings that Lau diligently and laboriously produces, and anyone who spent half an hour thinking about these issues could come up with a few insights that problematize the glib answers provided here. This book should not have been published, and I would urge you to read it at the library, if you must, rather than rewarding the publishers with your money.

The Marketing of Spa Spirituality.......2000-06-28

Lau's analysis of the rhetoric used to sell aromatherapy products and other "new age" phenomena is masterful. It's a fantastic treatment of a timely topic, full of insights. The book has an ironic wit and a refreshing expose-style to it, e.g. the way Lau points out how Aveda products are marketed as ecofriendly commodities, thus assuaging the worries of consumers concerned about the adverse effects of consumerism... consume this and fight the evils of consumerism with every dollar you spend! But it is by no means a sloppy, hastily researched book. It's style is at times heavily academic, of the theory-head variety, but the theory section is one of the strongest, well worth careful perusal.

It seems that equal-opportunity New Age capitalism is trickling down to the masses just about everywhere you look. I just learned that one can purchase "Chinese" meditation bracelets at a chain of local gas station/ice-cream parlors. They used to sell the WWJD bracelets but have decided to try something more multi-culti, I gather.

In my initial reading of _New Age Capitalism_, I was often reminded of the work of sociologists like Robert Bellah (esp. in _Habits of the Heart_) on the privatized nature of much contemporary American religious experience. Bellah traces the roots of our prediliction for pastiche, design-your-own 'spirituality' back to the founding fathers and, ultimately, the Enlightenment thinkers, but nonetheless thinks it's a phenomenon worth watching now more than ever.

One question the book might have entertained is just how much sense of commonality or community spirit a group of consumers of 'spiritual' commodities might be said to have. I'm Durkheimian in my definition of religion as an emphatically social phenomenon, and wonder whether consumer groups can ever be anything more than virtual communities (given that one has to get oneself to a retail outlet to have face-to-face interactions with other consumers of 'spiritual' commodities).

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Are jobs and wages, particularly those of the low-skilled, undermined by trade and investment with Asian and other emerging economies? This book presents contributions on this issue which place the analytical and policy debate into context. Focusing on Europe, the book shows that simple one-line messages on the impact of trade on jobs and wages have no sound analytical foundations.

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Global Trade and European Workers
Paul (Edt)/ Pelkmans, Jacques ( Brenton
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan 01/1//1999
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5U8GI

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This introductory general ecology text features a strong emphasis or helping students grasp the main concepts of ecology while keeping the presentation more applied than theoetical. An evolutionary perspective forms the foundation of the entire discussion. Evolution is brought to center stage throughout the book, as it is needed to support understanding of major concepts. The discussion begins with a brief introduction to the nature and history of the discipline of ecology, followed by section I, which includes two chapters on natural history—life on land and life in water. The intent is to establish a common foundation of natural history upon which to base the later discussions of ecological concepts. The introduction and natural history chapters can stand on their own and should be readily accessible to most students. They may be assigned as background reading, leaving 17 chapters to cover in a one-semester course. Sections II through VI build a hierarchical perspective: section II concerns the ecology of individuals: section III focuses on population ecology; section IV presents the ecology of interactions; section V summarizes community and ecosystem ecology; and finally, section VI discusses large-scale ecology and includes chapters on landscape, geographic, and global ecology. These topics were first introduced in section I within a natural history context. In summary, the book begins with the natural history of the planet, considers portions of the whole in the middle chapters, and ends with another perspective of the entire planet in the concluding chapter.

Customer Reviews:

A Rare Textbook!.......2002-11-29

Molles "Ecology: Concepts and Applications" is a rare textbook for three reasons:

1. It is unusually well-writen for a science textbook-clearly
writen and even poetic at times.

2. The author is open to more-than-scientific approaches to
studying the Natural World-such as aesethics, art,literature
and ethics. Molles is a good man for including these
dimensions in his textbook. Too many natural scientists
study science in a vacum, divorced from its socio
cultural, political-economic and spiritual context.

3. Finally, this book is a good Ecology textbook to use at a
Christian college or university because it does not try to
hock a scientific naturalist agenda and it will be a great
introduction to the breath and scope of God's Creation here
on Earth.

Great for non-technical study.......2002-01-24

This book is the first science text I have ever encountered which I enjoy reading. It generally takes the form of a series of stories which the author deftly uses to illustrate ecological concepts. It's not technical enough for a serious ecology student, but I hope that many people read it to gain an appreciation for ecology without encountering some the fanaticism which had previously turned me away from the subject entirely. Thanks.

Great for non ecology major students.......2000-08-08

Molles has outdone himself with this book. It presents the reader a great book for students who are not majoring in ecology and a great way to understand ecology and the different field works done in the area. The tables and organization are great. I speacially like the way the author makes a subject easy to understand and the way the tables and pictures help you to understand. It's a great book.

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