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This concise yet comprehensive reference helps employers responsibly and effectively deal with the basic personnel issues they face each day. It guides employers in the development of a cohesive personnel program that is tailored to meet their companies' unique needs and goals.

Stressing the importance of consistency and documentation, Holzschu addresses the full range of personnel issues, including: Compiling an employee handbook Formulating job descriptions Conducting interviews Training employees Maintaining personnel files Evaluating employees.

This book is an invaluable resource for small businesses that don't have a personnel expert on staff. The CD contains sample employee handbooks, federal regulations and laws, forms for complying with government programs and worksheets for assessing personnel needs and goals.

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Soil degradation has serious global impacts on agronomic, economic, and sociopolitical conditions, however, statistics regarding the degree of these impacts has been largely unreliable. This book aims to standardize the methodology for obtaining reliable and objective data on soil degradation. It will also identify and develop criteria for assessing the severity of soil degradation, providing a realistic scenario of the problem.

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How many mistakes can occur in one book?!?!?

Hiking Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, 2nd (Hiking Guide Series)
Bill Schneider
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A comprehensive guide to the trails and backcountry roads of Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

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How many mistakes can occur in one book?!?!?.......2006-05-06

I am appalled at how many errors this book has that I found! The listing for Devil's Canyon's Primitive Trail has an absoultely ridiculous milage marker that makes no sense at all. The trail length for Tower Arch trail says it's 2.4 miles when the trail is actually 3.4 miles long. I got to where I would just go talk to the rangers at both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks about the trails rather than even open that book because it was completely unreliable. I am really surprised that it's a Falcon book because I thought they had better standards! Don't waste your money!!!

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In the swamp lives a fat and sassy frog named Gilbert de la Frogponde (that's Frogponde with an "e"). Gilbert spends his days catching flies lazily dozing on the dock until one day, two gourmet chefs arrive at the pond in search of dinner. Too fat to outrun them, Gilbert must outsmart them by convincing them that bugs, not frogs, are all the rage in the most stylish restaurants. Only Gilbert de la Frogponde could possibly talk himself out of such a jam! Children will fall in love with this adorable, roly-poly, green fellow, while adults will delight in Gilbert's self-reliance and quick wit. Gilbert's antics are captured by quirky, inventive illustrations that will enchant audiences of all ages.

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Gilbert de la frogponde.......2001-06-22

This book is wonderful for kids of all ages (and adults, too!). Gilbert is quite a quick-thinking frog! I loved how he squirmed his way out of being captured by the frog hunting chefs! What a creative story! The illustrations were very colorful and entertaining as well. We LOVED it!

This is THE best!.......1999-11-18

I have to say that even as a college student, that this is my favorite book! Where was this stuff when I was a kid? Gilbert is hilarious!

An absolute treat for my whole family.......1999-03-04

Gilbert de la Frogponde is absolutely hilarious for my 22 month old son, my wife, and myself.

The story is sweet and innocent, without being syrupy, the characterizations are perfect, and the illustration is the piece de resistance. I highly recommend it!!

The kids love this book almost as much as I do!.......1998-03-24

This is an excellent book, full of whimsical ideas that my children (ages 5 and 7) have enjoyed over and over agian. We find something new to laugh at each time we read it. The illustrations of Gilbert's dishes are great, too.

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This look at shopping offers ideas and advice to help adapt to the changing consumer while providing a humorous in-depth profile of who that consumer really is.

Es una guía que ofrece ideas y consejos sobre cómo adaptarse a los consumidores cambiantes. Para el público en general, este libro es un divertido espejo de quienes somos realmente.

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China by the year 2030 will be not only the world's most populous nation, but also the world's largest economy, a superpower in every sense of the word. Its emergence as "the biggest player in the history of man," in the words of former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, will shift the global balance of wealth and power in the next millennium. Big Dragon draws a nuanced portrait of the historic changes now underway in China and drafts a practical blueprint for maintaining constructive Sino-American relations. The book is must reading for anyone concerned with international business, finance, or politics. That should include almost everyone.

Coauthors Daniel Burstein and Arne de Keijzer show a deep understanding of China's rich culture and manifold complexities as a society. Burstein is an investment banker who has written four other books on global economic issues, including Yen!, on the Japanese economy. Arne de Keijzer consults with companies doing business in China and is the author of three guides to the country, including China: Business Strategies for the '90s.

The authors analyze both the challenges and the opportunities posed by China in the next century. Without airbrushing China's authoritarian government, geopolitical ambitions, or abysmal record on human rights, Big Dragon seeks to counter the views of some in the U.S. who conclude that China is the enemy. Burstein and de Keijzer believe China is unlikely to become militarily aggressive, though the status of Taiwan involves the potential for conflict. They believe China will not disintegrate like the Soviet Union, though regions will continue to struggle with Beijing for greater autonomy, perhaps bringing about a degree of federalism. Big Dragon profiles many individual Chinese entrepreneurs and others who are bringing a new China into being. From the transformations the Chinese have already wrought, the authors believe that China's journey down the path toward a pluralistic economy and even a form of democracy is irreversible.

If so, the best policy for the U.S. and other powers is what the authors call "dynamic engagement" with China. They favor continued, normal trade as the only means to persuade China to do better on human rights and in other areas of conflict, such as intellectual piracy. They favor integrating China into the world economy through membership in the World Trade Organization and other international bodies. And they favor a broad expansion of U.S.-China exchange programs involving students, elected officials, and community leaders.

Big Dragon is a useful antidote to the cartoon versions of China proffered in some books and in many Western news media. Burstein and de Keijzer communicate a sense of China's complex diversity. Like any nation--more so, because of its size--China is full of contradictions. Putting them in perspective and gaining a better sense of where they may lead will be hugely important in understanding the shape of the world to come. Big Dragon is an excellent guide. --Barry Mitzman

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After the dust settles on the current Asian crisis, China will still exist -- the other super-power in the world of the twenty-first century, the country that has been rightfully dubbed not just another player in Asia but the "biggest player in the history of man."

This thought-provoking book explores how China will evolve and what its emerging economic prowess and growing political clout will mean for business, economic, and political interests. In a book that counters alarmist views of China as the new cold war enemy, as well as the naive optimism of those still overly bullish on a China facing huge economic pressure and structural challenges, Big Dragon offers a hard-edged, realistic, and eminently readable assessment of a nation that stands on the fulcrum of the global future. It was the book most widely read by senior American and Chinese officials during President Clinton's historic 1998 summit meeting with President Jiang Zemin.

Daniel Burstein and Arne de Keijzer, who together have more than fifty years' experience traveling in China, doing business in China, and writing about China, offer a fresh, intelligent, and ultimately positive business and political strategy for the United States.

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The ultimate competitor!!!.......2007-06-26

I was going through one of my closets and I came across the book Big Dragon. I read the book eight years ago, and I remember having pause at that time for the huge impact China seemed to represent for the rest of the world. And looking back, all that was said then seems prevalent now. China annually graduates one million college students and they completely dominate the information and engineering fields. This represents two major issues that most people take for granted: 1st. China's domination in those fields camouflages India's important position in those same fields: 2nd. Their competitive nature generates a protectionist American attitude. Chinese students typically graduate high school with five years of physics. Typically, these are students that are recognized in their formative years as promising. And with 800 million candidates the prospects continue show promise. Public education in the U.S. will be hard pressed for several years, if ever, to match the stellar performance of China. Noticable personalities such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell all worry about America's worldwide educational placement. And because the Chinese population have grown up accustomed to richer levels of competition, they may be better positioned to compete globally. As their ecomony expands and their need for petroleum grows, the price of oil increases, forcing the entire world to take notice. And as their hunger for economic expansion grows, their need to forge alliances with oil rich Western enemies increases. Whether this represents future challenges for Western economies remains to be seen. But in the end, when the full impact of the tenacity with which the Chinese are capable and accustomed to competing is realized; especially in the U.S., the palpability of nationalistic resentment towards China from working class Americans is going to be extremely high.

Slightly old but so far on track look of China's future.......2005-06-10

A very dry but ultimately absorbing book attempting to describe China's place in Asia, the world and in particular its relationship to America and also then the implications of China's economy continuing to grow at a fast rate for the next 20-30 years.

It is now nearly 8 years old since this was first published and so reading it is a little bit like reading old newspapers but the age of the book does not make it irrelevant; we can compare their projections with reality and also see how much has actually changed in terms of what the current state of the relationship between America and China is, what the main concerns are around the world with a rising China and how well the Chinese economy continues to perform.

The authors are obviously experts in China and this is shown in that impressively most of their predictions seem on track. For example, Hong Kong is still relatively a independent territory but as they pointed out its economic importance has diminished in favour of Shanghai - this was sort of predicted by the authors. Also, the so called bankrupt and in dire need of overhaul State owned enterprises are still up and running, still apparently unprofitable and have not (despite some commentators - see strator) collapsed bringing the whole country with them. And finally, the issue de jour of late 90s of the Asian Financial meltdown (when the book was written) has passed and the region has recovered, without bringing the whole continent into the same turmoil seen nations of the old USSR.

As a read this is a pretty dry and you should only bother if you have an interest in the subject. Nonetheless, if you ARE interested in geo-politics and trying to predict where the world's balance of power is going then this book is very good, as borne out by reality 7 years later - maybe the authors will write a follow or a second revision which would be well worth a look.

Actually about politics, sociology, and Chinese history.......2004-05-26

Written about 5 years ago by a NYC investment banker and a China Mgmt consultancy based in CT, this book is naturally positive towards PRChina. This book covers the end of the second decade of Premier Deng's Reform and Opening to foreign investment. And before the Asian crash of 2000.

The authors' point-of-view is towards the political, sociological, and militarily first, economics second, and corporate investment third. They obliquely discuss US corporate investments, but this is neither a How To book, nor a B-school reader. Many remarks and keylines are more towards an extended discussion of temporal news and the sensational, as opposed to business facts and analysis. Like a fleshed out Neisbitt text of glittering generalities.

The strengths of this book are in interpreting and extended discussion on the how's and why's socialism with Chinese characteristics work as it does. When the Western press lays down emotionally charged words of democracy, free market, entrepreneur, etc, these concepts need careful explanations on what, exactly, this means in the Chinese context and the surrounding business milieu. These explanations, implications, and why they are so, as the reader will discover is quite different from straight Western interpretations.

The first half of the book deals with China history since Mao after WWII. Then Deng's Opening in Chap 2, p47 there is a 2-page discussion on Overseas Ethnic Chinese and their investment into the homeland in the Shenzhen SEZ. On p127, the authors agree that a "Greater China" exists including Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the OEChinese business dominated ASEAN countries all cooperating. In Chap 8, they discuss the enormity of the State-Owned-Enterprises which are largely non-performing by western standards, but who employ over 70% of the domestic urban workforce of 170 million people. Many SOEs are producing obsolete products, with a featherbedded workforce, that have been superceded by a market economy in other sectors. The new Premiers Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji appear serious in slowly reforming the SOEs, the bedrock of the socialist empire.

The second half of the book deals with China's problems and issues, starting with Chap 8. Most Western press criticize the apparent lack of responsibility from leaders on these issues, SOEs, banks, SOL, SSI, etc. The authors, in contrast, evaluate this criticism in context of the larger whole and cite how deliberate progress is being made. As illustrated by three entrepreneurial case studies in Part III covering 30 pages, Chinese entrepreneurship is fostered by the Politburo as an experiment to help shore up the SOE profitability. So-called capitalism with Chinese characteristics is fostered in order to quickly develop real estate, along with large OEChinese capital infusions, so that there are suitable industrial parks (SEZ) to attract foreign investment to setup hi-tech manufacturing. The Politburo then covets corporate America with deep pockets in order to gather hard currency, implement new technology, create new jobs, and expand exports to further fund national and educational infrastructure and technology upgrades in SOEs. This conclusion is consistent with Jim Mann's book a decade earlier in "Beijing Jeep," and the authors agree on p90 that for corporate America to be successful in PRChina, it will require both manufacturing and technology transfer to the Chinese JVs. All under the watchful eye and blessing of the Politburo. Pretty crafty!

In Chap14 and 15 The Next Five Years, on p278 significant political and social change will not occur until the Chinese GenX, 5th gens who grew up in a post-Mao era, come to power in about 20 years, about year 2020.

Lets see if any of the author's prophecies came true. While discussed along with MFN status p364, they did not predict that China would win WTO admission in 2001. Also they didn't predict the Millennium crash in Asia, their forecast was for 2004 p341. On p340, they said that the Three Gorges Dam's first generators would turn on in 2003, actual is 2004. On p309, the authors did write about 2 inches on the oil, Persian Gulf, and Islamic issues, but did not predict the US-Iraq War. Pretty myopic vision for globalists? Score is 1 for 4. Not good. There are many more prophesies to 2024, Year of the Dragon, which includes Taiwan's return to the China fold.

In the last Chapter 18, the authors continue harping on US-China Cold-War. They plead that after 30 years, an updated Shanghai Compact 2002 needs to be enacted. I fail to see the significance in ending their book with 20+ pages on the subject, including many shorter US Hawk rampages on the subject spread throughout their text.

The book's rear dust jacket poses 6 fundamental questions on the coming changes in the new world order. These questions must have been written by the editors, because I'd say that the authors did not really specifically address these questions in any detail, read: don't judge a book by its cover, which I read at a local public library.

The authors have 18 Chapters and a 14-page index. Each page has a sidebar quote from important dignitaries, both western and Chinese, hence the inflated 400 page book. There are no tables of World Bank numbers, no pictures or figures or maps. There are 10 pages of Notes, mainly from US / UK periodicals. The Acknowledgement pages give recognition to about 150 people that they interviewed, more than three quarters have Chinese surnames. However, for security reasons, they are not footnoted in the book.

Excellent review of the present and probable future of China.......2000-07-13

This book does what it sets out to do admirably well, although the reaction of certain readers makes it clear that its approach is lacking in certain areas.

This book is a comprehensive but well-focused review of the current political and economic system of China, recent trends in US-China relationship, and the emerging currents in Chinese society that will shape the country in the next quarter century. The book is written primarily from a business perspective, focusing on China's economic and market potentials (forecasted to match the US in total GDP by the 2020's though still much poorer in per capita terms) and the impact of political developments on the business environment. For those readers not yet familiar with contemporary China, this book is a remarkably well-informed primer. But even old China-hands will find the authors' detailed discussion of the probable future of China (some 100 pages are devoted to the section titled "Geomancing the Dragon") thought-provoking even if their own conclusions may vary.

However, the authors sought to instruct as well as inform. And their recommendations for improving US-China relationship - although perfectly sensible - may not persuade the human rights hawks in the US, who may consider arguments on strictly mercantilist terms immoral. But it's no accident that most of those intimately familiar with China are "pro-China" in the sense defined by a previous reviewer. China has plenty of human rights problems, but it has also come a remarkably long way in a amazingly short time. Progress cannot be measured without the context of history, and it's this area that did not receive sufficient treatment. The general normalcy of China today is an accomplishment that cannot be adequately appreciated without greater understanding of 20th century Chinese history.

There are issues of fundamental human rights and there are issues of political organization. While one is certainly entitled to avidly avocate the political system of his or her choice, one should refrain from waging moral crusades when we are all equally human and fallible.

A Realistic Perspective of China Today.......2000-07-09

Another one of my highly recommended books is Big Dragon: What it means for Business, the Economy, and the Global Order. Overall, the authors have a good comprehension of China's economic and political structure. However, Big Dragon has one important omission. Although the authors casually mention the economic impact of FDI on China by overseas Chinese, I would have devoted at least one entire chapter to the subject. In fact, the vast majority of foreign investment continues to flow from overseas ethnic Chinese around the world (over 80% of FDI). Along with Taiwan, there are significant ethnic Chinese communities across Southeast Asia. Inspite of the war of words, Taiwan has over $40 billion and growing invested in China. The chances of a hot war between China and Taiwan are minimal. The overseas Chinese FDI permeates throughout China's economy in almost every sector including agriculture, biotech, services, high tech manufacturing, etc. Many Chinese officials that I have spoken to would disagree, but I would argue that China's economic renaissance can primarily be attributed to the skills, technology, and capital provided by the overseas ethnic Chinese across East Asia. The growing informal structural ties between the Chinese communities across East Asia and China illustrate the development of a Greater China with Beijing at its core. China's current government is similar in many respects to the earlier dictatorships of the Park regime in South Korea or the Chiang regime in Taiwan.

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The unprecedented global economic growth of recent decades is closely tied to the trading relations that have developed in the postwar period. The authors of The Protectionist Threat to Corporate America explore the potential impact of protectionism on these relationships, arguing that trade barriers pose a danger not only to U.S. economic growth but to world trade as a whole. Gearing their discussion to the needs of the business community, they offer a clear, systematic explanation of the underlying principles that govern international trade, the consequences of protectionism, and practical strategies for developing effective competition. The first four chapters examine the nature of trade, the power relations that influence it, and the dilemma created by trade deficits, monetary instability, and declining competitiveness. In the next section, Nevaer and Deck outline a four-point program designed to reverse the slippage in productivity and competitiveness that has eroded America's economic position in the world community. They present guidelines for creating a competitive advantage, maximizing strengths, utilizing a more dynamic management style, and harnessing the benefits of economies of scale and scope. In case studies of industries in the service sector and the high-tech field, Nevaer and Deck show how a competitive edge can be achieved by identifying opportunities and developing sound strategies for exploiting them. An important working tool for corporate managers, this book will enable business people to see beyond current political rhetoric and make realistic decisions on some of the most fundamental issues affecting the nation's economy.

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The recent proliferation of free trade areas and customs unions in the world trading system has led to an explosive revival of interest in the economic analysis of Preferential Trade Arrangements (PTAs). The principal theoretical question of the 1950s and 1960s (Viner) was whether PTAs would create or divert trade, causing welfare improvement or loss. The principal theoretical question (Bhagwati) of the late 1980s and 1990s has been whether PTAs encourage or discourage the worldwide nondiscriminatory freeing of trade. The essays in this volume present the central contributions to the analytical approaches developed to examine these questions.

The first section of the book presents a synthesis and analytical guide to the issues, and to the theoretical research, as they have developed since 1950. The following sections contain the theoretical contributions themselves, grouped by analytical approach. This volume will enable graduate students, scholars of PTAs, and policymakers concerned with trade liberalization to grasp the analytical relationships among the sometimes disparate contributions of nearly a half century of theoretical research on PTAs.

Contributors: Richard Baldwin, Jagdish Bhagwati, Richard Brecher, C. A. Cooper, W. Max Corden, Alan Deardorff, Ronald Findlay, Earl Grinols, Gene Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Harry G. Johnson, Murray C. Kemp, Pravin Krishna, Paul Krugman, Philip Levy, R. G. Lipsey, B. F. Massell, Robert Mundell, Arvind Panagariya, Martin Richardson, T. N. Srinivasan, Robert Stern, Lawrence Summers, Jacob Viner, Henry Y. Wan, Jr.

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