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High Impact Speeches: How to Create & Deliver Words That Move Minds

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High Impact Speeches: How to Create & Deliver Words That Move Minds
Richard Heller
Manufacturer: Financial Times Management
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0273662023

High Impact Speeches will teach you how. It will also help you to develop a unique style and a unique command of your subject, with techniques that have worked for some of the greatest speakers in history. A good speech can inform, persuade, win a debate, make money or make news. It can advance your career and enhance your reputation. A bad one can only bore or make enemies. Whether the speech that you are writing is for you or for your boss, this book will teach you how to deliver a winning speech - from scratch.

Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology: Genetic Approaches

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Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology: Genetic Approaches
Rex A. Dunham
Manufacturer: CABI
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0851995969

Woody Hayes was one of the greatest football coaches in history---and one of the most fascinating. More than a brilliant coach, he was a complicated, contradictory man. The former history teacher ran his football empire as an absolute monarchy, but had a surprisingly altruistic side, hidden from the public,. and author John Lombardo uses his extensive sports-writing experience to craft an accurate portrait of one of the most complex and fascinating figures in football.
First and foremost, Woody Hayes was a coach---and his achievements are stunning. While at Ohio State, he won five national titles, and thirteen Big Ten Conference championships, made eight Rose Bowl appearances, and earned two national Coach of the Year awards. Moreover, Hayes’s lifetime coaching record, 238--72--10, puts him in the first rank of college coaching immortals. No other coach won more games in a shorter period.
Countless interviews of former players, assistant coaches, and friends shape the image of Hayes and his career, which spanned the mid-1940s to the late 1970s during a tremendous period of change in American society. A Fire to Win is an honest and revealing biography of Hayes, a man who ranks in the pantheon of football coaches.

“An easy-to-read, objective look at one of Ohio’s most powerful, complex, admired, feared, and contradictory figures.”
---The Columbus Dispatch

“A sympathetic yet evenhanded examination of a modern coaching giant.”
---Booklist

“Insightful and comprehensive biography.”
---The New York Sun

“Contradictions, of course, are what make Hayes fascinating. And Lombardo delves into those contradictions with a cell biologist’s eye for detail and a landscape painter’s eye for perspective.”
---Chicago Tribune

Lonely Planet Los Angeles: Condensed (Lonely Planet Los Angeles Condensed)

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Lonely Planet Los Angeles: Condensed (Lonely Planet Los Angeles Condensed)
Sara Benson
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1740593340

This informative and savvy guide captures the best that Los Angeles offers in a practical, easy to use format. With opinionated reviews, essential travel tips and detailed fold-out maps, Los Angeles Condensed has all the information the discerning visitor needs - for one day or one month, for business or for pleasure.

This informative and savvy guide captures the best that San Francisco offers in a practical, easy to use format. With opinionated reviews, essential travel tips and detailed fold-out maps, San Francisco Condensed has all the information the discerning visitor needs - for a day or a week, for business or for pleasure.

This informative and savvy guide captures the best that California offers in a practical, easy to use format. With opinionated reviews, essential travel tips and detailed fold-out maps, California Condensed has all the information the discerning visitor needs - for one day or one month, for business or for pleasure.

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Don't Spit on My Corner
Miguel Duran
Manufacturer: Arte Publico Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1558850422

Southern California Business Directory and Buyers Guide, 2003 (Southern California Business Directory and Buyers Guide)

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Southern California Business Directory and Buyers Guide, 2003 (Southern California Business Directory and Buyers Guide)

Manufacturer: Harris Infosource
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1556001096

Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient world and the sixteenth century, he finds a surprising degree of confirmation and some intriguing exceptions.

Rogowski responds to work that had previously looked at domestic coalition (cleavage) formation, without considering international trade, such as Lipset and Rokkan (1967) and Moore (1967). In line with the second-image reversed argument, Rogowski instead uses the Stolper-Samuelson theorem to explain domestic cleavages. Briefly, the S-S theorem says that trade will benefit the abundant factor(s) (land, labor and/or capital) in each country, and harm the scarce factor(s). Rogowski draws a political implication from this theorem, which is that the benefited group will gain more political power by way of economic leverage and strategic incentives. More specifically, Rogowski's model can predict either an urban-rural conflict or a class conflict. In the first case, land is the abundant factor which would benefit. Capital and labor, normally based in an urban environment, are scarce and would go on the defensive. In the latter case, the economy is endowed in labor, and capital and land are scarce, thus leading to an assertive coalition of landowners and capitalists.

But there are two key problems with this type of second-image reversed coalition analysis. The first is that outcomes are under-specified and ambiguous, and the second is that process-tracing is nearly absent.

For Rogowski, outcomes are in fact blatantly under-specified, because Rogowski does not actually predict outcomes! He admits as much when he writes that "winners can expand their political influence" (4 - note the hedging by the use of the term "can" instead of "will"), and "as the desire and the means for a particular political preference increase, the likelihood grows that political entrepreneurs will devise mechanisms that can surmount the obstacles to collective action" (5). Not only are we faced with this ambiguous, probabilistic argument, but we are also told that those harmed by free trade will demand "protection or imperialism" (5), but we are not told which one, and under what circumstances. Further, Rogowski admits that "winners" who are strengthened politically might still lose, without telling us cases or conditions under which they would do so. "Victory or defeat depends, so far as I can see, both on the relative size of the various groups and on those institutional and cultural factors that this perspective so resolutely ignores" (20).

Process-tracing is also absent from Rogowski's analysis, because there is little empirical evidence of his hypothesized effects at work. In effect, a coalition's capture of the state is a "black box", in that we don't know how exactly how it happens. First of all, some countries might depend only marginally on trade, which he admits. Second, when Rogowski does get into empirical cases, he begins to introduce elements that are not found in the original hypothesis, such as degree of skill of labor, and how "advanced" certain economic sectors are. And finally, he ignores the role of information and strategy, in that holders of factors need to be able to know their opportunity costs and incentives, calculate the best course of action, and resolve collective action problems in taking this action. The book says almost nothing about these problems.

However, Rogowski's theory, while it under-predicts and fails to process-trace, can probably be forgiven because of its incredible degree of parsimony and explanatory leverage. With a simple model of international trade, he is able to shed causal light on a multitude of historical cases of domestic political change.

The World Economy: Global Trade Policy, 1996 (World Economy - Special Issues)

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The World Economy: Global Trade Policy, 1996 (World Economy - Special Issues)
Chris Milner
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Negocios y Comercializacion Intercultural

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Negocios y Comercializacion Intercultural
Carlos Ledesma
Manufacturer: Macchi Grupo Editorial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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