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Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide (3rd Edition)
Helene Lamarre
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This straightforward book challenges the reader to complete a successful job search. It focuses on self-assessment techniques, sound career development theory, and individual applications. KEY TOPICS: Covering a wide range of topics while presenting specific skills, this comprehensive guide prompts the reader to take an active role in the job search. It presents the latest job search technologies, including computer-generated resumes, electronically scannable resumes, Internet resume sites, electronic company research, and Internet job searches. It also discusses the uses of professional portfolios. The second edition of Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide has been revised to include new chapters on the Internet Job Search; Evaluating a Job Offer; and Designing Job Success. It includes expanded coverage of computer-generated resumes, Internet resume sites, and electronic sources of company research; networking; as well as interviewing techniques and professional portfolios. An essential resource for anyone who is currently searching for a job or considering beginning a job search.

Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide

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Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide (2nd Edition)

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Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide (2nd Edition)
Helene Martucci Lamarre
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Something is wrong with our agricultural and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. Can nothing be done or is it time for the expansion of another sort of agriculture, founded on more ecological principles, and in harmony with people, their societies and cultures?

This book draws on many stories of successful transformation. A sustainable agriculture making the best of nature and people's knowledge and collective capacities has been showing increasingly good promise. Everyone is in favor of sustainability, yet few go seriously beyond the fine words. This book shows that there is no alternative to radical reform of national agricultural, rural and food policies, and institutions - the time has come for the next agricultural revolution.

Agri-Culture. Reconnecting people, land and nature [A book review from: Journal of Cleaner Production]

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Agri-Culture. Reconnecting people, land and nature [A book review from: Journal of Cleaner Production]
C. Leire
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Cleaner Production, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Comet Halley-Once in a Lifetime
Mark And Donald K. Yeomans Littman
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Comet Halley: Once in a Lifetime
Mark Littmann , and Donald K. Yeomans
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"Possibly the best comet chronicle so far...book is visually appealing, filled with fun as well as good science"--Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah (1985) November 3 "Of all the comet books being published just prior to Comet Halley's 1986 return, this is among the best. Written for the general reader, it is instructive, entertaining, and occasionally witty...Recommended for all libraries."--Choice (1985) November "Richer, thicker Halley books of style and quality are out there on the shelves, but this one, a real bargain in paper, should be high on any list for clarity in small compass."--Scientific American (1985) December Celebrates the return of Halley's comet with a wealth of facts and fantasy about comets. Features the superstitions, myths, and misconceptions surrounding their appearances. Reports on how comets were explained by the first sky-watchers. Recounts numerous tales about the effects comets have had on society and the role they have played in Earth's history. Shares the secrets and mysteries that enshroud Comet Halley as a harbinger of calamities and catastrophes. Records the history and discovery of this comet and discusses the plans scientists today have for studying the comet as it streaks through the constellations. Special Feature! A complete guide to the 1985-86 sightings of Halley's Comet! Tells where and when to get the best view of the comet. Shows what to look for and how to recognize what is seen. Also covers the equipment needed to see the comet.

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Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime
Bill Gutsch
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Comet Halley-Once in a Lifetime

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An up-to-date look at the use of X-ray microanalysis in biology and the potential of the technique for future research. The contributors tackle four major aspects of X-ray microanalysis--detection and quantification of X-rays, associated techniques, specimen preparation, and applications.

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Ski Faster

Learn to ski as expert racers do, even if you never plan to enter a starting gate.

You don't need nerves of steel and a passion for flying down slopes at 85 mph to benefit from the competitive-level advice and insider anecdotes in this book. In fact, even if moving at 15 mph on the intermediate slope makes you nervous, Ski Faster is for you . . . if you want to ski better . . . have more fun on the slopes . . . and learn how to carve those new shaped skis like a pro.

"The best skiers are ski racers," writes Densmore, pointing out the technical impact of champions such as Jean Claude Killy, Stein Ericksen, and Ingemar Stenmark. In this book, Densmore shows all skiers how to apply champion racing techniques not only to gain speed but to improve skill. Ski Faster shows you how to

Prepare for and enjoy any kind of alpine race, no matter what your present skill level
Tell a slalom course from a Giant slalom or Super G
Get more fun out of skiing by mastering better technique
Ski professionally with improved form and better-carved turns
Understand how the new shaped skis improve your carving and racing potential

With pro-level guidance on training and conditioning . . . on-snow and dry-land drills . . . waxing tricks . . . faster starts . . . course tactics . . . mental preparation, including conquering fear of speed . . . tips from top racers . . . and over a hundred illustrations that make it all easier to understand, Ski Faster is the finest race-preparation manual available.

"A must-have in any Alpine master's ski library." --Bill Skinner, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association Masters Coordinator and Park City Resort Masters Coach

"The most complete ski racing book written! It's an encyclopedia that reads like a personal diary of a ski racer. Whatever your interest or ability, this book will help you ski better and Ski Faster!" --Dave Merriam, Director of the Stowe Ski and Snowboard School and Head Coach of the PSIA Demonstration Team

"Lisa Feinberg Densmore has compiled a comprehensive digest of pertinent concepts, details, and personal accounts to form an improvement road map for recreational skiers, beginning-to-seasoned racers, instructors, coaches, parents, and fans. I'll recommend this book to many people." --David Ojala, Program Director, Mammoth Mountain Ski and Snowboard Team

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Excellent book.......2006-12-09

Fantastic and comprehensive. I just began Masters racing last year, and this book was incredibly helpful for pointing me in the right direction. I look forward to the Second Edition (hopefully coming soon).

An essential primer.......2006-02-24

Having made the decision (later than most!) to retire my 195cm straight sided GS skis, I needed to better understand how to adapt my technique to the new shaped slalom 165cm skis I bought. Lisa Densmore's book is a really good primer on the essentials of technique and how this has changed in relation to the various 'downhill' disciplines. There is the bonus reading on pre-season training and how methods have evolved plus a section on ski preparation that is easy to follow and practical. The clarity and authority of the writing invites reading this book time and again. Do bear in mind that things have continued to evolve over the five years since the book was published. Ski lengths have gone down further and additional techniques like the short reaching turn have emerged. However, the core of this book is solid, competitively priced and well presented.

Excellent for good skiers trying to get better.......2005-06-06

I was skiing on NASTAR courses and consistently getting Bronze medals; I was a pretty good skier and I could get down any slope but I could not break out of the Novice NASTAR category.

Technique, not aggressiveness, is everything in improving your racing times. This book will help.

Following this book's advice, I am now in the Expert NASTAR category consistently getting Silver medals and often getting Gold.

THE one-stop resource for racing instruction.......2003-10-24

I was in an REI store in Baltimore a few years ago when I stumbled on this book and promptly bought it. I had read a few other similar guides but I was still having difficulty grasping the concept of a proper Giant Slalom turn. Lisa Feinberg Densmore's SKI FASTER clearly and succinctly got the message across. Helpful photos of the "wrong" way as well as the "right" way really gave me an understanding of what I should be striving for. Although I have a long way to go, this nifty tome has helped me shave significant seconds off my recreational race league times. I have only one request. Lisa, when are you going to put it all on video? I've searched the web looking for an instructional video for recreational GS racers and none exist! With your broadcast background, you'd be a natural to produce one. As my club's racing captain, I an assure you there is a market out there!

Pat Moore
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Great book for new racers.......2003-01-08

As a ski instructor for a few years I was recruited to coach a group of kids for ski racing. I new almost nothing about the techniques and tactics for ski racing and found this book to be a big help. It does contain a bit more information than I needed on downhill and super G racing. A great book for anyone interested in racing.

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James Green nails it - a great introductory text

My Most Used Herbal Book.

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The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual
James Green
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Gorgeous Book .......2007-10-13

This is a gorgeous book and one of my favourite herbal medicine books. It is beautifully written and presented and the pictures are lovely. I am training to be a clinical medical herbalist and it is so easy to get caught up in tinctures in bottles that come from a supplier - this book brings me back to grassroots herbalism, the growing and harvesting of plants and the making of medicines with your own hands. I love this book and highly recommend it.

James Green nails it - a great introductory text.......2007-08-01

James Green shares his wealth of knowledge in this well-organized, informative, and extensive text with a nice touch of humor and spiritualism. His deep love for the art of herbalism shines through in this well-written piece, which flows beautifully and is a pleasure to read. The illustrations by his daughter are quite fitting and match the herbal aesthetic as well. A must-have for any budding herbalist (and worth picking up for the intermediate as well!)

My Most Used Herbal Book........2007-07-29

A true compendium of information. I have learned so much from this book and constantly refer to it when preparing remedies. I am giving it 5 stars because it is so superior to anything else written, however, it only covers a limited amount of herbs and their uses. Most of them easily wildcrafted in Northern California. Granted some herbs are meant to be used with caution and most individuals involved with using herbs learn these quickly. No one wants to get themselves or anyone else sick. I just wish James Green had covered a few more than the 35 in depth. But, it is still a wonderful book nonetheless.

The best on making your own herbal medicines........2007-07-15

James Green really did a good job. Other reviewers outline the book's content in great detail, so I'll spare that here. I am not a professional herbalist, although I make and use herbal medicines here and there for various problems. I always consult this handbook- Green is very clear and thorough with his step-by-step directions on how to make these medicines. He doesn't discuss exactly what herbs to use too much- but there's many other sources for that. This book is all about the procedure of making medicine, not what to use. He also discusses ethical harvesting of wild herbs. Making herbal medicine is easy and enjoyable, and you'll save a ton of money.

excellent book.......2007-07-07

I wish I had purchased this book a long time ago. Excellent reading and very informative with a humorist air.

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When Michael Raider's birthday surprise blows up in his face, he finds himself and his friend, Scott on a journey for survival. Eventually, both boys befriend a bear, and the trio has fun along the way.

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The food and beverage industries today face an intensely competitive business environment. To the degree that the product developer and marketer - as well as general business manager - can more fully understand the consumer and target development and marketing efforts, their business will be more successful.Sensory and Consumer Research in Food Product Design and Development is the first book to present, from the business viewpoint, the critical issues faced by sensory analysts, product developers, and market researchers in the food and beverage arena. The book 's unique perspective stems from the author team of Moskowitz, Beckley, and Resurreccion, three leading practitioners in the field, who each combines an academic and business acumen. The beginning reader will be introduced to systematic experimentation at the very early stages, to newly emerging methods for data acquisition/knowledge development, and to points of view employed by successful food and beverage companies. The advanced reader will find new ideas, backed up by illustrative case histories, to provide yet another perspective on commonly encountered problems and their practical solutions.Aimed toward all aspects of the food and beverage industry, Sensory and Consumer Research in Food Product Design and Development is especially important for those professionals involved in the early stages of product development, where business opportunity is often the greatest.

Consumer Sensory Testing For Product Development (Chapman & Hall Food Science Book)

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Consumer Sensory Testing For Product Development (Chapman & Hall Food Science Book)
Anna V.A. Resurreccion
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This book provides comprehensive information on all aspects of consumer affective testing, including principles, application and implementation of consumer affective tests, data collection, statistical analysis, and interpretation of results. New approaches not previously covered in the literature include: 1) methodologies for testing of young children and the elderly and issues related to testing with individuals in these age groups, 2) an in-depth discussion of the development and maintenance of a consumer database, 3) qualitative consumer research methods, 4) simulated supermarket setting tests, and 5) use of mobile laboratory in consumer tests.

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Conventional wisdom argues that the integration of the world economy is making national governments less powerful, but Linda Weiss disagrees. In an era when global society and the transnational market are trendy concepts, she suggests that state capacities for domestic transformative strategies provide a competitive advantage. Some of the most successful economies rely on state-informed and state-embedded institutions for governing the economy. In fact, she contends, the strength of external economic pressures is largely determined domestically, and the effect of such pressures varies with the strength of domestic institutions.

Weiss analyzes the sources and varieties of state capacity for governing industrial transformation in contemporary cases: the unraveling of Sweden's distributive model of adjustment, the evolution of developmental states in Northeast Asia, and the parallel strengths of the German and Japanese systems of industrial coordination. Her comparative perspective allows her to show how different types of state capacity affect industrial vitality and domestic adjustment to global forces. As economic integration proceeds, she concludes, state capabilities will matter more rather than less in fostering social well-being and the creation of wealth.

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Globalization increases the role of the state.......2002-10-10

Linda Weiss brings an unconventional view of the role of state, which contrasts with the prevailing literature on this theme. She considers the Japanese model as very viable, because of its ability to adapt to changes in international environment and transform its industrial structure according the market demands. According to the author, Japan's succes rests in combination of developmental and distributional fuctions. This fact enables the state better transformation of its structure than in market-led economies like USA or GB. Very interesting is the point, that distributional function doesn't weaken the developmental capacity of the state, rather reinforces it. The low income inbalance, the solidarity of firm with its employers also strengthens the capability of state. On the other hand she finds several difficulties with the German model, which exerts huge adaptibility in already existing sectors, but is weak in introducing new progressive technology industries like microelectronics. The German state has responded to this situation by creating of the new ministry for research and its role increased after reunification whereby it provided the largest amount of investments to the East. On these examples author illustrates that the role of German state in the economic development has increased. In case of Sweden came to separation of development and distribution, leading to problems Sweden is currently facing. Author also presents an interesting opinion, that neoliberal states as USA, Great Britain and New Zealand may due to the large income discrepancies and weak public-private coordination face severe adaptation problems.
The author pays attention to the issue of globalization too. She concludes that globalization reinforces rather than diminishes the state. On the base of evidence on FDI and international trade she concludes, that the claims about the extent of globalization are strongly exaggerated.
The international corporations also remain strongly embedded in their home nation-states which provide them with information and services.
On the ground of this evidence the autor concludes, that nation-state in the economic realm is not weaker, but even stronger. In my opionion is this contention true, but in other realms like that of culture the state's role has been undoubtely weakened.

No Convergence will happen.......2002-06-25

As globalization makes its way, the world seems to converge to the neoliberal free market on the global scale. They argue that in such an environment, the room for state to maneuver increasingly shrinks. Reports about the decline of the welfare state and the death of Japanese-style industrial policy have been captured the scene. The author questions ¡®Is it real?¡¯ In the face of challenge from global market, can¡¯t the state chase the goal of national prosperity and distributive fairness any more? Should the state take the role of midwife of global market? The author argues that globalization has been exaggerated. The world economy is still the field that we are accustomed to. In fact, globalization is a stepped-up internationalization, the author argues. The state is still a important political and economic actor. EU integration, Pacific regional integration of production has been taken as example of globalization. But those are project launched with initiatives of strong states like Germany, Japan. The global market can¡¯t be sustained without resolute backing of states. States still pursue their objectives in the world with rigor.
And the convergence toward the model of Anglo-Saxon liberal state is unlikely to come: the author argues that states have different capacities. Sweden has the distributive capacity; Japan has the transformative capacity (so called developmental state); Germany has both capacity. Capability varies from person to person. Just like that, capacities of the state vary. The capacity is how efficiently mobilize which resource. That kind of capacity is hard to attain and take time to shape. Time-proven effective capacity would not be given up. It¡¯s unlikely all the states will converge toward one model. So the state¡¯s ability to adapt to globalization and the path each state will follow must be diverse. The world is still the field where the state competes against each other. In that game, they mobilize resources available to them.

An excellent analysis of state capacity.......2002-03-08

The arguments of Linda Weiss's book are very different from the conventional wisdoms of weakening state capacity and the global triumph of neoliberalism. She seems to suggest the ideal model of a 'competitive as well as distributive state' based on the assumption that the nation-states are still the important and capable units of the international economy. According to her discussions, there are many ways to build up such state capacity.

Her analysis is very unique in that she tries to combine in her theoretical construction discussions of the welfare states and those of the developmental states, which is often missed by the authors of either one.

As a student who studied the German and Swedish welfare states in South Korea years ago and now studies the developmental states in the US, I feel that this book is very insightful in dealing with the complexity of social reality in a historical way free from neoliberal ideology, such as state capacity and globalization.

In order for her arguments of the still-not-so-weak state capacity in the contemporary phase of capitalism to get more theoretical strengths, however, it may be better to include in her analyses the external conditions for explaining the different levels of capacities attached to specific states, such as world-systemic position or geopolitical factors because her analyses look to focus mainly on internal factors for the state capacity especailly among the core capitalist states and some Asian NICS. Of course, I agree that this inclusion of external fractors may run the risk of losing some strong points she wants to show, and of making theoretical constuction too messy with naive facts and stories.

In her intention to show the better way to understand theoretically the internal factors of state capacity, I find this book is very fresh and insightful.

powerless state?.......2001-05-17

Though globalization has put heavy emphasis on role change of the state and makes state seemingly powerless. But Weiss think that argument will be :1, overstating earlier state power, 2, overstating uniforming of state response,3, the political construction of helplessness ,and he convincingly argues that the greater internationalization of economies has actually reinforced the power of the state based on the comparative study of the economic policies of Sweden, Germany, Northeast Asia and Japan .Weiss propose that :first, state adoption rather than decline of functions. second, strong state as ¡° midwives¡± not victims of internationalization ,3 the emergence of catalytic states, consolidating national and regional network of trade and investment.

Weiss ¡®s book ( the myth of powerless state) strengthen the variety of state response to international pressures and to the sources and consequences of that variety of national property and put forward the idea that the impact of external economic pressures on national economies and public policies depends to a larger degree on the strength of goal oriented state agencies closely interacting with key economic actors. Numerous areas where state involvements in the industrial economy remains important and vital to national prosper even as economic develop and mature. As Weiss said in the book, State will be very important institution capable of coordinating change in leading sectors or technologies. The state can solve many important problems of coordination better than market. The source of state capability state capability is a function of economic openness that the more open or internationalize an economy, the weaker the state¡¯s capacity to govern industrial change. . Domestic and global changes do not understand state capacity in general, but rather producing shifts in the basis of state capacity as transformative tasks alter . Weiss used institutionalism approach for this book. There are four institution capacity for industrial transformation: first, bureaucrative structures of coordination 2, high-quality bureaucrats, 3,intelligence-gathering infrastructure. 4, insulated pilot agencies and policy coordination . Weiss used four definitions to study state capacity: 1, capacity as social bargaining: corporatism;2, Capacity as coercion ¡°the strong state thesis¡±; 3, the critique of statism; 4, capacity as policy instruments; 5,capacity as embedded autonomy: organization of state and society . The author also put forward three concepts to analysis state capacity: corporatism; ¡° a selected embeddedness¡±. Governed interdependence and Government-business Corporation. GI(governed Interdependence) will be a very important concept in his analysis. Forms and dynamics of governed Interdependence will be 1, an alternative to leadership reasons fellowship. 2,disciplined support. 3, public risk absorption,4 private-sector governance , 5, public-private innovation allianu; 6, serving capital or shared project .

In conclusion , the author¡¯s argument move away vague, impressionistic and general arguments about the supposed powerless state which globalization is meant to have induced. However, the concept of state capacity in his book is so vague that will weaken his argument. On the other hand, the states that the author select to support his conclusion cannot represent all the states in world. With the development of globalization, the capacity of multinational corporations is obviously more and more stronger than small states in the world. In Asian financial crisis, some individuals can destroy a nation¡¯s economy and make is backward about 20 years. From this point, the state become more and more powerless instead of what Weiss think in this book.

powerless state?.......2001-05-17

the author¡¯s argument move away vague, impressionistic and general arguments about the supposed powerless state which globalization is meant to have induced. However, the concept of state capacity in his book is so vague that will weaken his argument. On the other hand, the states that the author select to support his conclusion cannot represent all the states in world. With the development of globalization, the capacity of multinational corporations is obviously more and more stronger than small states in the world. In Asian financial crisis, some individuals can destroy a nation¡¯s economy and make is backward about 20 years. From this point, the state become more and more powerless instead of what Weiss think in this book.

Myths About the Powerless: Contesting Social Inequalities

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Myths About the Powerless: Contesting Social Inequalities

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This collection examines the realities of social inequality, providing critical analyses of contemporary issues at the center of national debate—homelessness, the underclass, poverty, welfare, unemployment, health and mental health care, and gender and intercultural relations. A scholar and life-long activist, William Ryan's notions of "blaming the victim" and "fair shares vs. fair play" provide potent jumping-off points for the contributors' insights into the struggle for equality and social justice in the 1990s. Their call to unmask the underlying assumptions that sustain inequality offers a compelling challenge to the neoconservative strategy that dominates public debate and legislative agendas.

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It ia very abstract.......2006-05-09

This book has a lot of good ideas, but it is too vague, too lack of specificity. It keeps repeating. It is not too bad, but it could This book has a lot of good ideas, but it is too vague, too lack of specificity. It keeps repeating. It is not too bad, but it could have been a better book. been a better book.

Finally a readable book on international marketing.......2000-10-04

After ploughing through too many dry, long texts its really refreshing to find a book that is not only useful and informative but really easy to read - when you as busy as most of us are it is of paramount importance to get some real value and memorable tips and tricks QUICKLY!

an essential perspective.......2000-06-26

As a student of marketing at the University of NSW in Sydney where co-author Dr Chris Styles lectures I was fortunate enough to get a first hand insight into the ideas behind this most worthwhile text. I remember asking Dr Styles if his course was one through which I might pass but ultimately take nothing from like so many other "theoretical" subjects. He recommmended I read the book and needless to say, I enrolled after reading the first few chapters. It is always a great challenge to find a book that synthesises well researched argument with those gems of practical advice that make a difference over and over again in 'real life'. Definitely one for the library of perspectives that you will refer to in your head on countless occasions in the future.

an essential perspective.......2000-06-26

The Silk Road to International Marketing.......2000-04-18

The authors claim that business success comes, in part, from getting the human side right: emotions, relationships etc. When doing business across borders and cultures, whether directly with consumers or with business partners, this becomes all the more important. Those who have lived it (like me), will immediately understand - those who haven't, should read this book before they do.

But the bottom line is that the authors seem to get it. And they explain this with examples, as well as analysis, and also give out some practical tools which should help pretty much anyone involved in international marketing.

The book also has a few novel ways of thinking about issues - whether one precisely agrees with them or not, they are very thought provoking (and in my view) at least generally correct and insightful. The concepts of "social learning" (where the SILK acronym in the title comes from) and of the "impact of biology" on marketing are quite intriguing.

..... leaves you with a new (and better) perspective on international marketing issues.

A great read for a dull flight ! And the people who should really read this book, probably fly a lot.

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The Silk Road to International Marketing: Profit and Passion in Global Business
Chris Styles Tim Ambler
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