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"This works! The authors speak boldly about intuition and then back it up with examples. I recommend it resoundingly!"
Penelope Swenson, Assistant Superintendent
Mojave Unified School District

Instructional leader, manager, symbolic leader, and servant leader are some of the many different roles that principals play. Yet, as we enter the 21st century, principals will need to go beyond traditional leadership roles and become "intuitive" enough to know which of these positions, singularly or in combination, is most effective in producing desired results.

Great leaders have always valued intuition as one of their most vital skills. Now aspiring, new, and veteran principals can learn to use intuitive leadership as a vehicle to go beyond traditional leadership roles and produce greater results. Key factors include:

Intuitive ways of knowing—an examination of the research
Behaviors of intuitive leadership—examples from real-life
Intuitive communication—reading the silent language
Contradictions of leadership—the impact of various leadership roles

This book will be a "how to" guide for aspiring, new, and veteran principals who are being asked to lead in qualitatively different ways. It will assist them as they "intuit" when, where, how, and why they should assume the role of principal as leader, learner, communicator, servant, and / or catalyst for change. Each topic will be supported by research and include practical applications supported by real-life examples.

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Pathway to environmental economics.......2001-02-27

Caviglia's book is a very useful tool on describing Social and Economic analyses on farming and environmental development. Since the beginning , its narrative are strongly connected with resource and the environmental question. The fact that the work deals with a certain region in Amazon region do not diminish the spectrum of questions and linkages with could be related to any other natural resource dependent development region in the world.

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This study is based on field surveys conducted in the Brazilian Amazon and covers twenty years of settlement experience. Its findings reveal that much of the Amazonian frontier land deforested by pioneers in the 1970s is becoming agriculturally unproductive. In response to the Brazilian economic crisis of the 1980s, a growing urban middle class began buying such land and holding it as a store of value, causing original settlers to leave and migrate to new frontiers within the Amazon. The authors conclude that for small farmers to be prevented from moving on and clearing new frontiers, they must be rewarded for staying in the old ones. This requires promoting good farming, punishing speculation, and directly penalizing deforestation, through the innovative use of economic policies and new forms of cooperation between environmental and economic agencies at the local, national, and international levels, including the World Bank. Paradoxically, sustainable farming in the Amazon world would not likely attract migrants from outside the region, but unsustainable farming is sure to continue fueling intra-regional migration, even if the general economic crisis were to subside during the 1990s. Consequently, there is increasing urgency to devise policies that protect the forest by providing poor farmers with economic alternatives to encroachment.

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Time, Cells, and Aging
Bernard strehler
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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ASIN: B000K6OH3K

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Time, Cells, and Aging
bernard strehler
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Time, Cells, and Aging
Bernard L. Strehler
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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ASIN: B000K05NMU

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Good book

Good baseball book about two greats of the game.

A Pleasing Valentine & Fine Introduction

Baseball Delight

How Frank DeFord Failed to Create a Book

The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball
Frank Deford
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0802142478

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In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and college educated, he didn't pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by contrast, was ferocious. The pugnacious tough guy was already a star infielder who, with the Baltimore Orioles, helped develop a new, scrappy style of baseball, with plays like the hit-and-run, the Baltimore chop, and the squeeze play. When McGraw joined the Giants in 1902, the Giants were coming off their worst season ever. Yet within three years, Mathewson clinched New York City's first World Series for McGraw's team by throwing three straight shutouts in only six days, an incredible feat that is invariably called the greatest World Series performance ever. Because of their wonderful odd-couple association, baseball had its first superstar, the Giants ascended into legend, and baseball as a national pastime bloomed.

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Good book.......2007-03-20

What I liked about the book was that Deford gave the reader credit for knowing baseball and knowing the times of the story. The background information built upon that knowledge. To say this was a glorified article can only be made if one knows that Deford was a sportswriter for SI and others. It was not and many baseball books have taken small subjects.

One suggestion (and this covers almost all sports bios) is to give a page of stats for the subjects. It does not have to be extensive, just the teams, records and years played. Just like a photo section, it is something that the reader can often flip to.

Good baseball book about two greats of the game........2005-11-23

Christy Mathewson was one of the 5 inductees in the first class of the baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. John McGraw was inducted a year later in 1937. It can be argued that both were the greatest in their respective positions on the field - Mathewson as a pitcher and McGraw as a manager. It's interesting to note that Mathewson and Walter Johnson were voted into the Hall of Fame one year before Cy Young even though Young retired before either of those pitchers, so why is the best pitcher award named the Cy Young Award and not the Christy Mathewson Award?

Frank DeFord does a fantastic job in describing the lives (personal and baseball) of these two greats of the game, as well as the era they lived in. One of the topics I found interesting was the involvement of gambling in baseball at the time. Gambling was already a problem in the 1900s and early 1910s, and perhaps it led to the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Deford writes "the fixed World Series of 1919 was a climax rather than an oddity." (p.116). Deford doesn't cover this topic in great detail but he touches on it throughout the book just enough to give the reader a feel for the gambling atmosphere in the game. Pete Rose's actions would not have raised an eyebrow in that era.

I enjoyed this book tremendously. Frank DeFord has an easy-to-read writing style. I did not know much about Mathewson or McGraw before reading this book, so I feel I learned a lot about these greats of the game. I definitely recommend it for anyone interested in baseball.

A Pleasing Valentine & Fine Introduction.......2005-08-22

`The Old Ball Game' serves as a fine introduction to its subject, which is John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, the New York Giants, and to a much lesser extent their whole era of baseball. There is no new or groundbreaking material here for the fan that is already familiar with the subject, but for them it can still serve as a baseball valentine celebrating these heroes and their times. While the book stops far short of its sub title's claim - that McGraw, Mathewson, and the Giants created modern baseball, it does nicely illustrate their importance in the continuing evolution of the game.
A note on Deford's writing style is necessary. I heard him speaking about this book on NPR, and his oratory was beautifully captivating. He writes in much the same way that he speaks, but what works for him in his spoken word stories is not as effective in print - sometime his language gets in the way of the story rather than moving it along. It was enough of a problem for me to dock a star from my review rating, but I still found the book enjoyable.
If you are already knowledgeable on the subject of McGraw, his star pitcher, and his amazing team, you can take or leave this book depending on how you feel about baseball "valentines". If you are new to the subject, however, this is a fine place to start to whet your imagination and encourage you to learn more about these great stars and this fascinating era of baseball's history.

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Baseball Delight.......2005-08-03

When I was six years old my father took me to the Polo Grounds for my first baseball game. We saw the New York Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1. And as Annie Savoy said in the classic movie "Bull Durham" the stadium was to me like a cathedral - the cathedral of baseball. The grass was greener than any I had seen and the confluence of scents of beer and hot dogs and tobacco was unlike anything I have ever experienced.
I think about that first game often as I peer from my upper deck seats from behind home plate watching my Arizona Diamondbacks (baseball teams are always referred to in singular possessive). But it really jumped back at me through the reflections of Frank Deford's, "The Old Ball Game". I actually shared a space in the same stadium in which two immortals once pitched, and played, and managed. And the story of the immortal pitcher Christopher "Christy" "Big Six" "Matty" Mathewson and most innovative energetic manager John "Muggsy" McGraw leaves that kind of a lasting impression.
Time tends to romanticize sports events and the heroes who populated them. McGraw and Mathewson are no exception. McGraw was the hard scrabble manager who was yet an old softy in many ways to his friends and his players.. Here was a guy who would loan money to members of the team but never really expected to be paid back. Deford writes that these loans were in the tens of thousands of dollars. Yet McGraw would harass umpires with vile and vulgar tirades and established himself every bit as the little Napleon he resembled in his loud dictatorial on the field style.
And yes, Mathewson was indeed the tall, handsome, college educated perfectionist. He was generally quiet and always polite. Matty worked hard at his craft and became the pre-eminent player of his time at any position. Frankly, as Deford notes, the award for the best pitcher in the game each year shouldn't be named after Cy Young who played most of his ball in the 19th century, it should be named after Christy.
The fact that he played in New York obviously didn't hurt. But it was a time devoid of mass media so newspapers and other print periodicals and word of mouth was all a man had to promote his ability. Christy made the best of it.
They are both, in many ways, however, tragic figures. Both were destined to die much too young the latter painfully so. Mathewson watched all of his siblings die before him - one from suicide - and McGraw lost his first wife to illness. McGraw himself suffered from severe sinusitis the result of a being hit with a bat on the ball field. And, of course, Mathewson's brief stint in Europe during World War I exposed him to the poison gases of warfare that ultimately led too tuberculosis and his death.
Mathewson didn't have the intial support of his family to be a ball player - it wasn't a very respectable profession for a good Christian boy in those days. She had always dreamed of his becoming a minister but baseball won out. In later years when Mathewson became larger than life, so admired for not just his athletic ability but his idyllic life style his mother relented her approval. At least he was setting a good example of how a good Christian man should live his life.
But through these slightly romantic rose colored glasses "The Old Ball Game" approaches our heroes with honesty, clarity and enjoyment. The descriptive visuals of the games themselves put you in the stadiums. You can feel the stares and see the plays. And the game really mattered in those days. No television meant that thousands of fans would have to gather to see the status of important games relayed by telegraph posted on large boards at various locations. The game of baseball was important - there was nothing in all of sport at the time like it in comparison. Perhaps an occasional horse race would incite great spectator interest. And horse racing had a powerful following amoung the gambling set. Occaionaly a champiosnhip prize fight would temporarily divert the attention of fans. But baseball was what captured sporting minds and their imagination.
Yes, it was a time before steroids and amphetamines but their era was not devoid of its own problems. Gambling was rampant. Hal Chase openly courted his teammates to throw games for betting purposes. Ballparks were made of not much more than kindling wood which led them to burn down with regularity. But it was also a time of transition in the world and the game of baseball and its stadiums were no exception.
The Polo Grounds was the first permanent steel structure built to house the hallowed game - built to house the swelling crowds who were coming to see McGraw and his charges play and to see Matty pitch. Baseball was growing from a sport that drew a few thousand on average per game to attract tens of thousands in the right park for the right game. And oh how those Giants dominated New York until the Yankees built their own collossal park in 1923 and replaced men like Mathewson and McGraw with a guy named "the Babe".
The Old Ball Game is in fact, a book born out of a magazine article. Deford wrote a piece about these two icons and the odd but unique relationship that helped them and their team captivate not just New York but all of baseball during the first two decades of the 20th century. But one magazine article hardly could do this duo justice. So Deford was convinced to expand the project.
Baseball fans will be very happy that he did. For us it will bring back the magic of that first time there - of the first visit - when, as Deford concludes, ". . . all the innings were in the sun"!
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Barry M. Aarons is a senior research fellow for the Lewisville, Texas based Institute for Policy Innovation. He owns The Aarons Company, a Public Policy Consulting firm in Phoenix.

How Frank DeFord Failed to Create a Book.......2005-07-27

I agree with the reviewer who says this feels like a heavily padded article. In recent years, a number of wonderful books with original research have come out on McGraw and his era (such as Baseball's Radical for All Seasons, Hit Em Where They Ain't) but this book ignors them, and adds nothing new. Deford's book is written in the smarmiest language possible. Mr. DeFord loves writing but I didn't love this book.

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A great guide if you are a first-time homeschooler

Wonderful Resource- the "bible" for classical education.

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the "Bible" for homeschoolers

Great for those considering non-religious Homeschooling

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition
Susan Wise Bauer , and Jessie Wise
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"Outstanding...should be on every home educator's reference bookshelf."—Homeschooling Today

This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education—the trivium—which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using the trivium as your model, you'll be able to instruct your child in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects.

Newly revised and updated, The Well-Trained Mind includes detailed book lists with complete ordering information; up-to-date listings of resources, publications, and Internet links; and useful contacts.

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A great guide if you are a first-time homeschooler.......2007-10-14

Since we just began homeschooling my son this year, I was pretty stumped on where to start when a friend recommended this book. I got a copy from the library and wow! what a find! It really put the exciting but sometimes intimidating world of homeschooling into context. I really like the way the authors condense the information at the end of each section into useful bites of information. They also suggest schedules (now isn't that convenient when you're biting your nails wondering when to do what?).
Although I won't call our style 100% classical homeschooling, this book does provide an excellent pathway for busy and confused moms like me. I guess the results speak for themselves -- my son who was a little perplexed by what his mom had in store for him every morning now thinks of each lesson as fun! I really owe that to this book. Can't wait to get a copy of my own.

Wonderful Resource- the "bible" for classical education........2007-10-09

Buy this book! It is a much easier read than expected. And don't be afraid of the 600 or so pages. I was able to read all introductory pages, as well as the pages appropriate for the ages of my children in two (2) days. No need to rush in and read the chapter on middle school and high school if you have a first grader.

This book is an excellent reference guide for homeschooling with a focus on classical education. It's easy to put into practice as little or as much as you'd like from this book.

I have really been drawn to Christian classical education, and while I do read other sources, always go to this text first.

I highly recommend, "The Well-Trained Mind".

A wealth of information..........2007-10-05

This book has sparked and altered my ways of educating my young 6 yr old daughter. I thought I would educate my own children differently, but this book has kept my goals in perspective and allows me to accomplish more with a simple schedule. Schedules and timeframes are included with each subject, as well as the people and events to incorporate with each subject. It given additional resources, such as books, textbooks and websites as resources. All which seem to be available right here through Amazon.com. Thank you Amazon!

the "Bible" for homeschoolers.......2007-08-08

If you are looking to homeschool, this is the book. It is a how to book for homeschoolers of any age. It goes from preschool right up to university age. I started my daughter on this system and I wouldn't use any other. I find that its' easy to use and allows a lot of freedom of choice and many options. The suggestions are invaluable and they list all your resources at the back of every chapter. Give it a complete read through before you start so you don't miss anything out. You'll have to make some decisions on curriculum yourself as they give many options, but if one doesn't work out just try another. I also like that they understand that not every child learns the same way and give you suggestions on how to teach each type of learner. They also give you advice on teaching different age groups at the same time and how to coordinate their curriculum so that you're not pulling your hair out teaching one child about middle ages and one about aincient history and one about modern history all at the same time. I know a lot of other homeschoolers in my area who have used this book and they swear by it as well. Once you read it you won't use anything else.

Great for those considering non-religious Homeschooling.......2007-07-30

If you are considering homeschooling, and after you do all the research on all the various methods of homeschooling, if you want something fairly structured and rigorous you might settle on Classical Education like we did. This book is great in that it does not presume that you are an evangelical christian like some other homeschool "guides" (even though my husband is a pretty conservative christian (I am not), we both find this presumption in homeschool curricula a real pushy and annoying turn-off). It also gives you step-by-step "how-to" which we needed for our comfort level as new homeschoolers (if you've already been homeschooling for a long time you might not need the structure and step by step approach of this book but it still has great ideas and information).

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This book analyzes the economic and demographic forces impacting the demand for household furniture. The study is finely segregated by product categories and geographical regions. Forecasts are provided to 2015. The author of the book comes to some interesting and unexpected conclusions which need to be taken into account to gain a thorough appreciation of the present and future course of the Canadian furniture demand.

The Demand and Trends for Canadian Household Furniture

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The Demand and Trends for Canadian Household Furniture
Aktrin Research Institute
Manufacturer: MarketResearch.com
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000218TPA
Release Date: 2004-02-01

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This unique study examines the state of the furniture market which is finely segregated by province and major urban areas. It also distinguishes between many product and end-user categories. The impacts of several key socio-economic factors are analyzed, such as disposable income, size of family, aging of the population, kind of dwelling, and more. The report makes forecasts to 2012. Numerous exhibits charts and tables, as well as an extensive index are provided for easy referencing.

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The Demand and Trends for Canadian Household Furniture
Stefan Wille
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This unique study examines the state of the furniture market which is finely segregated by province and major urban areas. It also distinguishes between many product and end-user categories. The impacts of several key socio-economic factors are analyzed, such as disposable income, size of family, aging to the population, kind of dwelling, and more. The report make forecasts to 2012 Numerous exhibits, charts and tables, s well as an extensive index are produved for easy referencing.

The Demand and Trends for Canadian Household Furniture, Eighth Edition

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The Demand and Trends for Canadian Household Furniture, Eighth Edition
Thomas W. McCormack
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This unique study examines the state of the furniture market which is finely segregated by province and major urban areas. It also distinguishes between many product and end-user categories. The impacts of several key socio-economic factors are analyzed, such as disposable income, size of family, aging of the population, kind of dwelling, and more. The report makes forecasts to 2010. Numerous exhibits charts and tables, as well as an extensive index are provided for easy referencing.

The Canadian Demand for Household Furniture and Anticipated Trends

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The Canadian Demand for Household Furniture and Anticipated Trends
Thomas W. McCormack
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The Canadian Demand for Household Furniture and Anticipated Trends/Chapter 4
Thomas W. McCormack
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Canadian Demand for Household Furniture and Trends

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Stefan Wille
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This book analyzes the economic and demographic forces impacting the demand for household furniture. The study is finely segregated by product categories and geographical regions. Forecasts are provided to 2016. The author of the book comes to some interesting and unexpected conclusions which need to be taken into account to gain a thorough appreciation of the present and future course of the Canadian furniture demand.

The Canadian demand for household furniture and trends

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Thomas W McCormack
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Ever since the European currency crises of 1992-93, the Mexican crisis of 1994-95, and especially the Asian/global crisis of 1997-98, there has been heightened interest in early warning signals of financial crises. This pathbreaking study presents a comprehensive battery of empirical tests on the performance of alternative early warning indicators for emerging-market economies that should prove useful in the construction of a more effective global warning system. Not only are the authors able to draw conclusions about which specific indicators have sent the most reliable early warning signals of currency and banking crises in emerging economies, they also test the out-of-sample performance of the model during the Asian crisis and find that it does a good job of identifying the most vulnerable economies. In addition, they show how the early warning system can be used to construct a "composite" crisis indicator to weigh the importance of alternative channels of cross-country "contagion" of crises, and to generate information on the recovery path from crises.

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Assessing Financial Vulnerability: An Early Warning System.......2001-07-02

Save the money! To get a clue on the subject go to the IMF site and download the variety of Kaminsky's and friends papers available. You must go to the references in there, Eichengreen and his friends for instance.

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With China's eminent entry into the World Trade Organization, past speculations of China becoming a world economic power in the 21st century is a reality with which few would disagree. We are witnessing the awakening of many sleepy giants, such as the successful reformed state-owned as well as township and village enterprises. We are also witnessing the birth and growth of a significant private sector, along with ever-increasing foreign investments. In this development process, there is a critical need to document and theorize about the management process by firms in this changing and dynamic context.
The Management of Enterprises in the People's Republic of China aims to contribute to the knowledge base of management within the Chinese context. The book begins with a mapping of research on management in PRC, and offers theoretical insights for cross-context, institutional, and behavioral studies. It then reports the results of fourteen empirical studies of management issues in the PRC firms. The issues studied include SOE transformation, globalization, governance, employment relationships, managerial networks, corporate culture and leadership. Also included are studies on the knowledge management process and management team characteristics of high technology firms. The methods of study include large-scale surveys, case studies, and interviews. The contributors are international experts in Chinese management research. Finally, we offer executive perspectives on several successful firms operating in China through interviews with their CEOs.

Barefoot in the Boardroom: Venture and Misadventure in the People's Republic of China

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Insight in to state of business in PRC
A must read for anybody considering a joint venture in China

Barefoot in the Boardroom: Venture and Misadventure in the People's Republic of China
Bill Purves
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Insight in to state of business in PRC.......2002-02-07

I found this book very educational. Purves' writting made it hard to put down. I finished the book on two plane rides between Cleveland and Austin. Purves presents his impressions in a non-judgemental way; this is just how things are. Excellent reading for anyone planning to have business dealings in the PRC.

A must read for anybody considering a joint venture in China.......1998-02-23

Bill Purves writes a clear and concise review of life in an old fashioned Chinese work unit. The real strength of the book lies in his descriptions of the lives of the Chinese workers of the factory. If you've ever been there and wondered why things happen the way they do, this book will go a long way towards answering your questions.

Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China: Can Capitalism and Communism Coexist?

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Alfred K. Ho
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In the 1980s, the Communist government in China sought to accelerate economic growth and institute economic reforms by increasing productivity and introducing free enterprises and free markets. Requiring foreign capital, a system for joint ventures was established to allow foreign companies to form partnerships with Chinese firms in a variety of business and production activities. This work examines the legal, business, and practical issues involved in undertaking and maintaining joint ventures in the People's Republic of China, offering guidance on the laws, regulations, and procedures governing such ventures, and the effect of the Tianamen Square incident on these business vehicles. The work is divided into six chapters, each addressing a different aspect of joint ventures. Chapter 1 places the subject into a historical context, tracing how these ventures emerged as a part of economic reform and what guidelines were established to ensure their value to both participants. Chapter 2 details the methods by which the government translated the ideas and policies into national and local legislation, and lists and explains a few basic statutes. The procedure for establishing a joint venture is fully described in chapter 3, from finding a Chinese firm to sharing the profits and eventually dissolving the partnership. Chapter 4 explores the nature, activities, and success of joint ventures from 1979 to 1987, while Chapter 5 focuses on the Tianamen Square incident and the shift in government policy that followed it. A final chapter provides summary observations on the investment environment in China and the impact of joint ventures on the country's economy. This book will be an essential reference source for courses in international finance and trade, Asian and Chinese studies, and development economics, as well as for finance professionals involved in multinational enterprises. Public and academic libraries will also find it to be a useful addition to their collections.

Determinants of international and intercultural human resource control: The case of Taiwanese subsidiaries in the People's Republic of China

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Determinants of international and intercultural human resource control: The case of Taiwanese subsidiaries in the People's Republic of China
Bih-Shiaw Jaw
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Export of Works of Art Reports of the Reviewing Committee 1997-98, 44th Report (Command Paper)
John Guinness , and Great Britain
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