Book Description
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the development and application of quantitative statistical methods to study choices made by individuals. This primer provides an introduction to the main techniques of choice analysis and also includes details on data collection and preparation, model estimation and interpretation and the design of choice experiments. A companion website offers practice data sets and software to apply modeling and data skills presented in the book.
Customer Reviews:
Everything you need to learn to carry out a choice model.......2005-10-17
This book is massive, and hence the term "primer" may be a little misleading. But if you really want to understand how to model choice data for a range of models, the book is outstanding. Other books focus more on the econometrics of the models, which are pivotal to know. But this book builds upon that by walking you through a series of increasingly-complex models, allowing you to understand why you need to perform particular modeling tasks.
The book focuses on NLogit software, but once you understand how to actually estimate choice models utilizing software, the skills can be easily carried into other software programs. However, without such experience, the other books available may fall short in enabling you to estimate choice models. Indeed, this was the case for me -- I understood the econometrics of the models, but had difficulty estimating complex models using software, simply beacuse I was uncomfortable with the syntax.
Hensher et al. removes this obstacle by giving the reader thorough training in both understanding what a given set of choice data may represent (e.g., observations from a particular choice experiment), and how to physically estimate models. The increase in confidence I received from working through the exercises in the book is why I rate the book so highly. Not only are the econometric concepts explained, but the nuts and bolts of model estimation are revealed, and that made all the difference.
An ambiguous oriented book.......2005-10-05
The whole book serves as a software (NLogit) manual. If you already know about the discrete choice analysis, you might be able to find out the messages that the authors try to convey. And it contains barely new information, so it doesn't help you anyway. But if you are new to this area, this is not the good book for you to start.
The book is extremely verbose and the ideas are hidden behind lines and ill-presented. It turned out that it's very difficult to comprehend the essence or even sense of the choice methods from this book. The best one can get is becoming a software user of the authors' own program.
Besides, the software, Nlogit, is not user-friendly and can't serve as a mainsteam tool.
Book Description
Most books on leadership and organizational change focus on descriptive theory and research, simplistic and questionable gimmicks, or biographical sketches of successful leaders whose character and exploits students are encouraged to emulate.
Leadership and the Art of Change avoids pedantry, gimmicks, and hero worship while addressing the complex issues involved in trying to lead an organization. It does not bury the reader in abstractions, nor does it offer quick fixes.
Leadership and the Art of Change is a unique book in that it focuses on a leader’s central and most daunting task—achieving organizational change that successfully addresses external and internal threats and opportunities. Author Lee R. Beach uses six prime responsibilities as the framework for discussing change leadership: external and internal environmental assessment to identify required changes, organizational culture as a constraint on change, vision for motivating change; plans as a map for change, implementation to produce change, and follow-through for institutionalizing achieved changes and making ongoing change a part of the culture.
Key Features:
- Defines leadership as the art of producing changes in an organization’s environment, its culture, and its practices in pursuit of survival and prosperity
- Explains the importance of organizational culture as the key to facilitating or inhibiting change
- Examines methods for building a vision and leveraging culture in order to move the organization toward the vision with implementation strategies
- Offers self-summary exercises as well as a new episode of an ongoing vignette in each chapter that helps readers understand the issues under consideration
- Includes appendices that provide students with hands-on tools to do marketing research, survey an organization’s culture, and perform decision analyses
Written in a conversational manner,
Leadership and the Art of Change is an engaging textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying management in a variety of programs including Business, Public Administration, Health Care Management, and Social Work. It will also be of interest to professional managers looking for a unique perspective on organizational change.
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From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development in China
Elisabeth Croll
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Book Description
Elizabeth Croll's
From Heaven to Earth examines the images, policies and experiences of development in China, and more specifically shows how the peasant experience of revolution and reform has been greatly affected by their conceptualizations of time and change. Beginning with the first major reforms introduced into China's villages in 1979, numerous changes have been made in the translation and practice of reform policies. These reforms have in fact become so paradoxical and various, that analysts have had to modify their initial judgments of these complex changes over the years.
Croll takes a unique analytical approach to the subject of rural development policy in China by examining this issue in the context of peasant dreams of development--dreams which prove central to how this population views their family and individual experience. Croll also examines the desires which motivate peasant households in China; the strenuous demands that current reforms have forced upon peasantfamilies; and the ways in which peasant households maximize their resources in the face of reform and rural development.
In its examination of the peasant family and household, the peasant individual and their relationship with the state,
From Heaven to Earth shows how the translation and implementation of national policy is greatly dependent upon local knowledge and power.
Book Description
Beyond the Game consists of real stories from student athletes to student athletes. These student athletes are striving for excellence not only on the field but also—and more importantly—in their relationship with Jesus.
However, in today's society, student athletes face a unique mix of challenges and choices as well as opportunities. Like a workout partner, a teammate, or a friend, Beyond the Game offers inspiration and motivation from like-minded peers who are playing the game of life for keeps.
Book Description
The Writer's Idea Workshop draws on the success of its idea-generating predecessor-The Writer's Idea Book-and takes readers to the next step: assessing their ideas and growing them into finished pieces.
Inside they'll find a fun, effective mix of creative exercises, friendly instruction, traditional writing-based prompts and special art-based prompts (using a picture to spark ideas, creating an idea file with magazine pictures, etc.). A number of these prompts will be cross-referenced, enabling readers to generate new ideas and mix and match prompts based on their specific needs. They'll also learn how to: be more creative complete more projects rescue stalled projects break through writer's block use limited writing time more productively become a happier, more satisfied writer
Customer Reviews:
A Place for Unformed Ideas.......2006-01-28
Heffron offers, in this text, a great chance to explore and strengthen the ideas that you have floating around in your head, homeless and unformed. He offers numerous exercises and creative approaches to harnessing your natural instincts about the nature of what you want to write in order to create better fiction and non-fiction. His approaches work. I have produced better work because of him. But more importantly, I saved those ideas I was unsure of what to do with and built on them. What might have been lost to uncertainty, bloomed on the page. I appreciated his conversational approach in his chapters. He pulls you in and makes you comfortable. He offers sound advice and speaks from a place of authority. I highly recommend this book.
Innovative and Insightful.......2005-11-10
Like with many other things in life, I just couldn't decide whether I liked this book or not ;). On the one hand Heffron does a wonderful job of keeping the reader's interest with personal accounts and advice. But then on the other hand the many prompts filtered throughout the book became a bit of a drag, as it required you to stop reading to do long activities.
One practical idea that Heffron stresses is playfulness and simplicity. Returning to the reason you want to write-because you love it! Writing itself is a form of expression, and a form of creativity. What you will write, if it truly comes from you, even if it is a mixture or combination of your experiences or relationships with the outside world, it still will be unique, because these factors are unique to you. Therefore Heffron says that you must not worry about beginnings and endings and rational things like structure and form, those will fall into place in time, and prematurely worrying about them will only serve to clog your creative senses. Instead he says you should return to your youth, and essentially treat the process like you are a kid playing in a mud puddle. "Splash around and play," and let yourself explore your idea without any reservations.
With its many techniques and practical suggestions, I think this book is wonderful for those who are struggling writers, or struggling to be writers. It contains a wealth of information and ideas for innovating manuscripts at all stages-from idea formation to editing the final draft. I think it can also prove to be useful for other types of writing as well, such as articles and research papers. This is because no matter what, a reader is looking for information in an interesting comprehensive yet simple manner. Therefore many of the different techniques and prompts highlighted throughout the book will definitely help to stretch the creativity of someone who might be writing something in a more constrained or dry setting.
Overall a fun book that can certainly be read and reread and applied practically.
Learn from the best!.......2004-04-23
This is a follow-on to "The Writer's Idea Book." That book was mostly about mining everyday life for ideas, using a plethora of writing prompts. "The Writer's Idea Workshop" takes you to the next step--turning those ideas into saleable writing.
While you can find many of the suggestions here in other books on self-editing, you'll also find advice that moves in new directions. There's a section on how to apply other people's suggestions to your own work that talks about the ways in which you can dig through surface-level criticism to get to the really helpful information underneath it. Many of Heffron's prompts in the section "Mining for Diamonds" focus on various ways to look at a piece of writing, pick out what's working and what isn't, and go from there.
Do you want help generating ideas? Evaluating your ideas? Making them serve the greater needs of your specific writing projects? What about using them to help you overcome various problems you'll encounter while writing--such as difficult beginnings, stuck middles, and troubled endings? The book follows up its instruction with helpful questions you can ask yourself, and expands on those with prompts and exercises to help you apply what you've learned to a specific piece of writing.
This book has a lot more practical information in it than the "idea book", and it's more versatile. It isn't meant for the seasoned pro, but novice and intermediate writers can learn a lot from it. My only minor gripe is that, in the beginning of the book, Heffron has developed a world-weary tone that focuses not on the wonder of writing, but rather on the mistakes that apprentice writers tend to make over and over again. In some ways this is good--he spends plenty of space on concrete suggestions and prompts meant to help you spot and conquer these issues. On the other hand, it's less inspiring and uplifting than the tone he takes in his previous book.
This is a wonderful book that could help most writers to improve their writing. Heffron is such a fixture in the editing world that you'll find his name somewhere in most of the writers' books out there--he really knows what he's doing, and he's sharing that valuable information with us.
Playfulness Coupled with Logical Questions and Prompts.......2004-03-15
I saw the title of this book and thought, "Oh, man...... most of the writers
I meet are deluged with ideas and weak on delivery of those ideas
so what good is a book like this one?!"
Poor initial assessment: I am always glad to see when my initial take
is proven WRONG by a well crafted book!
Jack Heffron writes with a friendly, knowledgeable tone which serves
as an inspiring companion. Not just that, he writes in a way that makes
you think "Hmmmm, this guy must be a working writer -- he writes
in a way that you KNOW he knows first hand what you experience
when you meet the keyboard day after day.
He also tells you upfront what to expect (no "inner child" talk) and
is very organized and logical in his approach. I wanted to applaud
when I read "Don't use this book or any other as a substitute for
writing."
Followed by -- "Explore the idea on the page...." oh, yeah, that's right... it
is a book about WRITING. Not a book simply TALKING about
writing or considering writing or discussing writing.
Each chapter has at least ten prompts (excpet chapter 3 inexplicably
has 9!)
I also enjoyed Chapter 4 -- Stoking the Fire -- which did not include the
usual "Questions to Consider" section, instead advising the reader/
writer "For now, don't ask the questions"... WRITE! (A little bit
of Rilke thrown in for good measure?)
Finally, I would be remiss to not mention the chapter
"Stuck in Revision"..... glorious application of "Ideas" in an area
where as a writer I can become completely comatose.
This one is worthy of not only a purchase, its worthy of a long
time companion both on your shelf and open on your desk.
ENJOY!
Book Description
To maintain fitness and improve performance, triathletes need to use their less rigorous off-season for training. This book shows athletes how to make it productive and enjoyable by adhering to a plan with less monotony and more variety. Triathletes are coached in determining limiters and setting training objectives, practicing yoga, using efficient drills to improve swimming, cycling, and running, and doing alternative cardiovascular conditioning activities — which releases them from the same old training plan and increases their overall commitment.
Customer Reviews:
Good Book but would have liked more information.......2006-11-10
This book was great but I would have liked more information on what workouts to plan when. It gives you an overview of an off-season training plan.
I really enjoyed the section about swim drills, different weight workouts and setting goals for next season!
Book Description
Corporations, it seems, are always seeking the ""silver bullet"" that will create intimacy with customers. But most efforts fail from the moment they begin, say respected consultants, Tom Stevenson and Sam Barcus. The reason? Accountability for program leadership is placed on the sales force rather than on the executives and senior managers who have a more seasoned business perspective.
For the first time ever, Stevenson and Barcus outline the relationship-building processes used successfully by professional consulting firms. Sales professionals in other industries will learn never-before-published explanations and documentation regarding consulting firm approaches and techniques, including:
* Why top managers must lead the care and feeding of key relationships.
* An inside view of how consultants build long-term, trusted advisor relationships.
* The difference between creating demand and responding to bids-an important difference that sparks enduring relationships.
* Problem-solving techniques that can lead to deeper customer alliances.
* Why it's more important for a salesperson to be interested rather than interesting.
* A diagnostic process to prepare for and execute customer meetings that create value at every touch point.
* Tools and techniques to develop business acumen that provides insight into customer issues and initiatives.
With many practical examples, anecdotes, and coaching tips, The Relationship Advantage is required reading for executives or managers who know they should be driving key relationships but don't know how to do it.
Customer Reviews:
Clients Are Different than Customers.......2004-08-04
Tom is a great storyteller and does a nice job of blending consultative selling concepts with ready to apply advice. Although this may seem like a sales book its much more. It really is about how relationships make a significant difference on long term client loyalty.
To really win in sales why not listen to those who have won.......2004-03-03
Tom and Sam are more than folks who write theory. They have lived what they are telling you at a levels that any sales professional set as their ultimate goal.
I have seen their strategy not only work, but have personally seen them execute it flawlessly. What was best about the experience for me was knowing that I could do it to. If you take this book to heart, you'll be unstoppable.
They take the sales thing one step further. They lead you into something even greater. How to have real, solid, and long lasting relationships in and beyond work. In life, this may matter much more than reaching quota. By the way, making quota is ok too!
Read this book and make it part of your approach to sales and just watch.
Book Description
Economic news once confined to the business pages of the newspapers now receives headline coverage, whether it involves protests in Seattle or sweatshops in Asia. As attention is increasingly focused on economic policy, it becomes even more important for noneconomists to be able to make sense of these stories. Is the Asian economy sinking or rising? What effects will a single European currency have on the US economy? Kenneth W. Dam's The Rules of the Global Game provides, in clear and practical language, a framework to help readers understand and answer such questions. Dam takes us beyond the headlines and inside the decision-making process as it is populated by lobbyists, special interest groups, trade associations, and public relations firms. While some economists and thinkers have idealized plans for US international economic policy, Dam, currently the deputy secretary of the treasury, manages to merge this idealism with a consideration of what it means to govern at the intersection of competing groups with competing claims.
In The Rules of the Global Game, Dam first lays out what US international economic policies are and compares them to what they should be based on how they affect US per capita income. With this foundation in place, Dam then develops and applies principles for elucidating the major components of economic policy, such as foreign trade and investment, international monetary and financial systems, and current controversial issues, including intellectual property and immigration. Underlying his explanations is a belief in the importance of worldwide free trade and open markets as well as a crucial understanding of the political forces that shape decision making. Because economic policy is not created in a political vacuum, Dam argues, sound policymaking requires an understanding of "statecraft"-the creation and use of institutions that channel the efforts of interest groups and political forces in directions that encourage good economic outcomes.
Dam's vast experience with the politics and practicalities of economic policy translates into a view of policy that is neither academic nor abstract. Rather, Dam shows us how policy is actually made, who makes it, and why, using examples such as GATT, NAFTA, the US-Japan semiconductor agreement, and the Asian financial crisis. A rare book that can be read with pleasure and profit by layperson and economist alike, The Rules of the Global Game allows readers to understand the policies that shape our economy and our lives.
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Haiti Business Intelligence Report (World Country Study Guide Library)
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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This report contains business intelligence information for succesful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more... The report also contains selected information on investment and business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, as well as, marketing and export-import opportunities information.
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- Between Fear and Hope: Globalization and Race in the United States
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- Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment
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