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Tigers Tamed: The End of the Asian Miracle (Latitude 20 Books)
Robert Garran Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0824821602 |
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The 1997 financial crisis punctured the myth of a distinctive Asian model of economic development, the idea that that the region had discovered a blueprint for faster economic growth. The myth of the Asian miracle created the East Asian boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The myth ended with an abrupt collapse in confidence that sent East Asian currencies, sharemarkets and real estate prices tumbling. The crisis pushed most of the region into severe recession, fuelled political and social turmoil and ended the 32-year reign of Indonesian President Suharto.A readable account of the financial, economic and political crisis that started in Thailand in 1997, quickly engulfed East Asia, and now threatens the economic health of the rest of the world. Garran traces the origins of the crisis in the successes and failures of the Japanese post-war economic miracle. He explains The spread of the notion of an Asian model of economic development, and how this idea was undermined by the 1997 crash. The book addresses the causes and consequences of the crash in all the worst-affected countries, with special attention paid to Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Essential reading for anyone interested in the rise and fall of the Asian miracle and the region's future prospects, including students, scholars, economists and historians.
As well as the events of 1997 and the first half of 1998 the book describes the historical background to the crisis and reviews the economic debate on its causes and consequences. Unlike other books on the crisis it deals extensively with the growth of the Asian economic model. It is accessible to non-specialists, and should be useful to undergraduate and upper secondary students. Tigers Tamed covers the origins and history of the crisis all the main countries in the region in detail. It has a statistical appendix showing key economic indicators for the region.
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When the Bottom Drops
Prima Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0914629468 Release Date: 1991-10-30 |
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When the Bottom Drops
A. David Silver Manufacturer: Prima ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KP1FGS |
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When the bottom of your heart drops out
William Holmes Borders Manufacturer: s.n ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007AVNS6 |
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Histoire des agricultures du monde : Du néolithique à la crise contemporaine
Marcel Mazoyer , and Laurence Roudart Manufacturer: Seuil ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 2020530619 |
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Chromatin and Gene Regulation: Mechanisms in Epigenetics
Bryan Turner Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0865427437 |
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Written in an informal and accessible style, Chromatin and Gene Regulation enables the reader to understand the science of this rapidly moving field. Chromatin is a fundamental component in the network of controls that regulates gene expression. Many human diseases have been linked to disruption of these control processes by genetic or environmental factors and unravelling the mechanisms by which they operate is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of modern biology. Chromatin is central both to the rapid changes in gene transcription by which cells respond to changes in their environment and also to the maintenance of gene expression patterns from one cell generation to the next. This book will be an invaluable guide to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the biological sciences and all those with an interest in the medical implications of aberrant gene expression.
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Crocodiles: Biology, Hisbandry and Diseases (Life Sciences)
F. W. Huchzermeyer Manufacturer: Oxford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0851996566 |
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This book is a comprehensive reference work on the biology, management and health of crocodiles, alligators, and gharials. It is applicable to both farmed and captive animals.
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The Bill James Handbook: 2005
Bill James Manufacturer: ACTA Sports ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0879462744 |
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AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 1, 2004!Simply put, the Bill James Handbook: 2005 is the best and most complete annual reference guide available today. It includes informative introductions to the different sections and an extensive glossary that includes explanation and even mathematical formulas for the multitude of statistics now used in baseball-many of them developed by Bill James himself. This books contains a myriad of stats on every hit, pitch and catch in Major League Baseball's 2004 season. Some of the most unique data include the Managers Record, which gives readers an edge in understanding the differences between managers during a game, and Win Shares, a statistic developed by Bill James evaluating a player's individual contribution to his team's wins. The Bill James Handbook releases November 1, months before any similar books. Buy it early and get an edge over the competition.
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Best book on baseball statistics.......2005-03-24
If you liked 2004, you'll like '05.......2004-11-25
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Pronunciation Pairs: An Introductory Course for Students of English (Student's Book)
Ann Baker , and Sharon Goldstein Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521349729 |
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Pronunciation Pairs is a classic listening and pronunciation text that teaches students to recognize and produce all of the speech sounds of North American English. It also covers important features such as word and sentence stress, and intonation.Customer Reviews:
A very usefull method for pronunciation pratice.......2001-01-21
An excellent pronunciation guide for any level!.......2000-04-27
pronunciation pairs.......1999-11-30
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North Light Artists Guide to Materials & Techniques
Phil Metzger Manufacturer: North Light Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1581802536 |
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With the abundance of art materials and brands on the market today, the average artist is often unsure about what to buy, even for a familiar medium. Artist Phil Metzger solves the problem with this extraordinary compendium, organized by medium and designed to help artists make informed choices. Inside they'll find: * Information on today's most popular mediums, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, colored pencil, egg tempera, pencil, pen & ink, charcoal and mixed media * In-depth discussions of paints, surfaces and brushes * A set of basic techniques and a suggested shopping list to help artists get started in each medium * Personal recommendations and advice from other popular North Light artistsCustomer Reviews:
Interesting for True Beginners.......2000-06-02
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After the Sale: How to Manage Product Service for Customer Satisfaction and Profit
Joseph D., Jr. Patton , and William H. Bleuel Manufacturer: Solomon Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0934623635 |
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"After the Sale: How to Manage Product Service for Customer Satisfaction and Profit" is the successor to four successful editions of "Service Management Principles & Practices." This book is foundation material for service managers of all levels. Topics include Terms, objectives, benchmarks, financials, forecasting, personnel, organizaitons, training, maintenance technology, inventory management, physical distribution, call management, customer satisfaction, information systems, marketing, quality and professional services.Customer Reviews:
I am thankful for a job well done.......2000-02-01
"AFTER THE SALE" says it all. I would like to formally thank the authors for writing the book that is saving my company a lot of time and money" - and keeping my customers satisfied.
I have not only purchased this book - but all of the other technical support books by the same author. A good use of my companies resources!
Brian de Francesca, CEO - Asia Bio Systems (360) brian@asiabio.com
AFTER THE SALE.......2000-01-14
In addition this text, and others like it, are desparately needed in business schools. Customer service has too long been missing in undergraduate and graduate education. With the services industry becoming a focal point of our economy, Mr.Patton and Bleuel's text is very timely and it is encouraging to see a few of our institutions. recognize the need to incorporate this within their management programs.
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Casino capitalism
Susan Strange Manufacturer: B. Blackwell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0631150269 |
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Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier
Matthew Brzezinski Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0684869772 |
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If Michael Lewis (The New New Thing, Liar's Poker) or P.J. O'Rourke (Holidays in Hell, Parliament of Whores) had spent the 1990s in Moscow, they might have produced a book like Casino Moscow--a dizzying first-person account of the wild east and its shotgun wedding with capitalism. It begins with Matthew Brzezinski as a rookie reporter getting beaten and nearly killed by a pair of Ukrainian thugs; the rest of the book is a white-knuckle tour through a place where the line separating entrepreneurs and criminals is often impossible to discern. Brzezinski worked in the Moscow bureau of the Wall Street Journal. If his name sounds familiar, that's because he's the nephew of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's national security advisor. He is an ideal guide: sometimes it takes a fish-out-of-water foreigner to see the things a jaded native cannot. (Comparing the author to Alexis de Tocqueville or Gunnar Myrdal is a stretch, but it's the same idea.) Brzezinski also writes with great humor and amazing panache. Describing the parking lot of a high-class bank, he writes that it "resembled a well-stocked Mercedes dealership that specialized only in armored, navy blue 600-series sedans, or shestotki, as the top-of-the-line models were affectionately known--as in 'My shestotka's just been blown up, can I borrow yours?'" Gangsters, prostitutes, and Western investors fill these pages, all of them coming to life courtesy of Brzezinski's narrative skill.Despite the title, Casino Moscow isn't just about Moscow--some of the best sections cover other parts of Russia: "It was heartbreaking that St. Petersburg had been so mistreated. Yet even in its state of decay, I still preferred its shabby elegance to Moscow's new-money makeover. In St. Petersburg you lived for the past; Moscow lived only for the day." At the edge of Siberia, on the Pacific coast, is Vladivostok--"five time zones ahead of the Russian capital, but a decade behind." The book is a fast-paced adventure story--and a must for readers interested in Russia as well as fans of modern-day gonzo journalism. Brzezinski is a writer to watch. --John Miller
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After awakening from its long communist slumber, Russia in the 1990s was a place where everything and everyone was for sale, and fortunes could be made and lost overnight. Into this free-market maelstrom stepped rookie Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Brzezinski, who was immediately pulled into the mad world of Russian capitalism -- where corrupt bankers and fast-talking American carpetbaggers presided over the biggest boom and bust in financial history.
Brzezinski's adventures take him from the solid-gold bathroom fixtures of Moscow's elite, to the last stop on the Trans-Siberian railway, where poverty-stricken citizens must buy water by the pail from the local crime lord, and back to civilization, to stumble into a drunken birthday bash for an ultra-nationalist politico. It's an irreverent, lurid, and hilarious account of one man's tumultuous trek through a capitalist market gone haywire -- and a nation whose uncertain future is marked by boundless hope and foreboding despair.
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Exciting, But Not Terribly Informative.......2005-12-12
the best of all possible worlds?.......2005-07-24
The Robber Barons of Moscow.......2004-08-29
Brzezinski Pontificating with Ethnocentric Tunnel Vision.......2004-08-08
Red Whine.......2004-02-17
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Casino Capitalism?: Insider Trading in Australia (Australian Studies in Law, Crime, and Justice)
Roman Tomasic , and Brendan Pentony Manufacturer: Natl Gallery of Australia ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0642158770 |
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Cowardly Capitalism: The Myth of The Global Financial Casino
Daniel Ben-Ami Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471899631 |
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A bold challenge to accepted ideas about the need for regulation of world financial marketsCustomer Reviews:
Insightful!.......2001-11-08
Extraordinarily clear analysis of global finance.......2001-10-21
Ben-Ami manages to explain in a few dozen pages the basics of apparently difficult concepts (as he rightly tells us, "even the most complex strategies tend to be built from simple components") such as derivatives, mutual funds, pension funds, hedging, etc. In the process, he shatters a lot of mistaken myths and conventional wisdom.
It is simply not true, he explains, that the instruments of modern finance are essentially speculative; on the contrary, they are usually a means for corporations and investors in general to better manage risk. Modern capitalists, unlike their predecessors of a more dynamic era, have an exaggerated aversion to risk and they try to build their portfolio in a way that minimises it. Thus a corporation dedicated to making cars, for instance, might prefer to invest part of its earnings in derivatives or hedge funds instead of innovating its production processes. The result would of course be a less dynamic form of capitalism, where more resources are spent on the financial markets - as opposed to the real, productive side of the economy. This, insists Ben-Ami, is in short what has been happening since the end of the post-war (1945-73) economic boom.
He offers powerful examples to illustrate his thesis. Yes, he says, it's true that George Soros made a billion dollars out of speculating against the British Pound in the early nineties - but that was only because the fundamentals of the British economy were really incompatible with the high value of its currency. A few years later Soros was betting on a fall of the Rouble and eventually lost two billion dollars. This time he had made a wrong analysis of the fundamentals of the Russian economy and got his fingers burned. The conclusion? Well, speculators really don't have the power to dominate events. So much for the idea that modern economies are but passive instruments at the hands of unscrupulous capitalistic sharks!
Ben-Ami regrets the general climate of fear for the future and horror of risk-taking that he thinks has taken hold of Western Europe and even more the USA in the last few decades - and has been, BTW, amply demonstrated in the recent near-hysteria caused by the appearance of a few cases of Anthrax in the US. He sees in this tendency a sign that the "animal spirits" that Keynes considered essential for the proper working of a dynamic capitalist economy are faltering.
The author doesn't present us a "solution" for this problem, probably because he's well aware of the fact that cultural attitudes are very hard to change. But he does warn that the climate of fear that currently permeates western society constitutes a clear impediment to stronger economic growth, both in the First and Third worlds. And he writes in such a clear, unpretentious style that one might just hope his analysis will eventually find a sympathetic hearing in the decision-making centers of Europe and the United States.
Fascinating, Contrarian and Long Overdue.......2001-09-19
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Casino Capitalism
Susan Strange Manufacturer: Blackwell Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K3Z1OW |
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The Economic Basis of Peace: Linkages Between Economic Growth and International Conflict (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
William H. Mott Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0313303665 |
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William Mott examines the relationships between economic growth and international conflict in history and theory, developing and analyzing a set of observed empirical modern growth-conflict relationships over long periods, and presenting an explanation of the observations. After introducing the growth-conflict relationship as the unit of analysis, he identifies historical perceptions of the growth-conflict relationship from ancient times through the modern era. Mott offers an alternative theoretical construct for further investigation, and speculates about the impact of these results on orthodox political-economic theory. The results of this work carry powerful implications for national management of foreign direct investment and trade in both home countries and host nations.
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Azerbaijan Export-Import and Business Directory
USA International Business Publications Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739728865 |
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Ultimate directory for conducting export-import operations in the country. Largest exporters and importers, strategic government and business contacts, selected export-import regulations and more
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Azerbaijan Export-Import, Trade and Business Directory
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739792784 |
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Ultimate directory for conducting export-import operations in the country. Strategic economic, investment, export-import, and business opportunities information. Important export-import, government, and business contacts and more...
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Azerbaijan Industrial And Business Directory (World Business, Investment and Government Library)
USA International Business Publications Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0739791702 |
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