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Entirely updated in light of the recent World Commission on Dams Report, and responding to it, this new edition of Patrick McCully's now classic study shows why large dams have become such a controversial technology in both industrialized and developing countries. He explores the wide-ranging ecological impacts of large dams, the human consequences, the organization of the dam-building industry, and the role played by international banks and aid agencies in promoting it. He also looks as the extensive technical, safety, and economic problems associated with large dams. New in this edition, the author tells the story of the rapid growth of the international anti-dam movement, and suggests alternative methods of supplying the services supposedly provided by large dams.
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The Dammed Truth.......2004-09-30
It is a common argument that large dam construction opponents are radical, and are not thinking the "facts" through logically. It is a common argument that these so-called radicals are unconcerned with the greatest common good, and are concentrating on a few tribals and farmers who happened to have their lives destroyed for the sake of benefiting thousands of other lives. Sadly, a majority of people have no idea what the "huge fuss" is concerning large dams. "Why the huge fuss," they ask, "over a few farmers?" These questions are asked by many citizens of the international community. If large dams are helping a developing country move forward in a modern world, why not build more? All over the world, large dams are in the spotlight of international development -- and they haven't arrived there without reason.
A large majority of people movements, protests, and literature that has been written on large dams is seemingly radical. The alleged radical nature of people against large dams prevents the general public from taking the issue seriously. It is also true that many protestors all over the world today do a lot of screaming and shouting about a lot of issues without a rational basis of their own, regardless over whether or not the issue is a significant one. The important thing to remember in spite of this, is that there is a logical bases for arguments against the construction large dams, and McCully does an excellent job of constructing and expressing these arguments.
This book brilliantly highlights the politics behind large dam construction, focusing primarily on the environmental issues surrounding large dam construction, but also brings to light some of the key issues involving the displacement of people. Unfortunately, I do not feel that McCully gives enough attention to alternatives to large dam construction. Overall, however, this book is well worth the read, and serves as an excellent introduction to the topic.
Richly detailed, thorough coverage of key topic........2001-04-18
This book excels at laying out the thousands of inter-related details that go into large dams: their geographic countenance, their economic costs and impact, the public health aspects and more. It makes links between facts that give valuable insight into the global dam market.
Sobering at times, this book also showcases many successes which give hope for a thirsty Earth.
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Managing Radical Organizational Change
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One of the opportunities presented by the breakup of the former Soviet Union is that organizational science scholars have been able to study radical changes companies must make in order to adapt to different economic and social goals. Authors Karen L. Newman and Stanley D. Nollen had the opportunity to examine in depth how companies in central Europe (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic) made the unprecedented move from a centrally planned system to a market economy. They present the results of that analysis in Managing Radical Organizational Change along with new theory they have developed about managing radical organizational changes. In addition, they provide a framework and practical guidelines that will help current and future international business leaders manage change more effectively. The book provides rich case histories of companies in transition. Seven of these cases appear in the appendix and are suitable for use as stand-alone cases in am MBA-level or executive development courses. The primary audience for Managing Radical Organizational Change includes scholars and advanced student studying organizational change and international business. A secondary audience exists in executive development courses that focus on business in central and eastern Europe.
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Managing Radical Change: Beyond Survival in the New Business Age
Jerome H. Want
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Managing the Aftermath of Radical Corporate Change: Reengineering, Restructuring, and Reinvention
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The radical restructuring of organizations can have momentous effects and not all of them are good. In fact, many are actually bad and may cause serious harm. How management can remedy these ill effects systematically and restore stability to their traumatized organizations is the theme of Dr. Geisler's compelling new book. How do we clean up the mess from poorly conceived, badly implemented, and ultimately unsuccessful restructurings? How can managers, who have been caught up in these changes and who are as disrupted by them as anyone, regain their own equilibrium and help the healing and reconstructive process take hold? Geisler's answers to these questions are essential reading for corporate executives in all types of organizations (public and private both), and for academics and students. Dr. Geisler lists the problems associated with radical change and describes the futility of total corporate transformations in general. In addition, he develops a staged process by which managers can counteract the side effects of radical change programs. By showing that the beneficial effects of radical corporate change are usually transient, Dr. Geisler's process is a key ingredient in any effort designed for the long-term survival of the firm and the preservation of its strategic goals and methods. Thus, not only does Geisler provide a sound, well-reasoned criticism of corporate restructuring, but he offers something that few if any other books can offer: a workable means to cope constructively with the effects of its many failures.
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Organizational evolution;: A program for managing radical change
Gerald J Skibbins
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The business world is undergoing a profound revolution as the new millennium inches closer, and one of the best assessments of its implications and possibilities comes from Institute for the Future president Ian Morrison in his The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change. This thoughtful work advances one simple yet striking concept: business leaders must stop focusing on the short-term and start planning for the long run. Making the most of current profits is the first curve in business, Morrison writes; shifts in technology and the marketplace signify the second. Understanding how these critical changes develop and knowing what they mean, he contends, will help business leaders make the necessary leap from one to the other.
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In The Second Curve, Ian Morrison creates a revolutionary new business model that can be used no matter what the market upheaval. His theory is simple: you must ride the first curve -- a company's traditional business carried out in a familiar corporate climate -- to the all-important second curve. The second curve is the future -- of new technologies, new consumers, and new markets that will combine to bring about a sweeping and irrevocable alteration in the way every business must organize and function.
This AudioBook sets forth all the crucial strategies businesses need to confront the second curve and explains how they can apply these strategies to rapidly changing situations. Ian Morrison draws on his own path-breaking work as a consultant to business giants from AT&T to Dow Jones to explore how the two-curve concept works in the real world. He analyzes a wide spectrum of business triumphs and turnarounds, among them how Pitney Bowes jumped on the second curve by investing in developing Paragon and other technologies; how Netscape capitalized on the untapped power of the World Wide Web with their stunningly successful browser software, Navigator; how Nestle tries to maych their products to the tastes, purchasing power, and desire for convenience of particular markets.
Change is sweeping through the corporate world and the future will belong only to those who have the tools and vision to embrace it. This brilliant, groundbreaking AudioBook is an essential guide for the business leaders of tomorrow.
Customer Reviews:
Pretty obvious, formula-driven, consultant-speak stuff........1997-07-12
Sort of like a combination of "In Search of Excellence" and in search of flatulence -- companies that win and companies that lay an egg. All this 1-2-3 wave business can make you seasick. Basically it would make a good set of business school cases. But the cases don't really fit into an overarching framework that has the explanatory power Morrison pretends
A topical, provocative book replete with real-life anecdotes.......1996-06-04
The business book is as ubiquitous an item as a laptop computer in
airplanes. In every flight that I've ever been on in the US, there are
legions of rent-an-MBAs, wearing grey Hickey-Freeman suits and Cole-Haan
wingtips, sipping a beer and grimacing as they try to ingest the latest
idea from Tom Peters. They've learned about searching for excellence,
the discipline of market leaders, constructing a virtual corporation and
being part of a learning organization. They've been folded, spindled,
mutilated and re-engineered. They have ridden the third wave and
preached the fifth discipline. They have read the machinations of
Machiavelli, the homilies of Dale Carnegie and the leadership secrets of
Attila the Hun. They know that if they meet the Buddha on the road, they
should kill him; that if it ain't broken, they should break it; that the
future is always shocking and that you always swim with sharks.
It was therefore with some cynicism that I picked up a new business book
off the shelf at Keplers this weekend. Even the title put me off. "The
Second Curve - Managing the Velocity of Change," by an Ian Morrison, who
bore the grandiose title of President of the Institute of the Future.
But I had some familiarity and liking for the writing of Paul Saffo, who
works at the same institute. And my stack of books at home was getting
quite short. So I took a twenty-five dollar bet.
I am glad I did. "The Second Curve" kept me engrossed through the
afternoon and the night, and I stayed up till two finishing it,
something I do increasingly rarely nowadays. Mr. Morrison is that rarest
of birds, an original thinker. More importantly, he is not an armchair
theorist. Almost all his writing is bolstered by real-world anecdotes
and experience from twenty years of being called upon as a consultant.
In tone, it is reminiscent of "The Art of the Long View", another book
that I highly recommend.
The author's principal thesis is that technology is causing a sea change
in almost every facet of our lives. The first curve is the one that
people are used to and which still shows a reasonable pace of growth.
Think, for instance, of the full-service brokerage services offered by a
place like Merill-Lynch. The second curve is the one that understands
that, in essence, such a company does nothing more than transactions and
brokering information. Both of these can be automated and done much
cheaper via the Internet. Enter Lombard OnLine. All transactions for
twenty bucks! Unlimited company reports for free! After all, the only
things you're consuming is a few extra cycles of cpu and a few extra
kilobaud of bandwidth.
Financial institutions still think of themselves as their physical
presence - brick and mortar and oak veneer. But they are really nothing
more than a conduit for electric impulses; credit A's account here,
debit B's account there, feed the earnings report to a browser, download
a mortgage calculation applet. As users get more aware of how they can
access information themselves and manage their own financial affairs,
paying huge percentages as fees is going to seem quaint. Dean-Witter and
Smith-Barney have no idea how badly they are going to be hurt.
To the authors credit, he strongly advises against expecting the change
to happen tomorrow. A line that appears in many places in the book is
that we always overestimate the change that will occur in one year and
underestimate the change that will occur in ten. So a key chapter in the
book is devoted to transition strategy from the first curve to the
second. How do you gauge when a supposed second curve is in fact a
mirage (the Newton, picture telephones, personal helicopters)? How do
you surf a first curve to its entirety (the plain old telephone, video
rentals, mainframes)? When does it pay to bet the farm on a new paradigm
(there, I used that word)? When is it too risky to?
There are some common-sense ideas here. One, that technology makes it
possible to do most things faster, better and cheaper. Think of the fax
machine and electronic mail replacing the US mail and memos. Two, that
the new consumer expects exceptional service as a birthright. He or she
wants to be able to order a pair of jeans from L.L Bean at midnight or
to choose from six kinds of crackers at Safeway. Three, that the new
consumer is not necessarily Caucasian or Japanese. In the next fifteen
years, there will be 122 million middle-class households (incomes
greater than $25K per year) springing up in South Asia, China, and Latin
America.
In addition, there are many provocative theses. One is that any industry
that trafficks in information (insurance, publishing, recorded music) is
going to get decimated if it does not adapt to the second curve. You can
no longer live off your history as an authority figure. Gangsta rap
artists will not automatically go to Time-Warner because of its history
in the information business. Doctors can no longer expostulate that
their long training makes them worth two hundred dollars an hour. The
HMO down the street will just take that doctor off its database and cut
his or her business by three-quarters. Medicine is not that lucrative a
profession any more.
The second is that the real power in a value chain is no longer with the
manufacturer of a product but with the retailer. Wal-Mart can dictate
the selling price of a toy much more than Mattel can. All it has to do
is threaten to withhold shelf-space for the Mighty Morphin Power
Rangers. In like vein, CompUSA decides which is a bestselling CD-ROM
much more than Broderbund does, by the way it spends its advertising and
display dollars. It is going to become increasingly important to own
your channel or have very strong partnerships with it. And remember that
with the Internet, the eighteen-year old in the garage can still bypass
all established channels and go straight to the consumer. Id Software
provides a sterling lesson in this in the way it sold "Doom".
I judge a book by how many of its ideas resonate in my head when I drive
to work the next morning. By this unscientific metric, "The Second
Curve" is a very worthwhile read.
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Black's Agricultural Dictionary
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The Complete Capuchin: The Biology of the Genus Cebus
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This book explores our understanding of Capuchin monkeys in relation to their lives in nature--their physical, mental and social characteristics in comparison to other monkeys. As one of the most widely distributed genera of primates in Central and South America, Capuchin monkeys in the genus Cebus have captivated the imaginations of scientists as well as the lay public with their creative and variable behavior, grace, power and highly developed social character.
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Amphibians (Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia)
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Reptiles (Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia)
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Gale proudly presents the completely revised and updated version of the acclaimed “Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia†set. Hailed by many as the best reference work on animals ever published, a legacy left to us by famed zoologist and animal lover Bernhard Grzimek, this set is renowned for its scientific reporting and coverage, and serves as a major point of reference for researchers, students, and those hoping to satisfy their curiosity about the animal kingdom. Information can be found on life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology and much more. Staying true to the original scientific pedigree, Gale enlisted prominent advisors and contributors from the international scientific community to incorporate recent developments in our knowledge of the animal world.
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Gale proudly presents the completely revised and updated version of the acclaimed “Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia†set. Hailed by many as the best reference work on animals ever published, a legacy left to us by famed zoologist and animal lover Bernhard Grzimek, this set is renowned for its scientific reporting and coverage, and serves as a major point of reference for researchers, students, and those hoping to satisfy their curiosity about the animal kingdom. Information can be found on life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology and much more. Staying true to the original scientific pedigree, Gale enlisted prominent advisors and contributors from the international scientific community to incorporate recent developments in our knowledge of the animal world.
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Gale proudly presents the completely revised and updated version of the acclaimed “Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia†set. Hailed by many as the best reference work on animals ever published, a legacy left to us by famed zoologist and animal lover Bernhard Grzimek, this set is renowned for its scientific reporting and coverage, and serves as a major point of reference for researchers, students, and those hoping to satisfy their curiosity about the animal kingdom. Information can be found on life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology and much more. Staying true to the original scientific pedigree, Gale enlisted prominent advisors and contributors from the international scientific community to incorporate recent developments in our knowledge of the animal world.
Book Description
Gale proudly presents the completely revised and updated version of the acclaimed “Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia†set. Hailed by many as the best reference work on animals ever published, a legacy left to us by famed zoologist and animal lover Bernhard Grzimek, this set is renowned for its scientific reporting and coverage, and serves as a major point of reference for researchers, students, and those hoping to satisfy their curiosity about the animal kingdom. Information can be found on life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology and much more. Staying true to the original scientific pedigree, Gale enlisted prominent advisors and contributors from the international scientific community to incorporate recent developments in our knowledge of the animal world.
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Designed to fit easily in a back pocket or pack, Day and Ovenight Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park points hikers to over 40 of the Park's best and least crowded trails. At-a-glance information quickly conveys each trail's difficulty, scenery, solitude, and appropriateness for children, and concise driving directions help readers spend more time on the trail than in the car.
Customer Reviews:
not very informative.......2006-01-30
This book was not helpful in planning the trip are looking for (2 night backcountry). There are others that are much, much better.
Legend of the Smokies..........2005-12-17
I bought this book as I had read Molloy's "Trial by Trail" book about his adventures in the GSMNP. I knew that by living in this part of East Tennessee for 20 years, if anyone would know a good overnighter to do in the GSMNP, it would be Johnny Molloy. With over 900 miles of trails in this national park, his knowledge of the Smokies environment, writing style, and accuracy has, once again, impressed me. You can tell that the writer himself has a love and appreciation for these mountains. As a reader and a resident in the Smokies foothills, I can't tell you how I appreciate that! I have a collection of outdoor guidebooks, and Molloy is becoming the major author on my bookshelf!
Customer Reviews:
uses transliteration but NOT devanagari.......2007-04-02
There are two ways to represent Nepali words. first you can write them in Devanagari, which would require that you learn to read Devanagari ( the Sanskrit-based alphabet which they use) or you can use the closest-equivalent transliterated word using the English alphabet. this one just uses the transliteration. If you are serious about stuying Nepali, you would benefit more by getting the Devanagari version ALONG WITH the transliteration - I hope they do this for future editions....
It's okay.......2007-02-15
I like this book, but after learning some phrases, I was told by Nepali people that I know that these phrases are not used in everyday life. They told me that those words were not really the way they speak. I guess the book must use more formal language.
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All you need is Nepali! In the busy Durbur Square, make a connection with some well-chosen words. Get the low-down on the highlands from your porter as you trek through the mountains. Don't just stand there, say something - take control of your Nepal experience.
- new pronunciation guide for every word & phrase
- take a hike - detailed trekking & mountaineering chapter
- Key festivals, traditional dance and music explored.
- string your own sentences together with the easy-to-use grammar section
- etiquette and body language pointers
Customer Reviews:
Helpful, up to a certain point.......2003-12-05
My Nepali boyfriend gave me this little book to learn his language, since when I met him, I had nothing good to say about his country because I knew nothing about it. I was grateful for alot of things in the book, like grammer, sentence structure, who you speak to, cultural tips, etc. But I found the pronunciation guide horrible. They do not explain the differences between many sounds, and only explain certain consonants. They introduce the Devanagari script rather suddenly with no explanation. It would be helpful to know HOW to read it and understand what is written instead of just recognizing it by sight and nothing else, although that is good too.
The dictionary was helpful in the back, but very limited. It only went over words mentioned in the book, and didn't broaden words from outside of what was reviewed. I liked the book as a starter...but even my boyfriend admitted that some things were not said right. (Not as they speak it today, it's too old-fashioned, etc.) I kept having to go to him and ask him things, and the whole point of me having the book was so he wouldn't have to try and teach me. (hahahaha)
So, I guess I would recommend it to people who know nothing about Nepali, but be sure to have someone to ask questions. It's bad enough when you are running blind with a language you haven't heard of before.
Handy little phrasebook at a nice cheap price.......2003-05-29
I was surprised that the two reviews prior to mine gave such a bad rating. Well, I'm half-Indian, I was born in the north-east of India near the Himalayas with very close contact with Nepalis in my early childhood and I couldn't actually see what the problem was with this book! It's small, compact, glossy, useful and very cheap, I mean what else do you want if you are only looking for the basics.
However, I can read and speak Hindi and know basic customs (which are actually explained in the phrasebook, for example food etiquette) so perhaps that made a difference. Hindi is closely related to Nepali and written in the same Devanagari script. You can actually learn the Devanagari script from this phrasebook which I find sets the Lonely Planet phrasebooks above most phrasebooks. If you don't want to learn the script, then the phonetic tranliteration system used is the correct one generally used by linguists, which ensures a word is correctly pronounced by the student, even when reading in English. This is why I prefer Lonely Planet phrasebooks as once you master the basics of script and pronunciation along with basic grammar (yes, it has a solid basic grammar section as well) you actually have a good base to further learn the language if you want.
I found the phrases in it very useful. You get a very good starting point for customs, ordering food, hotel rooms etc. As I said, it's also in a nice, very small size. Amazing actually how much information is packed in considering how small the phrasebook is.
Just buy the book in Nepal.......2002-01-05
And you find better ones. Lonley planet again fails to deliver with yet another product. The organization is poor, bad choice of phrases, etc..
Heres a tip: skip the book, goto Nepal, meet some Nepali's talk with them, learn a little, then go to the millions of bookstores in Khatmandhu and find a book that fits your needs.
It may be this one, but I doubt it.
Not a bad dictionary, but..........2000-01-26
The dictionary in the back was helpful, but the organization of the book is not very good and it is awful in explaining pronunciation. After studying it faithfully and trying it out, my Nepali friends, finally, asked in English, "What are you trying to say?" I also learned that some of the information was inaccurate. I hate to speak badly of it, since it is about the only Nepali language travel book on the market, but, hopefully Lonely Planet will consider an overhaul.
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