An Eponymous Dictionary Of Economics: A Guide To Laws And Theorems Named After Economists (Elgar Original Reference)

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An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics is a fascinating and accessible reference work with comprehensive coverage of the field of economics from Adam Smith's Problem through Minkowski's Theorem to Zellner's Estimator. Eponymy - the practice of affixing the name of the scientist to all or part of what he/she has found - has many interesting features but only a very few attempts have been made to tackle the subject lexicographically in science and art. This is the first eponymous dictionary of economics ever published in any language. There are hundreds of eponyms and the average economist will probably be acquainted with, let alone be able to master, a relatively restricted number of them. The Dictionary fills this void in a manageable volume that describes all relevant economic eponyms. Some rare but interesting eponyms are also included, many entries are cross-referenced and all have a succinct bibliography for further reading. Julio Segura and Carlos Rodríguez Braun have assembled a unique Dictionary that will be an invaluable and much welcomed reference book for economic journalists, economists and economic scholars at all levels of academe, and in all areas of economics and its associated fields.

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There is continual concern about the ability of governments to perform the duties and responsibilities that their citizens have come to expect from them. Many citizens view government as inept, arthritic, and dedicated to the preservation of the bureaucratic status quo. As we close the twentieth century, the challenge for democratic governments is to become adaptive, flexible, innovative, and creative. In short, they need to become learning organizations. This book explores what it will take for governments to break out of their traditional ways of approaching problems and learn new approaches to finding solutions.

Can Governments Learn? examines organizational learning in the public sector. It seeks to understand the role policy and program evaluation information can play in helping governments learn. Among the democratic societies studied are Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. Significantly, the studies documented here show that the concept of organizational learning has vitality and applicability cross-nationally.

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Now educators, school board members, and policymakers can refer to a single volume for key lessons from the nation's most comprehensive and longest-running school reform model. Written by a nationally prominent group of educators, researchers, and policy analysts, All Children Can Learnpresents important research findings from the Kentucky reforms, examines major program elements, and analyzes initiatives that worked or didn't work. Throughout the book, the authors explore the challenges of implementing statewide school change initiatives, offer sound advice for overcoming reform hurdles, and share valuable recommendations for future policy and practice. Reform-minded educators from every type of community will find valuable insights as they contemplate similar changes.

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Now educators, school board members, and policymakers can refer to a single volume for key lessons from the nation's most comprehensive and longest-running school reform model. Written by a nationally prominent group of educators, researchers, and policy analysts, All Children Can Learn presents important research findings from the Kentucky reforms, examines major program elements, and analyzes initiatives that worked or didn't work. Throughout the book, the authors explore the challenges of implementing statewide school change initiatives, offer sound advice for overcoming reform hurdles, and share valuable recommendations for future policy and practice. Reform-minded educators from every type of community will find valuable insights as they contemplate similar changes.

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Fantastic!.......2003-07-20

No child left behind = All Children CAN Learn.

This is a practical approach for educators taken from the Kentucky Reform Experience.

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About book's organization and information.......1997-12-02

I read Bergmann's book (and I have read a number of her essays and excerpts from her other texts) for a paper on comparative welfare policy of the US and France. I found the book well organized, concise to perfection, and incredibly informative. My only comment, although in theory it is not completely to Bergmann's fault, is that some of the French policies are so complex and layered that she wrestled with describing/explaining them well. That is to say, for instance, when she addressed welfare payment amounts, it seemed that she was either contradicting herself at points or just perhaps not sure herself about the accounting of the cash and other benefits. To sum this review up, then, I highly recommend the book as a resouce for students, faculty, or the person seeking to broaden his/her knowledge of French culture and social policy, but I also recommend that the reader bring a calculator to the reading and patience for the complex tabulations of benefits.

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This timely work reviews the best current thinking on practicing sustainable agriculture, with contributions from agricultural, biological, environmental and social scientists. The emphasis is on temperate zones, with many of the contributions addressing U.S. agriculture. However, the principles explored here have application in any climatic or geographical region. The book discusses stewardship, biodiversity, reliance on mixed food systems and other approaches, always with a view toward reducing environmental degradation, maintaining economic viability and stabilizing rural communities.

Business and Technical Writing Cookbook: How to Write Coherently on the Job
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Business and Technical Writing Cookbook: How to Write Coherently on the Job
T. M. Georges
Manufacturer: Syntax Pubns
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Binding: Paperback

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Writing | Reference | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0910687005

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Author's Description.......2001-06-09

A self-teaching 244-page workbook with step-by-step instructions for clear, informative, no-nonsense writing in business, science and technology.

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African Development Indicators 2003 provides the most detailed collection of development data on Africa in one volume. It presents data from 53 African countries and 5 regional country groups, arranged in separate tables or matrices for more than 500 indicators of development.

This volume provides data from 1980-2001 with a wealth of indicators, grouped into 16 chapters: background data; national accounts; prices and exchange rates; money and banking; external sector; external debt and related flows; government finance; agriculture; power, communications, and transportation; public enterprises; labor force and employment; aid flows; social indicators; environmental indicators; household welfare indicators; and HIPC Debt Initiative.

Each chapter begins with a brief introduction on the nature of the data and their limitations, followed by a set of statistical tables, charts, and technical notes that define the indicators and identify their specific source. Included this year are new tables on HIV/AIDS, the HIPC Debt Initiative, Communications and Transportation, and Household Welfare indicators.

This title is also available on CD-ROM in single-user and multiple user editions. See 0-8213-5505-8 for the single user CD-ROM. See 0-8213-5472-8 for the multiple-user CD-ROM.

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The total number of web pages today has been estimated at over 3 billion, spanning millions of individual websites. Not surprisingly, there is tremendous pressure on web developers and designers to remain current with the latest technologies.

The Web Site Cookbook from O'Reilly covers all the essential skills that you need to create engaging, visitor-friendly websites. It helps you with the practical issues surrounding their inception, design, and maintenance. With recipes that teach both routine and advanced setup tasks, the book includes clear and professional instruction on a host of topics, including:

registering domains
ensuring that hostnames work
managing the directory
maintaining and troubleshooting a website
site promotion
visitor tracking
implementing e-commerce systems
linking with sales sites

This handy guide also tackles the various elements of page design. It explains how to control a reader's eye flow, how to choose a template system, how to set up a color scheme, and more.

Typical of O'Reilly's "Cookbook" series, the Web Site Cookbook is written in a straightforward format, featuring recipes that contain problem statements and solutions. A detailed explanation then follows each recipe to show you how and why the solution works. This question-solution-discussion format is a proven teaching method, as any fan of the "Cookbook" series can attest to.

Regardless of your strong suit or your role in the creation and life of a website, you can benefit from the teachings found in the Web Site Cookbook. It's a must-have tool for advancing your skills and making better sites.

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Web Site Cookbook.......2007-07-16

Web Site Cookbook is a really good problem solving guide for beginner to intermediate web designers. This reference includes hundreds of common questions, how tos, and ways to increase efficiency in a standard problem, solution, discussion, and see also format. Each of these entries also uses snippets of text and often includes illustrations of the result whenever possible. Topics include everything from registering and site planning through formatting text and graphics to making forms and dealing with ecommerce issues.

Web Site Cookbook is set up from simple to more complex concepts so that the reader need not have any previous experience creating a website in order to comprehend and make use of these instructions. Furthermore, the quick and easy access of the problem-solution format of the entries will be particularly helpful to web designers looking for particular solutions, wanting to upgrade their skills, or just wanting to learn a few new techniques to improve their site.

COOKING ON YOUR WEB SITE!!!.......2006-09-01

Are you a web developer and designer? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Doug Addison, has done an outstanding job of writing a book about building web sites that people will visit, use, bookmark, and revisit.

Addison, begins by untangling the choices that confront web site builders during the process of getting a new web site off the ground. Then, the author discusses site planning and setup. Next, the author presented solutions that will help you balance aesthetics with usability. The author then focuses on the written content that, for the majority of sites, constitutes the meat and potatoes of their online offerings. He continues by covering a few of the most common issues surrounding the use of graphics on a web site, including how to choose the right ones and optimize them for a fast download. Then, the author looks at some techniques for using visual clues. He then goes over some of the little details that make a web site visit successful and enjoyable. Next, the author explains the trust-building techniques and fraud-avoidance maneuvers that help secure both sides in an online transaction. Finally, he discusses both the administrative tasks you should use to maintain your site, as well as the technical procedures you'll need to know to keep your site and your job trouble free.

In this most excellent book you'll find solutions to everything from choosing, registering, and protecting a site's domain name to keep spammers from harvesting the addresses you display on its pages. More importantly, this book can lead the way in showing you how to publish a site that is not only a useful and attractive representation of the business, organization, or person behind it, but is also easy to build, maintain, and update.

Working on Web Sites in a Straight Forward Way.......2006-05-21

Doug Addison has produced a very useful and informative guide to working on Web sites. While many books look at the mechanics of HTML, or detailed coding, Web Site Cookbook rather follows the O'Reilly cookbook structure, looking at specific issues and needs and presenting answers. The book looks at the other aspects of good Web site work - colors, design and small tasks that are part of everyday Web sites now. Many of the recipes will make a more experienced Web site author go "duh," but I found myself flagging many of the entries if nothing else to do more research using some of the Web resources cited at the end of each recipe. Much of what is talked about is Web Design 101, but with so many WYSIWYG tools out there allowing anyone to produce a simple Web site, it's useful to have someone succinctly state the ideas behind complimentary colors to try and avoid those awful sites that just make your eyes burn. Nothing here is earth shattering or is something that you couldn't find on-line, but the value is Addison's organization and presentation, distilling Web speak into simple language, showing some examples and sending the reader off to other resources if he or she wants. The book is written with the idea that you are programming in PHP on top of an Apache Web server, which may not be relevant to all readers, but even those readers, like myself, who don't use PHP or Apache can carry away quick and valuable information, and have a flagged book to grab and look for information on a specific topic in the future. It's going to be a useful addition to my my desk.

good reference.......2006-04-22

I skimmed through the book, and I know I will find it very useful. It points out many things that web developers will want or need to do at some point and provides easy information on how to make them happen.

The one issue I have with the book is that it is about 70% PHP and Apache Server, which I don't use. This isn't a problem with the book, I just didn't quite realize this when I bought it. But, regardless of the language you use to program, even the PHP examples are useful as they show you the methodology to implement solutions in a clear, concise, and easy to understand way. It is also a good reference if you're considering using PHP or use it a little bit.

I have purchased hundreds of technical books, but I never purchased an O'Reilly book before - they just seemed to be too sparse, where I was looking for more in-depth instruction. However, now I know why they are so popular. I think you can learn more from a good example...or a good solution to a problem...rather than reading many chapters of most other books.

This book is definitely for people with some experience and again, I would just stress that it is mainly a PHP and Apache Server reference.

Highly Recommended.......2006-04-21

Excellent for beginners, but I would have liked to have gotten more detail. Perhaps that is the trade-off for so broad a subject. This book has answers to alot of questions that beginners (like me) might have. For instance, when I was shopping around for a hosting service for a personal website, features that were common to most hosting plans were cron (a scheduling utility) and ssi (server side includes). What are they? Why would they list them as a plus for hosting? Why would I care if they featured these or not? Well the Web Site Cookbook not only tells you what they are, but also gives you examples as to when, how, and why you might use them.

Each topic (recipe) is broken down into 4 sections:
1. Problem: A one or two sentence description of what you need or want to do.

2. Solution: A step by step solution.

3. Discussion: A discussion of the applied solution.

4. See Also: Additional information from other "recipes" in the book and/or outside resources.

There are also sections on planning your site, organizing directories, creating color schemes, as well as tips on making URL's easy to find and remember. (just to name a few). This book will get you well on your way to putting together a well designed web site. Highly recommended.

CD-ROM to accompany Web Marketing CookBook

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CD-ROM to accompany Web Marketing CookBook

Manufacturer: Wiley Computer Publishing
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Binding: CD-ROM

Web Marketing | Business & Culture | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000ICHOUE

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Windows CD-ROM includes: Ready-to-use templates for appealing Web pages; Resources and tools for successful Web marketing.

The Online Business Setup, Direct Marketing, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Barbeque Cookbooks Businesses

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The Online Business Setup, Direct Marketing, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Barbeque Cookbooks Businesses
J Bowman J Orr
Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000SKPDR2

The Online Business Setup, Direct Marketing, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Cookbook Stands Businesses

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The Online Business Setup, Direct Marketing, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Cookbook Stands Businesses
J Bowman J Orr
Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000SL0KCO

The Online Business Setup, Direct Marketing, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Microwave Cookbooks Businesses

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The Online Business Setup, Direct Marketing, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Microwave Cookbooks Businesses
J Bowman J Orr
Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000SKPE08

The Online Business Setup, Direct Marketing, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Vegan Cookbooks Businesses

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The Online Business Setup, Direct Marketing, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Vegan Cookbooks Businesses
J Bowman J Orr
Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000SL2QNA

The Online Business Setup, Lazy Marketing Methods, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Barbeque Cookbooks Businesses

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The Online Business Setup, Lazy Marketing Methods, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Barbeque Cookbooks Businesses
J Bowman J Orr
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000TAMSO2

The Online Business Setup, Lazy Marketing Methods, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Cookbook Stands Businesses

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The Online Business Setup, Lazy Marketing Methods, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Cookbook Stands Businesses
J Bowman J Orr
Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000TAVKLE

The Online Business Setup, Lazy Marketing Methods, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Microwave Cookbooks Businesses

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The Online Business Setup, Lazy Marketing Methods, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Microwave Cookbooks Businesses
J Bowman J Orr
Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000TAL1GS

The Online Business Setup, Lazy Marketing Methods, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Vegan Cookbooks Businesses

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The Online Business Setup, Lazy Marketing Methods, Building Effective Lead Capture Web Pages for Vegan Cookbooks Businesses
J Bowman J Orr
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