Bordering the Future: The Impact of Mexico on the United States

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The border between the United States and Mexico runs for 1,951 miles. The differences between the two nations may be immense, but their links--economic, political, and social--are profound, and growing stronger. In this incisive narrative, John Adams argues that Mexico is no sideshow, but a pivotal component of American economic health and regional security. The primary theme that runs throughout the book is that Mexico--its domestic growth and industrial capacity, population pressures, energy needs, political dynamics, and strategic location--has historically had, and will continue to have, a tremendous impact on the United States. Drawing from the most current economic and demographic data and business examples, Adams demonstrates the depth and breadth of U.S.-Mexican relations and their implications for American business and policymaking. A unique aspect of the book is his analysis of the competition between Mexico and China for American resources for investment, trade, and economic development. Adams also dispels popular myths about Mexico as an economic backwater or political distraction. The result is an authoritative and colorful account of our complex relationship with our neighbor to the south--and its broader implications for global economic growth and political stability.

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Insightful, compelling, and chock full of information.......2007-05-31

John Adams has provided a state-of-the-art, tour de force on US-Mexico relations--a highly readable, information-packed volume that will appeal to academics, business people, journalists, and government policymakers. From energy, trade and investment, to immigration, manufacturing, and competition between Mexico and China, Adams presents a compelling case for a pragmatic approach to US-Mexico relations and emphasizes throughout the volume the profound and growing importance of the bilateral relationship to citizens on both sides of the border.

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Bennett-Alexander and Hartman’s Employment Law for Business, 5/e addresses law and employment decisions from a managerial perspective. It is intended to instruct students on how to manage effectively and efficiently with full comprehension of the legal ramifications of their decisions. Students are shown how to analyze employment law facts using concrete examples of management-related legal dilemmas that do not present clear-cut solutions. The methods of arriving at resolutions are emphasized, so that when the facts of the workplace problem are not quite the same, the student can still reach a good decision based on the legal considerations required by law, which remain relevant.

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Fast shipping.......2007-03-09

The item actually came before the delivery estimate date. I paid 2nd day service for it and pleased with the fast shipping!

Ok book.......2007-01-12

This book has some good information however, the text language can be very complex at times.

Great reference manual........2006-08-02

I really like the way this book is set up and is a very good reference manual for today's managers.

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Images of children starving because of environmental destruction have become an integral part of the way that Africa is perceived in the West, a typical signpost to "the lie of the land." The driving force behind much environmental policy in Africa is a set of similar images and powerful assumptions about environmental crises. We read about overgrazing and the spread of deserts, the overuse of woodfuels and decline of forests, soil erosion, and the over-mining of natural resources. Yet the newer research reported in this book shows that many of the "crisis" images are deeply misleading. If the assumptions behind these apparent crises are incorrect, then many of the policies created to "solve" them are misguided. This book questions the reasoning behind such images and brings us critical current information about environmental change.

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A primer in critical environmental analysis.......2004-11-03

I was a bit surprised to see that this excellent book has not been reviewed before. We have used it as textbook in Masters' courses for several years at University of Bergen. It contains a number of high class articles which in a well documented manner challenge the 'received wisdom' of overdramatised environmental degradation which for long has distorted policy, aid and research in tropical countries. The authors do not take a blind opposite stand, and we see how our students through reading this book have changed their views and become reflected and finally grasped what sound, critical academic thinking entails.

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Millions of Americans have done it -- now you too can enjoy the extra income, flexible hours and low start-up costs of your own part-time, home-based microbusiness. All you need is passion for something you love to do! If you have a hobby you enjoy, a skill you've cultivated (but put aside because it's not "practical"), or the desire to try something new, you have what it takes to join the microbusiness revolution and Turn Your Talents Into Profits

This unique guide describes more than one hundred powerful business ideas that real-life people have turned into local services and growing companies. You'll learn how to

* Obtain business loans, expert advice, and tax help
* Identify your market and build a client list
* Know what to charge and how to stay in demand
* Tap into national small-business organizations and support networks
* Get started -- with hot tips from the owners of today's top microbusinesses

Do you grow a garden, bake great cakes, or make an outrageous sandwich? You can create your own specialty foods line. Are you the most organized person you know? Become a "clean-desk expert" or a party planner. Do you love to shop? There's cash out there for car buyers' consultants or personal shoppers. Are you skilled in accounting, woodworking, painting, sewing, or surfing the Internet? You can make these and many other talents pay with your own microbusiness....

It's the new way to work!

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A good beginning for the hopeful entrepreneur.......2003-12-23

I should be more disappointed with this book than I am. It's helpful in its own way, but suggestions to seek out further details using suggested Prodigy & CompuServe keywords seem, to be polite, a little quaint, & the publication date of 1998 makes it fairly clear that this is an "updated" version of an older (self-published?) book. One suggested business, for instance, is to start a BBS, a phenomenon that pretty much had gone the way of the mastodon by then.

The book is also lacking in serious instruction on how to run a business. Since this book is aimed at people who are enough adrift to need these ideas in the first place, the target audience probably needs more than a whirlwind 9-page overview of practical & critical business skills.

If that's all there is, I would've struggled to give this book a bare 3 stars. However, the majority of the suggested 100+ microbusinesses aren't too bad. Keep in mind that many of them require some sort of preexisting skills; you probably don't want to leap into a mural-painting business if you have absolutely no sense of form or color, for instance.

More important than the ideas themselves, though, is their range. If you read this book cover-to-cover, or even just flip through it & glean a few ideas that appeal to you, you will definitely be motivated to start concocting your own small-small business. It might be a variant of an idea from the authors, or wholly your own creation, but you'll have been bitten by the bug -- I guarantee it.

And if you already have an idea, read it anyway! One of the most crushing weights to the entrepreneurial spirit is the feeling that you're the only one crazy enough to try. Reading this book will make you feel a little less lonely. With that to brace you, you'll be a little more encouraged to follow your dream in a sensible & ultimately rewarding manner.

An inspiring and encouraging book about starting a home bus........1999-05-21

If you've been dabbling in a home business or dreaming about starting one, this is a book you've got to have. Turn Your Talents Into Profits will inspire you and encourage you. It's easy to read, gives you lots of great ideas, and has an amazingly complete bibliography.

Recent publicity on Turn Your Talents into Profits.......1999-04-29

Turn Your Talents into Profits has been in the news quite a bit lately. It was featured on the Montel Williams show in late March, in the March issue of American Baby, and in the May 11th issue of Woman's Day. I think this book has been getting so much attention because it focuses on microbusinesses (very small, part-time, home-based businesses), and microbusinesses are the fastest-growing type of small business in America.

SEWING FOR PROFITS Turn Your Creative Talent Into Money

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SEWING FOR PROFITS Turn Your Creative Talent Into Money
Judith and Allan Smith
Manufacturer: Succes advertising And Publishing
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ASIN: B000PSDC7A

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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.

Surviving Financial Downsizing: A Practical Guide to Living Well on Less Income
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Surviving Financial Downsizing: A Practical Guide to Living Well on Less Income
Gail Perry
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
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ASIN: 1593370172

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With job security at an all-time low and the cost of living at an all-time high, living frugally isn't just prudent—it's a financial necessity! Surviving Financial Downsizing is for the family or individual who has either chosen or been forced to live on less income. Financial expert Gail Perry shows readers that, with the proper planning, a cash-crunch doesn't have to crush them financially. From coping with the initial sticker shock of a smaller paycheck to covering immediate expenses and keeping creditors at bay, Surviving Financial Downsizing provides advice and resources for every conceivable obstacle that could face the monetarily challenged.

Coverage includes:

·Developing an emergency fund
·Saving on everyday expenses
·Finding alternate sources of income
·Maintaining health coverage
·Liquidating assets and refinancing debt
·Preserving retirement savings

Whether living on less income is a permanent or temporary situation, this valuable reference provides useful guidance for years to come. Surviving Financial Downsizing is Plan B for anyone's budget.

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Every customer is an individual with a choice. The role of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is to ensure that each first-time buyer becomes an ongoing client, and every client a self-perpetuating advocate of your business.

This book explains the elements of CRM and how to establish an integrated customer relationship-oriented approach in your organisation. How, in a word, to become a business where every customer's need is not just provided for but anticipated.

Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change
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Understanding Capitalism

I learned more from this than from a year of economics classes

Great Intro to Social Democratic Economics

Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change
Samuel Bowles , Richard Edwards , and Frank Roosevelt
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The third edition of Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change is an introduction to economics that explains how capitalism works, why it sometimes does not work as well as we would like it to, and how over time it not only changes but also revolutionizes the world around us. The "three-dimensional approach" of the text focuses on competition in markets; command in firms, governments, and international relations; and change as a permanent feature of a capitalist economy driven by technical innovation and conflict over the distribution of income. The book covers the standard topics of supply and demand, market competition, imperfect competition, aggregate demand, inflation, and unemployment. It emphasizes the extraordinary dynamism and material productivity of the capitalist economy; the psychological foundations of human behavior; the logic and limitations of Adam Smith's invisible hand; technical change and the new information-based economy; global economic integration and its impact on national economies; the impact of economic activity on the environment; and inequality both within and among nations. In addition, it provides a critical evaluation of the tenets of neoclassical economics, a clear introduction to contract theory, and material drawn from new research in behavioral, institutional, and information economics. Understanding Capitalism, Third Edition, is ideal for undergraduate courses in economics and political economy. An Instructor's Manual is available to adopters. FEATURES OF THE THIRD EDITION BLOffers a new chapter on the behavioral foundations of economics, showing that the selfishness of the "economic man" leaves out the important role of other social motives and how individual tastes and values evolve in response to experiences BLIncludes a new chapter that examines how economic success (and poverty) are passed on from parents to children and also looks at the increasing inequality of income and wealth along lines of race and gender BLPresents a completely revised and expanded treatment of the revolutionary changes that have been associated with capitalism over the past three centuries BLProvides boxed treatments of issues that can serve as the basis of classroom discussions BLDefines important terms in the margins throughout the text BLContains a section entitled "Sources of Economic Information" that helps readers locate relevant outside data, both in print and online

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Understanding Capitalism.......2007-09-03

I've always found studying economics to be an extremely frustrating experience. It seems my only options for learning about capitalism are (1) academic economists who study free-market processes but act as though political economy doesn't and never did exist, or (2) Marxist activists, who DO talk about political economy, but whose actual grasp of it is somewhat weak (and whose grasp of free-market principles is even weaker). Understanding Capitalism is really an anomaly in that it doesn't fit neatly into either of the aforementioned groups. This may be partly explained by the fact that at least one of the authors is a political scientist. Anyway, the book covers both free-market capitalist economics AND political economy, as well as providing (in the first chapter) a masterful summary of the rise and explosive growth of capitalism, first in England, then Europe, and now the world. I wish I could give you the whole table of contents so you could see how wide the scope of this book really is. Just to convince you that it isn't your standard college economic textbook, however, I'll give you a taste.

Here are the titles of a few sections within the book:
"Values in Political Economy"
"Karl Marx"
"Capitalism, the Surplus Product and Profits"
"Class and Class Relationships"
"The Capitalist Firm as a Command Economy"
"Race and Inequality" (!)
"The Limits of Democratic Control of the Capitalist Economy"

Here are the titles of a few chapters within the book:
"Capitalism Shakes the World"
"Political Economy, Past and Present"
"Competition and Concentration"
"The Mosaic of Inequality"
"Progress and Poverty on a World Scale"
"The Future of Capitalism"

If you have only heard criticisms of capitalism from Marxist literature, this book will be extremely valuable. You'll get a more scientific understanding of the same principles and a good presentation of the critique of capitalism scattered throughout the entire book. At the same time, you're sure to learn more about the workings of a free-market economy in the absence of government control (from both a neoclassical perspective and other perspectives). Most economics textbooks practically seem like they're written for business students, and they sure aren't interested in helping the reader really "understand capitalism." Read this book, and you will understand capitalism.

I learned more from this than from a year of economics classes.......2006-08-17

Although this book is written by social democrats, and I am nowhere near a social democrat, I found it to be a very fair and accurate (as far as I know) treatment of economics. Instead of the one dimensional approach favored by the neoclassical economics that dominates American universities, it uses a three dimensional "political economy" approach. It analyzes markets, power relations, and economic growth. And it tells you a lot of very important things that textbooks leave out, mostly relating to flaws with markets. I recommend this book to anyone who is seriously interested in economics. However, it easy enough for anyone to understand.

Great Intro to Social Democratic Economics.......2005-07-06

As taught in most undergraduate courses, the world of mainstream economics is an orderly place where markets clear, economic actors are rational, and social harmony prevails. Readers wanting more realism should read "Understanding Capitalism," a superb introduction to economics written from a social democratic perspective. As in any introductory econ text, the book carefully analyzes market processes. However, it also analyzes "command" relationships within firms and the relationship between capitalist dynamics and economic growth. This "three dimensional" approach to economics -- the authors prefer the term "political economy" -- offers a comprehensive view of the subject.

The core chapters deal with microeconomics and macroeconomics. The micro section borrows from Marx and Schumpeter, and focuses on profit-seeking and "accumulation" as the keys to capitalist dynamics. The macro chapters draw on and update Keynes, and explain why unemployment is a persistent feature of U.S.-style capitalism (Swedish-style capitalism is a different matter). Throughout, economic concepts are related to ideas from anthropology, history, political science, and environmental science. Key points are illustrated with examples from the daily news; there is much algebra, but no calculus; the writing is clear. This is a very reader-friendly econ text.

It is also refreshingly non-dogmatic. Although the authors are leftists, they acknowledge that capitalism obliterates archaic economic structures and lifts standards of living. They also highlight the role of profit-seeking in the development of new technologies and production methods. Their tone is consistently reasonable and fair to all points of view. Of course, no book is perfect. I would have preferred a more traditional analysis of microeconomics (complete with graphs showing average cost, marginal cost, and so forth). The sections on international trade and finance are too skimpy for a book trying to make sense of modern globalized capitalism. But overall, "Understanding Capitalism" is superb. No one taking a mainstream lower-division course on economics should miss it -- and anyone teaching such a course should consider using it as a supplemental text.

Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change in the U.S. Economy

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Richard Edwards
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Richard Edwards, Frank Roosevelt Samuel Bowles
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If major prospects of progress are to be opened up for human beings, and if the struggle against multidimensional poverty is to be successfully waged throughout the world, the "current programs of action" are not sufficient; nor is a reliance on "globalization." As the United Nations Development Programme points out, globalization, which is subject to the "pitiless markets," threatens solidarity, which is the "invisible heart of human development."

Rather, according to Henri Bartoli in his hard-hitting new book, a new paradigm must be defined and new strategies must be proposed. Rules, institutions and procedures must be invented which will strengthen the governance and governability of the economy at global, regional and local levels-a radical renewal of economic thinking on which all efforts to rationalize are based.

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This yearbook contains basic information on export-import, investment and business opportunities in the respected country. Provides information on government structure, economy, business climate, regulations, and more... Includes basic statistics, information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

Romania Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Expoer-Import and Business Library)

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This yearbook contains information on investment business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

Romania Oil & Gas Sector Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business, Investment and Government Library)

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