Economic and Financial Analysis for Engineering and Project Management

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Economic and Financial Analysis for Engineering and Project Management is for engineers and others who must analyze the financial and economic ramifications of producing and sustaining capital projects. Unlike other books in the field, it offers straightforward and lucid explanations of all main formulas needed to carry out financial analyses. The math is kept simple and is fully explained, making the book accessible to non-technical personnel. Numerous sample problems are provided, and can be worked on standard spreadsheet programs, as well as using interest rate tables. The book shows how to link quantitative data to management decisions and to standard reporting forms and has been designed for practicing engineers and students alike. Economic and Financial Analysis for Engineering and Project Management is a "must have" for graduate students in engineering management departments; graduate and undergraduates taking courses in project management, engineering economics, and engineering finance. Practicing engineers will find this book THE handy reference for any project involving financial analyses.

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Misleading Title.......2002-11-15

This book should not be recommended for engineering and project management. Its title is misleading.

Its contents are way too simple to be considered even as a text book for College. I work at a bank and I thought I was buying a book that would help me improve my skills as a project analyst... I feel deceived.

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This work examines the most important techniques for analyzing the profitability of capital investments. It discusses time value mechanics and financial concepts, including discounted cash flow, return on investment, incremental analysis, cash flow tables, income taxes, depreciation, cost of capital and risk analysis. It provides a broad introduction to project evaluation and data needs.;This book is intended for: cost, project, design, mechanical, chemical, industrial,electronic,electrical and construction engineers; project and budget managers; cost estimators and controllers; planners and schedulers; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

The Economic Analysis of Industrial Projects (Prentice-Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering)

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The Economic Analysis of Industrial Projects (Prentice-Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Lynn E. Bussey , and Ted G. Eschenbach
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover

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This book examines the ethical controversies that have surrounded the design and conduct of international medical research sponsored by industrialized countries or industry, and carried out in developing countries. Is it acceptable to lower the ethical standards adopted in the industrialized world when carrying out research in developing, or resource-poor, countries? Ruth Macklin concludes that double standards in medical research are ethically unacceptable.

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It's about best practices, not a reference manual

Horrid, full of filler pages

Go Back to SAMS, Harry :(

Insultingly stupid

Excellent hands on details

Small Business Server 2000 Best Practices
Harry Brelsford
Manufacturer: Hara Publishing Group
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Binding: Paperback

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Microsoft(r) Small Business Server 2000 Resource Kit

ASIN: 1883697689

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Finally, the third-party Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 book that everyone has been waiting for. Based on shipping code and written six months after the SBS 2000 release, this book is packed with real world, detailed SBS 2000 topics. The planning and, setup, administration and management topics dominate the first half of the book and include references to KBase articles, hard learned workarounds and in-the-trenches best practices. The text is also current for the latter operating system and application service packs. And not only are the individual applications such as Exchange 2000 Server and ISA Server 2000 covered in-depth, but this discussion is put into context of how these applications are used in the SBS community. The book spends a lot of time on how to extend SBS 2000 with add-ons such as the new XML reporting tool, Exchange Conferencing Server, Digital Dashboard and Outlook Team Folders.

This book speaks to the entire SBS community ranging from the do-it-yourselfer newbie to the hardened SBS guru. A practicing SBS consultant, Brelsford deftly weaves introductory and advanced SBS 2000 discussion, as only he can do with his Texas accent, in a warm and collegial way in to the pages of this book. And when that's not enough, the book includes guest columns from members of the Microsoft SBS development team and other leading SBSers!

So buddy up with Brelsford and enjoy Small Business Server 2000 Best Practices. Not only will this book pay for itself immediately with an hour of your time saved, but it'll return its price back to you many times over by helping you avoid hidden hooks, pitfalls and box canyons along the SBS journey.

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It's about best practices, not a reference manual.......2004-09-10

I'll take one star off for somewhat careless editing that includes a few typos and some slightly misleading information, but this is a great book for what it is. If you possess a solid basic understanding of Windows and networking hardware, this book will help you set up a SBS 2000 network with confidence and skill. I think Harry's emphasis on "best practices" is worth the price of the book alone: he is a networking pro, with years of hard-won experience, which he shares freely in this book. His humour and unpretentious style are a bonus - certainly a refreshing change from the impersonal and alienating tone of most books in this field. I used this book to set up several SBS 2000 networks and found it helped me get the job done right. Actually, this edition is probably more complete and helpful than his best practices book on SBS 2003 (which leaves out some of the info in this edition - i.e., makes you go back to this edition to get the job done!).

Horrid, full of filler pages.......2004-02-19

I was new to SBS 2000 and I though this book was going to be great. If you are looking for anything technical on SBS 2000, forget this book. It talks more about how great SBS 2000 is, and very little on how to set it up. If you are looking for help on SBS 2000 or 2003, a better choice would be to go to Microsoft's page for SBS 2003/2003 and under community review the news groups.

Go Back to SAMS, Harry :(.......2003-09-19

I found previous book by Harry, SBS 4.5 in 21 days a really excellent book and looked forward to the SBS2K Version.

Sadly disappointed - lots of unecessary stuff (like a 6 page line by line listing of ICW ins file) and major gaps in important areas; far too much of a sell on Net Meeting as form of remote control, yet little detail on configuring RAS.
Another reviewer noted:

"This book needs an editor...As proof of this I also bought Harry's "MCSE Consulting Bible" which was published by IDG Books. This book is well edited and Harry comes across as the smart and informed business man I'm sure he is. This is a 5 star book. What a difference an editor makes!"

Apparently, Harry fell out with SAMS and went to Brelsford with this book; I can't help wonering if it was something to do with editorial policy ? If so, go back to SAMS, Harry, your technical knowledge is superb but you really do need a good editor to get your writing better focused

Martin Harran

Insultingly stupid.......2003-07-29

If you need this book you are probably in the wrong business. I was expecting something more in debth. I have an MCSE, and I can say that the dumbed-down course materials I used to study for my exams back in 2000 put this worthless book to shame. If this is all it takes to be an administrator nowadays I might as well quit my job and let the secretary take over, Im sure that she can click the "next" button just as well as I can. Maybe its just me, but I was hoping for an in debth coverage of SBS as a solution, and how it differs from a traditional domain structure, and maybe an analysis of how the properties of SBS can best be implemented in some environments and interlopability with other products. Instead I get some cowboy comparing Information technology to a ranch with cows and such. I would return the book, but im too embarrassed to draw attention to the fact that I actually bought the thing in the first place.

Excellent hands on details.......2003-07-04

I really enjoyed this book. I'm well versed on Windows 2000, but haven't had much exposure to SBS. I really enjoyed the writing style and learned a few tips and tricks along the way. The Linux comments were a lot of fun, having myself lost many a battle with the Linux beast. Two fat thumbs up for this book!

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Among the unintended and largely unforeseen consequences of globalization are the fundamental transformations of local relationships, both economic and cultural, that occur within communities drawn into the predominantly capitalist world economy. Democracy, once considered the essential political mode of regulation for successful capitalist economies, is being replaced by nondemocratic modes of social organization as localized responses to global forces, such as Maori tribalization in New Zealand, are subverted and transformed. "A Political Economy of Neotribal Capitalism" looks at the past three decades in New Zealand and the shifts in the relationship between the indigenous Maori people and the dominant Pakeha (white) society to illustrate these fundamental changes to national political, social, and economic structures. The book includes a case study of a Maori family, a theoretical exploration of the concept of "neotribal capitalism," and discussions of themes such as changing socioeconomic relations; new social movements; the indigenization of ethnicity; dominant group-ethnic group realignment; and the antidemocratic ideologies of late capitalism- themes of interest to students of world political economics, international relations, and anthropology.

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Electronic markets and process hubs will play a critical role in coordinating process functions between market participants. This dynamic will drive demand for technology that enables companies to either participate in or build these electronic value chains.

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Have a Good Report: Christian Credit Repair (Financial Freedom Series, Volume IV)
John Avanzini , and Deborah McNaughton
Manufacturer: Abel Press
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The Victory Book: The Workbook That Will Take You Rapidly Out of Debt! (Financial Freedom Series, Volume III)

ASIN: 1878605089

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Resolve problems, place orders, satisfy existing customers...this was the realm of the traditional customer service representative. Now they're faced with an added mandate, and it's a whopper -- generate new sales.

Here's the breakthrough book that in-house customer service and sales management professionals have been asking for. Proactive Customer Service bridges the two disciplines to supply hands-on tips and techniques for uncovering new sales opportunities via the customer service department. Readers get step-by-step advice on how to:

** focus on asking the right questions
** acquire advanced listening skills
** esolve objections and obstacles to close the sale

Filled with real-life scenarios and sample scripts, it provides the tools for turning a reactive customer service department into a proactive profit center.

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Malaysian-born M. Bakri Musa, a California surgeon, writes frequently on issues affecting his native land. His credits, apart from scientific articles in professional journals, have appeared in Far Eastern Economic Review, International Herald Tribune, Education Quarterly, and New Straits Times. His commentary has also aired on National Public RadioÂ's Marketplace.

He is the author of The Malay Dilemma Revisited: Race Dynamics in Modern Malaysia, Malaysia in the Era of Globalization, and An Education System Worthy of Malaysia.

Safely beyond the reach of MalaysiaÂ's censorship laws, he writes freely and without restraint, save for common courtesy and good taste.

He spares no individual or institution, easily skewering the sacred cows. He aims his dart at the most hyperÂ-inflated targets, easily and effectively puncturing them to reveal their hollowness. These range from the obscenely ostentatious Malaysian weddings to special privileges, and from Prime Minister Mahathir to youths who do Malaysia proud.

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Global Capitalism, FDI and Competitiveness comprises 15 of John Dunning's most widely acknowledged writings on the changing characteristics of the global economy over the past three decades. In particular, it examines how these events have shaped, and been shaped by, the growing internationalization of all forms of business activity.

The book is dived into five thematic sections, each of which illustrates a particular aspect of change and the author's analysis of it. The volume examines:

• the main features of the new global economy, its origin, opportunities and challenges • the author's recent writings on the factors affecting the location of economic activity by international firms, and the implications for national and regional governments • the changing nature and form of the contribution of FDI and cross-border strategic alliances to economic development and to the restructuring of national economies • the relationship between FDI, the competitive advantages of international firms and the productivity and dynamic comparative advantage of the economies in which they operate. • an examination of the changing role and power of national governments as they seek to evaluate and influence the extent of both inbound and outbound FDI.

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

Georgia Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Economic and Trade Unions Business Labrary)

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Georgia Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Economic and Trade Unions Business Labrary)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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