Metro Futures: Economic Solutioins for Cities and Their Suburbs (New Democracy Forum)

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Current political campaigning has catapulted urban issues into the spotlight, but this is the first book to shift the discussion from despair over inner-city problems to solutions that recognize the essential link between urban and suburban well-being. Wi th its specific state and federal policy recommendations, Metro Futures offers timely hope for meaningful change. NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM A series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. The series editors (for Boston Review), Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious debate about fundamental issues-both on and off the agenda of conventional politics.

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Just Excellent.......2006-03-08

I recommend this book to anyone interested in the degrading of our nation as a whole right now. It presents the problems, offers solutions, and does it in a classy way. Read the book and see if you're ready to move down this high road path.

Metro Futures.......2003-12-13

In my view, the author's suggestion that urban renewal would provide "massive" benefits and social peace, sounded like a naïve utopian fantasy. And, his assertion that business take advantage of the already available infrastructure and dense concentration of human capital completely ignored the fact that many of the inner-city buildings are dilapidated often making it less expensive to build anew; and he also overlooked the reality that the individuals he suggests are readily available for employment, often lack the necessary skills to be effective. This book does not propose any meaningful suggestions and blames "whites" for everything that is wrong in the black community. He is typical of many in the black community who refuse to take any responsibility for their poverty conditions. We need to consider the impact that individual choices (i.e., single parenthood) have on poverty - choices have consequences. We can't begin to address these senstive issues until we are willing to be honest about how we got here.

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In 1968, ten thousand students marched in protest over the terrible conditions prevalent in the high schools of East Los Angeles, the largest Mexican community in the United States. Chanting "Chicano Power," the young insurgents not only demanded change but heralded a new racial politics. Frustrated with the previous generation's efforts to win equal treatment by portraying themselves as racially white, the Chicano protesters demanded justice as proud members of a brown race. The legacy of this fundamental shift continues to this day.

Ian Haney López tells the compelling story of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles by following two criminal trials, including one arising from the student walkouts. He demonstrates how racial prejudice led to police brutality and judicial discrimination that in turn spurred Chicano militancy. He also shows that legal violence helped to convince Chicano activists that they were nonwhite, thereby encouraging their use of racial ideas to redefine their aspirations, culture, and selves. In a groundbreaking advance that further connects legal racism and racial politics, Haney López describes how race functions as "common sense," a set of ideas that we take for granted in our daily lives. This racial common sense, Haney López argues, largely explains why racism and racial affiliation persist today.

By tracing the fluid position of Mexican Americans on the divide between white and nonwhite, describing the role of legal violence in producing racial identities, and detailing the commonsense nature of race, Haney López offers a much needed, potentially liberating way to rethink race in the United States.

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Required reading if interested in la raza's history.......2005-04-23

I love this book. Haney Lopez gives us an intriguing description of the history of Mexican-descent peoples in the United States since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, with a focus on the rise of Chicano identity and the Chicano movement in Los Angeles during the tumultuous 1960s. What sticks with me most about this book is the rupture and transformation in identity politics. From the 1930s to the early 1960s, mainstream Mexican-American organizations advocated a hard assimilationist line, lobbying larger (white) American society to accept Mexican-Americans as part of the Anglo-Saxon cultural core. At the time, such organizations were staffed by and represented the relatively small Mexican-American middle class (which consisted largely of lighter-skinned individuals who were capable of "passing" as white). As part of this strategy to accomodate White America, Mexican-American leaders at the time (again, mainly middle class and mainly light skinned) declared that Mexicans were essentially "white" and thus emphasized Spanish/European heritage of Mexico over its indigenous and to a lesser extent, African, roots. Such persons often looked down on poor, dark, or indigenous persons of Mexican descent in efforts to distance themselves from their "undesirable" co-ethnics. From 1930-1960, the U.S. Census officially classified Mexican-Americans as "white," unless such individuals were visibly "Indian" or "Black."

The efforts of appeasement and accomodation on the part of the lobbyists did not result in the elimination of individual and insitutional discrimination against Mexicans, however. As a result, a new movement arose in the 1960s that thoroughly rejected the older generation's assimilation/accomodation agenda. Three decades of accomodation had been virtually ineffective in eliminating anti-Mexican prejudice, discrimination, and police malpractice. It is within this context, which manifested during the 1960s, that the Chicano identity/movement was born. Ian Haney Lopez provides all the detail you need.

I could personally relate to much of the book's content, as I've been engaged in numerous debates and arguments over the politics of identity labels. I have seen first-hand the adamant demands of people with relatively high levels of cultural and structural assimilation to be called "Hispanic" over "Chicano" or "Latino," while I've seen countless Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans voice just as strong a disgust for the term "Hispanic" as essentially a term of elitism and arrogance. Haney Lopez's book hits hard and strikes home. Be sure to read it.

Ha-Lo scores another success!.......2005-02-17

An academic text that's also page turner, Racism on Trial is an excellent companion to "White By Law" ... but it has it's own appeal and original ideas beyond Haney-Lopez's past work. As this becomes a more common text in ethnic/chicano studies classes a constitutional and social discussion delves deeper with Professor Haney Lopez provoking new thought and analysis regarding these uniquely American issues.

A Great Book.......2004-05-07

This book rocks! It's a very well written history of Mexicans in Los Angeles that not only tells their story, but also offers a way to understand why some Mexican Americans say their White, and others that they are Brown. A must read for persons trying to understand race and Latinos.

A powerful rethinking of race and racism.......2004-04-29

Racism on Trial offers a powerful rethinking of race and racism.
The author looks at how Mexican Americans went from thinking of themselves as white in the 1930s to the 1960s (who knew?), to brown in the context of the Chicano movement (a self-conception that seems alive and well today). This rapid change provides Lopez with an opportunity to further develop the idea that race really comes down to ideas and practices, rather than biological differences. Of course, it's also true that race is not something the Mexican American community had full control over, as they were responding to a legacy of colonialism and conquest that treated them as if they were non-white.

To get at this legacy, the author looks at the way the police and the courts mistreated Mexican Americans, and offers a theory of what he calls "common sense racism." This theory really helps explain how racism is tied into to taken-for-granted ideas as well as the way our world has been structured by centuries of racism. Lopez may overclaim when he says most racism is now of the common sense variety, but he certainly contributes an important way of thinking about how racism continues even when there is no individual racist.

On the whole, this is a great book. It tells an amazing story about Chicano activism. It gives a concise history about how Mexicans have been treated as a race in this country, and about how they have responded. And it offers a sophisticated way of thinking about how race operates as social knowledge, both in the hands of racists and those opposed to racism. I would definitely recommend this book.

Important but Requires Originality.......2004-04-20

An important addition to the growing body of literature on the Chicano/a movement, Racism on Trial, however, is in need of original sources. Haney-Lopez's footnotes suggest a rather liberal use of unpublished scholarship. An interesting synthesis on the politics of race, though.

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This book, now available in paperback, provides the first comprehensive and accessible account of the evolution of exchange rate regimes in the twentieth century. It presents a chronological, non-technical history and in doing so manages to link the past with the present to shed new light on the merits of different exchange rate systems.

Since the golden age before the First World War, the international monetary system has experienced several changes in exchange rate regimes, alternating between fixed and floating rate systems interspersed with managed or dirty floats. The authors examine and assess the evolution of exchange rate regimes since the first world war to the present day. They discuss the forces that have brought about change in order to determine how different regimes affected the economic environment. They consider the merits or otherwise of the respective regimes and assess the evidence and arguments for and against fixed and floating exchange rate systems.

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This digital document is an article from Powersports Business, published by Ehlert Publishing Group on August 16, 2004. The length of the article is 685 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Household plays large role in powersports finance industry.(Focus: F & I Computers)(Company Profile)
Publication: Powersports Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 16, 2004
Publisher: Ehlert Publishing Group
Volume: 7 Issue: 11 Page: 12(1)

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Sales Management Role Plays
William C. Moncrief , and Shannon Shipp
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Sports plays key sales role for agents. (includes related article): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Sports plays key sales role for agents. (includes related article): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Sam Friedman
Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on July 24, 1989. The length of the article is 846 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sports plays key sales role for agents. (includes related article)
Author: Sam Friedman
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 24, 1989
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on July 19, 2004. The length of the article is 544 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Consumer report: play cards right, reap big rewards.
Publication: Fairfield County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 19, 2004
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Consumer Credit Business of Retailers (Business Monitors)

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Consumer Credit Business of Retailers (Business Monitors)
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Manufacturer: Stationery Office Books
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The credit practices of Oklahoma retailers (Small Business Management research reports)

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The credit practices of Oklahoma retailers (Small Business Management research reports)
Marion Carl Phillips
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Profitable credit selling for the small retailer (Illinois. University. Bureau of Business Management. Bulletin)

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Profitable credit selling for the small retailer (Illinois. University. Bureau of Business Management. Bulletin)
Donald Werner Scotton
Manufacturer: Bureau of Business Management, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois
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Today, a company's capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of superior products to market quicker than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition, contend leading product development experts Steven Wheelwright and Kim Clark. Drawing on six years of in-depth, systematic, worldwide research, they present proven principles for developing the critical capabilities for speed, efficiency, and quality that have worked again and again in scores of successful Japanese, American, and European fast-cycle firms.

The authors argue that to survive, let alone succeed, today's companies must construct a new "platform" -- with new methodologies -- on which they can compete. Using their model for development strategies, Wheelwright and Clark show that firms can create a solid architecture for the integration of marketing, manufacturing, and design functions for problem solving and fast action -- particularly during the critical design-build-test cycles of prototype creation.

They demonstrate further how successful firms such as Honda in automobiles, Compaq in personal computers, Applied Materials in semi-conductors, Sony in audio equipment, The Limited in apparel, and Hill-Rom in hospital beds have employed recent methodologies to bring new products to market at break-neck speed. Such innovations include design for manufacturability, quality function deployment, computer-aided design, and computer-aided engineering.

Finally, Wheelwright and Clark emphasize the importance of learning in the organization. Companies that consistently "design it right the first time" and follow a path of continuous improvement in product and process development have a formidable edge in the crucial race to market.

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Master piece, but nothing is perfect.......2002-03-20

Excellent book, it describes the management principles for the whole new product development (NPD) process. The graphical frameworks provide a valuable synthesis of knowledge. The practical examples are the right complement to their conceptual postulates. The book is highly advisable for all actors involved in the NPD process. However, it must be a "compulsory" reading for general managers and executives within manufacturing plants, because of its strategic orientation.
Specially delicious are the chapters about aggregate project plans (Ch. 4) and Structuring the Development funnel (Ch.5). They contain the basic principles to halt those managers that want to tackle all the projects with the same limited resources.
The only gap in the book is the unclear link between the "pre-project" stages of the development (Development goals and objectives, and Aggregate project plan), and the project management phase. The authors fail to clearly establish where the project leader and teams joint into the development. More specifically, project definition is missed on exhibit 2-11.

An excellent book on product development.......1999-12-02

This book, written in 1992, started a whole revolution in looking at the management of product development. Concepts like: the funnel to focus the organization on the right projects, an aggregate project plan, and the best two pages on project management that I have ever read are in this book. If you are planning to change your new product processes, this book is a necessity. Steven Wheelwright is a genius and you can read his brillance in this book.

Revolutionizing Product Development : Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency and Quality

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Revolutionizing Product Development : Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency and Quality
Steven C.; Clark, Kim B. Wheelwright
Manufacturer: Free Press, The
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLW4YU

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How the government arrives at its official economic statistics deeply influences the lives of every American. Social Security payments and even some wages are linked to import prices through official inflation rates; special measures of national product are necessary for valid comparisons of vital social indicators such as relative standards of living and relative poverty. Poor information can result in poor policies. And yet, federal statistics agencies have been crippled by serious budget cuts—and more cuts may lie ahead.

Questioning the quality of current data and analytical procedures, this ambitious volume proposes innovative research designs and methods for data enhancement, and offers new data on trade prices and service transactions for future studies. Leading researchers address the measurement of international trade flows and prices, including the debate over measurement of computer prices and national productivity; compare international levels of manufacturing output; and assess the extent to which the United States has fallen into debt to the rest of the world.

International Economic Transactions: Issues in Measurement and Empirical Research (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth)

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International Economic Transactions: Issues in Measurement and Empirical Research (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth)
Editor-Peter Hooper; Editor-David Richardson
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Georgia Export-Import and Business Directory (World Export-Import and Business Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739733915

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Strategic information and contacts for conducting successful export-import and business operation in the country. Information on export-import products, exporters and importers, regulations, opportunities. Updated annually.

Georgia Industrial And Business Directory (World Business, Investment and Government Library)

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Georgia Industrial And Business Directory (World Business, Investment and Government Library)
USA International Business Publications , and Emerging Markets Investment Center
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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ASIN: 0739705474

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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking.

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