Doing Business with Hungary, 3e
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    Doing Business with Hungary, 3e
    Nick Sljivic
    Manufacturer: GMB Publishing
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0749435143

    Book Description

    This third edition of "Doing Business with Hungary" is a valuable addition to the Global Market Briefing series, which covers the leading EU accession candidates and other selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

    Executive Report on Strategies in Equatorial Guinea, 2000 edition (Strategic Planning Series)
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      Executive Report on Strategies in Equatorial Guinea, 2000 edition (Strategic Planning Series)
      The Equatorial Guinea Research Group , and The Equatorial Guinea Research Group
      Manufacturer: Icon Group International
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Ring-bound

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      ASIN: 074182468X

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      Equatorial Guinea has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners. This report puts these executives on the fast track. Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given.
      Executive Report on Strategies in Guinea, 2000 edition (Strategic Planning Series)
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        Executive Report on Strategies in Guinea, 2000 edition (Strategic Planning Series)
        The Guinea Research Group , and The Guinea Research Group
        Manufacturer: Icon Group International
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        Binding: Ring-bound

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        ASIN: 0741831767
        Executive Report on Strategies in Papua New Guinea, 2000 edition (Strategic Planning Series)
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          Executive Report on Strategies in Papua New Guinea, 2000 edition (Strategic Planning Series)
          The Papua New Guinea Research Group , and The Papua New Guinea Research Group
          Manufacturer: Icon Group International
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Ring-bound

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          ASIN: 0741829274

          Book Description

          Papua New Guinea has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners. This report puts these executives on the fast track. Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given.

          A Business Guide to China: 15 Fallacies of Investing in China
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            A Business Guide to China: 15 Fallacies of Investing in China
            Frankie Chan
            Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Paperback

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            ASIN: 0595262619

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            Business is no longer simply business when west meets east, when you are dealing with some people who are from different cultures and have different philosophies. What it requires is a series of best informed decisions to have things done right. Opportunities will only scarcely present themselves in front of you, if not your competitors in the ever-going battles. China is now in the spotlight of global business arena in the eyes of multinational corporations who seek growth and expansion relentlessly. However, while generously pumping money on their way to China, many once ambitious business executives of these business giants are faced with poor ROI, 'shrinking' business plan, deteriorating partnership and blurred outlook on their investment at the end. Yet, not many of them are ready with good measures to remedy the situation. This is a handbook to help these executives better understand some hidden truths and realities in running their businesses in China, before western business management skills or experience starts to bear fruit for the companies and their shareholders ahead of their competition.

            Start and Run a Profitable Craft Business: Your Step-By-Step Business Plan
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              Start and Run a Profitable Craft Business: Your Step-By-Step Business Plan
              William B. Hynes
              Manufacturer: Self-Counsel Press
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              Binding: Paperback

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              ASIN: 0889089744
              Start and Run a Profitable Craft Business: A Step-By-Step Business Plan (Self-Counsel Business Series)
              Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
              • good, but brief
              • Great Book for Craft People Looking to Sell Their Products
              • barbara brabec's book is better
              Start and Run a Profitable Craft Business: A Step-By-Step Business Plan (Self-Counsel Business Series)
              William G. Hynes
              Manufacturer: Self-Counsel Press
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              Binding: Paperback

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              ASIN: 1551800713

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              - Profit from the popularity of handmade crafts - Make things that sell - Find markets for your crafts

              Customer Reviews:

              3 out of 5 stars good, but brief.......2006-11-22

              I checked this book out because I'm interested in the possibility of selling knit goods. I found it to be good as an introduction to craft business. It covers everything from selecting and producing crafts to places to sell and managing small business. However, it covered each topic very briefly, not getting into much detail. For an overview of craft business, it was good at getting me thinking about possibilities. If, however, I pursue the idea more seriously, I'll have to read more books, as this one would be rather insufficient alone.

              4 out of 5 stars Great Book for Craft People Looking to Sell Their Products.......2001-06-23

              This book covers the A-Z of starting and running a craft business. It does not cover how to make crafts but it does give a long list of the types of crafts people can market. This book has helpful suggestions for beginners who want to start a craft business, as-well-as, seasoned professionals who want to expand or improve their craft business. The information in the chapters on production, getting loans, and market research are extremely helpful. Also included are helpful tips on how to pick the best craft shows. The author, William Hynes, shows his extensive knowledge of the craft business and shares his knowledge in an easy to read, straight-forward manner.

              3 out of 5 stars barbara brabec's book is better.......2000-02-28

              i bought this book and barbara brabec's book. They both have the same kind of information, but spend the extra $ for her book as she dedicates a few hundred more pages to these subjects.
              Start and run a profitable craft business: A complete step-by-step business plan (Self-Counsel series)
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                Start and run a profitable craft business: A complete step-by-step business plan (Self-Counsel series)
                William G Hynes
                Manufacturer: International Self-Counsel Press
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                Binding: Unknown Binding

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                ASIN: B0007BLEJ8

                Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                • A Really Enjoyable GOOD Business Book
                • Restauranteurs and Managers get this book
                • He cares about his readers as much as his diners
                • One of the Great Ones
                • Delicious book on inspired management, filled with tasty tidbits
                Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
                Danny Meyer
                Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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                5. The Union Square Cafe Cookbook: 160 Favorite Recipes from New York's Acclaimed Restaurant The Union Square Cafe Cookbook: 160 Favorite Recipes from New York's Acclaimed Restaurant

                ASIN: 0060742755
                Release Date: 2006-10-03

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                In October 1985, at age 27, Danny Meyer, with a good idea and scant experience, opened what would become one of New York City's most revered restaurants--Union Square Cafe. Little more than twenty years later, Danny is the CEO of one of the world's most dynamic restaurant organizations, which includes 11 unique dining establishments, each at the top of its game. How has he done it? How has he consistently beaten the odds and set the competitive bar in one of the toughest trades around?

                In this landmark book, Danny shares the lessons he's learned while developing the winning recipe for doing the business he calls "enlightened hospitality." This innovative philosophy emphasizes putting the power of hospitality to work in a new and counterintuitive way: The first and most important application of hospitality is to the people who work for you, and then, in descending order of priority, to the guests, the community, the suppliers, and the investors. This way of prioritizing stands the more traditional business models on their heads, but Danny considers it the foundation of every success that he and his restaurants have achieved.

                Full of behind-the-scenes history on the creation of Danny's most famous restaurants and the anecdotes, advice, and lessons he has accumulated on his long and ecstatic journey to the top of the American restaurant scene, Setting the Table is a treasure trove of innovative insights that are applicable to any business or organization.



                Service with a Smile: Dishing with Danny Meyer
                Is the customer always right? According to Danny Meyer, one of America's leading restauranteurs, the answer is no--but "they must always feel heard." Named one of the most influential New Yorkers of 2006 by New York magazine, Meyer, the founder and co-owner of 11 of Manhattan's most influential restaurants, including Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Tabla, The Modern, Blue Smoke, and Shake Shack, has penned Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality, a business book that reads like food lit and equal part personal memoir. Amazon.com senior editor Brad Thomas Parsons took some time from his daily long-distance day-dreaming of Shake Shack and caught up with the ever-gracious Danny Meyer over e-mail to ask about his new book, the Food Network, his favorite cookbooks, insider tips on dining out, and much more.

                Read our Amazon.com interview with Danny Meyer



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                Time, Reality and Transcendence in Rational Perspective
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                  Time, Reality and Transcendence in Rational Perspective

                  Manufacturer: David Brown Book Company
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                  Binding: Paperback

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                  ASIN: 8773076449

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                  Rationality is widely regarded as being at odds with the very concepts of metaphysics and transcendence. Yet it is easy to forget that the thinkers who pioneered rationality and the scientific method did not subscribe to this view. For instance, Aristotle described God as the source of reason in Eudemian Ethics, and Newton and Galileo both believed that our ability to investigate the world scientifically has a divine origin. The eight essays in this volume examine a variety of intellectual approaches to the Christian faith, addressing a number of essential philosophical questions en route: Are some worldviews more rational than others? What limits are there to the kinds of queries we can answer through reasoning and scientific inquiry? What role can rationality play in the study of time and reality? How can we resolve questions about transcendence and metaphysics? The book concludes with the transcript of a public debate on whether theism is more rational than atheism. Not only does it serve as a useful reminder that religion and reason can inhabit the same discourse, but the lack of a clear winner also demonstrates the importance of trying to wrestle with such perennial questions. Anyone who is exploring the arguments for Christianity's rational basis, whether out of academic, cultural or personal interest, will find in this volume much food for thought.

                  You've Lost It, Now What? How to Beat the Bear Market and Still Retire on Time
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                  You've Lost It, Now What? How to Beat the Bear Market and Still Retire on Time
                  Jonathan Clements
                  Manufacturer: Portfolio Hardcover
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                  ASIN: 1591840163
                  Release Date: 2003-03-27

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                  Even if you have lost 40, 50, or even 80 percent of your savings, it is still possible to retire in comfort.

                  This year's stock market collapse has been especially devastating to millions of Americans in their forties and fifties who had been buying stocks and mutual funds for their retirement years. Trillions of dollars were lost, and thousands of retirement accounts and portfolios were reduced by more than 50 percent. The question now is, what's the next step? Will these hardworking people need to continue working into their seventies? Not if they make the right moves today, says Jonathan Clements, The Wall Street Journal's highly respected personal finance columnist.

                  Today, investors are faced with a barrage of dubious advice. Stocks are supposedly dead. Bonds are now touted as the only safe way to invest. Meanwhile, folks are once again claiming you can't go wrong with real estate. Clements, an award-winning personal finance columnist, rips apart this dubious advice, telling readers what's true and what's not. In the same feisty, easy-to-understand style that he brings to his regular Wall Street Journal columns, Clements gives readers a road map for the years ahead. He takes them step-by-step through the process of rebuilding their nest eggs and explains how, after reaching retirement, they can squeeze the maximum out of their savings.

                  This practical, concise guide will allow all readers to stop panicking, rebuild assets, and get their retirement plans back on track.

                  Customer Reviews:

                  5 out of 5 stars "Bully" for this book.......2007-10-16

                  A fantastic, easy to understand overview of the road to and through retirement in a thoroughly entertaining format. Clements' work here mirrors his enjoyable columns found in The Wall Street Journal.

                  4 out of 5 stars Good Start.......2006-05-22

                  I read this book because I like the column Mr. Clements writes for the Wall St Journal. I felt that even years after the recent market collapse, it would be a guide for the future even if I didn't lose it all.

                  The book didn't disappoint.This book is a help getting the necessary insight to the individual investor like me.

                  It get's a little complicated and detailed in places but the basics are here: saving, indexing, rebalancing, retiring.
                  There is also insight - if you worry about your portfolio before retiring, it's worse when it's your main source of income.

                  As Mr. Clements advises, you must learn some basics to be successful at investing.The "experts" you may hire have other agendas.

                  5 out of 5 stars Read a common sense guide to investing.......2003-04-14

                  As a CPA and registered investment adviser, I am always looking for a way to explain investment principles to my clients in a way they can easily understand. This book accomplishes this all-important function, and is a must read for investors. Jonathan presents common sense information which is unbiased. Many investors would profit from following the guidelines Jonathan presents, and should.

                  Jonathan presents a realistic approach to investing that avoids the day to day stimuli that can lead investors astray. The book also provides hope to those who've truly "lost it", either in dollar terms or in terms of their approach to investing.

                  People who read and understand this book will be ahead of those who don't, whether they invest on their own or use an adviser. I know anyone who has read this book will be better educated and will better understand investing.

                  4 out of 5 stars Rx for Bear Market Paralysis.......2003-04-13

                  Investors contemplating retirement, but stunned by losses sustained in the extended bear market that began in the spring of 2000, will find hope and encouragement in Wall Street Journal columnist Jonathan Clements' "Now What?". This is a do-it-for-yourself repair strategy for baby boomers with badly damaged bubble portfolios. First, face facts, we are told: You've got a "bone-head" portfolio, and it's not likely to come back in value, so sell your losers. Forget the "foolish beat-the-market fantasy" promoted by Wall Street's brokerage houses and money management firms. Invest to capture market returns with stock index funds. Diversify with stocks, bonds, and real estate. Specifically, you should own large and small US stocks and foreign stocks. For the bond portion of your portfolio, use inflation indexed treasuries and short-term corporate funds, and to boost your income, consider high yield bond mutual funds. Clements recognizes that "this will be the decade of the dividend and interest payment". So, REITS (real estate income trusts) with their high, single-digit returns, should represent 10-15% of your portfolio. In all this, Jonathan Clements is in good company: W. Bernstein, C. Ellis, B. Malkiel, L.Swedroe, B. Schultheis, et.al., have recently written (or updated) books with similar conclusions. Clements' contribution is in the timeliness of his insistence that boomers can salvage their own retirement plans by acting to keep investment costs in check, diversifying, and saving "like crazy". Indeed, the investment process should be simple to follow. "Why are we such sluts for sophistication?" Clements asks with exasperation. Readers may be skeptical that a fifty-year old, in an example, who hasn't saved a "nickel" for retirement can accomplish much by age sixty-five. But this late starting investor is not the book's primary focus. 'Gilding the Golden Years' (Chapter 7) is one of the author's better chapters. Investing may be "simple", but it is also an art, so this frequently quoted columnist's portfolio advice is of value. Clements is clearly intrigued by a strategy of establishing multiple sources of investment income during retirement. In addition to income from social security, 401k-style plans, pensions, and humbled securities portfolios, investors might consider an immediate annuity, a reverse mortgage, or even part-time work. After all, if it's true that investors should take no more than five percent of their investment assets each year for income, working part-time to earn five thousand dollars is like having another hundred thousand dollars in retirment assets. And an unconventional idea like a reverse mortgage may take on a new practicality for today's generation of soon-to-be retired. Investors paralyzed by their recent bear market experience will find sound, helpful advice in this book.

                  IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
                  Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                  • IBM and the Holocaust
                  • a tale of two maniacs
                  • This book is chilling, and is a "must read"
                  • An Extraordinary Work
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                  IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
                  Edwin Black
                  Manufacturer: Crown
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                  Binding: Hardcover

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                  ASIN: 0609607995
                  Release Date: 2001-02-12

                  Amazon.com

                  Was IBM, "The Solutions Company," partly responsible for the Final Solution? That's the question raised by Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust, the most controversial book on the subject since Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Black, a son of Holocaust survivors, is less tendentiously simplistic than Goldhagen, but his thesis is no less provocative: he argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved the Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor) awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest customer on earth. "IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success," writes Black. "IBM had almost single-handedly brought modern warfare into the information age [and] virtually put the 'blitz' in the krieg."

                  The crucial technology was a precursor to the computer, the IBM Hollerith punch card machine, which Black glimpsed on exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, inspiring his five-year, top-secret book project. The Hollerith was used to tabulate and alphabetize census data. Black says the Hollerith and its punch card data ("hole 3 signified homosexual ... hole 8 designated a Jew") was indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire war effort. Hitler's regime was fantastically, suicidally chaotic; could IBM have been the cause of its sole competence: mass-murdering civilians? Better scholars than I must sift through and appraise Black's mountainous evidence, but clearly the assessment is overdue.

                  The moral argument turns on one question: How much did IBM New York know about IBM Germany's work, and when? Black documents a scary game of brinksmanship orchestrated by IBM chief Watson, who walked a fine line between enraging U.S. officials and infuriating Hitler. He shamefully delayed returning the Nazi medal until forced to--and when he did return it, the Nazis almost kicked IBM and its crucial machines out of Germany. (Hitler was prone to self-defeating decisions, as demonstrated in How Hitler Could Have Won World War II.)

                  Black has created a must-read work of history. But it's also a fascinating business book examining the colliding influences of personality, morality, and cold strategic calculation. --Tim Appelo

                  Book Description

                  IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.

                  Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.

                  But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.

                  IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.

                  IBM and the Holocaust takes you through the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries -- all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and destruction.

                  Just as compelling is the human drama of one of our century's greatest minds, IBM founder Thomas Watson, who cooperated with the Nazis for the sake of profit.

                  Only with IBM's technologic assistance was Hitler able to achieve the staggering numbers of the Holocaust. Edwin Black has now uncovered one of the last great mysteries of Germany's war against the Jews -- how did Hitler get the names?

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                  'IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany - beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and it's subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s. IBM and the Holocaust takes you through the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral ageements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries - all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and destruction. Just as compelling is the human drama of one of our century's greatest minds, IBM founder Thomas Watson, who cooperated with the Nazis for the sake of profit. Only with IBM's technologic assistance was Hitler able to achieve the staggering numbers of the Holocaust. Edwin Black has now uncovered one of the last great mysteries of Germany's war against the Jews - How did Hitler get the names?

                  Customer Reviews:

                  5 out of 5 stars IBM and the Holocaust.......2006-12-08

                  I did not want to read this book.

                  My grandfather worked for International Time Recording (ITR) in Endicott, NY before IBM was formed and Mr. Watson came on board. My father's first job, at the age of seventeen, was caretaker of the Watson Homestead. My family has had a hand in virtually every product that issued from the IBM manufacturing effort since its inception in 1924. I have deep affection for the company my family labored to build.

                  I approached "IBM and the Holocaust" with a high degree of skepticism. The book sat on my nightstand for two months before I opened it. Finally picked it up for the sake of completing my 14-book IBM historical reading cycle.

                  This book is astounding. It is impeccably researched, artfully written, highly detailed, painstakingly documented, remarkably objective and thoroughly engaging.

                  "IBM and the Holocaust" has finally exposed the undeniable truth: IBM became the world's most powerful corporation largely because it assisted in identifying, cataloging and exterminating millions of innocent people for Hitler. The evil that lurks in IBM history was not exposed previously only because IBM management was smart enough and powerful enough to "hide its tracks" in Nuremburg. No investigator has ever dug deeper into IBM history than Edwin Black.

                  A close reading of the book makes it absolutely clear that Mr. Watson (IBM CEO) knew the exact purpose, goal and expected outcome of the IBM solution in Europe. The book details the fact that unlike previous IBM engagements for the Third Reich that were completed by Dehomag (IBM's German subsidiary), the engagement in Romania (1941) was conducted directly under the management of IBM New York. That engagement resulted in the swift identification, transportation and extermination of hundreds of thousands of innocent Jews. All in the name of "IBM."

                  As a result of reading "IBM and the Holocaust", I no longer view Mr. Watson as the glamorous benevolent industrial icon depicted in hollywoood newsreels. Though the affectionate "shop talk" tossed through the air when I was young still captures my imagination, Mr. Watson is no longer the focus of my unqualified admiration.

                  Watson, for me, now stands beside Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Mellon, Jeffrey Skilling, Kenneth Lay and all the other American Industrialists throughout history who had many fine qualities yet are outrageously flawed--so good yet so very, very bad.

                  This book is remarkable. Have since read "Internal Combustion", Banking on Baghdad" and "War Against the Weak."

                  Edwin Black is "the bomb."

                  If you have an interest in history, corporations, corruption, good, bad, evil or fine nonfiction; you will appreciate the works of Edwin Black.

                  NancyRae Kjelgaard
                  Tallahassee, FL
                  December 7, 2006





                  5 out of 5 stars a tale of two maniacs.......2006-08-03

                  Once upon a time in America there was a tabulating company executive who had almost done time for illegal business practices. This executive believed that the only way that he could stay in business was by selling the best tabulating machines on the market, and mercilessly crushing his competitors. Unfortunately for humanity, this maniac was doing business in a country run by another maniac, who had come to power by fomenting ethnic hatred. Even as things went down the drain, and the persecution of the Jews and other minorities reached loathsome heights, the American business executive didn't want to terminate his activities in Germany, and was supportive enough of the Nazis to accept the highest medal the Nazis could give him.

                  Even worse, by the time the war was in full swing, and the Nazis began the Holocaust the maniac of which I write, Tom Watson of IBM, saw no need to terminate IBM's business relationships with the Nazi governments, and, provided irreplaceable services in organizing the Holocaust. In France, where a courageous IBM employee refused to cooperate, the Nazis were "only" able to murder 25% of the Jews. Where IBM cooperated, as in the Netherlands, rates of 75% resulted. Life isn't fair; the brave Frenchman who refused to cooperate died at Dachau, the company that gladly cooperated wasn't punished. The horror, the horror.

                  Edwin Black has done a superb job of documenting (most of) this horror story in indisputable detail. Nevertheless I suspect that he doesn't tell the entire story, particularly when he claims that nobody guessed what was going on. Anyone who understands just how indispensable IBM's punch card machines were to the Allies during the war, "our ability to organize wouldn't have been remotely near what it was without them" to paraphrase one mathematician involved, must have wondered how the Germans were able to coordinate the logistics of their Blitzkrieg. Anyone in the punch card industry would have known of IBM's presence in Germany.

                  All in all this is a great book illustrating the banality of evil.

                  5 out of 5 stars This book is chilling, and is a "must read".......2006-04-21

                  Reading this book, and the knowledge that IBM had during WWII and the genocide of millins of humans puts a face on cooprorate greed and hate unjlike any of the comparisions given to Halliburton today. IBM aided Hitler in his termination of the Jews, and others, and it has never, to my knowledge owned up to this, nor have they done any actions to make changes in the way companies help with genocide. Great book, great writer.

                  5 out of 5 stars An Extraordinary Work.......2006-03-18

                  As proud as I am to be an American, this thoroughly documented, utterly revealing book, has for the first time made me look at the extents to which U.S. corporate greed and the amorality of one man, Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM, will go to satisfy there lust for money and power.

                  It is hard to believe that it took from the early 30's to 2001 before anyone, anywhere, put it all together. How could an American icon of business turn out to be a war criminal and go on to preside over, and build on to, a company which most of us used to consider as a proud example of American business ingenuity and integrity.

                  A shocking, sickening, and gut wrenching account of the most vile group of humans ever assembled, the Germans of the Third Reich, and how they could not possibly have achieved the sheer numbers of murders during the holocaust, had it not been for day to day involvement, and complete knowledge, of IBM and Thomas J. Watson.

                  I highly recommend this book.

                  5 out of 5 stars Painful but needs to be exposed.......2005-08-14

                  I recently finished reading your extremely interesting book "IBM and the Holocaust" and want to commend you for a thorough investigation of the subject. Several years ago I too had been to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and seen the exhibit of the Dehomag Hollerith machine and wondered what was the entire story. Now I know, and I no longer view IBM the same way as I once did. Thanks for a well researched and interesting, if depressing, examination of when corporate loyalty and profits are placed above human suffering and survival.
                  IBM And the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany And America's Most Powerful Corporation
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                    Edwin Black
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                      Robert Urekew
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                      Author: Robert Urekew
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                      Date: April 1, 2001
                      Publisher: Theodor Herzl Foundation
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                        Edwin Black
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