Globalizing South China (Institute of British Geographers Special Publications(Paper))

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China's coastal region between Shanghai and Hong Kong is one of the most dynamic regions in the world, having undergone a transformation widely attributed to economic reform. This insightful account shows that rapid economic growth in China has a history and a geography, and demonstrates how regional restructuring is far from an economic 'miracle'. Instead of a linear historical approach, the analysis shows how history matters in contextualized geographies, in regional places and their transnational connections. The book situates the analysis in the contemporary globalization debates and the most current ideas in human geography to develop a cultural economy perspective that anticipates the 'new regionalism'. Globalizing South China provides readers with an invaluable evaluation of 'Greater China', the Chinese diaspora, regional identity formation, the gendered conditions of the regional economy, nature-society relations, and world city transformation. The book concludes by anticipating the futures of Hong Kong and Shanghai and relations between China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore in the wider Asian region. By contributing to theory building and interdisciplinary studies, and based on numerous examples of comparative empirical research, the book is engaging and provocative, and will change the way we understand the region of rapid development in South China.

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Start TPA for stroke within first 90 minutes. (Yields Better Outcomes).(Brief Article): An article from: Family Practice News

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A simple, effective and enjoyable program.

Office Activators
Betsy Magee
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Maintaining a heathly lifestyle can relieve stress, reduce illness, and improve emotional and physical well-being. A good exercise program can also enhance fitness level, strengthen the cardiovascular system, and increase productivity.

Many working people want to exercise during the day, but it's time-consuming to go to the gym... change... workout... shower... change... and return to work.

Office Activators is a CD-ROM with a series of five brief exercises that can be done in a chair at the computer, whether you're wearing a business suit, dress, or leisure clothing.

They provide the benefits of exercise without the inconvenience of interrupting your day.

These simple exercises can raise alertness, productivity and creativity. They can be done as often as you like. It's like having your own personal trainer!

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A simple, effective and enjoyable program........1998-11-26

This CD-Rom offers incredibly simple yet energizing exercises that can done with ease at your desk with so little effort that the rewards of following the program are much greater than expected. The instructor is clear and the directions are easy to follow. After a long day, or at the start of one, or just for a refreshing break this disk works wonders. It would make a great gift to yourself or for the person at the next desk.

When competitors collaborate: A network perspective on third party activators in geographical clusters (Discussion Paper / Strategic Management Research Center, University of Minnesota)

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When competitors collaborate: A network perspective on third party activators in geographical clusters (Discussion Paper / Strategic Management Research Center, University of Minnesota)
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In this 3rd edition, Vault brings its well-known journalistic approach to offer insider information on what it's like to work in top technology consulting. Covering 35 firms, including AMS, Computer Sciences Corporation, Electronic Data Systems, and IBM Global Services, it provides the skinny on workplace culture, compensation, diversity, hiring, and recent news. Based on interviews and surveys of actual employees.

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Stephanie Clifford
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This Vault guide provides the skinny on workplace culture, compensation, diversity, hiring, and recent news. Based on interviews and surveys of actual employees.

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In this 4th edition, Vault brings its well-known journalistic approach to offer insider information on what it's like to work in top technology consulting. Covering 35 firms, including AMS, Computer Sciences Corporation, Electronic Data Systems, and IBM Global Services, it provides the skinny on workplace culture, compensation, diversity, hiring, and recent news. Based on interviews and surveys of actual employees.

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Save Money, Buy Smart, and Leverage Profits -- find out exactly what telephone products and services you really need. If you're a small business owner, a telecommuter or the manager of any small office -- anyone using fewer than 5 phone lines -- you need help selecting the best telecom products for your specific needs and objectives.

Find out how to benefit from the latest technology, from basic wiring options and answering devices to ISDN and going online. Used by AT&T, Sprint, Bell Atlantic, U.S. West, Pacific Bell and other telephone companies for training their own non-technical customer service people.

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The definitive nontechnical guide for the exploding SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) market.

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Could be 5 stars for a complete ludite........2003-10-14

A VERY basic primer on telephony and devices. Useful for a cave dweller or homemaker looking to break into the 19th century.

Working Through Embarrassing Revelations : How to Manage the Operational Changes Required and the Enormous Visibility
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Working Through Embarrassing Revelations : How to Manage the Operational Changes Required and the Enormous Visibility
James E. Lukaszewski
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Corporate embarrassment over audiotapes of senior executives making disparaging remarks about minorities and planning for the destruction of evidence illustrates one of the more profound axioms of corporate life today there are no secrets; and its corollary, the more stupidly you behave, the more likely that behavior is to become public in the most humiliating way possible at the most inopportune moment. Companies don't seem to learn.

For those who face, or expect to face a potentially embarrassing problem involving aggressive acts of unacceptable behavior, discrimination, racism, sexual harassment or innuendo, redlining or the targeting or profiling of minority populations for special restrictions, this monograph suggests remediation action steps to begin today along with specific insights and an embarrassment analysis checklist to help your organization retain its credibility while resolving difficult, embarrassing situations.

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Want to be an FBI Agent?

The FBI is more selective than Harvard. Learn the background and skills you'll need to excel with the help of this comprehensive guide from John Douglas, a former FBI profiler. Drawing on 25 years of solid FBI experience, Douglas gives you the inside track on everything you need to know to be a competitive FBI candidate, including:

• Former Special Agents' experiences and insights on the front lines

• The FBI's rapidly evolving role in an era rife with security concerns

• Information on the academic fields, professional skills, volunteer experiences, and personal attributes most highly regarded by FBI recruiters

• A detailed description of the application process from the written tests to the background check

• The heightened role of women and minorities in the organization

• An informative history of the Bureau, from the Hoover era through today's counterterrorism campaign

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What Guide?.......2003-10-17

There is very little guidance in this book. Douglas spends more time telling stories than actually giving guidance. He gives no help about the interview process or any detail about the different phases of testing. I am sure his profiling career was exciting but I think the times have changed to much for him to give advice for present candidates.

Author is out of his element.......2003-05-15

After reading the author's "Anatomy of Motive" and "Mind Hunter" books, I can tell you that he is a much better storyteller than a career book author. This is unfortunate and disappointing, because his other books are much better written than "Guide to Careers in the FBI." It appears that he tried to apply his storytelling style of writing to his career book, and it does not work.

15 bucks down the drain.......2002-11-15

"Guide to Careers in the FBI" has too many war stories and not enough of the advice you'll need in such a competitive arena. I was hoping for much more substance.

Can I get a refund?.......2002-10-01

John Douglas's Guide to Careers in the FBI is geared more toward curious middle school students than adults who want to work for a federal law enforcement agency. Besides, 100 percent of the content of the book is available from any criminal justice career counselor or professor at any college in America.

Don't expect inside info.......2002-07-26

I bought this one, as well as Ackerman's book. If you're hoping for those little tidbits of inside information to give you a leg up, forget about it. These authors came from the same tight-lipped establishment you're trying to get into, and they're not about to offer any more than is offered on [line]. The Douglas book has no more than 12 pages dedicated to the application/selection process and it's straight from the FBI Web site. If you buy one, I suggest the Ackerman book as it assumes you're already past the "I'm in high school, so what's this FBI thingy" stage. It actually has some very interesting information on what to expect after applying, as well as outlines of the different organizations within, e.g. FBI Scuba Team.

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Praise for THE MILLIONAIRE CODE

"A wonderfully worthy book, especially in an era when the wrong kind of capitalism has been in the driver's seat. The Millionaire Code is about something far more noble than money-the joy of living your life to the fullest simply by finding what it is you love to do, and then doing it. `Hats off' to Paul Farrell for picking up where William Shakespeare left off: `This above all: to thine own self be true.'"
-John C. Bogle
Founder and former CEO, The Vanguard Group

"To make your savings grow, you need to know three things: the way the markets work, the way market history works, and the way you work. Let Paul Farrell take you on an enlightening, enjoyable, and profitable journey to the inner self of the successful investor."
-William J. Bernstein, PhD, MD
author of The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio and The Intelligent Asset Allocator

"Combining personality theory, solid investment advice, and Zen philosophy, Paul Farrell demonstrates concretely how necessary it is to combine your personality and investing styles in order to create meaningful wealth. If you want to learn what it takes to develop your own unique investment strategy-the only kind likely to succeed-this is the book to get."
-Dr. Richard Geist
Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry (Psychology)
Harvard Medical School

"An important work. Leave it to Paul Farrell to provide a truly unique insight into the minds of millionaire investors. I have been impressed with Paul Farrell's work for many years. His latest book, The Millionaire Code, provides an important contribution to the world of investing. Truly unique insights."
-Charles Carlson
author, Eight $teps to $even Figures: The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can Become Wealthy Too

"It's often said that if you don't know who you are, Wall Street is an expensive place to find out. By helping you understand more about yourself, this book will help you become a more successful investor."
-Ric Edelman
Chairman, Edelman Financial Services, author of Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth, and Discover the Wealth Within You

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Discovering the key to the millionaires club

Over eight million Americans are currently millionaires, and within the near future that figure could quadruple. Today, everyone wants to know how to become a seven-digit wonder. And while there is no proven road map to becoming a millionaire, there are ways to put the odds in your favor. The Millionaire Code offers a fresh psychological approach to building such wealth. Paul Farrell has created a set of "personality profiles" that allows readers to see the "millionaire type" they match. Once they complete a simple test, the reader's "millionaire code" will unlock the secret to understanding their individual strengths and weaknesses. They can focus their efforts on becoming a millionaire. In developing these unique "millionaire personality profiles," this book drew extensively from the brilliant works of Carl G. Jung, Myers-Briggs, and the emerging new behavioral economics-all of which are being successfully used in the field of personality counseling. This book is filled with the answers to the burning question on everyone's mind-"What does it take to become a millionaire?"

Paul B. Farrell, JD, PhD (Arroyo Grand, CA) is a personal finance columnist at CBS Marketwatch. Farrell frequently appears in the media on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and FOX.

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Where's the Beef?.......2006-01-17

Over the years I have really enjoyed Paul Farrell's comments on investing, particularly when he recommends passive index fund strategies.

Farrell's theory for this book revolves around the fact that 96% of Americans are not millionaires....and the reason more people are not millionaires is that their savings and investment strategy is not matched to their personality type (as measured by the Myers-Briggs 16 personality types).

An interesting theory, but unfortunately Farrell provides no research to back up his theory. It would be interesting to random sample the 4% of Americans who are millionaires and determine if their success was determined by matching their savings, investment, and asset allocation strategy to their personality type.

Farrell spends a lot of the book on reviewing and explaining the history and practice of the Myers-Briggs personality tests.

I was expecting that Farrell would next review each of the 16 personality types and then explain how each specific type could achieve a relatively high net worth. He does spend time explaining each of the 16 personality types, but offers almost no explanations and recommendations for increasing net worth.

All in all, I was disappointed in Farrell's book. His theory would have much more validity if he had done the research which linked personality type to the proper savings, investment, and asset allocation strategies. He also should have spent time explaining how each of the 16 personality types could increase their net worth.

A more interesting book linking Myers-Briggs personality types to investment strategies is The Psychology of Money by Jim Ware. It offers more specific recommendations for improving your investment skills based upon your personality type.

I would suggest companion books to supplement this book including The Richest Man in Babylon, Bogle on Mutual Funds, The Millionaire Next Door, The 4 Pillars of Investing, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Wealth of Experience: Real Investors on what Works and What Doesn't, Index Mutual Funds: How to Simplify Your Life and Beat the Pros, The Coffeehouse Investor, and the Armchair Millionaire.

No Answers Here........2005-11-28

The title of this book is entirely misleading. The book is more of an inspirational "feel good" book than it is a guide to becoming wealthy by doing what you love. The book starts off OK but quickly reveals itself for what it truly is once the author starts getting into personality types. He borrows material from other authors quite liberally and I began to wonder when the author was going to reveal an original thought.

The author also spends quite a bit of time in the early chapters ridiculing finance books that teach traditional wealth building methods like saving, investing in 401K, etc... by purporting that these methods do not work. If these methods do not work, why is the suggested reading chapter of this book saturated with the same books that he attempts to disparage?

He also suggests that working a 9 to 5 will never make you rich and in fact, you, the lowly worker are making others rich. In spite of these assertions, he suggests these same dead-end 9 to 5 jobs as the "millionaire code" for all the personality types except for the "Entrepreneurs". The bottom line is that there is nothing new in this book. It is the same material you have read numerous times before that has just been recycled to make it seem original. Sign me disappointed.

Forget the path.......2005-09-28

The book suggests that it will provide 16 paths to bulding wealth, one for each Myers-Briggs type. Unfortunately it does not do so. For mine, what the book refers to as a visionary or INTP, it says instead, to forget building weath because "money is not why Visionaries are here in this lifetime". "Use your talents" is the only suggestion. Maybe others are better, but it appears to use most of its pages to discuss psychology and spends little time prescribing financial strategies.

This is New-Age, Feel Good Investing, People.......2004-07-06

You gotta wonder about the kind of person who would write a book with 'Millionaire' in the title, especially a book written written on the subject by someone claiming to have a PhD. Then again, you gotta wonder about the kind of person who would read a book with the word 'Millionaire' in the title, but enough self-incrimination.

The Millionaire Code starts off with the right idea in mind. The author posits that the key to wealth-building begins with understanding one's unique personality, and he uses the (in)famous Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator test as a basis for pinpointing some general aspects of one's personality. Mr. Farrell then uses a variation of the Myers-Briggs test to identify 16 different personality types, analyze some general characteristics of each, and then recommend financial courses of action for each.

The book is liberally sprinkled with lots of Jungian-influenced pop-psychology, notable business quotes by the likes of none other than Warren Buffett and Donald Trump, among others, and is filled to the brim with excerpts from some of the more popular (and more obscure) self-help books. Because of this, I am not really sure how much of the book is the author's own original contribution, and at times I had to wonder about the integrity of the mix.

The book itself is structured in four parts. The first two parts lay out the foundation for the author's assertion that personality is the key to investing, and calls upon the works of Carl Jung, Isabel Myers-Briggs, and David Keirsey for support. It is here that the author boldly states that one's DNA determines one's financial destiny, and this is one claim that I find to be specious (and also unprovable) and which also shows the New Age, pop-LA cultural influence that is also liberally distributed throughout the text. In Part Two he provides a test for the reader to determine his or her personality type.

From there, the book becomes less insightful and original, and more repetitive shaky. Part Three consists of many generalizations about four temperaments to which supposedly every person can be categorized. Part Four presents the sixteen personality types based on these temperaments, and does even more generalizing about the characteristics common to each personality. For each personality, he offers some general comments on the types of profession people having this personality would gravitate to (and apparently most personalities gravitate toward the same professions), and offers some basic advice on personal financial planning for each. It is in this aspect that the book is weakest, as the advice on personal financial planning boils down to either: let a professional financial planner handle your financial affairs (for those whose personalities label them as performers, teacher-healers or artisans), go it alone (for those whose personalities label them as managers, administrators or leaders), or simply to not worry about it, forget about it and focus on other things (for those whose personalities label them as thinkers).

I highly doubt that one would meet with much financial success if one were to follow Mr. Farrell's dubious courses of action. Still, the book is useful, especially for those of us looking to feel better about ourselves and our stance towards personal finance. Each chapter begins and ends with a notable quote, and the author does provide a detailed list for further reading (which Farrell calls the Millionaire's Basic Training Library). Probably the most important chapters in the book are the first, second and epilogue.

The book as a whole is partly anecdotal, with some biographical tidbits about the author placed here and there, and is partly spiritual. This latter part probably reflects the impact that Marsha Sinetar's excellent book, Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow, had on the author. As such, I believe the book deserves to be read, partly for the great quotes from the diverse likes of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Gary Zukav, and Buckminster Fuller, and mostly for entertainment.

That said, I impress upon all readers to enjoy the book, and not take it too seriously, as more than a few of its assertions are rather tenuous. Still, being a fan of Mr. Farrell's frank commentary in his articles for CBS Marketwatch, I must commend him for having the courage to share a part of himself with us and for putting the interesting subject of personality and investing on the spotlight. In passing, much of the book could be used as a source of great fodder for some outstanding fiction.

Finally, this book does not take the reader off the hook for his or her financial decisions. Though it may offer some insight into how we approach (or should approach) our finances, it provides no excuse for not thinking and reasoning about what we are doing when we say that we are 'investing'.

Quit Waiting for that Phantom Tax Cut and Pick Up This Book!.......2004-03-21

This is a book which will help you starting thinking
about your approach to life and finances... Less directly
helpful than inspirational...

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Territories of Profit compares Dell Computer, the dominant computer manufacturer of the late twentieth century, and G. F. Swift, the leading meatpacking firm of the late nineteenth century, to reveal how communications revolutions in different periods enabled businesses to innovate their operations, reorganize the structure of the firm, and reshape the geography of profit-making. By depicting the parallel experiences of Dell and Swift, which both deployed revolutionary communications technologies in their business systems and transformed patterns of development through their innovative advances, the book challenges simplified representations of the contemporary economy as historically unprecedented. Territories of Profit also incorporates information from interview sources within Dell to portray the “Dell Model” in ways never before revealed in existing studies of the PC maker.

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Excellent analysis.......2007-04-10

By emphasizing the use of communication and transport technology by Swift and Dell, Fields' arguments illustrate the impact of innovation in logistics, not only in the creation, but also in the distribution of goods and its territorial consequences. Swift and Dell implemented a transformation in the way their products reached the customer and the territorial effect that this journey had, and not in the products themselves or in the demands of the market. Swift fresh beef was not all that different from the beef offered by other firms at the time, and Dell computers did not introduce radically different products that other companies were not also producing. What made those firms take full advantage of the communications revolution that they faced was their creative response and their adaptation to technological change, which translated into profound modifications in their internal organization, and external relationships with other companies and their logistics.

Classic Historical Analysis.......2006-02-01

The author explains how information technology affected organization of production, profit structure, and regional economic structure. I myself would not come up with a comparative analysis of these two cases, Swift (a meatpacking firm with railroad) and Dell (as you know), but he provides excellent data and develops arguments to grand theories.

His research style, writing, and theoretical argument should be a model for all economic historians.

Informative and intriguing.......2004-02-25

The author does a wonderful job of bringing together two firms that are seperated in time, space and industry and draws a rich tapestry of parallels between them. Strong recommendation for anyone interested in understanding how the Internet/E-commerce affects firms, firm strategy and industrial organization with an intriguing parallel from the 19th century. The author provides a convinving argument that firms do not simply react to market forces but actively attempt to shape the market (in the case of Swift and Dell successfully) to meet their needs for profit and control.

Pure idiocy.......2004-02-13

Unfortunately, author takes enormous liberties in connecting two terribly disparate entities. As a result, the book looses its credibility very quickly.

Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and the Innovative Enterprises of G.F. Swift and Dell Computer [A book review from: Journal of Historical Geography]

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Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and the Innovative Enterprises of G.F. Swift and Dell Computer [A book review from: Journal of Historical Geography]
E.J. Malecki
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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