Managing Britain's Marine and Coastal Environment (Ocean Management and Policy)
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    		Managing Britain's Marine and Coastal Environment (Ocean Management and Policy)
    Hance Smith
    Manufacturer: Routledge
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    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 0415329450

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    Britain's maritime tradition is well documented. The management of its marine and coastal environment is therefore of tantamount importance, and offers lessons for other nations across the world. This collection, featuring an impressive list of contributors, covers themes including maritime history; environmental issues; public policy; technology and resources as well as open sea development and management. It will be a useful addition for those interested in geography, the environment, maritime studies and also engineers.

    Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy, from Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back
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    • Thoughtful and easy to read
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    		 Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy, from Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back
    Barbara Garson
    Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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    Many of us consider ourselves fairly knowledgeable about stock and fund investment options, but then maintain some sort of vague money-in-a-sock vision of the money we deposit in our bank accounts. While the notion that it physically sits in the bank's drawers is obviously ludicrous, determining what actually happens to the money seems impossible in our age of split-second electronic transfers and a complicated global economy. In Money Makes the World Go Round however, Barbara Garson has done just that, tracking a one-time deposit on its dizzying journey around the world.

    Using half her publisher's advance for this book, Garson deposits $29,500 in a small, family-owned bank in Millbrook, New York. Putting her intrepid journalistic sensibilities to work, Garson then attempts to follow the money as it's put to use, flowing out of her small bank, through much larger ones, and in and out of the accounts and pockets of companies and their employees in the U.S. and Asia. She tracks down players on all levels of this green path--from a senior vice president on Chase's Federal Funds desk to a seafood importer in Brooklyn, and from the head honcho of a Japanese construction firm building an oil refinery in Thailand to a jellyfish exporter in Malaysia--and tells their stories in vivid, colorful detail. Doing more than just stating that the lives of many are affected by the actions of a few, Garson interviews people at the farthest reaches of her money's journey, like fishermen in a small Malay village, a Burmese pipe fitter working illegally in Thailand, and Filipino maids in Singapore. She explores the consequences of a mutual fund investment in a similar manner, taking one of the fund's investments, Sunbeam, and following "Chainsaw Al" Dunlop's restructuring of the company from the top (shareholders) to the bottom (workers at a furniture plant in Tennessee).

    Garson, author of All the Livelong Day and The Electronic Sweatshop, is a lively and engaging writer. She appears to hold little interest in the value of her deposit for herself, but is oozing with curiosity about what money can and can't do for its lenders, borrowers, makers, and users around the world. While she tends to go into excruciating detail in relaying the circuitous routes she takes to get to the right people and the conversations she has with them (even recording the phone conversations they have while she is with them), this very detail serves to remind the reader of the convoluted pathways down which her money travels. An intriguing narrative on a subject we usually only think of in numbers. --S. Ketchum

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    With the same fresh and fearless inquisitiveness that characterized her classic workplace history, All the Livelong Day, Barbara Garson takes on the marketplace of money. Her quest: to find out who wins and who loses in a world united by the free flow of capital. In a hilarious and instructive tour of the global economy Garson deposits her Viking book advance in a one-branch, small-town bank and in an aggressive mutual fund. From those points of departure, she tracks her money's every stop, talking to the people who touch, use, or are touched by it. Her conversations with Wall Street bankers, Chinese labor contractors and Texas oil company treasurers-all of whom get a piece of her investment-transform our understanding of money. Money Makes the World Go Around is a classic-headed for the same shelf as the new economy works of Michael Moore and Michael Lewis.

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    3 out of 5 stars Thoughtful and easy to read .......2006-01-20

    Barbara Garson's look at globalization manages to be thoughtful and breezy at the same time. Garson, a leftwing activist and writer, decided to follow her own money - specifically, her book advance - as it coursed through the global economy from a small-town bank to mighty Chase Manhattan and points beyond. Her odyssey took her to a rowdy shareholder meeting in New York to an oil project in Thailand to small towns in America devastated by corporate "restructurings.'' Although she has a clear political point of view, she is unfailingly open-minded and fair about the people she meets and writes about - with the possible and understandable exception of "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap. Her writing is more nuanced than her just-folks style sometimes suggests. She gently hints at the claustrophobic atmosphere in small town America by describing the demise of a pizzeria that failed to do business with the local bank (a bank she otherwise writes about with considerable warmth). Garson also has a gift for explaining complicated stuff. I was especially enlightened by her account of the origins of Eurodollars and her description of how oil refining works. Sometimes her loosey-goosey style can get annoying. I occasionally wished she'd be more specific, especially on financial terms. Several times she referred to 20% profits without saying what she meant - return on equity? Increase in stock price? Something to do with dividends? Garson's call for a more humane form of globalization is hard to argue with - though the specifics are debatable. For this reader (of somewhat confused politics) one conclusion emerged crystal clear from Garson's description of working poor parents scrimping on medical treatment for themselves and their kids: America's refusal to enact universal health coverage is shameful and wrong.

    3 out of 5 stars Very nice book for people whit alot of time.......2005-10-20

    I bougth this book thinking iwill find some quick answers about the money but the only thing i found was that this book is for people who has a lot of time or people in vacation who want to read something about the money in a nice story, but if you are the people that want quickly answers about the money, i recommend to you a book named ECONOMIC EXPLAINED Autor: Rober Heilbroner and Lester Thurow.

    1 out of 5 stars ???.......2004-02-19

    Where do you think the book advanced payment coming from? THe book only tells half of the story.

    5 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!.......2003-03-06

    Some books set out to accomplish the impossible and come admirably close. Barbara Garson's volume is a prime example. Can you deposit money in a little rural bank and really trace its spread across the global monetary system? How do you know that a multi-million dollar loan to, say, shrimp exporters in Thailand, really has anything to do with the actual dollars you deposited? But that's not the point of this book. The author embarks on a whirlwind, worldwide tour of the global financial juggernaut, and shows how money falls like a drop in a pond and emits waves of disruption that seemingly spread out forever. Garson concludes that deregulation needs to be reigned in, a reasonable anticipation of the Enron mess. We from getAbstract highly recommend her book to business people and consumers who want a better feel for what the "global economic order" is all about, why people are protesting at each meeting of the WTO and whether you should be steamed as well.

    5 out of 5 stars A book on investing that connects the head to the heart.......2002-03-13

    As a fairly intelligent individual who has never taken an economics course, I've been trying to make sense of the world of investing on my own. The author takes us on her own journey to do the same, and in the process we come to meet the faces and the people behind the whole process. She goes about it with a very open-minded, down to earth approach, and for the most part, doesn't draw a lot of her own conclusions. Rather, she lets you come to your own. At last, some information on investing that is more than just numbers and returns. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is looking for where to invest their money, or is just trying to understand how "money makes the world go around." After having read the book, now I can go to the Reuters newswires and have an understanding of just what is behind the latest news announcements, what they mean in real terms for real people. The book has made me think twice about what it means to be chasing the high returns, and what implications that may have on the lives of others. I found this book to be very heart opening, and my compassion for the world is immense.

    The Annual, 2000 Set, Set Contains: Volume 1: Training, and Volume 2: Consulting (Paper Edition Set) (Pfeiffer Annual (2 Vol Set))
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      		The Annual, 2000 Set, Set Contains: Volume 1: Training, and Volume 2: Consulting (Paper Edition Set) (Pfeiffer Annual (2 Vol Set))
      Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer
      Manufacturer: Pfeiffer
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      Binding: Paperback

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      Year after Year, the Annuals provide thousands of trainers, consultant's, facilitators, and managers with up-to-date information about making organizations more effective. Face the challenge of today's workplace with today's resource.

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