Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America (National Bureau of Economic Research Bill)

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The coming of the Euro as a new currency was a huge step for European banking and finance. Although the new European Central Bank's organization, monetary instruments and objectives are very similar to those of the pre-Euro Bundesbank, there are still notable differences.
This new study provides a comprehensive survey of the recently established European financial system in comparison to previous European systems and the US Federal Reserve. This well-written contribution to financial economics should be of interest to academics and students as well as being an excellent resource for professionals concerned with financial systems around the world.

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Excellent, well-organized handbook

Outstanding! Well-organized and loaded with information

The most thoroughly researched business book in print .

Complete Small-Business Sourcebook: Information, Services, and Experts Every Small and Home-Based Business Needs
Wilbur Cross
Manufacturer: Crown Business
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Management | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
General | Small Business & Entrepreneurship | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Home Based | Small Business & Entrepreneurship | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0812928245
Release Date: 1998-12-15

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The premise of the book is simple: Learn painlessly from the experience of others instead of laboriously through your own time-consuming trial and costly error. The authors--Hausman, a business consultant, former columnist, television reporter, university professor, and author of Small Business Franchises Made Simple; and Cross, a veteran journalist and former editor at Time, Inc.--have created a flawless and information-loaded reference for everything related to initiating and profitably operating a small business.

They cover the feasibility of the product or service, your own nature and whether it's compatible with entrepreneurial rigors, and how to survey the business landscape. They explain various start-up options (corporation vs. proprietorship vs. partnership), discuss the psychological side effects of limited growth, and advise how to avoid typical causes of failure. They also delve into financing, from raising capital to accounting, the basics of business and human-resource management, sales, public relations, and marketing. With advice on computers and the Internet, legal services and consultants, the world of import and export, and 136 pages, A to Z, of every conceivable relevant resource, plus an in-depth index, this is a superb investment toward maintaining sanity while achieving success. --Stephanie Gold

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Just because your business is small or home-based doesn't mean you can't have the resources of a major corporation at your fingertips. The Complete Small-Business Sourcebook provides a cornucopia of places and people to help answer almost every kind of business question, from how to raise capital to where to find a consultant, and much more.

ONE-STOP RESOURCE: The Sourcebook provides fast, easy access to the kind of information that used to require hours
of searching through piles of directories, pamphlets, and news clippings.

TWENTY MAJOR CATEGORIES: The Sourcebook covers every issue facing today's small-business person: What are the best sources for venture capital? How do I find a marketing professional to help me sell my product? Where can I get legal information about whether to incorporate, set up a partnership, or be a sole proprietor?

FACTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: The information within is drawn from hundreds of reliable sources, including federal, state, and local agencies, trade associations, and private organizations. Each entry includes the address, phone number, fax number, Internet data, activities, publications, staff contacts, and location of the resource.

Developed by the creators of The New York Public Library Desk Reference, the Sourcebook is a gold mine of immensely practical information that will help you take your business to the next level. With thousands of addresses and phone numbers and hundreds of tips, it's a true bible for everyone with a small or home-based business.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent, well-organized handbook.......1999-01-27

Fine resource. Much more practical than most how-to books, and filled with really valuable advice. Best parts are the "tips sheets" that pass along useful how-to information without a lot of chit-chat. Book is very well-written throughout.

Outstanding! Well-organized and loaded with information.......1999-01-15

A cut above most other business books...hard information and lots of it, and it is BEAUTIFULLY written. Very clear, direct, and engaging.

The most thoroughly researched business book in print ........1998-12-25

The Complete Small Business Sourcebook is the state-of-the-art guidebook for small business owners and managers. More than five years in the making, it was the brainchild of three book publishers working jointly to devise its format, select personnel to work on it, and chart its course of completion. The Sourcebook was compiled by three authors, four researchers, and other publishing experts. For small businesses, it is a gateway to information and counsel, and as reliable a source of information as can be found anywhere in a single volume.

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Best book on business communication.......2006-10-24

This book covers it all -- speaking, writing, email, briefing and web pages. Best book I've seen on these subjects. Bailey walks the talk. His book is easy to read, and the principles are illustrated clearly. What I like best are the examples.

Almost perfect.......2000-03-13

Edward Bailey commands the field of "plain English" applied to business writing. This is a complete, modern--and highly readable--summary of everything you need to know about writing memo's letters and resumes and doing oral presentations. It lacks a section on e-mail. The resume and cover letter sections use examples which may not match for all industries, and the letter format (showing "Writer/typist") is outdated in the Internet Age.

The communication doctor.......1999-12-03

Want to improve your writing? Want to improve your presentation skills? There's not a better book on the shelves! A must if your serious about your career. In only hours, your writing will improve -- colleagues will notice.

Writing and Speaking at Work: A Practical Guide for Business Communication. 2nd Edition. .(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Business Communication Quarterly

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Writing and Speaking at Work: A Practical Guide for Business Communication. 2nd Edition. .(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Business Communication Quarterly
Kevin Ryan
Manufacturer: Association for Business Communication
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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Author: Kevin Ryan
Publication: Business Communication Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Association for Business Communication
Volume: 66 Issue: 1 Page: 108(4)

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Writing and Speaking at Work: A Practical Guide for Business Communication.(Review) (book review): An article from: Business Communication Quarterly
Aline Wolff
Manufacturer: Association for Business Communication
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Business Communication Quarterly, published by Association for Business Communication on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1344 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: Writing and Speaking at Work: A Practical Guide for Business Communication.(Review) (book review)
Author: Aline Wolff
Publication: Business Communication Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: Association for Business Communication
Volume: 63 Issue: 3 Page: 123

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Writing and Speaking at Work: A Practical Guide for Business Communication
Edward P. Bailey
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIGQ3S

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helpful tool

Time for a Book Rebirth

I found the job of my dreams because of this book.

Greener Pastures: How To Find a Job In Another Place
Andrea Kay
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Job Hunting & Careers | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Job Hunting | Job Hunting & Careers | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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Steiner's Complete How-To-Move Handbook

ASIN: 0312198922

Book Description

Many of us have fantasized about pulling up the stakes and starting a new job in a different city. Others move because their partners have been relocated or because they want to be closer to loved ones. But how do you find a position in Seattle while you're still living in Detroit? Greener Pastures is an essential, step-by-step guide for those who want to find work in another part of the country. It covers in detail, and with real-life examples:

-What you must do before you start your long-distance search
-What kind of research and preparation you can do from home
-How to discover openings in your target market
-When and how to plan a visit to your target city and what to do once you're there

Finally, it deals with the emotional and financial issues of finding a job in another place--your motivation for moving and the risks you take by relocating. Never before has a book covered this sometimes traumatic, always significant career decision so thoroughly.

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helpful tool.......2005-09-20

really helpful if you wanto to get organized before taking the big step

Time for a Book Rebirth.......2003-06-30

This book was written in 1999, during the go-go years of the late 1990s when people were jumping from job to job like there was no tomorrow. There were plenty of employment opportunities-locally and across the country and the world. With such abundance, a lot of people were just jumping without investing sufficient time and thought into the decisions they were making.

Then the economy tanked, taking a lot of hopeful careers down with it. Hark! The economy is coming back! Things are picking up again and workers will have an increasing number of job options open to them. As we shift back toward a sellers' market, workers in all fields will again have decisions to make. The search for new opportunities is kicking into gear and thousands of people will be looking for exciting jobs...which may not be right around the corner.

This book will take you step-by-step through a process that has baffled many job-seekers over the years. Nope, it's not one of those academic treatises full of theoretical stuff. You'll have a workbook in your hands-one that will put ideas in your head, questions in front of your face, and pages to write things down. "Greener Pastures" is very specifically for people who are looking for a job in another location; they want to move to another city, another state, for whatever reason(s).

In the initial chapter, Andrea Kay, a specialist in job seeking, will challenge why you want to consider a move in the first place. Be ready to be forced into some research-internal and external. Then, in the subsequent chapters, you'll find questions, information, suggestions, and techniques to streamline your process. Your mind will be opened by this book, which will also help you fill it back up again with the information you need to find that distant job the right way. Result: you'll go after your next position with a significantly higher level of confidence which will support greater achievement.

Bonus: You'll find some good resources in the back of the book, right before the comprehensive index. "Greener Pastures" is a usable tool.

Note: While this book is based on an out-of-town focus, there is plenty of value for the job-seeker who does not necessarily want to move to another city. The process may reaffirm your desire to grow where you are planted. "Greener Pastures" is a book whose time has come...again.

I found the job of my dreams because of this book........1999-08-06

I've always wanted to leave home in the midwest and move to the east coast but was afraid to just pack-up and take-off. This book gave me the attitude, confidence, tools and knowledge to explore my dream without leaving home. I was shocked to discover I could not only find a job on the east coast - I found my dream job and will be working 2 blocks away from the beach doing something I've always wanted to do and making a lot more money than I thought I could make. Thank you Andrea Kay! This book is insightful, well-written and took me step-by-step through the process. It's the best 12 bucks I've ever spent in my life. I'm going to eat lobster once a week!

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21st Century Wealth : Essential Financial Planning Principles (Esperti Peterson Institute Contributory Series)
Robert A. Esperti , and Renno L. Peterson
Manufacturer: Quantum Press (Denver, CO)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Public Finance | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0967471400

Book Description

In this book, the information anyone will need to improve his financial situation is handled in an interesting and stimulating Q&A format.

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Comprehensive, Enlightening.......2001-08-26

As more businesses move to 24/7 operations, round-the-clock scheduling will become an hotter issue. This is not new. Some companies, some industries, have been operating with a 24-hour schedule since the 19th century. Now the issue carries greater importance since workers are increasingly concerned about work-life balance, career development, and alternative work schedules. The author of this book, Richard Coleman, is a consultant with over two decades of experience helping a wide range of employers develop the Best Cost schedule that balances business needs like productivity and profit with health and safety requirements and employee desires. All these factors must be taken into consideration, and there is an almost infinite number of designs that can be applied. Coleman's experience comes out early in the book. I was fascinated by all the factors involved in determining the right schedule. My learning was enhanced by example after example from the author's work that illuminated the reading. During the first few chapters, I felt like I was reading a continuous commercial for Coleman's consulting firm, but this barrage eased as the book moved into the latter chapters. While I am not by any means an expert in scheduling, I learned a lot from this book. OK, I didn't know anything about scheduling before I read this book. However, I now have a healthy respect and understanding for what goes into developing a work schedule for a round-the-clock operation. Human resource professionals, plant managers, and others with operational knowledge of staffing and scheduling will gain considerably more than I did because of their familiarity with the topic. Coleman covers all aspects of shift work schedules, even including Circadian rhythms. It's all here. Readers will learn how to better use time and human resources to maximize return on capital investment and equipment. They'll learn how to achieve greater results without overstaffing, certainly a serious issue in today's labor-scarce world. If your interest is in squeezing more productivity from every hour of the day-without squeezing employees, this book is for you. Ignore the 1995 copyright. The principles taught in this volume are high relevant, quite timely for what's happening in the early 21st century.

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Software Product Management decodes the software product management process with an emphasis on coordinating the needs of stakeholders ranging from engineering, sales, and product support to technical writing and marketing. Based on real-world experience in managing the development of enterprise software, this book details how a team can work together smoothly to achieve their goal of releasing a superior software product on time.

Instead of being a step-by-step cookbook that attempts to meet everyone's needs, the book guides managers to develop the framework appropriate for their organizations and company goals, understand the tradeoffs, and make the right decisions. The book also addresses the challenges of product management in a period of increased commoditization of software technology products. By providing a historical context for the evolution of today's software marketplace, it presents ideas for prospering in a still rapidly changing environment.

Dispensing practical, usable information for experts and novices alike, Software Product Management is quickly becoming the go-to reference in the library of every product manager, programmer, CTO, and entrepreneur and anyone interested personally or professionally in software.

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Not much writing, large font and little value.......2005-10-17

For whatever reason, the makers of this book felt the need to use a pretty large font, and lots of margin space. Reading 20 pages took no time at all and I think I finished the whole book in perhaps 1 hr. The contents were pretty much common sense, nothing terribly useful beyond confirming my thinking about being a PM before buying this book.

Pretty bad.......2005-06-14

The book is just a bunch of rambling by the author. Ever so often he has a good point, but you could count those good points with less than 10 of your fingers.

Towards the end he gets into technical platforms. In my opinion, it was useless information.

Don't let the number of pages fool you into thinking it is very in-depth. The type is fairly large and double-spaced. This sneaky tactic is best left to college term papers.

too shallow.......2005-01-01

i spend some time to read the book. the book is too simple.I don't get valuable knowledge from it. Maybe it is suitable for the guys who have few experience in IT company. It will waste your time to peruse the book if you have some experience in software company. I'm rather disappoint at the book. I don't understand why AMAZON top the book in the product management list.

Not worth the money.......2004-08-26

I just bought this book recently. This book talks about many general concepts, but I didn't see many useful points.

Great Insights into the Software Development Process.......2003-09-16

Having been in software for the last 20 years at Sun, Novell and Microsoft, I was at first a bit skeptical about this book. However, after reading it, I would highly recommend it to both novice and experienced software professionals - all the way from programmers to developers to marketers to sales to management. This is a great reference on how the whole process works and how you can add value. A must read for anyone in the software business.

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The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) are two of the more significant international agencies whose objective is to promote foreign direct investment in less developed countries (LDCs). This is the first detailed treatment of their establishment, the history of their operations, and an evaluation of these operations. ICSID, established in 1966, facilitates the arbitration or conciliation of investment contract disputes between foreign investors from countries that are signatories of the ICSID Convention and host signatory states. MIGA, whose first year of operations was 1988, insures foreign investment against political risks. Drawing on cases, Baker shows how the functions of these two agencies have encouraged a significant amount of foreign investment in LDCs and how the operations of these two agencies continue to grow in importance. Scholars, professionals, and policy makers will find this to be the most comprehensive description available of these important agencies.

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Comprehensive and user friendly reports

Asia's Infrastructure in the Crisis: Harnessing Private Enterprise
East Asia Analytical Unit
Manufacturer: East Asia Analytical Unit
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Exports & Imports | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
General | International | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0642501491

Book Description

This timely and in-depth report focuses on major legal, regulatory, transparency, financial market and sectoral restructuring issues which regional governments must tackle to attract private investors back to Asian infrastructure. Forecasts of Asia's economic recovery, associated infrastructure demand and new reforms signal Australian business opportunities. Australian Government and aid implications are significant.

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Comprehensive and user friendly reports.......1999-08-05

The East Asia Analytical unit produces some of the most comprehensive and user friendly reports about east Asia available anywhere. They provide excellent insights into complex topics for business people, journalists, government officials and anyone else with an interest in the region.

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