The Cambridge Economic History Of India Volume 1 C. 1200-C. 1750

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The Cambridge Economic History Of India Volume 1 C. 1200-C. 1750
Irfan Raychaudhuri Tapan; Habib
Manufacturer: Orient Longman Ltd.
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ASIN: B000O8MHUY

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The Cambridge Economic History of India Volume 1 C. 1200-c. 1750

Manufacturer: Orient Longman Ltd.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0002100053

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A staple of American conversation, from barstools to sermons to op-ed pages, is that money isn't everything. And yet it seems that nowadays, nothing else counts nearly so much. In this book, Andrew Hacker, an eminent sociologist, uses his knack for making statistics come alive to address such questions as "Has affirmative action helped African-Americans financially?," "Do the same professions that used to ensure lifelong economic security still do so?," and "Are the rich getting richer, and if so, why aren't the poor doing better as well?" Hacker doesn't conclude with a call for income redistribution--he doesn't think it would be heeded--but the facts he amasses tell the story of a country that inordinately promotes non-social ambition and, just as excessively, penalizes children.

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Described by Newsweek as "a political scientist doing with statistics what Fred Astaire did with hats, canes, and chairs...he makes them live and breathe," Andrew Hacker provides a comprehensive protrayal of income and wealth in American society.

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Combining keen insight with a flair for bringing a human dimension to facts and figures, bestselling author Andrew Hacker shows how the changing economy affects our lives. His clear-eyed analysis of the data illuminates the real results of women's fight for salary parity, the impact of affirmative action on the income of African-Americans, the effect immigration has on the job market, and more. "A titillating collection of statistical snapshots designed to reveal who makes how much in America and why". -- Clay Chandler, The Washington Post "Andrew Hacker...uses numbers to enlighten instead of obscure, making sure the statistics come alive by illustrating their inexorable messages with cases involving real people. This wise, creative book is filled with equally fascinating explanations of financial behavior". -- Steve Weinberg, Baltimore Sun "If you are the ordinarily nosy sort...Hacker indulges your curiosity about how much other people make and how much they have squirreled away". -- Fredric Smoler, Worth

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Thinly veiled class warfare.......2006-12-26

I am disappointed to have bought this book. More judgmental than analytical, the author clearly has an agenda and presents many one-sided arguments in support of it, resulting in numerous rhetorical fouls (e.g. completely ignoring the important distinction between statistical correlation and causation) in addition to complete dismissal of basic economic tenets.

The statistics presented are quite unidimensional and are given with opinion frequently presented as fact. After conventional attacks on the very real problems of CEO salary levels and increasing gaps between our nation's very rich and very poor, the book takes a turn for the surreal. To whit, while questioning salary differentiation between different types of medical specialists: "While we allow ourselves to be entranced by the mysteries of medicine, none of us really knows whether orthopedic surgery is any more complicated than overhauling a transmission. We know that police officers deliver babies with no ill effects, and on at least one occasion, a submarine corpsman has performed a successful appendectomy. Much of medicine now depends on high-tech equipment, which most of us wouldn't know how to plug in. As it happens, doctors are just as baffled by it."

The author offers this passage and many like it without trace of irony, satire, or devil's advocacy. If you are the type to argue that we will run out of a natural commodity in XX years by linearly projecting today's consumption rate into the future while ignoring the impact of increasing scarcity on prices and economic viability of substitutions (and therefore decreased demand levels and consumption rates), then this book is for you.

Long on statistics, short on insight.......2005-08-25

Long on statistics, short on insight., August 29, 1999

Rather dry. Not very much that you couldn't figure out by yourself; not
much original insight. The author uses statistics throughout to the
point that it almost becomes meaningless. Anyone with the most limited
experience with statistics knows that you can make them say just about
anything you want.
What I had hoped for was some insight into why there is so much
economic disparity in this country and what we can, or should, do about
it. Instead the author gave more of a status quo, "we are here,"
appoach.

The last chapter was maybe the most insteresting. It focused on the
economic changes in the US since WW2. It is anybody's guess what the
future will bring, but it seems like it will continue as it is now
until there is some big crash or other disaster.

3.5 stars for the Mad Statistician.......2005-05-08

A mack daddy of statistical research analysis, the author pulls off another grand compilation of information relating to the title. The fun part about reading his stuff is that the stats are easy for everyone to see and relate, in otherwords its very simple...and he throws in tidbits of information that you won't be able to catch if you read too fast...for example for every $1000.00 the descendents of the puritans make the descendents of the ex-enslaved make $700.00, which means that they are making approximately three quarters of what they were approximately said to be worth almost two hundred and fifty years ago. whew, some stat...

An interesting look at how money gets distributed in the US........1999-07-10

Andrew Hacker's Money is a great look at who has the money in America and how they got it. He talks in great detail about how the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. I was astounded to read that in 1997 there were 137 individuals who claimed over $1 billion in income. Almost 70,000 tax returns claimed an income of at least $1 million. There are far more rich people out there than I thought and it leads me to believe that if they can do it, so can I.

Brief Response to Brian Carey's review.......1999-02-12

As a former student of Professor Hacker, I've developed much respect for the man. While that certainly biases my opinion of his books (as I do view him as the God of Political Science), I know that I will always be getting a fresh perspective as I've never known anyone who could "cut the crap" better than Professor Hacker.

One of the most important lessons I learned from him is to always read between the lines; so that we may learn to think beyond the 68% norm. While Dr. Hacker could certainly fill hundreds of more pages with his insightful comments and statistical analyses, he knows that in between the lines, there is a whole other book yet to be created by the reader. I regret not having learned that until after he had already given me my final grade.

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Money, Who Has How Much & Why
Andrew Hacker
Manufacturer: New York: Scribner, 1997
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LVITUQ

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With growing expectations from students, parents, staff, faculty and the community for efficient and effective services on the campus, student affairs administrators are increasing their use of outsourcing arrangements and external partnerships to meet these demands. This volume offers a variety of models for the enhancement of services through external partnership, including on- and off-campus collaboration with public and private entities. It explores the challenges student affairs professionals face when determining how to meet a particular constituency's needs in the most cost-effective and efficient manner. A significant theme that emerges in this connection is the importance of structure in assessing and evaluating current levels of service. The ideas shared in this volume will assist decision-makers in the process of evaluating current services and determining whether and in what form external partnerships can improve those services for the benefit of the campus and the community.

This is the 96th issue of the quarterly report New Directions for Student Services.

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Ok, WebMaster.. I want know so anything.......2000-05-26

I am a korea high school student. When I want buy a book in this Site.... I know that the cost with freight charges? First of all,I take that book in korea? How long does it take time? The end... Sorry.. So i study English a little

In the Company of Women: Canadian Businesswomen Talk About What It Takes to Create and Manage a Successful Business

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In the Company of Women: Canadian Businesswomen Talk About What It Takes to Create and Manage a Successful Business
Katherine Gay
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8OJNC

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Unintended consequences of emerging communication technologies: Instant Messaging in the workplace [An article from: Computers in Human Behavior]
A.F. Cameron , and J. Webster
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

Workplace | Organizational Behavior | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000RR2NJM

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This digital document is a journal article from Computers in Human Behavior, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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With increased global connectivity, managers are faced with new technologies and rapid organizational changes. For instance, organizations may adopt emerging technologies such as Instant Messaging in order to increase collaboration at a distance and to decrease communications costs. However, the impact and implications of these technologies for managers and employees often go far beyond the original intent of the technology designers. Consequently, in this study, instant messaging (IM) and its use in organizations were investigated through interviews with employees. Results suggest that critical mass represents an important factor for IM success in the workplace that IM symbolizes informality, and that IM is perceived to be much less rich than face-to-face communication. Further, results demonstrate that employees use IM not only as a replacement for other communication media but as an additional method for reaching others. With IM, employees engage in polychronic communication, view IM as privacy enhancing, and see its interruptive nature as unfair. The paper concludes by discussing research and practice implications for organizational psychologists.

Emerging Communication Technology in the Workplace

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Emerging Communication Technology in the Workplace
Jones International
Manufacturer: Jones Intl Univ
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 9990808708

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DJs have gone from being underpaid live jukeboxes to becoming premier entertainers, producers, businessmen, and musicians capable of commanding admiration from thousands and earning serious money. Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's Last Night a DJ Saved My Life was the definitive history of the DJ. Now they gather their mastery of the artistic and technical aspects of being a DJ into a clear, accessible, and entertaining guide. How to DJ is the perfect guide -- from the most basic keys to establishing a music collection and a distinctive sound, to elementary record-spinning, to the complex skills of scratching, hot-mixing, and beat-juggling, as well as the inimitable art of creating an evening of sound that is perfectly timed, balanced, and unforgettable. Diagrams throughout illustrate phrases, beat timing, and song structure with no reliance on music theory, and resource lists recommend everything from which songs are best (and most fun) to learn with, to good sources for building a library of disks, CDs, and MP3s. For those who want to turn pro, the authors give sage advice on the vagaries of the club and music business. Short quotes, anecdotes, and photos of famous DJs such as Grandmaster Flash and Derrick Carter are featured.

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Awesome...it's a "must have" for every dj..........2007-09-26

Although I'm a digital dj and laptop performer and this book is more "turntablist" oriented...I found it very interesting, every page you open has something to teach you...

Good pick and this is why............2007-08-09

I found the book to be very insightful and easy to understand. I would recommend this book to both the beginner and the advanced Dj.

"Show you how to party right".......2007-08-05

Very funny and informative guide to running the turntables. It takes a lot of work to make things happen in a club. This book takes you step by step through everything from how to find the best gear, to how to add special effects, scratching on beat, and making sure you get paid. There are plenty of pictures. The stories from real DJs such as John Digweed, Grandmaster Flash and more are laugh-out-loud funny. Go from dreaming of greatness to moving the crowd, with clues from the best.

Everything you'll ever need to know and how to love it.......2007-03-31

I had DJ'd for years prior to picking this up. Front to back in 2 days. I learned a lot of new technique and cleaned up on some of my old habits. The greatest thing I learned was how to get myself 'in'. I was a bedroom DJ all those years. This book taught me to grab the bull by the horns and show the world what I've got.

That was all great, but the true lesson was not something I learned from the book, but what the book reassured me of and demanded that I maintain.

Love for music.

The consistent undertone was that of a "you are a DJ, you have the duty to show the world this music and take them on a journey through it the way you see best".

If you own a single piece of vinyl or have been collecting for years and stuck in that bedroom, read this. If you've thought about being a DJ and have no vinyl, read this. If you have always wondered what "beat juggling" or "crab scratching" was, read this book.

Peace, Love and Jellybeans!

Good laugh and great start.......2006-11-11

Great book to get you on track if you're a beginner, or to give you a few new ideas if you've been spinning for a bit. Hilarious book, and you're sure to just sit there and laugh, then bust out the tables and try some new slip-cueing techniques. Recommended, highly.

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Manage Your Money: Don't Let It Manage You!

A little disappointing

Useful and entertaining - make your money work for you

Wealthy and Wise: Secrets About Money

Wealthy and Wise: Secrets About Money by Heidi Steiger

Wealthy and Wise: Secrets About Money
Neuberger Berman , and Heidi L. Steiger
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0471221414

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Wealthy & Wise provides rare insight into the techniques that wealthy people use to build and protect their wealth, so that they can enjoy life to its fullest. Readers will learn how to address the real-life issues that money creates, such as raising children in an affluent household, finding fulfillment in work, and developing a long-term wealth management strategy. The book addresses both the practical and the emotional challenges of wealth, with tips on how to enjoy it too. From prenuptial agreements to family meetings to trusts and charitable foundations, Wealthy & Wise provides useful, comprehensive advice for anyone who has wealth, or aspires to wealth.

Neuberger Berman (New York, NY) is a leading investment advisory company. For more than sixty years, it has provided clients with a broad range of investment products, services, and strategies, including asset management, wealth management, and trust services. Heidi L. Steiger is an Executive Vice President and head of the firm's private asset management business.

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Manage Your Money: Don't Let It Manage You!.......2005-12-13

Preserve the assets you have and keep them growing in value. Make sure your wealth adds to your happines and fulfillment in life. Don't allow your wealth to overwhelm you emotionally and psychologically. This book will assist you in keeping your money a positive factor in your and your family's lives.

A little disappointing.......2003-06-17

This book contains some interesting articles about wealth management, but it's nothing I haven't read in magazines and newspapers. Also, a lot of the advice in the book is more relevant to high net worth individuals (people who are likely to be Neuberger Berman's clients) than for ordinary Joes like myself. Try to borrow it from the library - this is definitely not a keeper.

Useful and entertaining - make your money work for you.......2002-11-18

I'm a big reader of business and personal finance books. Wealthy & Wise fills a niche that no other one book I've seen does. It covers a lot but in a way that's not overwhelming. I liked the idea that each section is written by a specialist in that field since no one can be an expert on all these subjects.

A few of the chapter subjects were beyond my means (though voyeuristically I enjoyed reading some of the advice for the super rich), but the overarching message is advice we should all take to heart - Manage your wealth; don't let it manage you. This isn't a book of corny aphorisms, it's full of practical, useful advice to make your money make you happier and let it add to, not get in the way of, your relationships.

Wealthy and Wise: Secrets About Money.......2002-11-14

Heidi has compiled a masterpiece. While I have led a very successful career, I often had questions regarding my wealth and how to use it responsibly. This book gives very clear, concise advice on how life should be lived and I will make sure my two sons will read this book before they graduate from school. Thank you Heidi.

Wealthy and Wise: Secrets About Money by Heidi Steiger.......2002-11-14

I found Heidi's book excellent. All the chapters were informative and gave outstanding advice. Accumulating wealth is half the battle - having wealth help you to live a happy and contented life is the other half. I will definitely be using the advice within the book and will recommend this book to all my friends.

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Wealthy & Wise (Secrets About Money)
Heidi L; Berman, Neuberger Steiger
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J1Z3H0

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Wealthy & Wise (Secrets About Money)
Heidi L; Berman, Neuberger Steiger
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NPUZNO

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The New Yorker caters to America's upper classes; it's the kind of magazine meant to be accompanied by a glass of pricey Merlot. Over the years its elitism has waxed and waned. Ex-editor Tina Brown worked valiantly to inject a dose of pop-cultural crassness into its ivory-tower sensibilities: profiling celebrities and publishing fashion issues where models stared out from every page, looking chilly. When David Remnick took over in the late '90s, the magazine shifted, grew quieter and more circumspect, and the old guard breathed a collective sigh of relief.

The New Gilded Age collects essays and profiles from 1999 and 2000 and reveals Remnick's New Yorker to be obsessed with money and business--arguably less interesting than celebrity, but also deeper ways of looking at America and power. The title refers to the period of technological revolution symbolized by the rise of Microsoft, the booming of Silicon Valley, and the end of the belief that an Ivy League education will get you anywhere.

What's admirable about this New Yorker is its timeliness; the way, without seeming like a panicked "edge" magazine, it managed to document and acknowledge the shifting sands of the millennial moment. Standouts in this regard: William Finnegan on the protesters behind the 1999 WTO riots in Seattle; Ken Auletta following Bill Gates through various meltdowns as he comes to terms with the federal government's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. These are painstakingly reported pieces in which style is submerged. The more audacious writers tend to be women. In "Everywoman.com," Joan Didion describes Martha Stewart in a flood of rapt lyricism:

This is not a story about a woman who made the best of traditional skills. This is a story about a woman who did her own I.P.O. This is the "woman's pluck" story, the dust-bowl story, the burying-your-child-on-the-trail story, the I-will-never-go-hungry-again story, the Mildred Pierce story, the story about how the sheer nerve of even professionally unskilled women can prevail, show the men; the story that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men.

In "Landing from the Sky," Adrian Nicole LeBlanc creates a portrait of a young Puerto Rican woman with too many kids and too much trouble. The writing here is exquisite and passionate: "Jessica created an aura of intimacy wherever she went. You could be talking to her in the middle of Tremont and feel as if a confidence were being exchanged beneath a tent of sheets."

Jessica's story seems far from the world of The New Yorker's target audience. When in "My Misspent Youth" Meghan Daum laments her poverty and credit card debt, then reveals she lives alone in a $1,500-a-month apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, you have to wonder: Did the poor thing ever hear of roommates? As both a document and celebration of such rarefied and privileged attitudes, The New Gilded Age is a rich, informative glimpse into America at the turn of the millennium--before the NASDAQ crashed and the dot-com kids went home to count their losses. --Emily White

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In keeping with its tradition of sending writers out into America to take the pulse of our citizens and civilization, The New Yorker over the past decade has reported on the unprecedented economy and how it has changed the ways in which we live. This new anthology collects the best of these profiles, essays, and articles, which depict, in the magazine's inimitable style, the mega-, meta-, monster-wealth created in this, our new Gilded Age.
        Who are the barons of the new economy? Profiles of Martha Stewart by Joan Didion, Bill Gates by Ken Auletta, and Alan Greenspan by John Cassidy reveal the personal histories of our most influential citizens, people who affect our daily lives even more than we know. Who really understands the Web? Malcolm Gladwell analyzes the economics of e-commerce in "Clicks and Mortar." Profiles of two of the Internet's most respected analysts, George Gilder and Mary Meeker, expose the human factor in hot stocks, declining issues, and the instant fortunes created by an IPO. And in "The Kids in the Conference Room," Nicholas Lemann meets McKinsey & Company's business analysts, the twenty-two-year-olds hired to advise America's CEOs on the future of their business, and the economy.
        And what defines this new age, one that was unimaginable even five years ago? Susan Orlean hangs out with one of New York City's busiest real estate brokers ("I Want This Apartment"). A clicking stampede of Manolo Blahniks can be heard in Michael Specter's "High-Heel Heaven." Tony Horwitz visits the little inn in the little town where moguls graze ("The Inn Crowd"). Meghan Daum flees her maxed-out credit cards. Brendan Gill lunches with Brooke Astor at the Metropolitan Club. And Calvin Trillin, in his masterly "Marisa and Jeff," portrays the young and fresh faces of greed.
        Eras often begin gradually and end abruptly, and the people who live through extraordinary periods of history do so unaware of the unique qualities of their time. The flappers and tycoons of the 1920s thought the bootleg, and the speculation, would flow perpetually—until October 1929. The shoulder pads and the junk bonds of the 1980s came to feel normal—until October 1987. Read as a whole, The New Gilded Age portrays America, here, today, now—an epoch so exuberant and flush and in thrall of risk that forecasts of its conclusion are dismissed as Luddite brays. Yet under The New Yorker's examination, our current day is ex-posed as a special time in history: affluent and aggressive, prosperous and peaceful, wired and wild, and, ultimately, finite.

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Entertaining and Historically Useful late-90's Work.......2002-08-24

As indicated in the review's title, the composite of this book is a useful and quite accurate historical view of the late-nineties. In light of this, the fact that these essays were written at the time is mostly negligible because the writers seem to have a sense of how the attitudes, fads, and people of the late-90s fit in to the broader themes that will come to define the period when it is transcribed by historians. This book is at its best when editor Remnick is mindful of this historical purpose. For example, the inclusion of two David Brooks essays offers perspectives on the social networks and the yuppie consumerism of the nineties that is both humorous and culturally relevant. The insclusion of Malcom Gladwell's "Six Degrees of Lois Weissberg," on the other hand, is somewhat self-indulgent: there is no justifiable reason that it should be included in a book about the late nineties, nothwithstanding the quality of the essay. Overall, the essays are of interest, though one would have liked to see less space devoted to essays about the internet and more space devoted to other areas of interest. On the other hand, I would much sooner have David Remnick's edited version of the late nineties than Tina Brown's!

Facinating stories.......2002-06-13

I loved this book. The writing is great. What an amzing journey through the depths, heights and depths of affluence. I recommend it.

routine.......2001-11-03

The pieces in this collection are a cut above the pieces you find in other weeklies, like New York magazine, but they suffer in comparison to "fact" pieces published during the Shawn administration. A lot of these pieces were obviously written in a hurry, and the haste is evident. David Remnick is a capable editor, but he's not a genius. Shawn was a genius.

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