Creating Community in the City: Cooperatives and Community Gardens in Washington, D.C. (Contemporary Urban Studies)

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Landman studies four communally-oriented settings in Washington's urban environment. Through ethnographic field work she learned that cooperation, sociability, and self management overcame the common urban challenges posed by isolation and largely impersonal, single purpose contact with others. The settings were a cooperative food store, a cooperative bakery, community gardens, and a cooperatively owned low-cost housing project. Landman shows how the participants in these economically related activities are socially bound together in a web of relations considered unusual in large American cities, and how these exceptionally connected urban lives prove very satisfactory.

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The seventh in a series of annual volumes on the financial sector from the Brookings Institution and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania focuses on public policy issues confronting the insurance industry.

Contents include Extending the Theory to Meet the Practice of Insurance; The Crisis in Malpractice Insurance; Tort Liability, Insurance Rates, and the Insurance Cycle; Insuring Against Terrorism; Brokers and the Insurance of Non-verifiable Losses; and Consolidation in the European Insurance Industry.

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E-commerce increasingly means more than business-to-consumer online storefronts. There are myriad opportunities for retailers and suppliers alike to interconnect through business-to-business (or B2B) applications. XML is the key language for the job, and Microsoft's BizTalk--a product family still in its infancy--is shaping up to be a key solution-delivery system. Understanding BizTalk offers an early look at this promising product.

The book is an easy read for anyone moderately familiar with Web technologies. It surveys the challenges of B2B applications nicely with a look at some of the data interconnection approaches in use today. Then it segues smoothly to XML and BizTalk--the meat of the title. The discussion maintains a big picture feel, while still conveying enough details to send you away feeling educated. Plenty of architectural diagrams help illustrate system designs and information flow.

Microsoft development tool jockeys will enjoy the chapter that previews the still unreleased Microsoft Commerce Server 2000--a product that will build on its powerful Site Server Commerce product with a full-fledged implementation of BizTalk. The brief case study of ARAMARK's MyAssistant portal--a sophisticated point of contact for that company's customers and business partners--is a good one. Further case studies would have been helpful, but this still is a good book for any Web developer who wants to get on the B2B train. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered: Distributed applications, B2B e-commerce, XML, BizTalk initiative, XML parsers & tools, BizTalk Server, planning BizTalk systems, Microsoft Commerce Server 2000, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and ARAMARK case study.

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Understanding BizTalk explains the complexities of Microsoft's newest framework for business to business transactions. This book gives you a look at the 'whole picture' of BizTalk, and its importance to the future of electronic commerce. After completing the book, you will have an understanding of topics including XML's role in the BizTalk Framework, The BizTalk XML tags, BizTalk Schemas, The BizTalk Schema Repository, and BizTalk and the future of e-commerce.

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Customer Reviews:

Worthless.......2001-07-06

This book was written before the BizTalk Server product became available. It's a waste of time and money if you are trying to learn the server product.

Just a brief Introduction to Biztalk.......2000-08-09

This book come little bit too early. So those tiny information about Biztalk could only cover the JumpStart Kit, instead of a "more complete" Technology Preview / Alpha Version. This book is only for those who need a really quick and high-level introduction on what's Biztalk for. It's not for developers.

A very shallow presentation.......2000-07-23

The authors spend a great deal of time (and many pages) going over XML under the guise of preparing the reader to understand the underpinnings of BizTalk. In reality, they're clearly just filling out the book.

They then touch upon BizTalk itself in as shallow a manner as possible, after which they switch to talking about the BackOffice 2000 offerings that will interact with the BizTalk Server.

Again, the BackOffice products are covered with incredible shallowness.

The case study at the end is more of the same - basically, the user wanted openness and flexibility, so they used XML and BizTalk. Again, no real details.

Unfortunately, there is very little out yet about the BizTalk server. Even so, only the most uniformed managers will learn much new from this book. ....

The good news is, this is the BEST BizTalk book available..........2000-05-09

The bad news is, this is the ONLY BizTalk Book available. The book is "OK" but the bulk of the book is about XML.

It's an easy read for a geek, but doesn't get very specific or deep into BizTalk Technologies.

Still, readinq it is quicker than playing around with the jumpstart kit.

I hope somebody writes an "in depth" BizTalk book soon !

Developers, don't waste your time.......2000-04-05

Here's the deal from a developers viewpoint. 1) The book is about the MS Commerce Server 2000. So if you have the quickstart kit, forget this book. And since I cannot get my hands on an alpha or beta of Commerce 2000, it is mostly useless. Here's 2 key points that will save you the bucks; Commerce 2000 has a catalog API (COM) built on XML and BizTalk is tightly integrated into Commerce 2000. You now owe me the cost of this book! 2) It's an overview book plain and simple. If you are a developer like me and hope to get real info on techniques, or even examples, forget it. There are just about no examples in this book (none of any use). The kit eclipses this book in examples. 3) If there are things that are unclear in the quickstart kit, they will remain unclear after you read the book. And by the way, it is a thin book. And it is clear that they stretched the contents (you developers know what I mean).

But I will say that if you have no idea what BizTalk is and you are a manager not a developer, this book would be of value.

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Making Partnerships Work: Boost Profits & Benefits With Hands-On Participation (Tax Guide, 204)
Holmes F. Crouch
Manufacturer: Allyear Tax Guides
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0944817297

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Covers the ingredients of a partnership agreement as interpreted by the IRS.

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Make Presentations With Confidence (Barron's Business Success Guides)
Vivian Buchan
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0812098927

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Fred Pryor: How To Make Presentations With Confidence & Power
Fred Pryor
Manufacturer: Nightingale Conant
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: B000NBGX8E

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Consist of 6 audio cassettes that teach: 1. Communication definitions and goals 2. Growth objectives as a presenter 3. Communication Apprehension 4. Ways to analyze the speaking environment 5. Handling nose in environment 6. Generating a favorable audience response 7. Analyzing Your audience 8. Audience involvement and visual aids 9. Additional ideals for environmental control 10. Controlling yourself physically 11. Controlling your subject

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Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular "Culture Shock!" series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wherever you go. "Culture Shock!" country guides are easy-to-read, accurate, and entertaining crash courses in local customs and etiquette. "Culture Shock!" practical guides offer the inside information you need whether you're a student, a parent, a globetrotter, or a working traveler. "Culture Shock!" at your Door guides equip you for daily life in some of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. And "Culture Shock!" Success Secrets guides offer relevant, practical information with the real-life insights and cultural know-how that can make the difference between business success and failure.

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Customer Reviews:

Good starting place...........2000-05-23

I found the culture shock series to be enjoyable reading accross the board, and this business based volume both informative and largely up to date. The business information is based on 98 which makes it only slightly dated, with only the latest goverment incentives missing. The sections on dealing with culture differences were very enlightening (non-confrontational style of thailand verses the "you are just a cog, and here is an in your face review of performance" style of the western world). The rehashing of basics you'll find other places is placed here just in case you missed it (not touching a thai's head, use of left hand, etc.). Although this wouldn't be my only source of information, it is a valuable one in a limited field.

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Do Everything You Want, And Still Cover Everything You Need, in Retirement

Buying Time begins where most other retirement books end. Instead of covering how to accumulate money for your retirement, it gives you direction from that point forward-how to draw upon your assets most efficiently to create the income you will need throughout retirement. It provides an integrated approach to planning your income in retirement, so that you can do everything you want and still cover everything you need.

Buying Time will help you to make better use of your resources, and make the best of your prime retirement years.

Explains how to set your lifestyle objectives and plan for the best use of your money in retirement.
Covers different strategies for different stages of retirement, so that you can make the best of your prime years while still providing for contingencies and long-term health considerations.
A proven, integrated, four-part approach to retirement planning: structuring and planning income, investing during retirement, health-risk management, and wealth transfer.
Offers advice on how to work with an advisor to create and implement a plan that's right for you.
Includes practical examples, illustrations, forms, and checklists.

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Misleading! This is for CANADIAN citizens!!!.......2007-04-03

No where does this tell you that this was written by a financial planner in Canada and the information is based on Canadian law and retirement income. Not knowing how much of this applies to US citizens, I quit reading as soon as I realized this.

Waiting.......2007-01-19

I order the book in November and had
ve not recieved it yet. Two months and waiting.

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South Korean conglomerates, or "chaebol," such as Hyundai and Samsung play a far more important role in Korean economy than do comparable large firms in the United States' and Japanese economies. Despite the importance of the chaebol to the rapid postwar development of the Korean economy, little has been written about their origins during the Japanese occupation. Through case studies of local ownership in major financial, commercial and industrial ventures, this book provides a detailed picture of indigenous capitalism during Japanese colonization. Drawing on Japanese government sources, Korean biographies and diaries, interviews, and United States intelligence material, the author gives a compelling account of key personalities in the Korean business elite and of the personal dilemmas of balancing nationalism against success under dependent, colonial conditions. The author concludes that dependent rather than comprador capitalism characterized leading Korean business through 1945. Patterns of concentration within family enterprises, close ties with the colonial state, and mutual support among a Korean inner circle of business leaders constitute a legacy of the colonial period important to the subsequent development of Korean conglomerates.

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In today's competitive economic environment, knowing your customer has never been more important. Research shows that most companies do not segment their market by lifestyle. Instead, they rely solely on demographic factors to define their customers. This book helps marketers understand how to reach customers in the following categories:

Singles

Teenagers

Children

"Tweens"

College students

Seniors

And Americans from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds Yet another consumer group evaluated here is the emerging affluent market. This book is a prerequisite to relationship marketing. It tells the reader how to reach carefully defined and described market segments. Because buyers' behaviors are so important to lifestyle market segmentation strategies, this book demonstrates how such trends as cross-shopping and the blurring of gender roles can be accounted for by one's overall marketing strategy.

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Disappointing in the extreme.......2006-09-09

This book had a couple of big flaws. One was that much of the material was superficial and obvious. The other was that it was terribly written, and must have had an unskilled editor. After reading a particularly incoherent "case study" that barely supported the book's thesis, and may have mildly undermined it, I just had to stop reading it.

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The way in which regulation works is a key concern of industries, consumers, citizens, and governments alike. Understanding Regulation takes the reader through the central issues of regulation and discusses these from a number of disciplinary perspectives. This book is written by a lawyer and an economist, but looks also towards business, political science, sociology, social administration, anthropology, and other disciplines. The fundamental strategies, institutions, and explanations of regulation are reviewed and the means of identifying `good' regulation are outlined. Individual chapters look at such topics as self-regulation, the regulation of risks, the cost-benefit testing of regulation, the importance of enforcement, and the challenge of regulating within Europe. The book's second part considers a series of issues of particular concern in modern utilities regulation, including the use of RPI-X price caps, the control of service quality, franchising techniques and ways of measuring regulatory performance. Questions of accountability and procedure are then examined and recent public debates on regulatory reform are reviewed. A central argument of Understanding Regulation is that regulation inevitably gives rise to political contention but that persons of different political persuasion can nevertheless converse sensibly on the search for better regulation.

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Mariy EI Republic Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding
ASIN: 0739729934

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This investment and business guide contains basic information on economy, business & investment climate and opportunities in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities, including, export-import, industrial development, banking & finance, government and business contacts. The guide also provides listing and contact information for major industrial, trade, service and other companies in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities.

Mariy El Republic Regional Investment and Business Guide (World Business Law Handbook Library)

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Mariy El Republic Regional Investment and Business Guide (World Business Law Handbook Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739790935

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