Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm (Studies on Culture and Society, No 6)

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This book is still available.......2004-11-23

Although listed as "out of print" by the distributor (University of Texas Press), there are still copies of this book for sale at the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies (ims@albany.edu).

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Part of the New Perspectives Series, this text provides an excellent introduction to e-commerce. Using a case-based approach, students learn the fundamentals of e-commerce through real-life business scenarios.

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Outstanding introduction to the subject of e-commerce.......2000-11-06

I teach CIS at a community college and, as a result, read a lot of books. I had read the Schneider and Perry book on Electronic Commerce that came out last year and thought it was fantastic, but it was a bit over the heads of my students. This book, which is an adaptation and updated version of that Electronic Commerce book, is just what we were hoping to find for our courses. We are teaching electronic commerce in our Webmaster certificate program and in our Internet Business certificate program and this book has worked out perfectly.

The book is up-to-date, filled with excellent examples, and explains the business and technology elements of electronic commerce better than anything I have seen in any book so far for students at a beginning level. The explanations of complex topics like digital signatures and legal issues are exceptionally clear and understandable.

My students love the online companion Web site that includes links to every single site mentioned in the book (the site is located at http://www.course.com/downloads/newperspectives/ec/).

The book also includes great step-by-step instructions for creating your own e-commerce site at Yahoo Stores and at BigStep. Some of my students have used these chapters to create their own businesses on the Web already (and the semester isn't even over)!

All in all, this is an amazing book. I haven't seen anything that comes even close to it (and, as I said, I read a lot of books).

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Small Business Health Market: Bad Reforms, Higher Prices, And Fewer Choices: Hearing Before The Committee On Small Business, U.s. House Of Representatives

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback

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General | Small Business & Entrepreneurship | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0756741165

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Job loss is a reality in today's marketplace, but it's not the death knell for your career. In You're Fired!: A Unique Approach To Rebuilding Your Life one learns how to recover from the loss and begin to rebuild. Many books touch upon the surface elements of job loss, such as writing a resume or successful interview techniques. You're Fired! delves beneath the surface to uncover the emotional and psychological supports that must be reinforced before updating your resume and scheduling interviews. As Denis J. Baker, Vice-President/Human Resources, Saint-Gobain Corp., Norton Co., states: “You're Fired!: A Unique Approach To Rebuilding Your Life reads like a novel. Through the experience of a `company' man suddenly confronted with the loss of his job, Dr. Berman shows us how to deal effective-ly with the emotional and psychological aspects of losing a job. Unlike the conventional textbook approach, Dr. Berman's book is easy reading yet packed with valuable insight and advice for anyone facing this traumatic life change.”

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Masters of Capital, a Chronicle of Wall Street

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The Masters of Capital, a Chronicle of Wall Street
John Moody
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IZBAF6

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Historical Background on 19th & 20th Century Financial Titans.

The Masters Of Capital: A Chronicle Of Wall Street
John Moody
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Historical Background on 19th & 20th Century Financial Titans. .......2007-09-13

The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street by John Moody is one of the many important pieces of literature written on the history of capitalists and financiers of the classical business world. Its chapters highlights the small group of mighty financiers -- the men who had been chiefly responsible for the building up of the great concentrated system of banking power, corporate control, community of interests, and interlocking relationships, all of which are culminated in this terrific smash. Headliners such as J.P. Morgan -- Henry C. Frick -- EDWARD H. HARRIMAN-- Andrew Carnegie and the Rockefellers are grandstanded throughout the book. These were also men later on -- whose powers the United States would tap to save financial America.

This book talks about a time when experience was gained by building up and welding together the parts of the vast modern industrial and banking machine, which all, through federal anti-trust actions would later on be "unscrambled". It also discusses the numerous financial market panics between the periods of 1870-1895. Financial impresario J. P. Morgan built his career out of solving other people's problems.

The formation of monopolies in steel iron, coke, railroads, banks and oil began during this period, and thus, which created massive empires. They were all in the hands of the Rockefellers and Carnegie, Harriman, Frick and a small few. J P Morgan was the architect of the agglomeration of the United States Steel Corporation, one of America's greatest mergers of all time. Through his accumulation of incalculable wealth, Rockefeller proved to all in his industry and many others that cash is king.

It would be later on being through the World War that the United States would demonstrate the strength of the nation. Hence, spearheaded by the help of Wall St and Bernard Baruch, then appointed head of the War Industries board, America would facilitate nearly all of the needs of Britain and France and Charles M. Schwab, this American manufacturer with the German name, became one of the strongest industrial allies of the British Government.

Thus, Wall Street emerged from the war with greatly enhanced prestige. Without the financial support, which it placed at the Government's disposal, without the mammoth industrial organization that America had developed since 1865, the United States would have counted for little in the struggle.

Overall, a good read.

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THE MASTERS OF CAPITAL: A CHRONICLE OF WALL STREET.

Manufacturer: Yale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HIH1OI

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P Marketing is at the centre of the business education boom: a million or more people worldwide are studying the subject at any one time. Yet despite widespread discontent with the intellectual standards in marketing, very little has changed over the past thirty years. In this ground-breaking new work, Chris Hackley presents a social-constructionist critique of popular approaches to teaching, theorising and writing about marketing. /P P /P P Drawing on a wide range of up-to-date European and North American studies, Dr Hackley presents his argument on two levels. First, he argues that mainstream marketing's ideologically driven curriculum and research programmes, dominated by North American tradition, reproduce business school myths about the nature of practically relevant theory and the role of professional education in management fields. Second, he suggests a broadened theoretical scope and renewed critical agenda for research, theory and teaching in marketing. /P P Intellectually rigorous yet comprehensible, this work will be of vital importance to all those interested in the future of teaching and research in business and management. /P

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Critical, funny and different.......2001-10-27

Marketing and Social Construction is not an easy book. The writing is sometimes very funny and engaging but also sometimes complex and long winded. However, if you've any interest in business education and/or social science then it is a must read. Hackley subverts all the usual literary and intellectual conventions of the marketing/business/management book genre. The result is a very appealing read for students, researchers and academics in these fields particularly if they have a critical inclination. Its refreshing and wide in scope, and offers hundreds of useful references for researchers in marketing, organisation and management studies. Its also useful for researchers and students studying psychology or other social sciences. Not to everyone's taste but I loved it: all other marketing books are exposed as populist and cliche-ridden in comparison. It is indispensible for anyone doing a PhD in these fields because it explains what social constructionism means. Frankly I can't imagine any executives having the inclination to read such an iconoclastic and critical book about management theory but if they did they would learn something about how management ideas become popular through university and publishing politics. A very personal point of view, crammed with insights.

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International negotiations have become an important feature of the world trading system, but very few scholars have attempted to analyse this process. Using case studies in four areas - culture, textiles and apparel, autos, and pharmaceuticals - negotiated in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Maryse Robert uses a theoretical framework to help explain the outcome of such negotiations in terms of structure and process that. The structure of negotiations relates to states' objectives, outcomes, resources (in industry and in government), and issue-specific power. Process involves state's behaviour as expressed by its tactics during negotiation.

Among the questions the author raises are: How are winning and losing defined in a given issue area? What are a state's resources as it enters a trade negotiation? Are all resources equally important? Is the utility of some tactics linked to certain resources? The key message of the book is that it is the right mix of resources and tactics that determines the outcome of negotiation.

Very few scholars have attempted to analyse trade negotiations. Using case studies in four areas - culture, textiles and apparel, autos and pharmaceuticals - Robert proposes a theoretical framework to help explain the outcome of a negotiation in the field of international trade. She argues that this outcome has two characteristics: structure and process. The former is constituted of the resources a state brings to the table in a given issue area; the latter refers to the state's behaviour as expressed by its tactics during negotiation. The key message of the book is that it is the right mix of resources and tactics that determines the outcome.

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Informative, but not the best treatment.......2003-09-19

Maryse Robert's book presents an extremely detailed account of the outcomes in four sectors, offering a lot of background information on the history of the negotiating stances. In many instances, it could even serve as a reference work to explain the differences of before and after NAFTA.

But as a negotiation analysis, it remains unsatisfying. While the book claims to be process-oriented, it actually offers little insight into how the negotiations evolved. The theoretical chapter is more of heuristic than explanatory value. I recommend Cameron and Tomlin's "Negotiating NAFTA" to anyone looking for a behind-the-scenes account that reflects recent developments in negotiation analysis.

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As director of the London School of Economics, Anthony Giddens is one of the world's foremost academics. He has served as an advisor to both President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair, and is closely tied to the center-left idea of "third-way" politics. In this brief book on globalization (drawn from a series of lectures delivered in 1999), Giddens writes, "We are living through a major period of historical transition." Globalization is reordering societies all over the planet, and although the results are sometimes unpredictable, they are heading in a generally positive direction. But not everybody agrees, as the author freely admits:

The battleground of the twenty-first century will pit fundamentalism against cosmopolitan tolerance. In a globalising world, where information and images are routinely transmitted across the globe, we are all regularly in contact with others who think differently, and live differently, from ourselves. Cosmopolitans welcome and embrace this cultural complexity. Fundamentalists find it disturbing and dangerous. Whether in the areas of religion, ethnic identity, or nationalism, they take refuge in a renewed and purified tradition--and, quite often, violence.

Giddens is not coy about where he stands: "We can legitimately hope that a cosmopolitan outlook will win out." In what is sure to be a controversial chapter, he examines sex and family life through the prism of this fundamentalist-cosmopolitan divide. He is severely critical of what he calls the "traditional family," which he considers an aspect of fundamentalism the world over and an enemy of sexual equality: "I remember what my great aunt once said to me. She must have had one of the longest marriages of anyone, having been with her husband for over 60 years. She once confided that she had been deeply unhappy with him the whole of that time. In her day there was no escape." Runaway World is certain to provoke a lively debate--Giddens would surely have it no other way. --John J. Miller

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In Runaway World, Anthony Giddens, intellectual pioneer of Third Way politics, shows how the globalization of science, technology and the economy impacts every human on earth. In his characteristically clear-headed manner, Giddens includes an overview of the New World global marketplace, but goes beyond a conventional economic perspective to look at such larger issues as marriage, gender and the family. Giddens finds the changes largely positive---liberating women, spreading democracy, and creating new wealth--but acknowledges there are potential hazards as well with so much money crossing so many borders and distant cultures colliding. Identifying globalization as a true cultural force, this eloquent and important volume is the staring point for anyone concerned about our increasingly interconnected world.

A fascinating assessment of the coming world order, Runaway World is an enlightening and thought-provoking read from one of our most incisive public thinkers.

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underdeveloped.......2006-11-27

Giddens doesn't provide new arguments to the globalization theme. The arguments he does present are underdeveloped and could use much more solid backing up. I found myself confused many times by his circular arguments. The book ends awkwardly, the writing is choppy, and his stance is vague.

airplane reading.......2006-05-30

I realize that this book was created for the masses, but it insults intelligence and makes some sweeping generalizations and essentially promotes a Western imperialist tradition. Giddens admits to some of the criticism of globalization but he glosses over the horrors of ecological risk and global inequalities and touts the joys of democracy as being spread by globalization which results in "pure love" relationships. Somewhat of a stretch of the imagination and too much to cover in 83 little pages with big print. No references make it useless for an interested reader.

reading for the utmost beginner.......2004-03-22

If you like to read in one sitting, this book for you. The references to other articles left to desire. Maybe is just left of center all with a wing-nut californian guru seeking mentatlity. I am completely dishonest with my constellation statement.

I would stick with his other litterature.

If you have been living under a rock, this book is for you........2004-03-04

Aside from the reflection that neoliberalism is another fundamentalist mouvement in western world, there is too much superficial general knowledge about the state of the planet.
I am even more deceived to see that this book is has a scale down approach of Modernity and self identity.

This book is by far too expensive for a one sitting, basic overlook of the state of the world.

Globalization in 100 pages.......2001-05-23

Sociologist Anthony Giddens has recently made some notable contributions to political discussion. This books is based on his radio lectures from 1999 which do not have much to do with Gidden's academic conributions. Instead, this is a practical book aimed at general public interested in the current world affairs. In just 100 pages, compact size and absent of academic buzzwords, the book makes an easy and fast read.

The book has five themes: globalization, risk, tradition, family and democracy. Giddens handles them in turn like he would be playing with his favourite football. Shifts feet, moves forward and kicks when the goal is sure. His playing is readable indeed.

One can rise a couple of leading themes from the book. One is the idea of cosmopolitan tolerance. The other one is the doublesided meaning of risk. On the one hand, risk is what globalization has brought to our daily lives and society at large. On the other hand, risk enables the speed of evolution we are now facing in this global village.

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This digital document is an article from Ethics & International Affairs, published by Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 6858 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: Runaway World. How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives. (The Dilemmas of Globalization). (book review)
Author: Sanjay G. Reddy
Publication: Ethics & International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Page: 159(15)

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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities, regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

Western Samoa Investment & Business Guide (World Investment and Business Library)

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Western Samoa Investment & Business Guide (World Investment and Business Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739718878

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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities and regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

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