Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929

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If all business meetings could happen as concisely and productively as this nifty little book dispenses advice, we wouldn't need a pocket-sized meeting planner like this in the first place. But, because most of us do, be glad that this 72-pager offers what it does--namely, smart secrets and strategies for getting twice as much accomplished in meetings, and in half the time--including how to decide if you need to call a meeting in the first place, and, if so, if you can make it a quick and informal one; prepare a meeting, from the participants and location to the agenda; get the most out of your attendance at a meeting, from making sure that you're seen and heard to practicing "active listening" and taking good minutes; chair a meeting effectively by maintaining pace and order, problem-solving, and evaluating your own skill as a chairperson. On every page, boxed tips, handy checklists, and mini case studies bring all of the advice to life. Granted, if you're looking for very specific or in-depth guidance, you might find this book too cursory and general in its approach. But, if you're looking for a thumbnail guide to the basics, it'll do just fine.

It's worth mentioning that the book is part of the "Essential Managers" series by reference publisher Dorling-Kindersley--a series comprising 20 itty-bitty books on business and career topics that range from communication, leadership, and decision-making to the management of time, budgets, change, meetings, people, projects, and teams. Combining the talent of the "For Dummies" book series for breaking down a lot of information into bite-sized bits and sidebars with Dorling-Kindersley's signature design style of crisp, classy graphics on a gleaming white backdrop, the books don't represent the cutting edge of business thinking or reflect necessarily any unique individual perspective. Instead, it's as if someone had collated the best general thinking on these 20 topics, and rolled them out into 72 brightly designed and easy-to-read pages--studded along the way with boxed tips, color shots of a multiracial cast of "coworkers" animatedly hashing through the workplace issues of the day, and, on the last few pages of each volume, a self-test of one's skills in the topic at hand. Again, they're not for anyone who's looking for more in-depth or focused help on any of the covered subjects, but they're perfect as a quick general-interest reference; and, let's face it, they're so damn cute, and look so smart in a neat little stack or row, that probably you'll want to buy a whole bunch to give as gifts to your entire staff or department. --Timothy Murphy

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Dealing Tactics.......2003-12-08

Always so fond of 'Weekly Kids & Parental Meets', what I ever thought after attending meetings in person or groups elsewhere is, that most of the chairpersons and leaders lag somewhere when it came to 'Effective Managing Meetings' for Constructive results. I make a point to gift this book of Tim Hindle to the chiefs with a purpose to enhance their potentialities with better Managing Committees or groups. Most of the places, a meeting begins with a 'Cause', meet, dine and be merry to end up with time running short. This Book is a 'Perfect Gift' as it has detailed power tips to hand real life situations and develop first-class meeting skills to improve efficiency and decisiveness. Right from Defining Meetings whether Formal or Informal, knowing aims, selecting attendees, preparing agenda, site,passing the message, handling problems, checking those pitfalls and lot more reflects how to deal with situations. The book has small tabled 'Things to do' and analysis, charts too handy. I recommend this book for every newbie and existing top persons whether in Business or conducting Groups, Ladies wings, etc. A must read.

A Good Primer.......1999-12-02

This book is fairly basic, and its layout of short chapters, lots of headings, photos, lists, and tables make it a quick and easy book for browsing. This is a good book for those with little experience, or confidence, in handling or attending meetings. It also serves as a quick refresher, because of its format. You will not find anything profound or innovative, and some of it is a little too simplistic or irrelevant. At times it seems a little exploitive in its approach to human relations; it is not long on how to overcome differences or conflicts. Still, I recommended it in the leadership development course which I teach.

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How to Make Money Organizing Information is about preparing, packaging, writing, creating, developing, producing, designing, locating, navigating, selling, and marketing information. It's also about writing scripts, producing videos with your camcorder, and using your personal computer hooked to your camcorder with a cable to transfer information or videos, sound, or other content to your computer.

This book gives you practical information about working online at home with flexible hours—either part or full time. How to Make Money Organizing Information is for all ages and all situations. It doesn't matter whether you're home-based, have a disability, are over age 60 or a young student who wants to work part time, or need a full-time business to support yourself and your family.

More than 26 businesses described can be operated using either a computer or camcorder or both linked together to transfer text, graphics, or sound at the same or different times. The guidebook is about how to start on a tight budget and operate many low-capital businesses dealing with the creation, development, and dissemination of information of all kinds for a variety of businesses and purposes.

Part Two of the book is about writing for the new media/digital media and how to sell or launch your freelance writing in the media before it is published. The chapters focus on how to create, promote, and sell your information and how to research your intended markets.

You can start many types of businesses at home part time from gift baskets to making dolls for medical offices, but these business-based homes work with information online and on disk, in print, and sent through e-mail attachments. Check out the associations and training programs information in the appendices.

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Don't waste your money or time!.......2003-09-13

Given the title of this book, it's ironic that it is so shambolic. The whole thing is a bit of a mishmash with gobbledegook such as "Look to the extranet market of linkages to find new ways to use shorter fiction and drama scripts to fill up the lockout zones..."(p.400). The title is misleading as well: the first half of the book is about using video with a PC link to make money, the second half is about using the web. But in both cases, the ideas are simplistic, and underestimate the difficulties while overestimating the resources available to many people. I bought this blind, since no table of contents or extracts were available. I will definitely be reselling it second-hand ASAP. For a much better book at less than half the price, try "The Well-Fed Writer" by Peter Bowerman.

Best Award-Winning Book I've Read on Online Homebased Biz.......2002-09-27

This is the best award-winning book that I've ever read on how to start more than two dozen online homebased businesses on a small budget and how to run these businesses. The book tells me the target market, who the intended audience or consumers are, where the best locations to open a business are, and at home online means everywhere you can connect. It tells me how much I could expect to make and gives me every resource current and appropriate for more help. This book is about the best I can find on resources and applications of new creative innovations on how to start and run online homebased businesses in businesses few have thought of that are right under one's nose.

The resources are current and terrific, and the cost of operating these online homebased businesses are perfect for anyone who wants to work part time or full time at any age on any budget. It's full of practical applications of creative ideas and business strategies and resources. I highly recommend this and all other books by popular-selling author, Anne Hart.

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The Princeton Review has teamed up with four expert career counselors, Tim Haft, Meg Heenehan, Marci Taub, and Michelle Tullier, who collectively have over forty years counseling job seekers, to give you the straight facts on getting a job. Learn how to make yourself the undeniable candidate: how to organize and customize your job search, research targeted companies, write trashproof resumes and convincing cover letters, confidently sell yourself in an interview, and persist without pestering. Whether you're starting from scratch or you just need a little inspiration, Job Smart is the perfect field-guide for the wilds of job hunting.

Contents Include:
How to Get Hired
Real Facts About the Real World
Preparing for Your Search
The Tools of the Search
Where to Find the Jobs
Talking Your Way to a Job
Landing the Job
Reeling In Job Offers
From Learning to Earning
Smoothing the Rocky Road to a Job

Also includes sample resumes to help you maximize your hiring potential

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Simply the best!.......2001-08-20

Simply put - the author manages to make the most complex financial matters elegantly simple. No matter the gender or age of the reader - one will find oneself in the case studies and will gain a new perspective on one's financial issues. Truly - this book will help any reader become financially independent.

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A book to explore like an ancient forest... .......2006-09-17

In "Earth for Sale", social ecologist Brian Tokar brilliantly exposes the co-opting of mainstream environmental organizations by corporate interests,then outlines alternative strategies and theories for preserving the earth. Activists involved in environmental justice campaigns, organic agriculture and/or forest issues will glean much wisdom from this intelligent book. Importantly, like Murray Bookchin, Brian Tokar does not pit labor against the trees, but instead offers a holistic vision of ecological and economic solidarity, thus healing the rupture between human communities and the land.

Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science

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Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science
Christopher C. Sellers
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Release Date: 1999-08-18

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Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape. At the crossroads where medicine and science met business, labor, and the state, industrial hygiene became a crucible for molding midcentury notions of corporate interest and professional disinterest as well as environmental concepts of the 'normal' and the 'natural.' The evolution of industrial hygiene illuminates how powerfully battles over knowledge and objectivity could reverberate in American society: new ways of establishing cause and effect begat new predicaments in medicine, law, economics, politics, and ethics, even as they enhanced the potential for environmental control. From the 1910s through the 1930s, as Sellers shows, industrial hygiene investigators fashioned a professional culture that gained the confidence of corporations, unions, and a broader public. As the hygienists moved beyond the workplace, this microenvironment prefigured their understanding of the environment at large. Transforming themselves into linchpins of science-based production and modern consumerism, they also laid the groundwork for many controversies to come.

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Best Book Ever.......2007-03-15

GRADE:A++++++++++ Informative, Fun, Captivating. BUY THIS BOOK! YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY! Sellers is a genius. His knowledge of health and industry is pure expertise. He is a top notch researcher who has an extremely captivating writing style. He is truly an expert on many subjects such as health and industry. I thought this subject would be a bore but I WAS WRONG! Sellers uses real world examples that explore the societal issues facing America today in a fun and captivating manner. It is a work of art. Each page was a new journey into Health, Industry, society, and man kinds influence. EXCELLENT BOOK!

How writing to much statisics can hurt........2001-02-22

Hazards of the Job traces the development of the field of occupational health from a "highly diverse, localized, and contradictory" body of knowledge to a more modern science based on quantitative, experimental techniques. In late-19th-century America, occupational diseases such as lead poisoning and silicosis were on the rise but went unrecognized. Physicians were stymied by nonspecific clinical presentations, the lack of scientific data, an orientation toward individual patients rather than groups, and their own loyalties to factory owners. Workers tended to ignore symptoms, avoid doctors, and resist attributing their illnesses to their occupations, which could lead to job loss. Legal traditions favored employers and usually precluded linking workplace exposures to illnesses.

Corporate Environmentalism and Public Policy

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Corporate Environmentalism and Public Policy
Thomas P. Lyon , and John W. Maxwell
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Drawing on prior work on corporate environmentalism, Thomas Lyon and John Maxwell argue that corporate environmentalism is the result of firms attempting to anticipate public policy changes and influence the legislative process in their best interests. Presenting a general framework that highlights the links between corporate environmentalism and public policy, they use analytical tools of positive political economy and game theory to provide insights into corporate strategy and the effects of corporate and government policies on overall social welfare.

Culture shift. (From the Editor).(challenges for Canadian government adopting accrual accounting and for corporate environmentalism)(Editorial): An article from: CMA Management

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Culture shift. (From the Editor).(challenges for Canadian government adopting accrual accounting and for corporate environmentalism)(Editorial): An article from: CMA Management
Robert Colman
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Title: Culture shift. (From the Editor).(challenges for Canadian government adopting accrual accounting and for corporate environmentalism)(Editorial)
Author: Robert Colman
Publication: CMA Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2003
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