Peasant Economics: Farm Households and Agrarian Development (Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development)

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This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries. The second edition retains the same building blocks designed to explore household decision-making in a social context. Key topics are efficiency, risk, time allocation, gender, agrarian contracts, farm size and technological change. For these and other topics, household economic behaviour represents the outcome of social interactions within the household, and market interactions outside the household. A new chapter on the environment combines exposition of economic tools not previously covered in the book with examination of household and community decision-making in relation to environmental resources.

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Critical examination creates Best Summaries of the Issues.......2004-02-06

After reading thousands of pages on the debate of returns to scale in agriculture I was amazed to find this small book present the entire issue in just 20-30 pages without leaving out any position I had previously covered. As with all the other issues all sides are presented fairly and both neo-classical and marxist dogmaticism scrutinized. The chapters on Environment and gender relations were written in response to new developments since the first edition and are not as complete as the other issues. The book assumes no previous economic knoweldge and has a chapter explaining how to interpret the graphs used later in the book. unlike most textbooks the end of chapter summaries and "further reading" lists are actually useful.

Peasant Economics - Farm Households and Agrarian Development

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Peasant Economics - Farm Households and Agrarian Development
Frank Ellis
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VZSXBC

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Packed with dozens of engaging stories, case examples and humorous contemporary cartoons, Cultural Intelligence is the perfect antidote for overcoming cross-cultural differences, improving workplace communication, building solid business relationships and adding to your organization's bottom line. Using a set of twenty business-oriented dimensions, Dr. Peterson helps you examine your own cultural style and determine that of others in six vital areas: management, strategy, planning, personnel, communication and reasoning. The crowning piece is a powerful set of Peterson key action steps for increasing your own cultural intelligence. Brooks Peterson founded Across Cultures, Inc. in 1997 and is an experienced cross-cultural trainer and consultant. American Express, Intel, Volvo, Microsoft and others have used his Peterson Cultural Style Indicator™.

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Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures.......2006-11-10

Timely delivery and in perfect condition.

Too broad a topic..........2006-08-01

The discussion was so broad that it was almost irrelevant. It is not Peterson's fault though. Any discussion about every culture in the world is necessarily broad, but I think I would have gotten more out of the book if it focused on a specific area of the world.

Cultural Intelligence.......2005-03-13

Cultural issues are not a new topic, but this book is so well written that it quickly becomes an interesting read and valuable learning tool for almost all of us, because of the world we live in, now and in the future. The author begins by explaining the importance of cultural intelligence for many of our business and personal interactions (with people from other ethnic groups at home and around the world), then listing what to expect (how the book is organized and why), and finally presenting a wealth of information about the topic (with vivid examples of how to apply it to our daily lives). Those examples are a clear indication that the author has accumulated his knowledge through wide reading, a variety of teaching contexts, and comprehensive practical experience in the field. The book identifies common cross-cultural dilemmas and offers practical solutions by outlining primary principles as a foundation for decision-making and describing how individual differences must be considered. The use of continuums throughout the book, and in the tool The Peterson Cultural Style Indicator, ensures that the reader understands and effectively uses the concept of Gray, versus Black and White, in human relationships. A good summary is the equation presented of Cultural Intelligence: Knowledge about Cultures + Awareness (of self and others) + Specific Skills (behaviors).

Insightful!.......2004-08-04

Imagine a guidebook that helps you navigate the uncharted lands of strange cultures or, at least, cultures that seem strange to you. Author Brooks Peterson is less concerned with social advice than he is with explaining how to manage broad cultural differences and avoid cultural egocentrism. While he soundly reviews measures of cultural differences, such as cultural scales, he avoids delving into complex, abstract theories with little practical application. His clearly written book treats all cultures objectively, covering broad tendencies without venturing into cultural generalities. He alerts you to the nuances of other cultures and your own. We strongly recommend this book to anyone who interacts with the values of other cultures on a regular basis - and, these days, that's just about everybody.

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Plunkett's InfoTech Industry Almanac presents a complete analysis of the technology business, including the convergence of hardware, software, entertainment and telecommunications. This market research tool includes our analysis of the 15 major trends affecting the industry, from the rebound of the global PC market, to Wi-Fi and WiMax, to open systems such as Linux, to web services and supercomputing. In addition, we provide 16 major statistical tables covering the industry, from computer sector revenues to broadband subscribers to semiconductor industry production. No other source provides this book's easy-to-understand comparisons of growth, expenditures, technologies, imports/exports, corporations, research and other vital subjects. The corporate profile section provides in-depth, one-page profiles on each of the top 500 InfoTech companies. We have used our massive databases to provide you with unique, objective analysis of the largest and most exciting companies in: Computer Hardware, Computer Software, Internet Services, E-Commerce, Networking, Semiconductors, Memory, Storage, Information Management and Data Processing. We've been working harder than ever to gather data on all the latest trends in information technology. Our research effort includes an exhaustive study of new technologies and discussions with experts at dozens of innovative tech companies. Purchasers of the printed book or PDF version may receive a free CD-ROM database of the corporate profiles, enabling export of vital corporate data for mail merge and other uses. 663 pages.

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SmartStart was designed to eliminate financial and bureaucratic confusion by providing you with the most current contact information for federal, state, and local agencies. Its appendices contain brief descriptions of each regulatory agency and include addresses, phone numbers, and links to World Wide Web information. Detailed, accurate, and jargon-free, SmartStart is an invaluable reference for any business.

SmartStart leads the reader through the legal and practical considerations of setting up a small business, and contains a long list of up-to-the-minute regulatory requirements that can help you to determine the best structure for your company, find necessary financing, develop a marketing strategy, choose the right insurance, hire and keep loyal employees, and even set up and equip your office efficiently. Small Business Development Centers and entrepreneurial education programs throughout the country currently use and recommend SmartStart books to professionals and students alike.

Just look at what SmartStart includes: sample forms, sample business plan, detailed economic and demographic information, and comprehensive guide to money resources.

SmartStart is designed to help you: determine if you should operate as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or incorporation, register trademarks and apply for local permits, protect yourself and your business through proper tax planning, anticipate the basic issues of expansion, relocation, and interstate commerce.

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GOOD GUIDE FOR STARTING A BUSINESS BUT INFO CAN GET OUTDATE

Starting and Operating a Business in Utah (Smartstart Your Business in)
Michael D. Jenkins
Manufacturer: Oasis Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1555712894

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GOOD GUIDE FOR STARTING A BUSINESS BUT INFO CAN GET OUTDATE.......1999-07-22

This Guide is excellent for starting a business and for parting the sea of red tape. The only downside of the book is that it was last revised in 1994, and with all the laws that are passed each year makes it very outdated.

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If you want top grades and thorough mastery of German vocabulary in writing and speechÑwith less study timeÑthis powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have. It takes you step-by-step through the subject, giving you drills (answers at the back show how youÕre doing), vocabulary for common situations such as eating in restaurants and traveling, and English-German and German-English glossaries. Famous for their clarity and useful examples, SchaumÕs Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. This guide will show you why!

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Wow!.......2007-10-06

Great for practice, reference, study, and more! There's not much more to say about this great little workbook. One the most used books in my German Library. Helps before tests and exams, plus gives an organized way to assist your learning.

-Dr. Kenneth

German Language Help.......2007-03-22

This book is a great tool for improving one's vocabulary in German. It focusses on specific areas, provides the words for that area, and has some exercises to review the words. A good book to enhance one's learning German, at the intermediate level.

Review by an 83 year old student.......2007-01-10

The Outline is fantastic for individuals studying German for pleasure and travel. It is thorough and very well written. I have learned and enjoyed the learning experience at the same time. Highly reccomend for all studying German as a second language.

Good for anyone with a foundation in German grammar.......2000-03-04

I used the equivelent of this book in an upper-division Spanish class that I took; I found it truly broadens the vocabulary tremendously. I feel, however, that both of these workbooks, although useful, require a foundation in the syntax of the language for full appreciation of what the authors/editors are trying to do. However, the exercises may be completed without the background.

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This valuable study guide provides the most up-to-date vocabulary for conversing effectively in everyday situations and during travel. As students learn new words, carefully planned exercises provide immediate opportunities to practice them. Correct "answers" permit prompt self-correction. This handy, indispensable reference includes chapters about air travel, public transportation, museums, and shopping at the farmer's market. It's ideal for new and advanced students, to supplement class lessons and improve grades, or for solo study.

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A place to start........2006-03-14

Schaum's Outline of Russian Vocabulary would be useful to a student during the very earliest introduction to Russian. This book's material is duplicated in other introductions to the language. An advantage of these outlines is the large number of excersises for practice, all with answers.

some glaring issues, but otherwise ok.......2006-03-11

I bought this book after purchasing the truly stellar "Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar" expecting this to be of the same quality. The book *is* useful and *does* have a lot of information packed in there, and the organizational structure does have some good ideas that make the exercises (which are good) hang together well. I have two main problems with the book beyond this. First, you are absolutely sand blasted with vocab. This may be good or bad, depending on your point of view, but I found it to mostly be bad, because it wasn't designed with absorption/acquisition in mind. I think this would be a great review or refresher for someone who was already very advanced with both grammar and vocabulary. Not so much for somebody trying to build up to that point.

The bigger problem is that unlike the Grammar Outline, or basically any other Russian course on the market, the vocabulary is presented without any accent marks. I can't imagine why they did this, since a word's stress is so critical to developing proper Russian pronunciation (much more so than for say, English or Spanish). Especially since stress shifts in case endings or verb conjugations can lead to hilarious or tragic misunderstandings or no understanding at all, this decision just doesn't make any sense to me.

A good idea gone bad! Forget it!.......2000-08-02

Schaum's "Russian Vocabulary." This is supposed to a text in vocabulary building for everyday situations. However, the authors/publisher really missed the proverbial boat: There are no accent marks for any of the words in this book! The book title should be "We'll Show You What the Words Look Like in Print, But We Won't Tell You How to Pronounce Them Correctly." Any student of Russian knows how unpredictable the stress of Russian words is. It's really a rather nasty little joke to sell you a vocabulary book without the accent marks. You would have to look each word up in a dictionary to find out how to say it -- an impossible task. Ironically, accent marks are included in Schaum's Russian Grammar book. In short, this book is totally useless for learning new vocabulary unless you want to risk putting the accent on the wrong syllable (and perhaps totally changing the meaning of the word). What were they thinking!

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High Performance Speaking
Marlyn Snider
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0786302224

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Performance visualization and behavioral disruption: a clarification. : An article from: Communication Reports

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Performance visualization and behavioral disruption: a clarification. : An article from: Communication Reports
Joe Ayres
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Communication Reports, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3931 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: Performance visualization and behavioral disruption: a clarification.
Author: Joe Ayres
Publication: Communication Reports (Newsletter)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 18 Issue: 1-2 Page: 55(9)

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Speaking of growth: high-performance retailers share their passion for success.(The Wright Angle): An article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing

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Speaking of growth: high-performance retailers share their passion for success.(The Wright Angle): An article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing
Scott H. Wright
Manufacturer: National Retail Hardware Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Do-It-Yourself Retailing, published by National Retail Hardware Association on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 788 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: Speaking of growth: high-performance retailers share their passion for success.(The Wright Angle)
Author: Scott H. Wright
Publication: Do-It-Yourself Retailing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: National Retail Hardware Association
Volume: 186 Issue: 3 Page: 10(1)

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Sams Teach Yourself e-Job Hunting Today is an easy and efficient way to discover the right career path using online computer technology. Taking advantage of resources available on the Internet, this book not only teaches you how to find the right job, but also what the right job is based on your talents, interests, and values. Divided into four major sections, this book focuses self-evaluation and career exploration, job search strategies, evaluating the offer, and starting a new job.

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Offers Highly Effective Job Search Strategies!.......2000-07-19

Schlesinger and Musich teamed up to write e-Job Hunting to help members of the online community to successfully find employment through the use of Internet technology. They offer in-depth resume style and writing instruction, career planning, self-evaluation, online interviewing instruction, and a number of highly effective job search strategies.

Readers will find helpful instruction on how to write and otherwise prepare resumes for posting online. Effective word selection, grammar, formatting, layout, type faces, content, length, scannability, and the methods of posting resumes are important considerations covered in good detail in this book.

The authors of e-Job Hunting do a commendable job of identifying and evaluating the major and most helpful job board sites such as monster.com, careerpath.com, careerbuilder.com, careermosaic.com, and so on. Additional sites, publications, and topics discussed in the book offer a wealth of further job seeking guidance.

This handy guide is a good place to start in the job searching process. It covers all the bases. Readers will learn a lot about themselves and the kind of employment that is best suited for them. This is essential reading for anyone serious about finding a good job and perhaps a new career doing something they want to do!

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Discusses the price of raising children and how it can be estimated, socioeconomic theories of fertility, the difference in costs for one-child two-child, and three-child families. There is a new foreword for this edition.

Policies to help disadvantaged children: Financing options for the 1990s (Discussion paper / Urban Institute)

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Policies to help disadvantaged children: Financing options for the 1990s (Discussion paper / Urban Institute)
Roberta Barnes
Manufacturer: Urban Institute
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Good All Around

a complete approach for inheritors

This is a great book!

The Wise Inheritor
Ann Perry
Manufacturer: Broadway
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Who Gets Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate?

ASIN: 076790835X
Release Date: 2003-06-10

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The complete guide for managing the financial, legal, and emotional issues of inheritances large and small.

A death in the family is never easy, but receiving an inheritance, whether expected or not, can leave heirs feeling overwhelmed and even guilty at this change in their fortunes. Ann Perry’s insightful examination of the challenges make managing a bequest a little easier.

Combining her practical know-how as a personal finance writer, the expertise of financial advisors, attorneys, and psychologists, and the wisdom gained from her personal inheritance experience, Perry deftly deals with such touchy subjects as selling the family homestead, divvying up property in “blended families,” parceling out heirlooms, dividing a family business, and sharing—or not sharing—an inheritance with a spouse.

With refreshing candor, Perry addresses the guilt, grief, and unrealistic fantasies that can keep heirs from making the most of their windfalls, and also explores the unique, even life-changing, opportunities that a bequest can present. An excellent tool for estate planning, as well, this is essential reading for those who are writing their wills as well as those who are remembered in one.

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The complete guide for managing the financial, legal, and emotional issues of inheritances large and small.

A death in the family is never easy, but receiving an inheritance, whether expected or not, can leave heirs feeling overwhelmed and even guilty at this change in their fortunes. Ann Perry's insightful examination of the challenges make managing a bequest a little easier.

Combining her practical know-how as a personal finance writer, the expertise of financial advisors, attorneys, and psychologists, and the wisdom gained from her personal inheritance experience, Perry deftly deals with such touchy subjects as selling the family homestead, divvying up property in "blended families," parceling out heirlooms, dividing a family business, and sharing -- or not sharing -- an inheritance with a spouse.

With refreshing candor, Perry addresses the guilt, grief, and unrealistic fantasies that can keep heirs from making the most of their windfalls, and also explores the unique, even life-changing, opportunities that a bequest can present. An excellent tool for estate planning, as well, this is essential reading for those who are writing their wills as well as those who are remembered in one.

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book review.......2007-10-08

This is an outstanding book! Great for those who inherit any amount of money.

Good All Around .......2004-09-15

Ann's book does a nice job of touching on a full range of emotions and feelings. The book wasn't heavy on specific advice, just all around good ideas that everyone should acknowledge when receiving an inheritance. It is a pretty light read with good examples and stories for anyone reading the book. I purchased copies for other members of my family to help them with our recent situation.

a complete approach for inheritors.......2003-08-19

Ms. Perry (the GO FISH heiress) has written a book that covers both the emotional and the financial sides of getting an inheritance. I found her advise on both sides to be sensitive and helpful. I recommend reading this book before giving or coming into an inheritance.

This is a great book!.......2003-06-25

This book was wonderful. My father died 10 months ago and I just read this book. I wish I had found it earlier. The subjects discussed in this book are hard to share with others. Finally I realized there were others out there that felt as I have. I am going to be purchasing copies of this book to give to my attourney, the funeral director and my appraisor. My hope is that they will give them away to someone who is just starting to go through this processes. If you are an inheritor you need this book! It is also good for anyone to know information about estate planning.

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