Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)

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Decent analysis, but bad editing.......2003-04-26

To start off, the editors of this book must have been asleep when it crossed their desks: the numerous erros in spelling and grammar interrupt a generally lucid writing style, with numerous, critical errors even in charts and graphs. The worst editorial aspect of the book is that in several places, entire passages are repeated, sometimes immediately, other times in a different chapter. Being in the field, I know economists are not the most skilled writers, but I place all the blame at the doorstep of the publishing house.

That said, the book is fairly good at getting its point across. While the authors' stance on capitalism-vs-communism is clear, they generally present the facts in a clear manner, and they are evenhanded in their treatment of the opposing theories.

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Lots of good information.......2007-07-16

For those who enjoy learning about the Soviet system, this is a good resource. The overview is good, all the key points are touched on, it is fairly unbiased (though it seemed a little bit to me as if it became more and more sympathetic towards socialism as it went on). Highlights include a brief introduction to input-output analysis in planning and a short investigation into sources of growth and productivity (national income per factor - capital, labor and combined).

As one of many sources, this is quite useful. The citations and bibliography are also very useful.

Soviet Economic Structure and Performance.

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Soviet Economic Structure and Performance.
Paul R. Gregory
Manufacturer: Longman Higher Education
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Binding: Paperback
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Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure

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Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure
Paul R.Stuart, Robert C. Gregory
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUG4T2

Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)

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Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)
Robert C. Stuart Paul R. Gregory
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUG500

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Soviet Economic Structure & Performance
Paul R.; Stuart, Robert C. Gregory
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEQ5X8

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Recently, the emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the admission of electronic commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce, defined as the exchange or buying and selling of commodities, services, or information on the Internet through the use of mobile handheld devices. In just a few years, mobile commerce has emerged from nowhere to become the hottest new trend in business transactions. However, the prosperity and popularity of mobile commerce will be brought to a higher level only if information is securely and safely exchanged among end systems (mobile users and content providers). Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce includes high-quality research papers and industrial and practice articles in the areas of mobile commerce security and payment from academics and industrialists. It covers research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of mobile commerce security and payment.

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study the chapters on fraud.......2005-11-28

If mobile commerce is to take off, many issues of micropayments and antifraud need to be addressed. Hu edited this collection of papers which addresses these and other issues. These give a timely discussion about what might be the most pertinent topics facing hardware and software vendors wanting to deploy an application.

Overwhelmingly, the mobile commerce platform appears to be the cellphone, given the sheer prevalence, as compared to PDAs or mobile laptops.

The chapters on possible types of fraud attacks and what countermeasures could be implemented might be the most important sections of the book. As with other types of electronic interactions, like email and web browsing, fraud is likely to surface as a peril if mobile commerce becomes pervasive.

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trips for trips

Pages and editor missing but highly informative

Good but...

Great Book!

This is the book

How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency
Tom Ogg , Joanie Ogg , and Tom
Manufacturer: Tom Ogg & Associates
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Binding: Paperback

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How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency has just been entirely updated.

The effects of September 11th, 2001 and the resulting aftermath has had a dramatic effect on the travel industry and further enabled home-based travel entrepreneurs. The January 1st, 2003 printing of How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency is the most up-to-date information available about operating a travel business in this exciting industry.

Issues such as the elimination of airline commissions, the implementation of service fees, the fabulous growth of the cruise industry and all of the changes that have evolved are discussed and analyzed. This edition of How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency is a must have if you are considering entering the travel industry or are an agent going home-based from a storefront.

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trips for trips.......2007-02-26

Step by step how to set up a or any home office or business. Would be useful for any home business. Great ideas. Worth reading.

Pages and editor missing but highly informative.......2004-09-26

I bought this book hoping to open my own home-based travel agency but decided half way through the book it wasn't really the career for me. So I received enough information to let me know that I didn't want to waste any more time pursuing a career as a travel agent. There was information on how 9/11 has negatively impacted the travel industry. It also made me realize how much more difficult it is to break into the business without negotiating with specific companies for referral commissions and that travel agencies now have to charge fees for issuing airline tickets because airlines no longer provide commissions (because most of them have never recovered from 9/11 and are on the brink of bankruptcy). I personally prefer to buy tickets directly from the airlines to avoid additional costs.

I realized that being a travel agent was going to be more effort than I was willing to put forth for what sounds like scraps - according to the authors' description of how the industry currently works.

So buy this book if you are REALLY serious about wanting to start your own travel agency but realize you may not get all of the information because of missing pages and horrible editing.

Good but..........2004-08-01

The book is really good, but it's a little outdated. I thought I was getting the most recent edition (the one issued in 1997) as this was shown as the most recent version by amazon, but there was one issued in 2003, so be sure to get that one, as without that you don't get access to the authors web site.

Great Book!.......2004-05-15

I was a "travel agent" for GTI and just didn't get the support I needed and found the benefits non-existent. But I found out that I wanted to become a real travel agent. I bought both books from Amazon.com and found How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency the best book for anyone wanting to start a serious career selling travel. The other book is good if you want to join GTI or organizations like that. I didn't find many errors in it at all.

This is the book.......2003-12-24

While there are typos in the book, How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency is an excellent book that helped me make the transition from store front to home based. After 7 years as a retail travel agent, I was forced to go home-based. I looked at both this book and the other one (Home Based Travel Agent) and found this one to represent the information necessary to make the transition. Tom and Joanie Ogg are well known and respected in the travel business and their expertise goes without rival.

Do yourself a favor, this is the book to buy.

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How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency Independent Study Course
Tom Ogg and Joanie Ogg
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A completely new and professionally edited study course for starting your own home-based travel business, this is the book that started it all. This is a step by step guide that will answer all of your questions and lead to the successful opening and operation of your own home-based travel business.

How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency Independent Study Workbook

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How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency Independent Study Workbook
Tom Ogg and Joanie Ogg
Manufacturer: Tom Ogg & Associates
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The Companion for the How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency Independent Study Guide, this workbook will lead folks to the point where they can launch their new business. It consists of an exploration of the most critical areas of importance, an extensive check list for getting started and even includes a 50-question test that can lead to a formal Certificate of Achievement. This workbook is perfect if you are starting your home based travel agency from scratch and want to maximize your efficiency in doing so.

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Packed with practical tips, guidelines and techniques that really work in order to reach more effective and speedier negotiation agreements. Divides negotiation into 3 categories--strategy, tactics and gamesmanship--with a chapter on each. Offers in-depth explanations on how to open negotiations, evaluating your opponent and negotiation for salespeople. Also includes a self-evaluation test.

Making Successful Presentations: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self Teaching Guides)

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Reference for Training New Trainers
Definitely Worth It

Making Successful Presentations: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self Teaching Guides)
Terry C. Smith
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Courses in how to give presentations cost hundreds of dollars--maybe more; yet few provide the comprehensive coverage found in this book, which is designed to show you how to eliminate your fears, gain recognition as a good speaker, and have fun doing it. It takes you through all of these phases, from the initial planning and organization to the development and actual delivery of your presentation. Chapters follow a logical sequence starting with giving a talk and ending with how to handle questions and answers. New to this edition is an entire chapter devoted to the personal computer and how to use it most effectively. Updated information, charts, slides, viewgraphs, room setups and more complete this step-by-step handbook, which you'll refer to again and again for successful speaking.

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Reference for Training New Trainers.......2006-12-29

I used this book as a reference in 1996 and provided copies to a dozen new trainers for a meeting where many of them would be training for the first time. We had another meeting in 2006 and I provided updated training resources... several of the folks still referenced this book as a good resource. It was updated in 1991 from 1984 and would benefit from another update (most of us use PowerPoint slides instead of 35 mm slides now). Even considering updated technologies - the concepts are sound and still every bit as valuable.

Definitely Worth It.......2006-12-02

There are a couple of facts in life: Most people make horrible presentations, and they don't have a clue what makes them horrible or a total bore. This book, with its witty style and well-organized, well, presentation, is easy to read, and will help the reader overcome both.

The real strong suit of this book is that Smith, unlike many other books on the subject, shows the reader how to deal with different types of hostile or loaded questions. (Anyone who listens to Hannity, O'Reilly or Limbaugh long enough will be able to recognize what I'm referring to here.)

Considering many of us will be thrown into more situations of public speaking than we may realize, Smith's book is definitely worth the purchase, not when you are asked to present, but before. You might want to start reading a book like this right away.

Your Public Best: The Complete Guide to Making Successful Public Appearances, Second Edition

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Your Public Best: The Complete Guide to Making Successful Public Appearances, Second Edition
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Making Meetings Happen: A Simple and Effective Guide to Implementing Successful Meetings

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Makes meeting easier and more effective
Great information concisely written for busy professionals

Making Meetings Happen: A Simple and Effective Guide to Implementing Successful Meetings
Robert Burns
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Filled with ideas and tools for generating positive change in the workplace, this guide offers practical methods for ensuring that business meetings are effective and efficient. Advice includes developing a clear meeting focus, successful planning and preparing, handling difficult people and situations, presenting to a group, minute-taking, and auditing a meeting. A variety of different meeting formats are covered, as are strategies for chairing a meeting effectively.

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Makes meeting easier and more effective.......2003-11-27

Meetings.

Just the utterance of the word is enough to make most people dread it. And that's because many meetings fail to deliver what they promise due to poor decision making, the wrong participants, the wrong strategy or any number of reasons.

Meetings are a fact of working life, and there will be times when enterprising writers not only attend but also conduct them ~ be they meetings with clients, business pitches or seminars and workshops promoting your services.

This book will give you the foundation you need to conduct and participate in meetings with success. While some of the material is common sense, it covers the subject admirably, offering a variety of tips, techniques and strategies that cover all kinds of encounters. Topics include:

* Preparing for a meeting
- defining the agenda
- deciding how to run the meeting

* Conducting a meeting
- how to present
- behavioral aspects of a meeting
- communication and leadership styles

* Participating in a meeting

* How to deal with difficult people and situations
- conflict resolution style
- problem solving meetings
- multicultural meetings

* Communication skills
- Assertiveness
- Non-verbal communication
- Persuasive strategies

Of particular interest to freelancers are the chapters ~ 'Making a Presentation' and 'Strategies, tools and activities', which provide solid advice on structuring material, opening and closing remarks, answering questions as well as using audio-visual aids.

Also of importance are the chapters ~ 'Taking Minutes' and 'Writing it all up and getting action' ~ which deal with note-taking and reporting of the minutes. While the chapters include rudimentary guidance on writing (ie use active voice rather than passive, etc), they do offer helpful information on how to structure the minutes of a meeting and ensure items are actionable and people are accountable.

This is a handy reference guide which is easy to read and understand. 'Making Meetings Happen' is primarily designed to be used as a workbook. It features checklists in every chapter as well as worksheets and exercises, so that readers can workshop and hone their skills.

-- Michael Meanwell, author of the critically-acclaimed 'The Enterprising Writer' and 'Writers on Writing'. For more book reviews and prescriptive articles for writers, visit www.enterprisingwriter.com

Great information concisely written for busy professionals.......2001-09-25

Our company library included a copy of Robert Burns' "Making Meetings Happen". This book offers busy professionals everything they should need to improve the meetings they lead and the meetings they attend. Although some of the material is common sense or "you've heard it before", Mr. Burns takes a fresh approach to the topic of meetings and presents it in a very easy to read, concise, entertaining way. Excellent real life examples of meeting situations and how to improve one's approach to handling difficult attendees, hidden agendas, and the inevitable time wasters. Mr. Burns provides many checklists and other practical tools to use for analyzing meetings. I would recommend this book to everyone that attends or conducts meetings.

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The Job Hunter's Catalog is enriched by the author's twenty-plus years of experience as a careers columnist and the hundreds of hints, tips, and techniques she's collected from headhunters, placement directors, recruiters, and interviewers. As a result, this book functions as a wise counselor who gives you guidance on such matters as how to dress, behave, and speak more convincingly in your job search and how to adapt this advice to your own style and personality. You'll get detailed self-check lists of things you may be doing, saying, or omitting that can hurt your chances of getting a job. You'll get just the right kind of coaching and encouragement to put you over the top and into the position you really want.

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A catalog of performance objectives and performance guides for medical laboratory technician, certificate
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Your assets are fair game. Predatory opportunists covet the products of your lifetime of hard work. They may be the IRS, a former spouse, a client, a patient, a creditor, a government regulator, or a business partner. Creative attorneys and misguided juries are ready to give your assets to someone else. It's like a national lottery but with better odds. In Keep Your Hands Off My Assets, Dan Kiely deals comprehensively with the areas of exposure and the numerous tools available to protect you from these predators. Become proactive. Build a legal firewall between your assets and society's predators.

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Dan Kiely provides a wealth of information........2003-10-28

An excellent guide for the layman. Ideas most people don't think of that may be useful preparation for the future. No one expects bad times to come; but they do. This book helps one be financially ready.

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The Yes, you can of Invacare Corporation tells the roots of the Invacare Corporation that stretch almost as far back as the wheelchair itself. The company began as the Fay Manufacturing Company, maker of tricycles, in 1885. Today, Invacare is the world's top manufacturer of rehabilitative products, respiratory products, home care beds and products, soft goods and supplies, institutional beds and equipment, and, of course, wheelchairs, with manufacturing facilities in twelve countries. In 2000, the company reached $1 billion in sales, a milestone it hopes to double by 2005.

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