Adam Smith and Modern Political Economy: Bicentennial Essays on the Wealth of Nations

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Adam Smith and Modern Political Economy : Bicentennial Essays on The Wealth of Nations
Gerald P., Jr. (editor) O'Driscoll
Manufacturer: Ames, IA, U.S.A. Iowa State University Press .
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ASIN: B000S08JU0

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This best-selling introduction to the basic concepts of business communication is designed to improve the communication skills of entry-level managers and employees, and to serve as a reference for experienced professionals who wish to refresh or update their communication skills. Separate chapters on the communication process, organizational theory and culture, and interpersonal communication theory form the foundation for later discussions of critical listening, nonverbal communication, and obstacles to organizational communication. Two chapters are devoted to interviewing and two chapters examine small groups and leadership processes. Four final chapters offer guidance in informative and persuasive presentations, including full-chapter coverage of language and delivery and full-chapter coverage of the use of visual aids. A highly-visual 4-color design, pedagogy that is as practical as it is effective, and a CD-ROM with sample business and professional scenarios, will help your students engage with the material and apply the text's concepts outside the classroom.

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Don't Buy It if you don't need it.......2007-10-04

This is a good book, but I quickly realized I didn't need it. I have worked for 15 years in various office settings, and was able to complete many homework assignments without the assistance of this book. The only pieces that I had to focus on were the different office conflict scenarious listed through the book, but if your class does not focus on these entries, the book may not be too useful.

smooth transaction, exact product, nice&easy supplier.......2007-05-14

exact product at an affordable price w a smooth transaction

Excellent Book .......2007-03-24

I obtained this book more than ten years ago when I took Ms. Hamilton's class at Tarrant County College. I still have it and refer to it from time to time. I also used the communication styles from this book for a team presentation in another class, at University of Phoenix, a few years ago. My teammate and I had both taken Ms. Hamilton's class at TCC (different years) and were very impressed with the book, had both held on to it and use it for reference in communication styles, resumes, interviews, and presentations. I highly recommend it.

Great book, Bad CD-Rom.......2006-11-09

This book has some great information in it and it could stand alone very easily on its content. The CD-ROM, however, needs work. It is nearly impossible to install since it continually prompts you to install QuickTime 6.0, even if you already have it! The CD-ROM also requires you to turn off all of your virus protection to use it. I give the actual book a B+ and the CD-ROM a grade of D-.

Please let your instructor know of the CD-ROM issues so complaints can be filed with the publisher to get this fixed.

Good Basic Information on Improving Communication .......2006-07-06

Communicating for Results is a good primer for the student or person who wants to improve his/her communication abilities.

Among the topics covered include:

1. Information on the different types of interviews.
2. Nonverbal communication in organizations.
3. How to be an effective listener (hint: we were born with one mouth and two ears!).
4. How to deliver informative presentations.
5. The types of visual aids and how to use them.
6. How to make persuasive presentations.
7. Participating in small groups.
8. How to prepare for a presentation by researching, supporting, and delivering your ideas.

All in all, a good basic book for a 2 or 4-year school. The writing style is simple without being simplistic.

Recommended.

Student Workbook for Hamilton's Communicating For Results: A Guide for Business and Professionals, 7th

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Student Workbook for Hamilton's Communicating For Results: A Guide for Business and Professionals, 7th
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303 Solutions for Communicating Effectively & Getting Results

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303 Solutions for Communicating Effectively & Getting Results
Compiled by Doug Smart
Manufacturer: James and Brookfield Publishers
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Take your communication skills to a higher level and instantly reap huge rewards. Be better heard, understood and respected. Experts agree: Your ability to express yourself well- in both one-on-one and group situations- is your number one skill for quickly improving the quality of your life. Learn from today's top trainers, consultants and speakers as they show you how to communicate more clearly, confidently and credibly.

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Communicating for Results in Government: A Strategic Approach for Public Managers

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Communicating for Results in Government: A Strategic Approach for Public Managers
James L. Garnett
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Drawing on research and practical experience, James L. Garnett offers public managers a new, more systematic and strategic approach to communicating with superiors, colleagues, and citizens; presents guidelines for effective communication; and furnishes practical tools for using this new approach.

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Communicating for Results
Michelle Poley
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Communicating at Work: Creating Messages That Get Results
Ron Blicq
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Cheryl Hamilton
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Cheryl, Parker, Cordell, & Smith, Doyle Hamilton
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Saloons, barrooms, honky-tonks, or watering holes--by whatever name, they are part of the mythology of the American West, and their stories are cocktails of legend and fact, as Richard Selcer, David Bowser, Nancy Hamilton, and Chuck Parsons demonstrate in these accounts of four legendary Texas establishments.

In most Western communities, the first saloon was built before the first church, and the drinking establishments far outnumbered the religious ones. Beyond their obvious functions, saloons served as community centers, polling places, impromptu courtrooms, and public meeting halls.

Here, the spotlight is thrown on four celebrated saloons:

Jack Harris's Saloon and Vaudeville Theater San Antonio

Ben Dowell's Saloon El Paso

The Iron Front Austin

The White Elephant Fort Worth

Selcer and his coauthors start with the origins of each establishment and follow their stories until the last drink was served and the places closed down for good. They discuss all aspects of the business: the owners, the liquor provided, the entertainment, the troubling issues of segregation by race and gender, and the way order was maintained--if it was at all.

Along the way they consider the ornate bar construction, old floor plans, the liquor suppliers, the attire of the gentlemen gamblers, the variety of casino games that emptied men's pockets, fatal shootings that occurred, and more. Vintage photos of the establishments, along with some of their more famous customers, further take the reader back to the Old West.

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THESE BARS WERE MADE FOR DRINKING.......2005-02-08

What did every town in the Old West have at least one of and more often several? Churches, shops? You knew all along - saloons. When a town was settled a saloon was usually the first building to go up. Now, it's not that all were hard drinkers (although many were), but a saloon served as much more than a bar. It was a gathering place, a makeshift meeting hall and, if you watch TV's "Deadwood," you learn it was also used as a courtroom.

True, they were also the scenes of brawls and gunfights. This territory was called the "Wild West" for good reason. Nonetheless, these saloons or watering holes, as they were sometimes called, are very much a part of our western history.

A past President of the Western Writers of America, Leon Claire Metz, has said, "Without saloons, the Wild West would have been dull, essentially unrecognizable. Yet the saloon story, until now, has never been told with such clarifying candor. If you understand saloons, you will understand the West: why it was Wild, why it was great, and why it will always be remembered."

Reading "Legendary Watering Holes" is a major step in understanding the West. The authors focus on four of the most famous (or infamous) saloons in Texas, shedding light on their owners, the entertainment, and even the liquor that was served. Accompanied by vintage photos, each saloon is described from the day it opened until its swinging doors were closed forever.

Historians and Western buffs will find much to relish in this well researched volume.

- Gail Cooke

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The basics of how to start a business in a woman's world where technological advances are made daily. An in-depth text helps home-based futurists start and grow a business. This book is user friendly, designed into a reference cookbook to be read and used for reference. The basics of starting a home-based business, selling and marketing remain the same, but computers and the Internet require coping with change. This book teaches business know how from a woman's point of view.

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This monograph brings together two distant worlds: the volatile and hyper-aggressive milieu of e-mail commerce and the practices of a traditional, multilateral institution. How does Amazon.com market books and how does the IDB distribute its publications? How much can the Inter-American Development Bank learn from a dot.com?

It seems that some of the marketing tools used by the ever so powerful Amazon.com can be used by a small but respectable publishing center of a development bank. Not only that, but the Bank can learn from the mistakes of the big dot.coms. This is a most welcome piece of writing.

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Thesis or Book?.......2001-08-08

The book was disappointing. While there was some value to its content, the publication is more akin to a published university thesis than a book. Limited in scope to buying books online, wih reference to the Inter-American Development Bank's experience at using email to sell its publications, the title is misleading.

Permission to Success.......2001-04-01

With hundreds of messages a year, it is hard to get the attention from prospective customers that marketers would like. E-promotions looks at the effectiveness of e-mail promotions as a complement to marketing strategies used by booksellers. A must read for marketers and e-mail users alike.

A beginners manual..........2001-03-02

The substance of this book is a comparison of email marketing promotions from Amazon, B&N, and Borders. Some interesting numbers are presented but, overall, this book is nothing more than a primer for those entering the eMarketing field. I question some of the conclusions which the author arrives at given the limited number of participants (182) in his own ePromotion campaign.

Not a bad book but there certainly are others I would pursue with greater vigor than this one.

E-mail your Way to Higher Profits.......2001-02-17

The E- prefix is hot. Every word preceded by the magic fifth letter of the alphabet seems to generate attention. E-promotions, of course is not any different. This publication builds on this eye catching phenomenon to describe the efficiency and legitimacy of e-mail marketing for targeted audiences in the publishing industry. Great book for college students and marketing profesionals.

This is an entry level book.......2001-01-24

This book is for people who are new to the online marketing. It contains many ideas that have been out there for years. I would say no more than 10% is new stuff.

I would recommend it to people who are new to Internet marketing.

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While processes of innovation are increasingly realized globally, they can also take a highly regionalized expression. In this book, the global networks that link regions are set against the local aspects of innovation. With contributions from international experts, this book examines local 'Islands of Innovation' where research and industrial expertise are concentrated, along with areas where traditional industrial regions have passed through a process of innovative restructuring.

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'Tourism in South and South East Asia' is a comprehensive and solid introduction to tourism in South and South East Asia with a specific appeal both to institutions in the region, and other institutions who wish to expose students to one of the most dynamic tourism regions in the world.

Despite downturns in outbound tourism (due to the current economic crisis), inbound tourism from outside the region has continued to increase with governments placing more emphasis on the economic significance of tourism than ever. 'Tourism in South and South East Asia' is the first tourism book to deal comprehensively with the implications of the Asian economic crisis for tourism.

With South and South East Asia set to be the fastest growing area of tourism activity in the world well into the next century, 'Tourism in South and South East Asia' is an essential text for students both within and outside of this region.

Dealing with concepts, themes and issues which are pertinent to tourism development, planning, marketing and management; these two internationally known authors have produced an authoritative text that covers all aspects of this topic through the use of illustrative and relevant case studies.

The author team - well established editors.
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Afghanistan Business & Investment Opportunities Yearbook
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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ASIN: 0739721003

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This yearbook contains basic information on export-import, investment and business opportunities in the respected country. Provides information on government structure, economy, business climate, regulations, and more... Includes basic statistics, information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

Afghanistan Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook

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USA International Business Publications
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