Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical 'Development' Reader

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Is ‘development’ passé? Is it merely a by-product or a ‘trickle down’ effect of economic growth, spurred by globalisation? Will poverty simply diminish with increased global markets? This state-of-the-art critical ‘development’ reader deals with these and related questions. Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict examines the inter-relationships between globalisation, poverty and conflict. It complements current debates in the field of development studies and, in an era in which development fatigue seems to have become more profound than ever before, it brings the importance of development once again to the forefront. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 is a concrete target which many governments have agreed to work towards.Whether these goals can be realised is another issue. Nonetheless, the Millennium Development Goals have brought more focused attention to development in the past few years and renewed debate about the relationships between the process of globalisation and widespread poverty and the emergence of violent conflicts.

The authors in this edited volume discuss these inter-related and highly controversial topical elements of development in a number of chapters organised around three sets of issues: (1) globalisation, inequality and poverty; (2) governance, civil society and poverty; and (3) resource degradation, institutions and conflict. The contributions represent current thinking on (and practice of) development policy, poverty reduction, the need for multi-level democratic institutions, and the containing and prevention of conflicts. The authors confront the predominant mainstream ideas on ‘development’ and propose alternatives.

The chapters, written by a select group of scholars and development practitioners, will be of direct interest to those involved in this field of social sciences and in ‘development practice’, but they are composed in such a way as to remain accessible for the generally interested reader.

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B> Centered around the notion that all business communication aims to influence the interpretation or understanding of issues and events, this exciting, presentation-oriented text provides practical tips and applications while discussing relevant theory. Grounded in real business examples and basic skills, Business and Professional Communication places a strong emphasis on presentations in business settings to better prepare readers for the realities of daily career life. Its complete approach and unique topic coverage provides clear guidance for all communication practices in businesses and organizations. For anyone interested in business and professional communication.

Business and Professional Communication CMM 207 Marshall University : Plans Processes, and Performance with Business and Professional Communication Student Workbook.

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Business and Professional Communication CMM 207 Marshall University : Plans Processes, and Performance with Business and Professional Communication Student Workbook.
DiSanza
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Business and Professional Communication: Plans, Processes, and Performance

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Business and Professional Communication: Plans, Processes, and Performance

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Business and Professional Communications-Plans, Processes And Performance, Student Workbook

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Business and Professional Communications-Plans, Processes And Performance, Student Workbook

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Business and Professional Communication - Plans, Processes, and Performance
Legge, DiSanza
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BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION PLANS, PROCESSES, AND PERFORMANCE
NANCY DISANZA, JAMES LEGGE
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The editors have updated and revised this edition and added 12 new authors to their distinguished list of contributors from academia and industry. Contains the latest research methodologies, statistics and techniques relevant to tourism and hospitality. Includes additional material regarding the airline industry, supporting disciplines in the social sciences and environmental issues. Reflects the increasing emphasis on globalization focusing more extensively on the area of research which seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of tourism advertising.

Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality Research: A Handbook for Managers and Researchers

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Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality Research: A Handbook for Managers and Researchers
J. R. Brent Ritchie Charles R. Goeldner
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Art Williams started out as a high school football coach, earning $10,700. But he didn't stay there for long. By believing in himself enough to take a chance, he became a winner who today heads his own muti-million dollar invidual life insurance company. And in this bestselling, plain-speaking, up-beat book he coaches you to the top with his winning system, which includes: a remarkable six-step plan to visualize and achieve your goals; four proven principles to help you become everytihng you ever thought you could be; proven techniques to short-circuit frustrating failure messages; frontline advice from someone whose been in your shoes, PLUS, the ultimate secret ingredient to winning. This is not a get-rich-quick scheme, or a pie-in-the-sky promise, but a phenomenal program that proves it's never too late to start again, with powerful tools and a revolutionary belief in your own unlimited potential.

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Truthful Lessons On Success........2007-10-12

I loved this book, and I constantly refer to it when I go about my day.

What I love about it is that it's written by somebody who's done it, and it doesn't sugar coat what it takes to be a success. Because Art's ~560th richest person, he doesn't have ulterior motives for writing this book, as some other motivational gurus do (ie buy their audio CD's & DVDs and go to their seminars for $3000 a pop).

Art doesn't lie.

It takes a ton of will and determination & positive attitude to do what he's done. It takes a lot of hard work to succeed. It's sad to see people today constantly chasing after the next quick fix, the next scheme that promises them a million bucks in 30 days. Because it won't happen. As Art says, nothing worthwhile comes easy. If you want success in your life, you've got to work hard at it, you've got to be positive no matter what hits the fan, you've got to believe in yourself & what you're doing.

Art doesn't just pay lip service to this information - he's lived by it & is a billionaire because of it. Go figure.

So get this book and you'll get no-nonsense advice on getting successful. This isn't fluff he's got from pulling advice from self help books - this is advice he's giving from his 20 odd years of being in the trenches, fighting an industry that spent millions trying to put him out of business.

As they say, you'll never truly know what it's like being in war until you've been out in the battlefield. This guy's been there, done that, and now he's going to share with you his advice.

An Overlooked Sleeper-A Gem of Motivation.......2007-07-09

This book flew below the radar for some reason, and is abit of a sleeper when it comes to universal popularity.
It is a personal favorite of mine.
This guy walks the walk as well as talking. He is not an ATNA. (All Talk and No Action). He's got the stats to back up his crusade. Guys like him, and say, Guiness Bk #1 Salesman Joe Girard, are the real deal.

Great motivator written by a great motivator!.......2007-01-07

A. L. Williams was a football coach... a man who loved his guys and pushed them to excel in life. And he lived what he preached! You want to be inspired to just DO IT? Get this book.

Williams emphasizes that you have to work hard and be PERSISTENT. Just NEVER, EVER quit. And that's the key. Know what you want, DESIRE it and go for it. Don't let anybody steal your dream. Just do it and hang in there.

He talks about how he got MAD at the rip-off insurance companies, and that anger fueled his drive to excel. He and his friends became tough and tenacious and made things work. Again, that's the key. What a book! Get a copy and mark it up. Read it repeatedly and it'll fire up your soul!

Outstanding, Inspirational.......2006-09-11

Read this book years ago when it came out and read it regularly for motivation and inspiration. AL Williams went out and did what so many of us want to do and talk about doing. This book takes you through the steps of making a difference from his high school coaching days to his motivation to help others and driving incredible change in the insurance world. Great great book and a must read if you want to know how one man achieved success beyond his wildest dreams and than anyone else thought he could do.

The man who took a chance on himself........2005-09-27

I think it's great that A.L. Williams was able to go from a $10,700 coaching job to one of the richest people in the world now worth over $1.5 billion. It proves that this man who took a chance on himself, took a chance that worked tremendously.

Even more impressive is how many people A.L. Williams has helped over the years. Not only the people who joined his company and creating financial freedom, but also all of the people who realized the folly of (w) hole life insurance (and other forms of cash value insurance), the kind of insurance where your money goes into a hole.

A.L. Williams taught people to "buy term and invest the difference." He also taught people to believe in themselves. Are you willing to take a chance on yourself? Then read and carefully study this book and learn the principles of succes that A.L. Williams used to create one of the greatest success stories of all time!

All You Can Do Is All You Can Do, but All You Can Do Is Enough!

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All You Can Do Is All You Can Do, but All You Can Do Is Enough!
A.L. Williams
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Calcium & you: not getting enough calcium in your body is bad news for your growing bones. Here's what you can do about it.(nutrition): An article from: Scholastic Choices

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Calcium & you: not getting enough calcium in your body is bad news for your growing bones. Here's what you can do about it.(nutrition): An article from: Scholastic Choices
Cara D'Amico
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This digital document is an article from Scholastic Choices, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1284 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: Calcium & you: not getting enough calcium in your body is bad news for your growing bones. Here's what you can do about it.(nutrition)
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All You Can Do Is All You Can Do But All You Can Do Is Enough! by Williams, A

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All You Can Do Is All You Can Do But All You Can Do Is Enough! by Williams, A
Enid Blyton
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All You Can Do Is All You Can Do, but All You Can Do Is Enough!
A.L. Williams
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This digital document is an article from Information Outlook, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2404 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: Turbo charge your job search.(job searching and career development tips)
Author: Barbara Flood
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Turbo-charge Your Job Search!
Marcia A. Bench
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This is a Self Help book to help prevent bad debt accounts, to obtain a judgment, to help with judgment recovery. This book is used to educate you on small claims court procedures and bad check recovery. In addition, to prevent maintenace in the way of bad debt.

How To Collect On Your Bad Debts In Clark County Nevada

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How To Collect On Your Bad Debts In Clark County Nevada
Steve W. Sanson
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How To Collect on Your Bad Debts in Clark County Nevada
Steve W. Sanson
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O'Shaughnessy's strategies work

Great book-investment strategy really works.

Read What Works on Wall Street instead

How to Retire Rich - Reasonable Runaways

A Nobel Prize for O'Shaughnessy!

How to Retire Rich: Time-Tested Strategies to Beat the Market and Retire in Style
James O'Shaughnessy
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Some investment books claim only one true path to stock-market riches. Fund manager James O'Shaughnessy has five, and he has the data to back them up. He was the first independent researcher to be granted full access to a Standard & Poor's database containing computerized information on almost 10,000 stocks going back to 1951. From the data, O'Shaughnessy derived five portfolio-building strategies that, over the past 45 years, have consistently beaten the market average. How to Retire Rich also contains a wealth of useful information on mutual funds, online trading, and using the Internet to research stocks.

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Now in paperback--the groundbreaking investment guide by bestselling author James O'Shaughnessy that shows you the simple way to create the fully funded retirement you deserve.

Even if you think you're in great financial shape and can afford two cars and several vacations a year, the numbers in your savings and retirement plan don't always add up to a wealthy--or financially secure--future. In How to Retire Rich, investment wizard James O'Shaughnessy uses his revolutionary analysis of the Standard & Poor's CompuStat Database and stock market history to identify exactly which strategies have consistently beaten almost all active stock pickers over the past four decades--and to show regular folks like you how to apply these proven formulas to your 401(k) and your savings plan, and, over time, grow as little as $2,000 into more than $4 million.

By adopting O'Shaughnessy's logical, proven approach and by avoiding hunches, hot tips, and trendy advice from high-profile gurus, you, too, can master the basics of investing, dramatically increase your net worth, and fund the retirement of your dreams.

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O'Shaughnessy's strategies work.......2007-05-18

I read the book in 2001 after listening to the audio book summary. I then modified his Leaders with Luster strategy and I am still using it today after further slight modifications. The results are outstanding! All his numbers on market capitalization, cashflow etc. are totally outdated by now, but the concept still works and he explains to get updated numbers build into your screening tool. The screen should return about 140 companies, sort them logically and hand pick from there. The same strategy got me into the top 2% of the CNBC portfolio challenge that closed on 5/11/07. Use your head when reading this book and modify the screens to your investment objective. Look at sectors when hand selecting your final stocks and question the number of stocks O'Shaughnessy suggests. This is a great book and his strategies (modified) are still working for me.

Great book-investment strategy really works........2006-06-17

This is my first Amazon book review, although I have been reading them for years. I read this book many years ago, and immediately started investing in what was then the O'Shaughnessy Cornerstone Growth Fund (now the Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund-HFCGX). This fund is based directly on the investment strategy outlined in this book, and the performance has been outstanding. Since I first started investing in this fund, my two daughers accounts have grown at just under 18% per annum, which I might state is the historical average for this investment strategy if it had been used from 1952 onward. If this per annum return continues, their $10,000 invested in 1999 will turn into over $1 million by the time they are in their mid-forties. I now have rolled over my 401K plan into this same fund based on the principals in this book, and my Roth IRA. I read tons of investment information prior to buying this book, and even invested in a few other funds, but nothing has touched the strategy of the investment information in this book. I highly recommend buying this book.

Read What Works on Wall Street instead.......2004-03-07

In this book Mr. O'Shaughnessy takes four different (fictional) characters and shows them how to use his investing methods to beat the market based on his exhaustive study on what really beats the market. Basically this book takes his knowledge from What Works on Wall Street and makes up stories for these couples.

Mr. O'Shaughnessy thinks we should buy 50 stocks and rebalance those 50 stocks at the beginning of each year. In fact I am surprised that I haven't seen FolioFN giving away his books to their members since his methodology seems to be meant for those of us who have folios.

One of the major things that I didn't like about this book was in his descriptions of how these couples could retire rich he basically cut and paste each one and changed the ending result, in my opinion he made this book very boring and is a waste of paper. The only part of this book I liked was pages 139 and 140 these pages have various "doom and gloom" headlines from 1951-1997 and show that the market always has recovered.

Since now the strategies in this book are out in the public they probably won't even work right, so I would advise the majority of investors to put their money in an S&P 500 index fund since you'd be beating 80% of fund manages without having to do any research.

Reed Floren

How to Retire Rich - Reasonable Runaways.......2003-12-26

A truly amazing strategy. I recently concluded tracking a 25-stock Reasonable Runaways strategy and the results are eye-popping. The portfolio turned in a 77.81% return dating from November 8th, 2002 thru November 7th, 2003. I will be putting real money to work now that I was able to see it with my own eyes...

A Nobel Prize for O'Shaughnessy!.......2003-08-05

The main message of _How to Retire Rich_ is that if you want to retire rich, or retire at all for that matter (ever!), you must invest in the stock market. You just don't have a choice in the matter. Sit down and let James O'Shaughnessy take you through the math---you'll quickly see that that is just the financial reality. The good news, however, is that investing in the stock market, when done properly, is not what you think it is. It's not about outsmarting all the other investors out there. It's not about trying to get a 'ten-bagger' so you can buy a cool car and brag at parties. It's not even about shrewd business savvy and scanning financial reports. It's about picking an effective strategy and sticking with it year in, year out until the day you retire, never pulling your money out of the market.

But if that sounds hard, don't worry. One of HTRR's strongest points is the wealth of wisdom it provides on the mental aspects of investing over the long term. What do you do if your portfolio tanks? What do you do if it soars? This is a problem? You'd be surprised! O'Shaughnessy is probably the only author with a completely rounded, mature outlook on the emotional aspects of investing. Reading HTRR will give you the confidence you need to invest and stay in the market through good times and bad.

So how do you invest? O'Shaughnessy breaks it all down for you, telling you exactly what to do. We're not talking the usual vague, feelgood accepted wisdom here such as 'buy market leaders' or 'buy on weakness, sell on strength'. Throw all those books in the trash! HTRR will tell you how to quickly find the precise stocks you should buy. You'll finish the book at 2 o'clock and have a list of the stocks to buy in your hand at 2:30. Yes, it's just that easy. You'll also know exactly when to buy them (now) and when to sell them (a year from now), and what do after that (repeat the process until you retire). What could be simpler?

O'Shaughnessy should be nominated for a Nobel Prize. He is a modern-day Charles Darwin with a theory that has all the hallmarks of a revolution in scientific thought. The theory is simple, but deceptively so. Many readers come away thinking they have understood it, only to later demonstrate that they clearly haven't. Even Motley Fool was apparently unable to grasp Reasonable Runaways (one of the strategies in HTRR). They tried to test it with a universe of stocks picked from Value Line (!). When it wasn't performing well after six months (!), they wondered how they could tweak it (!) to "make it dance" (their words). You'll understand just how ridiculous all of this is when you read HTRR.

Perhaps the reason for this widespread misunderstanding is that while the theory itself is simple, its ramifications are not---and without understanding its ramifications, it is impossible to truly understand the theory. Like Darwin, O'Shaughnessy has taken 'God'---the human element---completely out of the picture. That's what readers find so hard to grasp. O'Shaughnessy has shown that not only is human intervention in portfolio management not necessary, it's downright harmful. Given enough time, any human intervention will only lower a portfolio's returns from the optimum returns that could be obtained using a simple model.

I hesitate to include the returns I have earned over the past four years using the Reasonable Runaways strategy in this review, because I don't think they're typical. I have earned 93.15% (CARR of 17.88%) versus 1.17% (CARR of 0.29%) for the S&P during the same period (July 15, 2001 to July 15, 2005). And this is during a time period that includes 9/11. But as you'll discover from reading HTRR, four years is a meaninglessly short amount of time over which to gauge performance. Also, giving out exciting returns numbers shifts the discussion away from the real message of the book---get in the stock market and stay there (investing properly of course). It's the only way you'll ever be able to retire, rich or otherwise.

How to Retire Rich: Time-Tested Strategies to Beat the Market and Retire in Style.

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James O'shaughnessy
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