The Ownership of Enterprise or Lessons in Learning e Learning and Training

The Ownership of Enterprise

Author: Henry Hansmann

The investor-owned corporation is the conventional form for structuring large-scale enterprise in market economies. But it is not the only one. Even in the United States, noncapitalist firms play a vital role in many sectors. Employee-owned firms have long been prominent in the service professions—law, accounting, investment banking, medicine—and are becoming increasingly important in other industries. The buyout of United Airlines by its employees is the most conspicuous recent instance. Farmer-owned produce cooperatives dominate the market for most basic agricultural commodities. Consumer-owned utilities provide electricity to one out of eight households. Key firms such as MasterCard, Associated Press, and Ace Hardware are service and supply cooperatives owned by local businesses. Occupant-owned condominiums and cooperatives are rapidly displacing investor-owned rental housing. Mutual companies owned by their policyholders sell half of all life insurance and one-quarter of all property and liability insurance. And nonprofit firms, which have no owners at all, account for 90 percent of all nongovernmental schools and colleges, two-thirds of all hospitals, half of all day-care centers, and one-quarter of all nursing homes.

Henry Hansmann explores the reasons for this diverse pattern of ownership. He explains why different industries and different national economies exhibit different distributions of ownership forms. The key to the success of a particular form, he shows, depends on the balance between the costs of contracting in the market and the costs of ownership. And he examines how this balance is affected by history and by the legal and regulatory frameworkwithin which firms are organized.

With noncapitalist firms now playing an expanding role in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia as well as in the developed market economies of the West, The Ownership of Enterprise will be an important book for business people, policymakers, and scholars.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	An Analytic Framework	11
2	The Costs of Contracting	24
3	The Costs of Ownership	35
4	Investor-Owned Firms	53
5	The Benefits and Costs of Employee Ownership	66
6	Governing Employee-Owned Firms	89
7	Agricultural and Other Producer Cooperatives	120
8	Retail, Wholesale, and Supply Firms	149
9	Utilities	168
10	Clubs and Other Associative Organizations	182
11	Housing	195
12	Nonprofit Firms	227
13	Banks	246
14	Insurance Companies	265
	Conclusion	287
	Notes	299
	Sources	363
	Index	365

New interesting textbook: Princess Sultanas Circle or How to Rig an Election

Lessons in Learning, e-Learning, and Training: Perspectives and Guidance for the Enlightened Trainer

Author: Roger C Schank

From Roger C. Schank—one of the most highly respected thinkers, writers, and speakers in the training, learning, and e-learning community—comes a compelling book of essays that explore the myriad issues related to challenges faced by today’s instructional designers and trainers. The essays offer a much-needed perspective on what trainers do, why they do it, and how they do it. Lessons in Learning, e-Learning, and Training serves as a barometer to the issues that often perplex trainers and helps to illuminate three main points: what can and cannot be taught; how people think and learn; and what technology can really effectively provide. In addition, each essay is filled with practical guidance and includes a summary of ideas, tips and techniques, things to think about, checklists, and other job aids. 

Board Work or Naked Marketing

Board Work: Governing Health Care Organizations

Author: Dennis D Pointer

American College of Healthcare Executives 2000 James A. Hamilton book of the year award

Written by Dennis Pointer and James Orlikoff, two of the most experienced and highly regarded governance consultants in the country, Board Work presents a practical model focusing on those factors that most affect board performance. Rich with prescriptive information, practical ideas, assessment tools, and examples, Pointer and Orlikoff provide the expert coaching boards need to do their best work and add value to their organizations.

Based on the authors' forty years of combined experience, this eye-opening book arms boards with tools and techniques to significantly enhance their performance and contributions. Pointer and Orlikoff forward concrete recommendations for implementing benchmark governance systems and practices, creating the essential guide for those who want to make a real difference on behalf of communities they serve.

"This is the best book on health care organization governance I have ever read."
--Stephen Shortell, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Richard L. O'Brien

Two experienced researchers working with and consulting for healthcare governing boards have described and analyzed effective boards of healthcare organizations in this book. They explore responsibility structure, composition, functioning, and means of improving boards and their operation. The purpose is to provide board members, board chairs, and CEOs with practical ideas for transforming boards and enhancing board performance. Board members, chairs, and CEOs are the audience. This is also a good work for other senior healthcare managers and for students of healthcare administration. The responsibilities and operations of boards, and how to achieve effective board structure, composition, and functioning are discussed. Different kinds of healthcare boards and their relationships to related entities, either superior or subsidiary are described. Board education and development are also discussed, and selection, monitoring, rewards, and removal of CEOs are included. Specific instructions are provided for being a good board member. Twelve governance check-ups/inventories are provided. There are good diagrams illustrating major messages. This is a very useful, clear exposition presented in logical sequence, flowing smoothly from definition of the purpose of boards to effective modes of functioning to useful means for transforming boards to make them more effective. Practical and easy-to-implement guidance is provided for board members and chairs. This book is superior to and more accessible to board members than any other book I have read on the subject. Good references and recommendations for further reading are included, as are other resources for board education and development.I wish this book would be read by every board member and manager of the healthcare organizations with which I am involved and on the boards of which I sit. This is an excellent framework for annual review of board responsibilities and operations.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Richard L. O'Brien, MD (Creighton University)
Description: Two experienced researchers working with and consulting for healthcare governing boards have described and analyzed effective boards of healthcare organizations in this book. They explore responsibility structure, composition, functioning, and means of improving boards and their operation.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide board members, board chairs, and CEOs with practical ideas for transforming boards and enhancing board performance.
Audience: Board members, chairs, and CEOs are the audience. This is also a good work for other senior healthcare managers and for students of healthcare administration.
Features: The responsibilities and operations of boards, and how to achieve effective board structure, composition, and functioning are discussed. Different kinds of healthcare boards and their relationships to related entities, either superior or subsidiary are described. Board education and development are also discussed, and selection, monitoring, rewards, and removal of CEOs are included. Specific instructions are provided for being a good board member. Twelve governance check-ups/inventories are provided. There are good diagrams illustrating major messages.
Assessment: This is a very useful, clear exposition presented in logical sequence, flowing smoothly from definition of the purpose of boards to effective modes of functioning to useful means for transforming boards to make them more effective. Practical and easy-to-implement guidance is provided for board members and chairs. This book is superior to and more accessible to board members than any other book I have read on the subject. Good references and recommendations for further reading are included, as are other resources for board education and development. I wish this book would be read by every board member and manager of the healthcare organizations with which I am involved and on the boards of which I sit. This is an excellent framework for annual review of board responsibilities and operations.

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Issues a wake-up call to the nation's 20,000 health care organization boards and lays out a visionary and detailed road map to help confront the challenges of the US health care marketplace. Presents a practical model focusing on factors that affect board performance, with prescriptive information, practical ideas, assessment tools, and examples. Pointer is principal for a firm which provides governance consultation and development services. Orlikoff is president of a consulting firm specializing in health care governance and leadership. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

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Naked Marketing: The Bare Essentials

Author: Robert Gred

With all the trendy ways to do marketing - from advertising on web sites to publicity with radio "shock jocks" - how can you determine which is the most productive, cost-effective option for your company? Here's a handy tool for business managers and entrepreneurs who want to get market-smart quickly. It reveals, step by step, how you can determine your marketing budget; develop a marketing plan; establish a company image; use high-impact copy, layout and design; get publicity and visibility without having to pay for it; use mass media, personal selling, and direct mail effectively; and maximize opportunities at trade shows. No fluff, no stuff - the complexities of marketing boiled down for small business managers, entrepreneurs, or big-business non-marketers.

Table of Contents:

1	Que Es marketing?	13
2	Knowing your market	17
3	Long-term planning	23
4	Defining your market	31
5	How to develop a strategic marketing plan	37
6	Establish an image for your firm	51
7	Ideas - how to get them, how to use them	71
8	Ten commandments of good copywriting	81
9	Layout and design	91
10	How to make the most of media	97
11	Using publicity to stretch your marketing budget	111
12	Introducing a new product	117
13	Personal selling	125
14	Retailing	141
15	Inexpensive marketing tactics that work	153
16	Tricks of the trade show	161
17	How to establish your marketing budget	167
18	Summary	171

Introductory Economics or Political Determinants of Corporate Governance

Introductory Economics

Author: Arleen J J Hoag

This textbook is carefully designed to provide the reader with a good understanding of the fundamental concepts of economics. The writing is lucid and at the student's level. There are twenty-nine "one-concept" chapters. Each chapter is suitably short, highlighting one economic principle. The student can study one concept and be reinforced by the learning process before proceeding to another chapter. Self review exercises conclude each chapter. The one-concept chapters also provide organizational flexibility for the instructor. The text is well integrated to show the relationship among the basic concepts and to offer a comprehensive overview of economics. There are six modules: The Economic Problem; Price Determination; Behind the Supply Curve; Level of Income; Money; and Trade.

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Emphasizing fundamental concepts in the study of economics, this textbook features 29 one-topic chapters, yet highlights the relationships between the ideas discussed in the various chapters. Organized around themes like "the economic problem," "price determination," "behind the supply curve," "the level of income," "money," and "trade," the chapters focus on topics like production, demand, supply, market equilibrium, price elasticity, diminishing returns, cost, revenue, profit, perfectly competitive supply, monopoly, imperfect competition, unemployment and inflation, gross domestic product, price indexes, business cycles, consumption and investment, macro equilibrium, government, fiscal policy, monetary tools, and economic policy. Arleen Hoag teaches at Owens Community College. John Hoag teaches at Bowling Green State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface (To the Instructor)	xv
	Introduction (For the Student)	xix
	Acknowledgments	xxi
Module 1	The Economic Problem	1
Chapter 1	The Meaning of Economics	3
	Goods and Services	4
	Resources	4
	Scarcity	5
	Choices	6
	Alternative Uses	7
	Opportunity Cost	8
	Present and Future Consumption	9
	Social Science	9
	Summary	10
Chapter 2	Production Possibilities	13
	A Model of Scarcity	13
	Scarcity, Choice, and Opportunity Cost	16
	Increasing Costs	18
	Increasing Costs Explored	20
	Changing the Assumptions--Employment	22
	Changing the Assumptions--Resources and Technology	24
	Summary	27
Chapter 3	Economic Systems	31
	Allocation of Resources	31
	Alternatives and Goals	33
	Economic Systems	34
	The Circular Flow Model	36
	Summary	38
Module 2	Price Determination	43
	Chaos and Markets	43
	Price	44
	Overview	45
Chapter 4	Demand	46
	Demand	47
	The Law of Demand	49
	Change in Demand	52
	Demand and Quantity Demanded	57
	Summary	59
Chapter 5	Supply	63
	Supply	63
	The Law of Supply	65
	Change in Supply	66
	Summary	70
Chapter 6	Market Equilibrium	73
	Market Demand and Supply	73
	Surplus	75
	Shortage	78
	Equilibrium	79
	An Increase in Market Demand	81
	Shifts in Market Demand and Supply	84
	Summary	86
Chapter 7	Price Elasticity	90
	Price Elasticity of Demand	91
	Vertical and Horizontal Demand	93
	Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand	94
	Price, Elasticity, and Total Revenue	97
	Bananas and Oil	98
	Summary	100
Module 3	Behind the Supply Curve	103
Chapter 8	Diminishing Returns	106
	The Short Run and Variable Inputs	107
	Total and Marginal Product	107
	The Law of Diminishing Returns	110
	Diminishing Returns Explored	112
	Summary	114
Chapter 9	Cost	118
	Total Cost	118
	The Economic Concept of Cost	123
	Average Cost	124
	Marginal Cost	128
	The Average-Marginal Relation	131
	Summary	133
Chapter 10	Revenue	137
	Revenue and Market Structure	137
	Perfect Competition	140
	Total and Marginal Revenue	142
	Monopoly	144
	Summary	147
Chapter 11	Profit	151
	The Economic Meaning of Profit	151
	Profit Maximization	152
	Profit Maximization in Perfect Competition	154
	Profit Maximization in Monopoly	156
	Perfect Competition in the Short Run	158
	Summary	161
Chapter 12	Perfectly Competitive Supply	165
	The Shutdown Decision	165
	Supply	167
	Long-Run Equilibrium	169
	An Evaluation of Perfect Competition	171
	Summary	175
Chapter 13	Monopoly	178
	Barriers to Entry	178
	Short- and Long-Run Monopoly	182
	Higher Price and Lower Output	182
	Misallocation of Resources	184
	Summary	186
Chapter 14	Imperfect Competition	190
	Monopolistic Competition	190
	Oligopoly	193
	Oligopoly--Kinked Demand	194
	Oligopoly--Cooperative Behavior	197
	Antitrust	198
	Market Failures	199
	Summary	200
Chapter 15	Demand for Inputs	204
	Marginal Revenue Product and Marginal Input Cost	205
	Profit Maximization	206
	Input Demand	208
	How Wages are Determined	211
	Summary	212
Module 4	The Level of Income	215
Chapter 16	Unemployment and Inflation	217
	Unemployment	218
	Causes of Unemployment	220
	Full Employment	221
	Inflation	223
	Causes of Inflation	224
	Summary	227
Chapter 17	Gross Domestic Product	231
	Micro- and Macroeconomics	232
	Income, Output, and Employment	233
	Gross Domestic Product	235
	Expenditure Approach to GDP	237
	Shortcomings of GDP	239
	Summary	241
Chapter 18	Price Indexes	245
	When Prices Change	245
	Constructing a Price Index	246
	Consumer Price Index	248
	Limitations of the CPI	250
	Real GDP	251
	Understanding Real GDP	252
	Summary	254
Chapter 19	Business Cycles	258
	Business Cycles	258
	Theories of Business Cycles	260
	Classical Economics	261
	The Great Depression	264
	Lord Keynes	265
	The Keynesian Revolution	266
	Summary	267
Chapter 20	Consumption and Investment	271
	Consumption	272
	The Marginal Propensity to Consume	272
	Saving	274
	Investment	277
	Summary	279
Chapter 21	Macro Equilibrium	282
	Equilibrium Identified in the Macro Model	282
	Why Equilibrium Occurs Where it Does	283
	Another View of Equilibrium	286
	Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply	290
	Summary	291
Chapter 22	Government	295
	Taxes	296
	Government Spending	297
	Equilibrium Again	298
	The Income Multiplier	301
	The Multiplier Process	303
	Automatic Stabilizers	305
	Summary	306
Chapter 23	Fiscal Policy	310
	What Fiscal Policy is	310
	How Fiscal Policy Works	311
	The Federal Budget	313
	Evaluation of Fiscal Policy	314
	Perspectives on Fiscal Policy	315
	The National Debt	317
	Costs and Burdens of the Debt	320
	Summary	322
Module 5	Money	327
Chapter 24	Money	329
	What is Money?	329
	What Counts as Money	331
	Fractional Reserves	332
	The Creation of Money	333
	The Money Multiplier	336
	Summary	338
Chapter 25	Monetary Tools	341
	The Federal Reserve System	341
	Changing the Reserve Requirement	343
	Discount Rate Policy	344
	Open Market Operations	345
	Bond Prices and Interest Rates	347
	Summary	348
Chapter 26	Money and the Level of Income	352
	The Money Market	353
	Money and Income	356
	The Link From Money to Income	357
	Monetary Policy	358
	Evaluation of Monetary Policy	361
	Summary	363
Chapter 27	Economic Policy	366
	Economic Goals	367
	Phillips Curve	368
	Stagflation	369
	Policy Failure	371
	Classical, Keynesian, and Monetarist	372
	Supply Side and Rational Expectations	374
	Goal Trade-Offs	377
	Summary	378
Module 6	Trade	381
Chapter 28	Trade Without Money	383
	Absolute Advantage	383
	Comparative Advantage	385
	Potential for Trade	387
	Production Possibilities	388
	Summary	391
Chapter 29	Trade With Money	394
	Foreign Exchange Rate	394
	Foreign Exchange Market	395
	Balance of Payments	398
	Barriers to Trade	400
	Free Trade versus Protectionism	402
	Summary	405
Module 7	Conclusion	409
	Glossary	413
	Index	429

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Political Determinants of Corporate Governance: Political Context, Corporate Impact

Author: Mark J Ro

The political and social predicates that make the large firm possible and that shape its form are not always taken into account, despite the fact that variation in the political and social environment can deeply affect which firms, which ownership structures, and which governance arrangements survive and prosper. Focussing on the US, the larger nations in continental Europe, and Japan, Mark Roe uses statistical and qualitative analyses to explore the relationship between politics, history, and business organization.

Time Series with Long Memory or The Diversity of Modern Capitalism

Time Series with Long Memory (Advanced Texts in Econometrics Series)

Author: Peter M Robinson

Time Series with Long Memory comprises a collection on time series analysis. Long memory time series are characterized by a strong dependence between distant events. Various methods and their theoretical properties are discussed with empirical applications. The methods constitute a very flexible approach to analyzing time series data arising in economics, finance and other fields.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
	References	3
1	Long-memory Time Series	4
2	On Large-sample Estimation for the Mean of a Stationary Random Sequence	33
3	An Introduction to Long-memory Time Series Models and Fractional Differencing	49
4	Large-sample Properties of Parameter Estimates for Strongly Dependent Stationary Gaussian Time Series	65
5	Long-term Memory in Stock Market Prices	82
6	The Estimation and Application of Long-memory Time Series Models	119
7	Gaussian Semiparametric Estimation of Long-range Dependence	138
8	Testing for Strong Serial Correlation and Dynamic Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Multiple Regression	175
9	The Detection and Estimation of Long Memory in Stochastic Volatility	191
10	Efficient Tests of Nonstationary Hypotheses	214
11	Estimation of the Memory Parameter for Nonstationary or Noninvertible Fractionally Integrated Processes	251
12	Limit Theorems for Regressions with Unequal and Dependent Errors	278
13	Time Series Regression with Long-range Dependence	305
14	Semiparametric Frequency Domain Analysis of Fractional Cointegration	334
	Index	375

Interesting textbook: New Light on Depression or Madness

The Diversity of Modern Capitalism

Author: Bruno Amabl

This book proposes a comparative analysis of modern capitalism. It identifies five different types of modern economies: the market-based economies, Asian capitalism, the Continental European model, the social democratic economies, and the Mediterranean model. It presents their main institutional characteristics and relates the different models their political and economic dynamics. The book also assesses the likely future of the Continental European model, making a significant contribution to the 'varieties of capitalism' debate.

Economic Issues Today or Income Wealth and the Maximum Principle

Economic Issues Today: Alternative Approaches

Author: Robert B Carson

Highly accessible and relevant in today's economic environment, Economic Issues Today provides a unique approach to understanding what the practice of economics is all about. Carson covers 14 current economic issues, providing for each an analysis and proposed solution from three different ideological perspectives: Conservative, Liberal, and Radical.

With the contributions of new coauthors Hecht and Thomas, the entire text has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date. The well-received chapters on the environment, agriculture, consumer welfare, competition, deregulation, stabilization, unemployment, the federal budget, and economic planning have all been extensively revised and updated, and the authors have added entirely new chapters on taxation, inflation, and international economics.

Like all its predecessors, Economic Issues Today, Sixth Edition, is written specifically for an undergraduate audience; it requires no background in economic analysis and avoids economic jargon in favor of plain everyday language.

Booknews

The new edition of a textbook for undergraduates introducing conservative, liberal, and radical analyses of broad American economic issues, both macroeconomic and microeconomic. Fourteen chapters separately examine agricultural competition, consumer welfare, environmental protection, deregulation, income distribution, taxation, economic instability, budget balancing, unemployment, inflation, international economics, and market versus regulatory controls. Each chapter presents solutions based on conservative free market capitalism, liberal regulated capitalism, and radical rejection of production-for-profit capitalism. Also published as two paperback volumes: and . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Introduction
	Alternative economic philosophies : a survey of conservative, liberal, and radical critiques	3
Pt. II	Problems in the marketplace
Issue 1	Responding to market outcomes : competition or protection for American agriculture?	35
Issue 2	Consumer welfare : is it necessary to protect the consumer?	58
Issue 3	Dealing with externalities : how can we save the environment?	75
Issue 4	Imperfect competition : is big business a threat or a boon?	92
Issue 5	Economic regulation : which path : deregulation or reregulation?	112
Issue 6	Income distribution : does America have an income inequality problem?	135
Issue 7	Financing government : what is a fair system of taxation?	163
Pt. III	Problems of aggregate economic policy
Issue 8	Macroeconomic instability : are we depression-proof?	187
Issue 9	Economic growth and stability : can we maintain high and steady rates of economic growth?	212
Issue 10	Balancing the federal budget : should we be worried about the rising federal deficit?	239
Issue 11	Unemployment : is joblessness an overrated problem?	261
Issue 12	Inflation : can price pressures be kept under control?	284
Issue 13	The new population problem : can we save our social security system?	307
Issue 14	International economics : where does America fit into the new world order?	331
Pt. IV	Conclusion
	Reprise : the market versus planning and controls : which strategy works better?	365
	Final thoughts and suggested readings	387

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Income, Wealth, and the Maximum Principle

Author: Martin Weitzman

This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students to solve any one-dimensional problem routinely. Its unified framework illuminates many famous economic examples and models.

This work also emphasizes the connection between optimal control theory and the classical themes of capital theory. It offers a fresh approach to fundamental questions such as: What is income? How should it be measured? What is its relation to wealth?

The book will be valuable to students who want to formulate and solve dynamic allocation problems. It will also be of interest to any economist who wants to understand results of the latest research on the relationship between comprehensive income accounting and wealth or welfare.

Media and Sovereignty or Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory

Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power

Author: Monroe E Pric

Honorable Mention for the 2002 Communication Policy Research Award presented by The Donald McGannon Communication Research Center

Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization is fundamentally altering media practices, institutions, and content. More than the activities of large conglomerates, globalization entails competition among states as well as private entities to dominate the world's consciousness. Changes in formal and informal rules, in addition to technological innovation, affect the growth and survival or decline of governments.

In Media and Sovereignty, Monroe Price focuses on emerging foreign policies that govern media in a world where war has information as well as military fronts. Price asks how the state, in the face of institutional and technological change, controls the forms of information reaching its citizens. He also provides a framework for analyzing the techniques used by states to influence populations in other states. Price draws on an international array of examples of regulation of media for political ends, including "self-regulation," media regulation in conflict zones, the control of harmful and illegal content, and the use of foreign aid to alter media in target societies.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
I	Remapping of Media Space	1
1	New Role of the State	3
2	Stability, Transitions, and the Market for Loyalties	31
II	Tropes of Restructuring	55
3	Metaphor and Model in Media Restructuring	57
4	Technologies and the Vocabulary of Change	89
5	Illegal and Harmful Content	117
6	Newness of New Technology	145
III	Negotiating the Changed Media Terrain	169
7	Toward a Foreign Policy of Information Space	171
8	Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of International Broadcasting	199
9	Media Globalization: A Framework for Analysis	227
	Notes	251
	Index	301

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Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory

Author: Frank Hahn

In the early 1980s, rational expectations and new classical economics dominated macroeconomic theory. This essay evolved from the authors' profound disagreement with that trend. It demonstrates not only how the new classical view got macroeconomics wrong, but also how to go about doing macroeconomics the right way.

Hahn and Solow argue that what was originally offered as a normative model based on perfect foresight and universal perfect competition has been almost casually transformed into a model for interpreting real macroeconomic behavior. After explaining microeconomic foundations, the authors introduce a better macro model, one that can say useful things about the fluctuation of employment, the correlation between wages and employment, and the role for corrective monetary policy.

Booknews

The authors disagree with the trend toward new classical economics, demonstrate where the new classical view of macroeconomics is wrong, and show how to go about doing macroeconomics the right way. After an explanation of microeconomic foundations, they introduce the basic elements for a revised macroeconomic model and discuss its applicability to the fluctuation of employment, the correlation between wages and employment, and corrective monetary policy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Optimal Statistical Decisions or Preventing Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations

Optimal Statistical Decisions

Author: Morris H DeGroot

The Wiley Classics Library consists of selected books that have become recognized classics in their respective fields. With these new unabridged and inexpensive editions, Wiley hopes to extend the life of these important works by making them available to future generations of mathematicians and scientists.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Survey of probability theory
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Experiments, samples spaces, and probability	6
Ch. 3	Random variables, random vectors, and distribution functions	16
Ch. 4	Some special univariate distributions	33
Ch. 5	Some special multivariate distributions	48
Pt. 2	Subjective probability and utility
Ch. 6	Subjective probability	69
Ch. 7	Utility	86
Pt. 3	Statistical decision problems
Ch. 8	Decision problems	121
Ch. 9	Conjugate prior distributions	155
Ch. 10	Limiting posterior distributions	190
Ch. 11	Estimation, testing hypotheses, and linear statistical models	226
Pt. 4	Sequential decisions
Ch. 12	Sequential sampling	267
Ch. 13	Optimal stopping	324
Ch. 14	Sequential choice of experiments	385

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Preventing Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations

Author: Edward J McMillan CPA CA

IS YOUR NONPROFIT VULNERABLE TO FRAUD?


Fraud or embezzlement discovered within a major corporation ultimately leads to front-page scandals and a few raised eyebrows. But the mere suggestion or evidence of fraud within a nonprofit can cause irreversible damage to its reputation, its support base, and, eventually, its very existence. Preventing Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations is the proactive manual your organization needs to detect fraud and prevent it from affecting your organization's bottom line and name. Brimming with details of hundreds of actual fraud and embezzlement schemes, it provides specific, practical advice on strengthening the areas in which your nonprofit may be most vulnerable.

This hands-on guide shows nonprofit accountants, CFOs, financial consultants, board members, and managers how to:

• Know the four consistent areas of high risk

• Thoroughly evaluate their organization's system of internal controls

• Assemble a fraud examination team

• Document a fraud action plan

• Expose weaknesses that could lead to fraud

• Take corrective action to reduce the possibility of victimization

Fraud deterrence is not exclusive to large corporations. Recommended reading for nonprofit professionals, Preventing Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations will motivate executives to take a fresh and intensive look at their organization's practices and act to protect from financial dishonesty.

Understanding Management or Small Business Management

Understanding Management

Author: Richard L Daft

Understanding Management combines classic management concepts with emerging trends and issues in a concise, exciting, and user-friendly format. The theme of the fourth edition is the 'new workplace' highlighting how technology and other influences have changed the traditional organizations and the impact on their members. The goal since the first edition has been to provide a practical and hands-on alternative to the traditional and comprehensive texts on the market.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Managers in Learning Organizations
1.The Changing Paradigm of Management. Part II. The Environment of Management
2.The Environment and Corporate Culture
3.Managing in a Global Environment
4.Managerial Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. Part III. Planning
5.Organizational Goal Setting and Planning
6.Managerial Decision Making. Part IV. Organizing
7.Fundamentals of Organizing
8.Change and Development
9.Human Resource Management
10.Managing Diverse Employees. Part V. Leading
11.Foundations of Behavior in Organizations
12.Leadership in Organizations
13.Motivation in Organizations
14.Communicating in Organizations
15.Teamwork in Organizations. Part VI. Controlling
16.Productivity through Management and Quality Control Systems.

Book about: Successful Diversity Management Initiatives or Global Inequalities

Small Business Management: A Framework for Success

Author: Charles E Bamford

SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT is a problem-based book for the small business course where experiential learning is key. This text emphasizes problem-based learning through working with real problems faced by entrepreneurs and small business owners. SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT has built real-world scenarios into its chapters, via its Office Lots continuing case, and interspersed exercises throughout where students often play the roles of financial analyst, marketer, and business owner in order to find solutions. In essence, SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT will be a hands-on learning practicum. With a solid emphasis on research and the most current environmental conditions in small business, and the authors? backgrounds in strategy, this text provides a solid foundation in terms of the types of business students are most likely to start, which are those businesses that start out small and are expected to stay small for the foreseeable future. The text also provides coverage and development of the business plan which is found in SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT's Appendix.

Law of Real Property or Timed Readings

Law of Real Property

Author: Michael P Kearns

This book sums up the rules of law in the real world, in clear easy-to-understand terminology. You will learn how to create documents for real property transfer and closings, including appraisals, taxes and mortgage financing. Both commercial and residential applications are discussed for a broad base of practical coverage. ALSO AVAILABLE California Pocket Part ISBN:
0-8273-6025-8 New York Pocket Part ISBN:
0-8273-6023-1 Texas Pocket Part ISBN: 0-8273-6026-6 INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Manual, ISBN:0-8273-4879-7 Computerized Test Bank (1993), ISBN: 0-8273-6245-5

Go to: Gourmets Guide to New Orleans or Viva Food

Timed Readings: Book 1, Vol. 1

Author: Edward Spargo

Do your students fail to even finish a timed test? Do they read word by word? Do they simply move their eyesover the page, never remembering what they read?

If you suspect that students' test scores are being confounded by any of these traits, or if you have students who need to process greater amounts of information, the Timed Readings books can help.

For over thirty years, Jamestown has been helping students increase their reading rate and fluency while maintaining comprehension.

Timed Readings is the original series of timed reading books; 400-word nonfiction timed passages in science, social studies, the humanities, and more.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the StudentHow to Use This Book Instructions for the Pacing Drills Steps to Faster Reading Step 1: Preview Step 2: Read for Meaning Step 3: Grasp Paragraph Sense Step 4: Organize Facts Timed Reading Selections Answer Key Progress Graph Pacing Graph

Multinational Business Finance or Measurement and Management of Clinical Outcomes in Mental Health

Multinational Business Finance

Author: David K K Eiteman

The Ninth Edition of this market leader communicates the complexities of international finance clearly and authoritatively. The book features a streamlined presentation, expanded attention to emerging markets, several new chapters, and four new decision cases with an emerging-markets focus. An accompanying new Casebook by Michael Moffett includes in-depth decision cases keyed to the coverage in the Eiteman text. The authors have a knack for communicating the complexities of international finance to today's students in a manner that is clear and understandable. For anyone interested in business.

Booknews

This seventh edition text on multinational business finance explains how successful multinational firms recognize and exploit imperfections in national markets, utilize available factors of production, and manage financial assets. The authors further claim that while volatile exchange rates increase risk, they can also generate great opportunities for both investors and organizations needing to raise capital. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Comparative corporate governance and financial goals	2
Ch. 2	The international monetary system	35
Ch. 3	The balance of payments	68
Ch. 4	International parity conditions	102
Ch. 5	Foreign exchange rate determination and forecasting	141
Ch. 6	The foreign exchange market	178
Ch. 7	Foreign currency derivatives	207
Ch. 8	Transaction exposure	253
Ch. 9	Operating exposure	301
Ch. 10	Translation exposure	335
Ch. 11	Global cost and availability of capital	373
Ch. 12	Sourcing equity globally	411
Ch. 13	Financial structure and international debt	434
Ch. 14	Interest rate and currency swaps	466
Ch. 15	International portfolio theory and diversification	501
Ch. 16	Foreign direct investment theory and strategy	526
Ch. 17	Political risk assessment and management	550
Ch. 18	Multinational capital budgeting	580
Ch. 19	Cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and valuation	614
Ch. 20	International trade finance	643
Ch. 21	Multinational tax management	676
Ch. 22	Working capital management	713

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Measurement and Management of Clinical Outcomes in Mental Health

Author:

THE COMPLETE PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER

Of Related interest

Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr. and L. Mark Peterson

This valuable guide provides a thorough introduction to treatment planning and contains all of the necessary elements for developing formal treatment plans. In an easy-reference, prewritten format, this book presents detailed problem definitions, treatment goals, objectives, therapeutic interventions, and DSM-IVTM diagnoses for over thirty common clinical problems. Practitioners in the field will find this book to be a great time-saver and an invaluable reference.

1995 (0-471-11738-2) 176 pp.

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The Computerized Assistant to Psychotherapy Treatment Planning.

Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr., L. Mark Peterson, and Kenneth Jongsma.

This revolutionary computerized treatment planning software lets you create detailed, customized treatment plans easily and quickly. Designed for use in both inpatient and outpatient settings, its user-friendly format allows clinicians to easily access a wide variety of behavioral definitions, treatment goals and objectives, therapeutic interventions, and DSM-IV diagnoses from its huge database. Its well-organized reports are designed to meet the requirements of Medicare, HMOs, and other third-party payers, which makes this program an important tool for evaluating and treating mental illness.

1997 (0-471-18415-2) 4 3.5 disks

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MANAGED BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE

Edited by Chris E. Stout and Gerald A. Theis

Managed care has radically altered the mental health services landscape. This loose-leaf style reference manual, which is updated semiannually, offers in-depthanalysis from leading experts of changes in practice management, quality and outcome issues, technology, and automation. It also addresses important legal, regulatory, fiscal, and contractual concerns. Packed with practical tools and useful sample forms, the Guide includes a comprehensive glossary of managed care terms and a complete list of managed care organizations.

1996 (0-471-12586-5) 324 pp.

THE MEASUREMENT & MANAGEMENT OF CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN MENTAL HEALTH

Once used almost exclusively by psychotherapy researchers, clinical outcomes testing is quickly becoming a standard component of mental health practice. JCAHO has mandated that outcomes must be included in mental health record keeping by the end of the decade, and the six largest managed care firms have announced plans to begin tracking clinical outcomes. While debates over the potential advantages and disadvantages of this move rage on, the fact remains that all clinicians in managed care systems will soon be compelled to incorporate outcomes assessment into their clinical routines.

The Measurement and Management of Clinical Outcomes in Mental Health prepares clinicians and administrators for this inevitability. Written by a team of experts with extensive experience in design and implementation, this timely book explores the rationale behind outcomes measurement and offers readers concrete advice and guidelines on conducting accurate and effective outcomes measurement.

In the first half of the book, the authors review the conceptual and practical aspects of outcomes management. Among the issues receiving special attention are: the psychometrics of outcomes; measuring patient satisfaction; implementation strategies; the role of consumer characteristics in outcomes management, especially in regard to needs-based planning; case-mix adjustment strategies; and barriers to implementation and strategies for overcoming them.

The second half of the book is devoted entirely to detailed case examples. Over the course of five chapters, the authors vividly illustrate their approaches to outcomes management in five different specialty areas—outpatient psychotherapy, acute psychiatric services, community services, child and adolescent services, and substance-abuse treatment services.

The first comprehensive guide to designing and implementing outcomes evaluation systems, The Measurement and Management of Clinical Outcomes in Mental Health is an important resource for all mental health practitioners as well as mental health and managed care administrators.

John K. Larson

This book presents the measurement and management of clinical outcomes in mental health in two sections. The first deals with conceptual and practical considerations in practitioner research and the second presents examples of outcome measurement in a variety of healthcare service sectors. The book contains in-depth discussions of current trends, challenges, and an excellent chapter covering implementation strategies. It contains numerous tables and figures that help to clarify major points. The stated purpose is to prepare the reader, regardless of research background, to lead or actively participate in the process of including outcomes as a crucial component of the management and administration of behavioral healthcare. The intended audience consists of mental health providers, health plan administrators, and policymakers at every level. The book is written in clear, coherent prose and is extremely well organized. The book's division into a conceptual section followed by examples is particularly effective. Section one includes six chapters covering such topics as defining and measuring clinical outcomes, consumer satisfaction, methods of measurement, and the use of outcome measurement to improve quality. The second section takes examples from acute psychiatric services, outpatient services, substance abuse services, specialized services for adolescents and children, and community-based services. There is also a useful appendix containing the authors' reviews of commonly available outcome instruments, their strengths and weaknesses. Tables, graphs, and figures sprinkled liberally throughout provide additional clarity and impact. The book serves a number of useful purposes. Itprovides a cogent, well-reasoned overview of the issues and challenges of meaningful outcomes research. It is sufficiently basic to serve as an introduction to this complex topic, yet challenging enough for the seasoned clinician/researcher. It is also practical and can serve as a useful guide to anyone seriously desiring to implement the measurement of behavioral health outcomes.

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Reviewer: John K. Larson, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book presents the measurement and management of clinical outcomes in mental health in two sections. The first deals with conceptual and practical considerations in practitioner research and the second presents examples of outcome measurement in a variety of healthcare service sectors. The book contains in-depth discussions of current trends, challenges, and an excellent chapter covering implementation strategies. It contains numerous tables and figures that help to clarify major points.
Purpose: The stated purpose is to prepare the reader, regardless of research background, to lead or actively participate in the process of including outcomes as a crucial component of the management and administration of behavioral healthcare.
Audience: The intended audience consists of mental health providers, health plan administrators, and policymakers at every level.
Features: The book is written in clear, coherent prose and is extremely well organized. The book's division into a conceptual section followed by examples is particularly effective. Section one includes six chapters covering such topics as defining and measuring clinical outcomes, consumer satisfaction, methods of measurement, and the use of outcome measurement to improve quality. The second section takes examples from acute psychiatric services, outpatient services, substance abuse services, specialized services for adolescents and children, and community-based services. There is also a useful appendix containing the authors' reviews of commonly available outcome instruments, their strengths and weaknesses. Tables, graphs, and figures sprinkled liberally throughout provide additional clarity and impact.
Assessment: The book serves a number of useful purposes. It provides a cogent, well-reasoned overview of the issues and challenges of meaningful outcomes research. It is sufficiently basic to serve as an introduction to this complex topic, yet challenging enough for the seasoned clinician/researcher. It is also practical and can serve as a useful guide to anyone seriously desiring to implement the measurement of behavioral health outcomes.

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Prepares readers of various backgrounds to integrate outcomes as a crucial component of the management and administration of behavioral healthcare. Part I reviews the conceptual and practical aspects of designing and implementing an outcomes management strategy, discussing areas such as consumer satisfaction and methods of outcome management. Part II provides specific examples of strategies of outcomes management for different types of mental health services, including outpatient services and substance abuse treatment. Includes an annotated bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Tourism Planning or Making Sweatshops

Tourism Planning: Basics, Concepts, Cases

Author: Clare A Gunn

As one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy since the 1950's, tourism has proved to be a complicated phenomenon, unlike any other economic producer. Over the last few decades, tourism has exerted increasing pressure on the land and negative social, environmental and economic impacts have surfaced as major issues. Positive guidelines for better planning are in demand by developers and designers who need new understandings of the breadth of tourism's complexity for their own success. Long considered the seminal work on tourism development, Tourism Planning provides a comprehensive, integrated overview of all aspects of tourism and the planning functions that accompany it, emphasizing concepts and principles for better planning. The revised and updated fourth edition contains enhanced discussions of the role of communities immediately surrounding the sites using newer tourism cases as examples. Issues that have increased in importance in recent years are also discussed in depth including transportation glut, resource erosion, sprawl and sustainable development.

New interesting book: iWoz or Agile Estimating and Planning

Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry

Author: Ellen Israel Rosen

The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domestic apparel workers, now probes the shifts in trade policy and global economics that have spawned momentous changes in the international apparel and textile trade. Making Sweatshops asks whether the process of globalization can be promoted in ways that blend industrialization and economic development in both poor and rich countries with concerns for social and economic justice--especially for the women who toil in the industry's low-wage sites around the world.
Rosen looks closely at the role trade policy has played in globalization in this industry. She traces the history of current policies toward the textile and apparel trade to cold war politics and the reconstruction of the Pacific Rim economies after World War II. Her narrative takes us through the rise of protectionism and the subsequent dismantling of trade protection during the Reagan era to the passage of NAFTA and the continued push for trade accords through the WTO. Going beyond purely economic factors, this valuable study elaborates the full historical and political context in which the globalization of textiles and apparel has taken place. Rosen takes a critical look at the promises of prosperity, both in the U.S. and in developing countries, made by advocates for the global expansion of these industries. She offers evidence to suggest that this process may inevitably create new and more extreme forms of poverty.

Stephen Cullenberg

A detailed examination of the role that trade policy plays in the process of globalization. Rosen provides a meticulous historical analysis of the textile/apparel industry, one of the world's most globalized industries and one of its most hot-button issues.

Richard P. Appelbaum

Making Sweatshops reveals the inexorable movement towards an open trading system, the shifting alignments of actors pushing for or opposing openness, and, most centrally, how trade policy promotes the globalization of apparel production, filling a gap in our understanding of these dynamics.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures and tables
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Free Trade, Neoclassical Economics, and Women Workers in the Global Apparel Industry	13
3	Roots of the Postwar Textile and Apparel Trade: The Reconstruction of the Asian-Pacific Rim Textile Industry	27
4	The Emergence of Trade Protection for the Textile and Apparel Industries	55
5	The U. S. Textile Industry: Responses to Free Trade	77
6	The U. S. Apparel Industry: Responses to Capital Flight	96
7	The 1980s: The Demise of Protection	119
8	The Reagan Revolution: The Caribbean Basin Initiative	129
9	Trade Liberalization for Textiles and Apparel: The Impact of NAFTA	153
10	Apparel Retailing in the United States: From Mom-and-Pop Shop to Transnational Corporation	177
11	Finally Free Trade: The Future of the Global Apparel Industry	202
12	The New Global Apparel Trade: Who Wins, Who Loses?	220
	Notes	253
	Index	311

Design and Management Service Processes or Cases in International Finance

Design and Management Service Processes: Keeping Customers for Life

Author: Rohit Ramaswamy

In recent times, the role of service has become a critical differentiator between companies that are merely ordinary and those that are truly exceptional. Companies can create and maintain a competitive advantage and can keep loyal customers returning for life by consistently delivering a level of service that delights customers. To do this, exceptional quality needs to be designed into the service when it is first created, and maintained through the life of the service.

This book, intended for managers in both manufacturing and service industries, shows you how to design customer delighting service by applying well known Total Quality Development (TQD) and Total Quality Management (TQM) principles. The book is a detailed, step-by-step guide that describes the state-of-the art tools and methods such as Quality Function Deployment, Functional Analysis, Experimental Design and Simulation that you need to create, implement, manage and improve the processes by which service is provided so that you can consistently exceed your customers' expectations and keep your firm competitive in your industry.

In this book, through numerous examples and a single, large-scale case study, you will learn how to determine customers' expectations for the service, how to develop design specifications based on a quantitative assessment of the impact of meeting these expectations on customer satisfaction, how to generate and evaluate different service design solutions based on these specifications to select the solutions that deliver the highest performance at the most reasonable cost, and how to monitor and continually improve your designed services. At every point, the book offers concrete andspecific recommendations that can be immediately applied to your business for real improvements in service quality and customer satisfaction.

0201633833B04062001

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Shows managers in the manufacturing and service industries how to apply TQM and TQD principles to customer service, describing tools and methods such as functional analysis, experimental design, and simulation. Presents a conceptual framework called the Service Design and Management Model, offering step-by-step instructions, examples, specific recommendations, and a case study. Includes a glossary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Look this: Principles and Labs for Fitness and Wellness or Reinventing Medicine

Cases in International Finance

Author: Harvey A Poniachek

This new addition to the Wiley Financial Series is edited by a practitioner and teacher of the topic. It includes 35 cases on various aspects of international finance that can be used in any advanced course on the subject covering areas such as international financial markets; foreign exchange; foreign investment; international accounting and taxation; and financing international operations.

Table of Contents:

Partial table of contents:
FINANCIAL MARKETS AND FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS.
Atlantic Financial Services, Ltd. (H. Poniachek).
Societe Montage (M. Dowling).
Metro Corporation, Inc. (S. Mangiero).
CURRENCY EXPOSURE, PRICE EXPOSURE, AND HEDGING.
The International Chemical Corporation, Inc. (H. Poniachek).
ABC Airlines (V. Bansal, et al.).
CORPORATE FUNDING AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE.
Hydro-Quebec (G. Stanley & C. Deshayes).
Guinness Peat Aviation (F. Bradley).
INTERNATIONAL CASH AND WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT.
World Tours, Inc. (J. Marshall, et al.).
INTERNATIONAL PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT.
Templeton Growth Fund, Inc. (H. Poniachek).
INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL BUDGETING: DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT.
IBM and Thailand (T. Pugel & J. Lee).
The FMC Corporation (H. Poniachek).
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE TAXATION.
Irving Oil Versus the Queen (A. Rugman & A. Verbeke).
Mobil Corporation (H. Poniachek).
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND ANALYSIS.
The EC-1992 Program (H. Poniachek).
The Chip War (R. Moxon).

Family Health Social Work Practice or Tourism and Hotel Development in China

Family Health Social Work Practice

Author: Francis K O Yuen

A fundamental handbook to the family health model!

Family Health Social Work Practice: A Knowledge and Skills Casebook is a comprehensive guide to an emerging practice paradigm in the social work field. Edited by pioneers of the family health approach (who also contribute several chapters each), this book introduces the theoretical model and skills of the practice, including a framework for developing a family health intervention plan, illustrated by case scenarios. Issues vital to any family health intervention are addressed in 10 case studies that further explain the application of the practice model.

Family Health Social Work Practice stresses a holistic orientation to assessment and intervention from a health perspective that includes the physical, mental, emotional, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of family life. With its focus on practice theories, practical information, and evaluation strategies, the book provides a strong foundation for skills development in the family health model. A collection of articles from the leading practitioners and academics in the field gives a thorough and thoughtful examination to issues ranging from domestic violence to substance abuse to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Family Health Social Work Practice also reviews the philosophy behind the family health approach, summarizes its effectiveness, and examines other critical concerns, such as:

• child maltreatment
• mental health
• spiritual diversity
• aging
• agency management

One of the few casebooks to present practical intervention plans with accompanying case scenarios, Family Health Social Work Practice is anessential resource for students and professionals in the social work and human services disciplines, and an unrivaled reference for libraries. Helpful tables and figures make the information easy to access and understand.

Table of Contents:

	About the Editors
	Contributors
	Acknowledgments
Sect. I	Essences of the Family Health Approach
Ch. 1	An Overview of Family Health Social Work Practice	3
Ch. 2	Critical Concerns for Family Health Practice	19
Ch. 3	Intervention Strategies of the Family Health Perspective	41
Sect. II	Family Health Approach in Practice
Ch. 4	Child Maltreatment and Family Health Practice	57
Ch. 5	Intervening with Domestic Violence Using the Family Health Perspective	65
Ch. 6	Mental Health and Family Health Social Work Practice	81
Ch. 7	Family Health Practice in a Medical Setting with an Infant and Her Family	91
Ch. 8	Family Health Practice with Older Adult Populations	101
Ch. 9	Navigating Family Health in Families with Alcohol Abuse	113
Ch. 10	Family Health Practice with the Spiritually Diverse Person	131
Ch. 11	The Management of a Family Health and Family-Based Services Agency	147
Ch. 12	Americans with Disabilities Act and Family Health	161
Ch. 13	Family Policy and Family Health	175
Sect. III	Reflection, Summary, and Conclusion
Ch. 14	The Utilities of the Family Health Approach When Working in a Family Education and Support Program	185
Ch. 15	The Biopsychosocial Model of Pain Management	193
Ch. 16	Family Health Social Work Practice: Summary, Problems, Focuses, Theories, and Intervention Skills	203
Ch. 17	Conclusions	213
	Index	219

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Tourism and Hotel Development in China: From Political to Economic Success

Author: Hanqin Qiu Zhang

Examine the reasons for the rapid growth of China's tourism industry

Tourism and Hotel Development in China: From Political to Economic Success is a comprehensive guide to the development of the tourism industry in Mainland China following the end of the Cultural Revolution. Conceived as a textbook but equally valuable as a professional resource for consultants, researchers, and tourist organizations, this insightful book tracks the unique circumstances that sparked the growth of China's tourism and hotel industry from a political, diplomatic activity to a burgeoning economic industry. The book includes background information on geography, culture, history, politics, and economics, and examines the evolution of tourism policies, inbound vs. outbound travel, hotel operations and trends, and the Chinese government's role in developing tourism.

China may be a latecomer to international tourism development, but visitors have made it one of the world's top 10 travel destinations every year since 1994. Since historic policy shifts in 1978 opened China's doors to the outside world, inbound tourism has played a significant role in building a national economy. And the increase in disposable income among China's citizens has helped create a sizable market for domestic and outbound tourism as well. Tourism and Hotel Development in China looks at the major factors and characteristics of each type of tourism, international hotel development trends and their influence on China's hotel industry, related human resources issues, travel services, the development of hotel chains in China, compensation and incentive management, and the future of China's tourism and hotel industry.

Topics examined in Tourism and Hotel Development in China include:

• travel and tourism, pre-and post-1949
• the Asia market
• the intercontinental market
• international tourism in different regions of China
• popular urban tourist destinations in China
• approved outbound destinations
• outbound travel to Hong Kong
• challenges facing travel services
• local protectionism
• travel agencies
• hotel franchising
• foreign vs. local hotel chains
• outsourcing

and much more!

Tourism and Hotel Development in China: From Political to Economic Success follows the journey of China's tourism industry from a public relations vehicle, restricted by the economy and controlled by the government, to an important source of commerce for a country whose national economy was nearly on the verge of collapse.

What People Are Saying

Stephen J. Craig-Smith PhD
Stephen J. Craig-Smith, PhD, Deputy Head of School, Undergraduate Program Director, and Travel & Tourism Section Head, School of Tourism and Leisure Management, University of Queensland, Australia
AT LAST A CONCISE, INFORMATIVE, WELL-RESEARCHED, AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK on the significance, importance, and operation of tourism in China. China is fast becoming a major global tourism player. This book, written by three experts on China's tourism industry, provides a timely overview of current tourism developments in this exciting country.

Hailin Qu PhD
Hailin Qu, PhD, Full Professor and William E. Davis Distinguished Chair, School of Hotel & Restaurant Administration, Oklahoma State University
COMPREHENSIVE. . . . ONE OF THE BEST TEXTBOOKS. . . . Readers will experience vast, diverse past and current issues that affect every educator, student, practitioner, and investor interested in China's tourism and hotel industry.

Scenarios in Public Policy or New State Spaces

Scenarios in Public Policy

Author: Gill Ringland

The history of scenario planning is rich and varied. Throughout the ages people have tried to make decisions today by studying the possibilities of tomorrow. When that tomorrow was more predictable and less fraught with uncertainty, those possibilities had a good chance of being the right ones. Now, however, the only given constant in a world of complexity is change itself. In an environment where information technology is driving an information revolution, and where the rules can be rewritten with breathtaking speed, planning can seem more based on luck than foresight.

There are methods for coping with unpredictability. The Scenario planning techniques described in this book will help to think about uncertainty in a structured way. Based on Gill Ringland's previous book Scenario Planning: Managing for the Future, this updated and expanded version focuses specifically on scenarios in public policy. The use of scenarios to create a framework for a shared vision of the future, by promoting discussion and building consensus outside a business environment, is examined. Ringland also looks at the similarities between organizations which have used scenarios successfully - such as the importance of communication via storyline and image.

Scenarios in Public Policy and its companion, Scenario Planning in Business are both practical paperback books that each expand on specific areas of Scenario Planning. They will appeal to managers looking to learn about and apply a particular aspect of scenario planning.

Reviews of Gill Ringland's prevoius work:

"Nobody can ignore the future. This book is a must-read for any manager aspiring to putscenarios into practice."
Arie de Geus, Former Director of Shell International Petroleum and author of 'The Living Company'

"(Gill Ringland) offers us a mechanism by which to bring structure to information technology and other forms of complexity, offering us the vital ability to understand the dynamics of change."
Oliver Sparrow, Chatham House Forum

Book review: Sugars That Heal or Comic Strip Conversations

New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

Author: Neil Brenner

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism. Whereas most analysts of the emergent, post-Westphalian world order have focused on supranational and national institutional realignments, New State Spaces shows that strategic subnational spaces, such as cities and city-regions, represent essential arenas in which states are being transformed. Brenner traces the transformation of urban governance in western Europe during the last four decades and, on this basis, argues that inherited geographies of state power are being fundamentally rescaled. Through a combination of theory construction, historical analysis and cross-national case studies of urban policy change, New State Spaces provides an innovative analysis of the new formations of state power that are currently emerging.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction : cities, states, and the 'explosion of spaces'	1
2	The globalization debates : opening up to new spaces?	27
3	The state spatial process under capitalism : a framework for analysis	69
4	Urban governance and the nationalization of state space : political geographies of spatial Keynesianism	114
5	Interlocality competition as a state project : urban locational policy and the rescaling of state space	172
6	Alternative rescaling strategies and the future of new state spaces	257