business books summaries
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
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Book Summary: “Freakonomics part 1″ by Steven D. Levitt
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Champion`s Practical Six Sigma Summary (Hardcover) $30.68 Description not available. |
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The Sales Gurus (Compact Disc) $22.86 Description not available. |
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The New Form 990 (Hardcover) $114.79 The New Form 990 covers the law, policy, and preparation of the new IRS Form 990. It includes summaries of the law underlying each of the parts and questions in the return, so that the preparer can understand the background law in formulating answers o… |
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Reverse Mergers (Hardcover) $49.87 “The top expert in the field of reverse mergers provides an executive summary along with nuts and bolts explanations showing how these deals are done. The revised edition addresses new regulations, SPACs, growth in China, and other key topics”–Provide… |
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The Essentials of Business Statistics I $6.88 REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the ess… |
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Human Factors in Project Management (Hardcover) $45.38 In Human Factors in Project Management, author Zachary Wong—a noted trainer and acclaimed leader of more than 250 project teams—provides a summary of “people-based” management skills and techniques that can be applied when worki… |
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Harvard Business Review on Crisis Management $14.81 A collection of eight essays highlighting leading ideas on how to deal with difficult situations, crises, and other sensitive topics in a business environment. Each essay includes a summary. Topics are executive defection, managing product recalls, med… |
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The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace $12.58 Beginning with a brief yet comprehensive summary of corporate America’s effort to control and motivate its workforce through theories and techniques of organizational management, Alan Briskin argues the importance of spiritual integrity in the wor… |
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Fundamentals of Trading Energy Futures and Options (Hardcover) $59.15 Errera, a writer on economics and energy, and Brown (finance, Florida State U.) explain the fundamentals of the markets and seek to dispel some of the myths surrounding them. They include a summary of the rules of the most active contracts, among them … |
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Step-by-step Cover Letters (PACKAGE) $13.33 A guide to cover-letter writing explains how to draft a compelling first paragraph, show the value one brings, develop and communicate one`s brand, summarize key accomplishments, edit the letter and compel the employer to pick up the phone and book an … |
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How to Write Better Resumes and Cover Letters $14.37 Preparing a rB)sumB) that will attract prospective employers is a two-part exercise. First comes knowing how to summarize and advertise oneB`s skills and background clearly and concisely. Just as important is knowing how to get the most out of a comput… |
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Biographical Dictionary of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders (Hardcover) $168.3 Zhang and Alon (both Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida) present the first book of its kind to review, summarize and compile extensive biographical information on a list of important business and economic leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and pol… |
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CHINA`S AND INDIA`S CHALLENGE TO LATIN AMERICA $34.65 The ten chapters of this volume summarize and present results from background papers commissioned for a regional study sponsored by the Office of the Chief Economist for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank in order to assess ho… |
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Catechism of the Catholic Church $21.12 This updated second edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church incorporates all the final modifications made in the complete, official Latin text, accompanied by line-by-line explanations of orthodox Catholicism, summaries of each section, a detai… |
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What Functional Managers Need to Know About Project Management (Paperback) $23.71 The two project management trainers who authored this book aimed to make the content digestible for busy readers–every other page contains a few paragraphs of text and faces a slide with an image and summary text. The six chapters describe the charact… |
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Foundations of Financial Management (Paperback) $66.19 This valuable resource, created by Dwight C. Anderson, Louisiana Tech University, provides chapter summaries, outlines with page references, and additional problems and multiple-choice questions with solutions for practice. |
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Harvard Business Review on Bringing Your Whole Self to Work (Paperback) $18.62 Articles collected from the Harvard Business Review focus on balancing professional and personal commitments and safeguarding physical and psychological health to avoid burnout. Each article begins with a summary. Contributors include psychiatrists, le… |
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Leading Out Loud $19.57 "One of the best books on speaking ever written."–Executive SummariesIn this new edition of his widely pra |
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African Statistical Yearbook 2004 $39.6 This work presents statistical data on the eight countries of North Africa, generally for the years 1995 to 2003 or for the last nine years for which data are available. Data are in tables, grouped into sections on sub-regional summary tables and count… |
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Macro-Econometric Analyses Of The Japanese Economy (Hardcover) $118.8 This book offers the representative macro-econometric models and their applications for the Japanese economy in different development stages throughout postwar years up to the present. It presents a summary of three types of macro-econometric models an… |
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Quick Changeover for Operators (Paperback) $28.95 Teaches frontline employees how to reduce setup and turnaround time in all types of manufacturing, assembly, and service industries. Features include a universal reading level, chapter overviews and summaries, real-life examples, reflection questions, … |
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CRM In Real Time (Paperback) $27.27 Goldenberg has spent more than 20 years as a customer relationship management (CRM) consultant, and this volume is a vital and practical summary of his developments in the field. Designed as a guide for management executives looking to improve customer… |
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The Essentials of Business Law I $6.88 REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the esse… |
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Technical Writing (Paperback) $23.49 Content Summary Technical writing is an essential form of straightfoward communication that allows readers to accomplish a specific task using easy-to-understand directions. Our book also dispels the myth that all … |
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The Mutual Funds Book (Paperback) $18.77 The author of several other financial books presents an accessible, large print (presumably for baby boomers` eyes) summary of the history of mutual funds, types, companies, advantages (and a few downsides), constituent investments, and how to profit f… |
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Successful Selling Skills (Paperback) $13.76 Denny is a successful businessman in the UK and an expert on salesmanship, and he presents this summary of his most effective techniques for salespeople who need to refresh their skills or gain a competitive edge. The author outlines the steps needed t… |
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The Mind of the Ceo $11.25 Unfortunately, Garten, a former Clinton administration trade official who has made a name for himself since as a smart, loyal critic of corporate America, devotes only the final third of the book to his far-reaching vision. The rest is a summary o… |
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Career Opportunities in Forensic Science $14.07 Gives a broad view of possible careers in the field of forensic science, with information on over eighty jobs that includes job summaries and overviews of the skills, education, and training necessary for each. |
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Clashing Views in Human Resource Management (Paperback) $41.63 Taking Sides volumes present current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a… |
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Occupational Outlook Handbook 2010-2011 (Paperback) $14.33 A resource developed by the U.S. Department of Labor and covering the job outlook through the year 2018 contains descriptions for 270 major jobs in the U.S. and summary information on additional jobs, as well as other useful content, such as a Personal… |
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Handbook of Improving Performance in the Workplace, Measurement and Evaluation (Hardcover) $150 This cross-disciplinary, international Handbook brings together best-in-field research and practice to provide an up-to-date summary of the leading ideas in performance measurement, theory, and practice. This invaluable reference provides a comp… |
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The Sales Gurus (Hardcover) $19.92 Shares accessible synopses of 18 top-selected sales guides by such names as Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins and Brian Tracy, complementing each summary with key examples, quotes and highlights. By the editors of The Marketing Gurus. |
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Ifrss (Hardcover) $63.45 Based on the IFRSs issued by the IASB on 1/10/08, this provides a simplified summary of the main elements of IFRSs, linking each line in the financial statement to the chronologically numbered standards and then summarizing in diagrams each o… |
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Marketing Planning 2008-2009 (Paperback) $43.51 Contains a range of learning objective questions, activities, definitions and summaries to support and test your understanding of the theory in Marketing Planning strategies. |
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Making Change Stick (Paperback) $10.9 Six reprinted case studies (1999-2003) examine the challenges of recognizing the need for and implementing change in organizations. The highly readable scenarios with executive summaries and titles including “Welcome Aboard (But Don`t Change a Thing)” … |