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The International Dictionary of Event Management (The Wiley Event Management Series)
Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 047139453X |
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The first and only comprehensive reference to the growing vocabulary of international event managementA-to-Z coverage of nearly 4,000 terms-more than double the First Edition!
Event management has a language all its own, one that is expanding rapidly as the event marketplace keeps pace with today's increasingly global economy. Because effective communication is the key to successfully researching, designing, planning, coordinating, and evaluating special events, it is essential to keep pace with the latest terminology. This invaluable reference helps you remain fluent in the language of event management by giving you quick access to the terms, phrases, and concepts you need to know to do your job well. Features include:
The Wiley Event Management Series-Series Editor, Dr. Joe Goldblatt, CSEP
The Wiley Event Management Series provides professionals with the essential knowledge and cutting-edge tools they need to excel in one of the most exciting and rapidly growing sectors of the hospitality and tourism industry. Written by recognized experts in the field, the volumes in the series cover the research, design, planning, coordination, and evaluation methods as well as specialized areas of event management.
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Great book to have in the Library.......2007-09-13
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Dictionary of International Investment Terms (Barron's Business Dictionaries)
Jae K. Shim Ph.D. , and Joel G. Siegel Ph.D. CPA Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0764118641 |
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This fast-reference short-entry dictionary defines and explains more than 1,500 terms as they relate to foreign markets (European, Asian, South American, and others). Areas covered include stocks and bonds, banks and other financial institutions, foreign currencies, U.S. regulations pertaining to foreign investment, and much more.Customer Reviews:
Like all the others.......2002-05-22
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The International Business Dictionary and Reference
Lewis A. Presner Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471545945 |
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Uses an integrative approach stressing the cross and interdisciplinary dynamics of international business. The purpose is to elucidate the core meanings, common logistics, international relations and politics.
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International Dictionary of Marketing
Daniel Yadin Manufacturer: Kogan Page ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0749435321 |
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Definitions of everyday marketing terms and jargon, plus in-depth explanations of marketing practices and procedures.
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International Dictionary of Marketing and Communication
Frank Jefkins Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0216922542 |
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Terms of Trade: Glossary of International Economics
Alan V. Deardoff Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9812566287 |
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World Cosmetics and Toiletries Marketing Directory
Manufacturer: Euromonitor Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 1842644378 |
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Business Dictionary Collection (NINE BOOK COLLECTION:, DICTIONARY OF BANKING TERMS, DICTIONARY OF COMPUTER AND INTERNET TERMS, DICTIONARY OF INSURANCE TERMS, DICTIONARY OF MARKETING TERMS, DICTIONARY OF FINANCE & INVESTMENT TERMS, DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TERMS, DICTIONARY OF REAL ESTATE TERMS, DICTIONARY OF ACCOUNTING TERMS, LAW DICTIONARY.)
BARRON'S Manufacturer: BARRONS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LPWPXE |
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DICTIONARY OF BANKING TERMS, DICTIONARY OF COMPUTER AND INTERNET TERMS, DICTIONARY OF INSURANCE TERMS, DICTIONARY OF MARKETING TERMS, DICTIONARY OF FINANCE & INVESTMENT TERMS, DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TERMS, DICTIONARY OF REAL ESTATE TERMS, DICTIONARY OF ACCOUNTING TERMS, LAW DICTIONARY.
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International chamber of commerce dictionary of marketing terms: United States usage
Richard Webster Manufacturer: Verlag für Recht und Gesellschaft ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007JTT2Y |
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Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression
Robert R. Prechter Jr. Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470849827 |
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In Conquer the Crash, Robert Prechter explains why he thinks the boom times are behind us. Based on his interpretation of the Elliott Wave principle (an idea premised on the notion that mass investor psychology is what really drives markets), Prechter believes that the U.S. economy is about to enter into a deflationary depression that few investors are prepared to deal with. In making his case, Prechter assembles an impressive array of data that in essence suggests that the bill for the last 10 years of market excess is about to come due. The second half of the book shows how to avoid becoming "a zombie-eyed victim of the depression" and offers advice on protecting one's assets in a deflationary environment (cash is king). If there's any good news in the future that Prechter sees coming (other than how to avoid it), it's that all-out depressions don't last very long. Conquer the Crash should appeal to gloom-and-doom investors and to those desperately looking for a safe haven from the uncertainties of today's markets. --Harry C. EdwardsBook Description
"A must-read book." —Martin D. Weiss PhD, author of the best-selling Ultimate Safe Money GuideWhere can you find the few exceptionally sound banks, insurers, gold dealers and other essential service providers that can help you protect your wealth?
How should you arrange your finances and your life in order to survive the depression, prosper while it's happening, and take advantage of the unprecedented opportunity coming at the next major bottom?
Not one in ten thousand investors will think to ask these questions, even as their financial institutions may be lurching toward insolvency.
You will find the answers in this book
"This book outlines brilliantly and simply the rationale for how and why the bubble developed. Prechter will go down in history as a legend for having predicted the secular bull market and now having provided a lucid description of the economic cataclysm that unfortunately lies ahead. I urge you to read this book and give it to your loved ones. It provides great tactical advice on how to prepare yourself financially. Reading this book could make the difference between agony and comfort over the next 20 years." —David Tice, President, Prudent Bear Funds
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Outstanding.......2007-01-10
Buy it!.......2006-12-28
Good to read but be aware.......2005-09-22
This book has a Fundamental problem.......2005-06-11
What Crash?.......2005-03-14
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The Appearance of Impropriety
Peter Morgan , and Glenn Reynolds Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743242661 |
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One of the longest-lasting residues of Watergate is the vetting industry: a mountain of regulations, committees, consultants, and special prosecutors dedicated to detecting and/or eradicating something called the appearance of impropriety. But for all this effort, it's hardly true that people in government and business are more ethical than they used to be. That disconnection is the point of departure for this book. The problem that Peter Morgan and Glenn Reynolds address is that the notion that all this energy is directed toward--the appearance of impropriety--is horribly obscure (Is it a conflict of interest, Michael Kinsley once wondered, to have a second child?). It's also subject to political whims and fads and, most important, not all that connected to what we should really be bearing down on: actual impropriety. This is a lively, opinionated read that makes excellent use of learned historical and literary contexts to cast convincing doubt on the current conventions of public morality.Customer Reviews:
If you thought you understood Watergate, READ THIS BOOK!.......2004-02-28
As Milton Friedman has pointed out, when government attempts to solve a problem, the solution is often worse than the problem itself. As "The Appearance of Impropriety" shows, when government was tasked with restoring integrity in government, the solution turned out to be an elaborate code of rules which, in effect, destroy integrity in order to save it!
As an attorney and a self-educated Watergate buff, I read all the whodunit books, explored countless "Deep Throat" theories, and read most of the standard Watergate tomes. Typically the period is portrayed as one in which America learned "hard lessons" in morality, then entered a "new era." During my college years I watched the morality play on television.
Eventually I realized the whole thing had been a triumph of hypocrisy masquerading as a triumph of morality, and I finally concluded that Watergate was a triumph of investigative journalism run amok. I was more cynical than most people even before I read this book, because I sensed that the "new", "more ethical" era was worse in a moral sense than the old era of corrupt backroom deals and cynical political skullduggery.
Authors Peter Morgan and Glenn Reynolds not only provided me with proof of my suspicions, but they demonstrate how the system the reformers created has come to rival the corruption of the past.
As they show, today's corruption is governed by an elaborate, appearance-based regulatory system in which compliance with the rules, by eliminating any real need for personal integrity, places honesty and integrity about on the level of compliance with such things as IRS codes or affirmative action quotas. Thus, the truly corrupt are enabled, and those with genuine integrity are burdened with humiliating and stultifying regulations which would keep many people away from public service. (As the authors note, Dwight Eisenhower was such a notorious rule breaker that it is doubtful that he could survive today's appearance-based scrutiny.)
Actual example of an ethics rule cited by the authors: "...[A] federal worker can legally accept pay for a "comic monologue" -- unless, that is, the government decides that the talk was actually an "amusing speech," in which case the federal worker could be fined $10,000 and drummed out of the service."
All of this and more can be traced to the post-Watergate explosion in ethics reform (a period the authors call "the Big Bang"). This has ended up deepening the entire country's cynicism, not by restoring integrity, but by creating a monstrous system of appearance-based regulations which encourage moralistic posing while actually undermining genuine integrity. Oddly enough, by exposing the appearance racket for what it is, this book offers hope to people (like me) who long since gave up. Integrity can still be made to matter, despite the cult of appearances enshrined since the Watergate Big Bang.
I am not out to rehabilitate Nixon, but were the fine insights of these authors juxtaposed alongside certain long-suppressed details of Watergate, additional light might be shed on why those who were out to get Nixon at all costs created a system of appearance-based "reforms" which ended up perpetuating the very thing they claimed to be ending. Those who "got" Nixon in my view ultimately had even more to hide than he did. They created a code for their times -- a code of appearances.
In the old days, an impropriety was an impropriety. Appearances were used to conceal improprieties, but with no real guarantee that anyone would be fooled. What was once a disguise has now become official certification that no impropriety exists.
When morality is defined as compliance with rules, true morality ceases.
Why didn't the government ever think of that?
A Book Written on the Irony Board.......2004-02-12
Also since one of the authors has used false statements to support his own conclusions about the state of ethics and conflict laws -- that hardly makes for a believeable source.
This book is merely the reflection of people whose own ethics and understanding of civic corruption is in the toilet.
A succinct explanation of our current political climate.......1999-10-14
A superb analysis of what ails our political system.......1998-07-20
The best guide to understanding today's scandal culture........1998-07-16
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The APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY
John N. Walker Manufacturer: Pocket ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0671740431 |
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Appearance of Impropriety.......1999-12-28
Walker brings his incisive wit this time to the professional basketball arena. A profit obsessed, self-made, supermarket chain owner has just purchased the Golden Gaters, an underachieving San Francisco team. Walker's rich character palate includes the burnt out coach Booby Sinclair, his star forward, W.E.B. Pancake, and a doomed sports scribbler who uncovers evidence for a sinister cause of the team's losing ways.
This book is a wonderful read that begins with a moment of bathos as the new owner's locker room speech to his team is nearly drowned out by a growing chorus of farts. It continues with excellent descriptions of basketball play and practice, good character development, and creative plot twists. Each sentence may be savored.
We should pray that the author's San Francisco personal injury law practice loses its appeal enough and that this talented writer will pick up his authorial pen again soon. If you like John T. Lescroart and George V. Higgins, you'll love Walter Walker.
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The Appearance of Impropriety
Walter Walker Manufacturer: New York Pocket Books 1993. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000PCDAXM |
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The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business, and Society. (book reviews): An article from: Michigan Law Review
Jordan B. Hansell Manufacturer: Michigan Law Review Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098C3N0 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Michigan Law Review, published by Michigan Law Review Association on May 1, 1998. The length of the article is 7227 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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Don't Bank on China; A flawed audit, or all too accurate? : An article from: The Weekly Standard
Gary Schmitt , and Jared Feiger Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000GD815M Release Date: 2006-06-16 |
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This digital document is an article from The Weekly Standard, published by Thomson Gale on June 19, 2006. The length of the article is 1207 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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Michigan CPAs Can Look to China for New Opportunities.(Brief Article): An article from: Leader's Edge
Michael Trebesh Manufacturer: Michigan Association of CPAs ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008HSLGA Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Leader's Edge, published by Michigan Association of CPAs on February 1, 2001. The length of the article is 749 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.Books:
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