The International Dictionary of Event Management (The Wiley Event Management Series)
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The first and only comprehensive reference to the growing vocabulary of international event management

A-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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5 out of 5 stars Great book to have in the Library.......2007-09-13

If the term exists, you'll find it here. A must have in an event planner's library.
Dictionary of International Investment Terms (Barron's Business Dictionaries)
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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.

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                Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression
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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. Edwards

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                "A must-read book." —Martin D. Weiss PhD, author of the best-selling Ultimate Safe Money Guide

                Where 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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                5 out of 5 stars Outstanding.......2007-01-10

                THis book is simply outstanding. A must read for anybody that cares about their financial future. Well written, super informative, and exciting reading.

                5 out of 5 stars Buy it!.......2006-12-28

                Excellent book. Every person in possession of wealth, large or small, should purchase this book. Well done!

                4 out of 5 stars Good to read but be aware.......2005-09-22

                If you are an experienced reader of financial publications and would like to read a view that is very different but presented with arguments and reasoning - this is a good book to read. A different view will likely shine a new light to known facts and pull some new ones that you have not considered recently. Even if you don't agree with the author, such reading has high value if facts are presented well. These are. You should keep in mind though, that author stresses that he foresaw long bull market before many, knew its characteristics, etc. But his own advisory service (tracked by Hulbert Financial Magazine) has very poor results. He is way behind broad market on a "regular investors" portfolio and dramatically negative in his "trader" portfolio. His performance looks very consistent bad during a good 20 years period. So, in fact, you would look like a true hero if you took all his "trader" advises and did just opposite! Note, that it is not just stock picking that is bad. Timing-only returns are even worse. So, remember, your brain cannot retire yet. Given that - it is a good reading, good perspective to consider.

                If you are just starting to read financial publications - you might not appreciate the fact that there are thousands of financial publishers at any given time. All, yes, all of them are smart. Really smart. Finance has so many dimensions that it is possible to argue any number of views at the same time - all well grounded and reasoned. When you are starting, anything you read impresses you, looks totally convincing and even evident. Moreover, you will have a feeling that you can make a confident use of newly acquired knowledge. This is why it is NOT good first reading for you. Before you have your brain active - you need some measured background reading. It is simply NOT POSSIBLE to judge from common sense - it takes decades to build common sense in finance. This is a radical view, expressed by rather radical author, practicing non-scientific ideas. His ideas cannot be proven or disproven because he talks about things that happens ones in a century or once in 3 centuries! So, keep in mind a simple fact - this particular man was right big time once but he himself was not able to make any use of his seeing into future. His theory was with him all along but help none either. In fact, you were better off not hearing his advices! I'd keep doing just that. This does not mean I dislike (or like) his prognosis. He may be right and he maybe wrong. He might be right in direction but wrong in the extent. Or any combinations. There is nothing in his book or in his performance so far to make it anything but a pure guess.

                2 out of 5 stars This book has a Fundamental problem.......2005-06-11

                This book is well written. Disregarding the chapter on deflation, it is very clear too (Prechter seems to be a very clear expositor).

                The problem is that Prechter tries to convince the reader that the timing of his analysis is right and inexorable. He wrote "No Alternative Scenarios" in the book.

                Someone that believed in the book lost some good bull markets. For example, several stocks (siderurgical group, for example) in BRAZIL were up by a factor from 4 to 10. Have you imagined to put US$ 40.000 and one year later to withdraw US$ 400.000 ? (years 2003-2004)

                Contrary to one reviewer, I do know that this book CAN cause financial harm. Had you stayed in dollar-cash here, you would have lost money because the dollar lost value against several other currencies.

                Prechter should have been more cautious and have talked about ALTERNATIVE scenarios before the fact. He revised his counts and says that the US is nowadays on Elliott Wave B and soon we will see the Wave C. How soon ?

                Maybe he is right medium-long term. He is not wrong about that yet. But his short term predictions were worthless, or better saying, worth killing.

                However, I admit the book is informative and interesting.

                P.S. In the book "The Great Bust Ahead" author Daniel Arnold says that "The Greatest Depression in American and UK History is Just Several Short Years Away" with the stock market peak ocurring about 2010.


                Good luck to all of us!

                Ah, I invite you to see my review of "Why Stocks Markets Crash" book by Didier Sornette to better understand what I have to say about this subject.

                2 out of 5 stars What Crash?.......2005-03-14

                This book contains some useful historical information and some insights into the mass psychology of booms, bubbles, and busts.

                Prechter should have left it at that. Instead, he offers up predictions. Big mistake. This guy bases his forecasts on Fibonacci numbers and so-called Elliott "wave counts." He labels all market patterns so that they fit the preordained Elliott Wave 5-up, 3-down pattern. If you see more or fewer waves than he does in any given market move, you just don't understand that there can only be 5 waves to the top of a bull market. He's imposing his theory on the market, but surprisingly enough, the market doesn't care. It does whatever it wants, in however many waves it wants, and Bob has been very frustrated at the market's aberrant behavior lately. He got lucky early in his career, but it seems he's been fairly consistently getting the market wrong since missing the '87 crash.

                Any superstitution can "seem" to work if you only look at its happenstance apparent accuracies and disregard its abundant failures. Keep looking for certain numbers of waves and Fibonacci ratios and you'll find what you're looking for. Pick any set of numbers or patterns or wave counts, and you'll find those too. The market doesn't care about any of those things, though. It's nothing more than an aggregation of billlions of individual choices, which are influenced by an infinite number of factors none of us can ever understand fully. University studies of various investing methods have found that Elliott Wave, like most, is no better than random stock selection.

                If Prechter had chosen the random method, he and his followers would at least have a good chance of keeping pace with the market. Unfortunately, he has been getting everything from the Dow, to oil (he thought it was going to $10), to gold (he didn't think it could break $400), to deflation (the "deflation" scare ended shortly after this book came out) WRONG in the past couple of years. He apparently STILL believes that the Dow will go to 400 (not 4,000 but FOUR HUNDRED) because his charts tell him it should (they've been telling him that since about 1990, actually). Prechter doesn't understand demographics or economics or markets or the monetary system, all of which render "Dow 400" among the goofiest of forecasting absurdities -- unless you believe a giant asteroid will hit and wipe out two thirds of the population (I don't think Prechter is counting on that).

                Our debt-heavy economy may have a significant crisis soon, perhaps by the end of the decade. It will most likely be spurred on by inflation and rising interest rates. But it's not happening now and it's not happening in the way this author has been prematurely forecasting for over a decade.

                This book came out near the bottom of the 2000-2002 stock bear market, just in time for a reader to short stocks as they began a new bull market. How typical. While promoting the book, Prechter said it was "definite" that stocks would "crash"
                in 2003. He said that 2003 would be "the best year yet" for bears (short sellers). Late into 2003, when it was clear that the market had proven him wrong, Prechter declared on a radio show that by the end of 2004, the Dow would "certainly" fall below 5,000. Wrong again! Since his Fibonacci turn dates and Elliott wave counts fail to portend the future, maybe next he'll tell us he's found the secret code to the stock market from the text count of Nostradamus' writings.

                Bob Prechter couldn't call the market if it was listed in the Yellow Pages. This guy couldn't time the market if you gave him a stopwatch. He's throwing out guesses and misleading people by describing them as "definite" and "certain." He's either a liar or a true believer in his own irrational superstitions. In either case, he's not credible.

                Here's all you really need to know: Buy dividend stocks. Buy short-term bonds. Buy gold. Hang on to them. Do that and you'll do better than you will trying to follow the prognostications of market gurus. Plus, you'll have a lot more time to devote to family, fun, and productive activities.

                The Appearance of Impropriety
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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.

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                5 out of 5 stars If you thought you understood Watergate, READ THIS BOOK!.......2004-02-28

                And if you ever wondered why there seems to be no accountability, READ THIS BOOK!

                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?

                1 out of 5 stars A Book Written on the Irony Board.......2004-02-12

                One of the authors doesn't understand the issue and constantly confuses disclosure rules and conflict of interests.

                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.

                5 out of 5 stars A succinct explanation of our current political climate.......1999-10-14

                When one reads this book, which presents a plethora of alternatively humorous, irritating and discouraging (sometimes, all at once) examples of what's defective with "appearance politics" in law, science, government and society, one comes away with a much better idea of why American political life is as inane and depressing as it has become in the '90s: it's just the logical development of a long line of struggles in which the vacuum of appearance has triumphed over the meatier and graver substance of reality. This book demands to be read by a wide audience, as it provides an entirely new perspective on some of the more troubling incidents in our recent political and societal history and how we have gotten there. There's probably a post-Clinton Administration sequel awaiting this for Messrs. Morgan and Reynolds to report, or at least, a updated second printing.

                5 out of 5 stars A superb analysis of what ails our political system.......1998-07-20

                I really enjoyed this book. It covers a lot of ground: from Augustan age England to scientific scandals involving Nobel laureates. But it remains focused throughout on a common human frailty -- the tendency to deal in appearances rather than reality -- and how catering to that frailty has produced an amazingly screwed-up set of political ethics laws. Since I read the book, I view each scandal headline differently. I recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the convoluted and self-serving mess that goes under the name of "ethics" these days.

                5 out of 5 stars The best guide to understanding today's scandal culture........1998-07-16

                An excellent and far-reaching guide to the way politicians and interest groups manipulate appearances in the interest of political power and money. The best single guide to understanding today's scandal culture.
                The APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY
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                The APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY
                John N. Walker
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                5 out of 5 stars Appearance of Impropriety.......1999-12-28

                Walter Walker is an excellent, regrettably overlooked crime writer with a terrific ear for contemporary vernacular speech, an aptitude for the devious plot, and a mordant view of human nature. Walker's first book, "A Dime to Dance By" (~1982), told the story of a lawyer fighting local political corruption and skullduggery involving an old graveyard (no pun intended) in the City of Quincy, Mass. I greatly enjoyed that book when I was a starting attorney.

                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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                  Walter Walker
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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
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                    Don't Bank on China; A flawed audit, or all too accurate? : An article from: The Weekly Standard
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                      Michigan CPAs Can Look to China for New Opportunities.(Brief Article): An article from: Leader's Edge
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