Random House Webster's Modern Office Dictionary

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A one-stop, A-Z dictionary including the latest business, computer and legal terms

The only dictionary of its kind, Random House Webster's Modern Office Dictionary offers the newest legal, business and computer terminology, as well as standard core vocabulary, all clearly defined.

Arranged in a single A-Z section for ease of use, this handy reference eliminates the clutter of separate dictionaries and offers comprehensive vocabulary coverage in a durable all-in-one volume.

Includes appendices of helpful business charts and tables
Laminated cover offers durability for office use

Customer Reviews:

Perfect for the Office.......2001-10-18

This is the best dictionary to have on your desk at work. The sections for law, computer and abbreviations as well as the "regular" dictionary are so useful. I would reach for this dictionary two or three times a day. Unfortunately, my copy was lost as it was on my desk on the 99th floor of 2 World Trade Center. I am glad this dictionary is still available so that I may replace my copy. I recommend this dictionary to anyone working in an office. Perhaps the next edition could include a medical section. That would be great.

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Not Recommended.......2004-06-04

The book has too much material, which mostly is useless. 592 pages of boring and exhausting suggestions that lead to nothing except somewhat improved ability to handle lengthy boring passages. Perhaps not completely bad afterall :-) The tests are too easy, esp math - I used to get the max. Makes you confident for a few minutes until Kaplan hands you your fanny with 600 written all over it. Verbal is not close to the Real GMAT. CR is screwed up - the logic does not go the right direction and several of my friends agree with me, it is not just me; SC is not focused on the style but rather on the grammar portion, which is not tested as strongly on the GMAT.

And yes, the software is not something to be happy about. If you used this book and found it helpful, I will be very interested to hear about it.

-Bogdan.

Accurate Scoring... Cd needs a little work.......2003-05-12

Let me start off by saying that I used Arco in conjunction with Kaplan CD prep. On 3 practice tests, Arco gave me a score range of 640-660. Kaplan tests were 530, 560, & 590. ETS official practice test was 660. Official real GMAT score... 650. ARCO was right on the money as to where I stood.. Kaplan was WAY OFF.
The CD contains 6 practice tests, in my opinion about half of what you need to practice for the real thing. The layout of the screen is almost identical to the real thing. The only problem I found was that when doing long passage reading in the verbal section, you can't scroll one line at a time... you push the down arrow and it JUMPS way down. Sometimes you have to play around with it to be able to read all the words... all of which cost you valuable time.
The book was very good for learning sentance correction techniques as well as math practice. All in all, the combo of the book and CD was very good, but I would recommend grabbing either the Kaplan or Princeton Review CD as well. 6 Practice tests with Arco, 4 with Kaplan , and 2 from the official ETS... that's just about right.

Good try but rushed to market unfinished........2002-10-29

This animal has been rushed to market too soon. The setup menu is straight forward with the exception that it does not tell you we were setting up. The last feature on the menu says coming soon and there is nothing there.

There is a CD that comes with this book; however the quality control is very poor. The speaker stammers once in awhile and backtracks. At first they show you an example and talk about the example. Later they talk about the example and do not show you an example. Still further on, they tell you the choices that they made but do not show you what they need to choice from.

Just see your were you will need to have internet access to perform any of the functions in the book. The paper part of the book for the GMAT is well written and designed. Is the CAT part that really needs to be rethought.

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The founders of our Republic envisioned education as providing for all citizens the necessary apprenticeship in the understanding and practice of democracy. To make democracy safe we must have universal schooling; to make schooling safe for education we must have democracy. But since the founding of our country the study and practice of democracy in our schools has weakened. We must return to the primary purpose of education and ensure that it is indeed for everyone. The Agenda for Education in a Democracy proposed by the authors is more than an effort to simply revitalize a faltering civics curriculum. It is about restoring a shared humanity to the educational process. It is about the need to make caring, compassion, freedom, dignity, and responsibility central to the mission of schooling. It is about placing power and responsibility—a concept more demanding of the individual than is accountability—in the hands of those who need and deserve it. It is about taking the idea of excellence seriously. It is about taking democracy seriously. It is about having real faith in real people to do what is right, just, and honorable.

Political Agendas for Education: From the Religious Right to the Green Party, Third Edition

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An Insightful Overview of America's Political Stakeholders

Political Agendas for Education: From the Religious Right to the Green Party, Third Edition
Joel Spring
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0805852573
Release Date: 2005-08-02

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In Political Agendas for Education: From the Religious Right to the Green Party, Third Edition, Joel Spring brings up-to-date his description and analysis of the current educational agendas of major political players and organizations. The focus of this edition is the 2004 presidential campaign and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Spring discusses the ideological perspective of each major political group and how its ideology is represented in No Child Left Behind: *The religious agenda of Republicans who identify themselves as compassionate conservatives; *The free market ideology of Republicans who consider themselves neoconservative Republicans; *The thinking of the New Democrats, who claim a major responsibility for passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and support its accountability requirements; and *The educational agendas and criticisms of No Child Left Behind offered by Ralph Nader's 2004 presidential campaign organization, the Green Party, the Rainbow Coalition, and the National Organization of Women. Political Agendas for Education: From the Religious Right to the Green Party, Third Edition is an essential text for courses dealing with the politics of education, foundations of education, educational leadership, and curriculum studies, and a must-read volume for educational scholars, professionals, policymakers, and all those concerned with the politics of education in the U.S. and its consequences for schools and society.

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An Insightful Overview of America's Political Stakeholders.......2007-07-18

Political Agendas for Education gave an informative, albeit biased view of the current political stakeholders in education. Spring began his book with a 40 year old George W. Bush drunk at a party, and swearing off drinking from then on. What did this have to do with education? If I wrote a book about education and began with the Monica Lewinsky debacle, would I be seen as an unbiased writer? I don't think that that would be the case.
While Spring gives legitimate views of the political parties (i.e. Conservative, Neo-conservative, New Democrats, etc.), it is clear from his comments that he does not agree with the conservative views.
As an educated reader my goal is to critically analyze all views in a given topic without any bias whatsoever. I wish that Spring could do just that:(

School's in: Federalism And the National Education Agenda (American Governance and Public Policy)

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School's in: Federalism And the National Education Agenda (American Governance and Public Policy)
Paul Manna
Manufacturer: Georgetown University Press
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ASIN: 1589010906

Political Agendas for Education: From the Christian Coalition to the Green Party (Sociocultural, Political and Historical Studies in Education Series)

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Obvious author bias!
This book is a must read

Political Agendas for Education: From the Christian Coalition to the Green Party (Sociocultural, Political and Historical Studies in Education Series)
Joel H. Spring , and Joel Spring
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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ASIN: 0805827676

Customer Reviews:

Obvious author bias!.......2002-07-03

I had to read and review this book for a college class. While it is supposed to be a politically neutral book that discusses all viewpoints, I found it to be very biased toward a liberal viewpoint. Some parts are good, but others are too vague and shallow, due to the apparent bias of the author.

This book is a must read.......1998-12-06

This book is a must read for anyone who ever wondered why public schools can never seem to make up their minds. Dr. Spring presents a balanced view of the agendas and motivations that various groups have for shaping the course of educational direction. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, this book is informative and enlightening.

Making Out of School Time Matter: Evidence for an Action Agenda

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Making Out of School Time Matter: Evidence for an Action Agenda
Susan Bodilly
Manufacturer: RAND Corporation
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ASIN: 083303734X

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Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Kyoto

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Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Kyoto

Manufacturer: Westview Press
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ASIN: 0813368820

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The revised and updated second edition of this cutting-edge collection brings together readings both classic and new on the theme of global environmental politics from a diversity of viewpoints and values orientations. In selections chosen for their authority and edited to preserve their integrity, Green Planet Blues speaks with many voices-from Garrett Hardin and Herman Daly to Tanvai Nagpal, Chico Mendes, and Gita Sen, and from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme to indigenous peoples of the Amazon. North-South relations combined with an emphasis on class, race, and gender are leitmotivs threaded throughout the selections. The paradigms of sustainable development, environmental security, and ecological justice are used to explicate topics ranging from climate change, population growth, deforestation, the ozone layer, acid rain, and toxic dumping to transboundary pollution and the global commons.

NATO's Eastern Agenda in a New Strategic Era {2003}

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NATO's Eastern Agenda in a New Strategic Era {2003}
F. Stephen Larrabee
Manufacturer: RAND Corporation
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ASIN: 0833034677

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Examines four critical areas in NATO's changing security agenda: Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic region, Ukraine, and Russia.

The World Intellectual Property Organization: Resurgence and the Development Agenda (Global Institutions)

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The World Intellectual Property Organization: Resurgence and the Development Agenda (Global Institutions)
C. May
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415358000

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The World Intellectual Property Organization aims to introduce a much ignored element of the contemporary structure of global governance to scholars of international political economy. The book discusses:

· How WIPO works, its antecedents and history
· The debates about the role and justification of intellectual property
· The role of WIPO within contemporary global politics.
· The key elements of its relations with the World Trade Organization,
· The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

The analysis then examines the recent political economy of the organization and argues that far from being the neutral or technical agency that it often presents itself as, the WIPO is highly politicized and acts to socialize policy makers and civil servants into a specific view of intellectual property. However the recent proposal to establish a Development Agenda at the WIPO is an important development, and the book concludes by examining the problems which has promoted this agenda and suggesting that the politicization of the WIPO should be welcomed.

The World Intellectual Property Organization is a clear and accessible volume that will confirm the WIPO as one of the global institutions which any student of global governance must understand.

Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia

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Apologists for genocide

Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia

Manufacturer: International Action Center
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The hypocrisy and lies behind the alleged humanitarian war waged by the United States and NATO are exposed in this anthology of carefully documented critiques of the Balkan conflict. Evidence is presented to conclude that divide-and-conquer tactics were used to stimulate war in Yugoslavia; critical essays examine the Hague Tribunal, the occupation of Kosovo, media deception, war crimes, and blatant NATO aggression. Contributors include Ramsey Clark, Slobodan Milosevic, and Michael Parenti.

Customer Reviews:

Apologists for genocide.......2005-07-09

Absolute nonsense from a passle of kooks and conspiracy theorists eager to pass on propaganda from genocidal sociopaths like Slobodan Milosevic. While the reactions of the "West" to the events of Yugoslavia's disintegration and the aggression of Serbia on its neighbors (and Croatia on Bosnia) were hardly exemplary, it is facile at best to argue that the U.S. and/or NATO had anyhting at all to gain from "stimulating" war in the region. Including "contributions" from Milosevic to make the case for these brain-dead theories is like quoting from "Mein Kampf" to prove that Hitler was a peace-loving individual. Read this only if you are looking for evidence that there are still people with little enough regard for the truth and morality that they would act as apologists for some of the most evil people of recent history. This work defies all credibility and is both morally and intellectually bankrupt.

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Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda (Kumarian Press Library of Management for Development)

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Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda (Kumarian Press Library of Management for Development)
David C. Korten
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All too often, strategic planning neglects an essential step -- diagnosing the organization's current state at the beginning and end of an improvement cycle. What's required is a systematic review of the critical factors in organizational learning and growth. These are determinants that require the monitoring, measurement, and management of resources to ensure that your company competes successfully. This executive workbook provides a step-by-step methodology for diagnosing an organization's strategic health and measuring its overall competitiveness against world class standards.

The Corporate Diagnosis handbook is used to verify policy or measure the results of corporate strategy and vision (the "business renewal" stage ). Detailed diagnostic questions in each key areas act as guidelines for developing your own self-assessment survey.

To support the diagnostic process, three primary aids are provided: a check sheet to record observations and score each area under diagnosis; a radar chart to plot and track your company's position visually; and extensive progress tables that allow you to see your standing in each diagnostic area. Over 50 specific categories of company health are meticulously graded and charted to help you see where your company stands in its quest for world class status. Corporate Diagnosis is an excellent companion and aid for meeting the Deming, Shingo, or Baldrige Award criteria.

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