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I don' t think it is any better than other texts and I just want to balance out the overall rating average by giving a low rating.

The author, Dominick Salvatore, is clearly an expert in the field. Unfortunately, his field appears to be Keynesian economics circa the 1960s, and is almost completely wrong, and at times, incoherently wrong. Imagine that in the 1940s to the 1970s, man's knowledge of chemistry was thrown out the window, and replaced with alchemy. This is what Keynesianism did to economics. I have only read the second half of the book, but it simply makes no sense. It rambles on and on about balance of payment "deficits," which are impossible, as the capital account and current account always will balance each other out. It is obsessed with "equilbria" and "disequilibria," based on a mythical "balance of payments" deficit and surplus, rendering such diversions meaningless. The text dumbly assumes that trade between a person across the street from you is completely different from a person across the world from you, and senselessly assumes that government intervention in the economy can achieve policy objective, contrary that the entire historical record indicates this is not the case. Reading this text, one feels like they are in a particularly blighted region of the 19th century, or in Soviet Russia. There is incredibly little of accurate knowledge in this horrifically bad text. Knowing what's in it might be good for passing an exam, but it doesn't teach anything useful beyond that, and unfortunately, it's over reliance on graphs, with mind numbing references to said graphs splattered across multiple pages, makes it very difficult to pull anything together. In summary, Salvatore is an expert in a discredited field, and I am sure if he put in the time and thought, the 10th or 11th edition could actually begin to approach a modern understanding of economics, instead of the dark ages of economics, and thereby become a useful education tool, as opposed to one of indoctrination of failed principles and concepts.

I've found this book easy to follow, even if I'm not very good at Economics. Simple, with many examples and graphs. Case studies and good bibliography at the end of each chapter.

This provides different kinds of examples as well as theories. It no doubt helps students learn about the real world. Particularly,the chapter on tariff policy is good enough to have a good grasp of the field.

The book really brings an in depth analysis of the modern financial world, through a very simple and easy to access method of presentation. Good for students, interesting for any other reader...

Received book and it was not what I expected. Seller was very understanding and allowed me to return the book for a full refund.

From a student who has completed his studies in international business, this text gives a brief idea of various aspects of management, but the presentation is very dry. The index is horrible and some sources are in dire need of updating as they might not even apply anymore. Not worth the money.

I read this book as part of my MBA programme, and have found the material to be quite comprehensive, albeit from a predominantly American view. The author (Deresky) analyzed cultural differences and the different strategies for achieving better results when managing internationally. I recommend it as part of a course being taught at a college or university, as it can be rather academic and dry in presentation. The comprehensive cases are excellent sources of information and provide a glimpse of real life examples of successes and failure in Multi-National Corporations and Joint Ventures.

This book was published in 2004. I have used it for the past three years in a college course with exactly the same title. It covers the cultural differences of managerial operations in multinational enterprises. The PowerPoint slide is useful for lectures. Many in-class exercises were done using articles from: BusinessWeek, Crains NY Business, Economist (online), Financial Times (online), Forbes and Fortune magazines.

The book will be better if more real-world examples were given on CEO of Ikea, Mittal Steel or News Corporation. Students did the reseach on the CEOs of these firms and reported their final projects. Final projects were done individually or in a group. Students generally like the book except the cost. But the book is cheaper than most of the other international management titles. I would recommend this book to everyone.

Excellent Book. I was impressed on how the author was able to showthe various difficulties that are faced and how one can go about managing them. Real scenarios helped a lot in understanding the difficulties better in International relations.

I was very pleased with the books and the price. Thanks

...you are in an Intro To International Business course. Otherwise, a complete waste of money.

I bought this for my MBA program and found this book having good contents but the approach is not good.... I would have done the layout much differently to make it more interesting.....

I had to read this book and so read it..... not greatly impressed.

Throughout this book Ferraro takes on the idea of being a theoretical observer of different characteristics that the typical North Amercian has in comparison to the rest of the world. He takes these dfferences and applies them usefully to the area of International Buisness. The book goes through many different catagories including language, communication (verbal and non-verbal), precise time reckoning, and even culture shock. As a student, I found this book to be very insubstantial for a textbook, but I believe that it would be a wonderful starting point for buisness people of any age to read before doing any international buisness realtions. I wish I had read this book before I went and lived in Europe for 5 months, I think I would have been able to communicate a little more easily.

Have not received the book and was charged for it.

This is an example where some academics should not be writers, a good marketer does not make a good writer or teacher.
The author writes in a very hard-to-understand language, Im not saying this just because my native language is not english - my english speaking friends have expressed the same experience with this book.
You get the feeling the author is purposely trying to use as many uneccesarily elaborate words and expressions to show off his academic status, and he takes little time to explain things clearly and rushes by at high speed.
This book is not for beginners of marketing! It would be more useful as refresher material for those with prior knowledge, or as a refference source.

For beginners I would recommend either books by;
Masaaki Kotabe 'Global Marketing Management' or
Warren J. Keegan 'Global Marketing Management'.

I have been teaching this book for many years at the University of Maryland, ... I am both practitioner and academic. I had other text choices but I did select this book. What attracts me the most - clear foundation: foreign entry, local marketing, and global management. It makes the challenge reachable. Each edition makes book stronger and more interesting. It is work in progress. I watch the reaction of the diverse population of my undergraduate students. They accept the book, and enjoy the travel around the world with marketing in mind. ...

I've used this text since the 1st ed., in MBA and Exec.MBA courses in both Europe and the US. The framework (captured by the title)offers a nice progression for both the instructor and students. Johansson's text is nicely written, and reflects his broad world view (A European, a solid academic, and a hands-on consultant to a number of global firms).
My students continually give this book high ratings in their course evaluations, which is one important reason for continuing to use this text. The cases are varied in length and complexity, and match up nicely with the different sections of the book. The Instructors Manual with case notes is strong.
One knock of the text (and one that applies to all International Marketing texts) is that the global market place is evolving so quickly that some of the materials are outdated within a year or two or the text's publication. An easy solution here is to download current developments from the global press for class discussions. Johansson's textbook has such well written theoretical frameworks, that while the book eventually lags current market practices (as they all do), the explanatory value found in the text still does a strong job in thinking through the issues. This is a solid textbook. One that students keep, and one that is structured for a variety of teaching approaches.

I think anyone who is interested in learning how the international telecomm market works would find this
book very valuable. This book helps to give the reader
a look behind the scene of the data and phone networks
we take for granted everyday, without a lot of technical
details.

This book is a summary of all the non technical information associated with all the telecom associations. Very little information of value.

Rob Frieden has done a thorough job of analyzing the economic, social, political and technological dimensions that dictate policy choices in international telecommunications. The book is readable and unmasks much of the jargon that is now commonplace in telecommunications policy discourses. This book serves as a much needed guidepost to students and practitioners in telecommunications

"Miss Marple insinuated herself so quickly into my life that I hardly noticed her arrival," Agatha Christie wrote in her posthumously-published autobiography (1977) about the elderly lady who, next to Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, quickly became one of her most beloved characters. Somewhat resembling Christie's own grandmother and her friends, although "far more fussy and spinsterish" and "not in any way a picture" of the author's granny, like her, she had a certain gift for prophecy and, "though a cheerful person, she always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and was, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right."

Although Christie herself considered Miss Marple her favorite creation - preferred even over the prim and proper Belgian with the many "little grey cells," of whose exploits she occasionally tired and whom she brought back again and again chiefly because of her audience's undying demand - there are only twelve Miss Marple novels and twenty short stories: while no small feat in any other author's body of work, just over one tenth of the lifetime output of the writer justifiedly dubbed The Queen of Crime.

This posthumously-published compilation, first published in 1979, unites the last seven short stories revolving around St. Mary Mead's elderly village sleuth. Though Miss Marple had actually -- in addition to the novel "A Murder at the Vicarage" (1930) -- even been introduced to readers in a canon of originally six and, after an expansion for republication in book form, later thirteen short stories, Christie's readers would soon come to cherish her mostly on the basis of the aforementioned twelve novels, each and every one of which is a gem of detective fiction in and of itself. As a short story character, however, after the initial "Thirteen Problems," Miss Marple later only made rare intermittent appearances, whereas the majority of Christie's later short stories centered either around Hercule Poirot, or not around any of Christie's recurring characters at all.

In those stories that do, however, feature St. Mary Mead's most famous (and beloved) resident, readers of course also meet a number of other acquaintances from her novel-length adventures; first and foremost her doting nephew - thriller novelist Raymond West - and retired Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Henry Clithering, as well as village solicitor Petherick, and of course the Bantrys (who would move center stage, much to their embarrassment, in "A Body in the Library," 1942). Add to these Raymond's new flame, artist Joyce (later reincarnated as his wife Joan); as well as, in the later stories gathered in this collection, Miss Marple's niece Diana "Bunch" Harmon, who is married to the vicar of Chipping Cleghorn, a village not unlike St. Mary Mead (see "A Murder Is Announced," 1950), St. Mary Mead's Dr. Haydock, several maids called Gladys, and of course Inspectors Slack and Craddock and Colonel Melchett of Melchester C.I.D. and village Constable Palk, plus the usual cast of other unique characters, many of whom could just as well figure in one of the elderly lady's "village parallels," those seemingly unimportant events summing up her knowledge of life, and on which she unfailingly draws in unmasking even the cleverest killer.

Avid Christie readers will also recognize certain other character types, plot snippets, settings and other features here and there; for Dame Agatha was known to draw repeatedly on devices she found to have worked before, and she tended to use her short stories as mini-laboratories for elements later expanded on in novels. Caveat, lector, of premature conclusions, however, for Christie was equally known to throw in a little extra twist in such cases: what is a real clue in one instance may well be a red herring in another and vice versa, and one story's innocent bystander may easily be the next story's murderer.

Miss Marple's final cases are:

From "The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories" (1939):

* "Miss Marple Tells a Story:" Miss Marple assists Mr. Petherick in the case of a client accused of having murdered his wife.

From "Three Blind Mice and Other Stories" (1950):

* "Strange Jest:" A rich iconoclast's final joke - at the expense of his heirs?

* "Tape-Measure Murder:" Miss Marple's knowledge of village life and human nature (once more) corrects the all-too straightforward path of Inspector Slack's investigation of an elderly lady's murder.

* "The Case of the Caretaker:" Dr. Haydock's story about a rural rascal, a poor little rich girl, an old estate and its grumpy caretaker.

* "The Case of the Perfect Maid:" Domestic service and burglary in a Victorian estate-turned-apartment building.

From "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" (1960):

* "Greenshaw's Folly" (republished in "Double Sin," below): A reverse-locked-room mystery at an eccentrically-built country estate.

From "Double Sin and Other Stories" (1961):

* "Sanctuary" (first published 1954, a/k/a "The Man on the Chancel Steps"): The last secret of a man found dying on Chipping Cleghorn's church steps.

Also recommended:
Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection)
The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple Mysteries)
Agatha Christie: Five Complete Miss Marple Novels (Avenel Suspense Classics)
Marple Classic Mysteries (Caribbean Mystery/4:50 from Paddington/Moving Finger/Nemesis/At Bertram's Hotel/Murder at Vicarage/Sleeping Murder/They Do It with Mirrors/Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side)
Miss Marple - 3 Feature Length Mysteries (The Body in the Library / A Murder Is Announced / A Pocketful of Rye)
The Mirror Crack'd

No one can do characterizations like Dame Christie, and she can even do these remarkably well within the confines of a short story. This little book of Miss Marple short stories is a wonderful cap to the entire Miss Marple series. I had read some of them individually, but there were some I had not read before, and I enjoyed them all. My own particular favourite though was "The Case of the Perfect Maid" (an oxymoron if there ever was one). It is remarkable how Ms. Christie can typecast each of her wonderful characters so quickly, and provide us with tricky and intricate mysteries at the same time.

I'm sure the 7 short stories by Agatha Christie are excellent as usual. The problem is that if you are looking for the Audio Edition read by JOAN HICKSON, this is NOT read by her. Amazon is listing that she reads it, but this information is incorrect. If you look carefully at the picture provided it shows that it is read by Geraldine McEwan. This may be a fine rendition, but it is not THE Miss Marple as performed by Joan Hickson in audio and TV performances.

I've got to say, this is the first book by Philip M. Parker that I was able to afford. I have read so many good things about him, but the prices of his text are awfully high. I saw this offered for 48 dollars and thought, well that's a little high but I've heard so many things about this author, I'll try it. Well, if you want to go ahead and pay 2 dollars a page go ahead! It only had 24 pages! Hmph!

After reading Philip M Parker's The 2007-2012 Outlook for Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs in the United States and The World Market for Machinery Used in the Grain Milling Industry or for the Working of Cereals or Dried Leguminous Vegetables Excluding Farm-Type Machinery: A 2007 Global Trade Perspective, I couldn't wait to get my hands on his other works. Let me tell you, so far they just keep getting better and better. Many authors of such unmistakable talent grow lazy and apathetic in their later works but not the esteemed Philip M Parker! I can't wait to see what subject matters Mr. Parker next lends his artist's touch.

This informative little 55 page paperback book gives summary comparisons of business practices in China versus the United States. The authors' presentation is made in a two column style throughout the book. The left-hand column is for United States normal business practices, protocols, and social customs; whereas, the right-hand column presents the complementary practices, protocols, and social customs in China. The book is designed as a quick reference pocket book. Chapter headings are: 1. Welcome to Business China 2. The Global Marketplace 3. Doing Business in a Global Marketplace 4. The Chinese Culture 5. Chinese Business Etiquette 6. Chinese Gestures 7. Communication Interferences 8. Succeeding in International Business 9. Quick Tips: China 10. Common Phrases

This book gives a quick rundown of the differences between Chinese and Western business etiquette, but does not prepare one for the aspects of Chinese culture that cause culture shock in Western business travellers - rude public behaviour, extraordinary personal habits; things that can distract you from the task at hand if not aware of them. A good supplement is Taiwanese writer Bo Yang's *The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis in Chinese Culture,* which traces, frankly and informatively, the long, sad history of cultural stagnation and repression which is the other half of China's story in addition to Confucius and the poetry of Li Po, and has an impact on encounters between Westerners and Easterners today. Most important is Bo Yang's comments on the concept of "Face" - that is, the importance of not losing face to a Chinese - this is more important to a Chinese than anything else, and can affect the subject under discussion in a business meeting. The more aware the Western business person (or again, traveller) is of Chinese society, the more successfull his trip will be (and the more positive his appreciation of China, ultimately, will be). The style of *The Ugly Chinaman* will give you additional insight into how Chinese culture differs from ours.

Another book I recommend is Paul Theroux's account of travelling across China, *Riding The Iron Rooster*. Many aspects of this far-flung trip mirrored my own practical experiences business-travelling in a much smaller part of China (and Hong Kong). I found it enlightening and helpful as a general, prepatory work (it is also highly readable).

For Hong Kong, in addition to Bo Yang's book, I recommend Jan Morris's book *Hong Kong* which has a wealth of detail on the unhappy history of the millions of refugee Chinese who fled to British Hong Kong in the last four or five decades and who are (understandably) very touchy about this subject (it involves, again, loss of "face"). In Hong Kong today there is a reluctance to admit this sad history but a knowledge of it is essential to understanding how Hong Kong ticks, and a business traveller who absorbs this knowledge will be in a better position to understand Hong Kong. The book also contains a wealth of absorbing, easy to read history about British days.

Paul Theroux's book, *Kowloon Tong* though a novel, captures the mood of Handover-era Hong Kong and has illuminating portraits of different types of Western and Chinese characters of a kind you will meet and interact with if your stay in Hong Kong is extended or you are domiciled there.

When you order this paperback and it arrives you see that it is only 53 pages. Now that may sound like a lot, but some pages have as little as 4 sentences. (Page 18 may have the record with 3 whole sentences on it.) The book is small and the print is very large. The first seven pages are generic introduction about business today without reference to Japan. The has about a dozen phrases in Japanese (goodbye is sayonara). No mention is made of things like gift-giving, how to exchange cards, tact, norms in socializing, when/if to bow, much about proper ettiquete, etc. Other books tout authors that have lived in Japan and worked with the Japanese for many years. Curiously, the bios of these authors make no mention of either having any experience in Japan what-so-ever or even having visited there. I could write this book based on one two-week visit or a quick read of any other book out there.

Seven bucks for something anyone visiting Japan could write in a few hours.

The other book I got for my visit to Japan (by Rowland) was a dense 300 or so pages with glossary, and dozens and dozens of contacts in Japan and the U.S. and advice on every conceivable subject.

I would advice you to get another book. There must be others.

I feel incredibly and utterly robbed.

I am a consultant helping US companies enter the Japanese market. Often, I am asked to recommend a book. This tiny book (paperback - 55 pages!) is one of the best presentations of the crucial cultural differences between Japanese and American business cultures. Its size is perfect for two purposes: slipping into your hip-pocket for quick referencewhile on the road (I can imagine its user excusing himself from a business meeting for a quick reference to the booklet in the bathroom stall: "he closed his eyes and smiled while listening to me! what does it mean?") and for rote memorization. In fact, memorizing its central chapters (Understanding Japanese Culture, Japanese Business Etiquette, and Japanese Gestures) is probably its best single use. The weakness of the book lies in its brevity: its ratio of meaning to words is very high and there are no illustrations or examples at all, making it very likely that the reader will miss something very important. The best way to deal with this risk, I think, is to read it over and over and to think very intensely about every sentence in those three chapters. Its second shortcoming from the point of view of our visitors is that the book contains no advice on how to enter the market and how to solve practical problems. Why that should be is easy to understand: the books aim is to help dispel misunderstandings and prevent cultural gaffes. And this aim it achieves superbly. At its price the book's well worth every penny.

No matter how little this book costs -new or used - save your money. So very basic, you could learn more by going to a Mexican Restaurant.

I'm not sure what the previous reviewer is talking about. I am very familiar with Mexican culture and I still found this guide extremely helpful as a quick brush up on the plane. It can get confusing when you are doing business with several different cultures, and I like to keep quick reads like this that help me remember the basic business etiquette for whatever culture I am dealing with.

I recommend this book or something similar for all cross cultural business people.