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I expected this book to be an overview of the international affairs field, but it proved to be much more. The careers and paths available are well-written and -described, and there are a number of careers that, although not obvious, suit people with an interest in international affairs well. In addition, companies, government organizations, and NGO's that employ people in international affairs are listed along with contact information. It's a well-rounded book that is honest about both the upsides and downsides of each career.

I found all the answers about the different jobs available in a career in International Relations. What's great is that I not only got descriptions of the different jobs, but I also got listings of all the companies involved. Now when I graduate with my master's, I am going straight to this book for the companies I wish to send my resume to. Great read and reference!

We stock this in our career center for our students and it is almost always one of the most requested books. This book is a good starting point for students who "want to do something international", but who are just trying to figure out what that means. The chapters introductions by "international professionals" are especially useful.

This book is very useful. It is a definite help to graduate students trying to understand macroeconomics. It would probably not help undergraduates.

The challenge of explaining the major schools of thought, and explaining their strengths and weaknesses is a major one. The authors also go over some non-orthodox schools such as Post Keynesian and Austrian. However, some of the diagrams are poorly explained and the writing is a bit incomprehensible in a few chapters. Also, the book does not go over growth theory, which is probably a major part of any graduate macro class. On the whole though, it is one of the best macro books available.

The central purpose of this book is to make sense of the fierce issues and debates concerning modern macroeconomics.

The authors suggest that the text be used alongside a basic macroeconomics textbook or as a main text in itself.

It is an excellent introduction to what is recognised as a controversial area of economics. The analogy of climbing a mountain and not being able to see the landscape is a very pertinent one.

There may be disagreements about the content of this book. Indeed it is easy to adopt a position about exclusions but this is a side issue. The format of an historical perspective in the development of ideas coupled with a consideration of the major positions within the debate works well.

It is clear from reading the text that the authors are very familiar with the subject matter and that each has contributed to the individual chapters on the specialist areas in a way which carries along the general reader.

Two particular things stand out for me in this text. The first is the section within the first chapter devoted to methodological issues and the associated section on rhetoric in economics. This is a key to a comprehensive understanding of the nature of the debate and the competing schools of thought involved.

The other standout aspect of this book is the interviews with various protaganists of the differing schools. Some pretty big names here including that of Nobel Prize Winner, James Tobin who only died last week. And what interviews. Not for these authors the standard sort of awe-struck beholden interviews but foccussed on the central points of the debate, exploratory questions which give real insight into the people and the issues involved. An excellent approach and one which has proved to be very successfully applied.

The final chapter, Conclusions and Reflections provides an outstanding summation and is followed by a comprehensive bibliography.

This book manages to convey in written form the full extent and depth of the macroeconomic debate such that it is intelligible to the educated reader without resorting to more mathematics than are absolutely needed and for that the authors are to be applauded.

In summing up this is a very valuable text which will be an asset to every macroeconomics course reading list.

Snowdon et.al. present a thorough and concise summary of the competing schools of macroeconomic thought and the major scholarly contributions by their proponents. The book is organized in such a manner that one can follow the major ideas and models within the different schools as they emerged, and then follow how these ideas came to be critiqued by a proponent of a competing school. Snowdon et.al do this all by using intuitive interpretations of the literature and without the complex mathematical formulas or empirical test data. Very readable by intermediate standards with excellent information for understanding macro thought.

If you are certain that you have no interest in studying outside the U.S. or Canada, then this book provides a good amount of information on the business schools on which you will be focusing. It also provides a nice summary table of these schools as well as a short section dedicated to the GMAT exam. This is the perfect book if you need to narrow down or even just select the business schools in which you may be interested. It can be particularly useful in assuring you don't accidentally overlook a program for which you are well suited. The financial aid section is also pretty helpful. Beware that, if you are applying to a competitive business school, you will want to do additional research for your "Why I want to attend your business school" essay beyond what is covered in this book.

Barron's collectively assembles the information you are looking for in an easy-to-read format that makes the scary idea of going to business school a little less intimidating. The book breaks down each school, discussing the programs available, admissions info and general data regarding the campuses.

The Barron's Guide also has a helpful section on financial aid and what programs various schools excel in. The Barron academic profiles are comprehensive and are sure to help an prospective student in making a decision that is sure to be one of the biggest of their lives!

This is something everybody should have, and after my Prof.Todtenhaupt gave me some introduction i managed to understand the CAPM and some other valuation tools. This is a book you must give your brother and that's supposed to be on every table!

Great short, easy-to-digest articles on a wide range of financial topics. If you liked "The New Corporate Finance" or :The Revolution in Corporate Finance," buy this. If you haven't read any of the three, buy all of them...

I enjoy reading books about successful companies, their founders and the principle people in the company history. I have read many books of this type and found this one on Gillette to be well worth adding to my library. The author does an excellent job of telling the history or Gillette in an interesting way. He also does a good job of describing the men who were influential in the company's direction. Well worth reading!

This book is essential for anyone who wants to understand how a company builds brand image and then maintains that image for years and even decades. This book, while some times dry, dramatically demonstrates how Gillette never rested, but constantly sought to improve its products. Gillette's constant R&D have paid dividends not just to employees and stock holders, but also to our late 20th century society. This book is great!!!

I homeschool my 4 1/2 year old son. We enjoy many different activities, but math is often a struggle! He is good at it, he just does not seem to find the time for it. After getting this book, however, we just spent 30 minutes in the dining room counting out coins and jelly beans. He can't wait to sit down and do math again(but I have to wait for his blood sugar to level out again!) The book gives very concrete examples of all the different coin combinations from 1 cent to 25 cents. We also enjoyed reading about how jelly beans are made. I got a kick out of this book as I grew up during the Reagan administration, when Jelly bellies were such a hit!

Buy this book, and a big bag of jelly beans and have fun with your kids for hours--they may even learn something:)

This is a wonderful book for elementary aged children but preschoolers can benefit too! The book teaches basic concepts of money and counting by illustrating how children exchange money for jelly beans. The book has lively photographs with coins and jelly beans that match children's outfits.

There is even a handy section in the back of the book with "The History of Jelly Beans" and "Presidents, Coins & Jelly Beans".

Also includes information for how elementary school teachers can obtain a classroom kit for jelly beans and counting - complete with stickers & a poster.

The cases discussed in this book clearly highlighted relevant issues for any company involved in e-commerce. I work for a small manufacturing organization and while the discussions did not specifically deal directly with manufacturing organizations, I was able to identify items that pertained to our e-commerce applications. I have concluded that many e-commerce issues are common across dissimilar organizations and we can all learn from other companies' experiences. I recommend this book, regardless of expertise in the field.

I was very impressed with this book. It gave an excellent view of the kind of considerations that a company should make before pursuing e-business. I was also pleased with the level of detail in the selected case studies. It provided a very comprehensive list of e-commerce issues, and yet did not get bogged down with huge amounts of detail. I have marked a lot of pages for future reference!

There are some profound ideas in this book about how a school should be run. I particulary enjoyed the "substitutions for leadership". If you are a school administrator you should probably read this book.

With this book, Sergiovanni has assembled a "covenant of shared values," a way of "expanding the value structure of and authority bases for leadership" in such a way that the reader can have a "powerful set of ideas for influencing what and how people think and feel."

Being an assistant English teacher-I teach English at the middle school level for the City of Naha, Okinawa, Japan-and having aspirations to eventually become a "full-time" teacher at the high school level, I chose to do a review on this book about the roll of leadership in public education. I feel that it is a very good book, both insightful and educational...although I did find it a little "over my head" in some of both content and the context in which it was written. This book, Moral leadership: getting to the heart of school improvement, would make a valuable addition to the guidance resource pool of anyone who cares about our children and the education system that is preparing them to be productive members of adult society.

About the Author-- Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Lillian Radford Professor of Education at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, has an extensive education history backing up his work: BA degree from the State University of New York in 1958, MA degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1959, and his Ed.d. Degree from the University of Rochester in 1966.

He has also built up quite an impressive work and experience history as well: he was an elementary school teacher from 1958 to 1964, a science consultant in New York state, a teacher in the teacher education program at the State University of New York, and he gave nineteen years of service to the faculty of educational administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign starting in 1966 (he chaired the department for seven years). He now teaches at the Trinity University in the leadership program and in the five-year teacher education program. He is the director of the Trinity Principals' Center as well as being the senior fellow at the Center for Educational Leadership. He has served in an editorial capacity for several teaching and leadership publications and has also published many other books about leadership and schooling: "Schooling for Tomorrow: Directing Reforms to Issues that count (1989, with John Moore), Value-Added Leadership: How to Get Extraordinary Performance in Schools (1990), and The Principalship: A Reflective Practice Perspective (1991, second addition)," are a few among his recent works. Along with all of this experience and education, Sergiovanni also apparently has "broad interest in school leadership and the supervision and evaluation of teaching," to bring to his aid in creating valuable resource materials for those involved in education.

Target Audience of the Book-- According to the author, in the introduction of the book, this work was basically intended to serve as a guide for developing moral leadership in schools, from the top down: superintendents, supervisors, principles, and any other persons at the upper levels of school management. The author's design was to provoke thoughts and raise questions in the minds of these people which would help them to analyze the leadership processes in their schools and to help them make adjustments to the leadership process that will in the end reduce the need for "direct" leadership in favor of "moral" leadership. He also makes point that this book can serve as a "counterpoint" to some of the textbooks, currently being used in university courses on leadership. He also states that the book would be useful for parents, school board members and policy makers. Because I am involved in the education process from the "teaching" point of the educational continuum, I see this book as being of particular value to other teachers and myself as well. If "leadership is a process," consisting of and reliant upon the presence of THREE distinct yet interactive elements: the leader, the followers, and the situation, then I feel that the information contained in the book-especially that concerning motivation of teachers, making a school a "learning community," and the importance of collegiality-is very pertinent to the views and understandings from a teacher's standpoint. This book is for anyone who cares about improving the leadership in our schools. Scope of the Work-- The aspects of leadership covered are very broad, from analyzing the traditional leadership rolls, to the tapping of higher and higher levels of human potential. It is written from the standpoint of managers and leaders and covers point by point the author's ideas of how to shift the environment of schools from that of a "factory" to one of community of leaning. The time period of the book, is of course modern, but the ideals expressed are timeless, those of using one's heart and compassion-"living school"-in leadership rather than just being concerned with the facts and figures involved-"playing school." I feel that this work will be of value as long as we have systems that require leadership, any systems, and not just schools. The viewpoint of the author, I feel, is that he is concerned about the leadership processes in schools that are presently accepted as the norm. The author would like to see school leadership shift to one that is self-motivated by teachers who want to do a good job, not one in that the teachers feel they have to as a result of dependency on "extrinsic" rewards.

Next to the "Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms", this directory is the most essential guide for a legal job search.

the National Directory of Legal Employers is definitely a necessity for anyone thinking of goig into the legal business. it's widely recognized in the profession as the authoritative resource. i'd only say that because it's so comprehensive, it sometimes doesn't quite get into the details enough. I'd recommend something like the Vault Reports Top 50 Law Firms, which gives a great idea of what it's like to go work for a law firm, whether out of college or as a lateral hire. It's less comprehensive, but much more detailed and a fun read.

I enjoyed reading this a year ago, and recently bought a copy as a gift. I remembered it as a "light" read, but it's really fairly long. The authors give you a memorable perspective on how there are completely different ways of viewing decisions - appeal to consensus; appeal to facts; appeal to authority, etc. You may take that for grant, but the book really brings this perspective alive and points out that modern-world decision making requires more complex approaches that ever before.

While this is not a book to be read for entertainment, it will certainly surprise and excite those who wish to better understand our every day decision making processes. I highly recommend it for those who need to think quickly and efficiently in business, or even for anyone who just wants to better understand their own decision making patterns for better or for worse. You'll need at least a couple of weeks to get through this one, and I would recommend reading it with a friend so you can discuss each chapter as you progress throuh the book.

This book examines the difficult task of formulating the structure of particularly complex, or wicked, problems. Wicked problems often do not have "right" or "wrong" solutions, and progress on one aspect of such a problem often leads to new problems on another aspect. By defining the multiple perspectives of stakeholders in these problem "messes", Mitroff and Linstone illustrate how one can begin to approach "solving" them in a reasonable fashion.