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Extrapolates business symptoms from personal experience to identify core business problems and present real solutions. Balances business focus with people focus. Identifies primary business evils as management self-delusion, unwillingness to face reality, and laziness in making hard decisions. Some sections not clearly written, but lessons still valuable. Worth periodic re-reads to maintain high-level perspective on business development

The strategic layout and format of this book, including the concepts introduced has enriched my interests in not only tourism itself, but also other related business. After being a student of Dong at Canterbury Uni, his book has brighten up his lectures and provided a good background of tourism study in terms of concepts and cases study (also other reference for further studies). His personal practical case studies have made all the tourism concepts introduced in the book alive. I was invited to give a presentation on internaional tourism for our local governmental tourism development. This book has been intorduced to them and ideas/concepts have been widely used and welcome. No matter you are a student or in the tourism business, or just anyone who is interested in tourism study, this is a MUST for you!

For a non-fiction, it was good reading. This was the first book to show me why "overpopulation " is not a problem.

Being a business student is never easy, especially where economics is concerned. The starnge thing is I'm breezing economics. Why? This book. It goes into enough detail to be comprehensive but is still easy to read and a great help when it come sto both coursework and revision. I would have got far worse grades without it.

This book is a pretty good overview of workplace struggles and working class behavior, as well as the cunning of capitalism to dash workers' dignity against the rocks. The text is obviously left-wing, but I think it could afford to be slightly more Marxist. Also, Sabel could expound more on theory, rather than concentrate so heavily on ethnography. The book is written in an accessible style, and actually sometimes goes a little too fast. The book feels like it was written with a deadline flashing inside the author's mind. Despite this harsh criticism, I liked the book and at the prices offered on Amazon.com, I'd be sure to get a copy. It's worth reading, that's for sure.

This realtively short book is a good place to review accounting principles and terminology with excellent examples provided covering Balance sheets, income statements, cash flow reports, etc. This was used as a supplementary text in a course I just completed that was sponsered by a Society of Financial Analysts and used in conjunction with the other material provided by the instructor this book was quite helpful. I will continue to use it as reference. However if you are looking for detailed training in accounting this is NOT the book to choose.

While not a good source for those who have never taken an accounting course, this text is great for those who have taken an introductory course but need a concise refresher. As appropriately stated in the title, it is a review of the essentials of accounting.

I am a software engineer who needed to learn the basics of accounting in a hurry. If you know nothing about accounting, this book is for you. It is a small, thin (150pp) book that gives you 'just the facts' with simple real world examples (i.e. why is 7up an asset but Coca Cola is not?)

Another Updike, which - he did it again - is not just another Updike. Common to other novels of his, the situation in a medium New England town is familiar enough. Common also is the way he cuts a piece out of the ongoing stream of people's everyday life. In such a piece he typically focuses on their sexuality and agression, which to him really are the driving forces of his characters. In his other works the main character seldom is prominently in the foreground; there are always others nearby and they sometimes succeed in pushing themselves to the fore. Here three women in their mid thirties, Alexandra, Sukie and Jane, each present a main character with Alexandra however being more prominent. The male author John Updike again proves that he is equally well able to take a women's view of the world. Throughout the book the three women - widowed or divorced and each a swinger in her own way - display their wickedness in the ways they gossip, their disdain for everyone else and the way they let themselves be enlured by the big city and big mouth newcomer Darryl VanHorne in town which puts a spell on them and so makes them witches of a lesser kind who still are able to revenge themselves on the young women who beats them in the mating game. Updike makes sexuality a normal facet of life, something about which no one needs to be ashamed of to feel guilty about. Confusing - at least for me - is the way he makes promiscuity just as regular and unprohibitive. Here he offers a practical moral philosophy which I find doubtful and even dangerous as it threatens too much - in my opinion - values of family life and trust. Updikes characters are were trustworthy though in that they are quite true to themselves. But by being just that they expose themselves to others as utterly self-centered and therefore untrustworthy. Confusing indeed but here Updike is trustworthy as a writer in bringing his reader to the utterly consequence of his (Updike's) moral stance. Exemplary for this consequence is one minor episode in t! he book in which a secondary character, the pathetic editor of a pathetic local newspaper, deliberately puts an end to his life by hanging himself after having beaten his nagging and selfrighteous wife to death. Utter freedom, utter senselessness and therefore utter despair, these probably are the hideous but honest ingredients of which Updike makes his novels. The seeming ease with which he handles this makes him both an attractive and repulsory author who certainly is eligible for a Noble prize.

This extremely rich novel is an outstanding sample of American society (in New England)in the late 60's*, also because the main characters are mostly centered on women.I believe it is not mere coincidence.
It is an extraordinary novel for a "europeanized" analysis. Thanks to one of Updike's most delicious characteristics, the description into minimal details -(is there anything wrong with a surgical look on reality? Is it not a sign of accurate awareness and of extreme lucidity?)- allows to cross all the cultural references in the novel and to some extente we understand all the research that must have been carried out to write this novel (sorcery and witchcraft history, just to mention one).
Updike goes through several chief aspects of human existence (as we grew accustomed to with his books), from religion and all co-related metaphysical anxieties to a very soft criticism to the America of the huge urban centres, going through daily life in small communities, sexual intercourse, violence, moral values in crisis... What else could one wish for? And all this is presented to us in a somehow humorous tone, not really a comedy. One gets a sweet and sour taste, after all. I would rather not make any reference to the film. Being a European and living in Europe I missed the musical, therefore no opinion whatsoever.
Again, it is no coincidence that this particular novel by Updike was to be chosen, among others, by H. Bloom in "The Western Canon".

*Obviously, any attentive reader could argument with the "Rabbit" tetralogy, but to synthetize is always harder than to analyse, so if in ONE novel you concentrate so many concerns of contemporary society, then that is an achievement.

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The second-greatest professor I have ever had the honor to study under, a conservative (though not Orthodox) Jewish man, responded to one of my fellow Jewish students' remarks about Shakespeare's "colonialism" in "The Tempest" by saying something along the lines of, "Shakespeare was also anti-Semitic, particularly in Merchant of Venice, and the real question is, are we going to accept that and just lump it, or are we just going to try to get rid of Shakespeare?"

This is not to suggest that Updike is (or isn't) Shakespeare. I'd really like to learn, however, just how readers of works like "Witches" can just keep trotting out the same uniform judgments of said works--particularly in the case of such a very brave, complicated--albeit, admittedly, problematic--novel.

Let's put aside the sublime, multivalent language of the novel. Let's ignore the fact that Updike has updated the idea of the Salem "witch trials" to the (somewhat)present-day. Forget Updike's intimate knowledge of New Endland , the place of the actual "witch"-"trials". Disregard his first-hand knowledge of New England puritanism, beautifully exposed in "A and P" . [And please, if there's something misogynist about that short story, let me know. I haven't yet found a trace of misogyny in it, though there are a few out there...a very few, in the case of this one story.]

It's an extraordinary novel.

Communist Manifesto should be read by all freedom lovers to see how our enemies operate.

Amongst the Ten Planks of Bolshevik Manifesto are Income Tax and a Central Bank. Hmm.... Almost every country has implemented that.

Communist Manifesto is nothing but a garbled jargon spewing by Illuminati hired (...) Karl (...) Marx. Communism was not a movement of the people, but of the Elite to consolidate all wealth and power in the hands of committees' run by these same elites. Read the book "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution" to realize that Globalist Banksters financed the invention of socialism.

100 Diamonds worth of Truth: Socialism = Communism = Parasitism = Slavery.

Communism ended up killing 100 million people in last century alone, yet it is still loved by mainstream media and education establishment both of which are run by the socialists. But anyways, read the book because as Sun Tzu said "Know Thy Enemy". When we know how the Communist operate, we will be better able to defeat them leeches.

Let's back up for a moment and recognize the universal truth that "knowledge is power". I don't for one second recognize Communism as a valid form of government. The ideology and naivete of the system, is far too flawed and way too poised for manipulation of the people it governs. That being said... this is my opinion. Anyone one with a respect for history and a thirst to understand the rights and wrongs of our society as well as our governing neighbors should read a copy of The Communist Manifesto. As wrong and misguided as I think Karl Marx and his colleagues theories for government and societal standards are, I cannot, with clear conscience say that he was not an intelligent man who did present his theory in a coherent manner. The only proper way to dispute these theories is to educate yourself to the theories directly. You cannot make clear judgements to defend the Constitutional Republic (that we are suppose to be living in) or the Democratic Society (that we currently live in) without understanding the systems and theory's that other governments have either succeeded or failed with. READ THIS MANIFESTO WITH YOUR MIND OPEN AS WELL AS YOUR EYES!!!!!!!!

Marx's "Communist Manifesto" is a response to human cost of Industrial Revolution. It was a time when Europe was coming of age, with the development of modern industry and the potential world market. This market had an immense development to commerce, to navigation and to industry. These improvements were enacted at a cost of society as a whole divided into two hostile camps -the bourgeoise and the proletariat. Marx immersed himself into the suffrage of the new urban proletariat at the hands of bourgeoise modern capitalist. His solution lay in the abolition of private property living in a society where all are equal.

I found this document an interesting read, as this short concise book simply explains the "theory" of one economic system. It should be noted the democracy prevalent at the time of this books introduction closely resembled an oligarchy, in which the rich and powerful ruled the weak. The impact of socialist ideology on this situation was great: labor movements were created, egalitarianism became a greater part of democracy ideology and the lower classes became more significant to the political system than they had ever been before.

The greatest weakness one can note of Marx's argument, is his failure to predict the significance of the middle class in the nations. Marx's view was that the middle class would either be absorbed into the working class or proprietors. The success of the middle class in present times accounts for the failure of Marx's theory.

This book is useful if you're already quite familiar with common valuation methods and can fill in the jumps & gaps. However, if any of the areas you're looking at is new to you or if you would like a more logical, well-reasoned approach or simply a discussion of all the various valuation methods in use, buy Damodaran's text instead.

This book was the prescribed & provided reference in the Corporate Finance department I worked in but most of my colleagues and I purchased our own copies of Damodaran's text "Investment Valuation, Wiley, Aswath Damodaran", which is superior in breadth as well as logical description of valuation processes.

I liked this book. In Russia it is one of the most popular books on valuatuion. But when I can get the perfect excel support for Investment Valuation by Aswath Damodaran or good web support for Valuation Methods and Shareholder Value Creation by Pablo Fernandez, I ask the authors, why don't they put supporting material in disk? I think that the price of their sowtware ($94.50) is too high compairing with the book ($56 with discount), because there is no supporting materials - only 1 spreadsheet (from my point of view does not conform to McKinsey, as the leader of consulting business). I hope, for the 4-th edition we will have a good excel support.

I hoped that McKinsey would have something new to say on this subject. There are two corporate finance texts and various finance books that cover the ground better or at least as well, so it is hard to see why this book was written.

In light of recent corporate shenanigans with off-balance sheet products, it is unforgiveable that this book doesn't address how lack of value can be disguised using off-balance sheet products. Total return swaps, an off-balance sheet financing tool, isn't discussed, and credit derivatives, another off-balance sheet tool aren't even discussed. For coverage of these topics and offshore vehicles, read "Credit Derivatives" by Tavakoli.

Don't let the title mislead you: Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel (Student Solutions Manual) has almost nothing to do with Microsoft Excel. This book is useful IF and only if you are using it as a companion to the Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel text book in a statistics class.

The book provides ANSWERS. It does not provide any how-to; it does not provide any Excel formulas/etc. But is does provide the answers to all of the even-numbers problems in the companion text book. That's the only reason it got as much as a "3 stars" rating from me -- it was helpful for feedback.

While I used the first edition of this book (1997) with delight and great admiration, I was disappointed when I bought the second edition (1999). The main reason was that the authors had indicated in a small top right hand corner on the cover that the book uses PHSTAT as an an Excel Add In. (Not very useful for online purchases). Amazon mentioned PHSTAT in one review as an "Add In included on the CD", ie, it seemed optional. The examples solved in the 1st edition used native Excel methods. In edition 2, they were solved using PHSTAT. All screen captures, worksheets, etc, were in PHSTAT. If one does not wish to use PHSTAT, the second edition would not be useful at all. It would have been leading (Opposite of misleading) to entitle the book "Statistics for Managers Using PHSTAT, an Excel Add In". I am hence confused about the number of stars : first edition : 5 and second edition only 1.

This textbook combines good readability and yet is also relatively detailed. Statistics For Managers Using Excel 3E is well organized, with plenty of examples that make understanding the concepts easy. The problems at the end of the Chapter are excellent at drilling the concepts in student's heads, and the companion CD is also useful.

I will agree with the reviewers that mentioned the errors. There ARE some errors in this book, but overall compared to most other texts there are NOT a lot of them relatively speaking.

Overall, an excellent textbook for students taking a beginning undergraduate level Stats course.