education-economics

This comprehensive, handy reference is chock full of ideas for reducing life's major and minor expenses. It gives great leads on where to find pretty much anything ... cheap ... including a lawyer. (Believe it or not!)

In the spirit of the now-accepted fact that we all need to market ourselves, this volume provides HRD practitioners with the tools and insights to do just that-market themselves within their organizations. The central theme is connecting with your customer and the heart of the book is all about marketing. The author succeeds in delivering a highly useful if not essential publication that deserves a place on every HRD practitioner's desk. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, hrconsultant.com and Stern & Associates.

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Becker has pioneered the aplication of economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as dicrimination, married, family, etc. This book is a classic study of the consequences of investing in a person's knowledge and skills. According to his theory, investing in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment.

One of the principal book about Human Capital Theory.

This book changed my life profoundly by altering my perception of myself and the people around me. The school system rewards kids who can remember things, but being able to regurgitate facts in an exam does not by any means guarantee a successful career or life. The kids who are artistic, mechanically talented, emotionally perceptive, or naturally intuitive, will be branded "losers" by the education system if they don't do well in exams, even though these skills are at _least_ as valuable as memory. The world would be a much better place if everyone read Kiyosaki's masterpiece.

Covering topics as diverse as National Policy, Electronic Commerce and Education, this book provides valuable insights into information technology in the Asia Pacific region. The editors have achieved a useful and interesting book by bringing together papers from authors with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

The Internet already has maintenance and manufacturing directories of installers and vendors; drawings, field modifications, and manuals; e-mail; FAQs; library holdings access; news and user groups; online vendor catalogs; parts information and purchasing; software changes; technical bulletins and help; and used equipment and parts. Joel Levitt goes on to say that any Original Equipment Manufacturer webless in the second millennium will lose a lot of business: finding manufacturers these days means using search engines and visiting the superindustrial and trade magazine sites. There are already tens of thousands of equipment and OEM sites, findable by AltaVista or Excite if you want all the newsgroups and web searched, by spider sites if you need specific equipment model numbers, and by Yahoo if you need a major manufacturing homepage or web site. In fact, the yearly fee for a web site pays for a single full-page ad in a leading maintenance magazine. Also, the government originally set up the Internet for communication and research, which are maintenance and manufacturing concerns, and it is now setting the example with powerful, quality maintenance-oriented Commerce, Defense, Library of Congress and NASA sites. So THE INTERNET GUIDE FOR MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT completes the picture for the author's HANDBOOK OF MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT and MANAGING FACTORY MAINTENANCE and for Terry Wireman's WORLD CLASS MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT.

This book introduces the reader to a relatively branch of economics. The central theme of the book is education planning. The basic thechniques of cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, production-funtion measurement and manpower forecasting are explored in detail in the course of the book. The last two chapters examine such issues as the cost of finance of education systems.

Ivy and Industry is a must-read for anyone who teaches in (or is interested in) the academy in the US. Newfield eloquently and exactingly traces the role of the university in "inventing" the American middle class, and the conflicts that have emerged between critical and independent thought on the one hand, and the discipline attendant in the "managerial condition" on the other. The tension that runs through this book is between the social role of the university in encouraging research, invention and other aspects of "free thought" and the "unfree" and uncritical pressures of the capitalist economy during a century of relatively steady growth. Newfield convinced me that it is not too late for the university to be an important part of a solution to the inclusive society envisioned by the arts and sciences alike. Readable and enlightening!

though this book was written over 15 years ago it still all hangs together well. The tips are fabulous. A great gift for beginning job seeker or students.

This book should be read not only by students but also by anyone who is still unsure about what they are doing and where they are going. It covers a wide range of topics and addresses serious issues that face especially the teens and young adults as they make a transition from school to society. These range from help with learning and time management to issues on sexual decisions and substance abuse. The layout and graphics make it appealing and easy to read. "Keys to Success" systematically takes student readers through their final years in schools and helps them to think seriously about their goals in school, their careers and ultimately their future lives. Coupled with questionnaires and written exercises, it really leads to greater self-awareness and confidence. I would recommend that parents of teenage children get this book for them and better still go through it with them, if their schools do not use it in their curriculum. Not only students, but anyone who still feels unsure of himself or herself could benefit from this book. We all have goals and dreams for our future. This book shows us how we can take charge and emerge winners in the game of life.