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650 Home Plans: From Cottages to Mansions
Inc. Home Planners Manufacturer: Home Planners ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 193113104X |
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650 Home Plans offers a comprehensive overview of the wide variety of stock designs available. A beautiful full-color section shows off a sampling of hot-selling designs of all styles and sizes. Then, each chapter takes you on a journey of plans from the smallest (850 square feet) to the largest (6,500 square feet). It's the perfect resource for the novice as well as the experienced homeowner. * This big book of home plans features 650 of our best-selling and most popular designs, from 20 of the finest residential designers in the country. * The book opens with a 16-page color gallery of top-rated designs. Plans sections are then arranged by square footage to make it easier to focus on the size home you're interested in. * A wide variety of styles are featured, from small starters to luxury homes. All in one volume! * Complete construction plans for every home. Find it and build it! * Homes from 850 to 6,500 square feet.Customer Reviews:
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Stained Glass: A Step-by-step Guide to Making Projects for the Home
Manufacturer: Greenwich Editions ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0862880343 |
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Videowalls: The Book of the Big Electronic Image
Robert S. Simpson Manufacturer: Focal Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0240515056 |
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Videowalls-Robert Simpson.......2000-04-28
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Krazy Kat Postcard Book: 30 Postcards
Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1556705220 |
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Krazy Kat bigger than life!.......2004-03-15
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¡11 mil 300 pesos por dólar! Cotización real. (Laberinto).(divisas): An article from: Siempre!
Raúl Cremoux Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009FW8D8 Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on March 9, 2003. The length of the article is 487 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Agenda.(breves notas sobre política y economía; México)(TT: Agenda.)(TA: brief notes on politics, economy; Mexico)(Artículo Breve): An article from: Siempre!
Silvia Meave Avila Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008IOOW4 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on November 21, 2001. The length of the article is 512 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Ahora, administrar la pobreza.(los bajos precios del petroleo afectan la economía mexicana)(TT: Now, administer poverty.)(TA: low oil prices put strain ... Breve) : An article from: Siempre!
Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098NMJE Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on December 17, 1998. The length of the article is 511 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Ahorre energía y dinero: cambie lo que usa: cuando necesita un foco, una televisión, usted escoge lo más barato, pero ese producto podría hacerle gastar ... ¡Fíjese!: An article from: Semana
Don Juan Corzo Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000IZJX00 Release Date: 2006-09-22 |
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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Thomson Gale on September 10, 2006. The length of the article is 529 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Ahí va mi explicación: ¿por qué aumentó la gasolina?: An article from: Siempre!
David Shields Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082RSXM Release Date: 2006-10-24 |
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Thomson Gale on June 20, 2004. The length of the article is 568 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Alierta contra Birulés: el gran pulso.(liberalización de la industria de telecomunicación y fijación de precios de líneas de comunicación para corporaciones; ... corporations; Spain): An article from: Epoca
José Luis Guzman , and Eulogio López Manufacturer: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JA1N4 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on December 31, 2000. The length of the article is 1966 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Altos precios del petróleo: oportunidad para México.: An article from: Siempre!
Millán B. Julio A. Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000HT3NJE Release Date: 2006-10-24 |
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Thomson Gale on July 23, 2006. The length of the article is 474 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Apoyo a la industria nacional: tarifas eléctricas.: An article from: Siempre!
David Shields Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00081X4AE Release Date: 2006-10-24 |
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Thomson Gale on January 2, 2005. The length of the article is 551 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Asfixia por el precio del gas.(TT: Agony over gasoline prices.): An article from: Siempre!
David Shields Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008HI8KY Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on October 12, 2000. The length of the article is 742 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Bajar petroprecios, ¿acierto o albur?(TT: The lowering of oil prices, fact or fiction?): An article from: Siempre!
David Shields Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008H43NU Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on April 6, 2000. The length of the article is 1628 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Investor Capitalism : How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America
Michael Useem Manufacturer: Basic Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0465050328 |
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Michael Useem, a professor of management at the Wharton School of Business, explains an economic transformation that is not only changing corporate America but is having profound effects on the rest of society. Namely, that the managers of mutual funds now command so much power that corporate CEOs practically plead to have their stocks included in the fund. In turn, to make their stock appear attractive, CEOs are downsizing and restructuring companies in any way Wall Street deems favorable. And, strikingly, we approve of this action by supporting mutual funds. A revealing work.Book Description
A behind-the-scenes look at today's kingmakers: institutional investors. Out of the public eye, a small group of professionals--investment experts who handle other people's monies--are exerting ever-greater control over corporate managers, firing CEOs and pushing through 'restructurings' that cost thousands of jobs. Michael Useem's "Investor Capitalism" portrays the quiet, veiled nature of this dance of elephants, and portrays the enormous implications of its results. --John Rekenthaler, Publisher, Morningstar, Inc.Customer Reviews:
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An instant classic in the field of corporate governance.
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According to Useem, the struggle for corporate control is no longer "just another squabble among the rich and powerful," since most Americans now "derive a substantial fraction of their current or future livelihood from the performance of companies whose stock they directly or indirectly own through pension funds and mutual funds." Critical to the book's many informative insights are a series of interviews the author conducted between 1991 and 1995 with a wide array of corporate and investor executives. The result, is a rare behind the scenes look at how "investor capitalism" is reshaping the corporation.
The dismissals of top executives at GM, Digital, IBM, Kodak, Kmart, and others were only the "most visible edge of a more widespread development." "Shareholders can replace directors, directors can replace managers, and managers in turn can replace shareholders." Each party is now on a more equal footing. Institutional investors put out their Focus List but corporations now use their investor relations staff to hold "shareholder mix" campaigns. Such campaigns usually seek to increase the holdings of employees and individual investors with modest holdings.
Yet, for all the changes increasing the voice of institutional investors, only 6% of 375 major firms surveyed in 1992 received a single director nomination from an institutional investor. Another study cited by Useem shows that "directors' careers bear little or no relationship to their performance on behalf of shareholders."
The book contains a wealth of information and behind the scenes examples. Useem's description of an executive's frustration with pension fund managers in comparison with mutual fund managers is particularly interesting. "Mutual fund managers pay more attention to strategic directions, product performance, and prospective risks. Strong pension managers, by contrast, seem more preoccupied with the formalities of governance." For the CEO the "challenging--and useful--questions lay in product strategy rather than broad policy." This guided how he allocated his time. However, with the average mutual fund turning over their stock every 6 months, instead of once every 7.5 years for the average public pension fund, I have to wonder if the vision of this and similar CEOs might be just a little short sighted, especially given the importance that "corporate governance" issues may play as money moves more widely abroad.
Useem points to the recent dramatic increases in the global market. Capitalization of the Hong Kong market, for example, went from $74 billion in 1988 to $385 billion in 1993. Prior to 1990, 20% or less of new equity investments went to foreign stocks; by the beginning of 1994 that was up to 40%. These investments have displaced the investments of the World Bank, national governments and private creditors as the largest source of external financing. International bodies are harmonizing accounting and securities standards. The Department of Labor requires pension fund managers to cast informed proxy votes with the same diligence as in the U.S. CalPERS has announced a program to expand international holdings from 13% to 20% of its assets. Convergence is seen as a major theme.
Convergence is also carried over when Useem brings the split between corporate and money managers down to the personal level. Company executives see each other at the Business Roundtable, Committee for Economic Development and Bohemian Grove. "They frequent the same clubs, sometimes the same schools, occasionally the same islands." Those presiding over public pension funds and investment companies, however, remain remote from the "higher reaches of traditional business community." Their networks instead lead to such professional circuits as the New York Society of Securities Analysts and the Association for Investment Management and Research. For Useem, as a professor at the most highly rated business school in the country, the M.B.A., as the "credential of choice for movement into top management at both large firms and large investors," will result in "two years of shared training...each of the two sides will have a lingering appreciation for the concerns and challenges of the other."
The strength of Investor Capitalism lies in its vivid descriptions of personal communications derived from dozens of interviews and Useem's unique ability to draw on a large number of surveys from other reputable sources. While personal relations will be critical to building the next stage of development, it is also important to examine the process constraints within the current system which shape our everyday behavior.
For example, open-ended mutual funds have liquidity problems which discourage "ownership" and long-term holding. Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires shareholders with 10% or more of a stock to return short-swing profits, even if the trading was done without inside information. Most pension funds exist in a culture of "blame avoidance" built around the legal concept of "prudence." Although portfolio theorists generally agree that 99% of the risk management value of diversification can be achieved with a portfolio of only 100 stocks, pension plans continue to over diversify. Congress and/or the Securities and Exchange Commission could provide mechanisms for hybrid "relational" type mutual funds by allowing funds to require some notification prior to withdrawal and by adjusting 16(b) requirements. Congress and/or the Department of Labor could clarify that prudence, under ERISA, is to be evaluated on a portfolio-wide, rather than individual investment basis. The mutual cooperation between long-term owners and corporate executives which Useem envisions appears unlikely to be fully realized, regardless of the benefits of shared educational experiences, unless such structural reforms are made.
Useem notes that "when U.S. company executives describe the relations they have established with investors, few cite other company experiences and none allude to non-U.S. models." He concludes that "companies have, of necessity, invented their own solutions to the problems of managing a far more concentrated yet still remarkably diverse ownership base." The increasing use of books such as Michael Useem's Investor Capitalism, Monks and Minow's Watching the Watchers, Mark Roe's Strong Managers, Weak Owners, and Margaret Blair's Ownership and Control in MBA programs should go a long way, both in reducing the need of company executives to continually reinvent emerging solutions to problems in the area of corporate governance and in furthering their dialogue with shareholders.
James McRitchie is the editor of Corporate Governance, http://www.wp.com.corpgov
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Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America
Michael Useem Manufacturer: Basic Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K1DDWG |
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Trading Encounters: From the Euphrates to the Indus in the Bronze Age (Oxford India Paperbacks)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 019568088X |
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This is the second, thoroughly revised edition of Shereen Ratnagar's Encounters: The Westerly Trade of the Harappa Civilization. The book explores the scope of the trading contacts of the centres that fell within the "Indus Valley" civilizations. In doing so, it describes the remarkable range
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Trading Encounters: From the Euphrates to the Indus in the Bronze Age
Shereen Ratnagar Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OL0FPU |
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Gender, Power and Organization: A Psychological Perspective
Paula Nicolson Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0415104033 |
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Work organizations have become a major site of gender politics for professional women and men over the last twenty years. There are more women in senior positions, but increased opportunities have not been gained without psychological consequences. Rather than detail the barriers to women's success, Paula Nicolson examines the problems they can face as a result. She re-examines the ways that patriarchal structures resist women's progress, and how male success has psychological implications for women's sense of subjectivity, self-esteem and gender identity, and how achieving against such odds has an impact on women's everyday lifes.
Gender, Power and Organization is particularly concerned with women who have achieved or aspire to professional power, and the psychological dimension of power for women, men and the organizations in which they work.
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