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A guided tour through the new generation of high-performance printed circuit boards (PCBs) and ceramic substrates
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1963 Honda 125 CB 92 High Performance Class Motorcycle (Printed in USA D2 000 03-13)

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1963 Honda 125 CB 92 High Performance Class Motorcycle (Printed in USA D2 000 03-13)

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1966-1967 Plymouth Satellite 426 Hemi High Performance Class Automobile (Printed in USA D3 051 002-002)

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1967 Egli-Vincent 1000 cc High Performance Class Motorcycle (Printed in USA D2 000 03-06)

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1967-1969 Plymouth GTX Convertible High Performance Class Automobile (Printed in USA D3 051 001-005)

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Hotaru Yanagawa is a high school student with dreams of becoming a police officer. One day, when she tries to help a woman who is being assaulted in the street, a mysterious man - Yui, a member of a clandestine security organization - comes to her aid. Now, Hotaru will do anything to tag along with Yui...and it could cost him his life!

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This volume of new, original essays reflects the lifelong concerns and writings of the person they honor, Professor Howard Sherman.

Sherman wrote on a wide range of topics: the causes of recessions, depressions and mass unemployment under capitalism; the difficulties and challenges of establishing viable democratic planning systems under socialism; the down-to-earth realities of economic life in the United States, the Soviet Union and elsewhere; and the theoretical traditions he drew upon to inform these empirical studies, i.e. Keynesianism, institutionalism and, most especially, Marxism. The contributors follow in Sherman's tradition through their careful analysis of topics such as: the long-term trends in contemporary global capitalism; the relationship between Marxism and institutionalism; debates over the usefulness of class analysis; the political economy of financial liberalization; lessons from the demise of socialism in the Soviet Union and China; and the possibilities for advancing a workable egalitarian economic agenda.

This book demonstrates the continued vibrancy and relevance of radical political economy as a mode of social scientific analysis. Scholars and students in economics, sociology, history, philosophy and political science will find the essays thought-provoking and informative.

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Reputation is a commercially valuable asset. This book focuses upon how enhanced reputation can contribute to commercial asset management through increased share price premium and competitive performance, while reputation loss can significantly erode the ability of the business to successfully retain market share, maximize shareholder value, raise finance, manage debt, and remain independent. It provides practical models and checklists designed to plan reputation management and risk communication strategies.

Managing Corporate Reputation and Risk: A Strategic Approach Using Knowledge Management

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Managing Corporate Reputation and Risk: A Strategic Approach Using Knowledge Management
Dale Neef
Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
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ASIN: 0750677155

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With the collapse of high-profile companies such as Enron and Tyco, worldwide anti-globalization protests, and recent revelations of questionable behavior by financial groups and auditors, corporate behavior has become the highest priority topic for businesspeople, investors, politicians and the public. Yet despite the critical importance of maintaining public and shareholder trust, most corporations make very little formal effort to actively manage the activities that can put their reputation, share price, and customer base at risk. Most corporations officially embrace the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility; but giving money away to local communities or worthy causes will not prevent an ethical disaster.

The problem is not social irresponsibility; the problem is a lack of knowledge about what is taking place in the company or at its subcontractor sites. What companies need to be thinking about is not a theoretical construct around Corporate Social Responsibility, or how they can spin public opinion by charitable actions. They need to be thinking about how they can create a practical knowledge and risk management framework in their company that allows them to avoid costly and reputation-damaging behavior in the first place.

Ultimately, this comes down to knowledge management. Whether violations of human rights, employment law, or environmental standards - or simply accounting shenanigans - invariably the reason that these activities are not anticipated and avoided is simply that executives and board members do not realize what is happening in the organization, and what the likely implications of actions will be. And the larger the organization, the more extensive that lack of knowledge.

The good news is that developing a strategic approach to corporate integrity is neither exceptionally expensive nor particularly difficult. The problem is that companies that are already using sophisticated information technology and knowledge management tools for gathering internal and external information have focused those systems and practices almost exclusively on operational issues and increasing productivity. But these same knowledge management techniques - built around emerging ethical guidelines being developed by international standards groups - can be used by companies to create an effective global policy for building and maintaining corporate integrity. This means applying knowledge management techniques in three important areas:
* First, they need to mobilize key employee knowledge and the vast amount of information available on potentially sensitive issues in a way that allows key decision-makers to "sense and respond" quickly and correctly to developing risks.
* Second, it means creating objective, scenario-based guidelines for ethical behavior, communicating those guidelines using knowledge management techniques among key organizational leaders, and providing a workable system of incentives for managers to surface potentially dangerous issues.
* Third, companies need to adopt emerging guidelines such as AA1000 that provide for ethical procedures and performance indicators that enable companies to audit and monitor their own behavior, and also to provide shareholders and the buying public with an objective report on the company's ethical performance. Much like ISO 9000, Six Sigma and other performance and productivity and practice standards of the 1990s, these new global ethics standards will inevitably become a baseline by which investors and customers judge a company's potential for future growth and stability. High marks on auditable ethical performance set against these guidelines will become an important way for companies to differentiate themselves from their competition in the future.

Developing a workable program for corporate ethics will be one of the most important issues of this decade, and will be "the next big thing" for large organizations. A drive toward standardized reporting of corporate ethics practices was coming anyway; the recent public corporate disasters will only encourage corporate executive teams to scramble to demonstrate to customers and shareholders that their organization takes these issues seriously.

This book, therefore, will be a primer for business people and business students worldwide who will shortly be tasked with devising or participating in those types of corporate integrity initiatives, and will explain how knowledge management is indispensable as a tool for helping corporations to manage their risk and integrity policies. Through a mixture of leading practice case studies and a clear framework, it will show how a corporation can begin to combine leading practices in risk and knowledge management with emerging international guidelines in order to develop and manage a program of corporate integrity.

* The first book to show how knowledge management and corporate integrity intersect
* Shows executives how to develop a strategic approach to corporate integrity in this post-Enron age
* Neef, an expert on knowledge management, explains how a company can re-engineer existing knowledge management systems to build and maintain an effective corporate integrity program

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Thorough and useful.......2006-02-09

A holistic approach to managing the risks associated with failures in corporate ethics and consequent damage to corporate reputation. The book sketches the changing risk landscape (in the light of recent scandals, globalization, and the steadily increasing activity of stakeholder interest groups), identifies major sources of risk and offers a detailed program based on three main elements:
* a corporate ethics framework and associated action to make it real;
* an integrated approach to knowledge management designed to ensure that current and accurate information is available to all who need it; and
* an external program of accurate reporting against international standards.
Even those who have already given close attention to these issues will find this book a valuable practical guide.

See also Bazerman: Predictable Surprises for material on reputational risk and how to manage it.

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A JOY TO READ

Navajo Trading: The End of an Era
Willow Roberts Powers
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Along Navajo Trails

ASIN: 0826323227

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Beginning in the 1870s peddlers began to travel by wagon onto the Navajo Reservation to barter their wares for wool, a few sheep, a rug, or a piece of silver jewelry. By the early years of the twentieth century, barter developed into an exchange of culture and services: in addition to serving as a place where Navajo jewelry and rugs changed hands, trading posts acted as grocery stores, banks, post offices, and railroad hiring offices. Traders were the link between Anglo-American culture and the Navajo people. At first agents of change, by 1950 they had become maintainers of tradition and hence obstacles to modernization. Today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, trading posts are obsolete.

This overview of Navajo trading is the first to examine trading in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when changes in both cultures led to the investigation of trading practices by the Federal Trade Commission, ultimately resulting in the demise of most traditional trading posts. Based on archival research and on interviews with traders, Navajos, and lawyers who worked for the Navajo tribe, this fair-minded narrative includes eloquent testimony from many interested parties. Powers writes about the difficulties and the delights of the life of a trader and shows the ethical and political reasons for the FTC hearings as well as the differences between good and bad traders. Anyone interested in modern Navajo life will enjoy this lively book.

This overview is the first to examine trading in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when changes in both Navajo and white cultures led to the investigation of trading practices by the Federal Trade Commission, resulting in the demise of most traditional trading posts.

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A JOY TO READ.......2001-11-28

Caught between a plethora of beautiful picture books written by visitors who rush undigested material into print and scholarly tomes too pithy and densely packed with jargon to be understood by anyone, sometimes even the author, it is rare to find a book that is written by an academic thoroughly versed in her subject yet so enjoyable to read that it may as well be a novel. You will find Professor Willow Roberts Powers' "Navajo Trading the end of an era" a joy to read for its lively style, and you will gain an introduction to and an understanding of a complex period in our national history.
The text is enlivened with quotes from oral histories of Navajo Indians and traders who lived together through friendship and animosity, trust and fear, hardship and wealth. It is evident that Powers understands her subject from decades of contact and is able to outline the intricate social and political interactions that changed the lives of people in the Southwest in fundamental ways.
I know some of the people in the book, many are still alive, and even after years of contact I feel I know them better now that I have read their story as Powers writes it, casting light in the cobwebby corners of memory and bringing a time past into clear view. The era may have ended but the story and its people still live today in its aftermath.
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This book describes the beginning and development of unemployment reform until the New Deal. As a consequence of large scale industrialization after the Civil War, joblessness could no longer be understood to be caused by a character defect, but had to be ascribed to societal forces. It became clear to the concerned that traditional remedial measures could not adequately cope with the problem. By the time of the entry of the United States into World War I reformist thinking had devised the major instruments that were later employed in dealing with unemployment. After the war and during most of the 1920s these instruments underwent thorough examination and refinement, and the early years of the Great Depression saw their tentative use. At the eve of the New Deal a well reasoned and experimentally tried group of social instruments was available. The book essentially refutes a social control explanation for this process and stresses the progressive motivation of the reformers involved.

Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Stephen Scheinberg
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 1992. The length of the article is 545 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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Title: Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal. (book reviews)
Author: Stephen Scheinberg
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1992
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: v27 Issue: n3 Page: p577(2)

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