Strategies for Fast-Changing Times: The Art of Using Change to Your Advantage

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Make change your ally!
"Nate's book helps us to realize that change is a natural part of our development and that it can be a great tool for growth, a means of expansion, and the key to personal and business success."
— Anthony Robbins, author of Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power
With the world changing so fast, each one of us is faced with a choice: to become overwhelmed by change or to become its master.
In this practical yet highly enjoyable book, author Nate Booth shows you how easy it is to shift your attitude about change from fear to excitement. Packed with real-life examples, step-by-step strategies, and insightful exercises, this book teaches you not only how to manage change, but how to thrive on it! On your journey to becomeing a Change Master, you will learn:
·six approaches people adopt when facing change
·four cornerstones of success in a changing world
·six thriving-on-change beliefs to harness the power of change
·specific skills to effectively react to and anticipate change
·and much, much more!
Whether you're facing change in your business or personal life, the skills and techniques in Strategies for Fast-Changing Times will prepare you to become an active creator of positive change for yourself, your career, and your community!

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Simple to apply, great graphics, simple things to do now........1999-05-01

Nate gives you simple things to do to anticipate the changes that will affect you. He lays out simple to follow strategies that work. Easy read, fun and entertaining.

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Activity-based costing emerged as an important accounting concept in the mid-1980s in response to global competition. There is an urgent need to place it in perspective, so that both production and marketing managers know its advantages and its limitations. This book describes and explains where activity-based concepts fit in the cost and management accounting body of knowledge. It first shows the traditional framework of cost concepts, terminology, and techniques in order to demonstrate how the activity-based methods can bring about constructive changes in financial control systems. The major feature of the book is the three ABC models for manufacturing processes, marketing functions, and service industries. These models are based on the Institute of Management Accounting (IMA)-sponsored case studies of corporate divisions or branches that have already implemented ABC systems. The study was directed by Harvard professors, Cooper and Kaplan, and KPMG Peat Marwick. The book also includes illustrations of the most important cost analysis and control techniques that every successful operating manager must know.

Activity-based Models for Cost Management Systems. (book reviews): An article from: Government Finance Review

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Activity-based Models for Cost Management Systems. (book reviews): An article from: Government Finance Review
Wayne K. Simpson
Manufacturer: Government Finance Officers Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 752 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: Activity-based Models for Cost Management Systems. (book reviews)
Author: Wayne K. Simpson
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: v12 Issue: n3 Page: p66(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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After the siege ended at Wounded Knee, the real battle had yet to be fought. The 1973 standoff in South Dakota between Oglala Lakota Indians and federal lawmen led to the criminal prosecution of American Indian Movement leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means. The ten-month trial had all the earmarks of a political tribunal; with the defense led by William Kunstler and the prosecution backed by the Nixon administration, it became a media battle for public opinion.

This first book-length study of the Wounded Knee trials demonstrates the impact that legal institutions and the media have on political dissent. It also shows how the dissenters as defendants can influence these institutions and the surrounding political and cultural climate. AIM and its attorneys successfully turned the courtroom into a political forum on the history of U.S.-Indian relations but were often frustrated in telling their story by the need to observe legal procedures--and by the media's stereotyping them as Indian warriors or sixties militants. John Sayer draws on court records, news reports, and interviews with participants to show how the defense, and ultimately the prosecution, had to respond continually to legal constraints, media coverage, and political events taking place outside the courtroom.

Although Banks and Means and most of the other protesters were acquitted, Sayer notes that the confinement of AIM protests to the courtroom robbed the movement of considerable momentum. Ghost Dancing the Law shows how legal proceedings can effectively quell dissent and represents both a critical chapter in the struggle of Native Americans and an important milestone at the crossroads of law and politics.

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Difficult read but compelling arguments!.......2002-04-29

If you have an interest in the legal presentation in the Wounded Knee trials that led to Leonard Peltier's imprisonment, this is your book. Sayer demonstrates with clear evidence how corrupt out legal system is coupled with the power of the media in political matters, such as the wrongful imprisonment of Peltier.

The book gets into documents and testimony that you would think proves Peltier's innocence. However, there is a force that is greater than the truth, and that is corruption!

The American Indian Movement (AIM) and its attorneys have little chance as long as the American public remains blind to the powers that be in the legal system and in government. This book is an eye opener. However, be aware that the reading can seem mundane at times unless you have a keen eye and interest in legal jargon. I was lost a few times but finishing the book was worth it to hear the other version of "truth".

I recommend this book if you have any interest at all in the Leonard Peltier story or of the corruption of a system that works for the government, not for the people.

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Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials (Notable Trials)
John William Sayer
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000LLTK1I

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Quarter bound in leather with gold stamp on cover, gilt edges and silk bookmark. Special printing for Notable Trial subscribers.

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`Are the Great Lakes getting better or worse?' This is the question that the public, scientists and managers are asking the International Joint Commission after a quarter-century of cooperative action by the United States and Canadian governments to clean up the Great Lakes. This volume contains papers from the workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, on September 12 and 13, 1996. The Great Lakes have been through almost a century of severe pollution from the manufacture, use and disposal of chemicals. In the 1960s wildlife biologists started to investigate the outbreaks of reproductive failure in fish-eating birds and ranch mink and to link these to exposure to organochlorine compounds. Human health researchers in the 1980s and 1990s linked growth retardation, behavioral anomalies and deficits in cognitive development with maternal consumption of Great Lakes fish prior to pregnancy. The Great Lakes became the laboratory where the theory of endocrine disruptors was first formulated. Now a group of Great Lakes scientists, hosted by the International Joint Commission, has compiled the story of the trends in the concentrations and effects of persistent toxic substances on wildlife and humans. The technical papers review the suitability of various organisms as indicators, and present the results of long-term monitoring of the concentrations and of the incidence of effects. The evidence shows that there was an enormous improvement in the late 1970s, but that in the late 1990s there are still concentrations of some persistent toxic substances that have stubbornly remained at levels that continue to cause toxicological effects.

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The central theme of this book is how ideas familiar from finite dimensional dynamical systems may be used in the study of infinite dimensional dynamical systems, such as partial differential equations. After an introduction to the study of partial differential equations from the perspective of dynamical systems, some of the ideas are applied to the equations of fluid dynamics and the application of low-dimensional models of turbulence. A discussion of chaos in lattice dynamical systems (for which the spatial dimension is discrete) is followed by the use of such models in biology. The book provides an introduction to a range of new techniques and applications in dynamics and will interest any graduate student starting work in the area, as well as more experienced scientists and mathematicians keen to extend their knowledge.

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In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships between international and domestic politicians, military/NASA contractors, private investors, and environmentalists. He documents post-World War II efforts at the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and the Defense Department to generate supersonic flight technologies, the attempts to commercialize these technologies by Britain and the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, environmental campaigns against SST technology in the 1970s, and subsequent attempts to revitalize supersonic technology at the end of the century.

High-Speed Dreams is a sophisticated study of politics, economics, nationalism, and the global pursuit of progress. Historians, along with participants in current aerospace research programs, will gain valuable perspective on the interaction of politics and technology.

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An Excellent History of American SST Efforts .......2005-11-27

High Speed Dreams is a book about the history of the technology R&D efforts and politics of America's heretofore abortive attempts to produce a supersonic transport. While this is certainly not a subject that will whiz it to the top of the New York Times Bestseller list, High Speed Dreams is nonetheless an excellent and unique work of history especially for aerospace industry workers and aircraft enthusiasts in general.

Starting with America's response to the Anglo-French Concorde effort it tells the continuous history of NASA led SST R&D up until the end of the High Speed Research program in 1999. During this period there were two major and one more minor attempts to develop an SST.

The first, the American program to develop a competitor to the Concorde, was an unmitigated disaster. In the early 1960's neither the market to support an SST nor the technology to develop one existed. (Witness the sad saga of the Concorde.) This didn't deter the FAA and the politicians in general from setting a completely unrealistic set of requirements on the American aerospace contractors to develop an aircraft; requirements with the sole goal of upstaging the Concorde. These requirements were politically driven and set before comprehensive economic and technology feasibility studies (the normal place to define requirements) were completed. As such they had no real economic or technical foundation and were impossible to meet. To add insult to injury the politicians then set a ridiculous schedule so that any resulting aircraft would reach the market more or less concurrent with the Concorde. In spite of this the aerospace contractors responded with some highly innovative ideas and tried very, very hard to meet the requirements. Unfortunately though the compressed schedule the politicians had allowed resulted in the most promising technology ideas, which were also the most revolutionary and required the longest time to develop, being dropped. In the case of Curtiss-Wright's SST engine proposal, which was widely believed to be one of the best engine proposals ever put forward, not only was the concept denied funding but the loss put the company out of business. While struggling with impossible requirements the SST soon became the symbolic target of environmentalists who launched a concerted campaign against it. The program soon unravelled and was abandoned. Although the resulting Boeing 2707-300 design could not meet its requirements, the nation missed an excellent opportunity to build a low cost prototype to extend the knowledge of supersonic transports through an X-plane type flight research program, one that could help plant the seed for a future supersonic blossoming.

After the cancellation of America's answer to Concorde NASA and the aerospace industry continued to investigate technologies that could overcome the problems that clipped the 2707's wings, and with a relatively large deal of success. The results of this research eventually led to a second attempt to actually produce an American SST in the late '80's to late '90's under the HSCT / HSR (High Speed Civil Transport / High Speed Research) programs. By this time there was significant potential for a transpacific SST market, and it seemed possible that the technologies existed to produce one economically. HSR produced a large amount of excellent SST configuration and technology research, but ultimately failed to produce an aircraft, again. The environmental requlations, particularly takeoff noise restrictions, had become too stringent during the course of HSR for any of its design technologies to yield an FAA certifiable SST. The "too short" schedule of HSR again prevented the most promising technologies from being researched. NASA also is far less capable of turning research results into flying aircraft (their spacecraft record is quite different) than the Air Force, since NASA traditionally won't pay for concept demonstration and validation, the most expensive but also the most necessary part of R&D.

The author does an excellent job of recording all the technological challenges, R&D progress -with its successes and failures-, and the politics of SST development. This book is certainly the most comprehensive work of its kind, and has more than enough explanation of the big picture as well as delving into the details to keep your interest. Although the history of SSTs is generally a dark cloud there is some significant silver lining in this cloud. Reading the book left me with a general appreciation for the hard work and ingenuity of the aerospace contractors, and a sense of how sorely politicians without significant technical background can ruin a project.

As a history book the author does a good job of handling the bias he brings to it, which is apparent as you read but kept to such a minimum that it generally doesn't detract from the book overall. For example he on occasion refers to aerospace enthusiasts as ideologues but never to environmentalists as such. Republicans are often cited as conservative or right wing or strident and are usually anti-this or anti-that, whereas Democracts are just Democrats. He constrains his bias until it comes out freely in the conclusion section, which is where authors have free reign to say what they feel, and it's no surprise that he's a liberal environmentalist. Oh well. There are also some not terribly convincing attacks on "free markets" vs. the European statist system throughout, but the author is also correct that Aerospace has never been as free a market as most other industries.

After reading this book I feel that there is a chance for a relatively "free market" development of an SST eventually, with the help of the Air Force. IF airline travel continues to grow, especially long range travel such as New York to Singapore (currently an 18 hour flight!), a lucrative market for a commercial SST may develop. IF private attempts to produce a supersonic business jet are successful, as several companies are attempting now, then private capital for larger SST's may suddenly appear as will a horde of operational data on which supersonic technologies work and which don't for commercial use. IF the Air Force proceeds with its LRSA (Long Range Strike Aircraft) and QSP (Quiet Supersonic Platform) research, currently residing in DARPA, to the flight demonstration phase - or even eventual operational status- then the technologies necessary to finally produce an economic and environmentally "friendly" large SST airliner could become validated and available. If all these stars align, which is not all that implausible, we could see an SST perhaps in 20 or 30 years. Sorry about it taking so long, but flying supersonically is indeed rocket science.

Given the fact that HSR could've produced an economical SST that was as quiet on takeoff as a 747-400 (and "failed" because it could NOT produce one quieter) the author's environmental argument against SSTs in his conclusion is philosophical and, in my opinion, unconvincing. It's basically "energy consumption is bad, supersonic flight will always consume more energy than subsonic flight, therefore SST bad." In my opinion energy is the foundation for higher standards of living, and getting to Singapore from New York in eight hours versus eighteen isn't an outdated concept of progress.

Despite the fact I disagree with the author's view on the desirability of an SST this book is incredibly informative, highly interesting, was a fun read, and about 99% fair. All in all an impressive achievement and if this book looks even slightly interesting to you then I highly recommend you go ahead and buy it! (The author probably deserves to get on the NYT bestseller list after so thoroughly research a topic he wasn't in favor of!)

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This book covers the subject of plasma physics. The first few chapters deal with the fundamentals of plasma physics. Subsequently, the applications and properties of human-made and naturally occurring plasmas are discussed. In addition, there are chapters devoted to general phenomena, such as turbulence and chaos. The computational techniques employed in modeling plasma behavior are also described.

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A comprehensive series of lectures on plasma physics.......1999-07-30

This book is organized as a collection of lectures covering all main topics on the subject. A background in classical electromagnetism and fluid mechanics is of course needed, but no previous knowledge of plasma physics is required. A quite interesting and enjoyable undergraduate level book.

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Although she outshines him in most accounts of their relationship, Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-61) and her writings have often been overshadowed by the story of her romance with Robert Browning. This selection reveals her as an innovator and as someone who anticipated in her approach many aspects of feminism.

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