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Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures
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Project Management Institute
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The Economics of Input-Output Analysis
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The Economics of Input-Output Analysis
Thijs ten Raa
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Real Analysis with Economic Applications

ASIN: 052160267X

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This textbook provides a systematic survey of the most recent developments in input-output analysis and their applications, helping us to examine questions such as: Which industries are competitive? What are the multiplier effects of an investment program? How do environmental restrictions impact on prices? Linear programming and national accounting are introduced and used to resolve issues such as the choice of technique, the comparative advantage of a national economy, its efficiency and dynamic performance. Technological and environmental spillovers are analyzed, both at the national level (between industries) and the international level (the measurement of globalization effects).

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Thijs ten Raa and his Excellent Book. .......2006-04-18

Last Monday I got the book by Professor Thijs ten Raa (2005) The Economics of Input-Output Analysis. I like it. It's a very nice work, that provides a broad outlook about the Input-Output Analysis, and related issues: multiplier effects, linear programming, changing coefficients, National Accounts, efficiency, production functions, international trade, Environment, productivity and spillovers, dynamic inverse and stochastic IO Analysis. By the way, in this last chapter the work of our colleague of the Spanish Input-Output Group, Jos? Manuel Rueda Cantuche, is quoted. The presentation of the book is excellent. And it is not too expensive.

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Good for economics major students

Input-Output Economics

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The Economics of Input-Output Analysis

ASIN: 0195035275

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This collection of writings provides the only comprehensive introduction to the input-output model for which Leontief was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1973. The structural approach to economics developed by Leontief, and known as input-output analysis, paved the way for the transformation of economics into a truly empirical discipline that could utilize modern data processing technology. This thoroughly revised second edition includes twenty essays--twelve of which are new to this edition--that reflect the past developments and the present state of the field. Beginning with an introductory chapter, the book leads the reader into an understanding of the input-output approach--not only as formal theory but also as a research strategy and powerful tool for dealing with a complex modern economy.

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Good for economics major students.......2000-05-19

I enjoy reading the book very much especially. It talks about the details of Leontieff model and it explains clearly the stochastic models unlike any other books. Some topics are really technical, but yet interesting and inspiring. I highly recommend it. It worths the price.

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services: An Input-Output Approach (RFF Press)

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lifecycle assessment can be fun

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services: An Input-Output Approach (RFF Press)
Chris T. Hendrickson , Lester B. Lave , and H. Scott Matthews
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Streamlined Life-Cycle Assessment

ASIN: 1933115238

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This is the first comprehensive guide to green design using economic input-output life cycle assessment (EIO-LCA) models. It is a must-have for companies trying to improve the environmental profile of their products and processes, for regulators attempting to quantify life cycle implications of products and services, and for students and scholars of green design.

Environmental life cycle assessment is often thought of as "cradle to grave" and therefore as the most complete accounting of the environmental costs and benefits of a product or service. However, as anyone who has done an environmental life cycle assessment knows, existing tools have many problems: data is difficult to assemble and life cycle studies take months of effort. A truly comprehensive analysis is prohibitive, so analysts are often forced to simply ignore many facets of life cycle impacts. But the focus on one aspect of a product or service can result in misleading indications if that aspect is benign while other aspects pollute or are otherwise unsustainable.

This book summarizes the EIO-LCA method, explains its use in relation to other life cycle assessment models, and provides sample applications and extensions of the model into novel areas. A final chapter explains the free, easy-to-use software tool available on a companion website. The software tool provides a wealth of data, summarizing the current U.S. economy in 500 sectors with information on energy and materials use, pollution and greenhouse gas discharges, and other attributes like associated occupational deaths and injuries.

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lifecycle assessment can be fun.......2006-05-09

I think this book does a good job explaining the science of lifecycle assessment, including all the math behind those big tables, and has good examples to illustrate the things you're learning about.

Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economics

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Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economics

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Wassily Leontief was the founding father of input-output economics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1973. This book offers a collection of papers in his memory by his students and close colleagues. The first part focuses upon Leontief as an individual and scholar as well as his personal contributions to economics; the second includes new theoretical and empirical research inspired by Leontief's efforts. The collection offers a comprehensive sample of the current state of interindustry economics and is likely to appeal to a wide range of professionals.

Social Accounting Matrix for India: Concepts, Construction and Applications

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Social Accounting Matrix for India: Concepts, Construction and Applications
Basanta K Pradhan , M R Saluja , and Shalabh K Singh
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This book, the first of its kind, presents a new Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the Indian economy for the year 1997-98. It provides detailed and consistent information on production for 60 sectors, and on income distribution for six categories of occupational households, separately for rural and urban areas. Using fresh figures from India’s Central Statistical Organisation, the authors also present the SAM for 2002-03. In addition, this book goes into details of the concepts, methodology and limitations of the construction of SAM.

The book is divided into three parts:

Part I deals with the input-output (I-O) model, which forms an important component of SAM. It discusses the basic analytical structure of the I-O matrix and reviews landmark applications of this model for various developing countries.

Part II evaluates the analytical dimensions of SAM and associated SAM multipliers, and reviews important and innovative applications of the SAM model, again for a variety of economies.

Part III discusses the problems encountered while constructing a SAM. It provides satellite accounts for the sectorwise distribution of employment by education levels, sex, and status for both rural and urban areas.

Spatial Structure and Regional Development in China: Interregional Input-Output Approach

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Spatial Structure and Regional Development in China: Interregional Input-Output Approach
Nobuhiro Okamoto , and Takeo Ihara
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Release Date: 2005-10-27

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Regional development problems in China have been focused on by many analysts and policy makers, but most of the approaches have focused on certain specific regions, without taking into account interregional interdependency. The aim of this book is to analyze regional development in China from the viewpoint of spatial interaction by using interegional input-output model for China.

Planning with the Semi-Input-Output Method: With Empirical Implications to Nigeria (Studies in Development and Planning)

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Planning with the Semi-Input-Output Method: With Empirical Implications to Nigeria (Studies in Development and Planning)
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Ecotaxes on Polluting Inputs and Outputs

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Ecotaxes on Polluting Inputs and Outputs
Raja J. Chelliah , Paul P. Appasamy , U. Sankar , and Rita Pandey
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The use of taxes to put pressure on polluters has had mixed results internationally, according to this study of economic instruments (EIs) as a means for cleaning up environmental-hazards. The analysis identifies several key considerations in structuring effective ecotaxes, including trade-offs between environmental and other goals, the size of the tax base, distortions in prices, the possibility of phasing in the taxes, incentives for compliance, and the advisability of earmarking of funds for environmental protection. Industries in India covered in the discussion include makers of automobiles, coal, fertilizers, lead acid batteries, paper and pulp, pesticides, plastics, phosphate-based detergents, and rayon.

Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade (Ohlin Lectures)

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Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade (Ohlin Lectures)
Ronald W. Jones
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As trade liberalization and the fragmentation of production processes promote greater international exchange of inputs, economists must adjust their thinking on trade issues. Transport costs have plummeted, and the difficulties of communicating between locales half a world apart have practically vanished. In this book Ronald Jones suggests how the basic core of real trade theory can be modified to take into account the increased international mobility of inputs and productive factors. He emphasizes the role of country "hinterlands" and how it is related to agglomeration effects in determining the location of economic activity. After discussing the positive aspects of enhanced mobility for output patterns and market prices, Jones evaluates the significance of globalization for governmental trade policies and public attitudes about regional alliances.

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This great guitar songbook features Ani's hand-picked selection of 20 tunes as originally recorded on her solo albums through Dilate in 1996: Anticipate Blood in the Boardroom Buildings and Bridges Dilate The Diner Fixing Her Hair God's Country If He Tries Anything In or Out Joyful Girl Letter to a John Not a Pretty Girl Out of Habit Out of Range Shameless Shy Sorry I Am Talk to Me Now What If No One's Watching The Whole Night. Includes a biography of DiFranco and an intro by Ron Ehmke, Minister of Communications for Ani's Righteous Babe Records.

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Both Hands

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This collection of 21 songs were hand-picked by Ani DiFranco herself and showcase her more piano-based favorites from ten albums, from her 1990 self-titled debut to 1999's Up Up Up Up Up. Includes: Angry Anymore Anyday As Is Both Hands Gratitude I'm No Heroine Jukebox Little Plastic Castle 32 Flavors 'Tis of Thee Two Little Girls Untouchable Face You Had Time and more, plus a biography.

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Both Hands.......2004-01-18

Well, if you are interested in learning to play piano to Ani's guitar rifts, than this is the book for you. Personally, I was too cheap to buy the guitar book for double the price, so I figured I'd work my way through the piano parts. I was wrong. Perhaps if you are someone very talented at converting [?] music, than this is the book for you. But for you novices, I'd rethink. However, I did learn her songs, strange tunings and all, and the book really led you inside her music. I'd recommend it somewhat highly. No matter what, Ani still rocks!

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Is disseminating information the main purpose of scholarly scientific literature? Recent work in science studies signals a shift of emphasis from conceptual to material sources, from thinking to doing, and from representing the world to intervening in it. Scientific knowledge production is no longer seen as a process of seeking, collecting, organizing, and processing abstract elements, but instead one of assembling the many different material 'bits and pieces' of scientific culture in order to make things work.

In Deflating Information, Bernd Frohmann draws on recent work in the social studies of science, finding the most significant material in the coordination of research work, the stabilization of matters of fact, and the manufacture of objectivity. Arguing for a 'deflationary' account of information, Frohmann challenges the central concept of information studies, thereby laying a foundation for a documentalist approach to emerging issues in the field.

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This best-selling set of books on television production is widely used in secondary school courses. Completely revised to reflect the advances in television production in the last ten years, this new edition incorporates the advent of digital imaging and equipment. Each chapter in the student text features: learning objectives, vocabulary, topic discussion, review questions, student project plans, evaluation sheets, and extension activities. The text also covers equipment use, project planning instruction, newsgathering methodology, studio production, and movie production. The teacher's guide additionally contains instructional notes to the teacher, answer sheets, instructional ideas, and evaluation notes. Grades 7-12. Approximately 60% of the material is new to this edition, and over 95% of the material has been revised and updated. In this revision, two books replace the previous three-book edition. The two earlier student books (for beginning and advanced students) have been combined into one student text. The teacher's guide remains as one volume.

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Teacher's favorite.......2000-03-14

As a first year broadcast teacher, I found this book to be very helpful. It was user-friendly, not too technical for my students but loaded with information that they needed to make their classroom videos. Each chapter taught new skills and allowed the students to practice with the provided activities. My state does not have an adopted text-book for this class, and this book has been a life-saver for me.

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This Book is really good for iSCSI beginners.......2007-03-13

This book gives very good information about iSCSI, it is well organized and with simple explanation. I recommend this book for people who just start reading iSCSI.

About the protocol not applications.......2006-03-22

The author writes detai about the iSCSI protocol but doesn't talk about applcations. Get it if you're into theory but not really useful for how to use iSCSI or manage a SAN.

Good Starting Point on iSCSI.......2003-07-03

John has done a very good job of covering the basics of the iSCSI protocol. This is a good book for someone who is trying to get an introduction to this protocol. However, the material is presented from the viewpoint of someone who has NEVER actually built a storage system. For those people who are trying to either build an iSCSI system or want to get a comparison of this protocol with either Fibre Channel or Infiniband, this is not the right place to start. This is an excellent book for starters but is not good for serious iSCSI implementors.

Highly Recommended iSCSI Source for Technical Reader.......2003-04-06

iSCSI is a new SAN architecture that combines two popular network and storage technologies into one. Many technical people found the IETF technical specifications hard to read, since it requires backgrounds from both the networking world and the storage world to fully understand them.

As one of the iSCSI authorities in the IETF, the author has done a very good job in describing the technologies and the ratioale of the specifications one step at a time in a very detailed and organized way. This makes them much easier to understand by the technical people from two different worlds.

I fully appreciate John's efforts for creating such a great works that will be highly recommended for the time to come.

The future of storage networking.......2003-01-17

This work is a thorough and insightful review of the iSCSI protocol by someone who has been a major contributor to the standard and knows the protocol parameters inside out. I highly recommend this work to anyone who wants to understand the future direction of storage area networking. Over the next few years we will see the convergence of SANs with mainstream IP networking, with iSCSI and IP SANs paving the way for much tighter integration of applications, operating systems, storage and networks. As stated in the book's title, iSCSI will be the universal connection for bringing storage into this synthesis.

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Iscsi: the Universal Storage Connection
John L. Hufferd
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
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ASIN: B000N66NQG

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