The Insurance Industry: The WetFeet.com Insider Guide (Wetfoot.Com Insider Guide)

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Do you want to know what a job in this industry is really like-and do you want to know it quickly? WetFeet.com has the best research (and writing) team in the business. WetFeet.com guides are the industry standard--based on thousands of insider interviews and written with humor and skill, our materials are recognized by candidates and companies alike as the insider guide of choice.Insurance has always been considered a safe, predictable industry. After all, insurance is for careful people, and the insurance companies are even more careful, figuring out actuarials and deciding which claims to pay out. Consolidation and increased competition from outside the industry have made this industry more interesting. And the advent of the Internet is something insurance companies cant' ignore. And the bottom line is that everyone will always need insurance. To learn more, check out WetFeet.com's new Insider Guide to Jobs in the Insurance Industry.

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In Community-Driven Regulation Dara O’Rourke proposes a new policy model for pollution control, based on detailed case studies from rapidly industrializing Vietnam. He shows that environmental problems can be solved when affected community groups mobilize to pressure both state and industry and argues that this strategy, which he terms "community-driven regulation," used successfully in Vietnam, can achieve similar success in other countries.

Vietnam’s recent entry into the world economy has brought many benefits to its population--more jobs, higher income levels, more plentiful goods and services. But this very rapid growth of industry has also brought predictable environmental problems. Areas near industrial plants experience declining crop yields and polluted groundwater; residents downwind from factories suffer respiratory ailments. Vietnam thus serves as a model for nations dealing with environmental problems during the transition to an industrialized economy and global integration.

O’Rourke offers six detailed case studies, based on his own fieldwork in Vietnam, that show how strategies adopted by local communities achieved positive results despite a strong state bias toward development and the absence of existing advocacy groups, a free press, or politically vulnerable elected officials. The firms studied are both state-run and multinational; they include a Taiwanese textile factory, a state-owned fertilizer plant, and a Korean factory producing shoes for Nike. The communities affected range from traditional villages to urban neighborhoods. O’Rourke’s policy model of community-state synergy challenges traditional notions of state-centric environmental regulation and questions the growing literature that identifies market mechanisms as the best way to solve environmental problems in developing countries.

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Outstanding Text.......2006-11-07

This is an outstanding text for students of environment and development, environmental policy, community development, and related fields. Well-written, based on years of painstaking primary research in Vietnam.

Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam (Urban and Industrial Environments)

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Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Dara O'Rourke
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OR106C

Community-driven regulation: balancing development and the environment in Vietnam [A book review from: Environmental Impact Assessment Review]

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Community-driven regulation: balancing development and the environment in Vietnam [A book review from: Environmental Impact Assessment Review]
B. Doberstein
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Impact Assessment Review, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs

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Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Michael DiGregorio
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000APDS4U
Release Date: 2005-08-04

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 697 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: Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam.(Book Review)
Author: Michael DiGregorio
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 78 Issue: 1 Page: 161(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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The contributors to this volume seek further understanding of the microfoundations of economic growth. It focuses on three subjects that interested the great Austrian and Harvard economist, Joseph A. Schumpeter: innovation, technological change, and economic growth.

The first part of the volume treats institutions, markets, and entrepreneurs, without which analysis of the firm makes little or no sense. The second part focuses on the firm as innovator, placing heavy emphasis on the role of knowledge formation. The subjects of innovation and knowledge formation are approached from three perspectives: theoretical; industry (case) studies; and empirical (cross section and panel data) analysis. In the third part of the book the action moves from the firm to the "macro" or economy-wide level.

The volume's unique feature is combining institutions, the innovative behavior of firms, and an intuitively dynamic, macroeconomic analysis, all from a Schumpeterian perspective. It is argued that the study of micro-institutions such as firms and the evolving nature of markets are necessary ingredients to understanding macro-oriented phenomena such as economic growth. It is in this sense, then, that the book is concerned with microfoundations.

Contributors are Daniele Archibugi, Spyros Arvanitis, David B. Audretsch, John R. Baldwin, Gerard Ballot, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Dagobert L. Brito, Uwe Cantner, Bo Carlsson, Robert W. Clower, Richard Day, Rinaldo Evangelista, Jan Glete, Horst Hanusch, Heinz Hollenstein, Michael D. Intrilgator, George Johnson, Joanne Johnson, Aija Leiponen, Staffan Laestadius, Richard N. Langlois, Frank M. Machovec, Maureen McKelvey, Valentina Meiciani, Douglass C. North, Giulio Perani, Andreas Pyka, Fabio Rapiti, Roberto Simonetti, Frank Stafford, Paula E. Stephan, Erol Taymaz, Clas Wihlborg, Erica R. Worth, and S. Y. Wu.

Gunnar K. Eliasson is Professor of Industrial Economics, Royal Technical Institute (KTH), Stockholm. Christopher Green is Professor of Economics, McGill University. Charles R. McCann, Jr., is Research Associate, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh.

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Old dog learns new tricks

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One of the BEST harmonica instructional books!

Great for learning to solo

Mel Bay Presents Building Harmonica Technique: A Comprehensive Study of Harmonica Techniques and Blues Soloing Concepts
David Barrett
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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Mel Bay Scales, Patterns & Bending Exercises #1, Level 2, Book/CD Set (Scales, Patterns, & Bending Exercises, 1)

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Offering a comprehensive study of harmonica techniques and blues soloing concepts, this book contains studies and etudes on bending notes (draw and blow), throat vibrato, two-hole shakes, tongue blocking, acoustic and amplified playing, music theory, blues scales, octave substitutions, playing positions, and position substitutes. Intended for the intermediate to advanced diatonic harmonica player, this book provides extensive instruction on lead and accompaniment playing styles. The companion CD includes musical example and play-along songs. Each exercise is played and every full length song is fully accompanied by a blues band. Each large example is played once with harmonica and again with accompaniment only. This book can be used with both diatonic and chromatic harmonica, but us more recommended for the diatonic player.

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Old dog learns new tricks.......2004-03-09

I've been playing harp for years. This book taught me techniques that improved my tone, my solos, my range and my overall understanding of the instrument. I'm still working on 3rd position, but at least now I have a guide.

Well reviewed by Mile High Harmonica Club.......2000-03-10

A member of the Denver Mile High Harmonica Club has developed his blues technique tremendously with this book. Impressed with his progress, I orderd the book and am working my way through the book and CD. I have improved a lot in only a few lessons.

One of the BEST harmonica instructional books!.......1999-05-24

Great book! Not for the beginner that can't bend notes yet. I just picked up the Harmonica about 4 months ago and just getting bending down now. Almost all of the written examples appear on the CD. A book that will get lots of use!

Great for learning to solo.......1998-06-08

This book is primarily about one thing, learning how to solo with a harmonica. It teaches various techniques and has exercises to build your soloing ability. A great book, helpful to me!

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Rubinstejn and The Philosophical Foundations of Soviet Psychology (Sovietica)
T.R.S.L. Payne
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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S. L. Rubinstejn and the philosophical foundations of Soviet psychology (Sovietica: monographs of the Institute of East-European Studies)
T. R Payne
Manufacturer: D. Reidel
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006CMIIE

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Unlike many of her female contemporaries during the thirties and forties, whose political activities furthered the agendas of male politicians, Frieda B. Hennock pursued her own political goals. Guided by intense personal and public interests, she became the first woman appointed to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, and her tenure there coincided with a period of unprecedented regulatory activity, during which the FCC made several significant decisions regarding the development of television. Simultaneously challenging the FCC's status quo and making a political name for herself with her tireless efforts to develop educational television, Hennock became one of the most significant female political figures of this century. Utilizing both critical and historical research methodologies, Brinson highlights key events in Hennock's career, including her dissenting position in the "color TV hearings" and her blindness to the deficiencies of the UHF system. Personal and Public Interests serves as a much-needed corrective to the scholarly oversight of Hennock's life and work, which represent the intersection of the histories of both broadcasting and women in the United States. More than mere biography, this insightful work examines the union of history, technology, and personality, creating a vivid portrait of both a woman and her era.

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From an international leader in document design, research-based insights about writing and visualizing documents that people can use . . .

This book is for writers and graphic designers who create the many types of documents people use every day at home or school, in business or government. From high-tech instruction manuals and textbooks to health communications and information graphics, to online information and World Wide Web pages, this book offers one of the first research-based portraits of what readers need from documents and of how document designers can take those needs into account.

Drawing on research about how people interpret words and pictures, this book presents a new and more complete image of the reader—a person who is not only trying to understand prose and graphics but who is responding to them aesthetically and emotionally.

Written by document design expert Karen A. Schriver, Dynamics in Document Design features:

Case studies of documents before and after revision, showing how people think and feel about them
Analyses of the interplay of text and pictures, revealing how words, space, visuals, and typography can work together
A fascinating and informative timeline of the international evolution of document design from 1900 to the present

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The resource I keep coming back to..........2005-08-10

This book is the most useful one I've found on the subject. Design books of all stripes (document-design focused or otherwise) have a tendency to provide "principles" without ever providing real support for said principles. Books will be loaded with recommendations that may or may not be well supported by data, quantified or at least well documented study results, etc.

Schriver's book does exactly the opposite, and this is why it is longer than many others. It is impossible to read about Schriver's document design principles and not know exactly where they came from. Virtually every recommendation is, for once, well supported by research findings. This book never tells you to do something without first explaining why it should be done.

If you're looking for a short-and-sweet book that conveys the most basic principles of document design ("principles" that may in fact be a designer's personal preferences), this isn't it.

If you're looking for a book that will help you make better design decisions and help you understand why to make these decisions over others, then this is the book for you. After all, it isn't so unusual for professional designers and others in the workplace to have to explain exactly why they've made certain choices over others, and this book can help.

Not what the title explains.......2005-04-26

This book could be cut off to more than half pages it is now. The information is over explained and reader gets bored.

Better luck next time!

The benchmark in its field.......2005-03-06

The reviewers who say this book is wordy and over-long just don't get it. This is not a "how to do it in five easy lessons" handbook. If you find a book like that - burn it! Books like that are usually self-published by amateurs who don't understand the complexities of the field, and they are worse than useless. In fact, they are often filled with advice that has been so oversimplified that it is actually wrong. You CANNOT learn document design in five easy lessons.

Conversely, Schriver's book is a refreshingly thoughtful, well-researched, and comprehensive overview of document design. It starts with the history and philosophy of document design and continues through contemporary needs and trends. It contains especially strong advocacy for usability studies, including documentation of those conducted by the author and her colleagues. It's about time we document creators stopped "blaming the user" and started taking responsibility to make improvements when documents are hard to understand.

Document design is a relatively new field of study, so the comprehensive timeline of its development is a gold mine, especially since no author has attempted it before. This type of in-depth research is sorely needed.

Schriver explains things in a way that is clear and compelling, with lots of thoroughly documented examples and supporting charts, tables, and graphics for clarification. And her research spans several decades, which is invaluable for tracking the evolution of document design. She has produced an unparalleled work which will be the benchmark against which other books are measured for a long time.

Thoughtful, but overly long and loosely held together.......2003-11-22

For an author who believes in giving priority to readers, she actually does a rather poor job considering her reader. She is an academic and as such has the foible of wanting to put all her knowledge on display. So she's done little trimming and condensing of her material into a form that is really useful to readers who want to quickly get to core ideas about document design theory and practice.
The opening chapter abstracts are unnecessarily long, and just repeat what shortly follows in the body of the chapter. While I liked the way she put document design in a social and historical context, this could have been done much more succinctly. The long timeline is too tangentially related to what readers really want to know about, namely document design, to interest many of them. It seems included because the professor did a lot of research and just hated not to have more to show for it than a few succinct paragraphs.
Later chapters presenting the results of various reader response studies are interesting enough, but surely we could move more quickly to the results and their relevance to document design without spending so much time with dry narration of the actual empirical testing.
The theoretical section offers a long overview of theoretical approaches, arguing in favor of a rhetorical approach. Yet the chapters that go on to apply the theory offer advice and conclusions that hardly seem to warrant such a heavyweight theoretical foundation. For instance, the chapter on typography just offers familiar practical advice of the sort one gets in many introductory books on typography. The same is true about the long section about grids. All the opening theory favoring rhetorical approaches yields results that sound very close to the plain old common sense of the non-theoretical how-to craft school that gets debunked in the opening. So she does not end up making a very strong case for the value of her own theoretical approach, and we feel we waded through a lot of theory without much benefit.
In reality, I think she does have a case and she does have some good examples of how attending to the reader through empirical research can improve document design. But her ideas would be much more forcefully and usefully presented in 200 as opposed to 500 pages.

Terribly wordy - lots of deadwood.......2003-01-29

Sorry - I would not recommend this book to a TECHNICAL writer.

This book has 559 pages and could be cut down to maybe 100 pages of useful information. Each chapter has a full page explaining the chapter... if you have to do that, you haven't planned and written the chapter well. A good product sells itself.

It takes the author 5 pages in the preface to explain the book! It also has a lot of side head paragraphs explaining more... explaining the explanations. This book was painful reading for me... I kept thinking "bla bla bla bla bla"

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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on November 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1279 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: Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Texts for Readers. (book reviews)
Author: Janice C. Redish
Publication: Technical Communication (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1997
Publisher: Society for Technical Communication
Volume: v44 Issue: n4 Page: p430(3)

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Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Text for Readers

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Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Text for Readers
Karen A. Schriver
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MUF9XQ

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