Money Doctors, Foreign Debts, and Economic Reforms in Latin America from the 1890s to the Present (Jaguar Books on Latin America)

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Take Control of Your Technology with the Ultimate Small Business Do-It-Yourself Guide: Outsource Less and Save More By In-Sourcing PC Support Tasks

Learn how to save money on computer support and related tech expenses with dozens of little-known tactics of high-priced computer consultants. The longer you're in the dark, the more billable hours your consultant can rack up on mundane tasks that may very well be within your company's scope of expertise.

You'll discover how to

** Become a more valuable employee to your company

** Begin saving money right away

** Boost individual and workgroup productivity

** Distinguish among fact, opinion and pure fiction

** Figure out which tasks to continue outsourcing

** Improve the reliability of your company's systems

** Provide a more immediate response to your co-workers' tech support problems

** Stop waiting for return phone calls, pages or on-site visits

** Tackle today's problems with a clear vision of what you need to accomplish down the road

** And the best part . . . these tips are organized into simple, bite-sized chunks for busy people!

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Discover big and small savings with this gem.......2002-11-23

Don't let the help desk have all the power or keep you waiting... waiting... You and your small business can get a bit of help with this book and leave the far too complex problems for the technicians. Not to worry, this is not a technical book nor does it use jargon.

You probably don't have much time to read books as a small business owner or a manager of a small tech shop. I'm in the same boat and I got through the book faster than I get through most non-fiction books because of its excellent and scannable layout. There are 101 tips in the book and the back of the book has them all listed for quick referencing or you can go to the section of preference: hardware, software, and data protection.

Each of the 101 tips headlines the page followed by two things: Save on Soft Costs and Save on Out-of-Pocket Expenses. A checkmark by these items indicates the kind of savings to expect from following the tip. The tip has headers and short paragraphs to enable quick scanning.

Already comfortable with computers? So am I -- I still learned quite a few things. Subscribe to Feinberg's free newsletter if you want to get a feel for what the book is like.

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The changing face of pension management: Rescripting the role of plan sponsors, trustees, money managers, and consultants (Investment management book series)

Manufacturer: Investors Press
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PCs made simple. (Required Reading).(What Your Computer Consultant Doesn't Want You to Know: 101 Money-Saving Secrets of Expensive Techies)(Book Review): An article from: Alaska Business Monthly
Henry Holtzman
Manufacturer: Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008FWRAS
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Alaska Business Monthly, published by Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc. on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 646 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: PCs made simple. (Required Reading).(What Your Computer Consultant Doesn't Want You to Know: 101 Money-Saving Secrets of Expensive Techies)(Book Review)
Author: Henry Holtzman
Publication: Alaska Business Monthly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc.
Volume: 18 Issue: 12 Page: 35(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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Visionary Leader Assessment Trainers Guide
Marshall Sashkin
Manufacturer: Human Resource Development Pr
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Binding: Ring-bound

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Now all of your managers can assess their own leadership behaviors and characteristics and identify specific ways to improve their leadership effectiveness. This recently updated, research-based instrument helps leaders determine what changes or further skill development are required for them to make full use of their capabilities for visionary leadership. Through the use of both a "Self" questionnaire and "Other" questionnaires (filled out by 3-6 colleagues), leaders are able to gain an accurate 360° assessment of their leadership style in three critical areas: leader behavior, leadership characteristics, and effect on organizational culture.

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Originally published in 1909, "Handy Farm Devices" is more than an engaging trip down memory lane. For any small farmer or homesteader, the techniques and devices described in detail are just as useful, durable, and fully functional today as they were 75 years ago. You will learn to build a portable chicken coop, a stone boat (for moving stone), a lightweight orchard ladder, gates that don't sag, and a handy wood splitter, as well as rudimentary farm structures, well houses, bee hives, a baby's cradle, a cheese press and much more. The charming, turn-of-the-century language and useful and inspirational quotes from Shakespeare, the Bible, Bacon, Longfellow and many others make this book a delight to read. --Mark A. Hetts

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Practical projects as useful today as when first published 75 years ago.

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Fantastic book that can save you time and money.......2007-09-25

"Success comes to the man who so works that his efforts will bring the most and the best results-not to the man who simply works hard." Very elequently stated by the author from page three in the introduction of this gem of a little book.

Call me a survivalist, but I feel books such as these are going to become imperative in the future of america for both the suburbanite and country boy alike. Handy Farm Devices by Rolfe Cobleigh is a must own to anyone who owns or is even thinking about owning their own homestead. This book allows you to make just about anything you could possibly need around a private farm/homestead. Just to name a few things that are tucked away in the pages of this litte gem are How To: use a carpenters square, build stairs, temporary animal housing, a cellar, make your own dresser drawers, feeders for your animals, make a chicken coop from a barrel (and other chicken, pig, horse, and cattle housing designs as well), laying cement foundations, simple housing plans, how to build a concrete stone house for $400 dollars, build your own wheelbarrel, plus various orchard and planting ideas as well as other ideas that are so numerous I can't possibly mention them all.

The only thing this book will not do is give you a step by step guide on how to go about doing X,Y, and Z. It gives you pointers and a general push in the right direction, but it doesn't give you in depth direction. I only see this becoming problematic if you were to take on the task of building one of the houses described in this book. However, I don't see in depth directions being an issue for most of the devices mentioned. Even a modest amount of ingenuity should be sufficient in most cases. In the end this book delievers all that it reasonably can in less than 300 pages. A must have for those interested in homesteading, and those who believe that true self-sufficiency will become a necessary skill in the future of this country.

Great!.......2007-09-06

This book is a "must have" because of all the great ideas.
Today you can just buy all the stuff but this would be very costly.
This little book shows how to build everything you need by yourself.
I'm starting a very small farm for selfsuffiency and was desparate about the costs of all the needy things.
This book will spare me hundreds of $, it's really great.

Historical and functional.......2007-08-13

This book is full of historical information about devices, buildings and just useful things. This guide would be useful in areas or farms trying to live without elecrical equipment and in cases of disasters to make do until some assistance with more modern means arrives. I enjoyed the writing and would recommend the book to those looking to do things more "natural".

Great Ideas...don't expect to build them........2007-05-12

This is a great and fun little book full of old fashion devices. Treat it as an idea book, but don't expect explanations of how-to here. For at least half of the devices you won't need any explanation, the others look the info up somewhere else.

Depends on what you're looking for..........2007-01-10

This was a nice, fun book to read... but it was essentially useless for actually helping you build any of the things it talks about (and gives interesting history and info about). So for a practical DIY book, it's useless, but for a book just to learn a bit about this stuff and it's history and get a frame of reference, it's not bad at all.

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Handy Farm and Home Devices and How to Make Them
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them
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This volume contains a variety of papers devoted to current problems and solutions in fundamental interaction theories, including symmetry and supersymmetry, string and brane theories, non-cummutative geometries, non-commutative models of space-time and quantum groups. The authors of contributions are leading specialists in these fields of theoretical and mathematical physics.

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This title analyzes the chemical reactions, structures and fundamental properties of supercritical fluid systems for the production of new compounds, nanomaterials, fibers, and films. It complies contemporary research and technological advances for increased selectivity and reduced waste in chemical, industrial, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications. Topics include fluid dynamics, catalysis, hydrothermal synthesis, surfactants, conducting polymers, crystal growth, and other aspects and applications of supercritical fluids.

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This book is a guide on conformal mappings, their applications in physics and technology, and their computer-aided visualization. Conformal mapping (CM) is a classical part of complex analysis having numerous applications to mathematical physics. This modern handbook on CM includes recent results such as the classification of all triangles and quadrangles that can be mapped by elementary functions, mappings realized by elliptic integrals and Jacobian elliptic functions, and mappings of doubly connected domains. This handbook considers a wide array of applications, among which are the construction of a Green function for various boundary-value problems, streaming around airfoils, the impact of a cylinder on the surface of a liquid, and filtration under a dam. With more than 160 domains included in the catalog of mapping, Handbook of Conformal Mapping with Computer-Aided Visualization is more complete and useful than any previous volume covering this important topic. The authors have developed an interactive ready-to-use software program for constructing conformal mappings and visualizing plane harmonic vector fields. The book includes a floppy disk for IBM-compatible computers that contains the CONFORM program.

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