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The latest volumes in The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek concentrate on Hayek's work on money and monetary policy. In anticipation of the centenary of his birth, these volumes bring forth some of the economist's most distinguished articles on monetary policy and offer another vital addition to the collection of Hayek's life work.
Good Money, Part I: The New World includes seven of Hayek's articles from the 1920s that were written largely in reaction to the work of Irving Fisher and W. C. Mitchell. Hayek encountered Fisher's work on the quantity theory of money and Mitchell's studies on business cycles during a U.S. visit in 1923-24. These articles attack the idea that price stabilization was consistent with the stabilization of foreign exchange and foreshadow Hayek's general critique that the whole of an economy is not simply the sum of its parts.
Good Money, Part II: The Standard offers five more of Hayek's articles that advance his ideas about money. In these essays, Hayek investigates the consequences of the "predicament of composition." This principle works on the premise that the entire society cannot simultaneously increase liquidity by selling property or services for cash. This analysis led Hayek to make what was perhaps his most controversial proposal: that governments should be denied a monopoly on the coining of money.
Taken together, these volumes present a comprehensive chronicle of Hayek's writings on monetary policy and offer readers an invaluable reference to some of his most profound thoughts about money.
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Title: HP's good news: the technology company's Asia-Pacific Enterprise News Service consolidates information, providing better communication and saving money to boot.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
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Title: More for your workers' comp money: study identifies states with "good value" for workers, employers.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
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Exceptionally practical in approach, this volume provides a “street smarts” survival guide for business professionals, information systems experts, managers, and executives who have been charged with making radical changes — i.e., business reengineering — in their organizations. It outlines a tried-and-tested systematic and interdisciplinary approach that addresses all facets of organization change—in business policies and control, systems and technology, organizational relationships and business practices, and reward programs. Reviews the basic principles for quality business reengineering; shows how to create a new type of team structure that will involve the right people throughout the life of the project; outlines an 8-step life-cycle methodology for getting the reengineering project done as effectively and efficiently as possible; describes obstacles and problems that may be encountered and how to overcome them; and tells how to transition a continuous process improvement mode so reengineering will never have to be done again. For systems designers, analysts, administrators, software managers, maintenance managers.
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This book goes beyond the trivialities of reengineering.......1997-07-01
If you're convinced of the value of reengineering but don't know what to do next, start with this guide. You'll get enough practical theory and step-by-step detail as well as hints for success and cautions to embolden you. One overarching tip: It's not enough to change the physical structure of a process or technology you have to change the corporate infrastructure and value system at the same tim
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- A great executive summary of AEC issues & solutions.
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Using information technology to sharpen your firm's competitive edge
Design firms that achieve a competitive advantage through information technology are those whose leaders take direct control of the application of IT to business goals. In this book, design technology consultant Kristine Fallon tackles the IT management problem head-on, with techniques, tools, options, and decision-making structures that help you become the master of your firm's technological destiny.
Addressing AEC firms of all sizes and specializations, The AEC Technology Survival Guide forges a link between information technology and the two most compelling management concepts of our day —reengineering and total quality management. Numerous case studies demonstrate the measurable benefits of a well-planned technology strategy and illustrate the possibilities and pitfalls that accompany real-world implementations. A discussion of specific classes of technology products and how they fit into business strategies culminates in an inside look at the leading-edge, high-reward strategy of one of the world's largest design firms.
This indispensable guide:
- Lays out the who, what, when, where, and how of effective technology training for design firms
- Provides proven techniques for controlling IT support costs
- Explores the pros and cons of IT outsourcing
- Reveals techniques for analyzing and optimizing the IT budget
- Reviews technical standards and developments likely to shape future design applications.
Whether you're the sole proprietor of a small single-discipline practice or principal in a large design-build firm, The AEC Technology Survival Guide gives you the information you need to transform your IT from a necessary evil to the engine that drives your firm to success.
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A great executive summary of AEC issues & solutions........1998-08-26
Kristine has provided an outstanding review of the BUSINESS issues being faced by large & small AEC firms, and has given readers a road map for using technology to achieve business success. This book will be invaluable for any company owner, engineering manager, or IT manager, struggling with WHAT, WHY, and HOW to use technology to not only stay alive as a business, but as a competitive edge. Kristine has organized her book in 3 sections: Chapters 1-4 answer the question "WHY implement technology in my company." These chapters cover how the information revolution is affecting AEC globally, how the power of technology is more in its COMMUNICATION value than its computational value, and a GREAT section called the AUTOMATING BENEFITS CONTINUUM. Chapters 5-10 provide guidelines on WHAT and HOW to implement technology along a sliding scale....from "cost containment" to "competitive positioning". These chapters provide the core benefit. Chapters 9 and 10 are an easy read regarding the history & future outlook of technology in AEC. In summary, a great guidebook for anybody running any part of an AEC business.
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Andrew J. DuBrin
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Written to help you understand how to effectively lead and manage others in the revamped work place. A book about change, it is perfect for corporate employees wishing to focus on building personal competitive advantage in the downsizing, right sizing, reengineering firm. Includes: a clear, concise explanation of changes in the marketplace, how to meet the challenge of change, numerous case examples, and more. DuBrin has authored more than a dozen books on pragmatic, organizational topics.
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The Team Member's Survival Guide is a self-study guide for employees in cross-functional teams, project teams, or empowered work teams, who need tools and assessments to improve their teamwork skills. The Guide can be used by itself or as a companion to the Team Leader's Survival Guide.
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How to know spiders - but not unless you have a magnifying glass.......2007-10-03
Book is more on a textbook level than for average identification of garden spiders on the move. B & W illustrations of tiny body parts that would not be easily visible on spiders still in nature. Good for science. Not great for someone wanting to do identification on spiders in the wild.
Not Your Average Spider Book.......2002-06-12
Many books written on arachnids are basically recycled jargon boring the reader with misinformation and "common sense" wife's tales. This book, however, was an exception to the rule. The author seems to actually know the subject matter, getting past the "basics" very quickly and introducing you to virtually every family of spider and all of their distinguishing features. Also included are several odd footnotes about the arachnid that I found very useful and that I hadn't seen elsewhere.
The books includes areas on:
1) where to find spiders
2) how you should go about collecting and preserving them
3) parasites and other enemies the spider has
4) the anatomy of the arachnid and how to recognize their sex
5) some useful information about the wondrous effects of spider venom
6) a guide on how to actually study spiders
7) the lists of families and higher categories of all spiders (including pictures of the families that are commonly found)
I personally found it to be an interesting read and would say that anyone interested in Entomology or simply looking into spiders should give it peek. You might thank yourself one day.
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Excellent for benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring.......2004-01-19
This excellent little wire-bound book is particularly easy to use in the field--and it lies flat on a lab bench. The book provides brief sections on introduction to aquatic insects, marine insects, frequently encountered non-insects, insect morphology, collecting and preserving, use of aquatic insects in water quality work, a section on how to use the book, and references. The bulk of the book consists of a key to orders followed by a series of keys to families or, in some cases, subfamilies. For the benefit of amateurs like myself, drawings are numerous and clear and a good deal of information about distribution, ecology, and appearance is provided in the keys. If one is getting started in benthic macroinvertebrate surveys or has students doing high school science projects on aquatic insects, this little book provides a lot of bang for the buck.
Aquatic insects and biological monitoring.......2000-10-26
Lehmkuhl does an excellent job with discription of life cycles, morphology, and how insects are used in biological monitoring. The bibliography is extensive and organized by major family and order. This is a good text for beginning aquatic biologists and teachers that want to start pollution monitoring of streams and rivers, however I would have liked to have seen more detail on collection methods, specifically kick net methods. Kick nets are build specifically for this method of collection and provide a better means than the "window screen" method described. It would have also been nice to go into the methodology of where and how to perform sampling. The only other improvement I would make would to have included more drawings of entire insects(ie. various genera and species of Plecoptera) and some photographs would have been a nice supplement as well. Otherwise a very well done and helpful text.
Thomas Smith Environmental Technology Instructor River Bend Career and Tech. Center
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- Still the Best Guide to the Orthopteroid Orders
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Still the Best Guide to the Orthopteroid Orders.......2006-02-18
Helfer's monumental guide to grasshoppers and their relatives was originally published by William C. Brown many years ago. Fortunately Dover reprinted this classic. While behind in taxonomy, this book is still very useful and by far the most complete guide available. I only wish they would revise it, but I doubt that it will happen any time soon.
I used this guide extensively while I was co-authoring a manual of grasshoppers in New Mexico and found it then to be the best and most accurate publication (despite the dated taxonomy) for both amateur and professional orthopterist. Helfer's book is still the only source for a non-technical overview of camel crickets, mantids, walkingsticks, and some others for North America and holds its own against more up to date books on grasshoppers, katydids and crickets, despite the lack of color plates.
If you are interested in the hopping, chirping and scuttling inhabitants of your part of the world, you can't go wrong in obtaining a copy of this marvelous book.
Hundreds of hopping hoppers.......2004-11-12
Although scientific names are a bit out of date, this book helps the serious student identify almost all of the roaches, mantids, walking sticks, earwigs, grasshoppers, and crickets in the U.S. I had a copy some time ago, lost it, and am glad to find another to replace it. The information in this book is at the level of a good field guide, but more complete than any could be. This is a great reference for the naturalist or field biologist involved with grasshoppers and their kin.
Very complete.......2003-11-29
This book was recommended to me by a local naturalist and I'm so glad I took the advice to buy it. Its very complete. There are no photographs, its all drawings and text but the drawings are very good. Lots of detail. I think this is for someone who is already familiar with insect taxonomy since there are a lot of refernces to specific part such as pronotum, tegmina, etc. Its a fantastic book though and one that I for example have been able to grow into. Appearance ofthe insects, sounds they make habits etc are all discussed. Latin and common names are used. Its a fun book. For the id, I use this book in addition to others that have photographs.
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How to Know the Beetles.......2007-05-14
Most likely the best guide of its type available. It is written by the man who has been considered as one of the most knowledgeable, if not the most knowledgeable, individual concerning beetles since I was in graduate school studying insects. That was some time ago. Although I won't say how long, it was before the PC. Take advantage of his lifetime of knowledge and experience and learn about the largest, and one of the most fascinating, order of insects.
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James Alexander Slater
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