Development Macroeconomics or Bourgeois Virtues

Development Macroeconomics

Author: Pierre Richard Ag nor

Since it was first published in 1995, Development Macroeconomics has remained the definitive textbook on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now, in this fully revised and updated third edition, Pierre-Richard Agénor and Peter Montiel cover the latest advances in this rapidly changing field, making this the most up-to-date, authoritative, and comprehensive book available on the macroeconomic issues and challenges developing nations confront today.

Agénor and Montiel provide completely new and expanded coverage of fiscal discipline, monetary policy regimes, currency and banking crises, monetary unions, management of capital flows, the choice of an exchange-rate regime, public capital and growth, the political economy of stabilization and adjustment--and much more. They review attempts that have been made to adapt standard macroeconomic analysis to conditions in developing economies, and they use a variety of analytical models to address the macroeconomic policy issues that most concern these countries. Agénor and Montiel systematically examine empirical evidence on behavioral assumptions and on the effects of macroeconomic policies in developing nations. They also provide extensive references to literature in the field.

This new edition of Development Macroeconomics is the ideal introduction for students and an indispensable resource for researchers.

• Fully updated and expanded
• Provides the most comprehensive treatment of the macroeconomics of developing nations
• Features new material on fiscal discipline, monetary policy regimes, currency and banking crises--and much more
• Includes extensivereferences
• Serves both as a graduate textbook and a resource for researchers

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Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Author: Deirdre N McCloskey

For a century and a half the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned
the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie,” and David Brooks’s “bobos” all have been, and still are, framed as responsible for everything from financial and moral poverty to world wars and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus offering a radical view: capitalism is good for us.

McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism’s critics with astonishing erudition and range of reference. Applying a new tradition of “virtue ethics” to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations.

High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and, of course, economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, adead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner.

The New York Times - Jim Holt

McCloskey probably won't sway many readers who do not already share her convictions, but for all the book's flaws one can't help being impressed by her verve, erudition and fitful brilliance. When she argues that Vincent van Gogh was actually a good bourgeois, or that Jesus, notwithstanding the Sermon on the Mount, was pro-commerce, the rhetorical moves are as deft as the claims are surprising.

Publishers Weekly

Eschewing the notion that capitalism is evil and the middle class is soft and cowardly, University of Illinois professor McCloskey argues that bourgeois economic practices and people promote the widest possible range of virtues. An economically free and prosperous middle class is not only peaceable, law-abiding and prudent, McCloskey argues, it can also be artistic and spiritual, and support traditional cultures, protect the environment, win wars, make discoveries and care for the unfortunate better than aristocratic or proletarian social organizations. Though her overarching aim is to develop a modern theory and taxonomy of virtues, promoting libertarian economic views and summarizing 250 years of normative economic writings, McCloskey only sketches her argument here; the details will be left to three subsequent volumes. Most of this book is a technical survey of virtues that emphasizes Catholic theology, though it includes material from other traditions. The prose style is arch and obscure, often relying on brief quotations from philosophers, economists and historians and then rebutting them. Without the future volumes, these challenging 600 pages represent a highly idiosyncratic survey with no obvious focus. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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McCloskey (economics, history, English, & communication, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago; Crossing: A Memoir) intends her new book as the first in a quartet defending the bourgeois class. She incorporates nearly the entire range of the humanities, from philosophy and religion to linguistics, literature, and history, to drive home her argument that the bourgeois class, with its adherence to capitalism, has been a positive force for human civilization. She defines bourgeois virtues as those stemming from commerce and also benefiting society; for example, the virtue of not cheating customers because it is bad for business translates into a striving for justice in all things. McCloskey presents some wonderful insights about bourgeois values, but she will put off many readers with her numerous quips and her almost stream-of-consciousness writing style. She also peppers her text with allusions that are not always identified. Her writing style is reminiscent of both James Joyce and a very literate cocktail party conversation. Neither works for this subject matter. Only for comprehensive libraries with a readership sophisticated enough to digest her words.-Lawrence R. Maxted, Gannon Univ., Erie, PA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Apology : a brief for the bourgeois virtues	1
	Appeal	55
1	The very word "virtue"	63
2	The very word "bourgeois"	68
3	On not being spooked by the word "bourgeois"	79
4	The first virtue : love profane and sacred	91
5	Love and the transcendent	100
6	Sweet love vs. interest	108
7	Bourgeois economists against love	117
8	Love and the bourgeoisie	126
9	Solidarity regained	139
10	Faith as identity	151
11	Hope and its banishment	160
12	Against the sacred	167
13	Van Gogh and the transcendent profane	176
14	Humility and truth	184
15	Economic theology	195
16	The good of courage	201
17	Anachronistic courage in the bourgeoisie	212
18	Taciturn courage against the "feminine"	223
19	Bourgeois vs. Queer	231
20	Balancing courage	241
21	Prudence is a virtue	253
22	The monomania of Immanuel Kant	263
23	The storied character of virtue	270
24	Evil as imbalance, inner and outer : temperance and justice	279
25	The pagan-ethical bourgeois	290
26	The system of the virtues	303
27	A philosophical psychology?	314
28	Ethical striving	320
29	Ethical realism	332
30	Against reduction	337
31	Character(s)	346
32	Antimonism again	352
33	Why not one virtue?	361
34	Dropping the virtues, 1532-1958	369
35	Other lists	379
36	Eastern and other ways	386
37	Needing virtues	394
38	P & S and the capitalist life	407
39	Sacred reasons	416
40	Not by P alone	424
41	The myth of modern rationality	433
42	God's deal	442
43	Necessary excess?	451
44	Good work	461
45	Wage slavery	469
46	The rich	478
47	Good barons	488
48	The anxieties of bourgeois virtues	497
	Postscript : the unfinished case for the bourgeois virtues	509

Vault Career Guide to Media and Entertainment or Confronting Consumption

Vault Career Guide to Media and Entertainment

Author: Sucharita Mulpuru

From the Vault Career Library from background on the industry and an insider look at jobs and the career path in media and entertainment.

Library Journal

For college graduates and MBAs, searching for a job and charting a career path can be daunting. The "Vault" series will alleviate some of their concerns by providing them with much-needed information. These four sample guides from the series, written by industry experts and the Vault editorial staff, contain an overview of each field, key definitions, a history of the profession, case studies, and discussion of the types of careers available, the hiring process, typical career paths, and the qualifications needed by applicants. For example, the accounting guide discusses the "Big Four" of accounting firms, offers descriptions of key agencies, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, cites trends and outlooks for the profession, and gives advice on how to prepare for the CPA Examination. Firsthand accounts by successful professionals in the field are an important part of the guides; those contemplating careers as independent film producers or literary agents, for instance, can read first-person accounts in the media and entertainment volume. These guides make for excellent starting points for job hunters and should be purchased by academic libraries for their career sections. University career centers should have them on their shelves as well. [Forthcoming titles in the series will cover fashion, real estate, corporate law, litigation law, Capitol Hill careers, and more.-Ed.]-Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, NY Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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Confronting Consumption

Author: Thomas Princen

2003 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award presented by the International Studies Association (ISA).

Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways--as calls for green purchasing or more recycling, or for small changes in production processes. Many academics, policymakers, and journalists, in fact, accept the economists' view of consumption as nothing less than the purpose of the economy. Yet many people have a troubled, intuitive understanding that tinkering at the margins of production and purchasing will not put society on an ecologically and socially sustainable path.

Confronting Consumption places consumption at the center of debate by conceptualizing "the consumption problem" and documenting diverse efforts to confront it. In Part 1, the book frames consumption as a problem of political and ecological economy, emphasizing core concepts of individualization and commoditization. Part 2 develops the idea of distancing and examines transnational chains of consumption in the context of economic globalization. Part 3 describes citizen action through local currencies, home power, voluntary simplicity, "ad-busting," and product certification. Together, the chapters propose "cautious consuming" and "better producing" as an activist and policy response to environmental problems. The book concludes that confronting consumption must become a driving focus of contemporaryenvironmental scholarship and activism.

What People Are Saying

David W. Orr
The issue of excessive, careless, and ignorant consumption has been conspicuously absent in all the talk about sustainability. No longer! These essays break new conceptual ground and clarify the dynamics of consumption with intellectual honesty and political boldness. The authors aim to transform consumption from mindless and destructive to mindful and regenerative. This is a vitally important book!
— author of Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

Lamont C. Hempel
This book is important not just for its brilliance but for its rarity: few environmental scholars have dared to take on this issue in a manner that goes beyond rhetorical posturing and 'limits to growth' type arguments.
— Hedco Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of Environmental Programs, University of Redlands, and author of Environmental Governance: The Global Challenge

Richard B. Norgaard
Consumption deserves serious attention. This volume moves the literature beyond the work of a few isolated scholars and consumption activists to a collective enterprise of solid researchers critiquing and building on each other's contributions. Long overdue, but worth waiting for.
— Professor, Energy and Resources Group, University of California at Berkeley; Former President, International Society for Ecological Economics; and author of Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Coevolutionary Revisioning of the Future

Carolyn Merchant
Confronting Consumption provides a fresh new look at the systemic problems of consumption in the global economy. It offers a highly readable account of the impacts of consumerism on our vulnerable planetary resources and asks whether a sustainable consumption movement may be emerging. Scholars, teachers, and activists alike will be enriched by the book's analysis and inspired by new possibilities for confronting the complexities of consumption.
— Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics , University of California, Berkeley, and author of Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World and Earthcare: Women and the Environment

Ramachandra Guha
John Kenneth Galbraith once complained of the 'near total silence' with regard to the 'gargantuan and growing appetite' for resources in contemporary North America. It is that silence that has now been addressed, to spectacular effect, by the contributors to *Confronting Consumption.* These wide-ranging analyses of consumerism successfully bring together the cultural and the ecological, the structural and the symbolic, the local and the global. They join rights to responsibilities and ethics to public policy. In terms of both vision and execution, this is a landmark volume.
— author of Environmentalism: A Global History and The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himilaya

Cecile Andrews
A dynamic, vital book that takes your breath away! Confronting Consumption shows why consumption is the blockbuster problem that our society can no longer ignore. Readers will feel real excitement as they explore this stimulating book and will begin to understand why thousands of people in the Simplicity movement are turning their backs on 'getting and spending' and reclaiming 'the good life'-- building lives of high satisfaction and low environmental impact in a caring and just community.
— author of The Circle of Simplicity

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Rethinking Globalization or Surpassing Realism

Rethinking Globalization

Author: Manfred B Steger

Rage on the Right is a balanced and thoughtful study of the modern militia movement goes beyond usual journalistic accounts of this important phenomenon to explore its political, cultural, and social roots. Clearly written, carefully documented, and engagingly presented, Rage on the Right is a case study of such climatic events as the Ruby Ridge standoff, the Waco siege, and Timothy McVeigh's terrorism engage and inform the reader. This book will be an excellent resource for students and scholars alike.

Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration since 1945

Author: Mark F Gilbert

This accessible text provides a concise political history of European integration from the end of World War II to the present. The European Project raises fascinating and important questions: How did Europe's states overcome their traditional rivalries and quarrels to build supranational institutions? What were the economic and geopolitical forces that drove them? Which individual statesmen contributed most to defining the European project? What are the issues that confronted the EU in the last decade and what problems will the EU face as its leaders consider even more advanced forms of political integration? All these questions are addressed by this engaging text, which offers a clear and readable account of the complex historical process by which Europe's unique polity has been built. Visit our website for update chapter!

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations and Acronyms
	Chronology 1945-2002
1	Introduction: An Unusual New Polity	1
	Structure and Content	4
	Themes	8
	Terminology	11
2	Enemies to Partners: The Politics of Cooperation in Western Europe 1945-1950	15
	The American Vision for Europe: The Marshall Plan and the OEEC	19
	A "Harmonious Society": The Vision of the European Movement	25
	Cooperation between Governments: The British Vision	31
	The German Question and the Schuman Plan	36
3	Spillovers and Setbacks: From the Schuman Plan to the Common Market 1950-1958	49
	The Coal and Steel Community	51
	The Defense Community	56
	From Messina to Rome	62
	The Treaties of Rome: 25 March 1957	69
	The Uniting of Europe	75
4	In The Shadow of the General: De Gaulle and the EEC 1958-1969	85
	The EEC's First Four Years	86
	The "Union of States"	90
	The First British Negotiation for Entry	96
	The "Empty Chair" Crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise	104
	Positive and Negative Integration	111
5	Weathering the Storm: The EC during the Economic Crises of the 1970s	119
	Thinking Positive 1969-1972	120
	Monetary Turmoil 1971-1974	128
	Foreign Policy Failures and the Tindemans Report	133
	The European Monetary System	138
	Beyond the Common Market	145
6	The 1992 Initiative and the Single European Act	155
	France Sees the Light	157
	The British Budgetary Question	160
	Mediterranean Enlargement	164
	The 1992 Initiative and the Dooge Committee	169
	The Single European Act	174
	Evaluating the Single European Act	180
7	The Maastricht Compromise	187
	The "Paquet Delors" and the Delors Report	188
	The Bruges Speech	193
	German Unification and Its Consequences	198
	The "Hour of Europe"	203
	The Maastricht Treaty	212
	Making Sense of Maastricht	219
8	Europe since Maastricht	225
	Adopting the Euro	227
	Enlargement of Central and Eastern Europe	237
	The Institutional Question	241
	The EU's Growing World Role	249
	A Constitutional Convention	252
	Bibliographical Essay	259
	Index	265
	About the Author	277

Institutional Investors or Microeconomics

Institutional Investors

Author: E Philip Davis

One of the most important recent developments in financial markets is the institutionalization of saving associated with the growth of pension funds, life insurance companies, and mutual funds. An increasing proportion of household saving is now managed by professional portfolio managers instead of being directly invested in the securities markets or held in the form of bank deposits. With the aging of the population and its adverse impact on public pension systems, the shift of individual savings to institutional investors is likely to become even more marked in the coming years.

This book provides a comprehensive economic assessment of institutional investment. It charts the development and performance of the asset management industry and analyzes the implications of rising institutionalized saving for the development of the securities trading industry, the financial sector as a whole, and the wider economy. The book draws extensively on international experience, particularly in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan.

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Microeconomics

Author: Michael L Katz

This is a Microeconomic theory text for courses in economics departments and business schools.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 The Market EconomyPart I The Household Chapter 2 Consumer Choice Chapter 3 Comparative Statics and Demand Chapter 4 Price Changes and Consumer Welfare Chapter 5 The Household as Supplier Chapter 6 Choice under Uncertainty Part II The Firm Chapter 7 The Firm and Its Goals Chapter 8 Technology and Production Chapter 9 Cost Part III The Competitive Model Chapter 10 The Price-Taking Firm Chapter 11 Equilibrium in Competitive Markets Chapter 12 General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics Part IV Market Power Chapter 13 Monopoly Chapter 14 More on Price-Making Firms Chapter 15 Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior Chapter 16 Game Theory Missing Markets Chapter 17 Asymmetric Information Chapter 18 Externalities and Public Goods

Introduction to the Engineering Profession or The Asian Financial Crisis

Introduction to the Engineering Profession

Author: M David Burghardt

factors such as the importance of engineering in developing a better society, the history of technological change, the ethical problems encountered in the profession, and future challenges facing engineers. Discussions of the various fields of engineering and career possibilities are featured and sample design problems are presented to introduce students to problem-solving methodologies required of engineers. The techniques of analysis and design are emphasized through elementary problems in a variety of engineering fields. A unique focus on engineers as integral to the development of our technological society sets this book apart from others in the field. The second edition features a separate chapter on the design process, remarks from engineers, an appendix on algebraic problem solving, and coverage of models, industrial practice, and concurrent engineering.

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An introduction to the field for beginning engineering students, offering an historical perspective and information on technical careers in disciplines such as automotive, chemical, ceramic, materials, and petroleum engineering. Emphasizes the importance of social and political awareness and ethics within the field, and discusses written and oral communication, statistics, engineering design, and computer applications. This second edition includes an appendix on algebraic and trigonometric problem solving. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Cures and Systemic Implications

Author: Morris Goldstein

The turmoil that has rocked Asian markets since the middle of 1997, and that is now having such deep effects on the economies in the region, is the third major currency crisis of the 1990s. This study explains how the Asian crisis arose and spread. It then outlines the corrective policy measures that could help end the crisis, and the shortcomings that have been revealed in the international financial system that require reform to reduce the chances of a recurrence.

In analyzing the origins of the crisis, the author emphasizes three interrelated sets of factors: financial sector weaknesses in Asian emerging economies along with easy global liquidity conditions; mounting concerns about external sector problems in these countries; and contagion of financial pressures from Thailand (both around and beyond the region).

The discussion of policy initiatives to help end the crisis focuses, inter alia, on: restructuring and reform of financial sectors and prudential oversight in Asia itself; on fiscal policies and measures to deal with the bad loan problem in Japan; on exchange rate policy; and on the design and effectiveness of IMF-led official rescue packages.

What People Are Saying

Frederic S. Mishkin
A first-rate piece of work...an excellent and comprehensive discussion of why the Asian crisis occurred and what would be the appropriate policy responses.
-- Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

Table of Contents:

	Preface	vii
	Acknowledgments	xi
1	Introduction	1
2	Origins of the Crisis	7
	Financial-Sector Weaknesses	7
	External-Sector Problems	14
	Contagion	17
3	How to Fix It	23
	Restructuring and Reform of Financial Sectors and Prudential Oversight in the ASEAN-4 Economies and South Korea	23
	Exchange Rate Policies in Asia and Trade Policies in the G-7	26
	Japan's Role	28
	China's Role	30
	IMF Rescue Packages	31
4	Halifax II Reforms	45
	Moral Hazard and Debt Rescheduling	46
	Prudential/Supervisory Standards	53
	Transparency and Disclosure in International Financial Markets	57
	IMF Surveillance	59
	Risk Management in Global Financial Institutions	62
5	Lessons of the Asian Crisis and Concluding Remarks	65
Appendix	List of Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision	69
	References	73

Survey of Economics or Construction Contract Administration

Survey of Economics

Author: Arthur OSullivan

Covering both Micro and Macroeconomics in one concise paperback volume, this book shows readers how to think and act like an economist by showing them how to use economic concepts in their everyday lives and careers. Organized around the Five Key Principles of Economics–The Principle of Opportunity Cost, The Marginal Principle, The Principle of Diminishing Returns, The Spillover Principle, and The Reality Principle. For economists and those making financial decisions and analyses.

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents

 

1.         Introduction

2.         Key Principles of Economics

3.         Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium

4.         Elasticity: A Measure of Responsiveness

5.         Production and Cost

6.         Perfect Competition: Short Run and Long Run

7.         Monopoly

8.         Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Antitrust

9.         Market Failure: Imperfect Information, Pollution, and Public Goods

10.       The Labor Market

11.       Measuring a Nation’s Production and Income

12.       Unemployment and Inflation

13.       Why Do Economies Grow

14.       Aggregate Demand and Supply

15.       Fiscal Policy

16.       Money and the Banking System

17.       Monetary Policy and Inflation

18.       International Trade and Finance

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Construction Contract Administration

Author: Ralph W Liebing

This unique introduction to contract administration is designed especially for those who need to understand the contract administration process, overall (rather than the fine details), and who have not yet developed a background of professional experience or insight.Using a “simplified” approach to a complex, evolving area, it provides an up-to-date overview of the entire process — including the general philosophy and rationale, and the roles, obligations, and responsibilities of all major participants in a construction project. Appropriate for all construction disciplines — e.g., architecture, engineering, construction management, construction — it focuses on those topics that cross several occupational lines and that are directly usable by any of the major project participants.

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Provides a general overview of current methods and concepts at an introductory college level. Stressing the difference between contract administration and construction management, the author discusses the role of the contract administrator as well as their interactions with the design professional, construction manager, owner, contractor, subcontractor, and building inspector. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Globalization and International Political Economy or Politics and Economics in the Eighties

Globalization and International Political Economy: The Politics of Alternative Futures

Author: Mark Rupert

The politics of globalization include nation-states pursuing power, multinational firms seeking profits for their shareholders, coalitions and networks attempting to promote particular visions of future possible worlds, resistance groups ranging from the non-violent to the murderous, and ordinary people struggling to feed their families and secure their futures in a rapidly changing world. Globalization and International Political Economy examines processes of globalizing capitalism and the complex politics which are emerging from it--processes and struggles which will determine the shape of our world in the 21st century.

Table of Contents:

1	The difference globalization makes	5
2	A brief history of globalization	25
3	New forms of global power and resistance	55
4	Gender, class, and the transnational politics of solidarity	81
5	Globalization, imperialism, and terror	107

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Politics and Economics in the Eighties

Author: Alberto Alesina

Is the federal budget deficit a result of congressional deadlocks, gross miscalculation of economic trends, or a Republican strategy to tie the budgetary hands of future Democratic leadership? To what extend does the partisan split between Congress and the executive branch constrain the president's agenda? In this volume, political scientists and economists tackle these and many other contentious issues, offering a variety of analytical perspectives.
Certain to provoke controversy, this interdisciplinary volume brings together policy experts to provide a coherent analysis of the most important economic policy changes of the 1980s. Through a detailed examination of voting patterns, monetary and fiscal policies, welfare spending, tax reform, minimum wage legislation, the savings and loan collapse, and international trade policy, the authors explore how politics can influence the direction of economic policymaking.

Theological Ethics in a Global Context or Strategy and Human Resource Management

Theological Ethics in a Global Context: In the Time of Many Worlds

Author: William Schweiker

The nature of ethics has been the subject of much controversy and argument in recent decades. Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics tackles these various debates, offering a wide-ranging, comprehensive, and provocative statement of the nature of theological ethics in global times.

• Offers an accessible, lively, and provocative statement of the nature of moral philosophy and theological ethics in contemporary times.
  
• Tackles various perspectives on debates about distinctly Christian ethics.
  
• Argues that we need to reframe the arena in which moral questions are asked.
  
• Engages a range of positions, exploring distinctively modern issues such as moral and cultural relativism, globalization, problems of consumption and violence, and religious pluralism.
  
• Addresses the complexity of certain ethical decisions, which are difficult and far from clear-cut, and yet presents an ethical understanding which is both humane and deeply religious.

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Strategy and Human Resource Management

Author: Peter Boxall

This new edition provides a critical yet accessible account of the strategic role of human resource management within organizations. Building upon the success of the first edition, this edition contains new chapters on culture and values in HRM in addition to expanding coverage of individual performance and development. Updated to include the latest research and development, it continues to challenge students to critically assess the role and contribution of human resource to organizations.

Table of Contents:

Introduction     viii
Acknowledgements     xii
The goals of human resource management     1
Defining human resource management     1
What are the goals of HRM?     10
Strategic tensions and problems in HRM     20
Summary and structure of the book     28
Connecting strategy and human resource management
Strategy and the process of strategic management     33
Defining strategy     33
The process of strategic management     44
Improving strategic management processes     50
Conclusions     54
Strategic HRM: 'best fit' or 'best practice'?     56
Defining 'strategic HRM' and HR strategy     57
Strategic HRM: the 'best fit' school     61
Strategic HRM: the 'best practice' school     73
Conclusions: reconciling 'best fit' and 'best practice'     82
Strategic HRM and the resource-based view of the firm     85
The resource-based view: origins and assumptions     86
Resources and barriers to imitation     88
Applying the resource-based view     94
The RBV and human resource strategy     100
Conclusions     107
Managing work and people: searching for generalprinciples
Work systems and the changing economics of production     111
Work systems in manufacturing     113
Globalisation, market reform and production offshoring     126
Work systems in services and the public sector     131
Conclusions     140
Managing employee voice     142
The growth and changing contours of employee voice     144
What are the impacts of employee voice systems?     154
Trade unions and change in employee voice     158
Management style in employee relations     165
Conclusions     169
Managing individual performance and commitment     171
The performance equation     172
Managing employee ability     175
Managing employee motivation     183
Conclusions     199
Linking HR systems to organisational performance     201
HR systems and organisational patterns in HR strategy     201
The 'black box' problem: links between HRM and performance     215
Conclusions     224
Managing people in dynamic and complex business contexts
Human resource strategy and the dynamics of industry-based competition     229
Industry dynamics: cycles of stability and change     230
HR strategy and industry dynamics     235
Conclusions     249
Corporate human resource strategy in the global economy     251
Strategy, structure and the divisionalised company     254
The HR implications of divisionalisation     259
From M-form to N-form?     265
The HR implications of mergers and acquisitions     269
Conclusions     277
Conclusions and implications     279
The main themes of this book     279
Can strategic planning be a valuable resource in the firm?     287
The design of HR planning processes     290
Seeking integration: HR planning and the new management accounting     296
Conclusions     307
References     309
Author index     335
Subject index     342

Wireless Network Security or The Volatility Machine

Wireless Network Security

Author: Yang Xiao

This timely volume, Wireless Network Security, provides broad coverage of wireless security issues including cryptographic coprocessors, encryption, authentication, key management, attacks and countermeasures, secure routing, secure medium access control, intrusion detection, epidemics, security performance analysis, security issues in applications, and much more. The contributions identify various vulnerabilities in the physical layer, MAC layer, IP layer, transport layer, and application layer, and focus on ways for strengthening security mechanisms and services throughout the layers. Wireless Network Security includes 15 rigorously refereed chapters from prominent international researchers working in this subject area. The material serves as a useful reference for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners seeking solutions to wireless and mobile security related issues.

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The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economics and the Threat of Financial Collapse

Author: Michael Pettis

This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies. Pettis combines the insights of economic history, economic theory, and finance theory into a comprehensive model for understanding sovereign liability management and the causes of financial crises. He examines recent financial crises in emerging market countries along with the history of international lending since the 1820s to argue that the process of international lending is driven primarily by external events and not by local politics and/or economic policies. He draws out the corporate finance implications of this approach to argue that most of the current analyses of the recent financial crises suffered by Latin America, Asia, and Russia have largely missed the point. He then develops a sovereign finance model, analogous to corporate finance, to understand the capital structure needs of emerging market countries. Using this model, he finally puts into perspective the recent crises, a new sovereign liability management theory, the implications of the model for sovereign debt restructurings, and the new financial architecture.

Bridging the gap between finance specialists and traders, on the one hand, and economists and policy-makers on the other, The Volatility Machine is critical reading for anyone interested in where the international economy is going over the next several years.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Pt. I	The Structure of Financial Crises
1	Capital Structure and Policy Collapse: The Financial Crisis of the Late 1990s	3
2	Market Structure Issues	24
Pt. II	Global Liquidity and Capital Flows
3	Why Does Rich-Country Capital Flow to Poor Countries?	35
4	180 Years of Liquidity Expansion and International Lending	51
5	The Contraction of International Lending	72
Pt. III	The Corporate Finance of Crises
6	The Theory of Capital Structure and Financial Risk	91
7	The Capital Structure Trap	124
8	Toward a Theory of Sovereign Capital Structure Management	146
9	Debt Restructurings within a Corporate Finance Framework	172
Pt. IV	Conclusion
10	Conclusion: The New Financial Architecture	189
App	The Option Characteristics of Sovereign Debt	201
	Bibliography	217
	Index	229

Latin America or A Students Guide to Studying Psychology

Latin America: Regions and People

Author: Robert B Kent

This comprehensive text introduces key geographical concepts while providing an incisive, timely, and highly informative primer on Latin America. Thematic chapters trace the development of the region from the pre-Hispanic era to the present, while regional chapters reveal the diversity of its constituent people and places. Coverage includes cultural history; environment and physical geography; land use, agriculture, and urbanization; social and economic processes; and the Latin American diaspora. Enhancing the utility of the text are quick-reference tables and illustrative vignettes, over 160 photographs and maps, and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter.

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A Student's Guide to Studying Psychology

Author: Thomas M Heffernan

Now in its third edition, this very popular guide to studying psychology remains an invaluable tool for students at both undergraduate and pre-degree levels, along with those deciding whether to take psychology as an academic subject. Topics covered include: perspectives within psychology; making the most of seminars, tutorials and lectures; how to write essays and empirical reports; guidelines on exam preparation and technique; information on careers in psychology and tips for applying for jobs, including how to write your own curriculum vitae.

For this fully up-dated third edition, new advice is included on web-based research and referencing. Subject coverage is expanded to include contemporary research trends in cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology and positive psychology. In addition, new material investigates postgraduate specialisms including neuropsychology, psychotherapy and sport psychology.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction to psychology	1
2	A study guide to lectures, seminars and tutorials	23
3	A guide to essay writing and referencing	45
4	A guide to research methods	79
5	Ethics in research	107
6	Empirical research report writing	113
7	A guide to preparing for examinations	153
8	After the degree : opportunities for a psychology graduate	179

Latin Americas Economy or Latino Social Movements

Latin America's Economy: Diversity, Trends, and Conflicts

Author: Eliana A Cardoso

Latin America's Economy provides a clear, comprehensive, and accessible overview of major economic issues facing Latin America today, including balance of payments problems, inflation, stabilization, poverty, inequality, and land reform. Each chapter centers on an economic problem, presenting major economic theories about the causes and possible solutions to the problem. The authors provide numerous cross-country examples to demonstrate how individual countries are affected by economic trends or policies. Chapters also include helpful summaries and ideas on what the future may hold.

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Latino Social Movements: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Author: Rodolfo D Torres

Latinos make up the fastest growing population segment in the US, and by the middle of the next century, they will outnumber all other minority groups combined. Even more significant is the fact that within a few years, Latinos will number more than a quarter of the nation's work force; this is more than three times their proportion in the general population.

Latino Social Movements discusses the socioeconomic and cultural consequences of the changing US population in the light of globalization. It calls attention to the increasing significance of class and the system of global capitalism that underlies political relations of power. Focusing on the place of labor, class, patriarchy and capital, this collection relates these objective realities with the subjective context of popular attempts to transform the existing socio-economic conditions of Latino life.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
	Anti-Colonial Chicana Feminism	11
	Lessons from el Barrio - The East Harlem Real Great Society/Urban Planning Studio: A Puerto Rican Chapter in the Fight for Urban Self-Determination	43
	Boricuas, African Americans, and Chicanos in the "Far West": Notes on the Puerto Rican Pro-Independence Movement in California, 1960s-1980s	79
	The 1933 Los Angeles County Farm Workers Strike	111
	Latino Immigrant Workers in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry	141
	Latino Politics - Class Struggles: Reflections on the Future of Latino Politics	165
	The Cloning of La Raza Unida Party for the Twenty-first Century: Electoral Pragmatism or Misguided Nostalgia?	181
	Notes on Contributors	207

The Tragedy of Russias Reforms or Stress Management in Law Enforcement Second Edition

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy

Author: Dmitri Glinski Vassiliev

The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms presents a boldly original analysis of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birth of the Russian state. The keys to understanding these events, the authors argue, are the prescriptions of Western “transitologists,” the International Monetary Fund, and advocates of economic “shock therapy.” These prescriptions allowed the nomenklatura and the financial “oligarchs” to acquire Russia’s industrial and natural resources and to heavily influence the country’s political destiny. In this long-awaited, sweeping interpretation, the authors skillfully place the contemporary Russian experience in the context of history, political theory, and Russia’s place in the international system.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Reform Or Reaction? The Yeltsin Era in a Millennium of Russian History	17
2	Russian Postcommunism in the Mirror of Social Theory	39
3	Populists, the Establishment, and the Soviet Decline	87
4	From Russian Sovereignty to the August Coup: A Missed Chance for a Democratic Revolution	157
5	Catching Up With the Past: The Political Economy of Shock Therapy	231
6	Yeltsin and the Opposition: The Air of Co-Optation and Marginalization, 1991-1993	309
7	Tanks as the Vehicle of Reform: The 1993 Coup and the Imposition of the New Order	369
8	The Imperial Presidency in a Privatized State, 1994-1996	435
9	Market Bolshevism in Acton: The Dream Team, Shock Therapy II, and Yeltsin's Search for a Successor	531
	Epilogue: Market Bolshevism, A Historical Interpretation	623
	Notes	643
	Index	721

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Stress Management in Law Enforcement, Second Edition

Author: Leonard Territo

The newly revised second edition of Stress Management in Law Enforcement by Dr. Leonard Territo and Dr. James Sewell is once again a carefully selected collection of the leading articles on stress and its consequences for police personnel. This edition, incorporating new and relevant material, comprises nine sections which cover the following topics: What is Stress All About?; What Does Stress Mean for Cops?; Are There Ways We Can Tell It's There?; What Are Some of the Bad Effects of Stress on Cops?; How Does Stress Impact a Cop's Family Life?; How Does the Worst of the Worst Affect Cops?; What Are the Tools That a Cop Can Use to Better Handle Stress?; What Support is Available for Cops? and How Can the Bosses Better Help Their Cops?

A brief summary precedes each section to assist the reader in readily identifying articles which might be of particular interest. Each article contains end-of-chapter discussion questions which are answered in detail in the instructor's manual. The sections are also accompanied by a glossary of terms and a list of additional recommended readings.

This book will specifically interest the criminal justice academic community as an adjunctive resource in police management courses or as the primary text in upper division seminars on the topic of police stress management. This book will also be of considerable interest to police administrators and officers who must deal on a daily basis with the negative side effects of stress. Stress Management in Law Enforcement is relevant for police administrators as well as police psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, social workers, and other mental health professionals who are called upon to provideguidance and assistance to police officers.

This new edition is accompanied by a 200's manual which provides the instructor with learning objectives; answers to the end-of-chapter discussion questions; a comprehensive list of videos dealing with police stress and how they can be purchased; and a list of recommended readings.

"It is a worthy addition to the library of any thoughtful student of police behavior and culture."
-Criminal Justice Review, on the first edition

Booknews

An anthology of articles and excerpts exploring the nature of stress, stress and the police officer, police suicide, the police family, the trauma of law enforcement, coping, psychological services, and management issues. A reference for police administrators, and suitable as an auxiliary text in a police management course or as the core of a graduate seminar focusing on the subject. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Cutlip and Centers Effective Public Relations or Foreign Exchange and Money Market

Cutlip and Center's Effective Public Relations

Author: Glen Broom

Effective Public Relations, 10/e,  presents a comprehensive summary of public relations concepts, theory, principles, history, management, and practices. This “bible” of the public relations field continues in its role as the single most authoritative and complete reference for public relations professionals.

Still the most comprehensive and authoritative introductory book, continuing its long-standing tradition as the most-cited reference book. Often referred to as the “bible of public relations,” the new edition covers the many aspects of public relations theory and practice in a variety of settings. This text also serves as the basic reference for accreditation programs worldwide. Updates examples, sources, and references to provide readers with contemporary cases, contexts, and perspectives that illustrate major concepts and issues essential to understanding the field. The new edition offers an up-to-date synthesis and interpretation of the scholarly and professional literature. Expands discussions of how the public relations field relates to marketing, integrated marketing communication (IMC), and related management functions, clarifying the unique and essential role of the public relations management function in organizations.

An excellent, essential desk reference for those in the practice.

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Foreign Exchange and Money Market: Managing Foreign and Domestic Currency Operations

Author: Rita Rodriguez

The authors provide an intimate knowledge of the fundamentals required to cope with the everchanging nature of the money and foreign exchange markets. Its emphasis is on the management of down to earth operations,covering how to read and take advantage of market quotations,the funds manager and the interaction between money and foreign exchange markets,funds management in a two-way market,problems and solutions in the trading room of a bank,problems and solutions of the multinational non-financial business,returns and risks,in foreign exchange operations,and control of foreign exchange and money market operations. This new edition is updated to account for recent changes and expanded to emphasize and broaden the treatment of money markets.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	xv
Part 1	Foreign Exchange and Money Markets	1
1	Who's Who in the Markets	3
	Money market	4
	What the money market is	4
	Actors in the money market	4
	Foreign money market	8
	Why a Eurodollar market?	9
	Actors in the foreign money market	11
	Foreign exchange market	11
	What the foreign exchange market is	11
	Actors in the foreign exchange market	13
2	Interest Rates and Foreign Exchange Rates	19
	Rates in the money market	19
	Rates in the foreign money market	22
	Spread between rates on domestic and Eurocurrency deposits	23
	Revolving Euroterm loans	25
	Rates in the foreign exchange market	30
	Meaning of exchange quotations	30
	Reciprocal rates	31
	Cross rates	34
	The chain	35
	Price and volume quotations	36
	Problems	38
3	Interactions between the Markets	51
	The nature of cash flows	51
	Value dates	54
	Eligible value dates	55
	Spot value dates	57
	Forward value dates	57
	Interactions between the money and foreign exchange markets	59
	Operating in the money market	61
	Operating in the foreign exchange market	61
	Money market or foreign exchange market	66
	Problems	73
4	Two-Way Markets: Bid and Offer Rates	82
	Rates in the money market	83
	Rates in the foreign exchange market	84
	Meaning of exchange quotations	84
	Reciprocal rates	86
	Cross rates	87
	Some comments on quotations	92
	How can you evaluate the quality of a quotation?	92
	Information content of quotations	93
	Problems	95
5	Funds Management in a Two-Way Market	101
	Swap rates	101
	What are swap rates?	101
	Bid and offer in the swap rate	103
	Swap transactions	104
	Swap transactions with matched cash flows: Covered interest arbitrage	107
	Swap transactions with mismatched cash flows	109
	Problems	119
6	Factors Affecting Spot Exchange Rates	122
	The economics of international transactions	123
	Trade in merchandise	123
	Trade in services	126
	Unilateral transfers	126
	Capital account	126
	Official reserves	128
	Structure of the balance of payments	129
	The determinants of exchange rates	131
	The balance of payments approach	131
	Purchasing power parity	132
	Market expectations	133
	International monetary system	136
7	Factors Affecting Interest Rates	140
	The level of interest rates	140
	Supply and demand for funds	141
	Changes in the money supply	141
	The shape of the yield curve	143
	Market expectations	144
	Other factors	146
	Creditworthiness and market liquidity	148
Part 2	Problems and Opportunities in the Treasury Department	153
8	Operations in the Trading Room	155
	Basic operations in the market	155
	Taking advantage of disequilibrium situations: Covered interest arbitrage	155
	Taking advantage of expected changes in interest rates	160
	Rolling over a net exchange position	165
	Catering to customers' needs in the forward market	169
	Getting out of an exchange position	169
	Creating a forward exchange market	174
	Computing the effective yield or cost of funds	182
	The value of float	182
	All-in cost of exchange transactions	183
	Cost of foreign currency deposits	184
	Central banks' interventions in foreign exchange markets	186
	How not to do it	187
	Intervention to achieve domestic objectives	189
	Intervention to support the spot rate	190
	Problems	194
9	Funds Management in the Exchange Market	213
	Borrowing and investing without an exchange position	214
	Raising needed funds in a given currency	214
	Investing available funds in a given currency	214
	Another example	216
	Borrowing and investing with an exchange position	219
	Managing opposite cash flows in different currencies	229
	Cash flows take place immediately	229
	Cash flows will take place in the future	231
	Funds management under exchange controls	236
	Investing local funds under capital inflow controls	236
	Borrowing foreign funds under capital outflow controls	238
	Currency diversification and liquidity in a portfolio	244
	Problems	246
10	Funds Management in the Money Market	259
	Money market instruments in the United States	260
	U.S. Treasury bills and other government securities	260
	Federal funds	261
	Certificates of deposit	264
	Commercial paper	268
	Repurchase agreements	268
	Bankers' acceptances	270
	Futures market for money market instruments	272
	Money market funds	274
	Comparing rates in the money market	275
	Comparing market rates	275
	Comparing lending rates	279
	Typical money market operations	282
	Liquidating an instrument before maturity	282
	Tail-end gapping (riding the yield curve)	283
	Spread trading (arbitrage)	285
	Taking advantage of anticipated changes in interest rate levels	288
	Hedging interest rate positions	290
	Cash-flow management and the relationships among financial markets	292
	Problems	294
11	Financing Commercial Transactions	297
	Hedging the net exchange position created by trade	299
	Financing trade after sale is realized	304
	Finacing trade when order is received	308
	Hedging alternatives in controlled exchange markets	313
	Cross-currency hedging	314
	A mutual indemnification agreement	315
	Problems	320
12	Managing Exposure to Exchange Risk	327
	Exposure: Cash flows versus accounting conventions	327
	Hedging cash-flow exposures	332
	Hedging in the forward market	334
	Hedging in the money market	334
	Hedging balance-sheet exposures	339
	Hedging in the financial markets	339
	Modifying the balance sheet	342
	Problems	346
Part 3	Controlling Treasury Operations	351
13	Accounting for Treasury Operations	353
	Accounting for money market operations	353
	Recording money market transactions	353
	Measuring profits in money market operations	356
	Bookkeeping for money market operations	361
	Accounting for foreign exchange operations	364
	Recording foreign exchange transactions	364
	Measuring profits in foreign exchange operations	366
	Bookkeeping for foreign exchange operations	373
	Accounting for joint exchange and money market transactions	374
	Covered interest arbitrage	375
	Creating a forward exchange market	378
	Exchange transactions with all-in price quotes	379
	Loan financing through swaps	381
14	Risks in Treasury Operations	386
	Credit risk	386
	Credit risk in the money market	387
	Credit risk in the foreign exchange market	387
	Sovereign risk	389
	Rate risk	389
	Rate risk in the money market	389
	Rate risk in the foreign exchange market	390
	Liquidity risk	391
	Liquidity risk in the money market	391
	Liquidity risk in the foreign exchange market	392
	Evaluation of comparative risks	393
	Comparative credit risks	396
	Comparative rate risks	397
	Comparative liquidity risks	397
	Overall assessment	398
	Problems	398
15	Control of Treasury Operations	401
	Credit risk	401
	Credit risk in the money market	401
	Credit risk in the foreign exchange market	402
	Sovereign risk or cross-border risk	404
	Rate risk	405
	Changes in interest rates	405
	Changes in exchange rates	405
	Liquidity risk	406
	The cash-flow report	407
	The liability-mix report	414
	Miscellaneous controls	417
	Aggregate limits	417
	Confirmations	418
	Protection against fraud	418
	Appendix	420
	Bibliography	421
	Glossary	425
	Index	447

Reengineering Of Operative Invasive Services or Sacred Longings

Reengineering Of Operative & Invasive Services

Author: Moss

Reengineering of Operative and Invasive Services is the first—ever redesign sourcebook specific to surgical services. In this dynamic guidebook, discover how hospital administrators nationwide have made improvements in surgical services that have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars. With the help of case studies, detailed "how—to" instructions, updates on the latest technology, and practical tools such as sample data—gathering forms, charts, and more, one can move easily and smoothly through the process of reengineering.

Richard D. Hawkins

The spiral-bound book is a well written text about redesigning and reengineering for the surgical service environment. The purpose is to bring together in a single document the key concepts of redesigning and reengineering from business, management and health care literature that can be applied to improving the operational effectiveness of any surgical services department. The book is specifically targeted for physicians, surgical service managers, hospital administrators, and materials managers who represent key players in management of the surgical services department. The 12 chapters of the book walk the reader through the different phases of redesigning and reengineering, focusing on surgical services. Great emphasis is placed on how to collect data, data gathering tools, and the utilization of data to make lasting change. The final chapter places emphasis on the collaborative care design, which insures an integrated approach to care of the operative patient. The book is well written and easy to follow. Key points involving data tools, data collection, and data utilization is reinforced by the presence of illustrative charts and grafts. Much of the focus of the book is on "how-to," allowing readers the opportunity to readily use the concepts in their own particular work situation. Using the standards/recommended practices from the Joint Commission, Association of Operating Room Nurses, Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, and American Society of Post Anesthesia Nurses, the author has put together quality indicators for the preoperative process, scheduling, patient care, information systems, material management, and management. A chapter dealing with scheduling and staffutilization presents material that can be readily used by the surgical services manager to deal with this frequently misused resource. This book is a welcome addition to surgical services literature. It encourages readers to go beyond their box to find solutions to the inefficiencies in their particular work environment. This is a book well worth reading and using.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Richard D. Hawkins, RN, BS, MN, CNOR (Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital)
Description: The spiral-bound book is a well written text about redesigning and reengineering for the surgical service environment.
Purpose: The purpose is to bring together in a single document the key concepts of redesigning and reengineering from business, management and health care literature that can be applied to improving the operational effectiveness of any surgical services department.
Audience: The book is specifically targeted for physicians, surgical service managers, hospital administrators, and materials managers who represent key players in management of the surgical services department. The 12 chapters of the book walk the reader through the different phases of redesigning and reengineering, focusing on surgical services. Great emphasis is placed on how to collect data, data gathering tools, and the utilization of data to make lasting change. The final chapter places emphasis on the collaborative care design, which insures an integrated approach to care of the operative patient.
Features: The book is well written and easy to follow. Key points involving data tools, data collection, and data utilization is reinforced by the presence of illustrative charts and grafts. Much of the focus of the book is on "how-to," allowing readers the opportunity to readily use the concepts in their own particular work situation. Using the standards/recommended practices from the Joint Commission, Association of Operating Room Nurses, Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, and American Society of Post Anesthesia Nurses, the author has put together quality indicators for the preoperative process, scheduling, patient care, information systems, material management, and management. A chapter dealing with scheduling and staff utilization presents material that can be readily used by the surgical services manager to deal with this frequently misused resource.
Assessment: This book is a welcome addition to surgical services literature. It encourages readers to go beyond their box to find solutions to the inefficiencies in their particular work environment. This is a book well worth reading and using.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	Trends, Imperatives, and Components of Reengineering	1
Ch. 2	Managing the Process	11
Ch. 3	A Perioperative Primer: The Place, the Players, and the Network	25
Ch. 4	Reengineering and Quality Control	37
Ch. 5	Management Issues in Reengineering	49
Ch. 6	Reengineering Scheduling and Staff Utilization	63
Ch. 7	The Patient Flow Process	77
Ch. 8	Remodeling Patient Care Roles in the OR	95
Ch. 9	Reengineering in the Ancillary Departments	107
Ch. 10	Reengineering Materials Management	121
Ch. 11	Reengineering Information Systems	135
Ch. 12	Collaborative Care Design: A Global Reengineering Tool	151
App. A	Sample Task Analysis	167
App. B	Sample Analysis of Shared and Primary Tasks	169
App. C	Sample Core Competencies	171
App. D	Sample Surgical Technologist Job Description	175
	App. E - Glossary	177
	Index	179

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Sacred Longings: Ecofeminist Theology and Globalization

Author: Mary C Grey

Noted theologian Mary Grey believes we have gotten out of touch with our deepest desires and that this has caused us to acquiesce in global capitalism's most problematic characteristics. Story and symbol, she argues, can put us back in touch with our "sacred longings." Focusing on such simple yet profound symbols as water, light, and sacred space, she tries to re-instill a spiritual quest. In the end, she envisions spirituality - a kind of ecomystical renewal - as an element in the transformation of desire, lived out in Christian community.

Part One examines how our culture has lost heart; Part Two analyzes our restless hearts; Part Three asks us to take heart and rekindle our thirst for righteousness.