Тишина на улицах подмосковного городка, где теперь живет Дембель, обманчива: здесь всем заправляют бандюки Они еще не знают, чем может обернуться для них встреча с ветераном оехшф чеченской войны Для них Дембель - обычный лох, его можно `развести`, отнять жилье, избить, сунуть под колеса машины за строптивость Вот только будет ли у них время пожалеть о том, что они связались с Дембелем? Он не прощает никому и ничего Автор Федор Волков.  Серия: Русский бестселлер.

The "Matrix" series prepares secondary students for school-leaving examinations in English - Engaging texts provide authentic input for the development of students' reading and listening skills - Grammar is presented and practiced by contrasting structures and tenses which are commonly confused - Extensive vocabulary development оехшъ increases active and passive knowledge Word focus pages provide vocabulary consolidation and extension - Speaking is practiced through a wide range of controlled and freer activities, encouraging students to take part in more structured discussions and to express their own ideas - Listening texts are based on authentic materials and feature a variety of speakers and accents - A comprehensive writing syllabus gives students step-by-step guidance in producing a wide variety of text types - Culture focus pages in "Matrix Pre-Intermediate" provide opportunities for students to look at cross-cultural and cross-curricular themes - Reading for pleasure pages expose students to authentic literary texts - Revision focus pages review language and skills as students progress through the course - A grammar reference and extensive wordlist with definitions and examples give extra support for students and teachers Авторы Кэти Гуайд Kathy Gude Майкл Дакуорт Michael Duckworth.  Серия: Matrix.

На этот раз журналист Адашев-Гурский и частный детектив Волков расследуют загадочное убийство, произошедшее в старинном особняке Ночной сторож упал с балкончика в библиотеке оехщж Несчастным случаем это быть не могло Для самоубийства нет мотива Доподлинно известно, что в ночь гибели сторожа никто не мог проникнуть в здание незамеченным Неужели вмешались сверхъестественные силы? Смогут ли друзья разобраться? Автор Владимир Болучевский.  Серия: Русский проект.

Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing and continues to rise at a rate faster than for men From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white-collar professionals to freelancers and part-timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara оехщн Stanny, journalist, motivational speaker,and financial educator, identifies the seven key strategies of female highearners: A Profit Motive, Audacity, Resilience, Encouragement, Self-Awareness, Non-attachment, and Financial Know-How Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including more than 150 women whose annual earnings range from $100,000 to $7 million, Barbara Stanny turns each of the six-figure traits into a specific strategy for upping earnings By rigorously fine-tuning them, readers can, step-by-step, climb the income ladder.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 304 стр ISBN 0060933461.

Содержание 1 Intro 2 Got Ya Hustle On 3 Around The Way 4 Sets Go Up - Feat Wacko 5 Rodeo 6 What's Happenin' 7 Loose Booty - Feat "Eightball", Skip 8 Way I Be Leanin' - Feat Майк Джонс, Паул Волл, Skip, Wacko 9 Break A Brick Down 10 Who's Ya Daddy 11 I Know You Know - Feat "Trey Songz" 12 Keep Talkin' - Feat Skip, оехщр "Redd Eyezz" 13 Rock Like That - Feat Bun B 14 Why Not - Feat Skip 15 Animal 16 Addicted - Feat Брайан Макнайт 17 Holla Back 18 Pop U - Feat Fat Joe, Лудакрис 19 Say It To Me Now - Feat Kango Of Partners-N-Crime Исполнители (показать всех исполнителей) Juvenile Wacko "Eightball".  Формат: Audio CD (Jewel Case) Дистрибьюторы: Warner Music, Торговая Фирма "Никитин" Европейский Союз Лицензионные товары Характеристики аудионосителей 2009 г Сборник: Импортное издание.

Он - вне закона Таких не берут в плен Его профессия - наемник Он профессионал самого высокого класса Инструкторы создали из него идеальную боевую машину, способную за доли секунды оехъб оценить ситуацию и принять верное решение Решение, цена которому - его жизнь Эти записки - единственное, что останется после него… Автор Виктор Гончаров.  Издательство: Современный литератор, 2002 г Мягкая обложка, 288 стр ISBN 985-456-728-1 Тираж: 11000 экз Формат: 70x90/32 (~113х165 мм).

Как часто, глядя в зеркало, мы с грустью думаем: `Где же та роскошная шевелюра, которой все завидовали?` Не отчаивайтесь, эта книга способна вернуть былую силу и красоту вашим волосам оехъж Ведь в ней собраны сотни рецептов шампуней, ополаскивателей, масок инатуральных красителей Все рецепты просты и недороги, но очень эффективны И теперь вы можете забыть про перхоть и выпадение волос, научиться правильно мыть, сушить, красить волосы и укладывать прическу Автор Марина Котельникова.  Серия: Для дома, для семьи.

As one of the most inspiring stories in business today, Dyson’s improbable success is retold here as a celebration of a brand that has become a symbol of great 21st century innovation and design Driven on by its revolutionary bagless vacuum cleaner, Dyson has swept aside the iconic Hoover brand in many countries and generates $5 billion in worldwide оехън sales English inventor James Dyson and his crew are regarded as strong business protagonists, fighting to uphold their ideals and vision in a business environment more prone to nurturing the smooth corporate path of most big brands Dyson’s story details the extraordinary risks they have taken—and will likely take again—in order to become and remain a market leader.  2006 г Мягкая обложка ISBN 1904879799.

Get Together; It's All About You; I Wanna Have…(Single Vocal Cut) Содержание 1 Get Together 2 It's All About You 3 I Wanna Have…(Single Vocal Cut) 4 One In A Millions 5 Slip And Slide 6 Get Funky, Go Sista 7 Diary 8 Break It Down 9 Just One 10 Friends 11 Forever Happy (The Summer Of 1999) 12 Be My Lover 13 Sway With Me 14 Sway `Dolce Vita` 15 To оехъц The Limit 16 Falling In Love 17 Conga 18 Only One Only You 19 Outro Исполнители `Funky Diamonds` `Dolce Vita`.  Формат: Audio CD Дистрибьютор: Logic Records Лицензионные товары Характеристики аудионосителей Авторский сборник.

The Profits of Extermination uncovers the costs of foreign investment, privatization and neo-liberalism in Colombia US corporations have manipulated the law and worked hand in hand with right-wing death squads and the US government to ensure profits at the cost of the rights and lives of workers, peasants and miners Colombia is the third-largest оехъщ recipient of US military aid According to this study by Chomsky and the Colombian mineworkers union, both US military aid and human rights violations are disproportionately concentrated in Colombia's lucrative mining and energy zones, where large foreign corporations use military and paramilitary forces to secure their investments Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history at Salem State College Francisco Ramirez Cuellar is president of the Colombian mining union Sintraminercol.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 150 стр ISBN 1567513220.

This book shows software managers how to automate the entire back-end of the software lifecycle (CM to deployment), using knowledge-based process generators and a scalable process execution system, for an ongoing cost that is less than the price of programmer coffee breaks Any business with moderate to complex software development challenges оехыв will benefit from the application of this powerful new lifecycle automation technology.  ISBN 0973460202.

“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student оехые loans and paltry wages They are known as the working poor They perform labor essential to America’s comfort They are white and black, Latino and Asian--men and women in small towns and city slums trapped near the poverty line, where the margins are so tight that even minor setbacks can cause devastating chain reactions Shipler shows how liberals and conservatives are both partly right–that practically every life story contains failure by both the society and the individual Braced by hard fact and personal testimony, he unravels the forces that confine people in the quagmire of low wages And unlike most works on poverty, this book also offers compelling portraits of employers struggling against razor-thin profits and competition from abroad With pointed recommendations for change that challenge Republicans and Democrats alike, The Working Poor stands to make a difference.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 352 стр ISBN 0375708219.

America must make a historic choice: Will it strive to dominate the world, or lead it? American power and a pervasive globalization are the central realities of today's world, and the source of its most difficult dilemmas America's historically unprecedented power is the ultimate source of global security, yet Americans feel less secure than оехыю ever Global interdependence and the widespread political awakening of humankind promote American dominance even as they breed anti-American envy, mobilize global resentment, and empower America's enemies through the diffusion of ever more destructive technologies In The Choice, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to the president of the United States, reminds Americans that their preponderance should not be confused with omnipotence America's well-being and the world's are entwined Panicky preoccupation with solitary American security, an obsessively narrow focus on terrorism, and indifference to the concerns of a politically restless humanity neither enhance American security nor comport with the world's real need for American leadership Unless it can harmonize its overwhelming power with its seductive but also unsettling social appeal, America could find itself alone and under assault in a setting of intensifying global chaos Brzezinski has been hailed by Samuel P Huntington for his "clear-eyed, tough-minded geostrategic thinking in the grand tradition of Bismarck" and by Paul Wolfowitz as one of the world's "most penetrating analysts of international affairs and one of the leading practitioners of the art of strategy " In The Choice, he identifies America's crucial strategic imperative: America must be both guarantor of global security and promoter of the global common good.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 242 стр ISBN 0465008011.

With his singular gift for turning complex financial events into eminently readable stories, Roger Lowenstein lays bare the labyrinthine events of the manic and tumultuous 1990s In an enthralling narrative, he ties together all of the characters of the dot-com bubble and offers a unique portrait of the culture of the era Just as John Kenneth Galbraith's оехьй The Great Crash was a defining text of the Great Depression, Lowenstein's Origins of the Crash is destined to be the book that will frame our understanding of the 1990s.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 288 стр ISBN 0143034677.

The user-centered approach is central to the creation of usable information systems, services, and institutions Information system design should derive from user research into information needs, tasks accomplished in meeting those needs, and resources used in the tasks Information Tasks summarizes user research, then presents design sketches оехьн of systems that illustrate how design is linked to research Also discussed are usable information services and an overview of the organization and economics of information institutions This comprehensive user-centered approach provides an agenda for information research, design, and education that challenges many accepted beliefs and suggests new directions for information work Information Tasksis of interest to library and information science students and faculty interested in information storage and retrieval, user studies, and systems analysis design Students and scholars of human factors in systems design, human-computer interaction, and cognitive engineering also find the text useful Key Features * Reviews user research from many disciplines * Links research to practical design issues * Provides a unified model for user studies and user-centered design * Includes how-to summaries of design chapters * Shows how designers can investigate their user communities * Provides a general template for the design process * Integrates all aspects of information design * Discusses library issues in the larger information context.  ISBN 0120510405.

This paper explores ways to unlock the potential for regional development and economic cooperation in the wider Central Asia region It argues that understanding critical clusters of interrelated issues, and explicitly taking into account geopolitical and political economy considerations, are key in this regard Regional countries and other оехьр stakeholders should focus on a few areas where there are real prospects for success in the short run; a combination of modest - win-win - initiatives and in some cases - bold strokes - that augment and change the distribution of benefits and hence make cooperation more likely to deliver progress.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 94 стр ISBN 0821366017.

The young people you will meet in this book all found themselves smack in the middle of their dream jobs or on their dream career path at a very young age With a dynamic combination of bravery, support from family and friends, and lots of drive and determination, they transformed their passion into something gratifying and profitable So forget the оехьш rules What these young achievers have done can be repeated—in many different fields The incredible stories and reallife advice in Dream Job Profiles will help you think big and get started on the path to the right job—right now!.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 192 стр ISBN 0618563202.

The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook has already created enormous improvements for millions of people and will help you turn your greatest goals into reality With The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, your business can make more progrss in one year than it would normally make in several decades You receive step-by-step help to accomplish 20 times оехьь your usual results with the same time and effort, or to enjoy the same results with 1/20th the time and effort: That's the promise f The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook This workbook was created to make the lessons of the highly acclaimed Amazon com best seller, The 2,000 Percent Solution, come to life for more people Since the first printing of The2,000 Percent Solution in 1999, organizations all over the world have made The 2,000 Percent Solution a daily resource for overcoming the dual challenges of tough competitors and a difficult business environment Designed to be used aftr reading The 2,000 Percent Solution, this workbook has previously been available only to clients of Mitchell and Company, the global consulting firm, and students of the authors Here's your chance to learn from their successful experiences with tis remarkable resource.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 172 стр ISBN 0595374883.

Bob and Melinda Blanchard's first book, A Trip to the Beach, sold more than 85,000 copies and became inspiration for countless people who were ready to start living their dreams Comprising stories, reflections, notes, insights, and a bit of advice, Live What You Love is the Blanchard's warm, engaging, and personal response to the thousands of fans оехэж who've asked them, "How did you do it?" "What happens if life falls outside the expected lines and inside others that are self-defined? Our experiences tell us that living this way is as wonderful as it is odd We happen to believe that life really is about choices, and we love what happens when interesting ones get paired together "--Bob and Melinda Blanchard After the Blanchards' published A Trip to the Beach, they found that readers responded personally and passionately, often buying multiple copies to give friends and family They received countless invitations to lecture and requests for national television appearances, and have been asked to develop a series for PBS Everyone, it seems, wanted to live their life: during the winter, the couple operate the most popular restaurant in Anguilla, the tiny Caribbean nation hideaway of celebrities, beautiful beaches and luxurious homes, and spend summers in the green hills of Northern Vermont Through delightful and moving stories, reflections, notes--and a soupcon of advice--the Blanchards have written a stunning, inspirational manifesto where truly living what you love becomes a revolutionary act, a rebellion against the common life They show how, through self-trust, personal adjustment, and daily acts of commitment, each of us can live the life we love and make every day a personal treasure Full of warmth, humor, wisdom, and charm, LWYL is the Blanchard's love letter to life, a celebration of unusual choices, and a thank you gift to all of their fans.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 216 стр ISBN 1402728425.

How did Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Jeffrey Bezos, David Sedaris, and Macy Gray get where they are today - and how can you get the same edge? Success is a collection of insights from more than 400 remarkably successful people in all fields - including business, politics, entertainment, and the arts Here are quotes and passages from J K Rowling оехэп and Federico Fellini on getting started, and Steve Jobs and Tiger Woods on passion Here, too, are George Lucas and Bill Clinton on goals, Katie Couric and George Foreman on competition, and Edmund Hillary and Carly Fiorina on leadership The high achievers quoted here share one crucial belief: Success is possible as long as there's passion If you know where you want to be but not how to get there, use Success as your guide.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 256 стр ISBN 0375425896.

Business doesn't have to be boring! The Executive's Almanac is the Schott's Miscellany of business trivia, chock-full of surprising facts, lists, anecdotes, histories, diagrams, and more We bet you didn't know that: Adidas and Puma are competing companies owned by estranged brothers, both headquartered in the German mill town of Herzogenaurach оехэц 314 acres of trees go into every Sunday edition of the New York Times Soichiro Honda quit the company that bears his name because he lost his sexual potency and his ability to consume large amounts of alcohol With whimsical illustrations and a unique design inspired by the Wall Street Journal, this lively companion will appeal to every business executive (and aspiring executive) in your life.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 160 стр ISBN 1594741018.

The award-winning guide to business negotiation used by top negotiators and training programs all over the world - completely updated and revised As director of the renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and оехэы thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negotiation His systematic, step- by-step approach comes to life in this book, which is available in over ten foreign editions and combines lively storytelling, proven tactics, and reliable insights gleaned from the latest negotiation research This updated edition includes: A brand-new "Negotiation I Q " test designed by Shell and used by executives at the Wharton workshop that reveals each reader's unique strengths and weaknesses as a negotiator; A concise manual on how to avoid the perils and pitfalls of online negotiations involving e-mail and instant messaging; A detailed look at how gender and cultural differences can derail negotiations, and advice for putting talks back on track 2 edition Автор Ричард Шелл G Richard Shell.  Издательство: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 г Мягкая обложка, 320 стр ISBN 0143036971 Язык: Английский.

Why should a developing country surrender its power to create money by adopting an international currency as its own? This comprehensive book explores the currency problems that developing countries face and offers sound, practical advice for policy makers on how to deal with them Manuel Hinds, who has extensive experience in real-world economic оехэя policy making, challenges the myths that surround domestic currencies and shows the clear rationality for dollarization or the use of a standard international currency A The book opens with an entertaining story of the Devil, who, through a series of common macroeconomic maneuvers, coaches the president of a mythical country into financial ruin This ruler’s path is not unlike that taken in several real developing countries, to their detriment Hinds goes on to introduce new ways of thinking about financial systems and monetary behavior in Third World countries.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 304 стр ISBN 0300113307.

Over 2 million copies sold! Used by thousands of companies and hundreds of business schools! Required reading for anyone interested in the Theory of Constraints This book, which introduces the Theory of Constraints, is changing how America does business The Goal is a gripping, fast-paced business novel about overcoming the barriers to making оехюж money You will learn the fundamentals of identifying and solving the problems created by constraints From the moment you finish the book you will be able to start successfully addressing chronic productivity and quality problems.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 384 стр ISBN 0884271781.

Over the past ten years, methodological development to measure disease burden, new data sets for large populations (eg Tanzania, South Africa) and research to critically evaluate existing data sets (eg China) have greatly increased the potential to meaure disease burden more reliable in all regions of the world Yet, to date, this research does оехюц not exist in one consolidated form There is neither a comprehensive presentation of new methods, data sets and their evaluation, nor is there a single comilation of the enormous amount of epidemiological detail by age, sex, cause, sequelae and region of the deaths and DALYs for the year 2000 This publication of the results of the Global Burden of Disease 2001 Study, and the CRA Study, by detailed age,sex, cause, region and risk factor will provide a unique description, in one volume, of the entire global epidemiology of diseases, injuries, and risk factors at the turn of the 21st century This will be an invaluable resource for global and regionalhealth policy for decades to come.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 552 стр ISBN 0821362623.

Strategy practice has become synonymous with strategic thinking, and ideally thinking while sitting around a table Strategy from Within is a tribute to the idea that strategy should be practiced in ways that fuel our minds by engaging our bodies in new ways When we do strategy rather than think strategy, we engage our senses so that we describe, create оехяв and challenge what we know in ways that pure intellectual reasoning cannot This book describes, illustrates and deliberates the ideas and activities that can transform strategy into a more imaginative, reflective, and responsible practice.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 263 стр ISBN 1403986703.

From an administered labor system under central planning, the Chinese economy has moved towards a labor market This book reviews the progress that has been made over two decades of urban economic reform It analyzes the underlying political economy thathas both induced and impeded reform, and examines the economic changes that have unleashed оехяж market forces Based on frontier research using specially designed and collected survey data, the book documents the rising wage inequality, the greater rewards or skills, the growing wage segmentation based on labor immobility and profit-sharing, the emergence of serious urban unemployment, and the competition from the rising tide of rural migrants China does not yet have a functioning labor market: the bookconcludes by examining the prospects for its creation.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 320 стр ISBN 0199245274.

Enduring scholarly interest in the process of strategy making stems from an abiding assumption that some ways of strategizing are more efficacious than others, and thus lead to higher firm performance in the long run; higher than luck alone would bring Expressions of interest in and endorsements of the strategy process are abundant in the academic оехял literature For senior managers and leaders, the question of how to make effective strategies stands usually at the top of their agenda Not surprisingly then, the quest to uncover stable principles of good strategy making has attracted much support and interest over the years Researchers who responded to the strategy process challenge have known many moments of exhilaration and disillusion Scholarly insights took long to accumulate, perhaps too long to serve as the sole basis for helping the eager practitioner in search of simpler but applicable advice As a result, a significant and often highly visible part of the field is characterized by a controversial normative orientation But beneath this dramatic and unstable facade lies a gradual, patient, and seemingly more stable, hard-at-work, academic enterprise Scholarly strategy process research apparently goes on, perhaps more than ever, suggesting that there is something fundamental and deeply interesting and profound about how strategies are made, where they originate in organizations, and how the process of strategy making impacts the performance of organizations This volume is the culmination of our three year effort to explore and uncover this relatively hidden or at least less visible side of the strategy process field Taken together, the sixteen chapters represent current scholarly strategy process research.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 554 стр ISBN 0762312009.

The family is our haven, the place where we all start off on equal footing — or so we like to think But if that’s the case, why do so many siblings often diverge widely in social status, wealth, and education? In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley shatters our notions of how our childhoods оехшщ affect us, and why we become who we are Economic and social inequality among adult siblings is not the exception, Conley asserts, but the norm: over half of all inequality is within families, not between them And it is each family’s own “pecking order” that helps to foster such disparities Moving beyond traditionally accepted theories such as birth order or genetics to explain family dynamics, Conley instead draws upon three major studies to explore the impact of larger social forces that shape each family and the individuals within it From Bill and Roger Clinton to the stories of hundreds of average Americans, here we are introduced to an America where class identity is ever changing and where siblings cannot necessarily follow the same paths This is a book that will forever alter our idea of family.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 320 стр ISBN 0375713816.

Stikky Stock Charts teaches the reader how to discern the best times to get in and out of investments, read a chart in seconds, forecast the most likely next move for a stock, and understand how market professionals work Illustrations are featured on every page in addition to two separate learning sequences and an epilogue to prevent "my brain оехщв is full" syndrome A comprehensive section of resources is included This innovative guide is based on a special patented learning method for making complex information "stick" in the brain in less than one hour.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 234 стр ISBN 1932974008.

Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world's dominant economic institution Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies In this revolutionary оехщи assessment of the history, character, and globalization of the modern business corporation, Bakan backs his premise with the following observations: The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue relentlessly and without exception its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others The corporation's unbridled sef-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal Governments have freed the corporation, despite its flawed character, fromlegal constraints through deregulation and granted it ever greater authority over society through privatization But Bakan believes change is possible and he outlines a far-reaching program of achievable reforms through legal regulation and demoratic control Featuring in-depth interviews with such wide-ranging figures as Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, business guru Peter Drucker, and cultural critic Noam Chomsky, The Corporation is an extraordinary work that will educate and enlihten students, CEOs, whistle-blowers, power brokers, pawns, pundits, and politicians alike.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 240 стр ISBN 0743247469.

За деньги можно купить все И даже стать потомком старинного графского рода Известному композитору Марецкому не хватает только одного - дворянского титула Банда мошенников оехщп может устроить ему этот титул по дешевке Плата ничтожная - все состояние и жизнь Тут не поможет даже личный телохранитель Но телохранители ведь бывают разные Настоящий профессионал Анатолий Китайгородцев готов сыграть по их правилам и сделать свой решающий ход Автор Владимир Гриньков.  Серия: Русский бестселлер.

A lone inventor and the story of how one of the most revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century almost didn't happen Introduced in 1960, the first plain-paper office copier is unusual among major high-technology invenions in that its central process was conceived by a single person Chester Carlson grew up in unspeakable poverty, worked оехщы his way through junior college and the California Institute of Technology, and made his discovery in solitude in the depths of the Grat Depression He offered his big idea to two dozen major corporations -- among them IBM, RCA, and General Electric -- all of which turned him down So persistent was this failure of capitalistic vision that by the time the Xerox 914 was manufactured, by n obscure photographic-supply company in Rochester, New York, Carlson's original patent had expired Xerography was so unusual and nonintuitive that it conceivably could have been overlooked entirely Scientists who visited the drafty warehouses where te first machines were built sometimes doubted that Carlson's invention was even theoretically feasible Building the first plain-paper office copier -- with parts scrounged from junkyards, cleaning brushes made of hand-sewn rabbit fur, and a built-in fireextinguisher -- required the persistence, courage, and imagination of an extraordinary group of physicists, engineers, and corporate executives whose story has never before been fully told Copies in Seconds is a tale of corporate innovation and isk-taking at its very best.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 320 стр ISBN 0743251180.

Герою детективных произведений Сергея Вербинина, питерскому сыщику Владимиру Вышенкову, достаются наиболее сложные дела, связанные с преступлениями против иностранцев оехъв В романе `Купи себе смерть!`, интеллектуал Вышенков, начиная поиски пропавшего канадского дипломата, выходит на крупную преступную группировку, для которой человеческая жизнь - разменная монета в игре на миллионы Автор Сергей Вербинин.  Серия: Черный ворон.

Do You Know Where Your Happiness Lies? In The Purpose Driven Life, I consider the question “What on earth am I here for?” This book considers another important question: “Where on earth should I be living?” Is where you live worth the stress? No one is forcing you to stay where you are It’s your choice —From the foreword by Dr Rick Warren, оехъм author of The Purpose Driven Life Would you be happier if you lived somewhere else? A place where the quality of life is greater than the cost of living? Such places do exist—you just have to look a little harder to find them The answer probably doesn’t lie in the big coastal cities: the cost-of-living gap between those urban areas and the heartland is an immense chasm And yet the “sophistication gap” between these regions is steadily shrinking—cable tv, computers, fax machines, cell phones, and broadband Internet access are making it possible to work almost anywhere Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard wanted to explore the new appeal of “flyover” country, and he decided to sky-hop around America in a single-engine Cessna, talking to people—those with a nose for entrepreneurship, a faith in technology, and the willingness to take a chance—who found their bliss in places like Green Bay, Wisconsin; Des Moines, Iowa; and Bozeman, Montana America offers up scores of these gems—cities and towns with a winning combination of low cost of living and high quality of life—and Karlgaard provides an in-depth look at the country’s 150 cheapest (and greatest) places to live Life 2 0 is the story of those who are living larger lives in smaller places, and a road map for those who want to follow their lead Where is your happiness? Check out Life 2 0’s “150 Cheapest Places to Live” section, featuring dozens of cities and towns that offer the good life at a great price.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 384 стр ISBN 0609810316.

Составители: Ольга Мартьянова Татьяна Волкова Л Халлаева Художник: М Гликин Дорогой исполнитель! С радостью передаем тебе альбом прекрасных пьес Они очаровали нас своей свежестью оехъо и красотой, и мы поняли, что они достойны звучать с эстрады, а не лежать незаслуженно забытыми на пыльных полках библиотек Здесь найдут для себя выигрышные пьесы музыканты разного возраста и разного уровня одаренности и мастерства Надеемся, что все произведения этого альбома обретут свое второе рождение и доставят удовольствие и исполнителям и слушателям.  Издательство: П и Л , 1996 г Мягкая обложка, 48 стр Тираж: 2000 экз Формат: 60x84/8 (~210x280 мм).

It’s Napa versus Sonoma, and the antics are rampant! When acclaimed Vanity Fair journalist Alan Deutschman came to the California wine country as the lucky house guest of very rich friends, he was surprised to find a civil war being fought between Napa Valley, which epitomized prestige and wealthy excess, and neighboring Sonoma Valley, a ragtag оехъш bohemian enclave so stubbornly backward that rambunctious chickens wandered freely through town In A Tale of Two Valleys, Deutschman wittily captures these stranger-than-fiction locales and uncorks the hilarious absurdities of life among the wine world’s glitterati The cast of characters brims with eccentrics, egomaniacs, and a mysterious man in black who crashed the elegant Napa Valley Wine Auction before proceeding to pay a half-million dollars for a single bottle What develops is nothing less than the struggle for the soul of one of America’s last bits of paradise A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 240 стр ISBN 0767907043.

What can managers do every day to get more and better work from people while giving them the flexibility they need? The answer lies in HOT Managementthe breakthrough set of management techniques, skills, best practices and habits of the most effective supervisory managers in today's extremely demanding workplace This pocket guide clearly оехъы and concisely spells out what you need to do to become a HOT manager The author's message is simple, yet powerful: Make high performance the only option Be a hands-on manager And spend lots of time with employees spelling out expectations and clarifying standards If you think it's getting harder and harder to manage people, this pocket guide's for you HOT Management contains vital lessons any manager at any level can practice to increase productivity, quality, and moraleand, in turn, improve retention Discover how you can rely on HOT management strategies to: Drive performance through negotiation and coaching Gain power by positioning yourself as being able to do more for people Engage direct reports in ongoing coaching dialogues about performance, goals and deadlines Hold each person accountable, every day Rich with examples from real-life work situations, HOT Management is the source of concrete techniques managers striving to get the best out of people need.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 141 стр ISBN 0874257956.

It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form At the peak оехыг of his success, Ponzi was raking in more than $2 million a week at his office in downtown Boston Then his house of cards came crashing down–thanks in large part to the relentless investigative reporting of Richard Grozier’s Boston Post A classic American tale of immigrant life and the dream of success, Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing story of the magnetic scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 416 стр ISBN 0812968360.

Most books on digital imaging have followed the traditional imaging chain of input-manipulation-output If artists know the final usage, they'll be spared the aggravation of scanning a photo at ultra-high resolution when all that's really needed is a 100-pixel animated gif From providing tips on accurate previewing of images to clarifying color оехыу management systems and beyond, this valuable reference makes the complexities of digital imaging simple, understandable, and repeatable Clear directions andhundreds of full-color illustrations demonstrate, step by step, how to achieve maximum results with minimum fuss--as well as get up and running quickly on image capture, image correction, output to print, and output to Web.  ISBN 0823007790.

* New Paradigm for considering application integration and B2B problems * Heightens the importance of conveying meaning between systems * Addresses movement in the EAI space toward more data handling capabilities * Offers a solution forthe multitude of managers disconnected with the latest technologies * Leverages the technical advances оехьд made in complex data integration over 15 years * Shifts the focus from technology solutions to information solutions * Relies heavilyon the use of practical examples, tips, definitions, and soapbox excerpts throughout the main body of text.  ISBN 0471488542.

With revised material and new exercises based on ArcGIS version 9, this updated work acquaints geographers and GIS professionals with the principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ArcGIS software Conceptual material is followed by scripted software exercises Necessary GIS skills are presented in a variety of areas-map symbology, оехьм data overlay, map projection, and data conversion-as the making of maps and the analysis of geographic data is conceptualized Spatial modeling exercises using theModelBuilder technology of ArcGIS version 9 are also provided Other topics covered include organizing data, planning a GIS project, creating derived data, and presenting results.  ISBN 158948083X.

Ideal for a course in computer hardware, architecture, or digital design in departments of computer science and engineering, The Principles of Computer Hardware, 3/E, provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject In Alan Clements noted student-friendly style, this text covers both the 68000 and ARM architectures and in a tutorial or оехьп lab-based style suitable for a variety of courses The third edition has been significantly improved with all chapters having been rigorously updated Powerful new simulation software has been added which allows the student to visualize digital designs The chapter on RISC has been completely rewritten to include the ARM computer The tutorial based introduction to assembly language now includes many examples.  ISBN 0198564546.

Here is Trump in action We see how he operates day to day - how he runs his business and how he runs his life - as he chats with friends and family, clashes with enemies, efficiently buys up Atlantic City's top casinos, changes the face of the New York City skyline and plans the tallest building in the world But even a maverick plays by rules, and here Trump оехьт formulates his eleven guidelines for success He isolates the common elements in his greatest deals; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker's art And throughout, Trump talks - really talks - about how he does it Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur and an unprecedented education in the practice of deal-making It's the most streetwise business book there is - and the ultimate read for anyone interested in money and success Авторы Дональд Дж Трамп Donald J Trump Личность Дональда Дж Трампа - это наглядная иллюстрация к истории об американском успехе Он постоянно устанавливает для себя и окружающих новые, более высокие стандарты, расширяет свои интересы на рынке недвижимости, а также в игорном, спортивном и Тони Шварц Tony Schwartz.  Издательство: Ballantine Books, 2005 г Мягкая обложка, 400 стр ISBN 0-345-47917-3 Язык: Английский Формат: 105x175.

The fifth edition of Macroeconomics emphasizes a core set of ideas across a variety of topics, providing a comprehensive, balanced treatment of classical and Keynesian economics The update booklet features discussions about the most notable transitions in important macroeconomic topics and data since the publication of the Fifth Edition оехьы This text plays upon students' natural curiosity and desire for relevance by offering a modern, applied approach to traditional topics and an in-depth look at areas of macroeconomics not covered by other texts The flexibility gained by using this comprehensive approach gives instructors the opportunity to tailor course coverage and topic sequence Pedagogical tools reinforce concepts, and end-of-chapter features help students to organize their learning Accompanying exercises in the text provide a unique opportunity for students to analyze the very data that policy makers, professional economists, and government officials rely on in their day-to-day work The Fifth Edition is enhanced by MyEconLab, the online homework system featuring automatically graded graphing problems and proven tutorial tools.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 656 стр ISBN 0321394186.

Innovation, claims quality consultant Subir Chowdhury, is part of America’s DNA No other country in the world matches America’s creative drive and its ability to turn innovative ideas into revolutionary products–from antilock brakes and steel-belted radial tires to sophisticated software and microprocessors But as fast as we introduce оехэа new products, we lose the markets we establish to countries that know how to manufacture higher quality versions for less money As Japanese and European firms win market share by concentrating on quality, America is continually forced to rely on innovation to stay ahead In The Ice Cream Maker, Chowdhury uses a simple story to illustrate how businesses can instill quality into our culture and into every product we design, build, and market The protagonist of the story is Peter Delvecchio, the manager of a regional ice cream company, who is determined to sell its ice cream to a flourishing national grocery chain, Natural Foods In conversations with the Natural Foods manager, Peter learns how the extraordinarily successful retailer achieves its renowned high standard of excellence, both in the services it provides its customers and in the foods it manufactures and sells Quality, he discovers, must be the mission of every employee; by learning to listen, enrich, and optimize, he can encourage and sustain the highest levels of quality in everything the company does Like Fish! and Who Moved My Cheese? The Ice Cream Maker offers an essential and universal lesson about one of industry's foremost challenges in a thoroughly engaging style For managers and executives, small business owners and entrepreneurs, The Ice Cream Maker is a compelling, eye-opening guide to the most effective ways to achieve excellence and become industry leaders on the global stage.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 128 стр ISBN 0385514786.

On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs But reality is another story In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores, a class action, representing 1 6 million women In her explosive investigation of this historic lawsuit, оехэк journalist Liza Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart, a self-styled "family-oriented," Christian company: Deprives women (but not men) of the training they need to advance Relegates women to lower-paying jobs like selling baby clothes, reserving the more lucrative positions for men Inflicts punitive demotions on employees who object to discrimination Exploits Asian women in its sweatshops in Saipan, a U S commonwealth Featherstone goes on to reveal the creative solutions that Wal-Mart workers around the country have found, like fighting for unions, living-wage ordinances, and childcare options Selling Women Short combines the personal stories of these employees with superb investigative journalism to show why women who work these low-wage jobs are getting a raw deal, and what they are doing about it A new preface to the paperback edition will reflect on Wal-Mart's response to this lawsuit and its critics-including this one.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 290 стр ISBN 0465023169.

In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world's most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations Ranging from its domestication 5,500 years ago to its influence in creating Calvin Klein's empire and the Gap, Stephen Yafa's Cotton оехэр gives us an intimate look at the plant that fooled Columbus into thinking he'd reached India, that helped start the Industrial Revolution as well as the American Civil War, and that made at least one bugthe boll weevilworld famous A sweeping chronicle of ingenuity, greed, conflict, and opportunism, Cotton offers a barrage of fascinating information (Los Angeles Times).  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 416 стр ISBN 0143037226.

Many women struggle to achieve success in everyday negotiations, from how much to pay the contractor to buying a car to making a good business deal at work Now there's no need to ever feel shorted again! You just need to learn and use the practical, clear and easy techniques, and secrets contained in Secrets of Successful Negotiating for Women Using оехэч the simple strategies in Secrets of Successful Negotiating for Women, any woman can learn to be a great negotiator You'll learn: * How to never be taken advantage of again in any business or personal negotiation * The Seven Sisters of Negotiation-simple skills to memorize for success * How to find the "heart" of any deal * Key phrases that promote your power * How to access your intuition for fun and profit * The "Tide Principle"-essential to success in every deal.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 224 стр ISBN 1564147452.

Supply Market Intelligence: A Managerial Handbook for Building Sourcing Strategies begins be defining supply market intelligence and discussing opportunities, the establishment of a project team, and conducting an internal business intelligence assessmt The book then examines the development of business and market intelligence, supplier оехээ evaluations, and sourcing strategies It also explores how to execute a sourcing strategy, manager a strategic supplier relationship, and redesign an organization f effective supply-chain intelligence and strategic sourcing This volume offers a benchmarking framework covering all facets of supply-chain management, and includes best practices and case studies of world-class companies.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 672 стр ISBN 084932789X.

Most distribution channels are outdated and unwieldy, serving neither customers nor channel partners adequately Despite new technologies that have streamlined many transactions and processes, a general lack of leadership combined with flawed and deeply ingrained structures make distribution channels exceedingly difficult to change оехюб What companies need, says V Kasturi Rangan, is a new approach to going to market--channel stewardship--that simultaneously addresses customers' best interests and drives profits for all channel partners In Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy, Rangan shows how any member of a distribution channel can adopt this role and learn how to shape an effective, constantly evolving, and mutually beneficial channel strategy This book outlines three disciplines that companies must master to navigate the complex distribution environment successfully: map the industry channel, build and edit one's own channel continuously to best serve customers, and align and influence one's channel value chain to ensure that all parties reap appropriate rewards Rangan also provides guidance on managing multiple channels, integrating the Internet into a channel strategy, and overcoming common barriers that impede transformation A fresh approach to designing and managing channels for the long term, this book helps firms expand value for customers, partners, and the bottom line.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 289 стр ISBN 1591397669.

In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in SosA?a, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic Denise Brennan considers why Dominican and Haitian women move to SosA?a оехюй to pursue sex work and describes how sex tourists, primarily Europeans, come to SosA?a to buy sex cheaply and live out racialized fantasies For the sex workers, Brennan explains, the sex trade is more than a means of survivalit is an advancement strategy that hinges on their successful "performance" of love Many of these women seek to turn a commercialized sexual transaction into a long-term relationship that could lead to marriage, migration, and a way out of poverty Illuminating the complex world of SosA?a's sex business in rich detail, Brennan draws on extensive interviews not only with sex workers and clients, but also with others who facilitate and benefit from the sex trade She weaves these voices into an analysis of Dominican economic and migration histories to consider the opportunitiesor lack thereofavailable to poor Dominican women She shows how these women, local actors caught in a web of global economic relations, try to take advantage of the foreign men who are in SosA?a to take advantage of them Through her detailed study of the lives and working conditions of the women in SosA?a's sex trade, Brennan raises important questions about women's power, control, and opportunities in a globalized economy.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 272 стр ISBN 0822332973.

It all began with a letter In 2002, Dr Martha Burk, chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, wrote to the Augusta National Golf Club, host of the prestigious Masters tournament, expressing concern over the club's all-male membershippolicy and urging it to change The resulting firestorm surrounding the club's secret membership оехяа roster of high-ranking corporate executives and its refusal to admit women was never really about golf It was about much more -- becoming the linchpin of anational dialogue about the role of women in society not seen since the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas debate And, especially in executive suites and boardrooms, the debate is far from resolved Cult of Power is an in-depth account of the broader raifications stemming from the initial controversy, written by the woman who was its center Burk lays bare the reasons the closed gates of Augusta National symbolize all the ways women are still barred from the highest echelons of power -- in government, scial and religious organizations, and most important, in corporate America -- and why we must change the system In a stunning rebuttal to the reductionist claim that Augusta National is just about golf or "private association," Burk unveils, for the firs time, the extraordinary web of business, government, and philanthropic affiliations of Augusta National members The list is shocking evidence of the impact and influence the members have and damning proof that there is more going on behind club gates thn just a game It really is a "cult of power " In dynamic, no-nonsense prose, Burk weaves together anecdotes, documents, and other previously undisclosed material with a discussion of why gender discrimination is still accepted at the highest levels of usiness and how it affects all working women, from the top tier to the rank and file Like Susan Faludi in Backlash, Burk addresses the systemic nature of the barriers: barriers ranging from male acculturation to employment laws that don't work to he hypocrisy of corporate diversity initiatives and "awards" for good works Cult of Power is an important contribution to our understanding of how the attitudes, rules, processes, and pastimes of corporate America perpetuate an antiquated and unalanced system But it also provides real solutions and concrete examples that clearly show what must be done to end gender discrimination and bring about true parity in the workplace Cult of Power is a rallying call for all women -- a clear-sightd prescription for accountability, meaningful action, and real change.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 272 стр ISBN 0743264509.

This volume challenges the view that unemployment is exclusively determined by structural characteristics of the labour market and the social benefit system Macroeconomic policies and investment in capital stock are included in the analysis and are shown to have a major role to play Wage setting in the labour market has no direct impact on employment оехяг but nominal wages set in this market affect the price level Following mainstream recommendations with respect to labour market reforms in an environment of low growth and serious effective demand problems, may contribute to deflationary risks Unemployment and 'structural reforms' also cause falling labour income shares and more unequal personal income distribution These developments contribute to slow growth and rising unemployment This is shown in applying growth models, which rely on the principle of effective demand and which also incorporate the effects of distribution struggle.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 304 стр ISBN 140394962X.

Leading academics discuss the major changes that have taken place in the production and organizational paradigm of Fordism The book provides a historical overview of the development of post-Fordism and updates the range of concerns that exist within the debate The authors go on to link these developments to the New Economy debate and outline the оехяи new sets of issues emerging within the context of new employment and social relations.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 288 стр ISBN 0333970373.

Diasporas large-scale ethnic migrations have been a source of growing concern as we try to understand the nature of community, identity and nationalism Traditionally, diaspora communities have been understood to be pariah communities, and most work on diasporas has focused on specific groups such as the Jewish or African Diaspora This book оехян is unique in arguing against traditional interpretations and in taking a comparative look at a range of diasporas, including the Jewish, Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Maltese, Greek and Armenian diasporas Taking the past four centuries into consideration, the authors examine diaspora trading networks across the globe on both a regional and international level They investigate the common patterns and practices in the enterprises of diaspora peoples and entrepreneurs The regions covered include Western Europe, the Mediterranean, South West Asia and the Indian Ocean, and South East Asia Global networks of diaspora trading groups were crucial to international trade well before the twentieth century, yet because they were not part of established institutions they have remained elusive to economists, sociologists and historians Through an understanding of diaspora trading networks, we learn not only about diaspora communities but also about the roots of the modern global economy.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 440 стр ISBN 1859738753.