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Demystify investing and maximize your wealth-with guidance from the world's most trusted financial news network
From CNBC, the global leader of financial news, comes the most user-friendly, approachable guide to simplifying the often confusing world of finance and investing.
CNBC Creating Wealth offers a complete and comprehensive introduction to world markets and shows readers how to use the information and tools currently available for maximum wealth-building. Using the hallmark CNBC approach-demystifying complex and confusing market terminology through lucid language and instructions-this accessible primer helps readers make smarter investment choices, and stay successful and secure even in volatile markets.
CNBC Creating Wealth covers:
- The inside story of the stock market and creating a long-term investment portfolio
- Strategies for the most profitable investment areas, including stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
- Online tools, including research, brokers, and access to data about financial markets around the world
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GREAT COVER.......2001-08-03
GREAT COVER I THINK WE CAN DO BETTER. I LOVE CNBC MYSELF.I SEEN MORE BOOKS WITH MORE DETAIL INFORMATION. AS I SAID GREAT COVER.
Easy to Read Practical Guide.......2001-07-14
Watching CNBC can be entertaining and educational but sometimes you need more information than the anchors provide about a certain story. This book gives you the background--the basics about how the stock market works and what you need to know to make smart investing decisions. There's lots of useful stuff here and you can peruse the chapters that you're interested in.
Thank Goodness for CNBC!.......2001-07-14
I am a CNBC junkie -- I just can't get enough, particularly when it comes to understanding what's going on in today's crazy markets. This book not only has same straighforward approach you find on CNBC, it also provides you with an invaluable analysis of how markets work and a list of resources where you can get up to the minute information on world markets. Any book that will help me make sense of what the current stock market is doing will help me feel confident in the choices I make as an individual investor and is worth the price. I highly recommend this book. Thanks.
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Creation and Transfer of Knowledge: Institutions and Incentives
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Is knowledge an economic good? Which are the characteristics of the institutions regulating the production and diffusion of knowledge? Cumulation of knowledge is a key determinant of economic growth, but only recently knowledge has moved to the core of economic analysis. Recent literature also gives profound insights into events like scientific progress, artistic and craft development which have been rarely addressed as socio-economic institutions, being the domain of sociologists and historians rather than economists. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to bring knowledge in the focus of attention, as a key economic issue.
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Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology: Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfer
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Improving the way that technology is transferred from laboratory to marketplace is central to improving American productivity and competitiveness in a global economy. In this provocative analysis, Stephen Doheny-Farina shows that the technical and commercial processes of turning technologies into products are, in significant ways, communication processes. He explores the key role that technical communicators must play in the movement of technology from expert designers and developers to users. Several lengthy case studies illustrate the rhetorical issues involved in technology transfers as well as the rhetorical barriers to their success.
Doheny-Farina argues that processes typically called information transfer and technology transfer are not transfers at all but instead are series of personal constructions and reconstructions of knowledge, expertise, and technologies by the participants attempting to adapt technological innovations for social uses.
Underscoring the rhetorical nature of any technology transfer, the case studies describe the powerful effect that a startup company's business plan can have on its future (including the many factors that surround the writing of a business plan), the rhetorical barriers to the transfer of an experimental artificial heart from a university research hospital to a biomedical products manufacturer, and two compelling situations that call for the inclusion of technical writers in new product development from its inception.
A final chapter focuses on the important elements in the education of technical communicators and an appendix discusses classroom applications and includes a fictional case incorporating issues of intraorganizational barriers to collaboration in the new product development process.
Stephen Doheny-Farina is Assistant Professor in the Technical Communications Department at Clarkson University. His previous book, Effective Documentation received the 1989 Award for the Best Collection of Essays, the National Council of Teachers of English Awards for Scientific and Technical Communication.
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This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the most important technologies--shipping and railways, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany and plantation agriculture, irrigation, and mining and metallurgy--Headrick provides a new perspective on colonial economic history and reopens the debate on the roots of Asian and African underdevelopment.
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- It is what it is.
- A different China then the one we thought it would be
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Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal
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This book reveals how and why U.S. corporations helped replace the Goddess of Democracy that once stood in Tiananmen Square with the Gods of Mammon and Mars that dominate China today.
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A solid three star - no higher.......2007-06-20
Whatever Gutmann is now, at the time this was written he was clearly nothing more than a freelance journalist riding on the coattails of his web designer wife who soujourned for a while in China while working on web projects. This book recounts Gutmann's experiences, which are limited, and relies heavily on second hand accounts furnished by friends, contacts, aquaintances. What redeems this book is Gutmann's lucid expose of everything he saw and heard. All told this book is a worthwhile contribution to the mounting volumes on life in China, and what her interaction with the West, and America in particular, is having on the respective societies. A downer for me was the last chapter where Gutmann provides unneccessary detail about American expatriot involvement with what he describes as China's "sexual revolution". Moreover he opines that Americans who visit China and show restraint in being faithful to their wives or girlfriends receive no "pat on the back" from him. I guess marriage vows or faithfulness are just passe' for enlightened tomes like author Gutmann.
Fun to read........2007-01-28
Although the author seems to have many an ax to grind with the Chinese, this book is an important contribution to the growing China-America literature. This book revolves as much around China as it does around its author. Personally, I enjoy these type of accounts because they are seldom boring. The author touches on many aspects of the Chinese society like, for example, current sexual mores, the highly censored Internet that most Chinese experience, Chinese military doctrine, lack of individual liberties, etc. The undertow seems to be "do not be fooled by the Chinese mirage, watch out!". If you do not mind a somewhat biased tone on a book, read this book by all means.
It is what it is........2006-12-16
This book delivers what the Author wanted to deliver. An insightful book that looks at doing business in China.
Wake up and smell the tea. China will again rise as the worlds factory. Yes, it will be built on the backs of the poor. It is what it is. To impose western idealism onto the Chinese is foolish thinking. More likely, as is already happening, US companies will begin lobbying to include practices in their business model in the US that they learned in China. China will change the world, not the other way around.
A different China then the one we thought it would be .......2006-07-04
The major claims of this book are:
1) The United States naively thought that economic liberalization and capitalistic prosperity would lead to democratic freedom in China Reality has proven very un -Fukuyama like in this regard and the Chinese totalitarian - state has been strengthened inadvertently by U.S. help.
2) US businesses cooperate with the Chinese government in suppressing the freedom of the Chinese people. These businesses include among others, the Internet giant Google.
3) It is difficult for an outside business person to make money in China unless he adopts the corrupt practices of the Chinese.
4) China is not an inward-looking Middle Kingdom but rather an aggressive potentially dangerous adversary to the free world, first in the economic realm but also increasingly in the military realm.
5) The corruption of Chinese society is also present in the thriving pay- for- play sex business.
6) China is thus not the model for a future world living in prosperity, democracy and freedom, and the personal dignity of the individual.
A Sad Book for a Sad China.......2005-12-27
This is very sad book in its content and tone. Let me spoil the party by summarizing the main points of the book, and my comment in bracket:
1) Very few American companies really making money in China [True];
2) China is a bottomless hole for foreign investors, because China doesn't play by "normal" economic rules; instead its totally corrupted government and business practices decide the success or failure of a company [True];
3) The only way to make money, or "succeed" in China is to a) Following the Party; b)Bribery; c) cater to government desires [True];
4) China has a lot of prostitutes [True but irrelevant for the bigger topics we are discussing here].
This is a sad book for American companies aspiring to make it in China, but more sad for Chinese society. Right now in China, it's rotten from inside out, and bottom up. Money is everything - integrity, character, morality, honor don't mean a thing there. The only thing China can provide is cheap labor. But current Chinese economy growth is real, American companies CAN make money. The most important quality you need is to be blind and deaf to the things you are accustomed to based on the Western value. And if you like, you can certainly enjoy the money you will make there and many fine women there as well. Once again, it's more sad for China than for foreign countries.
I am a Chinese American who was born and raised in China, and have been going back to China very often. I lost a small fortune in China trying to do things the American way. Then made a small fortune doing things in Chinese ways. After every while working in China, I feel compelled to come back to the States to sanitize my soul. Some people call me successful, but deep in my heart, I know that's because I have sold my integrity, ruined my character. I feel no honor and powerless in following my own moral guidance in Chinese business world. But I have a couple of dollars in my packet and once in while sleep with some women who are not my wife. Make your own decison what kind of life is this? But that is what doing business in China is all about.
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Communication of Innovations: A Journey With Ev Rogers
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This collection of 10 original essays honors the intellectual legacy of Professor Everett M. Rogers, a pioneering and distinguished teacher-scholar of diffusion of innovations, communication networks, and social change. Well known colleagues and contemporaries write on topics that not only piqued Rogers curiosity, but which are areas where he made seminal and lasting contributions: diffusion of innovations; communication networks in diffusion; innovation generation and technology transfer; social cognitive and social diffusion theories; social marketing; communication and social change in non-Western contexts; strategic communication campaigns; and the entertainment-education communication strategy in health promotion. The concluding chapter documents Rogers life journey from his modest farm boy beginnings in Iowa, through his distinguished academic career, to his final return to the farm. Overall, this book demonstrates the diversity of Rogers contributions to the fields of communication science, marketing, organizational change, sociology, and social psychology, and will serve as a starting point for future scholarship and practice.
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In recent decades, government-funded technologies have produced radar, microwave ovens, modern cell phone systems, the Internet, new materials for aircraft and motor vehicles, and new medical instrumentation. This first-of-its-kind book examines how access to technology is affected by government policies and government-sponsored programs.
Government Policy and Program Impacts on Technology Development, Transfer, and Commercialization: International Perspectives provides an easy-to-read overview of the field and several studies serving as examples to guide government policymakers and private sector decision makers. This forward-looking book also forecasts the potential impacts of government regulation upon the field and presents provocative discussions of the ethical implications of the cross-cultural and cross-national challenges facing technologically developed nations in the global economy.
This book reviews this broad field by first providing an overview of the goals of government technology policies and programs as well as of generic types of government technology programs. Next, it presents carefully selected studies that illustrate the potential impacts of government decisions upon marketing constraints, industry acceptance of regulatory requirements, economic development, gross domestic product, and the choices firms make when it comes to location, competitiveness, product development, and other factors. The final chapters explore ethical considerations from a global perspective. These chapters also explore the implications of these considerations in relation to the success of governmental and private sector technology transfer and commercialization programs. The macromarketing perspective taken by the contributors serves to ground the impacts of government technology policies and programs in practical implications for economic development, business productivity, and quality of life.
The contributors to this unique collection share their expertise on government sponsorship of technology research, the impact of government regulation upon technology marketing and economic development, the effects of government policies on business practices, intellectual property rights, and much more.
Government Policy and Program Impacts on Technology Development, Transfer, and Commercialization shows how evolving technology and government policy changes have affected:
the commercialization of music—new media, piracy problems, consumer choices and costs, and changes in the radio and concert promotion industries
the adoption of new household technology
licensure requirements for telemedicine—with an essential overview of telemedicine plus examinations of relevant governmental regulations and potential applications
patents, copyrights, trademarks, licensing, and proprietary information
scrap tire disposal—new alternatives for a chronic waste disposal problem
food product development
state-owned enterprises—with a case study illustrating how a stagnant state-owned company quickly evolved into China's leading firm in the textile machinery field
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Diffusion, Transfer and Implementation of Information Technology (IFIP Transactions A: Computer Science and Technology)
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The diffusion, transfer and implementation of information and software technology is discussed in this volume. Contributions have been sourced from academia, government and industry specialists to afford a representation from as many perspectives as possible on research and practice. The publication is divided into 7 parts, each of the first 6 sections representing a major area of concern in current technology transfer of information. The last chapter includes the summary reports of working sessions referred to in previous sections.
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This digital document is an article from Policy Studies Journal, published by Policy Studies Organization on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 4620 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Academic researchers attempt to find out why some academics engage in technology transfer activites and what facilitates technology transfer. Pertinent literature is reviewed. A survey is conducted among the nation's top 100 research universities. An evaluation of academic researchers' technology transfer activities is undertaken and of the characteristics the differentiate participating researchers from their non-participating counterparts.
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Title: Academic perceptions of university-firm technology transfer. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
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Date: June 22, 1994
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Agricultural Technology: Policy Issues for the International Community (Cabi Publishing)
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Major complex problems confront agricultural policy analysts and development specialists regarding the broad issue of 'agricultural technology.' These topics are reviewed in this volume which consists of 37 chapters, developed from papers presented at a conference held at Airlie House, Virginia, near Washington DC. The authors include leading international authorities from the academic sector, World Bank and agricultural research centers. The chapters are grouped into six parts. The first introductory part is followed by investment as the focus of Part II. In Part III a variety of conceptual and practical issues involved in the transfer of agricultural technology is considered. Part IV includes discussions of concrete technical matters ranging for example from the general to the specific, from plant to animal, and from soil management to irrigation engineering. Emphasis moves from the specifically technological to wider policy issues in Part V and this latter thrust is carried through into the final summarizing section.
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Automatic Systems for Building Infrastructure in Developing Countries (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)
G. Dimirovski
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This proceedings contains the papers presented at the 2nd IFAC Workshop DECOM-TT, on Automatic Systems for Building Infrastructure in Developing Countries, held in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, on 21-23 May 2001. The book is a valuable and timely source of important research literature on issues and topics in this critical application of control engineering.
The proceedings is organised into thirteen groups of papers. Most of the groups are defined in accordance with the conference theme and the underlying topics. The last group of papers, however, presents contributions from the Supplemental Ways for Improving International Stability (SWIIS) Special Session, organised by Prof. P. Kopacek in conjunction with the conference.
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