Human Resources: Stories (Tin House New Voice)

Customer Review: sharp new writer with engaging imagination
I highly recommend Josh’s brilliant first book - these stories not only stand on their own, but together crystalize into insightful, compassionate, and humourous perspectives on humanity
Customer Review: Quirky, multifaceted, cleverly amusing…
This gem of a collection of short stories is full of magical near-realism, and also some very knowing glimpses into the underbelly of people’s private lives - hidden secrets, motives and thoughts that few admit but many will share. It is very amusing and entertaining while also prodding some uncomfortable truths that some might wish to keep hidden.

Beyond Entrepreneurship An inspiring leader, a compelling vision, a superior strategy, continual innovation and consistently outstanding execution — these are the supporting pillars of enterprises that remain strong and profitable decade after decade.

BEYOND ENTREPRENEURSHIP explores each of these vital elements in depth and illustrates key points using firms like NIKE, L.L. Bean, Wal-Mart, Federal Express and SONY. It provides the blueprint for turning your business into a great company and an enduring one.

Jim Collins, management consultant, and Bill Lazier, CPA, founder and general partner of Bristol Investment Company, are both faculty members at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and longtime advocates of the doctrines espoused in this book.

Economics: Private and Public Choice
ECONOMICS: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHOICE includes many more engaging elements—such as scenes from popular movies and applications of economic theory to real-world issues—to help you see how these theories apply to the world around you. Each chapter has been updated to reflect today’s market, including analysis and explanation of measures of current economic activity. You’ll also find highlights of the lives of notable economists and how they contributed to the thinking that shapes our markets today. Common economic myths are dispelled, and the “invisible hand” metaphor is applied to economic theory, demonstrating how it’s working even today to stimulate the economy. This 12th edition includes new technology features such as a robust set of online multimedia learning tools, including video clips and free quizzes designed to support your classroom work; a completely updated Aplia interactive learning system with practice problems, interactive tutorials, online experiences, and more.

Customer Review: great buy
I got the book quick and it was in great condition, and for about 1/8 the price of a new one.

Customer Review: great book
I needed this book for a summer course I’m taking. I saved $94 off the bookstore price.

Fundamentals of Financial Accounting This helpful supplement augments each chapter and appendix with reviews of the learning objectives, outlines of the chapters, summaries of chapter materials, and additional problems with solutions.
Customer Review: This is a workbook not the book
This would of been great if it was the book. However it was the workbook which is not mentioned at all in the description.
Customer Review: This is the STUDY GUIDE for the text, not the textbook itself
I ordered this item thinking it was a paperback version of the textbook, since it was entitled: Fundamentals of Financial Accounting by Fred Phillips, et al. I can’t truly rate it, since it wasn’t what I had intended to purchase.

Avoiding Legal Liability for Adult Educators, Human Resource In more pristine times, the primary reason for providing effective training was to increase the probability of correct and consistent performance on the job. Adult educators and managers of human resource development programs should be concerned for a secondary reason. This reason involves the prevention of legal liability. In this sense, effective training and development becomes a defense to an allegation of failure to adequately train the organizations employees.
Customer Review: Avoiding Legal Liability
Avoiding Legal Liability does a thorough job in covering the many legal issues facing the HR Dept., instructional designers and adult educators; all in a span of seven chapters. With a slant towards training, topics such as negligence, adventure training, diversity training, distance learning, copyright infringement, and intellectual property, just to name a few, are all discussed with remarkable clarity. Included in the discussion are the legal problems/issues that may arise from each, a substantial dose of relevant case studies and an outline to mitigate potential liability.
Customer Review: The perfect textbook for MBA and Education Department curriculums
Providing any form of service or product to the general public must always take into consideration issues of liability should members of that public take issue with what was proffered with respect to matters of health, safety, and associated or unforeseen consequences. The simple fact is that a successful law suit can break a company or devastate an individual. In “Avoiding Legal Liability For Adult Educators, Human Resources Developers And Instructional Designers”, John Sample draws upon his thirty years of experience and expertise as a consultant, educator, and administrator in human resource management, training and development to provide a comprehensive, practical, real-world instruction manual on protecting an organization and its employees from legal liability lawsuits. “Avoiding Legal Liability” covers such cogent issues as liability and the training/development enterprise, equal employment opportunity and related liability, occupational safety and health related liability, negligence avoidance training and related liability, adventure training and New Age related experiential learning liability, intellectual property (copyright & trade secretes) liability issues, corporate ethics and the federal sentencing guidelines. A core addition to personal, professional, organizational, academic, and community library Judicial Studies & Practices reference collections and supplemental reading lists, “Avoiding Legal Liability” is enhanced with the additional inclusion of a number of appendices which include a glossary of basic legal terms, summaries of relevant federal statues, federal and state requirements or harassment prevention training, OSHA general industry training requirements, as well safety and workplace violence training resources. Also included is a supervisory audit of training related liability, checklists for compliance with the TEACH Act and the Fair use Privilege for Educators. There is an example of a ‘Permission Request’ letter, guidelines for copyright registration, and examples of non-disclosure agreements for training materials, a trade secrets agreement, and a non-compete agreement. With the addition of both a Reference and an Index section, “Avoiding Legal Liability” is also the perfect textbook for MBA and Education Department curriculums as well.

Master Curriculum Guide: Economics and Entrepreneurship (Master Curriculum Guide) (Master Curriculum Guide) The variety of instructional approaches found in this guide combine learning economics with understanding entrepreneurship. Lessons focus on: How entrepreneurs influence our economy Innovation Profits Markets Lending and borrowing How government and our economy affect entrepreneurs 17 lessons provide background information, required materials, teaching procedures, and student handouts.

Also available:

Learning from the Market: Integrating the Stock Market Game across the Curriculum - ISBN 156183386X
Learning, Earning and Investing: High School - ISBN 1561835706

The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy.

Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include:

- Establishing and building credit

- Managing personal finances

- Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level

- Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.

America’s Great Depression (Studies in economic theory)
Applied Austrian economics doesn’t get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history.

The Mises Institute edition features, along with a new introduction by historian Paul Johnson, top-quality paper and bindings, in line with the standard set by The Scholars Edition of Human Action.

Since it first appeared in 1963, it has been the definitive treatment of the causes of the depression. The book remains canonical today because the debate is still very alive.

Rothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investment and consumption. He proceeds to examine the Fed’s policies of the 1920s, demonstrating that it was quite inflationary even if the effects did not show up in the price of goods and services. He showed that the stock market correction was merely one symptom of the investment boom that led inevitably to a bust.

The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which in turn was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had the book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian- and socialist-style treatments would be limited from that day forward.

Customer Review: Complete and irrefutable demolition of the “official story” of the Great Depression
In this book, first published in 1963, Austrian school economist Murray Rothbard completely demolishes the myths that (1) the Great Depression was caused by “under-regulation,” (2) that Herbert Hoover was a “laissez-faire” president, and (3) that FDR and his New Deal got us out of the Depression. That these myths can still be perpetuated within the diseased confines of the prisons we call public schools shows how much of Orwell’s fantasy has become our reality: this book, along with its irrefutable truths, was dropped down the Memory Hole long ago.

The Complete Guide to Financing Real Estate Developments

Get Answers to All Your Questions About Financing Real Estate Development — and Tailor a Finance Package that Meets Specific Your Needs

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The Completee Guide to Financing Real Estate Developments offers a detailed roadmap to navigate the complex process of financing small to large-scale real estate projects, such as office buildings, apartment complexes, and hotels.

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Real estate expert Ira Nachem explores the pros and cons of large versus small institutions; how to structure and present a loan proposal, the approval and closing processes; the truth about appraisals, guarantees, insurance and lien law; financial and physical bonuses and constraints, environmental issues and many other topics.

Computerized Accounting Includes the textbook + Reference + CD.

Economic Analysis of Law
Customer Review: Overrated simplistic reasoning
First of all, the law and economics movement did not originate with Richard Posner. To his credit, he does reference the men who collectively formulated the modern utilitarian theory called “law and economics.” Pay attention to the enormous amount of spelling errors and poor syntax in the first edition. The book seems like it was rushed to the presses in order to capitalize on something.