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A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate has emerged twenty years after the tumultuous deal it so brilliantly recounts as a modern classic-a masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rollicking book of corporate derring-do and financial swordsmanship.
The fight to control RJR Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was more than just the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, it became the high point of a new gilded age and its repercussions are still being felt. The tale remains the ultimate story of greed and glory-a story and a cast of characters that determined the course of global business and redefined how deals would be done and fortunes made in the decades to come.
Barbarians at the Gate is the gripping account of these two frenzied months, of deal makers and publicity flaks, of an old-line industrial powerhouse (home of such familiar products a Oreos and Camels) that became the victim of the ruthless and rapacious style of finance in the 1980s. As reporters for The Wall Street Journal, Burrough and Helyar had extensive access to all the characters in this drama. They take the reader behind the scenes at strategy meetings and society dinners, into boardrooms and bedrooms, providing an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.
At the center of the huge power struggle is RJR Nabisco's president, the high-living Ross Johnson. [via]
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2011 Reprint of 1947 Second Edition. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) was an Austrian-American economist and political scientist. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics. Schumpeter's most popular book in English is probably Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. This book opens with a treatment of Karl Marx. While he is sympathetic to Marx's theory that capitalism will collapse and will be replaced by socialism, Schumpeter concludes that this will not come about in the way Marx predicted. To describe it he borrowed the phrase "creative destruction", and made it famous by using it to describe a process in which the old ways of doing things are endogenously destroyed and replaced by new ways. [via]
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Eight editions of continuous improvement have led to the most exciting introductory marketing package in classroom history. This new edition continues to set the innovative standard, being the first to truly integrate international coverage, including outstanding video cases and video package, all-new boxed examples and expanded coverage of services for current coverage of today's dynamic marketing issues. Features: * Complete international integration is achieved through Chapter 4, Global Dimensions of Marketing, as well as hundreds of international examples, and dozens of figures and photos throughout the text which reflect current international companies and concepts. * Services marketing is covered in a separate chapter in Part IV. Examples of services marketing are integrated throughout the text. * "Diversity in the Marketplace" boxes integrate cultural, ethnic, gender, and physical diversity with each chapter topic. * "Focus on Ethics" boxes (all examples are New to this edition: * Opening vignettes set the stage for each chapter with compelling examples such as the Nickelodeon TV networks' on-line marketing research, Motorola's quality improvement efforts, and Vision Express' foray into the former USSR. * Current advertising examples demonstrate the application of marketing concepts by companies such as Honda, Citibank, and The Gap. * Complete integration of the book with each of its ancillaries makes Boone & Kurtz the most comprehensive teaching package to use and the most fulfilling for students to experience. * The Contemporary Marketing Video Disk set contains graphics, stills, maps and video clips that can be used with any of our marketing texts. * A new Chapter 2 combining Quality and Customer Service sets the stage for discussing quality and customer satisfaction issues related to the marketing function. Early placement of these topics helps students better understand this concept related to the competitive environment and the overall impact of the customer focus on marketing programs. Coverage includes statistical quality control, TQM relating to the four P's, employee empowerment, and analyzing internal company processes in terms of external competitiveness. * The "Channel Strategy" and "Wholesaling" chapters have been combined into a single chapter to reflect the new synergies of marketing and distribution. * Completely revised Chapter 6 (marketing research) emphasizes marketing decision support systems and other contemporary research issues. New material includes coverage of international research sources such as Citibank's global Report, and a new section on technology and marketing research. * New material on Relationship Marketing in chapter 5 stresses the contemporary emphasis on customer relationships that has become an essential part of marketing in the 1990's. Other issues of Relationship Marketing and customer value are found in chapters 13, 14, 15 and 18. * Expanded coverage of direct marketing in the promotions chapter and the channels chapter provides extensive, up-to-date information pertinent to this topic. * Many new computer application problems appear at the end of each chapter to provide hands-on experience and to foster students' analytical thinking. * All new opening vignettes, end-of-chapter cases. An additional 20 cases have been placed at the end of the book. * Integrated Marketing Career Tracks software including self-assessment and resume software, is linked with a new career appendix. A software module can also be linked with the video segments profiling the marketing career paths of executives from such as Cadillac, Marriott, Whirlpool, and the Toronto Blue Jays. Career Design software makes this the book that best prepares marketing students for career planning. * New laser disk program designed to enhance the classroom teaching/media encounter with level three interactive for those who want it, and yet flexible for the novice multimedia user. Three laser disks contain 20 new chapter-specific video segments, all transparencies, all figures and graphics from the book, interactive discussion questions developed especially for video-supported lectures, more new ads integrated to key concepts within each chapter. * Lecture Active Presentation Software provides easy and efficient access to motion video and animation sequences, graphics, and still images from the laser disk. * Twenty new video case studies have been custom designed and produced so that they correspond to the 20 chapters of the text. Produced in partnership with marketing instructors at Central Michigan University and successful, well-known companies, they enable the actor to illustrate the essential content for each chapter. The accompanying end-of-video career profiles are also coordinated. [via]
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A cornerstone of the Harcourt's publishing program for 25 years, Economics: Private and Public Choice has been one of the company's most solid and enduring texts ever. It is considered to be the best existing principles of economics textbook emphasizing free markets. With the eighth edition having sold more copies than any edition ever before, this text stands at the forefront with an exciting new ninth edition.
The strengths of Economics: Private and Public Choice are its clarity, emphasis on the economic way of thinking, and its application to the world around us. Authors James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, and Russell Sobel believe that a text enabling students to understand a few basic concepts and apply those concepts is central to a principles of economics course. [via]
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The author of Flow demonstrates how, with a scientific base to morality, we can transcend cultural and evolutionary programming and become more complex, integrated individuals, working for the common good. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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This title focuses on introductory accounting concepts, and teaches financial accounting from the perspective of the user of financial statements. It covers both concepts and procedures with a focus on the needs of the users of accounting information. [via]
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Continuing the four goals from the first edition, i.e. helping students to make good financial decisions, providing a solid text for the introductory MBA course, motivating students by demonstrating finance is relevant and interesting, and presenting the material clearly, this Tenth Edition promises to be the best yet. Written by a highly-acclaimed, best selling, author team, this text remains the only MBA-level text to present a balance of financial theory and applications. [via]
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You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding--an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages prove Csikszentmihalyi's point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. But the implications for its application to society are what make the book revolutionary. [via]
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A book chronicling one of the worst human disasters in recorded history really has no business being entertaining. But John Kelly's The Great Mortality is a page-turner despite its grim subject matter and graphic detail. Credit Kelly's animated prose and uncanny ability to drop his reader smack in the middle of the 14th century, as a heretofore unknown menace stalks Eurasia from "from the China Sea to the sleepy fishing villages of coastal Portugal [producing] suffering and death on a scale that, even after two world wars and twenty-seven million AIDS deaths worldwide, remains astonishing." Take Kelly's vivid description of London in the fall of 1348: "A nighttime walk across Medieval London would probably take only twenty minutes or so, but traversing the daytime city was a different matter.... Imagine a shopping mall where everyone shouts, no one washes, front teeth are uncommon and the shopping music is provided by the slaughterhouse up the road." Yikes, and that's before just about everything with a pulse starts dying and piling up in the streets, reducing the population of Europe by anywhere from a third to 60 percent in a few short years. In addition to taking readers on a walking tour through plague-ravaged Europe, Kelly heaps on the ancillary information and every last bit of it is captivating. We get a thorough breakdown of the three types of plagues that prey on humans; a detailed account of how the plague traveled from nation to nation (initially by boat via flea-infested rats); how floods (and the appalling hygiene of medieval people) made Europe so susceptible to the disease; how the plague triggered a new social hierarchy favouring women and the proletariat but also sparked vicious anti-Semitism; and especially, how the plague forever changed the way people viewed the church. Engrossing, accessible, and brimming with first-hand accounts drawn from the Middle Ages, The Great Mortality illuminates and inspires. History just doesn't get better than that. --Kim Hughes [via]
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This is the second volume in Braudel's magnificent new three-volume social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. This is history on a grand scale yet always on the human level. Written with immediacy and realism, the book is full of personal stories and examples culled from a lifetime of research by a master who wears his erudition lightly. The preceding volume, The Structures of Everyday Life, described the material context of the preindustrial world, outlining the limitations of what was possible and identifying the means of social and economic development. In The Wheels of Commerce, now published for the first time in English, Braudel turns his attention to the markets and exchanges that, from the start, have been the real motors of change. Peddlers, merchants, fairs, market stalls, the first stock exchanges, provide the human and economic subject matter. As always, Braudel sees them in their totality and in perpetual motion. Means of travel and communication, style of life and social .mores-all are brought to life with that marvelous specificity and imaginative power which are Braudel's hallmark. Out of this world of bargaining and bustle, of risk and disaster, of enormous wealth and dizzying success, emerges the beginning of the economic world we see around us, of multi-national companies and world-wide finance. The book is profusely illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings from around the world. FERNAND BRAUDEL was born in 1902, received a degree in history in 1923, and subsequently taught in Algeria, Paris and Sao Paulo. He spent five years as a prisoner of war in Germany, during which time he wrote his grand thesis, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, which was published in 1949. In 1946 he became a member of the editorial board of Annales, the famous journal founded by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, whom he succeeded at the College de France in 1949. [via]
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