Becoming a Police Officer or International Logistics

Becoming a Police Officer

Author: Larry R Frerkes

Law enforcement chooses only the best candidates. BECOMING A POLICE OFFICER will overwhelmingly improve your chances of getting hired. Learn about testing effectively, background investigations, true aspects of prior drug use, what the job really entails, salary and benefits, the application process, medical and psychological requirements and tests, agility tests, written tests, oral boards, polygraphs, and more.

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International Logistics

Author: Donald F Wood

This unique volume fills a gap in the business literature by integrating cultural, functional and strategic aspects of global logistics. The authors combine diverse viewpoints to present a coherent perspective on contemporary global logistics from raw materials through production to the customer. Placing specific topics in logistics in the broader context of international trade and marketing issues, the authors, describe the diverse logistics functions in detail, including ocean, air and surface carriers and systems: international sourcing; and the roles of governments and intermediaries, giving the reader a solid foundation and ready reference of logistics information. They explore efficient approaches to financial aspects of logistics, such as terms of sale, payment, documentation and insurance, enabling the reader to minimize costs without compromising quality and speed. The authors demonstrate how to optimze international dealings by responding to cultural differences in the roles and personal relationships and written contracts in business; the application of local trade laws; and attitudes toward precision. This book also illustrates key points in action using numerous up-to-date examples and devotes a chapter to logistics of famine relief. Written in a readable style, this essential resource will assist executives, managers, engineers and technicians in implementing effective logistics strategies. It will also serve as an in-depth introduction to this increasingly important dimension of trade for engineering and business students.

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A textbook on the organized movement of goods, services, and sometimes people, that involves individuals or companies in more than one country. The focus is on private-sector transactions, though sometimes a government is a buying or selling party or both. Also discussed are the information, communications, control, and management mechanisms to manage a logistics system. No date is mentioned for the first edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Preface to the First Edition
1	Overview	1
2	Governments' Interest and Involvement in International Logistics	14
3	Logistics in Different Parts of the World	47
4	Ocean Ships and Shipping	89
5	Chartering Bulk Ocean Carriers	115
6	The Ocean Liner Contract System	140
7	International Air Transportation	168
8	Surface Transport to and from Ports, and to and from Canada and Mexico	200
9	Seaports, Airports, Canals, and Tunnels	225
10	International Logistics Functions and Intermediaries	246
11	Terms of Sale and Payment	274
12	Documentation and Insurance	309
13	Logistics of Export Product Movement	342
14	International Sourcing	367
15	Logistics of Famine Relief	389
16	The Role of Logistics in International Supply Chain Management	412
17	Future Issues in International Logistics	429

Econ Ethics Env Policy or So You Think I Drive a Cadillac

Econ Ethics Env Policy

Author: Bromley

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Contributors
	Preface and Acknowledgments
1	Contested Choices	3
2	Are Choices Tradeoffs?	17
3	The Ignorance Argument: What Must We Know to be Fair to the Future?	35
4	Benefit-Cost Considerations Should be Decisive When There is Nothing More Important at Stake	53
5	Environmental Policy as a Process of Reasonable Valuing	69
6	Rethinking the Choice and Performance of Environmental Policies	87
7	What Should We Do with Inconsistent, Nonwelfaristic, and Undeveloped Preferences?	103
8	Awkward Choices: Economics and Nature Conservation	120
9	All Environmental Policy Instruments Require a Moral Choice as to Whose Interests Count	133
10	Efficient or Fair: Ethical Paradoxes in Environmental Policy	148
11	Trading with the Enemy? Examining North-South Perspectives in the Climate Change Debate	164
12	Social Costs and Sustainability	181
13	Empirical Signs of Ethical Concern in Economic Valuation of the Environment	205
14	Motivating Existence Values: The Many and Varied Sources of the Stated WTP for Endangered Species	222
15	Environmental and Ethical Dimensions of the Provision of a Basic Need: Water and Sanitation Services in East Africa	239
16	Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy	261
	Index	277

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So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?: Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform

Author: Karen Seccomb

Overview:
This down-to-earth look at the welfare system provides readers with stories from welfare recipients themselves: how they got onto welfare, what the reality of welfare (and welfare reform) is for them, issues with raising their families, and what their plans, hopes, and dreams are for the future. Welfare recipients who were interviewed by the author share their perspectives on work requirements, family caps, time limits, and other features of the new welfare reform (TANF) program. These qualitative interviews are theoretically grounded, and supplemented with up-to-date statewide and national data on welfare reform and its consequences.

Underneath the political rhetoric and welfare statistics are real live human beings who are trying to make sense out of their lives. Their voices provide a crucial counterpoint to the politicians and policy “experts” who have shaped the policy reform initiative. They show us that the so-called welfare problem is related to the insecurity of low-tier work in the United States.
–Karen Seccombe

What Reviewers Are Saying:

I particularly like the way Seccombe goes back and forth between “big picture” history and data and her interviews with real people. –Echo E. Fields, Southern Oregon University

Each chapter covers issues of importance as we address poverty/welfare and its impact on the lives of women and children.[This text] is readable by students at all levels, it is interesting in that it provides for my students real life examples, and most importantly, it challenges those stereotypes that so many students havewhen they think of poor women and children. –Jane McCandless, West Georgia University

Students find Seccombe’s text easy to read and engaging. –Jackie McReynolds, Washington State University

English for International Negotiations or Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century United States

English for International Negotiations: A Cross-Cultural Case Study Approach

Author: Drew Rodgers

English for International Negotiations is built around the case-study method, and covers a variety of negotiation situations set in more than twenty countries around the world. The Student's Book addresses issues such as cultural sensitivity, the need for a common language at the negotiating table, and other factors that influence success and failure in negotiation.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: The Art of Negotiating; Chapter 2: Cultural Awareness in International Negotiations; Case 1: Sun and Fun Tours vs. Hotel de la Playa: Compensation for Breach of Agreement; Case 2: Sansung Sporting Goods Seeks a Scandinavian Distributor: An Agency Agreement; Case 3: Acme Water Pumps and the Nigerian Government: A Sales Contract; Case 4: American Auto Corporation vs. the Mexican Auto Workers' Union; Wage and Working Conditions Negotiation; Case 5: Hydra Tech and Bertoni Shipping: Product Presentation and a Sales Contract

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Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Author: J Willard Hurst

In these essays J. Willard Hurst shows the correlation between the conception of individual freedom and the application of law in the nineteenth-century United States—how individuals sought to use law to increase both their personal freedom and their opportunities for personal growth. These essays in jurisprudence and legal history are also a contribution to the study of social and intellectual history in the United States, to political science, and to economics as it concerns the role of public policy in our economy. The nonlawyer will find in them demonstration of how "technicalities" express deep issues of social values.

Thirty Seconds to Air or Mental Health and Mental Illness

Thirty Seconds to Air: Live TV-99

Author: Bob Arya

Thirty Seconds to Air covers the professional and personal issues, concerns, and difficulties that a live broadcast reporter must confront and conquer in order to be successful. Filled with concrete examples and practice situations, and written in an easy-to-read conversational style, Thirty Seconds to Air will be useful to anyone, student or professional, seeking to improve his or her live broadcast performance.

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A pocket (5x7<">) field guide explaining procedures and skills needed to produce live television newscasts notable for substance and style. Covers live presentation, delivery, and legal and ethical issues in a conversational style, and illustrates challenging situations with concrete examples. Includes exercises, and references drawn from the Associated Press, professional broadcast journalism associations, and the Internet. Useful for students and professionals. Arya works in Chicago television. The volume lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Go to: A Theory of Global Capitalism or Coaching Through Effective Feedback

Mental Health and Mental Illness: Policies, Programs, and Services

Author: Phillip A Fellin

This text examines the public mental health policies, programs, and services that constitute a collective response to mental illness. The author explores the process and politics of policy making as a framework for understanding historical and current policies and services related to mental illness. Special attention is given to mental health issues related to such population groups as ethnic minorities, women, children and adolescents, the homeless mentally ill, and older adults. Each chapter highlights controversial issues related to mental health policy development and program implementation. The book is especially relevant for students preparing for practice as mental health professionals in social work, nursing, psychology, and counseling.

Front Office Operations Management or Women Entrepreneurs

Front Office Operations & Management

Author: Ahmed Ismail

For Hotel Management training in both large chains and smaller organizations, as well as meeting professionals, this book introduces concepts of organization, communication, ethics and policy within a hotel. The primary focus is the front office, housekeeping, reservations and night audit departments. Other departments are discussed to provide and understanding of how these departments relate to the front office and how they operate to enhance the guest experience. An introduction of basic analyses, techniques and trends both in policy and technology are reviewed as they relate to management and the guest. The book gives readers a "real world" understanding of the hotel industry balancing its past, present and future. This book portrays the nature and operation of hotels as they exist today. It reveals the inner workings of a hotel, preparing readers for what to expect in the current and future hotel market. The Property Management System has dramatically changed hotel operations, therefore extensive time has been devoted to covering this technology. Additional chapters feature analysis of the physical makeup of hotels, yield management, and operational techniques. Performance measurements and analysis of what makes a truly successful hotel are discussed in detail. Finally, because hotel management is and will always be about people, chapters are devoted to both the hotel guest and hotel employee. The arrival chronology is discussed from arrival to departure.

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Women Entrepreneurs: Moving Beyond the Glass Ceiling

Author: Dorothy P Moor

Women-owned businesses make up the fastest growing entrepreneurial sector in the American economy. Between 1975 and 1990, women started businesses at more than twice the rate of men. Women Entrepreneurs looks at 129 successful female entrepreneurs who previously worked in corporate environments. The book explores the driving forces that led these women to leave the organizational environment, the use of the organization as an incubator as a preparatory step in preparing for entrepreneurship, and the strategies employed by these entrepreneurs after the corporate leap. Initial difficulties encountered in starting the businesses are examined along with other important topics including entrepreneurial networking and how these women measure success in their own businesses. The book concludes with suggestions for future entrepreneurs and for organizations who wish to halt the mass exit of talented women from their corporate environments. Rich case scenarios enliven an informative profile of female entrepreneurs. Women Entrepreneurs will be invaluable to professors, students, and professionals interested in entrepreneurship, human resources, women's studies, and career strategies.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Making the Leap	21
3	The Organizational Incubator	51
4	Career Transition Challenges	81
5	Interactive Leadership - The Hub Effect	99
6	Networks as Vital Links	115
7	Success: Fulfilling the Dream	152
8	Summary and Advice	167
	App. 1: Methodology	189
	App. 2: Questionnaires	201
	App. 3: Acknowledgment and Appreciation	218
	References	229
	Name Index	245
	Subject Index	251
	About the Authors	261

Biogeochemistry of a Forested Ecosystem or Building Professionals

Biogeochemistry of a Forested Ecosystem

Author: Gene E Likens

Based on the classic ecosystem studies at Hubbard Brook in New Hampshire, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the biogeochemistry of a terrestrial ecosystem. It synthesizes long-term data on precipitation and streamwater chemistry, hydrology and weathering, and also considers the dynamics of atmospheric gases and water as they flow through the system. Hailed as "ÄaÜ standard for ecological teaching and research for years to come", the book "bristles with unsettled questions, intriguing problems, and technical challenges". This new edition brings the 1977 volume up to date and presents the ongoing Hubbard Brook study to a new generation of ecologists. The authors have international reputations: they won the $150,000 Tyler Prize in Environmental Science in 1993, and Likens also won the $250,000 Australia Prize in 1994.

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Building Professionals: Creating a Successful Portfolio

Author: Diane J Orton

One of the greatest challenges facing people entering the workforce is learning about themselves—recognizing what skills and knowledge they have developed for their chosen fields, and finding opportunities to use those abilities in a career. This easy-to-use tool assists readers in collecting, managing, and organizing a professional portfolio. Helps readers understand how their individual experiences relate directly to the skills and abilities that employers are looking for. Is organized into quality categories in each chapter, marked by icons—includes Critical Thinking/Problem Solving; Leadership; Initiative and Follow Through; Working Effectively with Others/Diversity; Communication. Provides Link and Learn Worksheets. Emphasizes mentor feedback and offers a blueprint for future growth. The ideal handbook for anyone entering the workforce or changing careers.

Table of Contents:

Note: Each chapter includes a Worksheet.
1. Developing a Personal Statement.
2. Academic Report.
3. Leadership.
4. Work-Related.
5. Internships.
6. Linking & Learning Model.
7. Resume and References.

Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages or Moving from Training to Perform

Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages

Author: Judith M Bennett

Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the time. Individual essays explore women's challenges to a sexual ideology that confined them strictly to the roles of wives, mothers, and servants. Also included are sections on women and work, cultural production and literacy, and religious life.
These essays provide a greater understanding of the ways in which gender has played a part in determining relations of power in Western cultures. This volume makes a vital contribution to the current scholarship about women in the Middle Ages.

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Contains 1967 entries: works by Ralegh, criticisms of these, and works on him. Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life- styles, these interdisciplinary essays examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the time. Included are sections on women and work, cultural production and literacy, and religious life. With eight pages of b&w illustrations. Paper edition (unseen), $15. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Interesting book: Joy of Cooking or Vegetarian Planet

Moving from Training to Perform(tr

Author: Dana Gaines Robinson

In this instantly accessible guide, 14 top performance advisers show trainers how to adopt a more proactive, goal-oriented approach to improving performance. Designed for both in-house trainers and outside consultants, Moving from Training to Performance explains how to tune in to an organization's goals, diagnose performance gaps, and formulate appropriate responses.