After the Rain How the West Lost the East

After the Rain - How the West Lost the East

Excerpts from an anthology of articles published in Macedonia, Russia, Egypt, the Czech Republic and in periodicals throughout Eastern and Central Europe regarding the politics, economics, geopolitics and history of countries in Centraleastern Europe and SEE (Balkan).

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The anthology was published in two print volumes. The first volume (titled "Macedonian on a Crossroads") was published in November 1998 (publisher : "New Literature", Skopje, Macedonia). ISBN: 9989-610-01-0

The second volume (titled "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East") was published in February 2000 (Publishers: "Narcissus Publications and Central Europe Review", Prague, Czech Republic). ISBN: 80-238-5173-X

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Taking A Stand On Our National Debt

The author has chosen to use a question-answer format in order to make the often complex subject matter, easier and more enjoyable to read. Q and A is not a dialogue bewteen real people -- the author has provided the dialogue for both Q, standing for Quaero, which is Latin means "I search for" and A, Auctor, which in Latin means "person responsible."

Q- I understand you have been following the federal budget process closely for the past ten years. How did you get interested in a subject which most people find extremely boring as well as complicated?

A- My interest can be traced to 1982 and the formation of the Grace Commission.

Q- What is the Grace Commission?

A- The Grace Commission, originally known as the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control was established in February 1982 when President Reagan asked prominent businessman, J. Peter Grace to head a commission for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive study of government spending. The Commission was privately funded and consisted of 161 high-level private business executives familiar with cost control and efficiency.

When the Commission began its work I eagerly anticipated the results, naively thinking they would come up with a relatively quick and easy way out of our national debt problems.

Q- It sure looks like they didn't do their job.

A- Oh but they did. The Commission originally came up with 2,478 recommendations, which if implemented, would have saved $424.2 billion over three years.

Q- Then they didn't follow through?

A- More than half (1,426 proposals) had been implemented by the end of fiscal year 1987.

Q- Then why does our debt keep growing?

A- Eliminating waste is only one part of the problem. Our elected officials have continued on an unprecedented spending spree. You've no doubt heard that it took 204 years to accumulate the nation's first one trillion of debt but only 4 years to accumulate the second trillion.

Q- Which four years?

A- 1981 -1985. The debt ceiling was raised in 1985 to 1.823 trillion and then again in 1986 to 2.3 trillion. But, as was so often said during the eighties, "You, ain't seen nothing yet! " With nobody seeming to care, our elected officials kept spending. In 1990 the ceiling had to be raised to $3.5 trillion but the spending continued so that in 1991 the debt ceiling quietly passed the $4 trillion mark.

Q- You're right. I didn't hear anything about it, and if I had I wouldn't know what to make of it. This may sound stupid, but I doubt that I'm the only one confused about how the deficit is measured. It seems there are a lot of very different numbers out there all claiming to be the deficit.

A-You're absolutely right to be confused and your confusion is the result of intentional obfuscation.

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A New Tax System for the United States

A New Tax System for the United States proposes elimination of the personal and corporate income tax system in the United States. The central theme of the book is that the income tax system is not only a bad tax system from an economic viewpoint, but that it has severe political and sociological drawbacks as well. The book describes how the invasion of privacy and authoritarian tactics on which the current system is based have seriously damaged the relationship of the US citizen to his government.

The book describes the inadequacies of the current US tax system; its incredible complexity; its undesirable economic incentives which discourage saving, investment, and economic growth; the high administrative cost; the instability in government revenues caused by a narrow, volatile tax base; the incentive for wasting productivity in tax avoidance; the problem it causes in international trade; the invasion of privacy; and the tyranny of the IRS. The book shows how the Tax Reform Act of 1986 has not solved the fundamental problems of the income tax system, and explores why the US Government has perpetuated such a bad tax system for so long.

A major problem with the current US tax system is its inability to produce a sufficient level of revenue to cover desired government programs. The current system has resulted in massive government deficits and extreme wealth concentrations that threaten US and world economic collapse. The new tax system proposed in this book addresses these problems; it can help avoid economic collapse and reduce the severity of depressions.

The historical development and inadequacies of the US tax system are summarized. The archaic legislative process by which the current system was developed is described, and a modern approach to "tax engineering," based on the concepts of systems analysis and systems engineering, is presented. Alternative tax methods are identified, and the advantages and disadvantages of each method are discussed. A new tax system, based on the value-added tax, or "VAT," is proposed. The book shows how the VAT can raise the same or greater revenues as the current income tax system, but with far less economic, political, and sociological cost. The new system takes a humanistic approach to taxation: the tax system is viewed as a servant of the citizen, rather than his master. The VAT is a practical and feasible alternative to the income tax system.

Through the income tax system, the US Government has set up an elaborate and powerful police-state system for regimentation of the individual citizen. You are registered and monitored, and have lost not only your privacy but most of your Bill of Rights personal liberties to the IRS. This book tells how you can help eliminate the income tax and stop the intrusion of the IRS into your life.

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The Power To Tax

Geoffrey Brennan

The Power to Tax is, I think, demonstrable proof of the value of genuine research collaboration across national-cultural boundaries. Geoffrey Brennan, as a golden-voiced "wild colonial boy" from Down Under, joined our research team in Blacksburg in the 1970s, and his enthusiasm quickly spilled over and generated joint efforts. We discovered that along many, but not all, dimensions of discourse, we were on the same wavelength.

The Power to Tax is informed by a single idea—the implications of a revenue-maximizing government. The origins of the idea emerged first in a paper that we agreed to write jointly for a festschrift for Joseph Pechman. Once the idea existed, the book, more than any other of my experience, simply wrote itself. Perhaps, in part, this is how it seemed only to me, since Geoffrey Brennan was the coauthor who provided much of the sometimes difficult technical construction.

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Public Finance

1. In any society that has passed beyond the lowest stage of social development, some form of governmental organisation is found to be an essential feature. The various activities or functions of this controlling body furnish the material for what are known as the 'Political Sciences' (Staatswissenschaften). Every governing body or 'State' requires for the due discharge of its functions repeated supplies of commodities and personal services, which it has to apply to the accomplishment of whatever ends it may regard as desirable. The processes involved in obtaining and using these supplies naturally vary much in the several stages of social advance: they are comparatively simple and direct in a primitive community, while in a modern industrial society they present a high degree of complication, and are carried out by elaborate regulations. For all States, however—whether rude or highly developed—some provisions of the kind are necessary, and therefore the supply and application of state resources constitute the subject-matter of a study which is best entitled in English, Public Finance.

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The Demand And Supply Of Public Goods

People are observed to demand and to supply certain goods and services through market institutions. They are observed to demand and to supply other goods and services through political institutions. The first are called private goods; the second are called public goods.

Neoclassical economics provides a theory of the demand for and the supply of private goods. But what does "theory" mean in this context? This question can best be answered by examining the things that theory allows us to do. Explanation is the primary function of theory, here as everywhere else. For the private-goods world, economic theory enables us to take up the familiar questions: What goods and services shall be produced? How shall resources be organized to produce them? How shall final goods and services be distributed? Note, however, that theory here does not provide the basis for specific forecasts. Instead, it allows us to develop an explanation of the structure of the system, the inherent logical structure of the decision processes. With its help we understand and explain how such decisions get made, not what particular pattern of outcome is specifically chosen

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The Frontiers of Project Management Research

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Hardcover

Publisher: Project Management Inst (February 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1880410206
ISBN-13: 978-1880410202

Book Description
This first-of-its-kind publication from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) brings together 28 research papers from internationally known and well-established researchers in project management from around the globe. From them you will glean an insightful overview of past and current research findings, and take an eye-opening excursion along frontiers fertile for future investigation. You will also find a wealth of practical information that you can use now in managing your projects, be they organizing meetings, producing new products, or building skyscrapers.

Here are just a few of the many helpful insights awaiting your discovery within The Frontiers of Project Management Research:

• To know the field, read Project Management literature past and present. Over 3500 project management research articles have been published since 1960—the 1990s produced the largest volume, and certainly the most current information.

• Recognize the importance of measuring project success. Many factors contribute to it, but identifying and measuring the key ones for each project remains a critical, and sometimes elusive, achievement.

• Think project management is challenging now — wait ‘til tomorrow. Project management challenges are likely to increase in the future as projects, project environments, technology, and people relationships grow in complexity.

• Tailor your communications to key stakeholders’ levels of interest and power. Devote considerable time and attention to a project’s key players. Specifically define, demonstrate, and communicate the benefits from investments in project management to senior managers and others.

• Take the time to develop trusting relationships. Research confirms it—trust leads to better client relationships, accelerated time to market, and lower project costs.

• Planning is our most important process. Among all the research articles published in project management over the past 40 years, planning led over leading, controlling, executing, and improving.

Whatever your project management interests or informational needs, The Frontiers of Project Management Research offers you stimulating ideas for tomorrow and innovative approaches from today, all at your fingertips.

About the Author
Dennis P. Slevin is Professor of Business Administration at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. David I. Cleland is Professor Emeritus in the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a PMI Fellow and has published 34 books in the project management field. He is often described as “the father of project management.” Jeffrey K. Pinto is the Samuel A. and Elizabeth B. Breene University Endowed Fellow in Management and Professor of Management in the School of Business at Penn State-Erie

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This book is a very good textbook for beginers, especially mathematicians or physicists with PDE backgroud. Unfortunately, PDE is not a cure-all. It may be cumbersome in many cases. Like most research papers by the same authors, it lacks diversity.

This book offers very comprehensive review of a wide variety of different types of options and different approaches to evaludate the price. The mathematical side is clearly explained and it does not require extensive knowledge of probability theory. It gives deeper coverage of exotic options compared to other books on the same topic.
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Traders, Guns & Money - Knowns And Unknowns In The Dazzling World Of Derivatives

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Warren Buffet once labelled derivatives “financial weapons of mass destruction”. Unlike the military kind, financial WMD are not hard to find. Many great companies use them. These businesses use derivatives to make money or protect them from risk. It’s a simple case of greed or fear. Or is it?

In derivatives, whoever you are, there are things that you don’t know that you don’t know. These are the real risks of derivatives. They’re generally left to the client to discover. So, if you’re entering the dazzling world of derivatives, ask yourself this: What do I know? What do I need to know? What don’t I know? What am I doing?

You can find the answers in Traders, Guns & Money, a sensational and controversial first-person account of the business of derivatives trading and the financial products industry in the spirit of Liar’s Poker. It is a true insider’s view of the business of trading and marketing derivatives for a living. It details the nature of the business, the players, how money is made and lost, and the deceptions that underlie the entire process.

Funny and poignant, and written in a wry and wickedly comic style, the book provides the ordinary reader with an insight into the seeming madness that underlies financial markets and the out-of-control process that is trading in complex financial products that few understand.

Traders, Guns & Money throws light on the culture, games, and pure deceptions played out every day in trading rooms around the world, and played out with other people’s money. It describes the processes by which a small group of gifted, if avaricious, individuals parlay their knowledge of the arcane world of financial products into wealth, leaving shareholders, clients, regulators, and the tax paying ordinary public to bear most of the risk.

This is the story of how one set of clients discovered the perils of unknowns in a derivatives deal. This tale will leave you amazed, and this book will make it all clear.In the sometimes dazzling world of derivatives, Traders Guns & Money shows you how we got here and tells it how it is. Go on, follow the money.

An accessible companion and a wise counsel, Traders, Guns & Money weaves together three core themes:

Known unkowns: if you’re entering the dazzling world of derivatives, ask yourself this: What do I know? What do I need to know? What don’t I know? What am I doing? This book will make it all clear.

Follow the money: an insider’s, expert witness account of the rise and rules of the world of derivatives. This book will show you how we got here and tell it how it is

Send traders guns & money: the story of how one set of clients discovered the perils of unknowns in a derivatives deal . This tale will leave you amazed, but wiser.

"Ever since Warren Buffett memorably described derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction" there has been a thriller waiting to be written about them. Derivatives have frightened otherwise right-thinking people for some time. In part this reflects a natural tendency to fear what we do not understand." Financial Times
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Trojanisches Marketing®: Mit unkonventioneller Werbung zum Markterfolg

olfgang A. Engel, "Trojanisches Marketing®: Mit unkonventioneller Werbung zum Markterfolg"
Haufe Mediengruppe | 2008 -04| ISBN: 3448087203 | 250 pages | PDF | 60,9 MB
Unkonventionell, erfolgreich und kostengünstig! Trojanisches Marketing ist die neue Marketingmethode, Kunden zwar indirekt, dafür aber umso nachhaltiger anzusprechen. Lesen Sie hier, wie man es einsetzt und erfolgreiche Aktionen konzipiert.
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Wolfgang A. Engel hat VWL in Karlsruhe und Wien studiert und ist als selbstständiger Unternehmensberater, Wirtschaftstrainer und Coach tätig.

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How to Get the Teaching Job You Want: The Complete Guide for College Graduates, Returning Teachers and Career Changers

Robert Feirsen, Seth Wietzman, "How to Get the Teaching Job You Want: The Complete Guide for College Graduates, Returning Teachers and Career Changers"
Stylus Publishing | 2000-11-01 | ISBN: 1579220290 | 162 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

Competition for the best teaching jobs is intense. For every vacancy they advertise, the most desirable schools are deluged with applications.

This is the most up-to-date book available on job hunting for teachers, and the only one written by school administrators. Offering the insights and experience of two authors who do the hiring, it details a step-by-step program for taking charge of your teaching career.

How to Get the Teaching Job You want will teach you to:

-Avoid the most common mistakes of a job candidate

-Match your unique talents to the needs of a particular school

-Craft effective cover letters and resumes, using models that address the specific needs of college graduates, returning teachers, and career changers

-Read between the lines of newspaper advertisements

-Leverage student teaching, substitute teaching or volunteer work into a job offer

-Surf the Internet to locate jobs and discover valuable information about schools, including test results, educational philosophy and names of key administrators

-Design a portfolio in book or electronic format to showcase your abilities

-Practice interview skills using 100 questions taken from real job interviews

-Apply proven strategies for a variety of interview formats, including high-stress interviews and performance interviews

-Address controversial questions during interviews

This book covers procedures for applying to elementary, middle, and high schools; public, independent, and parochial schools; as well as international and boarding schools. Anecdotes recounting the experiences of real candidates looking for jobs illustrate key points. Access to the authors' web site ensures that you will stay current in a changing job market.

This is a vital book for aspiring teachers who want to achieve their career goals. It will also be invaluable for guidance counselors, psychologists, librarians, and other school professionals.
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Emergent Strategies for E-Business Processes, Services and Implications: Advancing Corporate Frameworks eBOOK

Emergent Strategies for E-Business Processes, Services and Implications: Advancing Corporate Frameworks

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Recently, e-business applications have evolved beyond business transactions and services to include customer relationship management (CRM), mobile computing, Web mining, e-healthcare, social networking, and Web 2.0. As e-business continues to create new business models and technologies, researchers, higher education faculty, and practitioners are in great need of appropriate reference resources to enhance their understanding of all aspects of e-business technologies and management.

Emergent Strategies for E-Business Processes, Services and Implications: Advancing Corporate Frameworks is an authoritative collection of original, in-depth, and innovative research articles on e-business concepts, models, processes, services, and applications. This book presents an integrated view of emerging issues and technologies addressed by renowned scholars, providing researchers and practitioners with the state-of the-art reference for future research and practices on a wide range of topics including e-CRM, e-business model, multi-channel management, e-health, m-commerce adoption, offshore outsourcing, and e-business innovation.

About the Author
In Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the College of Business and Technology at Western Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of E-Business Research. He has published his research in such journals as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Research, Computers and Operations Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Knowledge and Process Management, Business Process Management Journal, Journal of E-Commerce in Organizations, and International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling. His current research interests include e-commerce technology development and management, investment strategies for computing technologies, and telecommunications planning and management.

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Geographies of Consumption

Juliana Mansvelt, "Geographies of Consumption"
Sage Publications Ltd | 2005-04-09 | ISBN: 0761974296 | 208 pages | PDF | 2 MB

This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides an engaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumption is intimately related to the production of space in everyday life.

In Geographies of Consumption Juliana Mansvelt provides readers with a detailed explanation of political-economic and social-cultural perspectives on consumption at different scales. She opens with overview chapters on the history and conceptualisation of consumption and moves on to thematic chapters on consumption spaces; the body and identity; commodity chains; globalization commercial cultures.

The text is illustrated throughout with comparative case study-material and features boxes and annotated notes for further reading.

A review of consumption from a spatial perspective, this critical analysis of the key debates is the first synoptic overview in the geographic literature. Geographies of Consumption will be widely used in modules in economic and social geography, and should be the core text for those with a focus on consumption
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Nail the Job Interview! 101 Dynamite Answers to Interview Questions

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This popular interview prep guide reveals the inside story to conducting effective job interviews.

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# Author: Caryl and Ron Krannich
# Publisher: Impact Publications; 5th Ed edition (February 5, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1570232075
# ISBN-13: 978-1570232077

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The Complete Q&A Job Interview Book 4th Edition

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What is a job interview anyway? Is it an objective examination of your experience, skills, and work ethic? Not quite. It's a screen test. You're the actor. In this bestselling guide, Jeff Allen, the world's leading authority on the interview process, shows you how getting hired depends almost completely on the "actor factor." If you know your lines, perfect your delivery, and dress for the part, you'll get hired. If you don't, you won't.

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# Author: Jeffrey G. Allen
# Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (April 1, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471651257
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Stepping Stones to Achieving your Doctorate: Focusing on your viva from the start

Publisher: Open University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0335225438
Paperback: 264 pages
Data: Oct 2008
Format: PDF
Description: The starting point to achieving your doctorate is to appreciate how your thesis will be examined. The criteria that examiners use, the questions they ask in vivas and their reports provide templates against which theses are judged. So, why not start from this endpoint as you plan, undertake, write and defend your research?

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480 pages | Butterworth-Heinemann; 3 edition (May 20, 2005) | 075066617X | PDF | 2 Mb

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