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Brookings Institution Press, 2003

Provocative Discussion About Embedded Reporting!
This is a superb collection of essays, first-person observations, and recollections of so-called embedded reporters and photographic journalists, edited jointly by Marvin Kalb, a former CBS reporter turned Harvard resident scholar, and Stephen Hess, a senior fellow at the prestigious Brookings Institution. Written in the first person, each of the collected essays takes the reader up-close and ...

Somalia: State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for Political Reconstruction (Brookings ...
Terrence Lyons, Ahmed I. Samatar

Brookings Institution Press, 1995

Coping With Methuselah: The Impact of Molecular Biology on Medicine and Society

Brookings Institution Press, 2004

Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon thereafter. This astonishing prospect, brought on by the revolution in molecular biology and information technology, confronts policymakers and public health officials with a host of new questions. How will increased longevity affect local and global demographic trends, government taxation and spending, health ...

Debating the Future of American Education: Do We Need National Standards and Assessments? (Brookings ...

Brookings Institution Press, 1995

The Administrative Behavior of Federal Bureau Chiefs
Herbert Kaufman, The Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution Press, 1981

The MBA Application Roadmap: The Essential Guide to Getting into a Top Business School

1 review
Stacy Blackman, Daniel J. Brookings

Firstbooks.com, 2008

An essential tool for any MBA applicant
This book is chock-full of great advice and tips for mastering the MBA admissions application process. It helps you think about your application from a whole different perspective. It provides a great roadmap for branding yourself and includes tips on each phase of the process from school selection to essay writing to interviews. I highly recommend this book to anyone embarking on the ...

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1998:1
Brookings, David Bloom, ...

Brookings Institution Press, 1998

Unseen Wealth: Report of the Brookings Task Force on Intangibles

2 reviews
Margaret Blair, Steven M. H. Wallman

Brookings Institution Press, 2001

"Unseen Wealth" Helps Us See The Intangibles
Just goes to show you how good Amazon's recomendation engine is - I wouldn't have gone looking for this title, but I am very glad I have it now. This slim volume (only 120 pages, including the notes) goes a long way towards illuminating the importance of "intangible" items such as intellectual capital, research and development, brand names, etc., are to the economic growth and wealth of our ...

Games Children Play: How Games and Sport Help Children Develop

1 review
Kim Brooking-Payne, Kate Hammond

Hawthorn Press, 1997

Excellent resource of games, plus much more!
The subtitle for this book is "How games and sport help children develop." But I find it's much more than this! It is also a unique resource of tried and tested games for all ages levels. The introduction deals with tips for presenting games to children, how to cope with difficulties (such as bullying) and equipment. The bulk of the book is broken into three parts for different age ranges ...

Opportunity in the United States: Social and Individual Responsibility
Brookings Publishing, Domestic Strategy Group

Brookings Institution Press, 2001

This report summarizes the discussions and conclusions from the 1995 Domestic Strategy Group meeting. It contains commissioned papers by experts on the topic and includes points of consensus and difference within the diverse, nonpartisan group regarding expanding opportunity for Americans, the role of government, and individual responsibility.

Globaphobia: Confronting Fears About Open Trade

5 reviews
Progressive Policy Institute (U. S.)

Brookings Institution Press, 1998

The Very First Book To Read on Globalization
The ease of reading is exceptional. If you are worried about your limited understanding in economics and especially international trade, this is the book for you. In addition to the book being written and edited to be understood by nearly any modestly educated person it is further advantaged by authors that clearly understand the subject in great depth. As is so often the case the extremely well ...

Intellectual Capital: Core asset for the third millennium

3 reviews
Annie Brooking

International Thomson Business Press, 1996

The Four Components of Intellectual Capital
Intellectual capital is a truly critical topic for twenty-first century business. As known, the subject of intellectual capital appeared on the business world in the 1990s. Patrick H.Sullivan writes, in his 'Value-Driven Intellectual Capital,' "this history actually began in the early 1980s, as managers, academics, and consultants around the world began to notice that a firm's intangible assets, ...

Open Doors: Foreign Participation in Financial Systems in Developing Countries

Brookings Institution Press, 2001

African Economic Outlook 2008 (African Economic Outlook)

Organization for Economic Cooperation & Devel, 2008

Corporate Memory: Strategies For Knowledge Management

3 reviews
Annie Brooking

Cengage Lrng Business Press, 1998

A great introduction and a great value
Brooking provides a concise description of the collection, organization, and management of corporate knowledge. This book is economical in its description, as well as its price. Good examples of the concepts throughout the text. Technologies for knowledge management will come and go. This book focuses on the human element, understanding how we know what we know, and the processes needed to ...

Government Policy Toward Open Source Software

American Enterprise Institute Press, 2003

Can open source software?software that is usually available without charge and that individuals are free to modify?survive against the fierce competition of proprietary software, such as Microsoft Windows? Should the government intervene on its behalf? This book addresses a host of issues raised by the rapid growth of open source software, including government subsidies for research and development, government procurement policy, and patent and ...

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