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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the nature, causes, dimensions, and effects of absenteeism and gives professionals specific guidelines for determining how it affects their particular organization.

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Collaboration between government agencies, an old joke goes, is an unnatural act committed by nonconsenting adults. Eugene Bardach argues that today's opinion climate favoring more results-oriented government makes collaboration a lot more natural--though it is still far from easy.

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"Elegant and deeply researched... a powerful antidote to overly gloomy assessments of development aid...Charles Kenny shines a light on the real successes of aid, and he shows us the benefits that additional smart investment can bring."-Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal

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There is no doubt that the pace of business has acceleratedproducts go from concept to release faster than ever, business partnerships and alliances are established (and dissolved) more quickly, competitors react more swiftly to any tilt in the playing field.

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A leading economist contends that the recent financial crisis was caused not by the failure of mainstream economics but by corrupted monetary data constructed without reference to economics.

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This study looks at the constraints involving conflicts between individual and organizational commitments, the need for flexibility and rules and accountability issues in developing and managing public policy. In addition, the author addresses the issues of motivation, change and communication.

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this book articulates the difference between influence and power and presents ways to use influence effectively in today's downsizing and restructuring organizations.

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The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. This book explores what it takes to expand the reach of development solutions beyond an individual village or pilot program so they serve poor people everywhere.

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An expert in securing grant money provides a clear, step-by-step course in grant writing that readers can "attend" from the comfort of their home or office-and proceed with at their own pace.

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For everyone who knows economics is important but doesn't really know why, Gittinomics is the indispensable, plain-speaking, entertaining and highly relevant guide to the economics of our everyday lives.

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Almost everything you need to know about how Australia and the world works. And where it's going.

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An up-to-date and down-to-earth introduction to the key economic issues that shape our world - the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand how economics impacts on our everyday lives by Ross Gittins, economics editor (and guru) of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

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The honest, robust and intelligent recollections of one of Australia's pre-eminent economic journalists - as insightful and entertaining as the man himself.

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This volume addresses the question of how the first United States foreign correspondents came to shape an American common sense about the rest of the world. The book also establishes the early history of the content of foreign news and editorials in American newspapers.

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GLASS JAW is a manifesto in the vein of Art of War for an age where scandal can destroy a company's brand and reputation in an instant - from Eric Dezenhall, a real life Michael Clayton, who runs one of the elite crisis management firms in Washington.

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Explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, this book offers an analysis of the India-based global labor management practice.

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Gould explores the commerical and cultural underpinnings of advertisingand how this form of communication is evolving into a platform for change at the individual, social, and even political levels.

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As market boundaries proved too confining for the growth and competitiveness of principle auto manufacturers, globalization of the motor vehicle industry accelerated in the last half of the 1990s through the construction of major complexes and the forging of international megamergers. This study exa

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Negotiations on an international commodity policy have been the central issue on the North-South agenda for the past three years. They also can be seen as the first major effort to give substantive meaning to the Third World's desire not only for a new regime for the world's raw commodity trade but also for a New International Economic Order. Yet v