This is a good strategy book - I recommend it to anyone who wants to develop an economist's view of the web. With many examples, lots of analysis and a good balance between realism and futurism, this book will help anyone who is interested in solid, practical web-strategy.

If you ever wanted to belly up to the bar with a foreign correspondent, share a cold beer and swap war stories, this is your chance. Daniel Litvin, a former journalist, as well as a former corporate social responsibility (CSR) officer, shares a book full of corporate adventures from the foreign battlefields of business. In this very anecdotal examination of how the arrival of first world companies affects local societies and governments - for good or ill - in third world countries, he sews stories and history together from India to Guatemala to Iran to Manchuria to Africa. He lists the past misdeed of Aramco oil companies in Arabia, of Shell in Nigeria and of Nike's far flung contractors, seeming to say that they meant no real harm and did less harm than they were accused of doing, but he also contrasts the flawed past with the improved present. Even with responsible policies, he says, multinationals most often fail because they create unexpected dynamics and impossible expectations. We from getAbstract recommend this fiscal, social and corporate travelogue to executives, corporate social responsibility officers and field personnel far from home.

It is ironic that the advent of the computer promised to dramatically reduce paper usage; today's 1,000-page-plus computer-security tomes have probably single-handedly deforested whole regions of the earth. A happy exception to this trend of titanic texts is Enterprise Security: The Manager's Defense Guide; which is relatively concise yet highly informative.

It provides a good overview of core information security issues and concepts. It takes a big-picture approach to information systems security, not bogging down the reader in arcane minutiae.

Overall, it has a more management- and process-oriented look at security and it a valuable title for anyone needing to know about information systems security without sacrificing a forest in the process.

This is an up-to-date and concise account of the commercial activities of European traders in Asia between 1500 and 1800. While the pages of tables, graphs and pie charts may make all but the real enthusiast's eyes glaze over, the figures tend to illustrate rather than dominate - unlike in some of the denser tomes in the subject area.

The approach is largely comparative, and covers both private and chartered trading by all major European players in East Asia (including the Danish and Ostend Companies). There is an emphasis upon material relating to the Dutch East India Company, presumably deriving from the author's own expertise in this area; while this is undoubtedly useful and even a refreshing change from the usual weighting towards the English/British EIC, it can at times unbalance the argument and betray hints of bias. Furthermore, Prakash is given to some repetition of phrasing, which makes reading it that little bit more difficult.

In all, extremely useful - but not for the casual reader of Indian history, who would be advised to start with more general histories of the period first.

Sharon T. Freeman's IMPORTING, EXPORTING, AND E-COMMERCE is an excellent resource for minority businesses. Broken down into everyday language, the book is a how-to guide for expanding a business into the global market. The book is comprehensive, and provides excellent explanations and analyses of the business world in an easy to understand format. I am not a business-oriented individual, but I learned a great deal and was never confused by the business or technological jargon. I found the chapters on electronic commerce to be most interesting, because like many other consumers, I frequently rely on the Internet for purchasing goods.

Although specifically geared towards a "minority, immigrant, and women" audience, IMPORTING, EXPORTING, AND E-COMMERCE is a valuable reference for businesses and consumers alike. This book is sure to prepare any business owner for success in the global market.

Reviewed by Latoya Carter-Qawiyy
The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

The "Franklin Simon Fashion Catalog for 1923" has over 500 illustrations of fur-trimmed evening wraps, bridal gowns, casual day wear, and even what the fashionably dressed woman should wear while out riding. There are also a variety of accessories for men, stylish clothing for children, and a complete array of costume jewelry, hats, shoes, handbags and the like for the ladies. This volume in the Dover Books on Costumes series is an excellent source of copyright-free material for graphic artists as well as providing valuable information for fashion historians, collectors, and costume designers if you are doing your own stage version of "The Great Gatsby" or "Thoroughly Modern Millie."

I read this book few months ago and felt that it was OK. It did not have a whole lot of "new" ideas per se, but some points such as the chicken and e, sitting comfortably and e hotbeds were kind of interesting. Also the book talked about power shift (from brawn to brain, thinkers for the new age...etc.), but hey, wait a minute! Don't forget that we are still human beings and human still have to EAT!! That's probably one of the reasons that people gave too much expectation to "new" economy while the new economy failed to deliver (to create super high performance to replace the old old system)...

Anyway, a interesting book to read

The Glogal Internet Trust Register, as the name says, has lots of registers of public keys, but besides it, there is a historical which describe the attemps of Government to licence the cryptography and other proposes. It explain the certification authority(CA) even for non-technical people, explain what is 'The Global Internet Trust Register' and other things related with CA. The reason that I liked this book is as I already said, the registers and the historical part, which a learned a lot.

Betty tells it all -- the good, the bad, and the ugly about running estate sales for profit. Not to be confused with garage sales or flea markets, estate sales are selling the contents of another's dwelling. This book discusses everything from contracts and cleaning through pricing and publicity -- even how to handle rough customers. Great examples and witty illustrations make it an interesting, informative, and enjoyable book whether you are selling or shopping for treasure.

Anthropology really needed this book: after decades of ignoring the interractions between hosts and guests, a book that bridges the gap has become especially necessary. Although written in 1977, and a little theoretically dated, the book provided a sound foundation for more recent (but equally readable and enjoyable) anthropological anthologies of tourism (see, for example, Greg Ringer's "Destinations: cultural landscapes of tourism").

This book details in diverse localities, from Eskimo communities to Polynesia, the complex interractions between traveller and local, between the observers and the observed. A carefully written, edited, and nuanced book.