This book features a new, user-friendly approach. It shows you how to get your foot in the door and build your business from your own "comfort zone" - that area of your personal and professional behavior which you perform most confidently in. It gives you the tools to prepare and mail a response-getting contact package. Plus, it shares the most effective techniques that can secure an appointment with the person who makes the final decision

This publication and the exhibition it accompanies explore the significance of these artists' achievements in capturing the reality and essence of the world around them, and illuninate various paralelsbetween their distinctive visions of the natural world

This book examines the state of technology in developing countries and pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s. The Global Economic Prospects provides essential information for those concerned with developments shaping today's global economy

The authors maintain that the organization of the White House influences presidential performance more than is commonly thought and that organization theory is an essential tool for understanding that influence. The first part of the book presents the theoretical argument; the second examines White House outreach, including congressional liaison, press relations, personnel selection, executive branch oversight, and interest group and intergovernmental liaison

The major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing an overview of the state of the art for practitioners in applied linguistics, ESL/EFL pedagogies, rhetoric, and composition studies around the world. Unlike volumes that present one theoretical stance, this book attempts to give equal time to all theoretical and pedagogical camps

This book presents the findings and insights of this research program

The second volume of the report Global Development Finance (GDF) in 2008, contains a summary, country, statistical tables on the external debt of 134 countries that report public and publicly guaranteed debt under the Reporting System (DRS)

This book underlines the importance of policy performance for attracting and benefiting from capital flows, both private and official; concludes that improved policies in both recipient and donor countries are helping to strengthen the effectiveness of aid flows

Business creation experts Jana B. Matthews and Mark P. Rice explain the three key principles of successful business incubation; the 10 best practices for starting, developing, and managing a business incubation program; ways to attract high-quality entrepreneurs; the litmus test to determine an incubator's feasibility; and many hands-on examples from the directors of some of the country's top business incubators

Global Sport Sponsorship is the first text to provide a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of this industry. Leading scholars from marketing, management, sociology, cultural studies, tourism, and gender studies address issues central to current debates in each of these disciplines