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Reviews several books on business. `The Self-Defeating Organization: How Smart Companies Can Stop Outsmarting Themselves,' by Robert E. Hardy and Randy Schwartz; `Transforming the Bottom Line: Managing Performance With the Real Numbers,' by Tony Hope and Jeremy Hope; `Leading Change,' by John P. Kotter.

The article reviews the books "Three Plus One Equals One Billion," by Allan Sloan, and "Till Death Do Us Part," by Hope Lampert.

This article reviews the book "China 2020: How Western Business Can - and Should - Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade" by Michael A. Santoro.

Presents the August and November 2002 issue of the journal "Asian Business & Management." Issues examined in the journal; Description of the journal's cover.

Reviews the book 'Leading in Black and White: Working Across the Racial Divide in Corporate America' by Ancella B. Livers and Keith A. Caver.

Reviews the book, 'Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up,' by Stanley Bing.

Reviews the book "Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment," by Emma Rothschild.

Presents the best business books of 1996. Titles that reflect people-centered change management, worker involvement, customer focus, and more; Resurgence of women executives; Tough guys and humanists; Mastering change; Competition and customers; Strategy, vision, and responsibility; The information age; Books such as `Confessions of an Accidental Businessman: It Takes a Lifetime to Find Wisdom,' by James A. Autry; Other titles.

The article reviews the book 'Nightmare on Wall Street,' by Martin Mayer.

The article offers information on several booklets for businessmen including "What is Your Share of Our Federal and State Government Debt," "Let's Take the Long View," and "Monthly Investment Plan."

A description of the course on achievement motivation being offered at the Small Industries Extension Training Institute in Hyderabad, India is provided.

The article reviews the book "Making Sense of Business Reference: A Guide for Librarians and Research Professionals," by Celia Ross.

Reviews several books that deal with Canadian business and politics. `Nationalism without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Canadian,' by Richard Gwyn; `Corporate Navigator: The Life of Frank Manning Covert,' by Harry Bruce; `Ralph Klein: A Maverick Life,' by Frank Dabbs; `The Last Best Hope: How to start and grow your own business,' by Rod McQueen; `Double Exposure,' by Linda Cullen and Bob Robertson.

Reviews the book “Big Business in a Democracy,” by James Truslow Adams.

Reviews the book "Strong Wind," by Miguel Angel Asturias.

Reviews the book "The World of the Wall Street Journal," edited by Charles Preston.

The article previews the book "Earn Your MBA on the Toilet: Unleash Unlimited Power and Wealth from Your Bathroom," by Kasper Hauser.

The article reviews the book "Getting to Innovation," by Arthur VanGundy.

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The article reviews the book "Japan: Doing Business in a Unique Culture," by Kevin B. Bucknall.

The article reviews several books about business history including "The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720," by Natasha Glaisyer, "Quackery and Commerce in Seventeenth-Century London: The Proprietary Medicine Business of Anthony Daffy," edited by David Boyd Haycock and Patrick Wallis, and "Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres," edited by Robert Beachy, Beatrice Craig, and Alistair Owens.

Reviews the book "Business @ the Speed of Thought," by Bill Gates.

Reviews the book 'Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives,' by Jeff Schmidt.

Reviews the book 'The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work,' by Joanne B. Ciulla.

Reviews the book 'Business Services in European Industry: Growth, Employment and Competitiveness,' by Luis Rubalcaba-Bermejo.

The article reviews the book "Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom," by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap.

Reviews the book "A History of American Business," by C. Joseph Pusateri.

The article reviews the book "Business Civilization in Decline," by Robert L. Heilbroner.

Reviews the book 'The Business Environment in Hong Kong,' edited by David Lethbridge.

Reviews several books on business management. `Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street,' by Mitchel Abolafia; `Paths of Fire; An Anthropologist's Inquiry Into Western Technology,' by Robert McCormick Adams; `Management, Education and Competitiveness: Europe, Japan and the United States,' edited by Rolv Petter Amdam and Geoffrey Jones.

Reviews the book "East-West Trade at a Crossroads: Economic Relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe," by Robert V. Roosa, Armin Gutowski, and Michiya Matsukawa.

Reviews the book "Business and the Public Interest: Trade Associations, the Anti-Trust Laws and Industrial Planning," by Benjamin A. Javits.

The article presents information on various books related to accounting, business methods and investments. Some of these are as, "Abhandlungen des wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Seminars su Jena," by G. Albrecht; "The Dartnell Direct Advertising Guide," 2nd ed., by J.C. Aspley; "Managing a Sales Territory: How Salesmen Have Increased Their Business and Improved Their Opportunities by Applying to Their Work Seven Principles of Management; "A Primer of Advertising," by A.C. Axoy; "Investment Fundamentals," by R.W. Babson and "Group Incentives: Some Variations in the Use of Group," by C.C. Balderston. This book is an outgrowth of practical experience in the formation of mergers and the flotation of their securities. Quite evidently it does not spring from an objective, scientific interest in the subject. The advantages gained by consolidation are outlined in the second chapter prominent among these is the elimination of "wasteful" competition, particularly in the case of horizontal combinations.