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E-Business : Roadmap for Success (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)
by Ravi Kalakota, Marcia Robinson, Don Tapscott

Rothman reviews: "To the uninitiated, e-business refers solely to the process of buying and selling goods over the Net. In our increasingly interactive age, however, it actually means much more. e-Business: Roadmap for Success, by Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson, defines the term as "the complex fusion of business processes, enterprise applications and organizational structure necessary to create a high-performance business model." Kalakota and Robinson--specialists in the field who serve as founder-CEO and president, respectively, of a company called e-Business Strategies--show how to employ its tenets to compete more effectively in today's brave new world. Aiming at managers who recognize the need to plan and implement just such a course of action, the authors (with help from some pioneers currently practicing these techniques) offer solid advice for designing interrelated strategies focused on customer relationships, resource planning, order management, and supply chains, and on evaluating investments needed to make them a reality. Describing efforts undertaken by successful e-businesses such as Charles Schwab, which adopted a system that provides sales reps with real-time access to information on customers and appropriate new products, the two chart the course that trailblazing companies are following and savvy business people would be wise to emulate."

A reader says "This book really asks and answers fundamental questions, how do you systematically invest in building an integrated e-business infrastructure. What pieces do you invest in and how do you sequence your decisions when each framework (CRM, supply-chain etc.) take 3 years to implement. The key point that I got out of this book is that e-business is a journey that requires tremendous commitment especially in a large firm. Managers who are after e-business better understand what it takes to build rock-solid applications."

Executive's Guide to E-Business : From Tactics to Strategy by Martin Deise

An authoritative guide to becoming an industry leader through e-commerce Between 1993 and 1997, Internet users have soared from three million to more than 100 million. Driven by the Internet, consumers are redefining buying patterns and businesses are analyzing new strategies to leverage the power of the next generation of information technologies. Executive's Guide to E-Commerce shows businesses how to develop new relationships with customers, distributors, resellers/retailers, suppliers, logistics providers, and business partners through electronic commerce. Here, readers will discover how e-commerce can impact a corporation and improve business performance, and learn what can inhibit the growth of e-commerce. This book presents tailored e-commerce strategies for such industries as consumer products, entertainment, media, communications, financial services, the public sector, petroleum, and utilities. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a world-leading professional services organization. With 155,000 people in 150 countries, PricewaterhouseCoopers helps its clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk, and improve performance.

E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise by Grant Norris

also look at:

e-Process Edge: Creating Customer Value and Business Wealth in the Internet Era by Peter Keen, Mark McDonald

Dynamic E-Business Implementation Management : How to Effectively Manage E-Business Implementation (E-Business Solutions) by Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn P. Rea

eCommerce: Formulation of Strategy by Robert T. Plant

Executive's Guide to E-Business : From Tactics to Strategy by Martin Deise(Editor), et alE-business (R)evolution, The by Daniel Amor

Net Success : 24 Leaders in Web Commerce Show You How to Put the Web to Work for Your Business by Christina Ford Haylock, et al

The E-Commerce Book: Building the E-Empire by Steffano Korper, et al

Digital Darwinism : 7 Breakthrough Business Strategies for Surviving in the Cutthroat Web Economy by Evan I. Schwartz

and

The Business of E-Commerce : From Corporate Strategy to Technology (Breakthroughs in Application Development) by Paul Richard May
E-Profit : High-Payoff Strategies for Capturing the E-Commerce Edge by Peter S. Cohan
Digital Transformation: The Essentials of e-Business Leadership by Keyur Patel, et al
Value Nets : Breaking the Supply Chain to Unlock Hidden Profits by David Bovet, et al

             The Britannica says "Some of the greatest recent advances in Pharmacotherapy have been in the treatment of anxiety disorders and depression. The benzodiazepines have been the mainstay of treatment for anxiety disorders since the 1960s, although their prolonged use incurs the risk of mild dependence. The azaspirodecanediones (buspirone) have little potential for producing dependency and are not affected by alcohol intake. Newer and safer medications are also available for treating panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder"

The title of a key article (by Paul Perry) reads: Pharmacotherapy for Major Depression with Melancholic Features: Relative Efficacy of Tricyclic Versus Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants" and concludes that "Comparative HAMD data from six controlled trials leads to the conclusion that tricyclic antidepressants are more effective agents in the treatment of endogenous depression or major depression with melancholic features .... . Despite the wide use of SSRIs in the treatment of depression, it seems reasonable that clinicians subtype their depressed patients and treat melancholic patients first with a course of tricyclic antidepressants. Logically, it would seem that nortriptyline would be the TCA of choice over clomipramine or amitriptyline owing to its lack of adverse effects relative to the other TCAs and its ease of dosing ... Initiating nortriptyline treatment at 1 mg/kg/d and adjusting the dose within the therapeutic range of 50-150 ng/ml seems to most straight forward approach to treatment. For melancholic patients who have not responded to a SSRI, several options can be considered 1) a TCA alone; 2) TCA augmentation of the SSRI or 3) lithium augmentation of the SSRI. "

So whats the leading text?     It turns out to be :

The Pharmacotherapy Handbook by Barbara G. Wells (Editor), Joseph T. Dipiro, Terry . Schwinghammer, Cindy Hamilton

The second edition of the Pharmacotherapy Handbook provides readers with a portable, readable guide that is integral to any clinical setting. Bold-face type highlights drug names when they first appear and in all closing information. The book's bulleted format helps readers find the information they need immediately. This updated book was designed as a companion text for the fourth edition Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, by DiPiro et al.

so get the Pharmacotherapy Handbook and Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach by Joseph T. Dipiro, et al

Pharmacotherapy Casebook : A Patient-Focused Approach by Terry L. Schwinghammer, et al
Drug Information Handbook; 1999-2000 by Charles F. Lacy, et al
Handbook of Clinical Drug Data, 1999-2000 by Philip O. Anderson(Editor), et al
Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach by Joseph T. Dipiro, et al

Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry (Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry, Vol 34) by Annette M. Doherty (Editor), James A. Bristol (Editor)

Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry continues to strive to provide timely and critical reviews of important topics in medicinal chemistry together with an emphasis on emerging topics in the biological sciences which are expected to provide the basis for entirely new future therapies.

Volume 34 retains the familiar format of previous volumes, this year with 33 chapters. Sections I-IV are disease-oriented and generally report on specific medicinal agents with updates from Volume 33 on antithrombotics, neurokinin receptor antagonists, anticoagualants, and new antibacterials. As in past volumes, annual updates have been limited to only the most active areas of research in favor of specifically focused and mechanistically oriented chapters, where the objective is to provide the reader with the most important new results in a particular field. Sections V and VI continue to emphasize important topics in medicinal chemistry, biology, and drug design as well as the critical interfaces among these disciplines. This volume concludes with To Market, To Market-a chapter on NCE and NBE introductions worldwide in 1998, a chapter on pharmagenomics, and finally one on malaria as a third world disease in need of a first world drug development.

take a serious look at these, if you don't alredy have them in your personal library.

The Britannica (EB) defines Literary Criticism as " a discipline concerned with a range of enquiries about literature that have tended to fall into three broad categories: philosophical, descriptive, and evaluative. Criticism asks what literature is, what it does, and what it is worth." The discipline can be traced as far back as Plato and Aristotle 's Poetics. Recently, says EB, " An early product of this in the English-speaking world was I.A. Richards' Principles of Literary Criticism (1924), which became influential as the basis of "Practical Criticism From this developed the "New Criticism " of the 1940s and '50s, which was associated with such American critics as John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks . The premise of the New Critics, that a work of literature should be studied as a separate and self-contained entity, set them in opposition both to biographical criticism and to those schools of criticism--Marxist, psychoanalytical, historical, and the like--that had their roots in the 19th century and that set out to examine literature from perspectives external to the text."

The Britannica also mentions that "The late 20th century saw a radical reappraisal of traditional modes of literary criticism. Building on the work of the Russian Formalist critics of the 1920s and the examinations of linguistic structure carried out by the Swiss philologist Ferdinand de Saussure , literary theorists began to question the overriding importance of the concept of "the author" as the source of the text's meaning. Structuralist and poststructuralist critics, such as Roland Barthes
and Jacques Derrida of France, instead directed attention toward the ways in which meaning is created by the determining structures of language and culture."

Later, we'll focus on Terry Eagleton and his works in the area of Literary Theory. The discussion will come in version three In the meanwhile, consider the resources presented below... you can't go wrong. If you are hardy, we'll even get to Edward Sapir "All grammars leak". (How about that?)

... definitely get the classic interpretive masterpiece - LITERARY THEORY by University of Oxford Thomas Warton Professor Terry Eagleton. The book covers the major movements of literary studies of our (just completed) century.

Reviewer: Roger T. Whitson writes "Eagleton gives us, what I believe to be, one of the most simple introductions to the topic of Literary Theory currently availiable"

if you dare tread beyond the summaries ..

	The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton
	Ideology : An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

and

the Idea of Culture

A Handbook to Literature (Handbook to Literature, 6th Ed)
by William Harmon and C. Hugh Holman

This book continues its fifty-year tradition as an indispensable, dictionary-style supplement for anyone's personal or professional library.

no matter what your inclination is ... these will enrich you total experience and understanding of our times ...

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory Criticism by Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth --

About this resource Rob Lightner says "An excellent basic reference for undergraduates, graduate students, and beyond, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism provides 226 entries covering individuals, schools, and topics important to the field in its 775 pages. From Adorno to Zola, with stops including Chomsky, gay theory and criticism, and the Bloomsbury group, the editors have taken great pains to select subjects of broad influence and appeal. Organized alphabetically by topic and extensively cross-referenced, the Guide is at once an informative, easy-to-use text and a fascinating look into the lives of the men and women who shaped our views of literature over the years. The book is physically strong enough to bear the inevitable falls and coffee stains with grace and style; this is important, as owning it is essential for anyone hoping to write or understand literary criticism. "

BOOKLIST describes it "coverage ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Richard Rorty and Edward Said, this work is an overview of major landmarks of criticism from classical antiquity to the present day."

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory : Approaches, Scholars, Terms (Theory/Culture); Irena R. Makaryk(Editor), Ireana R. Makaryk
Critical Terms for Literary Study; Thomas McLaughlin(Editor), Frank Lentricchia (Editor)
A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory; Michael Payne(Editor)
Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice; Charles E. Bressler
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory; Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson (Contributor)
The Illusions of Postmodernism; Terry Eagleton

Literary Theory : A Practical Introduction; Michael Ryan

of course if you talk about litcrit - you must consider the origins;

Bakhtin : Essays and Dialogues on His Work by Gary Saul Morson(Editor)

isn't strange that this comes up in the Russian context?

Don't be confused ... it may be the poetry of the day after tomorrow,

but at least the advance prepartion will give you the ultimate upper hand in

the low voices (mandatory in the Large Cathedrals of expression ...). Smile, it can only and will only get better.

An Introduction to the Russian Folktale (The Complete Russian Folktale) by Jack V. Haney

Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence

Ursula K. Le Guin (Modern Critical Views: Contemporary American) by Harold Bloom(Editor)

Bakhtin in Contexts : Across the Disciplines (Rethinking Theory) by Amy Mandelker(Editor).

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