A business encyclopedia that's actually fun to read, with definitions of simple concepts and complex issues, examples, color photos and illustrations, and margin quick facts. Each of 1,225 entries begins with a concise definition followed by an elaboration of what the term really means and how it's applied in the real world. Entries are cross referenced, and keyed to eight different disciplines within business. Industry profiles review 15 of this century's most prominent industries and their impact on economy and society, and 50 leadership profiles focus in business leaders of the past and present. Other features include profiles of entrepreneurial ventures, a timeline of the history of commerce, and 40 pages of data tables. Great for students and anyone working in the business world. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Editor Spurge (coauthor of Failure Is Not an Option, Knowledge Exchange, 1996) has put together a somewhat glitzy one-volume encyclopedia covering accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, operations, strategy, and technology. The estimated 1600 well-written definitions are complemented and augmented by many examples, graphs, charts, illustrations, photographs, and quotations, which make for visually cluttered pages. In addition, several addenda offer a chronology of business advances, 50 one-page biographies of major business figures, summaries of 15 major industries taking up to four pages, proper name and discipline indexes, and 37 pages of data tables. One notable table calculates the value of a 1950 dollar for every year to 1995 and a 1995 dollar for every year to 1950. John Terry's Dictionary for Business and Finance (LJ 4/1/89 ) and the Prentice Hall Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Terms (1995) are two of the many good recent dictionaries that are less expensive and have more definitions but also offer less useful supplementary material. The clear writing and worthwhile examples provided here make this a good supplementary purchase for libraries, particularly high school, public, and undergraduate libraries, that need a good recent business dictionary.?Patrick J. Brunet, Western Wisconsin Technical Coll. Lib., La Crosse
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