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Great Start
This is an excellent beginner's law book. This is also helpful for accountants preparing to take their CPA exam. This book has side references on questions and parts that have been used on the CPA exam. I highly recommend keeping this book as a basic easy to read and follow reference tool for legal issues concerning corporate entities.

Anderson's Business Law
This is an excellent compendium of the major subject areas
taught in a business law course. The book has a fair coverage
of legal rights, government regulatory processes,contracts,
personal property, sales, commercial paper, creditor rights,
agency and employment, partnerships, corporations, real property,
the Uniform Commercial Code and an index. The work presents
typical case studies utilizing the classic factual patterns and
the decision. There are important case studies contained
for student homework assignments and class participation.
The work is edited by some important CPA Review giants like
Dr. Fox -famous for his rendition of the CPA law review.
It is a worthy purchase for anyone studying business law or
sitting for the CPA Examination.The work is easy to read considering the complexity of some
of the topics discussed. i.e. HDC (holder in due course)
The grammar and sentence structure are very readable for students.

Amazing Beginners Law Resource
This book is a must have for anyone interested in learning more about Business Law. The book utilizes real life cases, giving you perspective into the every changing world of law. I give this book 5 stars. It's a must have.

Take This Medication an Hour Before or Two Hours After Eating
... or you will throw up.
It's that depressing, folks.

Not the book, but what it speaks of.

Unbelievably Brilliant!
I don't give top ratings lightly, but this book is breathtakingly well written and carries a powerful message. Any given chapter is a great eye-opener to how our society works and what's REALLY going on in the world around us... with all the distractions stripped away.

Unlike Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough," which consists entirely of disjointed anecdotes on "what's bad," this book tackles the underlying reasons for WHY it's bad. Corporations have quietly and efficiently consolidated their economic muscle and merged it with political power--witness the everyday complaint that Special Interests hold sway in Washington. But as Derber shows, few are willing to make the obvious connection--that the problem is not simply government per se, but unrestrained corporate power.

And Derber is no hippie anti-capitalist wacko, either. He acknowledges that globalization is inevitable, but simply notes that we need to ensure it's the right KIND of globalization... the kind that's accountable to the public and that serves the public good. For all the conservative and libertarian whining about how the evil UN represents a "loss of U.S. sovereignty," notice that they never say a word about the WTO and similar business deals that have _already_ undermined our sovereignty, setting up arrangements that subordinate our laws to corporate profits--all with zero accountability to anyone but the executives and stockholders.

This books outlines real, practical solutions for putting the brakes on corporate power while still promoting economic growth and profitability. Environmentalists and unions don't HAVE to be at odds, not when they can unite against the common enemy and take positive action to force corporations into their proper, subordinate role to public government.

Maybe good for beginners
If you haven't read any other critiques of corporate power, this isn't a bad introduction. It covers the basics adequately (deregulation, privatization, monopolies, anti-unionism), but you have to wade through prose like "The language of responsibility -- rather than accountability or democracy -- reflects the depoliticizing of a movement that claims to speak for empowerment." For more experienced readers, I would recommend "The Corporation" by Joel Bakan.

Verbose unstructured rambling
The essence of the book is "corporations behave badly". I happen to agree but I don't need 339 pages to tell me this. I was hoping to learn something here. I was hoping for some history of how corporations developed. Nothing of the kind. Just a comparison to the gilded age (late 1800s) repeated throughout the book that is obvious to anyone who knows American history. Those liberals who love to read long winded tirades that support their point of view may enjoy this book. But if you aren't a liberal or if you are a liberal with a brain, this book will bore you to tears.

An easy read that includes consumer responsibility.
This is a book that shoud be read by anyone who is in the least bit interested in global economic affairs, sweatshop-labor, and flight of capital.Charles Derber gives an excellent description of the history of corporations within the United States and elsewhere as well as timeline leading into what they have become. He advocates careful legislation, but more importantly - grassroots activism. His solutions include educated consumerism, socially-responsible investing, and cooperation of non-profits.This book is an easy read that doesn't require an MBA to understand - it should be required reading for political economics courses.

This Book Changed My Habits for the Better
When I opened this book I thought I already knew a fair amount about the issues it contains. But Big Box Swindle really shows so many angles on the struggle between small, community owned businesses and the Big Box retailers that I was engrossed from the very first chapter. I didn't know about Geoffrey's Loophole, for example. That was highly edifying, and also gives the reader plenty of hope. This book is suggested reading for anyone who shops. Ever. But it should be required reading for anyone who sits on a town council. The book illustrates precisely the way in which communities say "yes" to big box development for hopeful and promising reasons, but receive far less than they bargained for.

If wishing made it so-the view from acedemia

This book can only be written by someone who has never started or operated a business (successfully). And thanks once again to another academician who is unleashing torrents of whiney college grads who want to be paid excessively while having jobs that they feel should be untouchable.

I thought that the example of the quaint local bookstores was telling as to how the author just doesn't get it. One book store-quaint. A local operation that grows to six units-quaint. Barnes & Noble's with three units-economic catastrophe! I wondered what the one book store operation thought about the six store chain, local or otherwise. Who would the author like for us to regulate and determine when someone is doing well and when they are doing too well and need to be stopped?

Ask a group of people "Does Walmart put little businesses out of business?" divide the room based on a pro vs. con answer, and then ask for explanations and examples. What you will find is those who feel big box, any big box "category killer" is the bane of all economic evil are not entrepreneurial in any way shape or form. They will not understand the evolutionary history of American business, and they are not competitive despite their protests to the contrary.

Personally, I cross reference my liberal leanings with the stark reality of what does and doesn't work. If these small businesses are such great and venerable ventures, why do people flock to other stores when they open? Are these consumers being enticed in some invisible fashion that I'm not aware of? Do small businesses deserve some sort of protective status in a free market economy? Do the people that believe big box is evil really want to be told where we can and cannot shop?

We own a small graphic design/printing business and we compete on some level with the likes of Kinko's (FedEx Office), Office Depot, Post Net, the Internet, printers large and small, and various other independents and franchises. When I tell people that my dream come true would be to create a campus here that would accommodate all of these companies where consumers could compare us based on price, quality, and service-they think I'm nuts. Invite my company to the dance, and we'll take on the competition of all kinds because THAT is the way it works. Hiding or getting protection from your competition only enables mediocrity and the consumer suffers.

Credit where due, one thing the author covered which was actually accurate is that donation seekers will quite often prey on the small business because they can reach the decision makers, but will turn to big box to save money when they are going to purchase something. We discovered this as well. Rather than shrink away from this challenge, we put protocol in place to ask the person if they shop at our store when they ask for donations. Those who are our clients (who don't really need to be asked) we take care of. Those who don't are given a discount rather than an outright donation. But there are many small businesses that do nothing to support the community and let's not be naive about the "Mom & Pop" operation. They are not all running positive businesses with a warm and fuzzy approach like a Norman Rockwall painting.

The key is don't do what the category killers do better, rather you should enhance your approach to do what they can't and exploit that fact. If you have a product and service that is sculpted to the marketplace you will actually do better to locate close to big box than to run and hide from the reality that you share the marketplace with them. This sense of entitlement that is being fostered at home and reinforced in schools is what the true bane of our society has to deal with.

Great book
A book every caring American should read. It tells you what Wallmart has realy done to us.

Big Box Swindle
Very well researched and documented. Easy and interesting read, even an involved story at times. I liked the book and the presentation very much. I have corners turned on many pages. I feel better now whenever I shop locally (non-big box)... and I find the price difference not that dramatic.

Like discovering the Wizard of Oz is just a guy w/fancy special effects gear
I just started reading this book and I'm already blown away by the world it is revealing to me! Reading how Wal-Mart has corrupted the free enterprise system by manipulating all the mechanisms that enable/encourage fair trade, competition, market demand, consumer preference, cultural uniqueness, etc. was startling. And the part about how Wal-Mart is slowing gnawing its way inside the manufacturers to the point where it requires a company to buy raw materials from Wal-Mart, and soon won't even buy goods but will expect manufacturers to provide goods on consignment! I know that doesn't sound dramatic, but consider what happens when Wal-Mart tells P&G that it must have 100 cases of a new product in every store, in spite of what P& G's projections say the market demand is. The market doesn't go for the product, so only 60 cases are sold per store. Wal-Mart has no risk because they don't own the merchandise. So P&G has to eat the loss somehow. And as the book showed, if a company says no to Wal-Mart, they get kicked out of the store and the sudden loss of revenue can and has bankrupted companies. Good God!! And of course, Wal-Mart isn't the only one doing this.

Reading this book is like accidentally walking into a store's backroom and coming across some dirty sweatshop where everyone is in chains. Then some cleancut, smiling guy hooks your arm, leads you out and gives you some urgent story about how they're trying valiantly to keep such conditions from being necessary in every store in the world. Then stuffs a 30%-off coupon into your hand and guides you to the weekly sale rack.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a guy who likes popping into Target, Home Depot and a host of other chains. But seeing behind the shiny laminated displays makes you think....

Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making by Paul D. Kimmel. ISBN: 0470437278! In great condition!

disappointed
book was not described correctly in ad.
shipping time was acceptable, book received different cover, should have not been posted under original post.

The book is great
The book is in great condition, even though, there was an error with the shipping. I appreciate the book when I recieved it. Thanks

Great concepts and materials
I love this book. It is very easy to read and understand with the examples.

thoughtful inclusion of relevant course materials
the book is in great shape, and it also came with the thoughtful inclusion of about 100 pages of relevant course materials that i can also learn from. very satisfied with the price & quality. :)